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Sara Georgini

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Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. President, @susih.bsky.social. Views mine, history for all.

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Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social · Aug 8

🗃️ Busy writing book2 about the American Library in Paris, and all the ways that #library workers inform and shape democracy. Amazing #archives, fabulous heroines, and…oui! A few spies. Coming soon via #OUP. 🕵🏻‍♀️ 📚 ✍️ 🇫🇷 🇺🇸

ALA camp library interior from WWI France. A pair of male officers peruse shelves of books

Archival record book titled American Library in Paris and tied with yellow and white gingham ribbon

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 16h

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 16h

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."

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Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social · 4h

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!

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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 13h

The Thorntons helped Christopher and Anne Danby out in the 1660s. Alice was still pursuing this 'debt' in her last will and testament, written in 1705! #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️

Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 15h

8 Oct. 1688 #OTD Thornton wrote to her great-nephew, Abstrupus Danby, seeking help with her son’s debts. She reminded him ‘how sad and necessitous a condition your father and mother ... were in for several years when their just right was detained from them and they cast off by all’. #EarlyModern 1/2

Outside of a 17th-century letter. Addressed to Abstrupus Danby at his house in York. Above that he has annotated it as a letter from his aunt Thornton, about what she did for his family, and that he is willing to pay her £50 next Martinmas.

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 10h

Last week I climbed Snowdon to find the Gladstone Rock halfway up the Watkin Path, where Gladstone spoke to 2000 people in 1892, aged 83 - today I thought to look up @gladlib.bsky.social what Gladstone said in his diary - 🗃️

Me standing beside a big rock with a granite plaque on it

The view down the mountain from the Gladstone rock - green hillside, grass and cloud

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 4h

Here's a photo of Lucky when he was a baby for everyone's mental health purposes

A small white fluffy puppy taking a snooze.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 8h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

I pray you hear her speak.

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Picture This Post @picturethispost.com · 2d

A discovery concert tracing the Bard’s influence on opera--Click the link to read the preview in the Music section of PIcture This Post magazine--

#ChicagoOperaTheater #COT @shakespeare.lol @saaupdates.bsky.social #ChicagoOpera #ChicagoTheater #ChicagoMusic #PictureThisPostMusic #opera #music

Chicago Opera Theater Presents SHAKESPEARE SINGS - Preview

WHEN: October 19th, 2025 WHERE: Studebaker Theater 410 S. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL TICKETS: $25+ For more information and tickets vis

www.picturethispost.com

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 5h

sunset

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 7h

We don’t talk enough about how physically exhausting archival work can be. I stood for 8 hours in an uncomfortable stress position today and took about 2000 pictures of these huge ledgers. My brain is fizzing, but my dogs are barking and my back hurts like hell. I wouldn’t swap this for anything! 🗃️

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Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social · 4h

🎶 ✍️ Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain. Keep writing, fellow 🦉 🗃️ #book2 m.youtube.com/watch?v=38zR...

Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain (1960) (Full Album)

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Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social · 12h

One week left to apply for these awesome @shafrhistorians.bsky.social awards - including the Hogan Language Fellowship. I’m a previous Hogan winner & I have the honor of chairing the Hogan committee this year so apply or tell your PhD students to apply! #SHAFR #skystorians 🗃️

SHAFR @shafrhistorians.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨 Reminder: SHAFR January awards deadline is Oct 15! Apply now for the Bernath Lecture Prize, Williams Emerging Scholar Grant, Hogan Language Fellowship & grad dissertation grants. Details: tinyurl.com/5n6e6h8z

#SHAFR #HistoryAwards #AcademicSky #skystorians

October 15 Deadline - Apply for SHAFR Awards

www.shafr.org

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CLAH @clahistorians.bsky.social · 1d

Registration has opened for this exciting upcoming lecture series! "Mapping from Mexico" will examine how histories of Mexican cartography can rewrite common narratives and popular assumptions. See here for further details and registration information: www.newberry.org/calendar/22n....

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Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social · 1d

Such a cool idea for a podcast, always great conversations.

Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 1d

Episodes two weeks in a row?! That should tell you how much great stuff there is. I was so happy to get to talk to @andrewhartman.bsky.social about KARL MARX IN AMERICA (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and how he keeps going in the writing "grind." Listen here: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

Podcast episode graphic featuring a smiling man in a blazer and glasses in front of a bookshelf. The text on the right reads "Drafting the Past episode 69: Andrew Hartman."

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1d

Love to hear @sethrockman.bsky.social talking about this critical history w @lizcovart.bsky.social

Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 1d

How do the everyday things we use connect us to unseen systems of labor and inequality?

Seth Rockman helps us explore that question through the material history of slavery.

🎧 Listen now: benfranklinsworld.com/422

#History #MaterialCulture #USHistory #Skystorians

Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy

Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman.

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Mar 21

The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.

To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 5d

Upon her return home, Kenojuak continued to make art and founded the West Baffin Co-operative.
In 1958, she published her 1st print, Rabbit Eating Seaweed. In 1960, she painted her iconic work The Enchanted Owl, which became a stamp in 1970.

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The photo showcases an artwork titled "The Enchanted Owl." It features a stylized owl depicted in a vibrant and dynamic manner. The owl's body is colored in shades of green and yellow, with intricate dot patterns giving it texture. Its eyes are large and expressive, outlined in black. Radiating from behind the owl are long, bold feathers or rays, alternating in black and yellow, creating a striking contrast and a sense of movement or energy. These rays curve and flow around the owl, adding to the dynamic feel of the piece. The background is a simple, light beige, which helps to highlight the vivid colors and bold lines of the owl.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 5d

In 1952, after testing positive for TB, Kenojuak was transferred to Quebec City, where she remained for three years. There, she met Harold Pfieffer who taught arts and crafts. Kenojuak started to make art there, which Pfieffer sold on her behalf.

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The photo depicts an artwork featuring a stylized owl at its center. The owl is illustrated with a combination of black, white, and green colors, with detailed feather patterns. Surrounding the owl are vibrant, colorful leaves and flowers in shades of red, green, yellow, and pink. The leaves and flowers are symmetrically arranged around the owl, creating a balanced and harmonious composition.

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 2d

I hope my public history and museum colleagues will all consider submitting proposals for the joint conference next year. Going to be a huge and important gathering.

National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re considering presenting at the joint AASLH-NCPH conference next September, but you could use feedback, an idea, or more presenters, submit an optional early topic proposal by October 15! https://ncph.org/conference/2026-annual-meeting/topic-proposal-form/

2026 Joint Conference. September 16-19, Providence, RI. The Work of Revolution. American Association for State and Local History. National Council on Public History.

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 5d

What a great opportunity! Seminar Native Peoples, American Colonialism and the Constitution with @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social & Ned Blackhawk for grad students & "junior" faculty. In person & virtual. Apply by 10/10.
www.nyhistory.org/education/in...

The New York Historical’s Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History is accepting applications for its fall 2025 seminar for advanced graduate students and junior faculty.
seminar | fall 2025

Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the US Constitution

Fridays, November 7 and 21, December 5 and 12, 2025 | 11 am–2 pm ET
Instructors: Maggie Blackhawk, Ned Blackhawk

As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this seminar invites a critical examination of a central paradox in American constitutional history: how can a nation celebrate a founding document and constitutional tradition built, in part, on the dispossession of Indigenous homelands? Indian affairs and westward expansion were foundational to the creation and evolution of the US Constitution, yet Native history remains marginalized within the fields of constitutional history and mainstream constitutional scholarship. This seminar explores emerging historical and legal literature that re-centers Native peoples and American colonialism in the narrative of US constitutional development.

Presented in person at The New York Historical and via Zoom

Apply by October 10, 2025

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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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Kristen Haas Curtis @hellomizk.bsky.social · 2d

Less than two weeks left!!

Kristen Haas Curtis @hellomizk.bsky.social · Sep 8

SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here:
www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize

Juried mini-grants for emerging comic artists interested in engaging with medieval culture.

www.newberry.org

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Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social · 3d

🎨 beauty for your TL! Rachel Ruysch, Still Life of Exotic Flowers on a Marble Ledge, ca. 1735. Excellent exhibit up at MFA all about this woman artist & naturalist, go! #Bloomscrolling www.mfa.org/exhibition/r...

Riotous color of natural and imported flowers tumble out of a vase in this early 18thc watercolor. Honeysuckle, devils trumpet, oleander, passionflower and much more jostle for attention.

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 3d

Gino Severini, Red Cross Train Passing a Village, 1915
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137947

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! What an amazing life she led. And so clever at evolving her style to suit trends, patrons, and the cheaper advent of Prussian blue pigment. Fascinating!