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Chronicles | Kellar: The Greatest American Magician | Season 3 | Episode 7 Harry Kellar was an American magician born in Erie, Pa.

Sarah and Elizabeth were interviewed for a recent episode of @pbs.org Chronicles - check them out, showcasing our Spiritualist history expertise! (and Civil War, because duh, Sarah ;P) www.pbs.org/video/kellar...

Suffer a Witch to Live? Religious Conflict and Witchcraft Persecutions; or, No One Expects the Inquisition How would you expect the Spanish Inquisition to treat a confessed witch? Does the suggestion conjure visions of fire, torture, and lots of murdered women? You aren’t alone - but this is a history we definitely need to unpack.  Transcript for: Suffer a Witch to Live? Religious Conflict and Witchcraft Persecutions; or, No One Expects the Inquisition Researched and written by Averill Earls, PhD…

Suffer a Witch to Live? Religious Conflict and Witchcraft Persecutions; or, No One Expects the Inquisition

How would you expect the Spanish Inquisition to treat a confessed witch? Does the suggestion conjure visions of fire, torture, and lots of murdered women? You aren’t alone - but this is a…

We're officially members of the very cool #Amplify network - joining a small group of scholars with a collective commitment to the Mandate of the Amplify project: open scholarship and critical pedagogy rooted in anti-racism and feminist social justice. www.amplifypodcastnetwork.ca/sustain-stream

Yellow Rose of Texas: Myth-making and Race in the 19th Century Today we're exploring one of Texas's most enduring legends - the story of the "Yellow Rose of Texas" and her supposed role in the Battle of San Jacinto. We are going to unravel the myth of “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” We will explore the woman at the heart of the tale, Emily D. West, who was a free woman of color working in Texas, and untangle her real life from the Texan myth.

Yellow Rose of Texas: Myth-making and Race in the 19th Century

Today we're exploring one of Texas's most enduring legends - the story of the "Yellow Rose of Texas" and her supposed role in the Battle of San Jacinto. We are going to unravel the myth of “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” We will explore…

This was a fun one to record! Marissa writes some of my fave episodes

Whispers and Wives’ Tales: A History of Women & Gossip in Premodern Society Whispers and Wives' Tales: A History of Women & Gossip in Premodern Society Written by Marissa Rhodes, PhD Recorded by Marissa Rhodes, PhD and Averill Earls, PhD Marissa: On September 9, 1838, a humble woman named Mary Grout descended the stairs outside of her cramped apartment on Rich-street in the poverty-stricken Limehouse district of London. She was visiting her neighbor, Sara Tarrall who lived two floors below her.

Whispers and Wives’ Tales: A History of Women & Gossip in Premodern Society

Whispers and Wives' Tales: A History of Women & Gossip in Premodern Society Written by Marissa Rhodes, PhD Recorded by Marissa Rhodes, PhD and Averill Earls, PhD Marissa: On September 9, 1838, a humble woman named Mary…

One way to understand this Health Bizarre guy is to read Teddy Roosevelt’s “Strenuous Life” speech.

@dig-history.bsky.social has a fantabulous episode on the @nationalparks.bsky.social that features this speech. Thank you, intrepid historians!

Treat yourself to some smart, smart, smart thinking about what we really do as historians & as teachers: "Rule One in the Intro to Art History class that I teach is: these things on the slides here are not the works of art that you're studying; they're digital copies of them." #MedievalSky

Love in the Lav with Averill Earls | NACBS Join NACBS to celebrate the publication of Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972.

📢Book Event📢

Join us next Thursday for a discussion with @aearls.bsky.social and @jaretthenderson.bsky.social about Earls' latest work Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972

📅Thursday, Sep 4
⏰9amPT/12pmET

Free and open to the public
Info and RSVP at the link!

The #CFP for the Queer/Trans History Conference #QTHC2026 is live, and submissions are due in November. We hope you can all join us in Michigan for a fantastic conference! lgbtq-ha.org/conferences/...

Thank you!!!! (And sounds like a VERY fun class!)

I love assigning @dig-history.bsky.social to my students! I have assigned multiple episodes for my History of Sex honors course this fall.

Women and Slavery: How Harriet Jacobs Revealed Women’s Experience of American Enslavement In 1861, one of the most powerful slave narratives in American history was published under the title, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by Harriet Jacobs and edited by the famous aboli…

Women and Slavery: How Harriet Jacobs Revealed Women’s Experience of American Enslavement

In 1861, one of the most powerful slave narratives in American history was published under the title, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl... [listen now] digpodcast.org/2025/08/17/w...

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About Us Your Historians Dig: A History Podcast is a narrative-driven, open access, and accessible digital history project bridging the worlds of popular and academic history with an explicitly feminist per…

@dig-history.bsky.social has EXCELLENT, digestible work on this history. One of them just wrote a book called The Sentimental State, about the origins of the labor movement in textile mills.

They are 4 history professors, all women, with a mix of different subspecialties.

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Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Seances in Lily Dale by Averill Earls, Sarah Handley-Cousins, Marissa C. Rhodes, and Elizabeth Garner Masarik.

Headed to New York state this weekend for a family event and taking my last #AHAReads book with me.

To fulfill the task “Read an edited collection, journal forum, or other multiauthor work,” I’ll be reading the @dig-history.bsky.social historians dig into Lily Dale, NY, and its 19th-c. history.

Sati: The Virtuous Woman, the Chaste Wife, and the Immolated Widow in Colonial and Postcolonial India  In 1987, the last reported instance of sati threw India into a maelstrom of furious debate and conflict following the ritual suicide of Roop Kanwar after her young husband’s death. Nearly 150 years earlier, British colonial officer Lord William Bentinck passed a prohibition on sati in British India. As Roop Kanwar’s death suggests, British colonial rule did not end the practice of…

Sati: The Virtuous Woman, the Chaste Wife, and the Immolated Widow in Colonial and Postcolonial India

 In 1987, the last reported instance of sati threw India into a maelstrom of furious debate and conflict following the ritual suicide of Roop Kanwar after her young husband’s death. Nearly 150…

Book Talk Events in July! The band is getting (back?) together! This July, all four of us will reunite in Western New York for two special Book Talk events. If you can join us, we'd love to see you there! Wednesday, July 9, 6:30pm in the Buffalo Erie Country Public Library, Central Branch. FREE! No registration required. Thursday, July 10, 7-9pm, in the Lily Dale Auditorium! Tickets required

Book Talk Events in July!

The band is getting (back?) together! This July, all four of us will reunite in Western New York for two special Book Talk events. If you can join us, we'd love to see you there! Wednesday, July 9, 6:30pm in the Buffalo Erie Country Public Library, Central Branch. FREE!…

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Medical Ethics & Race The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was an ethically problematic, to say the least, medical research project conducted in Alabama. Officially titled “The Effects of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Ma…

Listen - The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Medical Ethics & Race - @dig-history.bsky.social

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#histmed #blackhistory #racialjustice #podcast #ushistory

If you’ll be in WNY this summer, we’ve got TWO book events in July:

Wed July 9, 6:30pm at the Buffalo Erie County Public Library Central Branch

Thu July 10, 7pm at the LILY DALE Auditorium. Tickets required www.lilydaleassembly.org/event-detail...

We’d love to see you there!

Sexuality and Psychiatry

How and when scientists, doctors, and society started conceiving of the physical and emotional components of same-sex desire as a psychiatric condition of the mind? This was neither an ancient belief nor a postmodern (aka, post-1950) one, and it wasn’t an exclusively…

Great book from @cornellupress.bsky.social - 10/10 would recommend (and Spencer is a good friend of the podcast!)

I’m So Sick of History Rhymes: Executive Orders, Dog Whistles, and the Lavender Scare In the late 1940s and 1950s, alongside the better known “Red Scare” that targeted alleged internal political enemies – American Communists – the US government led a crusade against gay …

My latest episode for @dig-history.bsky.social comes from a deep well of WHY THE F*CK. In this edition, we're talking about the Lavender Scare, Parts 1 (1940s-1970s) and 2 (2010s-now).

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