Answer: any of the dozens digitized and online in October 2023 that are not yet available again in March, 2026.
Anger aimed at: 1) the lack of legislation of crypto that directly enabled the attack and 2) the shoddy funding of a national library that directly resulted in insecure digital footprint
Did he get a percentage, I wonder? In crypto? Hard to imagine there was no carrot beyond reducing the federal deficit. Techfin types usually expect a payday.
That’s a fantastic hand
E.g. there was some old country priest who openly spoke up against Stalin and his antireligious campaign, in the '30s after his power was already consolidated and his own courtiers would practically shit themselves in front of him, and Stalin responded by sending him a nice letter and some money
Wise words from 1699. ‘Tis an idle ambition to blustor & swag[g]er / To live like a lord & to die like a beggar’.
In a copy of Chamberlayne’s ‘Angliæ Notitia: or, the present state of England’ (London, 1687). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social L*.11.35(F).
I'm so excited to read, 'The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance' by @stefanhanss.bsky.social , which has just been published in The American Historical Review. It's groundbreaking work! academic.oup.com/ahr/advance-...
Reliquary Pendant with Queen Margaret of #Sicily being blessed by Bishop Reginald of #Bath (Met, 1174-77, #English) Her son married the daughter of Henry II.
In advance of the launch of our latest #PartnershipPublication (and the 400th birthday of John Aubery), tomorrow, please read our latest blog from @lrylandepton.bsky.social explaining the parallel paths Aubery's work and ours have taken.
Thanks to @ihr.bsky.social. #Skystorians
Susan Hannon poses with one of her braille bible wings.
Artist Susan Hannon is known for a series of wing sculptures made from discarded antique Bibles.
Read more about her process, and how Getty become a resource for her work with fragile paper: gty.art/4lpbnjd
Graffito on a page in a copy of Tristram Shandy: a line drawing in profile of Slawkenbergius, recognizable because of his large nose.
Niche but cool. I mentioned in class that there was little evidence that #18thc readers had ever responded to the invitation tendered by the blank page in Tristram Shandy & drawn the Widow Wadman. & then a student revealed the portrait of Slawkenbergius she found inscribed into her copy of our novel
The biggest cockroach I have ever seen was standing on the corner of St. Charles and Lowerline one August night. I think it was waiting for the streetcar.
I learned something today, thank you!
If I ever get tenure, I’m going to stop participating in daylight savings time.
Do not ask me how these things are connected.
They just are.
Thank you.
The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣
Whenever my archival research moves back a decade or forward a decade (c1790s-1830s), the shift in style of language, handwriting, or materiality of documents or documentation seems pronounced. Do other scholars notice this too? Ten years but different worlds, it seems 🗃️
![Metacom's Resistance: Retelling King Philip's War
Partnership of Historic Bostons
King Philip's War is the least known, but bloodiest conflict, in US history - its story told by colonial victors. Historians, tribal citizens and Indigenous scholars turn that story upside down and explore how this brutal war changed history.
March 11: The Unknown War: King Philip's War, 1675-1678
March 24: The Past is Now: An Intertribal Panel on King Philip's War
April 8: IN PERSON: Surviving Slavery: The Sale of Indigenous People
April 8: ONLINE EVENT: Surviving Slavery: The Sale of Indigenous People
April 18 & 28: BOOK CLUB: Whose Story? Two Views of King Philip's War
April 23: Erasure: History, Memory and King Philip's War
May 6: What Really Happened at Turners Falls? The Story of a Massacre
May 28: The Long Legacy: The Cost and Continuance of Indigenous Resistance
Online & multiple locations.
Free. [But donations really appreciated.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vxurqqq2ed7gbpdnvj6thoqo/bafkreihbpdljpjefbsszunuxwfpwjzdentmnf2jetb4pw2zet7nos5ryve)
Metacom's Resistance: Retelling King Philip's War Partnership of Historic Bostons King Philip's War is the least known, but bloodiest conflict, in US history - its story told by colonial victors. Historians, tribal citizens and Indigenous scholars turn that story upside down and explore how this brutal war changed history. March 11: The Unknown War: King Philip's War, 1675-1678 March 24: The Past is Now: An Intertribal Panel on King Philip's War April 8: IN PERSON: Surviving Slavery: The Sale of Indigenous People April 8: ONLINE EVENT: Surviving Slavery: The Sale of Indigenous People April 18 & 28: BOOK CLUB: Whose Story? Two Views of King Philip's War April 23: Erasure: History, Memory and King Philip's War May 6: What Really Happened at Turners Falls? The Story of a Massacre May 28: The Long Legacy: The Cost and Continuance of Indigenous Resistance Online & multiple locations. Free. [But donations really appreciated.]
March-May 2026: Metacom's Resistance: Retelling King Philip's War by @historicbostons.bsky.social King Philip's War was the bloodiest conflict in US history. Historians, tribal citizens & Indigenous scholars explore how it changed history.
#online & in-person
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March 19, 2026, 1 pm to 2:30 pm The Oxford Handbook of Puritanism A virtual talk with Frank Bremer, Ann Hughes, Rachel Adcock, and Emerson Baker
March 19: Oxford Handbook of Puritanism. 30 essays on geographies & chronologies, theology & practice, politics, society, culture, & modern representations. #free #online Frank Bremer @annlaurahughes.bsky.social Rachel Adcock & @emersonwbaker.bsky.social
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Detail of a 1618 Dutch engraving titled „Warminiaen“ showing a head reading a book turned upside down. Source: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Warminiaen--d8f595049384534505c7baa94a7c4192
You are reading it upside down, genius!
Criticizing the misunderstanding and misinterpretation of our media worlds does have a long tradition. This detail of a #broadside print showing someone reading a book turned upside down is from 1618. #medialiteracy #earlymodern #skystorians
Universities should be billing these companies for the additional time staff spend in plagiarism committees and marking assessments because of AI.
Reminder that applications for this workshop on Teaching the History of Guns in World Historical context are due on March 27th! #earlymodern #historyeducation #TeacherEducation @historyed.bsky.social #TeacherMentoring @catherinefletcher.info @pernilleblues.bsky.social @worldhistoryassn.bsky.social
can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives
Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine!
History and Medicine – Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure – McMaster University
Apply by March 31st
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#envhist #histmed #climhist #cdnhist
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
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teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”
10/10 take. no notes
He is a first class tosser.
My book just got passed by the final reviewer!!! Look for ‘Mortality and Measurement’ this year! If anyone would like a sneak peak, let me know. Happy to travel or zoom to hang out and discuss race, statistics, medicine, and empire.
“The water would be supplied by Carvins Cove Reservoir, the primary drinking water source for Botetourt County and much of the Roanoke Valley” 👍
... touchinge a foreine invasion to be shortly accepted within this realme by notorious rebelles & others wherby the present estate of religion should be subverted’; he’s to be tried. I don’t know who this is and can’t find other records; perhaps it’s a pseudonym. 2/
the semiotics of this are fascinating. walter white, deadpool, and superman?
It’s musta been Slursday
