Join us tonight for a virtual book talk with Historian & Refusing to Forget co-founder @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social. This event is exclusive for our Patreon subscribers. Sign up here and join the conversation! www.patreon.com/RefusingtoFo...
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24.03.2025 13:59 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
J.N. Hays' 'Burdens of Disease' (Rutgers, 2009) has a chapter on Medieval Diseases and Responses. It's synthesis, so the notes and further reading might be helpful. Hays' and Byrne's 2021 reference book "Epidemics and Pandemics: Ancient Plagues to Modern Day Threats" another good place to start.
07.01.2025 18:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cheryl Hudson, University of Liverpool
Capitalism v Democracy: Lessons from the Pullman Experiment
Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social and me for the first Newberry History of Capitalism seminar of 2025. Cheryl Hudson will be presenting her new work on the company town of Pullman -- Comment by Andrew Cohen . We Zoom at 3pm CT, Friday, Jan 10. Register for link & paper www.newberry.org/calendar/che...
05.01.2025 17:16 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Texas
An exploration of the multifaceted characters and complex events that have defined the Lone Star State from its inception through today When Americans tur...
On February 25, my book “Texas: An American History” will be published, in hard copy and as an audiobook. Why would any sane person write another take on Texas history from the dinosaurs to the 21st century? /1 yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
03.01.2025 14:23 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Screen shot of National Council on Public History newsletter, describing reporting by a ProPublica journalist investigating segregation academies.
Love when my journalism colleagues’ work winds up in the @ncph.bsky.social newsletter.
Here’s @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social’s recent reporting for @propublica.org on the legacy of segregation academies, which are still getting millions of taxpayer dollars: www.propublica.org/series/segre...
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The History Department is here, too!
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Endowed at Loyola Chicago; seventeenth-century cheap print publics and common medical / botanical knowledge, weeds, and acts of general naturalization. Book: Pocket Maps and Public Poetry (OUP 2019).
Food historian, baseball fan, cat enthusiast.
Official account of the Kentucky Historical Society (museum, library, archives), Old State Capitol, KY Military History Museum.
The official Bluesky account for the Iowa State University History Department in Ames, Iowa, USA. Offering BA and BS degrees with a strong teacher education program. Go, Cyclones! 📚
An award-winning public history project committed to sharing the history of state-sanctioned violence against Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Texas.
Mom, Composer, University of Michigan Professor of Composition
Great Lakes Borderlands Historian | PhD from MSU History Dept. | Former @amphilsociety.bsky.social & Newberry Library Fellow | Now #OpenToWork (He/Him)
PhD Student at Loyola Chicago. Historian of the Gilded Age/Progressive Era. Proud 🇨🇦. Former Alberta NDP MLA. He/Him 🏳️🌈
Digital Humanities | design | digital archives | donuts | dinosaurs | Girls Who Code
Teaching DH and literature in Chicago
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I do museum things in a museum.
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In Chicago, from Detroit. Digital librarian at Loyola. I still think the web can help people. I dig art, maps, cities, GLAMs, 3rd spaces. Dad of two boys.
She/her. Asst Professor & Digital Librarian @ UIC. PM @ Chicago Collections Consortium. Libraries, Archives, Museums girlie. Digital Humanities researcher. Chicago obsessed, food driven, constantly watching something. Chronically ill, powered by spite.
Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College, Author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
A tall, bold slugger | Author, Building the Ivory Tower (2017), Property Wrongs (coming) | Live in Cville, Teach in Bburg, Heart in Chicago | Sailing and boat building at IG (@ladalewinling)
Reporter, newsletters @ProPublica.org. Public History grad student @loyolahistdept.bsky.social. Fellow, New America US@250 initiative. Floridian in the Midwest.
Loyola University Chicago Public History/LIS MA Student • UIUC Alumnus • Runner • Can recall the most random historical anecdotes
Historian and whatnot. Recently published FREEDOM WAS IN SIGHT! A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF RECONSTRUCTION IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. REGION, with illustrations by the remarkable Liz Clarke. See also katemasur.com.
Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Preorder: #Oathbreakers: https://tinyurl.com/oathbreakersHC. Subscribe to the Modern Medieval Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/ModernMedieval
