Caroline Greer

it's always revelatory and yet disappointing when the expensive art materials work better

Our posting is up for the @jcblibrary.bsky.social Associate Director -- please share! It's a good place to work, imho. 😀 brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

Nominees Announced for the 2025 George Washington Prize, One of America’s Most Esteemed Literary Awards Nominees Announced for the 2025 George Washington Prize, One of America’s Most Esteemed Literary Awards

Congratulations to Worlds Turned Upside Down contributors @frankcogliano.bsky.social and @michaelhattem.bsky.social on their nominations for the George Washington Prize! You’ll hear from both soon in Episode 19: The Gambit www.mountvernon.org/about/news/n...

when I grow up I wanna be me, but a me who has helped fight off authoritarianism

Historians who work with oral history etc know this effect. It increases significantly around traumatic events, & over multiple retellings, which is one reason testimony around eg the JFK assassination is contradictory. Memory isn’t a record of events; it’s your brain forming a narrative for you.

A small, black cat with green eyes sits on the floor and plays with a rainbow toy

Also I got a cat named Harissa

friends, sorry for being MIA but I have sent everything off for my dissertation and have nothing else left to complete :)

The Rebellion is now in progress.

Team: I am sorry to report that RRCHNM is eliminating my position in late August. That means I am in the hunt for new full-time and consulting opportunities in history, public history, and podcast production. Have a lead? Please let me know!

And yes, Worlds Turned Upside Down will continue.

Time means nothing it was two (2) days ago but I was barely a person yesterday :)

Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Application deadline is August 7.

Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

A quick announcement that I successfully defended my dissertation yesterday!

Join us on Thursday, May 29th at 7:00 pm for a Hybrid Public Program by Craig Thompson Friend—Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas
www.americanantiquarian.org/node/12758

Join us for the 2025 African Digital Humanities Symposium!
📅 June 5–6, 2025
🕘 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM GMT
📍University of Ghana – Legon + online
🔗 Register: africandh.ku.edu

Join virtually for conversations centering African perspectives, archives, and digital storytelling.

#AfricanDH #GlobalDH #DH2025

Combatting the Mexican State from Afar: The Spread of Sinarquismo in the United States* Salvador M. Velasco spoke to a crowd of Mexicans in Los Angeles, California, in October 1937, representing the Central Sinarquista Organizing Committee of

In case you missed it:

I published this article in Diplomatic History earlier this year.

"Combatting the Mexican State from Afar: The Spread of Sinarquismo in the United States"

academic.oup.com/dh/article-a...

“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

Wizard feminism.

Excited to be heading to Montreal to teach "DH Programming in the Age of AI" with @lucidbard.bsky.social at #DHSI next week! The overview and recommended readings are up now - anastasiasalter.net/DHProgramming/ - we'll be adding more exercises and resources as we go.

Secularism isn’t what’s driving people away from Christianity.

What’s driving people away from Christianity are those who claim to follow Jesus, but completely ignore his teachings and use his name instead to amass wealth and political power.

Contract Position – History and Global Studies. Deadline: May 23, 2025. #cdnhist #job cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...

Haunting artist book by @transbookhistory.bsky.social, progresses from "Mary Ann Waters is a free Black woman" print via stages of evolving prints to a full archival mention of a Black trans woman that misgenders+unfrees her, shows previous prints selected the true text from that #BuildingBookLabs25

I am very close (and very proud)

Speaking as an author who has now had a recent article I wrote promoted not once not twice but THREE times by people who used AI to summarize it, & which summaries were all DEAD WRONG (not just wrong but wrong in a way that makes me sound basic & banal AF): I am infuriated by what we are doing.

Something’s brewing on Worlds Turned Upside Down.

when I grow up I wanna be me, but a me who has helped fight off authoritarianism

Did you know that over 60 items from St John's College Library's Special Collections are available for free online? A lot more items will be available soon, but for now, why not take a look? (Image: SJC MS 82 f. 29v)

digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/partners/st-...

I put real cream in my cold brew and maybe living (and extra calories) are worth it

Want to spend funded, remote summer time making something cool with data+art/making/craft for display in @scholarslab.bsky.social's public, library-based lab space? Proposals due this Fri 5/23, but they're short+project can be small, open to all: scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/scholar...

For anyone who has read through first names of yore you know this would be an amazing PhD.