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Justin A Levine @justinalevine.bsky.social · 18h

It is mind blowing how much of the Revolutionary War took place in upstate New York!

Evan Sullivan @evanpsullivan.bsky.social · 19h

Next Monday, SUNY Adirondack and the Warren County Historical Society are hosting History Day for the lead up to the 250th anniversary of the #AmRev featuring local orgs and various talks (I’m presenting on Rev War veterans). Free & open to public w/ registration www.sunyacc.edu/news-stories...

History Day celebrates 250th anniversary of American Revolution

QUEENSBURY, New York (Sept. 23, 2025) — SUNY Adirondack and Warren County Historical Society are pleased to announce their inaugural History Day to be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13,...

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Evan Sullivan @evanpsullivan.bsky.social · 19h

Next Monday, SUNY Adirondack and the Warren County Historical Society are hosting History Day for the lead up to the 250th anniversary of the #AmRev featuring local orgs and various talks (I’m presenting on Rev War veterans). Free & open to public w/ registration www.sunyacc.edu/news-stories...

History Day celebrates 250th anniversary of American Revolution

QUEENSBURY, New York (Sept. 23, 2025) — SUNY Adirondack and Warren County Historical Society are pleased to announce their inaugural History Day to be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13,...

www.sunyacc.edu

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Evan Sullivan @evanpsullivan.bsky.social · 3d

Still relevant nearly six years later nursingclio.org/2020/02/25/p...

Pathologizing Politics: Eugenics and Political Discourse in the Modern United States

Carrie Buck was three months shy of her twenty-second birthday when she was forcibly sterilized on October 19, 1927. Buck’s fate was based on the 1924 Virginia eugenic sterilization law, which mark…

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 5d

Worth always keeping in mind that the Guardian has a commercial partnership with OpenAI, so nothing it writes about AI can be trusted

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 6d

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

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

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com

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Evan Sullivan @evanpsullivan.bsky.social · 4d

I’m at the Saratoga Book Festival this evening, but beforehand I stopped into @northshirebooks.bsky.social, saw my book on the shelf (first time that has happened), and signed a couple copies.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 6d

Dorothy Thompson was, well…Dorothy Thompson.

Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

reminder that one of the first things Hegseth did was end DOD recognition of Black History Month.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "No more dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship ... we are done with that shit."

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 24d

"Not all homeless people deserve involuntary lethal injection" is one hell of an apology.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24d

Brian Kilmeade apologized for his comments about homeless people getting lethal injections this morning on Fox & Friends, saying "so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion."

Here's the clip of his apology 👇

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 27d

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 27d

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 29d

Literally the entire point of a tattoo is the human element and interaction.
Working with your tattoo artist, personalizing your designs, its all so intimate and rightly so. Thats what its all about!
Why do techbros try to ruin EVERYTHING?

One of the last places we might expect artificial intelligence to show up is the tattoo parlor, with its mix of artistry, personal expression and permanent ink. But a high-end ink shop in New York City is now taking appointments for an AI-driven tattoo robot.

The technology is the product of Blackdot, an Austin, Texas-based startup that has been pursuing a vision of autonomous, AI-fueled tattooing since 2019.

Blackdot—which has raised roughly $7 million from a combination of strategic and angel investors, crowdfunding and venture capital—says its device’s precision boosts predictability and reduces pain.

“There are people that are wondering if technology should make its way into the tattoo industry,” said founder Joel Pennington. “But that was what happened when Gutenberg came out with a printing press, and everyone thought that books should be handwritten.”

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Evan Sullivan @evanpsullivan.bsky.social · 29d

Congrats! This is great and I can’t wait to get a copy.

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Evan Sullivan @evanpsullivan.bsky.social · Sep 6

First time playing live since high school. Only this time I got to play with my dad and brother, I have more gray hairs, and I am not playing post-hardcore music.

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Evan Sullivan @evanpsullivan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Wow how kind of the rip currents to rescue hundreds of swimmers.

Hundreds of swimmers rescued by dangerous rip currents

Hundreds of swimmers along California’s coast were rescued over Labor Day weekend after they were caught in dangerous rip currents. NBC News’ Dana Griffin has more.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · Aug 31

wow

Nation’s largest RN union: Time for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go

the wake of the latest scandal he has perpetuated, National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of He...

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Evan Sullivan @evanpsullivan.bsky.social · Aug 30

Instead of Johann Tetzel meandering into your 16th c town of Halberstadt to sell indulgences so that your grandfather who died of rickets at the ripe old age of 34 will spend one less day in purgatory, a former game show host is asking you for donations so HE won’t go to hell.

Trump, 79, Fundraises on Desperate Push to Get Into Heaven

The president has spoken about his mortality more and more as speculation mounts about his declining health.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · Aug 29

What is important to remember is that the initial installation of the Robert E. Lee portrait had little to do with history. It was installed in the 1950s. To understand why you need to appreciate the vagaries of historical memory. The relevant history or context is the 1950s and not the 1860s.

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Evan Sullivan @evanpsullivan.bsky.social · Aug 22

STOP

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 21

NEW: More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found.

Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.

Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies

More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

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Evan Sullivan @evanpsullivan.bsky.social · Aug 20

More on the book here: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Constructing Disability after the Great War

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Evan Sullivan @evanpsullivan.bsky.social · Aug 20

Save the date! On Friday, October 3rd, I will be at the Literary Night Market with other local authors for the Saratoga Book Festival! The event is free, and I’ll have signed paperback copies of my book for sale — Constructing Disability after the Great War: Blind Veterans in the Progressive Era.

2025 Literary Night Market – Saratoga Book Festival

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Evan Sullivan @evanpsullivan.bsky.social · Aug 20

“What the world should know, is that the president of the United States is a profoundly ignorant person about American history. And history is full of examples of power possessed by people of great historical ignorance, and that’s what we’re experiencing.” — Historian David Blight

Trump escalates his attacks on cultural institutes | CNN

Eleni Giokos speaks to historian David Blight about President Donald Trump’s attack on Smithsonian Institution museums, and his comments on slavery.

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Evan Sullivan @evanpsullivan.bsky.social · Aug 16

Don’t ask me for data because I DONT HAVE IT

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Evan Sullivan @evanpsullivan.bsky.social · Aug 16

It is a scientific FACT that eating 3 cookies spaced out half a cookie every 15 minutes is not as bad for you as 3 all at once. Something about the act of contemplating more cookies burns additional calories.

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Evan Sullivan @evanpsullivan.bsky.social · Aug 13

Face Authenticator didn’t work because I was shoveling a quesadilla in my mouth

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