Stephanie A.T. Jacobe
@satjphd.bsky.social
Historian of the long 19th C. local history, business history, the Civil War, the built environment, Catholic history, Social and Cultural history. Diocesan Archivist during the day. Opinions are my own.
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Fantastic resource for historians: a spreadsheet of NARA's digitized microfilm, with links to the files in the Archives catalog. May it help you as much as it has helped me.
www.archives.gov/files/colleg...
www.archives.gov/files/colleg...
www.archives.gov
August 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Fantastic resource for historians: a spreadsheet of NARA's digitized microfilm, with links to the files in the Archives catalog. May it help you as much as it has helped me.
www.archives.gov/files/colleg...
www.archives.gov/files/colleg...
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"Their resilience is why these sites still exist today to offer a fuller account of American history—and as a visitor, it is a privilege to hear their stories, on their own terms." 🗃️ www.cntraveler.com/story/museum...
Museums at Indian Boarding Schools Are Shining Light on Their Survivors
Inside the effort to map out more than 500 Indian boarding schools across the US—and memorialize a painful era of history that remains unknown to too many Americans.
www.cntraveler.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"Their resilience is why these sites still exist today to offer a fuller account of American history—and as a visitor, it is a privilege to hear their stories, on their own terms." 🗃️ www.cntraveler.com/story/museum...
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"In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."
Muir Woods exhibit is first casualty of White House directive to erase history
"In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."
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July 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
www.forkingpaths.co
June 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
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Contingent history peeps, check this out 🗃️
If you're interested in this position, we're open for applications till next Sunday 3/16 at midnight EDT! Sorry I forgot to put a closing date on this till now.
A New Editor
Contingent is hiring a new editor! This person will join Erin Bartram and Marc Reyes as the permanent third editor for the magazine as we enter our seventh year of publication this spring. We’re looki...
contingentmagazine.org
March 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Contingent history peeps, check this out 🗃️
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Historians have the right to expect that discussion of their work be conducted in a civil manner—but that right can be violated by hate speech and online threats. The AHA has developed a guide for historians encountering harassment on social media. 🗃️
Guide for Dealing with Online Harassment - AHA
Guidelines to AHA members and historians who fear that they may become or have become targets of online harassment.
www.historians.org
February 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Historians have the right to expect that discussion of their work be conducted in a civil manner—but that right can be violated by hate speech and online threats. The AHA has developed a guide for historians encountering harassment on social media. 🗃️
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Registration for our free Virginia Conference on Introductory History Courses, March 28-29, at Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) in Richmond is open now. Join us for thought-provoking discussions and engaging sessions! 🗃️
Virginia Conference on Introductory History Courses – AHA
The American Historical Association will hold the inaugural Virginia Conference on Introductory History Courses on Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29, 2025, at the Virginia Museum of History and ...
www.historians.org
February 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Registration for our free Virginia Conference on Introductory History Courses, March 28-29, at Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) in Richmond is open now. Join us for thought-provoking discussions and engaging sessions! 🗃️
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🗃️ Newspapers.com has a free access weekend. Perfect time to grab any primary source newspapers you need for your research.
February 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
🗃️ Newspapers.com has a free access weekend. Perfect time to grab any primary source newspapers you need for your research.
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📚 Here is how to donate to the Huntington Library’s Disaster Relief Fund, which will aid impacted staff + collections. Please share, #skystorians #library #booksky friends, thank you! 🗃️ shorturl.at/TVPPE
The Huntington
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January 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
📚 Here is how to donate to the Huntington Library’s Disaster Relief Fund, which will aid impacted staff + collections. Please share, #skystorians #library #booksky friends, thank you! 🗃️ shorturl.at/TVPPE
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The founders anticipated someone like Trump partly because they’d been reading Edward Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.’
Jim Sleeper on America's rise and fall:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/americas-dec...
Jim Sleeper on America's rise and fall:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/americas-dec...
America’s Decline & Fall
The founders anticipated someone like Trump partly because they’d been reading Edward Gibbon’s 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
www.commonwealmagazine.org
January 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The founders anticipated someone like Trump partly because they’d been reading Edward Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.’
Jim Sleeper on America's rise and fall:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/americas-dec...
Jim Sleeper on America's rise and fall:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/americas-dec...
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This article editing workshop from @globalhistjnl.bsky.social looks like a great opportunity: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🗃️
Journal of Global History development editing workshop | H-Net
CFP: Journal of Global History development editing workshop As part of efforts to make the field of global history more truly ‘global’, the Journal of Global History is hosting an online development w...
networks.h-net.org
January 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This article editing workshop from @globalhistjnl.bsky.social looks like a great opportunity: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🗃️
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Hey, #skystorians🗃️ of maritime. Looky 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Shipbuilding manual, 1729
This is full of fantastic technical details and illustrations on early #c18th shipbuilding.
One thing I can't unsee is that the "Yacht or Pleasure Boat" is bristling with guns.
Google Books
www.google.co.uk/boo...
This is full of fantastic technical details and illustrations on early #c18th shipbuilding.
One thing I can't unsee is that the "Yacht or Pleasure Boat" is bristling with guns.
Google Books
www.google.co.uk/boo...
January 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Hey, #skystorians🗃️ of maritime. Looky 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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The great @anthonyb1939.bsky.social with Martin Scorsese at the Basilica of Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral @achahistory.bsky.social #ACHA2025 #ACHA25 #AHA2025 #AHA25
January 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The great @anthonyb1939.bsky.social with Martin Scorsese at the Basilica of Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral @achahistory.bsky.social #ACHA2025 #ACHA25 #AHA2025 #AHA25
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It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️
December 28, 2024 at 11:26 AM
It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️
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#Skystorians coming to #AHA2025!
Join me, Tanisha Ford, @chadwilliams.bsky.social @profgabriele.com @lollardfish.bsky.social & @adapalmer.bsky.social as we discuss the nuts, bolts, and FUN of writing narrative histories for trade publishers.
Sun., Jan. 5, 3:30 p.m.
Sheraton Empire Ballroom West.
Join me, Tanisha Ford, @chadwilliams.bsky.social @profgabriele.com @lollardfish.bsky.social & @adapalmer.bsky.social as we discuss the nuts, bolts, and FUN of writing narrative histories for trade publishers.
Sun., Jan. 5, 3:30 p.m.
Sheraton Empire Ballroom West.
December 28, 2024 at 7:11 PM
#Skystorians coming to #AHA2025!
Join me, Tanisha Ford, @chadwilliams.bsky.social @profgabriele.com @lollardfish.bsky.social & @adapalmer.bsky.social as we discuss the nuts, bolts, and FUN of writing narrative histories for trade publishers.
Sun., Jan. 5, 3:30 p.m.
Sheraton Empire Ballroom West.
Join me, Tanisha Ford, @chadwilliams.bsky.social @profgabriele.com @lollardfish.bsky.social & @adapalmer.bsky.social as we discuss the nuts, bolts, and FUN of writing narrative histories for trade publishers.
Sun., Jan. 5, 3:30 p.m.
Sheraton Empire Ballroom West.
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The ACHA is honored to announce the 2024 Presidential Travel Grant recipients Meghan Lescault and Sierra Lawson. Mark your calendars for their presentations next week!
December 27, 2024 at 3:49 PM
The ACHA is honored to announce the 2024 Presidential Travel Grant recipients Meghan Lescault and Sierra Lawson. Mark your calendars for their presentations next week!
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breathtaking. #skystorians
If you like stats & less-obvious but mind blowing details, here’s a great piece. Great photos too.
Example: “3,000: The number of dowels that were painstakingly fashioned by a carpenter over four months, from oaks that had to match the wood of the structural beams.”
Example: “3,000: The number of dowels that were painstakingly fashioned by a carpenter over four months, from oaks that had to match the wood of the structural beams.”
The Stats Behind Notre-Dame's Remarkable Restoration | Artnet News
What went into reconstructing Notre-Dame after the devastating fire of 2019 in just five short years? We break down the numbers.
news.artnet.com
December 7, 2024 at 7:21 PM
breathtaking. #skystorians
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Hello southern historians! We've created a starter pack for @thesouthernsha.bsky.social historians! Go give them a follow, and let me know if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/25VwPRh
go.bsky.app/25VwPRh
December 5, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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Historians of Catholic Mexico is very happy to announce the release of a forum of articles in the forthcoming issue of Diplomatic History (@SHAFRhistorians) - Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2025 - "Connecting Histories of US-Mexican Relations through Catholic Perspectives."
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November 26, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Historians of Catholic Mexico is very happy to announce the release of a forum of articles in the forthcoming issue of Diplomatic History (@SHAFRhistorians) - Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2025 - "Connecting Histories of US-Mexican Relations through Catholic Perspectives."
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Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
November 23, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
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Hold on to your butts because we’ve got ANOTHER beautiful galactic image from JWST! We can see light emitted by dust, gas, and stars with the range of infrared wavelengths JWST is sensitive to 😍
📸: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy
📸: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy
November 27, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Hold on to your butts because we’ve got ANOTHER beautiful galactic image from JWST! We can see light emitted by dust, gas, and stars with the range of infrared wavelengths JWST is sensitive to 😍
📸: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy
📸: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy
