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Historian of Women Airforce Service Pilots Book w @crownpublishing History Prof; Doc film producer; Public Historian; talking head; Bluesky Elder Certified; https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-kate-landdeck-25a04811 https://katherinesharplanddeck.com

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder: WWII Nazis who were just following orders are still known as Nazis. #ClioRemembers

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

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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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 4d

Is GenX the only one who does this or has everyone been traumatized by pictures of deformed turtles they saw as kids?

Plastic rings for a six pack. One set whole and one cut up to save the turtles and birds from horrible fates.

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 8d

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 8d

We need more history majors. #knowledgeispower

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jeffreyford8 @jeffreyford8.bsky.social · 10d

Courtesy of the Library of Congress -- a copy of the first edition of The Wizard of Oz. The illustrations are awesome. you can go through page by page, and there are illustrations on almost every page. read.gov/books/pagetu....

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 14d

I will be giving the 67th Harmon Memorial Lecture at the United States Air Force Academy this October. From the first lecture in 1959 given by Frank Craven to others by George Herring, John Blum, Roger Launius, and Rick Atkinson, I am humbled to join the list. @crownpublishing.bsky.social

Black poster with photo of Katherine Landdeck smiling wearing a blue shirt and sunglasses over her head and a Stearman airplane behind her. Four images line the left side of the flyer - one from World War II shows four women walking away from a B-17 airplane with parachutes in their hands, one shows four women from the United States Air Force Academy with helmets on their head and guns in their hands, one shows a confident Jacqueline Cochran wearing a flight suit and resting her arm on the nose of her plane shortly after she broke the speed of sound, the final picture shows a woman from the USAF Academy in a white shirt standing at attention and dark pants with an upper classman wearing a white shirt, a hat and white gloves standing over her. The two modern pictures show women who entered the USAF Academy in 1976 - the first group to do so.

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SMH Historians @smh-historians.bsky.social · 15d

NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR GRAD STUDENTS: “SMH (Grad Student) TALKS” at #SMH2026 Annual Conference!
Submission deadline: November 15, 2025

www.smh-hq.org/annualmeetin...

SMH (Grad Student) TALKS | The Society for Military History

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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 18d

In late June 1973 news broke that the Nixon admin had compiled an "enemies list." Among those listed were journalist Daniel Schorr & actor/activist Paul Newman. Hunter S. Thompson was disappointed he wasn't included. Here's Paul Conrad's editorial cartoon on the Nixon enemies list in the LA Times.

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 19d

We published 10 articles about historians' work for, with, and on the National Park Service in #AHAPerspectives this summer. You can find them all here: 🗃️

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 23d

Blown away yo have been honored in Atchison, KS this weekend at the Intl. Forest of Friendship (w the 99s) for "exceptional contribution to aviation." Thank you so much!!

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28d

I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

A Minnesota Lawmaker and Her Husband Are Lying in State. Next to Them: Their Golden Retriever.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · Sep 5

The most powerful message I’ve seen

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · Sep 5

We haven't declared war since 1941.

katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · Sep 5

Crazy!

katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · Sep 5

Who did they censure?

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · Aug 30

It's Saturday of Labor Day weekend. I sit marking a student's 70-pg thesis. If your Provost doesn't see you working,does it have any value? If it is not a data point does it count? How do we quantity the nights & weekends we labor for our students in a way the bean counters will recognize? We can't.

katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · Aug 30

Plot twist: it was the Provost, who promised a vice-provost position to whoever got the job done. Now how to prove it?

katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · Aug 30

Is it a humanities department? Then no. No they will not. The university needs a new AI Czar and will take that 60k assistant prof to add to the 100k they stole from other departments for the new, made up administrator. Then tell remaining faculty to work 20% harder.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · Aug 30

"The students are all given A's so they won't talk thus they don't care either."

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andy™ @andylevy.net · Aug 28

hey hey rfk
how many kids did you kill today

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · Aug 28

The CDC is also discontinuing drowning prevention. It really is unfathomable how bad RFK jr is.

NPR @npr.org · Aug 27

A few years in, a CDC drowning prevention program was ready to share its findings on how to mitigate the leading cause of death among young children. Then the administration terminated that staff.

Drowning prevention program comes to a halt at the CDC

A few years in, a CDC drowning prevention program was ready to share its findings on how to mitigate the leading cause of death among young children. Then the administration terminated that staff.

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · Aug 21

Here are some advocacy resources for public history from the NCPH.
ncph.org/what-is-publ...

Advocacy Resources | National Council on Public History

This list of advocacy resources was prepared by the Advocacy Committee of the Board in March 2025. Please email us at [email protected] if you have resources we can add to this list! NCPH engages in advoca...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 20

The argument against regulation is always the same: “It stifles growth and jobs.”

But just as tax cuts for corporations have not trickled down, regulatory cuts have not benefited most people.

Big companies enjoy bigger profits. Working people bear the costs.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Aug 18

It's a very short walk from here to "Anne Frank died of typhus, thus there were no gas chambers."

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 18

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All
12 Suffer from Other Health Problems.
A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments.
By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova
08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

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