Katy Telling

I love Richmond and I love Francine. ❤️

I'm so excited for this!

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada made into searchable archive Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors

The stories of enslaved African people and more than 1,000 British plantation owners who were compensated after abolition have been brought together in a searchable archive for the first time.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

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Whomst do I know here who has access to or else knows how to make a zograscope?

ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese.
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import

a man with a beard is looking at a screen with math equations on it . Alt: GIF of Zach Galifianakis looking at a screen with math equations dancing in front of his face.

Trying to place where I know the song from, when suddenly, I realize

Getting some writing done at a local brewery and when I heard a song that was on the Twilight soundtrack come over the loudspeakers, every single sense activated.

We have to keep saying it: There is "nothing* that Texas college faculty are prohibited by law from teaching.

Do not believe politicians who demand restrictions they never passed. Do not obey unconstitutional college policy. Do not self-censor. Do not comply.

Explore the Past with Curious Minds | History Explorers Club A community for history lovers who crave deeper stories, expert insights, and connection. Join us to explore the past—together.

I’ve quietly been working on a new project: The History Explorers Club. I opened it in early August & intentionally started with a small group of 40 Members who are helping shape the experience.

It’s been a lot of fun to work on & today, we’re starting our first mini-challenge!

Alt text: Screenshot of a document outlining a new university policy. The bullet points state: No discussion of transgender topics or anything suggesting more than two genders. All information in syllabi about transgender topics must be removed. Instructors must use students’ given names, not preferred names. Safe-space stickers, LGBTQ flags, etc. are banned and must be removed. Employees must remove pronouns from email signatures. The university will not support faculty who teach or discuss these topics in class.

Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people.

conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

#AmRel #SouthernHist

Hi y'all! Would anyone be interested in collaborating on a panel reconsidering religion in the South in the Revolutionary Era (broadly defined) for the Southern? Definitely want to do something on Quakerism and Southern religious pluralism.

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Gaps in the Record: Teaching with the Constitutional Convention - Commonplace Too often, historians turn to records of constituent or legislative deliberations from the eighteenth century as a source to draw quotations from early American political figures, without questioning ...

Need some teaching inspiration for this Constitution Day? Check out Katlyn Marie Carter's 2024 essay on teaching the Constitutional Convention through the strategic silences and gaps in the historic record:
commonplace.online/article/gaps...

We have a brand new essay @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social today! Jordan Smith writes on his forthcoming history of rum and responds to the question "where all the pirates???"

Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America

wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america

The Reinvention of George Washington's Mother, From Paragon of Virtue to Greedy Shrew to Widow Striving for Independence A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely on her own after her husband’s death in 1743

for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social I had the pleasure & privilege of interviewing Kate Haulman re: her new book THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA out from @oxfordunipress.bsky.social today! www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

Excited to join @seangallagher.bsky.social and other wonderful scholars in conversation to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation in Norfolk, Virginia!!

www.eventbrite.com/e/competing-...

The image contains a photo of Bianca Premo and the text "2025 Bromsen Lecturer- Bianca Premo- Distinguished University Professor of History, Florida International University (FIU)."

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Bromsen Lecture will be delivered by Professor Bianca Premo on October 9 at 5 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome!

For more details, visit jcblibrary.org!

YouTube video by National Geographic What in the World is a Tapir? | National Geographic

Heffalumps and woozles-core. I love them.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PFRr...

*AN internet rabbit hole, aaaaaaAHGGGG

request an 18th-c. print of a tapir for a work in the reading room —> be reminded of how unserious and perfect tapirs are —> think about how I would have tried to describe a tapir to someone who had zero reference point —> fall down a internet rabbit hole of videos of baby tapirs

✨scholarship✨

We Banned Holocaust Deniers From Our History Subreddit. Here’s Why Facebook Should Do the Same. They aren’t arguing an actual side. They’re not “just asking questions” out of curiosity or ignorance. Don’t give them the chance.

🧵 Today, a student in office hours asked me about history he sees online and revision to historical figures. The way he phrased it, my spidey senses went off, and sure enough, he was encountering Holocaust denial

Here's the article on @askhistorians.bsky.social I gave him

slate.com/technology/2...

Close! I’m in Providence now 🙂

Photo of a Boston Red Sox trucker hat on top of a brown coffee table and Christine Leigh Heyrman’s book “Southern Cross.”

I think I’m officially a New Englander now. 🙂

How dare you play 2009 Arcade Fire when I'm at my most emotionally vulnerable (editing).

This looks phenomenal, congratulations!

Smithsonian Exhibits That the White House Finds Objectionable “The White House published a list of Smithsonian exhibits, programming, and artwork it considered objectionable on Thursday, one week after announc...

A placard on the nineteenth-century fur trade describes Canada as a sovereign country."

Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of speed.
- All's Well That Ends Well (II, 2)