Abbey Shimer

From Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child, 70 “cinctly: ‘They have taken our women away from us by consitutional amendments; they have taken our liquor from us; and now they want to take our children.’”

Quote of the day 😂

Pretty sure I wouldn’t have even made it to the post-birth stage…

I hate how much AI is ruining the use and causing the overuse of bold text. 😑

Definitely thought it was just my WiFi…. But it’s continuing into the second half now too 😑

Seth Trimble will never buy a beer in Chapel Hill ever again.

Did not realized she had died and thought this was just about her being a boss actor because she was. RIP.

As someone who thrived on informal play as a child, really want us to get back to this.
Also, informal play leads to so may great stories year later. While I loved dance classes, my historical take on tag I invented for my sister and neighborhood friends was what made it into all the family lore. 😅

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Survived my first drive in a blizzard... would not recommend...

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Decided to use Canva instead of PowerPoint for presentations this semester and now I feel like a creative genius

The crisis is real, and this is part of our effort at new approaches to supporting scholars and advancing scholarship in the (vast!) early Americas.

Sharing again and would appreciate your sharing, too. More info in the thread. 🧵⬇️

Announcement: The @shearites.bsky.social Robyn Lily Davis Dissertation Prize

Starting with the July 2026 award, the winner will receive $1,000!

For the 2026 competition, please submit a CV, the dissertation’s table of contents, the introduction, and a sample chapter by January 30, 2026.

a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white shirt and says yes . Alt: a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white shirt and says yes .

Had multiple students stay after class to talk more about today’s material (constitutional amendments and constitutional interpretation).

Back from conferences and to regularly scheduled teaching. This semester: Civics, US History II, and American Government.

CFP: USIH-IU Community Scholars Program | Society for US Intellectual History In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at Indiana University, the Society for U.S. Intellectual History is pleased to announce the continuation of a new opportunity to support continge...

🗃️ Psst, friends at #AHA26 #MLA26 and beyond, please share word of the @susih.bsky.social Community Scholars Program, which unlocks library resources for 3 years (onsite + remote) for #contingent faculty & historians at work beyond the traditional academy, due 2/1 s-usih.org/2025/12/cfp-...

I curate the history series at public media's trade journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR, PBS and its affiliates, with some space to imagine public media's future. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate!

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“if you don’t say it with expertise, someone else will say it without expertise” - @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social #aha2026

105. Digital Projects Showcase Hilton Chicago, Marquette Room Organized by the AHA Digital History Working Group Interested in learning about the latest digital history projects? Want a demonstration of how to use digital tools in your teaching or research? Curious about what an in-progress project looks like before it gets to the finish line? Stop by the Digital Project Showcase. Chairs: Kalani Craig, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign Jeffrey W. McClurken, University of Mary Washington

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Fabulous digital projects presented at #AHA2026

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Went to some fantastic workshops panels while my husband took the dog out for a walk. She is unsure about big city dog life. #aha2026 #asch2026

Hand holding a program that says Chicago, 139th Annual Meeting, January 8-11th, 2026, Program

A little to late to make it to today’s panels but finally made it to #AHA26

me: too many tabs
me: I could close some
me: or open a new browser window and start opening more tabs
me: good going me

We've published deeply on Cuba, Venezuela, and US policy toward Latin America, and as these issues return to the headlines, history matters more than ever. Authors: if you’ve written on this topic, drop your book title + link below and let's build a thread that helps make sense of this moment.

🚨 Deadline upcoming for the 2025 Midwestern History Awards. Submissions must be emailed or postmarked by January 15, 2026 for consideration.

Please look through the following thread to see all the awards.

I wondered if this was the case when I saw everyone bemoaning his decision this morning. I teach in SD, and wondered what my MN students would say about his decision.

For Educators Contingent publishes accessible, engaging, well-researched pieces on history, the work of doing history, and the community of people involved in that work.

If you're working on new preps for the upcoming semester, consider assigning Contingent! In addition to our mailbag and How I Do History series, we've sorted our pieces by theme to make it easier to find something that fits. contingentmagazine.org/for-educators/

Not feeling optimistic….

Me, a historian: "The term 'the sixties' doesn't refer to the calendar specifically—one may posit any number of plausible start dates for the decade, and indeed the one thing we can say with certainty is that 'the sixties' didn't begin on ... "

"Well, shit. Never mind."

Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...

Happy Public Domain Day! Jan 1 marks the date when eligible works pass into the public domain in the United States. Notable works entering the public domain this year include certain early Mickey Mouse cartoons, the novel As I Lay Dying, and the Gershwin composition Embraceable You.
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Edward Steichen's fashion photography for Vogue, October 27, 1930 showing a woman standing dressed in a black and white dress with the title "The Straight-Hanging Flare"

Happy public domain day to all who celebrate! Exciting times for Betty Boop, the Maltese Falcon, Murder!, and a bunch of the best fashion photography seen on Vogue. check it out! 🗃️

“Oh, I thought you were a *real* professor!” - student after I explained the reason I had no decorations in my office was because I was an adjunct and shared the office. (Student immediately backpedaled/apologized, but as a new adjunct, I thought it was a hilarious compliment).