OTOH I am haunted by the war so maybe autocorrect is making a point?
17.10.2025 02:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you to @jsench.bsky.social for making it real. #haunted #halloween
16.10.2025 17:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Unboxing done.
#hauntedbook #halloween
16.10.2025 17:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I got my advance copy. They did a nice job with it and it’s making me happy!
05.10.2025 18:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Welcome to J19 journal with Sarah Chinn at the helm!
05.10.2025 18:40 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Just for a moment — taking a break
06.09.2025 23:32 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The code is P329
Brings it under $30
For a hardback…!
28.08.2025 16:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A coupon code is somewhere here…
25.08.2025 18:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Reupping: Application period open to survey the history of books with me in Los Angeles this summer. There are amazing collections at amazing libraries staffed by amazing librarians in LA. We'll work with them to explore how books emerged, were made, used, & made meaning/information for centuries!
18.02.2025 14:42 — 👍 24 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0
(That was either too subtle or too obvious as an account of children playing with matches. It’s a true story.)
08.02.2025 17:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Three guesses about what’s on my mind.
The first two don’t count.
07.02.2025 16:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We assumed they would want to play with matches and we just wanted to show them how to safely close the matchbook and only strike once it was closed. Away from flammable materials.
07.02.2025 16:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It’s hard to imagine all the protocols that would be in place now concerning research on human subjects, let alone young children.
We drove all over. We had matchbooks.
07.02.2025 16:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
When I was an undergraduate in the San Francisco Bay Area, back when my major was psychology, I had a work study job in connection with a study of children who played with matches.
The idea was to train them in safety…
07.02.2025 16:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Respect the list. And solidarity with those who study the wild 19th century and hear echoes.
27.01.2025 10:51 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Yes, please add me.
27.01.2025 10:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Portrait of Frederick Douglass, ringed by the words "Power concedes nothing without a demand" and the url DouglassDay.org.
Hey friends at #MLA25!
Join us on Feb 14 to help transcribe Black archives with the Library of Congress! Over 125 schools & community groups and counting!
See DouglassDay.org to register.
Plus get access to our organizing kit, teaching guides, interactive tutorials, swag and lots more!
10.01.2025 21:01 — 👍 34 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0
The #Harper200 Nationwide Read-a-thon - Colored Conventions Project
New year = new reading goals 📚
Sign up for the Frances E. W. Harper Read-A-Thon, running from Jan-April!
Our edition of lola Leroy, edited by Koritha Mitchell, is a March feature!
Full schedule and sign up here ⏬ coloredconventions.org/news/read-ha...
02.01.2025 19:19 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
This is the intro to the introduction of to my spring 2025 book, Integrated. You can pre order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721962...
15.12.2024 22:46 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Celebrating vastness in the americas…
16.12.2024 19:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
HUMANITIES WORKS – posters, postcards, and handouts to support the humanities
high school teacher asks: "is there a site w short videos of people describing their professions+their college major, to help guide students, show them all the different things people do?" we made humanitiesworks.org and individual depts have alumni roundtables, but got video testimonials? please RT
06.12.2024 14:07 — 👍 160 🔁 84 💬 9 📌 2
Save the Date for Douglass Day, February 14, 2025, featuring the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress.
🎂 SAVE THE DATE: Feb. 14, 2025! 🎂
This year Douglass Day is transcribing Black history with the Library of Congress!
💻 Crowdsourcing project on Black history
📽️ Live Broadcast
🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off
📣 Special guests!
Join us online or host an event in your community!
Info: douglassday.org
14.11.2024 16:41 — 👍 26 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 5
Catalog Record: A domestic cook book : containing a careful selection of useful receipts for the kitchen
Among other things, we'll be spotlighting Malinda Russell's 1886 A Domestic Cookbook, the first cookbook published by an African American woman. The only known copy is in UMich Special Collections, but you can read the whole thing on HathiTrust: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00474...
20.11.2024 20:00 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Edward Said - Representation of the Intellectual - Available now
Available episodes of Edward Said - Representation of the Intellectual
All 6 of Edward W. Said's recorded Reith lectures on Representations of the Intellectual can be heard here:
1) Representations of the Intellectual
2) Holding Nations And Traditions At Bay
3) Intellectual Exiles
4) Professionals and Amateurs
5) Speaking Truth To Power
6) Gods That Always Fail
20.10.2024 13:17 — 👍 386 🔁 167 💬 37 📌 15
Happy to share the cover of my book, *Freedom Ship*, which is forthcoming in May 2025 from Viking-Penguin. Pre-order available at many online outlets. The book is a hopeful sequel to *The Slave Ship: A Human History*.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407...
18.11.2024 12:08 — 👍 250 🔁 41 💬 5 📌 2
Historian. Publications include “Martin Luther King, Jr.: Visits to Westchester, 1956-1967," Westchester Historian, 94(2).
#PublicHistory #HistoricalAnniversaries
Westchester County, New York
Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Historian & Director of the Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. I study U.S. political, legal, & constitutional history. Writing a book about the political activities & political culture of 19th-century Supreme Court justices. rachelshelden.com
Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot
C19 American lit | Postdoctoral Fellow @SorbonneUniversité working on Transcendentalist utopias 🌿 | Associate Editor Concord Saunterer | Associate Editor The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Writings of Margaret Fuller
Lit prof and part-time admin at Whitworth U in Spokane, WA | ever hopeful for democracy | author of American Literary Misfits (UNC Press) | co-editor of Democracies in America (Oxford UP)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Hate account. All opinions should be my employer’s.
Assistant Prof Early American Lit. Melville. Mill girls. Murder.
Personal account. Personal views. Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School & Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy. Former General Counsel, HHS and OMB.
Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Retired English & disability studies prof, unretiring something-or-other. Death doula or not-dead-yet doula. One more grandparent for community mending of the social safety net.
Associate Professor and Graduate Director of English at the University of South Florida. Author of Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature: the Economic Insights of American Women Writers, 1852-1869 (U of Georgia Press).
Feminist scholar who coined the term: know-your-place aggression. Author of LIVING WITH LYNCHING + FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Editor of IOLA LEROY + INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. Literary & Cultural Critic. Runner.
KorithaMitchell.com
Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature (Oxford UP, 2023) | American lit prof at Rider University | Editor of Poe Studies
http://bit.ly/4157hVb
Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies. Little Black girl from Durham.
Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, studying 19th c. American literary and legal history. Opinions my own.
https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Geoffrey.Kirsch
Californian in Maine, archives nerd, reader, writer, editor, teacher. Director of the Maine Women Writers Collection. Ask me about Dora Mitchell! (Go ahead and get comfortable.)
Assistant Prof. of literature, queer theory, media studies, 19th century things; writer in Brooklyn; Iranian Jew.
English Professor, Cetacean Enthusiast, Canine Therapy Human. I write about anthropogenic species extinction, Arctic ecosystems, more-than-human organisms, and blue humanities. Ocean obsessed! Fairbanks, AK. Views my own.
Here for US &/or Modern fiction & poetry, critical theory, crime fiction. Author of How to Interpret Literature & books on US & Native American literature. Emerging writer of mystery & crime fiction.
https://rparker1648.wixsite.com/robert-dale-parker
