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Sara Georgini
@sarageorgini.bsky.social
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Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. President, @susih.bsky.social. Views mine, history for all.
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Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social · Aug 8
🗃️ Busy writing book2 about the American Library in Paris, and all the ways that #library workers inform and shape democracy. Amazing #archives, fabulous heroines, and…oui! A few spies. Coming soon via #OUP. 🕵🏻‍♀️ 📚 ✍️ 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
ALA camp library interior from WWI France. A pair of male officers peruse shelves of books Archival record book titled American Library in Paris and tied with yellow and white gingham ribbon
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Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social · 1d
We’ll be opening a new round of Community Scholars soon @susih.bsky.social to address this, will be sure to share link but here’s the CFP from awhile ago, more soon!

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CFP: USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars 2024 | Society for US Intellectual History
In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at IUPUI, the Society for U.S. Intellectual History is pleased to announce the continuation of a new opportunity to support contingent faculty, i...
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 16d
Across these works, the message isn’t “time lost” but energy carried.

Seed heads, grapes, olives—all proof that summer doesn’t end; it becomes fruit, work, and rest.
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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 8d
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 26d
Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.
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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 6d
It was my pleasure to write about Yellowstone and how it became a national park (SPOILER ALERT: it was NOT unanimous) in 1872, for "History Now."

And I am delighted to share these pages with fellow environmental historians whose work I so admire ...

www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/...
The Natural Resources of the United States in the Shaping of History | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Natural Resources of the United States in the Shaping of History | | SPECIAL FEATURE A pair of recent Book Breaks episodes featuring contributors to History Now 76: “Saving Yellowstone: Exploratio...
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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 2d
Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬
Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM
After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.
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Philippe Prudent @phprudent.bsky.social · 2d
Le château de Blois by night (ici, le magnifique escalier de l'aile Gaston d'Orléans). #patrimoine
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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 2d
Happy Sunday everyone!

May your day be as sunny and light as the Great Hall is on a early autumn afternoon.
We are looking at a large room with an oak framed roof. Sun spills through Georgian sash windows casting squares of light on the uneven pine floors. Despite its size the room feels warm and is peaceful and quiet.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d
“I walked along the river until I came to another corner. I went around the corner to look for spring.”
Little Frog walks along a riverbank. From "The Corner" In *Frog and Toad All Year*
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Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social · 4d
Plain bagel BEC toasted with ☕️
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 4d
Today is World Mental Health Day. Through the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), you can research the history of mental health. BBIH’s free reading list on the history of emotions highlights some recent scholarship on the history of mental health in the UK and Ireland buff.ly/OK5HSbu
Engraving of an 18th century building in a pastoral landscape
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 6d
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 6d
Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.
Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."
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Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social · 6d
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 6d
The Thorntons helped Christopher and Anne Danby out in the 1660s. Alice was still pursuing this 'debt' in her last will and testament, written in 1705! #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️
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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 6d
8 Oct. 1688 #OTD Thornton wrote to her great-nephew, Abstrupus Danby, seeking help with her son’s debts. She reminded him ‘how sad and necessitous a condition your father and mother ... were in for several years when their just right was detained from them and they cast off by all’. #EarlyModern 1/2
Outside of a 17th-century letter. Addressed to Abstrupus Danby at his house in York. Above that he has annotated it as a letter from his aunt Thornton, about what she did for his family, and that he is willing to pay her £50 next Martinmas.
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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 6d
Last week I climbed Snowdon to find the Gladstone Rock halfway up the Watkin Path, where Gladstone spoke to 2000 people in 1892, aged 83 - today I thought to look up @gladlib.bsky.social what Gladstone said in his diary - 🗃️
Me standing beside a big rock with a granite plaque on it The view down the mountain from the Gladstone rock - green hillside, grass and cloud
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 6d
Here's a photo of Lucky when he was a baby for everyone's mental health purposes
A small white fluffy puppy taking a snooze.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 8d
I pray you hear her speak.
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Picture This Post @picturethispost.com · 8d
A discovery concert tracing the Bard’s influence on opera--Click the link to read the preview in the Music section of PIcture This Post magazine--

#ChicagoOperaTheater #COT @shakespeare.lol @saaupdates.bsky.social #ChicagoOpera #ChicagoTheater #ChicagoMusic #PictureThisPostMusic #opera #music
Chicago Opera Theater Presents SHAKESPEARE SINGS - Preview
WHEN: October 19th, 2025 WHERE: Studebaker Theater 410 S. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL TICKETS: $25+ For more information and tickets vis
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 6d
sunset
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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 6d
We don’t talk enough about how physically exhausting archival work can be. I stood for 8 hours in an uncomfortable stress position today and took about 2000 pictures of these huge ledgers. My brain is fizzing, but my dogs are barking and my back hurts like hell. I wouldn’t swap this for anything! 🗃️
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Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social · 6d
🎶 ✍️ Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain. Keep writing, fellow 🦉 🗃️ #book2 m.youtube.com/watch?v=38zR...
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain (1960) (Full Album)
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Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social · 6d
One week left to apply for these awesome @shafrhistorians.bsky.social awards - including the Hogan Language Fellowship. I’m a previous Hogan winner & I have the honor of chairing the Hogan committee this year so apply or tell your PhD students to apply! #SHAFR #skystorians 🗃️
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SHAFR @shafrhistorians.bsky.social · Sep 8
🚨 Reminder: SHAFR January awards deadline is Oct 15! Apply now for the Bernath Lecture Prize, Williams Emerging Scholar Grant, Hogan Language Fellowship & grad dissertation grants. Details: tinyurl.com/5n6e6h8z

#SHAFR #HistoryAwards #AcademicSky #skystorians
October 15 Deadline - Apply for SHAFR Awards
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CLAH @clahistorians.bsky.social · 7d
Registration has opened for this exciting upcoming lecture series! "Mapping from Mexico" will examine how histories of Mexican cartography can rewrite common narratives and popular assumptions. See here for further details and registration information: www.newberry.org/calendar/22n....
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Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social · 7d
Such a cool idea for a podcast, always great conversations.
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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 7d
Episodes two weeks in a row?! That should tell you how much great stuff there is. I was so happy to get to talk to @andrewhartman.bsky.social about KARL MARX IN AMERICA (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and how he keeps going in the writing "grind." Listen here: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
Podcast episode graphic featuring a smiling man in a blazer and glasses in front of a bookshelf. The text on the right reads "Drafting the Past episode 69: Andrew Hartman."
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