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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 1d

boygenius cover of Parting Glass bless this draft, bless this draft, boygenius cover of Parting Glass

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 3d

I love Richmond and I love Francine. ❤️

The Virginian-Pilot @pilotonline.com · 3d

Missing Lowe’s cat returns to Virginia store: ‘She’s part of our family’ trib.al/tzNZ7wR

Missing Lowe’s cat returns to Virginia store: ‘She’s part of our family’

The beloved Richmond cat had been missing since Sept. 18 when surveillance footage showed Francine walking onto a freight truck in the store’s receiving area and being accidentally carried to a Low…

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so excited for this!

John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 3d

Join us Thursday, October 9 at 5 p.m. EDT in person or via Zoom for the 2025 Bromsen Lecture!

Details at jcblibrary.org!

The image contains a photo of Bianca Premo and the text "Thursday at the JCB- The John Carter Brown Library Presents - The 2025 Bromsen Lecture- Children in the Early Modern Spanish Empire: Ethical Lessons from the Present."

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 4d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 8d

The stories of enslaved African people and more than 1,000 British plantation owners who were compensated after abolition have been brought together in a searchable archive for the first time.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada made into searchable archive

Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors

www.theguardian.com

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NPR @npr.org · 8d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 8d

Whomst do I know here who has access to or else knows how to make a zograscope?

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back to saying I’m Jesse @killgoldfish.bsky.social · Jun 2

ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese.
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 15d

Trying to place where I know the song from, when suddenly, I realize

a man with a beard is looking at a screen with math equations on it .

Alt: GIF of Zach Galifianakis looking at a screen with math equations dancing in front of his face.

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 15d

Getting some writing done at a local brewery and when I heard a song that was on the Twilight soundtrack come over the loudspeakers, every single sense activated.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 16d

We have to keep saying it: There is "nothing* that Texas college faculty are prohibited by law from teaching.

Do not believe politicians who demand restrictions they never passed. Do not obey unconstitutional college policy. Do not self-censor. Do not comply.

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 17d

NEW: Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX has told faculty that they can't discuss trans people in curriculum. When I asked the justification for the policy, they referenced Texas state law - but Texas law doesn't forbid discussions of trans people in higher ed.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Texas school threatens to fire faculty if they discuss this topic

ASU says the new policy is in response to Texas law. But no such law banning discussions of trans people exists.

www.chron.com

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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 16d

I’ve quietly been working on a new project: The History Explorers Club. I opened it in early August & intentionally started with a small group of 40 Members who are helping shape the experience.

It’s been a lot of fun to work on & today, we’re starting our first mini-challenge!

Explore the Past with Curious Minds | History Explorers Club

A community for history lovers who crave deeper stories, expert insights, and connection. Join us to explore the past—together.

www.historyexplorers.club

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17d

Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people.

conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

Alt text: Screenshot of a document outlining a new university policy. The bullet points state:

No discussion of transgender topics or anything suggesting more than two genders.

All information in syllabi about transgender topics must be removed.

Instructors must use students’ given names, not preferred names.

Safe-space stickers, LGBTQ flags, etc. are banned and must be removed.

Employees must remove pronouns from email signatures.

The university will not support faculty who teach or discuss these topics in class.

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 17d

#AmRel #SouthernHist

Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 17d

Hi y'all! Would anyone be interested in collaborating on a panel reconsidering religion in the South in the Revolutionary Era (broadly defined) for the Southern? Definitely want to do something on Quakerism and Southern religious pluralism.

www.thesha.org/submit-a-pro...

Submit a Proposal

www.thesha.org

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Commonplace: the journal of early American life @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social · 22d

Need some teaching inspiration for this Constitution Day? Check out Katlyn Marie Carter's 2024 essay on teaching the Constitutional Convention through the strategic silences and gaps in the historic record:
commonplace.online/article/gaps...

Gaps in the Record: Teaching with the Constitutional Convention - Commonplace

Too often, historians turn to records of constituent or legislative deliberations from the eighteenth century as a source to draw quotations from early American political figures, without questioning ...

commonplace.online

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 23d

We have a brand new essay @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social today! Jordan Smith writes on his forthcoming history of rum and responds to the question "where all the pirates???"

Commonplace: the journal of early American life @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social · 23d

NEW on Commonplace: Jordan Smith asks and answers "where've all the pirates gone?" Check out the latest from Commonplace to learn more about the reasons for this piratical absence in Smith's forthcoming book "The Invention of Rum." commonplace.online/article/wher...

Where’s the Pirate? Or, why I wrote a history of rum with only a few pirates in it - Commonplace

Over time, the history of what was consumed in those taverns became more interesting to me than a rather limited subset of drinkers.

commonplace.online

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29d

wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america

Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America

www.nytimes.com

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 28d

for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social I had the pleasure & privilege of interviewing Kate Haulman re: her new book THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA out from @oxfordunipress.bsky.social today! www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

The Reinvention of George Washington's Mother, From Paragon of Virtue to Greedy Shrew to Widow Striving for Independence

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely on her own after her husband’s death in 1743

www.smithsonianmag.com

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adamxmcneil.bsky.social @adamxmcneil.bsky.social · Sep 9

Excited to join @seangallagher.bsky.social and other wonderful scholars in conversation to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation in Norfolk, Virginia!!

www.eventbrite.com/e/competing-...

Competing Freedoms: Hampton Roads at the Start of the American Revolution

Join us for exciting and illuminating symposium that will shed fresh light on Hampton Roads’ role at the start of the American Revolution.

www.eventbrite.com

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Bromsen Lecture will be delivered by Professor Bianca Premo on October 9 at 5 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome!

For more details, visit jcblibrary.org!

The image contains a photo of Bianca Premo and the text "2025 Bromsen Lecturer- Bianca Premo- Distinguished University Professor of History, Florida International University (FIU)."

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · Sep 6

Heffalumps and woozles-core. I love them.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PFRr...

What in the World is a Tapir? | National Geographic

YouTube video by National Geographic

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · Sep 6

*AN internet rabbit hole, aaaaaaAHGGGG

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · Sep 6

request an 18th-c. print of a tapir for a work in the reading room —> be reminded of how unserious and perfect tapirs are —> think about how I would have tried to describe a tapir to someone who had zero reference point —> fall down a internet rabbit hole of videos of baby tapirs

✨scholarship✨

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · Sep 3

🧵 Today, a student in office hours asked me about history he sees online and revision to historical figures. The way he phrased it, my spidey senses went off, and sure enough, he was encountering Holocaust denial

Here's the article on @askhistorians.bsky.social I gave him

slate.com/technology/2...

We Banned Holocaust Deniers From Our History Subreddit. Here’s Why Facebook Should Do the Same.

They aren’t arguing an actual side. They’re not “just asking questions” out of curiosity or ignorance. Don’t give them the chance.

slate.com

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