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Monica L. Mercado

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so-called lady scholar & scholar of ladies | associate professor of history @colgate.edu | usually thinking about Catholic girlhoods, feminist interventions in the museum, upstate utopias, and convent road trips πŸŽ€ πŸ“š πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» πŸš— | she/her

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National Endowment for the Humanities - Wikipedia

Hmmm, the Wikipedia entry on the National Endowment for the Humanities could use some updating. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

20.11.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great 24 hours in arts & culture for a me: RosalΓ­a’s new album drops with a wimple and THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE trailer reveals a Christmas Day release πŸ™πŸ»

07.11.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Repro wins so far:

- Virginia protected its status as the last abortion access haven in the South

- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court retained the three Democratic justices needed to protect abortion

- New Jersey elected a Dem governor (vital as one of the few states w/zero abortion restrictions)

05.11.2025 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1403    πŸ” 255    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 8

bluesky: we love baseball and zohran mamdani and our joints are starting to hurt when it rains

05.11.2025 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 211    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 6
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Remember to add our annual off-site panel, Blurred Lines: Catholic Flirtations, when registering for the ACHA 2026 Annual Meeting at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago! To register and add the event, go to achahistory.org/chicago2026/.

03.11.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app

02.11.2025 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3655    πŸ” 321    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 41

πŸ™‹πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

19.10.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ahhhhh - congrats!!

24.09.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

🀞🀞

24.09.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NEW BOOK. Her first was dazzling. Impatient to read this and add to my MSt syllabus

23.09.2025 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Stunned by this news. I've long been an admirer of Durba Mitra's scholarship, her advocacy for the Schlesinger Library, and her vision for what WGSS history (and teaching!) can be. Harvard, of course, disagrees.

23.09.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Any Philadelphia historians out there who can point me to good sources for understanding Philadelphia highlife culture in the immediate post-Civil War era? late 1860s and early 1870s? I'm particularly interested in any info on the Moyamensing Balls

19.09.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

I just…does the AHA need advertising money this bad?

08.09.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

wow! I had no idea this was there πŸ‘€

07.09.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Extremely hype for this!

01.09.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I hope everybody is noticing that public and private universities all over the country are dismantling religious studies programs as white christian nationalists are ascendant in all levels of our government

18.08.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 371    πŸ” 211    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4

Oooooooh πŸ‘€

13.08.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ICA is killing it - Mavis and then the gorgeous VITRA show on the Shakers following it in early 2026!

21.07.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh good I was going to ask!

19.07.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

well you know I am headed to the beach! sold!

11.07.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can't wait to give your book to my college roommate, who arrived at orientation with her DQ dvd collection (and yes she called it DQ)

11.07.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

make a strong plan and follow through - I have faith in you!

11.07.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

less dumb than ikea on a Saturday morning!

11.07.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

okay, maybe I do need to read Maggie Doherty's The Equivalents one of these days...

11.07.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sorry to see this, Justin! May her memory be a blessing.

10.07.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

...someone's gonna make me make a diorama of the burning of the Charlestown convent I just know it

10.07.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thrilled to see Aaron Robertson (whose Black Utopians is on my summer reading pile!) named the Commonweal Centennial fellow. He'll spend some of his time on a novel-in-progress, "which imagines a fictional Black Catholic priest leading a revolt against the closure of Detroit parishes in 1989."

10.07.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Incredible! Just saw the original post that those are your badges on the cover πŸͺ‘ -- so special.

10.07.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some of my favorite topics! πŸ“š

10.07.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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