Jessica K. Lowe

Campaign life doesn’t leave much room for nuance. Jen Fleisher’s trying anyway. - C-VILLE Weekly Even before Jen Fleisher became an official Charlottesville City Council candidate, she was a public figure—or at least a quasi public figure. Not public figure classic, but public figure lite. A Virg...

“If you’re going to jump in the game, do it when there’s ranked-choice voting. That was enticing.”

The most underrated benefit of RCV is pulling new candidates into the process who don’t see the world as us vs. them.

This morning an individual entered our church before the service began and started randomly punching & chasing people, & throwing furniture. The person was arrested and removed by the police. We are rattled but it could have been so much worse, thankfully all injuries seem minor. 🙏 ⚓️

Just hearing about this today. Horrifying. I’m so glad everyone is ok.

Visiting scholar in environmental humanities at Princeton, with religion listed as an area of special interest. Deadline October 31, 2025.

5 questions for Danielle Citron

Go @daniellecitron.bsky.social! 5 Questions for Danielle Citron.

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Jefferson on Race
A Reader
Edited by Annette Gordon-Reed
Princeton University Press
Princeton and Oxford

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A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk

In West Virginia, doctors were appalled when organ donation coordinators asked a paralyzed man coming off sedatives in an operating room for consent to remove his organs.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...

John Adams didn't say this.

Supposedly, it was coined by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.

But Adams DID complain about the many "Liars and Libellers [who] had been hired... to propagate every Species of Slander in Newspapers, Pamphlets, Hand Bills."

Smart guy.

some of my best, most valuable, college classes were straight-up lectures

sure, it depends on audience/context/material, but the wholesale valorization of "student-centered" classrooms (in the humanities at least) ceded the cultural capital of expertise in truly damaging ways

Hive mind: Anyone have and good romance or rom-com in a law setting to recommend? Looking for book titles. Thanks!

My ideal rally would be < an hour, have a clear ask repeated by mult. speakers, have at most 1 song per 30 min (before start time, at middle, and at end), and keep most speakers to a tight 2 minute and 45 second limit. Exception for @dem8z.bsky.social, who I'd give all the time she wants

This is a great template.

Murder in the Shenandoah: Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia (Studies in Legal History) Murder in the Shenandoah: Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia (Studies in Legal History) [Lowe, Jessica K.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Murder in the Shenandoah: Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia (Studies in Legal History)

Looking for a 4th of July read? My book tells the story of a sensational murder that took place in the heart of Virginia on July 4, 1791 — the 15th anniversary of American independence— and its relationship to the tail end of the fight for independence. www.amazon.com/Murder-Shena...

Lafayette helped Americans turn the tide in their fight for independence – and 50 years later, he helped forge the growing nation’s sense of identity Hailed as a returning hero, the Marquis de Lafayette made a grand tour of the US in 1824-25, just before the country’s 50th birthday.

Lafayette was a 19-year-old French aristocrat who risked everything to fight for American independence, and decades later, helped define what it meant to be American.

This #FourthofJuly, read more about this “citizen of two worlds”:
theconversation.com/lafayette-he...

#polisky 🗃️

We’re #1!!!

this is such an important point. i do not think that the typical american understands that for most of their lives, someone like james madison or george washington or thomas jefferson was *surrounded* by black people.

June 16, 1775: The selectmen of Edgartown on the island of Martha’s Vineyard petition the Massachusetts Provincial Congress to pay taxes in yarn stockings in lieu of money, as their whaling industry and wool export has being shut down by the British blockade.

Hi #AncestryHour - hope all are well!

Bit distracted, so nearly missed it BUT ... something big for you if you have UK #Railway ancestors:

The Railway Work, Life & Death project has just released a HUGE new dataset: over 69,000 records!

More here:

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/69000-railwa...

Carolina the giant rat retires as a hero after saving many lives Last year, African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of their extreme sense of smell.

She sniffed out TB cases that clinic testing had missed, saving as many as 30,000 people from contracting the disease over the course of her career 🫡

Writing about the images that make up the cover of _Lineage_ and the many meanings of families/ histories. Here about multiple marriages, in the face of maternal mortality. "The Family of Joseph, Elizabeth and Sarah Craft."

In "Why Engineers Still Need the Humanities" Allison Marsh shares out some of the research she has been engaged in as a fellow at Linda Hall Library on the history of women's involvement in the development of electrical engineering as a field. Read more here -> spectrum.ieee.org/engineering-...

Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America

I just interviewed a brilliant historian who also happens to be a good friend and mentor. It was fun! I think you are all going to enjoy @kawulf.bsky.social's new book Lineage, which you can pre-order now.

#Skystorians #History #Genealogy

Screenshot of a newspaper column from an 1859 paper, one line states that "The celebration at Braintree, (pronounced by the people out there as if spelled Brarntree.)"

A correspondent taking time out of the introduction of an 1859 review of an anti-slavery convention to roast Boston accents, journalism is best when it's a little petty. It's the 1859 version of "MF said 'Brarntree'."

Harvard Magazine: 'Behind the Scenes: Quality of Care'

'Associate editor Lydialyle Gibson reflects on why disability is a topic that needs to be talked about more openly'

'long COVID has demonstrated just how susceptible anyone can be..'

www.harvardmagazine.com/donate/behin...

I really need folks to stop acting like disability is full of people “scamming” the system.

The average person has no idea how hard it is to qualify. How dehumanizing the process can be. How much you have to sacrifice & give up.

It’s designed to make you quit.

Winners and Losers in the History of Citizenship and the 14th Amendment | National Humanities Center Birthright citizenship has a history that extends across nearly the whole of the nineteenth century. It entered legal debates during the antebellum era

As the Supreme Court weighs arguments about birthright citizenship presented this past week, now is a good time to brush up on the history of US citizenship. NHC Fellow @marthasjones.bsky.social (2013–14) joined us in 2020 to offer a historical overview of US citizenship and its legal challenges.

Damn! The legal term for this motion to dismiss is "badass".

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Revelations of Divine Love: title page from the British Library copy of the first publication

On This Day: May 13
In 1373, Julian of Norwich recovered from an illness during which she experienced a series of visions that would become Revelations of Divine Love. First known book written in English by a woman.

Sometimes the truest work begins in ruin.
#OnThisDay #LiteraryHistory #WomenWriters

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