@kawulf.bsky.social
Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U #LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
many thanks to @brownhist.bsky.social for this video promoting DEAR MISS PERKINS (@kensingtonbooks.bsky.social) just in time for #womenshistorymonth www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsxx...
Bluesky keeps flagging today's @nursingclio.bsky.social post as too spicy. So please don't go to Nursing Clio's home page to see the spicy post about Heated Rivalry. (The picture is, in fact, not that spicy.)
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Result! Just received from Grammarly:
"Hi,
Thank you for reaching out.
After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces."
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky
Agreed and. Anything really about the complex and contested “founding period” which gets pushed as the platform and rationale for near everything.
So excited for this book I worry I have ordered it twice (this is not uncommon)
I’m one of the thousands of authors who have published this empty book, in protest at AI companies stealing our copyrighted work www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
In a world where the mind only boggles, this is mind boggling.
A company uses your name to sell AI slop "expert review" in your area of expertise?
How. Is. This. Okay.
Answer: it's not.
I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess.
www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
In a world where the mind only boggles, this is mind boggling.
A company uses your name to sell AI slop "expert review" in your area of expertise?
How. Is. This. Okay.
Answer: it's not.
So break the law to follow the law get it?
Higher education is not w/out issues. These tactics do nothing to address them and everything to degrade what has made American higher ed successful indeed invaluable.
So I own a couple of copies of this book of #miscellany that I'm (slowly) working on. One is pretty beat up; I carry it in my backpack while traveling. It's still gorgeous.
In fact, I feel gratitude. Maybe not all of what's in this passage, but gotta agree with the top-line premise.
As I tote around a shaggy 18thc book I bought for near-nothing, hard agree!
Historian here join us today for this documentary featuring the research of my colleague @uconnhistory.bsky.social
Nina Dayton who unearthed the later life of Phillis Wheatley and John Peters. www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-events/search-phillis-wheatley-peters-short-historical-documentary
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Books / print are a great technology.
Reminded of buying a second hand copy of the 2003 Donald Barthelme's *Sixty Stories* in Penguin Classics and finding this. Guess which website no longer exists?
"How lucky our young nation was to have such a masterful constitutional strategist at the helm—and how desperately those talents are still needed." Inimitable @jrakove.bsky.social on James Madison for @inpursuitusa.bsky.social www.inpursuit.org/lessons/proc...
Social media led me to believe this would involve a Joe Biden sighting! That's okay, train still the best way to travel.
Muslims don't belong in American society, says Andy Ogles.
And yet Yarrow Mamout was here, literally before the creation of the United States, and had his portrait painted by Charles Willson Peale.
Happening tonight! 🌎
Join us at 5 p.m. ET for The Civic Value of World History, an #AHALearn webinar for Civic Learning Week. How can global perspectives strengthen civic engagement?
Free & open to all—register now or sign up and view the recording on the AHA’s YouTube channel after the event.
Yes!!
And true beyond the US! The anomaly of the mid 20th c being mistaken for the norm has so many implications —
As does History popular and academic often ignoring rather than centering history of family.
To offer some context, here's a graphic our fabulous intern Aidan Nuttall put together in 2023.
When we compared our per capita humanities research funding against 42 other countries, there was only a single country that spent less (South Africa), and most countries spent 10x-250x more.
NEH's budget is tiny—not just compared to NSF/NIH, but compared to humanities funding in every other wealthy nation. What little was there was largely rescinded and several programs were cut in full last year. It decimated not merely individual projects but whole corners of the humanities in the US.
Today's AMA on @askhistorians.bsky.social! Come check it out!
Well that's awesome for at least a couple of reasons... I just looked it up. Fierce!
Marvelous!
Mary Chapin Carpenter:
Sometimes you're the windshield
Sometimes you're the bug
Sometimes it all comes together baby
Sometimes you're just a fool in love
Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger
Sometimes you're the ball
Sometimes it all comes together
Sometimes you're gonna lose it all
And some days you're the gnat "found crushed on the leaf of a lady's album": the unfortunate insect for whom James Montgomery writes a poem in 1827 (1st inscribing it in an album and then printing it in a literary annual). "Lie there, embalm'd from age to age!--/ This is the album's noblest page."
Some days you're the [windshield, closed book], some days you're the bug.
Work adventures last week @jcblibrary.bsky.social 🪰
I hear that sentiment at home too!
Also noting intensive hiring - Inc of historians - hearing typically done w out any history dept engagement so that’s efficient