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Historian of Women Airforce Service Pilots Book w @crownpublishing
History Prof; Doc film producer; Public Historian; Rep'd by @jenmarshall3; https://katherinesharplanddeck.com

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Register now for #AHAOnline Teacher Institute: Material Culture in World History on July 23, a free, 4.5-hour, online professional development program for educators, including middle and high school teachers and 2- and 4-year college faculty. 🗃️

2024 AHA Online Teacher Institute: Material Culture in World Historywww.historians.org This institute will focus on material culture as a lens through which to explore the connections across continents, oceans, and regions that are central to the project of world history.

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Essential reading—I know Josephine Lee and Michelle Pitcher of @texasobserver.org put an incredible amount of time and effort into this deep dive into the history of #Texas prisons, and their close relationship to plantation #slavery:

Texas’ Plantation Prisons: Inside a 200-Year History of Forced Labor Shrouded in Secrecywww.texasobserver.org Punishments, injuries, and deaths—including from heat—on TDCJ farms are more hidden than they were in the years following convict leasing.

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It’s weird that the last few years have involved having to wrestle with the NYT and CNN being full of shit while People and Teen Vogue of all things are doing their job for them

Just a reminder that People mag has a great Project 25 write up that you can share with your less politically aware friends and fam people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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Here it is, my first #ScholarSunday thread of the post-Twitter era. Do me & all these great scholars a solid & share it widely, por favor! Skystorians americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

#ScholarSunday thread 183americanstudier.substack.com Shared on July 14, 2024

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REMINDER! Proposals for #NCPH2025 are due next Monday, July 15. Review the #cfp and submit you session, working group, or workshop proposal at ncph.org/conference/2....

How are we staying fresh and cool this summer? Thinking about #NCPH2025 in Montréal, Québec, Canada 🤓😎🥯. All proposals for sessions, working groups, and workshops are DUE on July 15th. Learn more and submit here: ncph.org/conference/2... #publichistory

CFPs | National Council on Public Historyncph.org SOLIDARITY | SOLIDARITÉ (PDF) National Council on Public History Annual Meeting Montréal, Québec, Canada | March 26-29, 2025 Proposal Deadline: July 15, 2024 Solidarity (from the French solidarité) ...

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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.

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VERY SERIOUS JUSTICES: The New Deal was unconstitutional and Watergate was constitutional.

For historians, the retrospective legitimation of essentially every criminal act Nixon committed while in office is quite mind-boggling. Ford’s pardon was utterly unnecessary.

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Baylor University History Department seeks to fill a tenure-track faculty position in the History of Medicine at the Assistant Professor level Deadline September 6, 2024, 11 pm CDT. #histsci #HistMed 🗃️ apply.interfolio.com/148215

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Any of my #skystorians out there near the Hoover Institute at Stanford? I need copies of a diary and some letters but w mom's recent stroke can't get out there. Willing to pay for what should be half to full day of work. Thanks for any help or suggestions.

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Selfish request here: If you were assembling a comp exam list for War and Society with an emphasis on Interwar and Second World War Britain, what would be your top 2-3 picks? Signed, a PhD candidate who is changing their main field from War & Society: Canada in the FWW to the above. 😬🗃️

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Are tacos and burritos sandwiches? A judge in Indiana ruled yes.www.washingtonpost.com The judge ruled that tacos and burritos are “Mexican-style sandwiches” after a city denied a taco restaurant a permit to open a location at a shopping center that restricts fast food.

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The Movie Poster Database has a huge collection of historical and international movie posters for the film historians out there. www.movieposterdb.com/ #c20th #c21st 🗃️ 🎥

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The AHA’s Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award honors teachers of history who taught, guided, and inspired their students in a way that changed their lives. Nominate the graduate mentor who meant the most to you by May 15. 🗃️

Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Awardwww.historians.org The Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award was established to honor teachers of history who taught, guided, and inspired their students in a way that changed their lives.

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The next video in the Canada in Normandy series is now available early and ad free for OTD's Patrons and YouTube Channel Members. If you want ad free and early access to the videos and to support my work sign up today! #history www.patreon.com/posts/locati...

Location of North Shore Regiment D Day Footage | OTD Military Historywww.patreon.com Get more from OTD Military History on Patreon

Looking forward to my first trip to Tupelo, Mississippi tomorrow to give the Helen Foster Lecture and talk about the WASP of WWII. Come say hi if you get a chance! 🗃️#skystorians

Tickled to see my article for Gilder-Lehrman Institute for K-12 teachers & their students out. Thanks for helping share the story of WASP of WWII & the inspiring Dora Dougherty, B-29 pilot, record holding helicopter pilot, 20+years service to US www.gilderlehrman.org/history-reso... 🗃️#skystorians

Dora Dougherty Strother McKeown, Women Airforce Service Pilot in World War II | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American HistoryThe Gilder Lehrman Institute of American HistoryThe Gilder Lehrman Institute...www.gilderlehrman.org Dora Dougherty Strother McKeown, Women Airforce Service Pilot in World War II | When Dora Dougherty Strother McKeown was just a kid she couldn’t wait for Sunday. For every Sunday her entire family wou...

Tickled to see my article for Gilder-Lehrman Institute geared toward K-12 teachers & their students out. Thanks for helping me share the story of the WASP of WWII & the inspiring Dora Dougherty, B-29 pilot, record holding helicopter pilot, 20+years service to US www.gilderlehrman.org/history-reso...

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Mandatory seat belt laws were — surprisingly or perhaps unsurprisingly — very controversial in the 1980s. These are from Penn States Daily Collegian student newspaper. 🗃️ #history #skystorians #1980s

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🗃️, take a look:

We have scanned and digitally enhanced all 490 pages of the King/Boyds Store ledger (1904-06). The index is indexed. We are looking for someone who might write a thesis about the society and economy of segregated rural railroad/dairy-farming village near D.C. in the early 20th century.

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The BBC has an online archive where you can access old audio and video from the corporation's 100 year history. Great resource for the #c20th historians out there. 🗃️ www.bbc.co.uk/archive#c20th historians out there. 🗃️ www.bbc.co.uk/archive

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A really good opportunity for an environmental history PhD here with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and @medievalpenguin.bsky.social #skystorians 🗃️ #medievalsky

We are hiring again! The Greenhouse has a fully-funded three-year PhD fellowship in medieval environmental history. Though all topics are welcome, we particularly invite candidates with an interest in histories of water, animals, saints, or environmental storytelling. Deadline 18 April. #envhist 📗

PhD Fellowship in Environmental History (259365) | University of Stavangerwww.jobbnorge.no Job title: PhD Fellowship in Environmental History (259365), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, April 18, 2024

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This week's bump! A couple of weeks til the abstract deadline - please share 🗃️

🗃️A Friday bump for my CFP for Politicised Nostalgias: A One Day Workshop! Nostalgia has played a significant role in the shaping of historical and contemporary political discourses, & I invite papers ranging from the ancient world to the contemporary moment: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...

Politicised Nostalgias | University of Northamptonwww.northampton.ac.uk Participants are invited to a workshop on political nostalgias, from the ancient world to the contemporary moment.

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Talking About Women's History: 3 Questions and an Answer with Jennifer Lunden - www.historyinthemargins.com/2024/03/25/t... 🗃️

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Great resource on the American soldier in WWII. The survey responses provide exceptional candid insights into who the GI was, how he thought, felt, and persevered (or didn’t). americansoldierww2.org

Homepageamericansoldierww2.org The American Soldier in World War II is a collaborative enterprise, based at Virginia Tech. This project has been made possible by a grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities and from the ...

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Good.

It begins. Expect “an avalanche” of these said David Vladeck, Georgetown law professor and former chief of the FTC’s consumer protection bureau. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/t...

Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Datawww.nytimes.com Romeo Chicco’s auto insurance rate doubled because of information about his speeding, braking and acceleration, according to his complaint.

Great @nytimes.com article on Free to Be You and Me. I performed the baby skit in my talent show in 4th grade. Be true to yourself. No one can tell you who you are. Loved the book and the album. Still do. Glad I'm not the only one. If you don't know it, check it out. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/a...

‘Free to Be … You and Me’ Took the Revolution to the Playgroundwww.nytimes.com Fifty years ago, the TV landmark showed Gen X kids that no one else has the right to tell you who you are.

I'm writing a short article & went back to my 2019 "Scrap Heap" cuts I made after the first draft of my book was far too long. It is 161 pages. Just one really painful round of cuts. First draft of book was 300k words. Final 108k. I need to do something w those missing 200k, eh? 🗃️ #skystorians

🗃️For Intl Women's History Day: the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary in Britain in World War II. Made up of women from multiple countries they ferried planes where they needed to go - inc. across the channel. 25 American women served w the ATA too, thanks to Jacqueline Cochran. #skystorians #WWII

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Can anyone identify the location of this New Orleans bandstand? It's labeled "Band Stand, Park, New Orleans" dated 1906. It's from the Hazen Collection of Band Photographs & Ephemera at Smithsonian NMAH. sova.si.edu/record/nmah....