Laura Ansley

Making Space – AHA Philadelphia’s Carousel House is a historical case study for the value of spaces created for and with the disability community.

“Historically, to be disabled was to be denied space,” writes Deanna Hagman. In #AHAPerspectives, she examines Philadelphia’s Carousel House, a recreation center designed for inclusion. 🗃️

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans."

1. Best cover everrrrr. 2. Your author photo cracks me up.

New History Job Posted Today: Assistant/Associate Professor in Public History - Tenure Track/Tenured | Department of History | WSU

great piece!

Making Space – AHA Philadelphia’s Carousel House is a historical case study for the value of spaces created for and with the disability community.

Today at #AHAPerspectives, @deannahagman.bsky.social writes about Philadelphia's Carousel House and the history of accessible public spaces.

FYI happening this Thursday—free and open to all. Just click the link to register. Featuring @dwcongdon.com, @dawnd.bsky.social, and Alyssa Napier talking all things diss to book—what’s the diff b/w them, how to find a press/approach an editor, tips for proposal writing. Join us & spread the word!

Only exception was at the Corning Museum of Glass on Thursday. Took way too many pics there. bsky.app/profile/lman...

Beautiful long weekend in the Finger Lakes welcoming a new person into our family. The best measure of a good wedding and family trip? How few photos I took.

Pathologizing Politics: Eugenics and Political Discourse in the Modern United States Carrie Buck was three months shy of her twenty-second birthday when she was forcibly sterilized on October 19, 1927. Buck’s fate was based on the 1924 Virginia eugenic sterilization law, which mark…

Still relevant nearly six years later nursingclio.org/2020/02/25/p...

I would totally do that if not for the wedding we’re attending tomorrow! (The reason we’re in the area in the first place.)

The Corning Museum of Glass lives up to its incredible reputation. And we’re bringing a decorative gourd home with us.

Tapping a Strategic Resource – AHA Organizational history is not merely an antiquarian exercise; it is also a strategic resource.

“Knowing an organization’s history can help achieve its mission and vision.” In #AHAPerspectives, Tom Vance recounts his experiences writing three histories of local Kalamazoo organizations. 🗃️

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

Finished this evening and it’s full of academia trauma triggers. Yet I still enjoyed it a lot!

Amid all the bigger problems in DC this week:
My spouse's NEH-funded job as a documentary editor ends today. It's work that he loved doing and a project that's worthy of publication and further funding. And yet here we are.

Having worked with @lollardfish.bsky.social over the years in settings like public scholarship workshops, this is gonna be a must-read.

New Campus Cartographies – AHA Infusing historical research into walking tours has helped Andrew Hardy and his fellow graduate students remake their campus into a public history site.

In #AHAPerspectives, Andrew Hardy writes about how he and fellow graduate students at Berkeley have created public walking tours of the university based on original historical research. 🗃️

Advocacy Guide for International Education - AHA Contents Threats to International Education Today How Is Federal Policy Threatening International ECEs? Demonstrating the Value of International Education Resources for Crafting Your Argument Historia...

The AHA has created an advocacy guide in support of international education. Read about the current threats to international education and learn how you can make a difference. 🗃️

One thing I especially like is how creatively they're thinking. Andrew, as a historian of East Asia, could have decided that a tour in California couldn't connect to his research. But as he shows here, there is plenty to connect UC Berkeley to East Asian studies.

New Campus Cartographies – AHA Infusing historical research into walking tours has helped Andrew Hardy and his fellow graduate students remake their campus into a public history site.

I love this project, created and led by UC Berkeley history grad students, to apply their historical research in campus tours. Andrew Hardy wrote about it for #AHAPerspectives: 🗃️

I'm only surprised he doesn't have a flag lapel pin.

Noticed by a clothing historian friend: American flag belt buckle. Because the flag next to him and projected behind him isn't enough.

a bob 's burgers cartoon character with a mustache and big eyes Alt: Bob Belcher grimaces and shakes his head

Inflation is real. At the start of season 16, Bob Belcher is thinking of raising the price of his burgers by $1 to $6.95.

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All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions.

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@ashleyshoo.bsky.social has started it early!

An old-school teach-in in the nation’s backyard. Come join us!!

If you want to experience many microstresses, visit the local bagel shop and Trader Joe’s on the same Saturday morning trip. The parking lots alone…

Tie, socks, and pocket square all in blue/red? 👍🏻

R. F. Kuang’s Babel

The procession of petty sins continued as they circled up the floors. Moore seemed to delight very much in explicating the moral failure of his fellow residents, for his hushed whispers nevertheless carried over the floors, eliciting the occasional peeved glare. "Now, that one self-published self-help productivity books. "Calls himself a Communist, but hasn't read Das Kapital. "Recites pi to show off. "Had more of a comment, not a question. "Wouldn't accept papers written in the first person. "Turned his exam papers over very loudly. "Still asks people what they got on their A-levels. "Still tells people what he got on his A-levels. "Made his wife call him Doctor. He's a medi-evalist, mind you. "Now, that one keeps saying he went to school in Boston and expecting everyone to know what he means. Every few years the other Shades gang up on him and brick him up behind the stacks."

R. F. Kuang’s Babel was, at its heart, a critique of imperialism and 19th-century academia’s role in it.

I’m about a quarter into her new novel, Katabasis, and it is a blistering takedown of academia *today*. Here are reasons people are in the pride section of hell: