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Karin A. Wulf is an American historian and the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the… more

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mollyhardy.bsky.social
Come for this pitcher commemorating the first Federal Census and stay for my plea for rethinking data. Thanks to @jmheberling.bsky.social for the inspiration and to @kawulf.bsky.social for the encouragement.
Guest Post - Rethinking Disciplinary Data Regimes - The Scholarly Kitchen
Between a political policy environment focused on defunding and deleting data collections – an environment in which little can be trusted – and an onslaught of new AI tools that feed indiscriminately ...
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by Karin Wulf — Reposted by: Lesley A. Hall, Kris Inwood

kawulf.bsky.social
Love this new post fr @mollyhardy.bsky.social for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social about the need for x-discipline data curation and preservation! Plus, love the 1790 census jug as the exemplar of thinking across domains. 🤓 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/08/g...
Guest Post - Rethinking Disciplinary Data Regimes - The Scholarly Kitchen
Between a political policy environment focused on defunding and deleting data collections – an environment in which little can be trusted – and an onslaught of new AI tools that feed indiscriminately ...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
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kawulf.bsky.social
I learned so much on the old twitter.
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kawulf.bsky.social
I've long been obsessed with government documents. What do they communicate and to whom, how and when and by whom were they printed and circulated? The @jcblibrary.bsky.social has a terrific collection of the many printed journals of Congress, fr 1774. Started a weekly series on IG to discuss. 🤓
Title page of Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress held at Philadelphia May 10, 1775. Philadelphia May 10, 1775. Tattered, with an image of three fellas wearing swords in a circle.
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kawulf.bsky.social
Love to hear @sethrockman.bsky.social talking about this critical history w @lizcovart.bsky.social
bfworld.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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bfworld.bsky.social
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.
benfranklinsworld.com
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draftingthepast.bsky.social
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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by Karin Wulf — Reposted by: Philip N. Cohen, Lesley Bartlett, Aviel Roshwald

kawulf.bsky.social
"No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it." @acls1919.bsky.social statement on the White House "compact" proposed to universities. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...
ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...
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kawulf.bsky.social
Beyond Ruin is both my budget and my aged scholars band name.
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kawulf.bsky.social
CAITLIN! There is a reason my auction alert has very tight parameters. 😄
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ncph.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Karin Wulf, Anna O. Law

mhs1791.bsky.social
Join us on Oct. 9 for our upcoming seminar on environmental history, "Cultivating Legitimacy: Soldiers, Civilians, and Environment in the Revolutionary Hudson Valley." Author Blake McGready with comments by @mkn.bsky.social. Register here: www.masshist.org/eve....
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kawulf.bsky.social
😄 Goooood morning.
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kawulf.bsky.social
Yep I bought the one you recommended! 😁
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kawulf.bsky.social
Airport thoughts. Traveling as a tea drinker when you can’t make your own, like at the airport, is always disappointing.

Life is too short to read nonfiction books by folks w no discernible experience or expertise to write abt this stuff when it’s too far out of my field to assess good fr nonsense.
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Reposted by: Karin Wulf, Anna O. Law, Dorothy Bishop , and 11 more

folklorewales.com
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
Tawny owl
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kawulf.bsky.social
And counting!!
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kawulf.bsky.social
That is so much better than 17 emails answered... 😩
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by Mary L. Dudziak — Reposted by: Karin Wulf, Anna O. Law, Nathan P. Kalmoe , and 1 more

marydudziak.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Karin Wulf, Anna O. Law, Joshua S. Weitz , and 3 more

gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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Reposted by: Karin Wulf, Anna O. Law, Ana Lucia Araújo

slaveryarchive.bsky.social
Keeping our commitment to recognize the outstanding book on the history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, we are delighted to announce The Driver’s Story by historian @randybrowne.bsky.social as the Winner of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024 www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...
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lizcovart.bsky.social
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the military meeting this week and George Washington. This week’s newsletter (which publishes tomorrow) will be about these topics. You can subscribe here: benfranklinsworld.com/newsletter
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kawulf.bsky.social
A very good account not just of this episode but of how NARA juggles competing often partisan interests on the foundation side of the presidential libraries.
anthonyclark.bsky.social
Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 7d
BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

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EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles
The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection
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by Karin Wulf

kawulf.bsky.social
Polite public performance has also been profoundly gender and race-coded -- just as its opposite is now. Of course it's about power.

We're well into this turn. But I wonder if there will be some recoiling from it more broadly.
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kawulf.bsky.social
Things that used to be baseline expectation of public behavior from leaders: courtesy, dignity, maturity, probity, professionalism, fundamental seriousness.

Polite performance can mask all sorts of violence. But the embrace of the sheer opposite is consequential, notable.
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Reposted by: Karin Wulf, Elizabeth Saunders, Jonathan Wolff , and 7 more

anthonyclark.bsky.social
BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles
The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection
lastcampaign.substack.com
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by Karin Wulf — Reposted by: Margot C. Finn

kawulf.bsky.social
“We may be past the point of no return, but at a minimum we ought to … assess where we are, and what we’re losing when we fully cashier robust support for Humanities research. The Humanities are us.” Feels like a(nother) good day to share this. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...
The Humanities as Canary: Understanding this Crisis Now - The Scholarly Kitchen
The Humanities have always been the canary in the coal mine of the full knowledge industry. What information can help us understand this crisis and its implications?
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carlygoodman.bsky.social
"Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Opinion | Mourn, or Else
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Reposted by: Karin Wulf, Brendan Nyhan, Smith , and 5 more

tressiemcphd.bsky.social
People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.
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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 7d
This new column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes me think about when I recently had to talk to the police for yet another safety plan, I tried to “lighten” the mood by saying that we all knew this wasn’t my first rodeo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
For at least the past 15 years, my colleagues in academia have grappled with angry letters to university officials for doing their jobs. They have weathered campaigns for their firing. They have contended with an internet army obsessed with doxxing them, their parents, their kids. I’ve been contacted by the F.B.I. more than once in my career. Not because I hold any important state secrets or know a biker gang but because one of my colleagues has lived with so much sustained harassment from right-wing “activists” that it has become a matter of federal concern. Watch lists (one of which was constructed by Kirk’s organization) do not distinguish between public intellectuals at wealthy enclaves and hoi polloi who teach popular classes at cash-strapped schools. In either case, an army of trained provocateurs stands ready to destroy their lives to prove their bona fides as conservative activists.
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kawulf.bsky.social
Yesterday was gorgeous. See that little hint of fall at the top of the tree? You could feel it.
Blue sky, buildings right and left of brick and stone respectively, tree in the center with a hint of yellow on the leaves at the top.
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