That's helpful! One of the other possible readings is on prison ships, so could easily tie together into a maritime policing day...
06.08.2025 17:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This is perfect! It's actually sitting on my shelf, but I haven't yet read beyond the first chapter. So will take a look!
06.08.2025 17:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A question, as I polish up my syllabi for th coming semester: do you have a favorite reading on policing/carcerality (broadly conceived) during the American Revolution? I have a few options lined up - but nothing that clicks as well as I'd like so far.
06.08.2025 17:13 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
Same here! Even Zotero feels like too much of a distraction, somehow. But I mentioned this to a scientist friend once and she had a wee meltdown π
01.08.2025 16:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
That's the move! And beauty colleges are so underrated - cheap, and the instructors are on hand to fix anything. Tbh I might've made more of a fuss if I hadn't already been there for 3.5 hours...
31.07.2025 22:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Yes!! I'm getting in touch tomorrow to ask for a refund. Fingers crossed...
31.07.2025 22:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Yup. I know. π«
31.07.2025 22:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It honestly took a while to sink in! π But yeah I'm calling tomorrow because wtf??
31.07.2025 22:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
RIGHT?? ππ
31.07.2025 22:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
An unhinged experience to be sitting in that salon chair while a guy says "wow, the color's gorgeous," and thinking "yeah, it's the same color I walked in with."
31.07.2025 22:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
So, I just went to a hair salon to get highlights. And folks, I feel insane.
First time around, he overcorrected for yellow tones, so my hair went gray(!). Apologized and redid it...back to the original color. So I just spent a large sum of money to keep my hair the way it looked before.
31.07.2025 22:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Yes! She was a friend of B.P.B. - but unfortunately left very few details in her letters.
31.07.2025 00:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
History is contingent - it did not "have to happen" that way.
Just as now, past actors were complex & human! And their actions were shaped by multiple contexts, not just the headlines.
The past helps us understand the present, and often echoes. But it doesn't just repeat.
30.07.2025 16:52 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yess that too! If anything else comes to mind I'll let you know
29.07.2025 22:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This archive is key to one of my next book projects. Absolutely scandalous. Please donate to the Amistad Center's Capital Campaign at this link.
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29.07.2025 20:05 β π 9 π 13 π¬ 0 π 1
Hahaha this is also how I feel about both!! ππππ
29.07.2025 20:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Just took a couple of exciting book proposal steps(!), so we're in the garden to decompress. The bee balm living up to its name!
29.07.2025 20:14 β π 17 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Mask up and be sure to use the AC or air purifier in the home
26.07.2025 19:31 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
A photo of a city skyline, shrouded in smog
NYC looking hazy today. Take care of your lungs, folks!
26.07.2025 19:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1
I was already doing this, for Black soldiers and veterans, when the NEH killed my grants and clawed back the remaining 180k.
24.07.2025 15:17 β π 51 π 16 π¬ 1 π 1
!! Thanks!
20.07.2025 04:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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15.07.2025 13:29 β π 59 π 20 π¬ 3 π 6
psst, political scientists
15.07.2025 01:40 β π 18 π 12 π¬ 2 π 0
Marble Shark would be a great improv team name.
11.07.2025 00:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I walked past this shark today!
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If you see this, post a shark that isn't from Jaws.
11.07.2025 00:47 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Public Historian/Prof; Voting rights, suffrage, & citizenship; ποΈ
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History editor, JHU Press. Got a book idea? Get in touch: davulis@jhu.edu. No DMs, please. (I do not speak for my employer here, etc etc.)
History ABD at Duke
Writing a diss on consumer spaces & material culture in early modern Madras & Pondicherry
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Professor of Russian & Soviet History at Queens College, CUNY. Author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia. Knitter & spinner. antoshki.com
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2025-2027 Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Ph.D. in Early African American Women's History from Rutgers University.
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PhD candidate in History at UChicago-Atlantic and Caribbean worlds-slavery, internal markets, policing, economic autonomy-18th c. French and British Empires
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