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Dr. Karen Carr
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anarchafeminist archaeologist PhD Michigan, Prof. Emer. Portland State (((she/elle))) Land back. Articles and (award-winning!) books at http://linktr.ee/karen.eva.carr. Coming soon: a history of gender and money, and a new take on ancient slavery.
idk if it's just for me, but it looks like Amazon's offering a 19% discount on my book Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming, so this might be the time to give someone a copy?

*If it's still too much, you can get cheaper copies on Amazon used, still delivering before xmas!
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Pritzker shows how Illinois could respond to Indiana and Texas redistricting.
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Writing recommendation letters? Some tips to avoid unconscious bias.
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Mayflower passengers who arrived in Plymouth November 11, 1620

vs.

The Mayflower passengers who survived to Thanksgiving 1621, less than one year later.
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Never forget.
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
(I believe the switch from gas stoves to electric stoves also cut the suicide rate, but two things can be true.)
November 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Louisa May Alcott, in Eight Cousins, calls it a 'freedom suit'. I think there were a lot of terms.
November 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
things aren't as new as all that
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Thanksgiving
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
omg I thought for a second that was *my* picture of *my* pies:
November 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Pies! (It’s just egg white on the sweet potato pie)
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Still picking fresh tomatoes off the curtain rods in my kitchen. Only a few left now.
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
For your edification, Heliodorus's description of a giraffe. Heliodorus says he's a Syrian, and he writes about 370 AD. He has no name for this creature, given (he says) as a gift from the people of Axum to the king of Ethiopia, but he has a great description:
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The Decolonial Atlas: "One of the many ironies of the anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe today is that it fails to acknowledge Europe’s own history of emigration. ... Europeans are the world’s largest diaspora, with an estimated population of over 480 million people."
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The tombstone of Prima Florentia, who died on the 25th of November, long ago, when her husband threw her into the Tiber river. Her parents set up this stone for her. She was sixteen and half years old.

(Necropoli dell'Isola Sacra -Fiumicino, Italy).
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
on a long time scale, things are getting better.
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Sat through a meeting to get my ICE whistle, find out when and where to show up.
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Don't own any. There.
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
@nytimes.com calls it for Mamdani. Huzzah!
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The woman said she took photos of suspected unmarked ICE vehicles after being alerted by a Facebook group that federal agents might be in the area.

www.kgw.com/article/news...
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
They're not immigrants. This was their land before Europeans moved in.
November 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
November 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Emergency zoom latin teacher needed to replace someone who has fallen ill. Anyone? 🏺
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Cheese blintzes and applesauce in half an hour, starting from apples, milk, flour, eggs, and butter. With yogurt on the side.
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 AM