Jacqueline Beatty, Ph.D.

FURIKAKE ON COOKIES! GENIUS!

When I explain to people why my schedule is exhausting, instead of saying I teach 4 T Th classes, I say that my work days involve six consecutive hours of extemporaneous public speaking

It's on my list! And I'm researching its predecessor at the Phillips.

Arrived in New England yesterday for the first fellowship of my sabbatical year. Home base is Salem! Today is for unpacking, errands, and exploring downtown. Would love recs (especially dog-friendly ones!).

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.

1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Digitization fail

ALoRoWaHAiBA Abbreviated List of Resources on Why and How AI is Bad, Actually Worsening Climate Change, Pollution, Environmental Racism, and Associated Negative Health Consequences On the pollution and health con...

Academic pals: I'm starting a shared doc to collect info on exactly why/how AI is indefensible—specifically in humanities classrooms, but also across the board. Please share/add as you see fit. I plan to lecture from this in the first week; many students don't know.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

What Ken Burns Won’t Say About the American Revolution On the road with America’s foremost history documentarian in a fractured country.

If, in fact, you would like a history of the American Revolution that does have interpretative points, please consider listening to Worlds Turned Upside Down on your favorite podcast app.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

What words should we use to describe the wartime camps? Among scholars, government officials, and the Japanese Americans who lived through Executive Order 9066, there is no general agreement on the most accurate and appropriate terminology. Camps such as Tanforan and Topaz-where the artists Hisako Hibi and Miné Okubo were both held-were officially called "assembly centers" and "relocation camps." The government favored these euphemisms to downplay its unprecedented actions. Similarly, it described the forced removal of Japanese Americans as "evacuation" and their imprisonment as "internment." Government officials, including President Roosevelt, used the term "concentration camp" during the war. The phrase describes a place where people are imprisoned because of who they are, rather than for any crime they have committed. However, it is today strongly associated with the Nazi atrocities of the Holocaust, requiring the explanation that American concentration camps were not places of systematized torture and death. "Incarceration camp" and "illegal detention center" are other terms for describing the camps.

Thinking of this plaque I came across at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibit on the art and lives of Hisako Hibi and Mine Okubo, two Japanese-American painters detained during World War II

Ready for a year of research travel and fellowships with NERFC, @jcblibrary.bsky.social, GWPL, and @amphilpress.bsky.social!

Just registered!

TIMES WRITER VISITS REICH PRISON CAMP; Taken Through Entire Place at Dachau in Bavaria Except Possibly Disciplinary Cells. 2,000 INMATES GLOOMY Incautious Word Has Landed Many There -- Machine Guns an...

Sharing this for no special reason: In July 1933, a New York Times reporter toured Dachau and saw the entire camp "except possibly the disciplinary cells." According to the reporter, "it was an almost idyllic picture of a rest camp," though the inmates were "gloomy" (h/t @monospace.com)

Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans

Thank you, @jrakove.bsky.social, for speaking the truth: We are experiencing constitutional failure-- which means we are no longer living under the Constitution's protection-- which means we are no longer a free state.

I regret to inform you that everything is still gender

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I know a Scrivener user when I see one

We have entered the "caning of Charles Sumner" stage of historical parallels.

Sadly this is going to be a week-long marathon for me. Good luck to you!

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All that stands between me and 3 weeks of vacation in the Balkans followed by a full academic year research sabbatical is an Everest-sized pile of grading.

2025 SHEAR Early Career Mentorship Sign-Up It's that time of year again! SHEAR is once again expanding its Early Career Mentorship Program and is welcoming new members (both mentors and mentees) to participate beginning in 2025. This mentorsh...

Quick reminder for early Americanist #skystorians: the app for SHEAR's 2025 Junior Mentorship Program is open 'til May 5th! If you know of an advanced grad student, please pass this along to them. It's been a great success in its first two years!

forms.gle/p6g6ur43LjJV...

Getting pretty tired of the “future historians will say X about this time.”

I promise you, PRESENT historians are saying plenty, and you don’t seem to be listening!

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?" "Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History By Gillian Brockell When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.

Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

Looking for something to do for Women's History Month?

I'll be giving a "Fireside Chat" with LCP on March 21st at 2pm. The event is free and on Zoom! Click here to register:

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Episode 56: The Most Dreadful Of All Enemies Dr. Jacqueline Beatty joins host Kathryn Gehred to discuss The Petition of Belinda from 1783 in which Belinda Sutton petitions The Massachusetts General Court for t…

It was a pleasure to speak with @jmbeatty.bsky.social
about this petition! Whenever anybody tries to characterize enslaved people as "docile" I think of sources like this. Give it a listen!

www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...

Episode 56: The Most Dreadful Of All Enemies Dr. Jacqueline Beatty joins host Kathryn Gehred to discuss The Petition of Belinda from 1783 in which Belinda Sutton petitions The Massachusetts General Court for t…

In today's episode @jmbeatty.bsky.social joins @katyghistory.bsky.social to discuss the poetic language Belinda Sutton uses when she petitions The Massachusetts General Court for the funds left to her by her enslaver Isaac Royall after he fled during the Rev War.

www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...

🔊 Listen Now: After tradwives took over TikTok, there's a wave of ex-tradwives on social media. Morning Edition on NPR One | 3:48

Still can’t believe I was interviewed for an NPR (!!!!) piece that was featured on Morning Edition today! (Bucket list level stuff here, folks!)

Listen here: one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5206...

Thanks Cassie! I listen every morning but missed it today because of Winter Commencement 🤦🏻‍♀️

Trailer for the Golden Dreams Podcast The Golden Dreams Podcast · Episode

Hello, new followers! If you have long travel days ahead, give *Golden Dreams* a listen. My students' original podcast uncovered the journey of Chinese refugees before, during, and after their voyage on the Golden Venture in the 1990s.

Trailer here: open.spotify.com/episode/3syQ...