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Very excited to see my Western Historical Quarterly article published online!

There's a prof. on TikTok that decided he's going to input student work into AI for grading. He's going to let AI grade AI. What's the freaking point anymore? First of all, this seems like a FERPA issue. Second...just do the work yourself, man.

I had some free time to watch All Quiet on the Western Front (the 2022 iteration). I’ve never read the book, but all I have to say is that war is hell (surely the point of the film(s) and book).

Very excited to see my Western Historical Quarterly article published online!

Very happy to send off my chapter for the Handbook on Digital Activism. Inspired by my work on Indigenous authority at Dickson Mounds, I explore digitization + Indigenous data sovereignty. It took me in unexpected directions, and I'm grateful for the opportunity. Let's hope the editor likes it!

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Love this Vine Deloria, Jr. line from Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto.

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RIP Gordon Wood, famed historian of the American Revolution era, who was struck by a car and killed yesterday at the age of 92. www.golocalprov.com/news/pulitze...

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Historian Gordon Wood Hit and…

On Sunday, one of Rhode Island’s most accomplished writers and historians, Gordon Wood, was hit and killed by a motorist.

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Do any of my Native history/studies, museum/public history friends have connections with a THPO? I'm hoping to speak with someone who has experience or interest in digital repatriation, particularly questions surrounding the digitization, stewardship, + access of Native American cultural materials.

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 3mo ago

Received interesting feedback from a fellowship rejection! Historians, do you agree/disagree with R2’s comment that one should be able to revise a dissertation into a book in one year?

I'm excited to soft launch my next digital history project, Governing Ground: A kind of companion website to my in-progress book on the politics of the grasslands and public lands in the twentieth century American West. 🗃️

Governing Ground

A history of the sagebrush rebellions---recurring fights over land, power, and federal authority in the American West from the 1930s through 2016.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University New Orleans shared my Indigenous America digital class project on LOYNO's website and socials. Very grateful that our collaborative work stood out to university administration. More here: cas.loyno.edu/news/may-15-...

Dr. Legg Guides Freshman/Sophomore Research Projects | Loyola University New Orleans

Indigenous America is a WordPress-based digital exhibit that highlights mostly team-based research projects created by first- and second-year students in Dr. John Legg's Indigenous America course. Stu...

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Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

As a reminder, if you have grad/UG students collaborate on a digital project, please make sure that those students receive credit for their intellectual labor. I helped on two major digital projects that do not list me as a collaborator. There's no real "proof" that I even helped in any way.

Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Any #NAGPRA experts here? How would you classify these items? Funerary object, etc. "Trappings" taken from a "unidentified Chief" who fought/died on the Union side during the Battle of Honey Springs. His "trappings" were taken and sent to Jeff Davis, later preserved in the Museum of the Confederacy

Suggestions needed! We’re looking to convert a classroom into a digital innovation lab (for class instruction and to host a digital gallery for project launches). I’d greatly appreciate any photos, links, or articles of DH labs, centers, studios, etc. or if you have a space like this on your campus!

Oh darn. Canvas is down.

Be nice to your IT folks whenever possible. Sometimes freak things happen and they need to rush into action to get many (I mean, MANY) people back online and connected. We're grateful for all that you do!

When you haven't started the 2-hour drive to campus + you get notified your classroom building is shut down due to a water leak. Nothing's worse than driving an hour or more to have campus shut down (It's happened twice this semester already). Today was a work day in both classes, anyways.

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Just submitted my copyedits back to Western Historical Quarterly for my article due out this summer! It's been quite a journey with this one (started in Spring 2022). It engages with the trials & executions of two Dakota chiefs who British agents kidnapped in Rupert's Land after the US-Dakota War.

A new research topic down the road? I grew up with GI Joes. Not only does this Navajo Code Talker speak, it comes with a Navajo language code book. I've got WW2 on the mind lately (taught the topic to my Native history course yesterday).

Boxed G.I. Joe action figure labeled “Navajo Code Talker,” depicting a World War II U.S. Marine in uniform with helmet, radio pack, and field gear. The packaging includes illustrations of soldiers in combat and a note that the figure “talks” with phrases in Navajo code and English. To the right of the box is a printed chart titled “The Navajo Code,” showing English words with corresponding Navajo terms, along with a circular “Junior Navajo Code Talker” emblem.

Prepping for tomorrow's class on Native American military service. Not surprising, but still striking, how non-Native ppl stereotyped Native cultures: during the Vietnam War, US soldiers called the Viet Cong “Apaches” + referred to the jungle as “Indian Country” b/c they saw it as dangerous & wild