Cassandra Good

College athletics are a key part of higher ed's exploding admin costs & tuition rates. @universityoflou.bsky.social admins are laying out in detail what has long been clear: for most colleges, sports cost rather than generate $$$.

We need similar transparency on where tuition $$$ actually go.

For journal articles—sometimes one peer reviewer can tank an article. Don’t let a rejection stop you from submitting the piece to another journal (altho best to sit w reviews for a bit and use any helpful feedback to improve it first)

Please keep donating at www.standwithminnesota.com

My gender historian colleagues & I have yet to locate, in private or public, any American woman asking for the vote until Seneca Falls in 1848. Even then, most women didn’t support it.

Gender history as a field is under attack, but we need it more than ever to truly understand the past.

By 1902, however, a suffrage advocate testified before Congress and used the quote as an early request for the vote. That misreading continued through the 20th century, altho many historians were sure Adams was kidding.

This was a private letter, not published until 1875. Soon after, in their History of Woman’s Suffrage, Stanton, Anthony, & Gage quoted her and noted that Adams wanted “the limitation of man’s power over woman”

Elaine Crane broke this down in 1999: www.jstor.org/stable/2674234

Gender historians agree with this. When you read the line in context and know about coverture, it’s clear.

Yes, Adams hints at lack of representation after this line. But “remember the ladies” is not asking for the vote.

Ellis does a disservice by repeating a common misinterpretation of this letter. She is talking about protecting wives from abusive husbands.

My number 1 ask would be for administrators (& faculty in professional schools) to acknowledge that students need to develop skills independent of AI. The hype coming at students from all directions makes faculty trying to teach independent reading, thinking, and writing skills sound like luddites.

Yesss this and make it possible for us to have students purchase course packs.

If only.

In fact, some faculty from professional programs on our academic integrity comm have refused to give sanctions to students reported for unauthorized use bc these faculty oppose AI bans

Thomas Paine proposed a progressive tax on wealth, with the top tax rate being 100%. It's an idea that's as American as Apple Pie. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

For Presidents’ Day, I thought I’d put together a thread of *other* Presidents talking about George Washington and slavery. Away we go! 🧵/1

Judge Rufe's opinion ordering the Trump administration to restore truthful panels about Washington's ownership of enslaved persons from the President's House site in Phila is here. (I jailbroke it from PACER.)

TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Hercules Posey Hercules Posey (1747?-1812) was an enslaved cook for George Washington during the 1780s and 90s. A renowned chef during his lifetime, Hercules self-emancipated from Mount Vernon in 1797.

No, you might be thinking of Hercules Posey in NY though

www.mountvernon.org/library/digi...

You can read more about George and Martha's family in my book First Family
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/first-fami...

Did Martha Washington Have a Black Grandson? Likely the child of Martha's son from her first marriage, William Costin used his position to advocate for D.C.'s free Black community

@kawulf.bsky.social rightly notes that Martha was "casually cruel about slavery."

There's considerable evidence she herself had an enslaved grandchild. Her son Jacky was most likely the father of William Costin--freed just weeks after Martha's death.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-...

Political Nepo Babies Root Back to America’s Founding Cassandra A. Good explores how family political dynasties in America came to be.

A few follow up pieces from yours truly to supplement these.

Bush praises GW's humility and the fact that he remained uncorrupted by power. GW's kids, however, were basically nepo babies:
time.com/6322748/pres...

The new @inpursuitusa.bsky.social project launches today for #PresidentsDay with articles on George & Martha Washington.

George W. Bush on George: www.inpursuit.org/lessons/for-...

@kawulf.bsky.social on Martha: www.inpursuit.org/lessons/befo...
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Wow haven’t seen that quote before, I wish the 1850s didn’t feel so relevant

The Diane and Adam E. Max Conference on Women's History Liberty for All? Women in the Age of Revolutions Sun, March 1 from 12-5:30 pm

Really excited to get to participate in this event @nyhistory.bsky.social in a few weeks. If you're in the NYC area, join us--the program looks amazing!
www.nyhistory.org/programs/lib...
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YES x1000. When these people compare AI to using calculators or the Internet in classrooms, I point out that we did not stop teaching students to do math or learn facts just because tools existed to supply answers.

Just covered 1760s-1770s imperial crisis protests in my survey class today. We connected them to current events. Very few students had ever attended a protest themselves, but the majority thought protests were/are effective.

Oof I’m sorry to hear that. Experienced researchers are so valuable.

Glad to share this, it’s a much-needed resource!

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Turns out the multiple studies claiming this use a dataset that fundamentally misunderstands what historians do: bsky.app/profile/cgoo...

Re-upping this thread because these studies ranking professions threatened by AI are still making the rounds.

The underlying dataset for such studies is pretty problematic. Don't believe the AI doomerism or the hype.

You can access it for free with Google AI Studio. The main problem with it is it refuses to mark words it's uncertain about.