Jennifer Black

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Excited to announce my chapter on direct mail advertising has been published! Available now from @upenn.edu press! www.pennpress.org/978151282750... Commercial Intimacy – Penn Press

This week my #misericordiaU intern found a bone saw with a mining camp doctor's kit! 🫣 #publichistory #skystorians #EckleyMinersVillage Check out his progress: wp.me/p6FQbP-O3

Eckley Miners’ Village Week 6 (06/23/25 – 06/26/25) Every day of this week at Eckley, I continued my big inventory project at our artifact storage house. Just as I had started last week, I went through each and every artifact in the house (of which …

My #MisericordiaUniversity interns are up to some cool things this summer! Check it out! wp.me/p6FQbP-NO #publichistory #interns #skystorians

And many thanks to @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social for his thoughtful remarks 🤗

Check out this great review of my book #BrandingTrust @pennpress.bsky.social in @thejerpano.bsky.social !! So honored doi.org/10.1353/jer....

The #JERPano seeks contributors for a new series, "Teaching the Early American Republic."

We invite reflections on classroom experiences, lesson plans, source reviews, or challenges in 500 to 1000 words by June 30th.

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Eckley Miner’s Village Week 2 (05/27/25 – 05/29/25) This week at Eckley, I was assigned a few projects involving artifact cleaning in select buildings on-site. I also continued last week’s project of documenting artifacts that were not approve…

Have you ever wondered how museums clean their displays? Check out my #MisericordiaU student's #intern blog from this week! #publichistory #localhistory wp.me/p6FQbP-MC

Canada wildfires force 17,000 to evacuate, with smoke blowing toward U.S. Authorities in Manitoba, which shares a border with the U.S., issued a state of emergency. Winds will likely blow wildfire smoke into Midwestern states.

Wildfires in the Canadian province of Manitoba, which shares a border with the United States, have prompted authorities to declare a state of emergency and order tens of thousands of people to leave their homes.

Winds will likely blow wildfire smoke into Midwestern states.

Eckley Miner’s Village Week 1 (05/19/25 – 05/22/25) My first week at Eckley Miner’s Village was largely orientational, with much of my time with my supervisors present being spent touring around the complex and being told of its history, intro…

So thrilled that my #MisericordiaU student won a prestigious #KeystoneInternship from the state of PA this summer! #publichistory #localhistory Check out his first blog post here: wp.me/p6FQbP-Mt

In front of The Embrace, a sign that reads "Boston beating kings since 1775." There are three red circles with lines through them over a British crown, the LA Kings logo and Donald Trump’s hair.

Fun fact: the Boston Tea Party was a protest against tariffs. Not sure this is technically true.

Massachusetts still hates kings 250 years later on one sign. On the other it reads 1 if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Cybertruck

A man with a Ukrainian flag draped over his shoulders holds a sign that says "How many Tesla should we throw into Boston Harbor"

Boston loves a Revolutionary War reference @ #HandsOff Boston

All obvious heinous things aside, this is a reminder that—despite lies from republicans—undocumented people pay taxes. and now their contributions are being used against them.

This makes me want to cry

Four universities, each about to lose much of its funding and research infrastructure thanks to the illegal actions of the federal government. Thousands of jobs are going to disappear in each of these communities; diseases un-cured; inventions not invented. There will be no winners here.

For 2026: Wartime Transformations - OIEAHC Join us this October for the fourth "For 2026" conference. Call for Proposals now open. Proposals due April 15, 2025.

Little less than a month left to get your proposal in for "WARTIME TRANSFORMATIONS" the 4th in the "For 2026" series. What better time to discuss the AmRev than now and where better than Williamsburg? CFP closes 4/15. bit.ly/3Fk6Rl5

Beautiful

NEW: Internal staff email from Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch addressing Trump’s executive order.

“As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges and trumphs.”

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

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Branding Trust – Penn Press In the early nineteenth century, the American commercial marketplace was a chaotic, unregulated environment in which knock-offs and outright frauds thrived. ...

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www.oah.org/2025/03/12/r.... The OAH is collecting info about deleted or recently restricted historical sources-- please share

"Any digital project team that would benefit from a week of focused work is welcome to apply (the “Liberal Arts” in ILiADS = methods+values, not limited to liberal arts institutions). Typically, teams are a mix of faculty, students, librarians, and/or technologists": iliads.org

It was such a good speech

When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now

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Always a great time at the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social annual conference #BHC2025. didn't get any pics but got lots of ideas! #bizhist #skystorians

Well put.

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

Ok, starting a thread of these whoops, we accidentally-threw-the engine-overboard moments, send me your faves.

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Can't wait for #BHC2025 in a few weeks! Who's going?? @businesshistoryc.bsky.social

This Shocking Moment at a GOP Town Hall in Idaho Is a Foreboding Sign Private, unidentified security personnel dragged a woman out of the event. It raises questions not just about tolerance for dissent but about who gets deputized to do what.

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This Shocking Moment at a GOP Town Hall in Idaho Is a Foreboding Sign
Private, unidentified security personnel dragged a woman out of the event. It raises questions not just about tolerance for dissent but about who gets deputized to do what. newrepublic.com/article/1919...