Dr. Erica Johnson
@drericajohnson.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of History at Francis Marion University, Editor for @AgeofRevs, Codirector of AAAS, USS faculty coordinator, LACS-SHA treasurer, she/her
Started watching A Man on the Inside. When he got so intoxicated and high that he could not remember the name of his own book, I laughed myself to tears. Is this every retired professor's future?
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Started watching A Man on the Inside. When he got so intoxicated and high that he could not remember the name of his own book, I laughed myself to tears. Is this every retired professor's future?
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New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
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November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
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Enter for your chance to win a copy of Ronaldo Angelo Johnson's Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). The raffle ends this Friday (11/28) at 11:59pm EDT. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/24/b...
BOOK RAFFLE: ENTANGLED ALLIANCES
Ronaldo Angelo Johnson, Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). In conjunction with Ronaldo Johnson and Corne…
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November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Starting working on my upper division Latin American history course for spring. The @dig-history.bsky.social has such great episodes that I can assign!
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Starting working on my upper division Latin American history course for spring. The @dig-history.bsky.social has such great episodes that I can assign!
The front desk crew at the gym found out that I have a PhD. They now call me Dr. Johnson.
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The front desk crew at the gym found out that I have a PhD. They now call me Dr. Johnson.
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We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...
“Franklin is Dead”: Celebrity, Genius, and Religion in the Age of Revolutions
By Bryan A. Banks On June 11, 1790, an emotionally wrought Mirabeau took to the rostrum of the National Constituent Assembly after numerous days away suffering from ophthalmia to announce Benjamin …
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November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...
2026 Carolinas Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference CPF
November 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
2026 Carolinas Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference CPF
Today, our university archivist and I submitted an application for a nearly $100k grant. We are so relieved to have the application done, but dreading the wait for an answer.
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Today, our university archivist and I submitted an application for a nearly $100k grant. We are so relieved to have the application done, but dreading the wait for an answer.
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A 47-year-old man is the first person known to have died from alpha-gal syndrome, a red meat allergy caused by a tick bite.
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First death reported from meat allergy caused by tick bite
After months of investigation, researchers confirmed that a New Jersey man died of a tickborne allergy called alpha-gal syndrome after eating a hamburger.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
A 47-year-old man is the first person known to have died from alpha-gal syndrome, a red meat allergy caused by a tick bite.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
On a quiz, a student wrote Voltaire as "Volitaire." Was Voltaire volatile? Please discuss.
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
On a quiz, a student wrote Voltaire as "Volitaire." Was Voltaire volatile? Please discuss.
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1/n Belatedly (for which I blame all the things this semester), I am celebrating Karin Wulf's wonderful, important, and gorgeous new book. So long in the making and so excellent. Order it and read it now if you haven't yet! 😍
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
1/n Belatedly (for which I blame all the things this semester), I am celebrating Karin Wulf's wonderful, important, and gorgeous new book. So long in the making and so excellent. Order it and read it now if you haven't yet! 😍
The way we board planes is so inefficient.
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The way we board planes is so inefficient.
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With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
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The Autumn 2025 issue of The Recipes Project is live! This issue, GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES, was co-edited by Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, & Amanda Herbert.
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Autumn 2025
GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES INTRODUCTION By Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, and Amanda E. Herbert, Editors The early modern globalization of food and medicine was also a globalization of recipes. A...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The Autumn 2025 issue of The Recipes Project is live! This issue, GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES, was co-edited by Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, & Amanda Herbert.
recipes.hypotheses.org
recipes.hypotheses.org
Who is going to the SHA in St. Pete?
November 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Who is going to the SHA in St. Pete?
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I don’t think I have ever been this burnt out and demoralized and part of this is because institutions are not taking our concerns about the pedagogical harms of widespread and uncritical adoption of LLMs in higher education seriously.
It’s exhausting to do this without any support.
It’s exhausting to do this without any support.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I don’t think I have ever been this burnt out and demoralized and part of this is because institutions are not taking our concerns about the pedagogical harms of widespread and uncritical adoption of LLMs in higher education seriously.
It’s exhausting to do this without any support.
It’s exhausting to do this without any support.
I am so pleased with me from before my trip, because she worked ahead so that I wouldn't have to scramble with jetlag.
October 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I am so pleased with me from before my trip, because she worked ahead so that I wouldn't have to scramble with jetlag.
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Nice, short piece by historian Dr Alex Sessa on the American Revolution and the question of liberty substack.com/inbox/post/1...
America: A History of Ideas
Idea 1 - Taxes, Tyranny, and Treason: Who Gets to Define Liberty Anyway?
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October 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Nice, short piece by historian Dr Alex Sessa on the American Revolution and the question of liberty substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Article Abstract: Claiming Reparations, Claiming the City
by Clarence Lang journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
by Clarence Lang journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Claiming Reparations, Claiming the City - Clarence Lang, 2025
Historians of the African American urban experience have revived scholarly efforts to document Black communities’ “right to the city.” These explorations have f...
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October 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Article Abstract: Claiming Reparations, Claiming the City
by Clarence Lang journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
by Clarence Lang journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Shifting Focus: Photography of Enslaved People in Tennessee
tnmuseum.org/Stories/post... The oldest images in the Museum’s collection were created between 1850 and 1900. These few images offer only a glimpse into the complex lives of the Tennesseans who lived during this period.
tnmuseum.org/Stories/post... The oldest images in the Museum’s collection were created between 1850 and 1900. These few images offer only a glimpse into the complex lives of the Tennesseans who lived during this period.
Shifting Focus: Photography of Enslaved People in Tennessee
Tennessee State Museum Curator of Social History, Tranae Chatman, explores the early photography of enslaved people.
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October 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Shifting Focus: Photography of Enslaved People in Tennessee
tnmuseum.org/Stories/post... The oldest images in the Museum’s collection were created between 1850 and 1900. These few images offer only a glimpse into the complex lives of the Tennesseans who lived during this period.
tnmuseum.org/Stories/post... The oldest images in the Museum’s collection were created between 1850 and 1900. These few images offer only a glimpse into the complex lives of the Tennesseans who lived during this period.
I highly recommend American Airlines' Premium Economy for long haul flights. Flew 14 hours from Doha to Philly, and it made that journey pleasant.
October 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I highly recommend American Airlines' Premium Economy for long haul flights. Flew 14 hours from Doha to Philly, and it made that journey pleasant.
Starting our long journey back to South Carolina today. Rwanda has been wonderful, and I have met so many wonderful people.
October 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Starting our long journey back to South Carolina today. Rwanda has been wonderful, and I have met so many wonderful people.
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After 2 days of waiting, I finally received my luggage lats night. It has been an adventure shopping for clothing for a conference, but I have had some really nice interactions with local vendors.
October 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
After 2 days of waiting, I finally received my luggage lats night. It has been an adventure shopping for clothing for a conference, but I have had some really nice interactions with local vendors.