Nancy Baker

Texas Digital Humanities Symposium 2025 Join Us at the Texas Digital Humanities Symposium! Date: September 9-11, 2025 Location: Virtual (Zoom) Immerse Yourself in Digital Humanities Join us in exploring digital...

Free and online: the 2nd annual Texas Digital Humanities Symposium, Sept. 9-11. This virtual conference spans three days, and each day will run from 9am-11:30am CST and 1:30pm-4pm CST. Space is limited -- sign up now.

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Update: Police chief condemns security at Idaho town hall, refuses sheriff’s request Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White condemned the actions of private security guards who pulled a woman from her chair and dragged her out of an Idaho legislative town hall.

Local newspaper's coverage shows the county sheriff told the private security guys to "get her" and was involved. Kudos to the chief of police for defending the woman's constitutional rights and publicly disagreeing with how the sheriff handled things.
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Boadicea and Her Daughters Statue, London Information on the iconic sculpture of Boadicea and Her Daughters Statue in Westminster, London, with a history of the sculpture and visiting information.

Ah! I did not know that detail (titian-haired). I thought perhaps her name was a clever reference to Boudicca's infamous chariot wheels and her fierceness. 😊

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Amazing kitty! She is beautiful and clearly tenacious. I love her name, and, coincidentally, my teenager and I were just talking about Boudicca on Monday.

We rescued her from a storm drain late one night in August (she was 1 lb. and 4 weeks old), and she has been one of the best things to happen to our family in the last year. I love this little weirdo! 🥰

Just watched some of this -- incendiary! Thank you for the suggestion.

The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times Buy The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

Thanks to a suggestion from @artcrimeprof.bsky.social‬, I just purchased this book by @amayor.bsky.social and am looking forward to reading it!

#BookSky #history

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Thanks for the book suggestion! Just purchased.

Wow! This is great. So rousing!

The next time I do patriotic music in a history or Am Studies class (where we consider patriotic songs from the US and compare with other countries', as well as "patriotic" pop music), this could be an interesting addition. Thanks for sharing. 😊

Photo of calico cat resting with her front legs entirely submerged in a large water dish while she looks at the camera.

During these challenging times, Moxie the cat wants to remind you that proper hydration is important to good self-care.

Please enjoy the poster made for me by an undergraduate student. ❤️

Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Lecture Series, Dr. Nancy Baker presents, "Hermine Tobolowsky's Cold War Feminism, the Military Draft, and the ERA in Texas," Monday, February 10th, 2 pm in Olson Auditorium. Decorative image of Hermine Tobolowsky.

Giving a research talk tomorrow to my university's Phi Alpha Theta history honors society on the feminist legal reformer Hermine Tobolowsky, known as "the mother of the Texas Equal Rights Amendment."

Picture of kitten's wet paw prints on a pad of paper in a mysterious pattern that could be art or could be a coded message.

Picture of small calico kitten balanced on a tree branch.

My kitten dipped her paws in her water dish and left these markings on a pad of paper... is it art? Is it a coded message? What do you think she is trying to say??? 😸

Percival Everett, Author of ‘James,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.”

Delighted that Percival Everett's book "James" won the National Book Award for fiction. Imaginative, funny, gut-wrenching, dramatic -- really, an incredible book. If you haven't read it yet, you should.

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Opinion | Down About the Election? There Is a Speech I Want You to Read. Frederick Douglass knew what to do when faced with Jim Crow.

Encouraging.

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Amazon.com: Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast: 9781541600584: DeJean, Joan: Books Amazon.com: Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast: 9781541600584: DeJean, Joan: Books

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YouTube video by Fédération des Alliances Françaises USA Mutinous Women - How French Convicts became founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

Joan DeJean's Mutinous Women (2022) traces 132 women wrongfully arrested and exiled in 1719 to the New World; they would become founders of New Orleans. This book is a tremendous accomplishment and well worth reading. 💙📚 #history #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory

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Jen!!! So glad to see you on here. ❤️