If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network ‪@womenshistnet.bsky.social‬ annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...

The Women’s History Network Annual Conference

Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference  Online via Zoom    Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections Reg…

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We're currently accepting articles for our 2026 issue, The Regenerative Rust Belt. Send us your articles and write with any questions. Also, please share the CFP far and wide! @katietrostel.bsky.social @valentinolzullo.bsky.social #academicsky #booksky

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1970: As many as 20,000 women protest in the Women’s Strike for Equality in New York City, with more throughout the U.S. The event was held on the 50th anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the constitutional right to vote. /1

In 1907, Indiana became the first state to pass a eugenics-based sterilization law, allowing sterilization of the imprisoned and institutionalized who were deemed mentally or morally deficient. One of the most influential proponents of eugenic theory in early 20th-century Indiana was Dr. John Hurty.

Perfect weather this week for some time in our local parks, including White River State Park downtown. This post takes a detailed look at a 1981 panoramic photo of the land that what would become @WhiteRiverStPrk. www.class900indy.com/post/panoram...

Panorama of White River State Park: A Closer Look

Exploring several highlights contained within a 1981 panoramic photo taken of Indianapolis from a vantage point in White River State Park.

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John N. Hurty was the secretary of the Indiana State Board of Health from 1896 to 1922. He advocated for a scientific approach to public health and became so well-known for a variety of public health reforms that a state medical journal titled him "Indiana's most useful citizen."

Mix one grain of sulphate of zinc and one grain of foxglove (digitalis) in half a teaspoon of water, add four ounces of water, and drink. This "infallible" mixture, according to advertisements in Muncie newspapers in August 1893, would cure smallpox within twelve hours.

We are thrilled to share the programme for our upcoming seminar series. Please continue to check our socials and our website over the coming weeks as the links to register for each of the seminars are published. We look forward to seeing you all there!

My biography of Amelia Bloomer just got another nice review, this one from the Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social The author wished I had given more detail on where to read more of Bloomer's writing. Here you go!

Where to read The Lily and The Mayflower

A recent review of Amelia Bloomer: Journalist, Suffragist, Anti-fashion Icon in the Indiana Magazine of History was very complimentary. The author wanted to read more of Bloomer’s writing, wh…

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In August 1893, Dr. Frank Jackson, city health officer of Muncie, diagnosed 14 cases of smallpox within one of the city's neighborhoods. The city council quarantined the affected houses, called for a widespread vaccination program, and began building 2 hospitals to house the sick.

📢 The OAH has issued a Statement on the White House Review of the Smithsonian. Read the statement: ow.ly/hgLR50WGhfQ

August is National Immunization Awareness Month. Vaccines have a long history in Indiana. In August 1893, Dr. Frank Johnson, the first public health officer of Muncie, Indiana, was called out to see a child suffering, he was told, from chicken pox.

historian and scholar friends (I forget the hashtag for this lol): What are some good secondary sources analyzing racial capitalism/industrialization and Native American removal in the 19th century? please repost! thanks in advance!

Since the 1950s, Summer Language Workshops at Indiana University have provided training in Russian, East European, and Central Asian languages. Generations have come to Bloomington to study Romanian, Polish, Kazakh, etc. Rubio just cancelled all of them languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-langu...

KKK was *everywhere* in 1920s Indiana. George Dale, the editor of a Muncie newspaper, refused to bow to them. He survived and eventually became mayor. For more on "the crossroads of America" in this era, see also: James Madison, _A Lynching in the Heartland_ Timothy Egan, _Fever in the Heartland_

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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

If you're struggling to understand how eugenics impacts daily life right now, I recommend going back to the historical records to see how the eugenics movement took off 100 years ago. We need to be able to recognize it when we see it, so that we can push back and resist. 1/20

New at PB, Jessica Rucker interviews @katemasur.bsky.social about her new graphic novel “Freedom Was In Sight” (@uncpress.bsky.social with illustrations by Liz Clarke), which uses storytelling and illustration to tell the history of Reconstruction.

Rethinking Reconstruction: Kate Masur on Freedom Was in Sight

“Freedom Was in Sight” conveys that even as Reconstruction ended and the Jim Crow order took shape in the South, not everything was lost.

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Please consider applying for this awesome opportunity!

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🗃️ 3. The @richardscenter.bsky.social and @jcwe.bsky.social are cosponsoring a journal article workshop for junior scholars that will be facilitated by a senior historian in the field w/the aim to help craft a publishable article. Apply w/ cv, 500-word proposal by April 1.

Today (Feb 22) in 1943, three courageous young people in the group White Rose were executed for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets in Germany. Sophie Scholl: "The greatest damage is caused by the silent majority that just wants to survive, submit and go along with everything."

The federal government has now removed the entire LGBTQ Heritage Theme Study from the National Park Service website. Be a rebel - read banned history. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho... 🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈 🍎 🗺️ #sschat #skystorians

Not sure if it was the same tour but here’s a post (and thread) I did earlier about the site where Frederick Douglass got rushed by a mob in nearby Pendleton which also was the site of the hanging of three men who murdered Native Americans bsky.app/profile/hist...

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Rev. Moses Broyles, pastor of Second Baptist Church in Indianapolis, was instrumental in bringing Frederick Douglass to the city to speak at a two-night fundraiser for the local YMCA. The organization set aside seats for Black audience members in the balcony of the local opera house.

This is just a portion of the publications we consult to compile the annual bibliography of articles in southern history. We regularly check 300+ different journal titles! But also, if you've had an article out in 2024 related to the history of the U.S. South, let us know so we can check it out.

To dismiss the grief in Victorian stories as old-fashioned is to assume they're outdated bc of the passage of time. But a high child mortality rate was eradicated not by time, but by effort. To dismantle a century of resolute public health measures, like vaccination, invites those horrors to return.

Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today

Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

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In the early 20th century, 4,000 Hoosiers died every year from tuberculosis. Irene Byron was a public health nurse in Fort Wayne, Indiana, serving for four years as part of the city's campaign against the disease. Byron worked in the city clinic and tent hospital, and visited patients at home.

Rev. Moses Broyles, pastor of Second Baptist Church in Indianapolis, was instrumental in bringing Frederick Douglass to the city to speak at a two-night fundraiser for the local YMCA. The organization set aside seats for Black audience members in the balcony of the local opera house.

In 1907, Eugene Debs joined the staff of Appeal to Reason, a Socialist newspaper based in Girard, Kansas. His wife Katherine formed personal and professional relationships with some of the women instrumental to the paper's success, especially Grace Babbitt Brewer, the head of the Appeal Army.

The AHR’s December 2024 issue is now available. This issue inaugurates the annual publication of a special issue of the journal. Inside the issue authors explore how historical context and contingency shape and inflect resilience. 🗃️

Volume 129 Issue 4 | The American Historical Review | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the American Historical Association. Publishes research that brings together scholarship from every major field of historical study. Articles include original interpretation an...

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🎤 Is this thing on? Hi, Bluesky! We're Commonplace Journal, an online publication for anyone interested in American history before 1900. Slightly less formal than a journal, slightly more scholarly than a popular magazine, we strive to bring early American history to a wide audience.