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Jason Petrulis

@petrulis.bsky.social

History prof in Hong Kong. My award-winning articles: “A Country of Hair”: ROK Wigs, Kor Am Entrepreneurs, Af Am Hairstyles, & Cold War Industrialization http://bit.ly/3PENmX0 The jawbone/quijada as global Black musical instrument https://bit.ly/4nAl7ba

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Jason Petrulis@petrulis.bsky.social · last wk.

Joy Neumeyer's powerful 2021 piece intertwining her personal history with her research on power and storytelling, "Darkness at Noon: On History, Narrative, and Domestic Violence" academic.oup.com/ahr/article/... Open access.

Darkness at Noon: On History, Narrative, and Domestic Violence

Abstract. This essay is inspired by my experience of domestic violence while earning a PhD in Russian history. It applies the philosophy of history to esca

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Leon Jackson@drleonj.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today was my last day as a Surfacing Overlooked Stories Fellow at @bpl.boston.gov. Over the past ten weeks in Special Collections, I read through 294 boxes of papers and 19 manuscript volumes, plus a further 134 boxes at other archives. Numbers, however, don’t really tell the story 🗃️🧵

Boston Public Library’s McKim Building
Jamie Pietruska@jpietruska.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to be part of the Made by History launch with the long history of weather gambling, featuring rain betting, illegal "weather pools," and attempted bribery. TY @carlygoodman.bsky.social for terrific editing and @jmburns.bsky.social for reading and our many prediction market conversations!

Carly Goodman@carlygoodman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Because it is our launch day, we have a second Made by History piece up today, by Jamie Pietruska, on the long history of betting on the weather, a practice now supercharged by phones, betting apps, and climate change. Everything has a history! 🎁 share.inquirer.com/XFrZX1

Carly Goodman@carlygoodman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Because it is our launch day, we have a second Made by History piece up today, by Jamie Pietruska, on the long history of betting on the weather, a practice now supercharged by phones, betting apps, and climate change. Everything has a history! 🎁 share.inquirer.com/XFrZX1

The real-world consequences of gambling on the weather

Making bets on the weather is a practice that goes back centuries. In an age of climate change and online betting markets, the stakes are much higher.

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Carly Goodman@carlygoodman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Exciting day! We have our first MBH piece up @inquirer.com! Cory James Young writes about George Washington's deep entanglements with slavery in Pennsylvania, beyond the president's house site, centering what historians know about these individuals. Please read and share! 🎁 share.inquirer.com/1BSWa8

Kate Bagnall@baibi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Have your used one of my publications, or digital projects like the Real Face of White Australia, in your teaching (since 2020)? If so, I would love to hear how you've used my work and how students have responded – and see your unit / course outline, too! Email kate.bagnall@utas.edu.au 🗃️

Jason Petrulis@petrulis.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🗃️ 🐴 Happy New Year! In 1854, the US Navy's "Perry Expedition" to Japan and the Ryukyus was anchored at the main island of Okinawa (which they called "Lew Chew," for Ryukyu) for the New Year; and saw and translated the New Year wishes posted around them. From the Expedition's official Narrative:

A snippet of text from the Official Narrative describing New Year poetry from Okinawa in 1854: "On each successive visit to the island the gentlemen of the expedition gathered additional scraps of information as to customs, one of which is so similar, in the feeling which prompts it, to our own new year's congratulations, that it is worthy of a passing notice. In the spring, when the new year opens in Lew Chew, and perhaps in Japan also, (though of the latter we cannot speak certainly,) the usage of the islanders is to offer the expression of their good wishes and friendly feelings in the form of inscriptions attached to the houses of each other, or sent to the inmates. Mr. Williams translated several of these, a few of which we subjoin as specimens: 'Gay clouds meet the rising, glorious sun; ten thousand joys greet the opening spring.' 'Let all sing these days of general peace, and rejoice together in the opening spring.' 'May all joys clamber about your happy abode; may a thousand lucks collect at this gate.' 'May every door have luck and joy, and every land be blessed with peace.' 'May your felicity be as broad as the eastern sea; your age enduring as the southern hills.' 'The peach tree in fairy land ripens in thirty centuries; may the seaside house be blessed with ninety more autumns.' 'We joyfully hope the brightening year will meet a flourishing time, as the bloom of spring begins to shine upon this humble door.' 'May the three stars, peace, office, age, enter your door; and sons, riches, honors, bless your gate.' 'Happiness descends from heaven.' 'As the wind and light go their circuits through the world, so does the gladsome spring from heaven to us come down.' "
Kate Bagnall@baibi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

There’s valuable information recorded in Chinese on Tasmania’s old Chinese headstones that is gradually disappearing, like on Claude Nam Shing’s headstone in Cornelian Bay Cemetery. I’ve worked out some of the characters, but not all of them. Any thoughts, clever people? 🗃️ #EverdayHeritage

Old gravestone with the name Claude Nan Shing and other faint Chinese and English words on itView of Claude Nam Shing’s grave among other graves in Cornelian Bay cemetery
Michael Röllinghoff@roellinghoff.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My article is finally in print! I detail the impact of Japanese colonial policy on Ainu health during the early-mid Meiji period, focusing on the village of Tsuishikari. The article's subtext is the broader question of Indigenous health in historical research.

The Necessities of Life: Japanese Colonial Policy as a Social Determinant of Ainu Health, 1876–1887

Summary. In this paper, I reassess the Meiji period (1868–1912) Japanese public health and Indigenous management policies, focussing on the Karafuto Ainu i

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Jim Casey@jimccasey1.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are going to focus @douglassday.bsky.social in Feb 2026 on the Colored Conventions and their visions for citizenship. We need to tell a much fuller story about the 14th amendment. The history is crystal clear. The Constitution is crystal clear.

Circle design that reads "All rights for All" with the website address Douglass Day.org. White text on red background. Portrait of Dred Scott on a light pink background, surrounded by the words "Douglass Day 2026" and the website address Douglass Day.org
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 10mo ago

bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP@hongkongfp.com · last yr.

"Journey With Me Through Hong Kong, My Home," a children's activity book published by Professor Puja Kapai's DEIJB Lab at HKU, highlights the lives and careers of 12 ethnically diverse women in the city. In full: buff.ly/YnEFq69

Children's book on HK's ethnic minority women empowers young readers

"Journey With Me Through Hong Kong, My Home," a children's activity book published by Professor Puja Kapai's DEIJB Lab at HKU, highlights the lives and careers of 12 ethnically diverse women in the city.

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永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara@hiromunagahara.bsky.social · last yr.

It's August 6 in Japan now. I'm thinking of my family's experience in Hiroshima 80 years ago and feeling grateful that I spent some time in the city this past January. Photo taken at Shukkeien, where my great grandmother evacuated to escape the fire that engulfed her neighborhood after the bombing.

Photo of a pond inside the Shukkeien garden. You can see two carps under the shadow of a stone bridge, along with the reflection of the clouds above.
永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara@hiromunagahara.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’ve walked all over Hiroshima during the past few days visiting sites connected to my family’s experience of the atomic bombing as well as their premodern life as samurai serving the Asano house. I started in the northern end of the city, just east of the castle where my family lived in 1945.

The site of the former Nagahara residence in an area that was previously known as Teppō-chō.
Andrew Popp@andrewpopp.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING! Over the moon excited to announce Ai Hisano's appointment as next editor-in-chief at @entandsoc.bsky.social!

Enterprise and Society@entandsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

@entandsoc.bsky.social is delighted to announce that Prof. Ai Hisano has been chosen as incoming Editor-in-Chief. This is a truly exciting appointment that promises a bright new phase in the journal's history. More about Ai and her fascinating work can be found here: www.aihisano.com

University of Illinois Press@illinoispress.bsky.social · last yr.

📄 "From Jonkonnu and Son de los diablos to Congo Square and Son Jarocho: Global Histories of the Jawbone/Quijada as a Black Musical Instrument" @projectmuse.bsky.social‬ muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

Project MUSE - From Jonkonnu and Son de los diablos to Congo Square and Son Jarocho: Global Histories of the Jawbone/Quijada as a Black Musical Instrument

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Jason Petrulis@petrulis.bsky.social · last yr.

🗃️ Reminder: if you are a university professor, professor emeritus, or associate professor of history, you are eligible to nominate *anyone you want* for a Nobel Peace Prize. www.nobelprize.org/nomination/p... Nominations for 2026 open in September!

Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org

A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...

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The Crossroads Project@xroadproj.bsky.social · last yr.

The Smithsonian Folkways site is a treasure trove of African American, African diaspora, and African religious music. For Juneteenth, Folkways recommends "Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast."

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Acclaimed upholders of the African American ring shout, the McIntosh County Shouters keep the faith, form, and fervor of the generations-old tradition rooted in their small community of coastal Georgi...

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Jason Petrulis@petrulis.bsky.social · last yr.

🗃️ So excited it is finally out: Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje's Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture FREE download: play.google.com/store/books/... Apparently it is open access via ‪@upmississippi.bsky.social‬ ‪and @uclalibrary.bsky.social!

Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje - Books on Google Play

Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture - Ebook written by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offli...

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