Dr. Zara Anishanslin
@drzara.bsky.social
Historian with a Thing for Things
Creator/Co-host Thing4Things Podcast
Author THE PAINTER’S FIRE (July 1, 2025)
Creator/Co-host Thing4Things Podcast
Author THE PAINTER’S FIRE (July 1, 2025)
Seattle friends, please join us tomorrow 7 to 8 pm in one of the West Coast’s all time best bookstores (and a family fave)
August 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Seattle friends, please join us tomorrow 7 to 8 pm in one of the West Coast’s all time best bookstores (and a family fave)
Boston friends, please join us Wednesday July 23 for the inaugural Jack Grinold Lecture in American Art and Architecture at the Massachusetts Historical Society!
July 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Boston friends, please join us Wednesday July 23 for the inaugural Jack Grinold Lecture in American Art and Architecture at the Massachusetts Historical Society!
Now streaming! Thing4Things Podcast, Episode 4 “CAP”
Everywhere but their heads.
Our fourth episode follows the travels of a cap that won’t stay put.
And has a lot to tell us about liberty and its limits— making it, a perfect listen for your Independence Day weekend.
Everywhere but their heads.
Our fourth episode follows the travels of a cap that won’t stay put.
And has a lot to tell us about liberty and its limits— making it, a perfect listen for your Independence Day weekend.
July 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Now streaming! Thing4Things Podcast, Episode 4 “CAP”
Everywhere but their heads.
Our fourth episode follows the travels of a cap that won’t stay put.
And has a lot to tell us about liberty and its limits— making it, a perfect listen for your Independence Day weekend.
Everywhere but their heads.
Our fourth episode follows the travels of a cap that won’t stay put.
And has a lot to tell us about liberty and its limits— making it, a perfect listen for your Independence Day weekend.
Super excited to be in conversation with my friend Kevin Butterfield at the iconic Politics and Prose Bookstore!
DC area friends, please join us
DC area friends, please join us
June 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Super excited to be in conversation with my friend Kevin Butterfield at the iconic Politics and Prose Bookstore!
DC area friends, please join us
DC area friends, please join us
In our latest episode of the Thing4Things Podcast, a fringed shirt is not all it seems.
With expert guest the brilliant and fashionable Amanda Vickery!
With expert guest the brilliant and fashionable Amanda Vickery!
June 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
In our latest episode of the Thing4Things Podcast, a fringed shirt is not all it seems.
With expert guest the brilliant and fashionable Amanda Vickery!
With expert guest the brilliant and fashionable Amanda Vickery!
Thing4Things Podcast Episode 2 “MONUMENT” is now LIVE!
A strange tale of a tail is the thing at the heart of our latest episode.
This week’s expert is the fabulously brilliant art historian Wendy Bellion.
A strange tale of a tail is the thing at the heart of our latest episode.
This week’s expert is the fabulously brilliant art historian Wendy Bellion.
June 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Thing4Things Podcast Episode 2 “MONUMENT” is now LIVE!
A strange tale of a tail is the thing at the heart of our latest episode.
This week’s expert is the fabulously brilliant art historian Wendy Bellion.
A strange tale of a tail is the thing at the heart of our latest episode.
This week’s expert is the fabulously brilliant art historian Wendy Bellion.
New history podcast now LIVE 🥳
Check out episode 1: “KEY” now streaming everywhere you like to listen.
It’s just the start of our 10 episode first season on “The Stuff of Revolution.”
www.thing4thingspodcast.com
Check out episode 1: “KEY” now streaming everywhere you like to listen.
It’s just the start of our 10 episode first season on “The Stuff of Revolution.”
www.thing4thingspodcast.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
New history podcast now LIVE 🥳
Check out episode 1: “KEY” now streaming everywhere you like to listen.
It’s just the start of our 10 episode first season on “The Stuff of Revolution.”
www.thing4thingspodcast.com
Check out episode 1: “KEY” now streaming everywhere you like to listen.
It’s just the start of our 10 episode first season on “The Stuff of Revolution.”
www.thing4thingspodcast.com
A glimpse of “The Painter’s Fire” in its proof form! Especially given this week’s news, never been more honored that Harvard University Press is publishing it.
April 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A glimpse of “The Painter’s Fire” in its proof form! Especially given this week’s news, never been more honored that Harvard University Press is publishing it.
No better time than International Women’s Day to announce my new book THE PAINTER’S FIRE, a transatlantic revolutionary history written for a popular audience (July release)!
It features some amazing historical women, like poet Phillis Wheatley (who inspired the title).
It features some amazing historical women, like poet Phillis Wheatley (who inspired the title).
March 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
No better time than International Women’s Day to announce my new book THE PAINTER’S FIRE, a transatlantic revolutionary history written for a popular audience (July release)!
It features some amazing historical women, like poet Phillis Wheatley (who inspired the title).
It features some amazing historical women, like poet Phillis Wheatley (who inspired the title).
Saw this yesterday in the park.
This little tree was chopped down, but it left a stump in the shape of a heart.
Struck me as a good metaphor for these times. And life in general.
No matter how hard things get, never lose heart.
This little tree was chopped down, but it left a stump in the shape of a heart.
Struck me as a good metaphor for these times. And life in general.
No matter how hard things get, never lose heart.
February 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Saw this yesterday in the park.
This little tree was chopped down, but it left a stump in the shape of a heart.
Struck me as a good metaphor for these times. And life in general.
No matter how hard things get, never lose heart.
This little tree was chopped down, but it left a stump in the shape of a heart.
Struck me as a good metaphor for these times. And life in general.
No matter how hard things get, never lose heart.
The NEH has funded a lot of award winning, community enhancing, life changing projects. It is worth considering which of them simply would not exist under these new restrictions.
February 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The NEH has funded a lot of award winning, community enhancing, life changing projects. It is worth considering which of them simply would not exist under these new restrictions.
One more reason to love the American Philosophical Society
February 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
One more reason to love the American Philosophical Society
You know this historian with a thing for things loved talking about vast early American history and material culture in the latest issue of the WMQ!
Grateful to the Early Modern Studies Institute at the Huntington-USC and the WMQ for the forum. Available now on Project Muse (DM for copy)
Grateful to the Early Modern Studies Institute at the Huntington-USC and the WMQ for the forum. Available now on Project Muse (DM for copy)
February 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
You know this historian with a thing for things loved talking about vast early American history and material culture in the latest issue of the WMQ!
Grateful to the Early Modern Studies Institute at the Huntington-USC and the WMQ for the forum. Available now on Project Muse (DM for copy)
Grateful to the Early Modern Studies Institute at the Huntington-USC and the WMQ for the forum. Available now on Project Muse (DM for copy)