A look at America’s long history of presidential assassination attemptswww.washingtonpost.com Key moments in American political violence.
Sarah J. Purcell
(She/her) Historian-Teacher-Sometime Digital Humanist. New book: Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era from @UNC_Press
"When you get knocked down you get back up!"www.youtube.com YouTube video by C-SPAN
Republicans join effort to change confederate statues representing MS in Washingtonwww.clarionledger.com Mississippi Republicans are seeking to join Democrats and work on legislation that would aim to replace confederate statues representing the state in D.C.
Now Online: South Asian Digital Collection | 4 Corners of the Worldblogs.loc.gov With 900 freely accessible online items at launch, the South Asian Digital Collection features primary sources on a variety of subjects. This blog looks at the new collection’s items related to coloni...
Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louismedicine.wustl.edu Response to updated vaccine is shaped by earlier vaccines yet generates broadly neutralizing antibodies
When Online Content Disappearswww.pewresearch.org A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.
National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPTwww.404media.co The agency tasked with preserving the historical record is banning ChatGPT, citing the possibility that the tool would leak internal information.
Position Announcement: Passport Editorwww.shafr.org
White House History Live: Spectacle of Griefwww.whitehousehistory.org
EUGEN AND JACQUELINE WEBER POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR IN EUROPEAN HISTORYrecruit.apo.ucla.edu University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
A ‘Law Firm’ of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats as an SEO Scamwww.404media.co Backlink scams are now leverage fake, AI-generated 'lawyers' and DMCA trolling to try to pressure site owners to link to their 'clients.'
Announcing New Fellowship for Advancing Science Journalism in Africa and the Middle Eastksj.mit.edu The fellowship, developed through a generous gift from the global publishing company, Springer Nature, was created in honor of the pioneering Egyptian science journalist, Mohammed Yahia, who died last...
Wildfires linked to surge in mental health-related emergency department visits | Emory University | Atlanta GAnews.emory.edu
Project MUSE - <i>Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era</i> by Sarah J. Purcell (review)muse.jhu.edu
What History Warriors Get Wrongtime.com A new survey shows that culture warriors on both sides have the wrong idea about what's happening in American classrooms
A company linked to a large “pink slime” network is being hired by big publishers like Gannettwww.niemanlab.org An executive from a company associated with Metric Media was hired to teach journalism, but the story doesn't end there.