Jacqueline Beatty, Ph.D.

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

You know what really sets the humanities back from taking a rigorous approach to AI? The state siccing AI on the humanities

For #WomensHistoryMonth, check out Lorri Glover's #2025SHA presidential address in the February 2026 JSH:

"Reimagining the American Revolution: Southern Women's Wars for Independence"

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America's Founding Feminists: Rewriting America’s Origin Story On America’s 250th anniversary, Ms.' Founding Feminists centers the women whose words, labor and resistance built—and keep rebuilding—democracy.

Thrilled to contribute to this series! My essay, "The Radical Potential of Traditional Femininity," drops March 19th!

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This is why in higher education you should not let your curriculum be driven by 'demand.' You need give students the precious opportunity to discover the things they don't already know they will be excited about.

Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award – AHA 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.

History folk: did you have an undergraduate mentor who inspired you? If so, now's a good time to begin reaching out to your schoolmates and think about nominating that person for a Roelker award. Applications open in a few weeks, deadline May 15. www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Humanists need to lean into the fact that the robots cannot do what we teach: which is teach a person how to think critically, how to read closely, how to separate fact from fiction, how to see and understand the world. AI can write a B paper but it cannot transform a person’s way of thinking.

Yes! And also, I would argue that all classes are for your major! Every single one. They make you a more holistic, thoughtful, and critical thinker. They make you make connections that you would have never dreamed possible. They stimulate new areas of your brain. They reach new parts of your soul.

I mean, same

Sure this seems bad but think about how much your own personal labor value will go up when you are one of just a handful of people who can complete basic tasks without the assistance of a robot

Everything is gender, example 87 billion

It's gender all the way down

Thank God for dogs

damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

The people who mock gender studies are perversely the most compelling case for studying it

In Dependence with Jacqueline Beatty I Revolutions in Retrospect YouTube video by Primary Source Media

Check out this interview with @jmbeatty.bsky.social about her fantastic book "In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America"!

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Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice Share This Editorial

Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice https://theonion.com/letter-to-congress/

is there some way I can quickly unlearn all of history so as to feel better about recent events

Liz Lemon saying, “What a day, huh?” and Jack Donaghy responding, “Lemon, it’s 7am.”

In Dependence with Jacqueline Beatty — Revolutionary Histories The American colonies declared their independence in 1776 with the famous line that “All men are created equal.” But the reality of the Revolution told a different story. Women remained subordinate to...

Grab a cup of Christmas Cheer and settle in for @lynnprobbins.bsky.social’s chat with @jmbeatty.bsky.social about women, the American Revolution, and In Dependence www.revolutionaryhistories.com/revolutions-...

I regret to admit that I did this as an undergrad and then had it done to me this past academic year. The dictionary definition of karma, ladies and gentlemen.

Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018 * Brown University shooting: what we know so far As the deadly attack unfolded at Brown University, leaving students hiding under desks and reeling as gunshots rang out, the scene was eerily familiar for at least two students. Years earlier, Mia Tretta, 21, and Zoe Weissman, 20, had both survived school shootings. “What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times. Continue reading...

Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings

As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys “If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."

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Tell Students the Truth About American History We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.

I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”

Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far