Jennifer Black
@blackjen1.bsky.social
Historian of visual & material culture, business history, fraud, trademarks, advertising. https://jennifermblack.org/
Author of Branding Trust (https://www.pennpress.org/9781512825008/branding-trust/).
Author of Branding Trust (https://www.pennpress.org/9781512825008/branding-trust/).
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Jennifer Black
@blackjen1.bsky.social
· Nov 10
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July 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Excited to announce my chapter on direct mail advertising has been published! Available now from @upenn.edu press! www.pennpress.org/978151282750... Commercial Intimacy – Penn Press
July 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Excited to announce my chapter on direct mail advertising has been published! Available now from @upenn.edu press! www.pennpress.org/978151282750... Commercial Intimacy – Penn Press
This week my #misericordiaU intern found a bone saw with a mining camp doctor's kit! 🫣 #publichistory #skystorians #EckleyMinersVillage Check out his progress: wp.me/p6FQbP-O3
Eckley Miner’s Village Week 7 (7/7/2025 – 7/10/2025)
This week at Eckley, I continued my project of inventorying the old artifact storage house. The week started off with me continuing from where I left off two weeks ago (I took the week of the 4th o…
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July 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This week my #misericordiaU intern found a bone saw with a mining camp doctor's kit! 🫣 #publichistory #skystorians #EckleyMinersVillage Check out his progress: wp.me/p6FQbP-O3
My #MisericordiaUniversity interns are up to some cool things this summer! Check it out! wp.me/p6FQbP-NO #publichistory #interns #skystorians
Eckley Miners’ Village Week 6 (06/23/25 – 06/26/25)
Every day of this week at Eckley, I continued my big inventory project at our artifact storage house. Just as I had started last week, I went through each and every artifact in the house (of which …
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July 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
My #MisericordiaUniversity interns are up to some cool things this summer! Check it out! wp.me/p6FQbP-NO #publichistory #interns #skystorians
Check out this great review of my book #BrandingTrust @pennpress.bsky.social in @thejerpano.bsky.social !! So honored doi.org/10.1353/jer....
Project MUSE - <i>Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth- Century America</i> by Jennifer M. Black (review)
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June 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Check out this great review of my book #BrandingTrust @pennpress.bsky.social in @thejerpano.bsky.social !! So honored doi.org/10.1353/jer....
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The #JERPano seeks contributors for a new series, "Teaching the Early American Republic."
We invite reflections on classroom experiences, lesson plans, source reviews, or challenges in 500 to 1000 words by June 30th.
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We invite reflections on classroom experiences, lesson plans, source reviews, or challenges in 500 to 1000 words by June 30th.
For posting guidelines, visit us at: thepanorama.shear.org/write-for-us/
June 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The #JERPano seeks contributors for a new series, "Teaching the Early American Republic."
We invite reflections on classroom experiences, lesson plans, source reviews, or challenges in 500 to 1000 words by June 30th.
For posting guidelines, visit us at: thepanorama.shear.org/write-for-us/
We invite reflections on classroom experiences, lesson plans, source reviews, or challenges in 500 to 1000 words by June 30th.
For posting guidelines, visit us at: thepanorama.shear.org/write-for-us/
Have you ever wondered how museums clean their displays? Check out my #MisericordiaU student's #intern blog from this week! #publichistory #localhistory wp.me/p6FQbP-MC
Eckley Miner’s Village Week 2 (05/27/25 – 05/29/25)
This week at Eckley, I was assigned a few projects involving artifact cleaning in select buildings on-site. I also continued last week’s project of documenting artifacts that were not approve…
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June 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Have you ever wondered how museums clean their displays? Check out my #MisericordiaU student's #intern blog from this week! #publichistory #localhistory wp.me/p6FQbP-MC
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Wildfires in the Canadian province of Manitoba, which shares a border with the United States, have prompted authorities to declare a state of emergency and order tens of thousands of people to leave their homes.
Winds will likely blow wildfire smoke into Midwestern states.
Winds will likely blow wildfire smoke into Midwestern states.
Canada wildfires force 17,000 to evacuate, with smoke blowing toward U.S.
Authorities in Manitoba, which shares a border with the U.S., issued a state of emergency. Winds will likely blow wildfire smoke into Midwestern states.
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May 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Wildfires in the Canadian province of Manitoba, which shares a border with the United States, have prompted authorities to declare a state of emergency and order tens of thousands of people to leave their homes.
Winds will likely blow wildfire smoke into Midwestern states.
Winds will likely blow wildfire smoke into Midwestern states.
So thrilled that my #MisericordiaU student won a prestigious #KeystoneInternship from the state of PA this summer! #publichistory #localhistory Check out his first blog post here: wp.me/p6FQbP-Mt
Eckley Miner’s Village Week 1 (05/19/25 – 05/22/25)
My first week at Eckley Miner’s Village was largely orientational, with much of my time with my supervisors present being spent touring around the complex and being told of its history, intro…
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May 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
So thrilled that my #MisericordiaU student won a prestigious #KeystoneInternship from the state of PA this summer! #publichistory #localhistory Check out his first blog post here: wp.me/p6FQbP-Mt
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All obvious heinous things aside, this is a reminder that—despite lies from republicans—undocumented people pay taxes. and now their contributions are being used against them.
🚨 SCOOP 🚨
DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.
It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.
IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.
It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.
IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants
The agencies have still not reached an agreement on sharing information. But immigration officials now say they’re seeking records on millions of people suspected of being in the United States without...
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April 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
All obvious heinous things aside, this is a reminder that—despite lies from republicans—undocumented people pay taxes. and now their contributions are being used against them.
This makes me want to cry
A majority of NEH employees received an email placing them on immediate leave. The news comes just days after many humanities councils across the country were told their grants would be terminated.
National Endowment for the Humanities staff put on immediate leave
A majority of NEH employees received an email placing them on immediate leave. The news comes just days after many humanities councils across the country were told their grants would be terminated.
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April 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This makes me want to cry
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Four universities, each about to lose much of its funding and research infrastructure thanks to the illegal actions of the federal government. Thousands of jobs are going to disappear in each of these communities; diseases un-cured; inventions not invented. There will be no winners here.
For the first time since 2008, the Men’s NCAA Tournament Final Four features all No. 1 seeds.
March 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Four universities, each about to lose much of its funding and research infrastructure thanks to the illegal actions of the federal government. Thousands of jobs are going to disappear in each of these communities; diseases un-cured; inventions not invented. There will be no winners here.
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Little less than a month left to get your proposal in for "WARTIME TRANSFORMATIONS" the 4th in the "For 2026" series. What better time to discuss the AmRev than now and where better than Williamsburg? CFP closes 4/15. bit.ly/3Fk6Rl5
For 2026: Wartime Transformations - OIEAHC
Join us this October for the fourth "For 2026" conference. Call for Proposals now open. Proposals due April 15, 2025.
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March 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Little less than a month left to get your proposal in for "WARTIME TRANSFORMATIONS" the 4th in the "For 2026" series. What better time to discuss the AmRev than now and where better than Williamsburg? CFP closes 4/15. bit.ly/3Fk6Rl5
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NEW: Internal staff email from Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch addressing Trump’s executive order.
“As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges and trumphs.”
“As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges and trumphs.”
March 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
NEW: Internal staff email from Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch addressing Trump’s executive order.
“As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges and trumphs.”
“As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges and trumphs.”
Today & tomorrow-- 50% off my book @upenn.edu press! Use code FOUNDERSDAY25 www.pennpress.org/978151282500...
Branding Trust – Penn Press
In the early nineteenth century, the American commercial marketplace was a chaotic, unregulated environment in which knock-offs and outright frauds thrived. ...
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March 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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www.oah.org/2025/03/12/r.... The OAH is collecting info about deleted or recently restricted historical sources-- please share
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March 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
www.oah.org/2025/03/12/r.... The OAH is collecting info about deleted or recently restricted historical sources-- please share
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"Any digital project team that would benefit from a week of focused work is welcome to apply (the “Liberal Arts” in ILiADS = methods+values, not limited to liberal arts institutions). Typically, teams are a mix of faculty, students, librarians, and/or technologists": iliads.org
March 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"Any digital project team that would benefit from a week of focused work is welcome to apply (the “Liberal Arts” in ILiADS = methods+values, not limited to liberal arts institutions). Typically, teams are a mix of faculty, students, librarians, and/or technologists": iliads.org
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Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals
A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.
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March 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
Always a great time at the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social annual conference #BHC2025. didn't get any pics but got lots of ideas! #bizhist #skystorians
March 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Always a great time at the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social annual conference #BHC2025. didn't get any pics but got lots of ideas! #bizhist #skystorians
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Well put.
It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.
February 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Well put.
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Ok, starting a thread of these whoops, we accidentally-threw-the engine-overboard moments, send me your faves.
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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
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February 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Ok, starting a thread of these whoops, we accidentally-threw-the engine-overboard moments, send me your faves.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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