Caroline Greer

Padding Out History: Menstrual Management in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century United States - Commonplace Innovations in menstrual technology that emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century allow us to infer what techniques women used to manage their periods in earlier decades by analyzing...

New article for #MenstruationMonday out of @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social!
commonplace.online/article/padd...

Special Damage by Jessica Lake book cover

HCV's first Book & Author chat is with Jessica Lake, the author of Special Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law.

Thursday, 5 March, 6 pm at Bard's Apothecary, 24 Crossley Street, Melbourne.

www.historycouncilvic.org.au/book_author_...

#vichistoryevents

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

Adjunct pay/working conditions AY25-26 This form is part of a project to crowd-source pay and working conditions for people who teach and research in colleges and universities during AY2025-2026. This form is for people paid by the course ...

Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

Is the Chronicle still bothering to collect salary information on adjuncts or do we need to do another Google spreadsheet?

oooh we are posting super bowls?

As a specialist in Islamic ceramics *cracks knuckles* I present this fabulous 11th c. lustre painted bowl from Fatimid Cairo depicting a Coptic priest. Its white glaze imitates Chinese porcelain and the lustre technique was invented in Iraq a century earlier.

Thank god for my walking pad as it continues to be snowpacolypse outside

y’all, one of the questions is about 1st century mark.

email shouldn’t be fun. and yet…

Deadline to submit draft application is this Wednesday (4th Feb)!

We're hosting a webinar on drafting applications for postdoc fellowships on 12th Feb.

Your application will be reviewed and discussed by assessors and successful applicants. Full details below.

Hello new followers!

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csgreer6's comment on "In societies with menstruation taboos, how were women who didn't have periods viewed?" Explore this conversation and more from the AskHistorians community

How about a @askhistorians.bsky.social post for #MenstruationMonday? Have you ever wondered how women without periods thought about their (lack of condition)? Here is an answer in the context of 19th century US with the professionalization of male physicians: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

March 6 is the deadline to apply for Introduction to #Arabic #Manuscript Studies—a virtual, one-week intensive course held from June 22 to 26, 2026.

Apply today: hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies

This conference means so much to me. In 2019, @jenguiliano.bsky.social & I collaborated to put on the 1st ACH conference since the 1990s. I ran it for the next few years and now the labor has been taken on by other wonderful people. #ReviewsInDH, among other projects, would not exist if not for it.

9 February (19:00–20:30 CET) | Book Launch: #PublicDataCultures with @jwyg.bsky.social
Join us in Amsterdam to meet Jonathan, a researcher, writer, and long-time @archive.org collaborator, and hear about his new book exploring #PublicData.
🔗 Read more: www.internetarchive.eu/nl/2026/01/2...

The cover of The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas--out TODAY with Mariner!

Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE

I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Sites of Spectacle and Sites of Sacrifice: Mapping the Ministries of 19th Century Female Preachers This work is funded in part by the IEHS Digital History Seed Grant. There are a million ways to read a historical source, and I have been interested in early 19th-century female preachers for so lo…

***New post in our blog, Not from Here***

Sites of Spectacle and Sites of Sacrifice: Mapping the Ministries of 19th Century Female Preachers by @csgreer.bsky.social

iehs.org/sites-of-spe...

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