Haven Hawley

I am seeking book recommendations for everyday life of women in colonial and early republic US, esp. if published since 2000. Suggestions?

For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵

(solemnly) You've had mail.

A purple and red octopus talk to each other on the tin can telephone. Purple octopus says “want to connect your students with real Scientists?” Then red octopus says “Skype a scientist matches groups with scientists for virtual q&as. It’s free!” And then an orange flapjack octopus says “get a match at skypeascientist.com”

Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help!

We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.

Bibliographical Mysteries! "Share your successes and failures, cold cases, breakthroughs, speculative practices, novel uses of technology, collaborative momentum, and other stories."
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It IS!

For you, Boo Boo: www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_...

True, true. My mom calls it "God's timezone."

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

Ah, premillinial dispensationalism....

Deleting Academia@ account. Kept it far too long just because it provided access to many international scholars, but the new TOS are ... a lot.

I need some signal that tells people to not speak so fast. I am old and don't hear as quick anymore....

Indigo Girl

ALA and Midwinter in person pretty much required, with long conference call meetings and many emails. So much changed with zoom. Had to change formal expectations, expand timelines for meetings. I remember discussions about whether meetings could be entirely on zoom....

Illustrated title page of The National Police Gazette.

Four page imposition of the half sheet.

Full eight page sheet with ruler marking the size as over 30” x 36”

Reverse of full sheet with eight page imposition.

#newacquisition an uncut 1873 issue of The National Police Gazette, showing the absolute huge size of the paper stock. #bookhistory #flashpress

Delighted that this popped up in my mailbox today! Congrats @sarahebull.bsky.social !

Now we know how AI will surpass human intelligence

Yes, yes, yes

We Here Press

@wehere.bsky.social are starting to publish paper books!

We Here Press begins with @dorothyjberry.bsky.social’s “The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities” (October 2025).

I can’t wait. 📜📚

www.weherepress.org

More likely the latter. No adaptation to the form (such as dropping final punctuation)

Almost as if trained on classic typewriting manuals (as was I). However trained, most people adapt to space limits and casualness of social media

An exclamation point is shift 1 on many typewriters

Note the 1 instead of an exclamation point.

Portrait of Margaret Rossiter from the Cornell STS homepage. https://sts.cornell.edu/margaret-rossiter

Margaret Rossiter, whose #histsci scholarship revealed structural inequalities affecting #WomenInSTEM, has passed away. Dr. Rossiter was co-founder of @historyscience.bsky.social’s Women’s Caucus & namesake of a prize honoring work on the history of women in science. May her memory be a blessing.

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So true!

Love it!

Broken engagement

sounds great!