@sdamussen
Historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
That is a very cute puppy!
Their faces as I told them about verse libels against the Duke of Fuckingham…
Just about to impeach the Duke of Buckingham, but haven't got a good song title!
A student just came into my office and said he was confused by the assignment because he didn't know what an obituary was. The decline of local newspapers has left many gaps, but this is one I hadn't expected.
My brain hurts.
If Democrats ever get back in power, they need to reconstruct the NEH from Trump’s massacre. Two things they could do would be to (1) make the NEH into an actual endowment; (2) bring the annual NEH operating budget up to at least $1 billion.
I just have to tell students my mother took me to see JFK during the 1960 campaign for them to know how old I am.
Bingo!
Yep. Married women have always worked. Many had jobs outside the home, many more did piecemeal work at home to supplement the family income. There are dozens & dozens of books by historians about this. I know because one of my comps fields was History of the American Family & I had to read them all
I tell my students that there are three or four things I want to make sure they learn, and one is that all women have always worked, and anyone who thinks running a household is not work has not done it.
Also, there was probably one generation when it was more true, the post-war one, and even then, lots of women (like my mother) worked. Also, the unpaid work of the mother running the household contributed to family well-being.
Country Joe, bless him, was a dedicated collector of material about Florence Nightingale and the history of nursing. Some years ago he donated his collection to the University of California. oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:... #victorian
My car dealer asked me to rate on meets expectations/exceeds expectations and all I could think was, you changed the oil. How can you exceed expectations on that?
As a boomer I hate them.
I sincerely do not give a damn about improving your business. Take the money and leave me alone.
My Dem congressman (Adam Gray) has produced a daily news roundup edited by a retired journalist which covers news from across his district. Every dem should be doing that.
I played Titania in 5th grade, so always have a soft spot for Midsummer Night's Dream. But also Much Ado, Measure for Measure, Coriolanus, Comedy of Errors, Winter's Tale, Tempest, Twelfth Night, As You Like it... But that's just a list for today. It might be different tomorrow.
I love Coriolanus. I wish I'd seen it performed, instead of reading it.
We know it’s all the fault of the faculty. It’s why we need more administrators.
It's so funny because my sense is I smell weed less now than I used to because edibles are available, and much less obvious!
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I think it's important pre-Laud *not* to think that there are set parties. There are the godly, but all within the CoE - very staunch puritans. And the 39 articles are Calvinist. So this guy sounds mainstream CofE, not part of any party.
My students are reading Ellesmere's speech on Calvin's Case today, and it's great to show the reference to Calvin's case in the briefs in Trump v. Barbara, but also, that Ellesmere refers to a case called Cobledickes case. #law #earlymodern
Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany, edited by Peter Hess, is out now with Berghahn books, and I've just learned that the introduction (which I wrote) is free to read on the website! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HessMa...
Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran
"That's the way it is," says the five-time draft dodger to our military families who fear their loved one in uniform could be next.
What a disgrace.
As a historian, I'd just like to remind the politicians who follow me that it is not, in fact, 2003 anymore and the current GOP war in the Middle East is not, in fact, even remotely popular.
So if you're a weathervane who just tries to do what's already popular, full-throated opposition is it!
Charles thought Monmouth was his son, but denied that he’d married Walter. There was no reason for Charles to acknowledge him if there were a question.
