Audrey Dodgen

This #MothersDay, I wanted to discuss Anne Boleyn's relationship with her mother. A lot of attention has been paid to the relationship between Anne and her daughter, but Anne was also very close with her mother. Let me take you through some of the evidence for their closeness (a 🧵)

Hands at work // Chapter House, Westminster Abbey

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I love books, but I have come to absolutely hate business school textbooks. 😂 8 more weeks!

Dang, I’d like to attend, but I can’t get there from Edmond in time. I hope it’s a great event!

NSU Department of History to host 2025 Ballenger Lecture series Northeastern State University will welcome author, professor and historian Dr. Rachel Michelle Gunter to the Tahlequah campus to present the 2025 Ballenger Lecture March 13.

Oklahoma peeps! FYI 🗃️https://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/news/nsy-department-of-history-to-host-2025-ballenger-lecture-series/article_83e7ed98-f879-11ef-be79-cb83703666a3.html

We’re celebrating Women’s History on Royals, Rebels, and Romantics!

It’s time to think about leadership lessons from Shakespeare’s women!

We’re looking at Juliet and Beatrice for tips on setting boundaries, charting our own paths, and choosing to believe women.

Oh whew, I thought they were going to normalize chaos, but it's okay because they are going to wear four colors.

This is absolutely correct. Yes, it’s been widely reported that even that $16bn figure is a shockingly incompetent overcount, misreading $8m as $8bn in one case - but a bigger figure would not in any case automatically represent a positive achievement

It *is* shocking. We are (as a group) capable of unspeakable cruelty.

The treatment of Geronimo (and his people) is a stain. He was a prisoner of war here in Oklahoma and was “exhibited” at various fairs - he was even paraded at Teddy Roosevelt’s inauguration.

Photograph, portrait format, of the vaulted-arched crypt at Winchester Cathedral, flooded to the depth of around 4-5 inches, showing the roof reflected in the water and at the far end, an Anthony Gormly statue of a lone figure gazing down at its cupped hands

And a DSLR shot of the flooded crypt at Winchester Cathedral

6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance.

For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.

I think it's important to say that these are not "budget cuts" at NIH and NSF. If they want to cut the next budget, they should talk to Congress. This is withholding money that's already authorized.

Yeah!!!

Book cover - Women and the Reformations: A Global History by Merry Wiesner-Hanks. Set in a brightly covered geometric frame resembling a stained glass window, in orange, red, and blue.

We're excited to announce a special online seminar featuring Distinguished Professor Emerita Merry Wiesner-Hanks, discussing her new book Women and the Reformations.
13 February 2025 via Zoom, 7pm GMT (1 hour). #womenshistory #skystorians /1

It’s horrifying.

3105 • Bill ~ TV Repair Man ~ Marinette, Wisconsin
circa 2010
#portrait #photography #america #culture

It’s such an odd phrase!

Y’all, one of my classmates told me my proposed research topics were “gonna eat.” I had to ask if that was a compliment or a warning. 😂

FACT CHECK from the California Department of Water Resources:

“The military did not enter California. The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days. State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful.”

I’m in a research class this semester and the prof told us she normally requires an outline but is experimenting with leaving it out of the path this semester. I feel strangely sad (though I’m aware I can just make an outline). Such a useful exercise for organizing one’s thoughts.

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.

Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.

Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

Image of a press release from Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Education Ryan Walters announcing that the history standards for Oklahoma public schools have been updated to include the terms “Gulf of America” and “Mount McKinkley,” and boasts that Oklahoma is the first state to do so.

This state…

Getting a tad excited! 😁
Just 1 week to go to publication of book no.8 (wow!), Scotland's Medieval Queens
mybook.to/ScottishQueens
#ScottishQueens #womeninhistory

Just got the notification it’s time to apply for graduation with my MBA program. So excited to wrap this up and not be splitting my time between business and history.

Caravaggio in self portrait as Bacchus

Was Caravaggio really a murderer? Investigating the short and violent life of a trailblazing Renaissance artist open.substack.com/pub/rebeccar...
Seen here in self portrait as Bacchus

Birthright citizenship is on the lips and minds of many, given yesterday’s “executive order.” Recommend Martha Jones’s book to those seeking to inform themselves about the context of this concept.

To add (tho no one asked me)...

Getting edited well is a privilege and a joy. A smart, sensitive, trained reader goes over my work w. great care with the singular goal of making it (and me) better.

I have always gone for the best editor available for my books & I'm deeply grateful to all of them.

Hi everyone, can you help one of my students with her MA dissertation? Amy is exploring the motivations, influences & ambitions of those who practice history (from professionals to amateurs, paid to hobbyist). Fill in her survey to add your experience (& please share): forms.office.com/e/mFNv6tAqxn