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I spoke with @[email protected] CEO Patrick Spero on the Useful Knowledge podcast! We discussed monster-thinking and first contact in #VastEarlyAmerica and in outer space.

🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵

I spoke with @[email protected] CEO Patrick Spero on the Useful Knowledge podcast! We discussed monster-thinking and first contact in #VastEarlyAmerica and in outer space.

🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵

#Skystorians #VastEarlyAmerica folks - jobs at the @[email protected].

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@brookenewman.bsky.social: "The receiver general, an officer charged with managing payments on behalf of the crown, offered the enslaved Africans to the highest bidders in the king’s name." 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #18thC #VastEarlyAmerica 1/

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In 1708 a Spanish ship carrying "gold, silver and emeralds" mined by Indigenous people under forced labour was attacked by the British & sank off the Cartagena coast (now in Colombia). Treasure? Archeological heritage? Whose? @[email protected] reports. 🗃 #earlymodern #VastEarlyAmerica #18C

There’s a 20-billion dollar ha...

An open-access article on hammocks, by @marcynorton.bsky.social and @johnmkuhn.bsky.social, which will interested #earlymodern #histsci and #VastEarlyAmerica folks! 🗃

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An open-access article on hammocks, by @marcynorton.bsky.social and @johnmkuhn.bsky.social, which will interested #earlymodern #histsci and #VastEarlyAmerica folks! 🗃

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PSA for folks on historians.social on Mastodon! Today is the last day in which to move to another instance before this one shuts down. #earlymodern #histsci #ancient #medieval #VastEarlyAmerica

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PSA for folks on historians.social on Mastodon! Today is the last day in which to move to another instance before this one shuts down. #earlymodern #histsci #ancient #medieval #VastEarlyAmerica

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I wrote about an early 16th-century painting of Hell for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social! 1/ 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #maps #cartography #exploration #painting #art #arthistory #VastEarlyAmerica

This Disturbing 16th-Century P...

I wrote about an early 16th-century painting of Hell for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social! 1/ 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #maps #cartography #exploration #painting #art #arthistory #VastEarlyAmerica

This Disturbing 16th-Century P...

I wrote about an early 16th-century painting of Hell for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social! 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #maps #cartography #exploration #painting #art #arthistory #VastEarlyAmerica

This Disturbing 16th-Century P...

🎙️ Big news from @bfworld.bsky.social We’re independent—again! Meet Clio Digital Media, our new nonprofit home. Same mission. Greater freedom. 🔗 www.benfranklinsworld.com/donate #HistoryMatters #VastEarlyAmerica #History #Skystorians #USHistory

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Virtual book conversation on Monday at 9am PST / 12 noon EST on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! No need to register. Hosted by @jcblibrary.bsky.social. #VastEarlyAmerica #history #books #earlymodern #histsci #histmed

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Another free, virtual book talk for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. Monday Feb 24, 9am PST / 12 noon EST, hosted by @jcblibrary.bsky.social! No need to register; just join the Zoom link on the webpage below. 1/2 💙📚 🗃#earlymodern #histsci #histmed #VastEarlyAmerica jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...

Another virtual book talk on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! Monday Feb 24th. 9am PST/ 12 noon EST/ 5pm GMT/ 6pm Paris, hosted by @jcblibrary.bsky.social. No registration needed; link will be here: 1/2 jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r... 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thcentury #VastEarlyAmerica

New article on the eighteenth-century Atlantic slave trade by @bydreamphd.bsky.social! #VastEarlyAmerica #Skyhistorians #18thCentury

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⬆️ Check this out tomorrow. Lozier writes perceptive and nuanced histories of French-Indigenous relations. This will doubtlessly be a great talk. #histodons #VastEarlyAmerica @histodons

@sps

#Black Girls and Their #Needlework in Early America
November 02, 2023 7:00 PM — 8:00 PM

#TextileHistory #VastEarlyAmerica #embroidery #sewing #ConcordMA

https://concordmuseum.org/events/black-girls-and-their-needlework/

Am watching PBS "Join or Die" Ken Burns show on #BenFranklin, and they just talked about some of Silence Dogood's wisdom. "She" talks about Harvard students as "blockheads".

It reminded me to look up something in Jean Maillet's will. He called his son-in-law "Daniel Blockhead" and I had to be sure I remembered that correctly.

It must have been the top insult of the time. Still pretty effective. #Blockhead

#VastEarlyAmerica

Historic Structure Report, Old Powder House, #SomervilleMA 1999.

#OTD 1776 - General Benedict Arnold desperately requests anchors, paint and tarbrushes, spyglasses, speaking trumpets, fishnets, grape, canister & double-headed and chain shot, for America's first navy, which he is building on Lake Champlain, at Skenesboro (now Whitehall), which was then remote wilderness.

#USHistory #AmericanHistory #AmericanRevolution #histodons #vastEarlyAmerica #18thCentury #NewYork #Maritime #Diorama #Miniatures #Navy #LakeChamplain

#NameThatRevolutionary

She might have been the most influential woman of the #AmericanRevolution.
She DIDN'T have a romantic attachment with British spy John Andre.
She DIDN'T manipulate her husband into betraying his country. But she was his co-conspirator and her role was not discovered until over 100 years later.
She was born on July 11, 1760.
#OTD
#USHistory
#AmericanHistory
#AmericanRevolution
#histodons
#historicalSources
#vastEarlyAmerica
#18thC
#WomenInHistory

Do you know #cursive? If so, the
National Archives wants YOU to help transcribe pension records from the #AmericanRevolution! https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions/revolutionary-war-pension-files

WAIT: A fellow mastodonian points out this should be *paid* work. These veterans' oral histories are fascinating reading, but how about paying #Veterans or #GradStudents to transcribe them?

#USHistory
#AmericanHistory
#AmericanRevolution
#histodons
#historicalSources
#vastEarlyAmerica
#HistoryRemix
#18thC
#archives
#SocialHistory #OralHistory

#OTD in 1775 this amazingly detailed #map of #NewYork was published. It can be seen in its full glory at the #ClementsLibrary and you can read more about it in my blog at
https://wordpress.com/view/othernetwork.com #cartography #USHistory #AmericanHistory
#AmericanRevolution
#histodons #historicalSources #vastEarlyAmerica #18thC #archives

#3goodthings THIS WEEK:

- “Your Most Humble and Obedient Servant” https://www.r2studios.org/show/your-most-obedient-humble-servant/episodes/ a podcast by @kgehred

- Blogs about #VastEarlyAmerica and #USHistory curated by @KatyTelling at https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/the_octo/

- 100 open doors from super booster @nancylwayne - my mastodon mentor (and spouse)

Plus 1:
- I'm a devoted listener to Ben Franklin’s World http://benfranklinsworld.com/ podcast by the prolific educator and historian @lizcovart, who should certainly feature in anyone’s #FollowFriday

#otd June 5 1775 — "At 4 AM weighed anchor and proceeded down the Lake. At 10, went on Shore at Hay's Plantation. Examined his large Battoe which I found very badly built, small Timbers, weak and unfit for any hard service." Having captured Fort Ticonderoga, Benedict Arnold seized all other craft afloat on Lake Champlain in preparation for an American invasion of #Canada. #AmericanRevolution #histodons #USHistory #Maritime #VastEarlyAmerica #Historical #AmericanHistory

I just got my hands on a paper copy (because I can't figure out if this outfit does digital ones...?) of "Early American Life", June 2023 issue.

It has a story on #IpswichLace and the #BobbinLace industry in Massachusetts in the #18thCentury.

https://www.ealonline.com/

#VastEarlyAmerica #Histodons #TextileHistory #MAHistory

Just got off a great call with @lizcovart! I love nothing more than open-ended convos about possible pathways for collaboration. Even if nothing concrete emerges right away, the prospect that something may blossom a month, a year, or five years from now is invigorating. #histodons #digitalhistory #digitalhumanities #vastearlyamerica

Our #IpswichLace talk has just posted to the Maine Historical Society site.

This #BobbinLace was the only known lace industry in #VastEarlyAmerica. 600 people made lace north of #Boston, yet few people know of it. We are raising the profile of this #lace around #NewEngland when we can.

"The Story of Ipswich Lace, a Unique American Craft of the Early Republic"
*NORTHERN THREADS SERIES*

#lacemaking #TextileHistory #18thCenturyFashion #19thCenturyFashion @bobbinlace

https://www.mainehistory.org/events/event/1114/video

My new research is on #informationsilos in early American lit and, lemme tell you, while this work is interesting, attempting to avoid being anachronistic with this research is a challenge. Wonder if I can just write "they existed kinda like today but differently." LOL @academicchatter #highered #informationsilo #amwriting #writing #scholarship #vastearlyamerica

I've been giddily curating a just-for-fun reading list for sabbatical. Can't wait to read a novel without falling asleep on top of it. Did you have any great reads this year? #books #reading #booksofmastodon #academicchatter #vastearlyamerica https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2022

Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs

https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022

Talk by Joyce Chaplin (Harvard)
Thursday Dec 1 5pm online

#HistSci #EnvHist #VastEarlyAmerica

@kacytillman love this story. Not an historian or even an academic, but curious about #vastearlyamerica . What does the "vast" mean in this context? Does it refer to the scope of a field of study or is it just an internet thing?

I sat by an election denier on the airplane and he started poking me in the arm to be emphatic about his views on people stealing ballots secretly and the airplane was full and I couldn’t move anywhere so I started explaining the yellow fever in very great detail, all the way down to telling him about the bloody vomit that looks like coffee grounds and it worked. He stopped talking to me. The moral of this story is you can’t out-weird an academic; our toolset is too vast. #vastearlyamerica

New instance, new #introduction. I'm a #loyalist scholar in #vastearlyamerica. I research #c18 literature, #womenwriters, #americanrevolution and now the #healthhumanities. My 2019 book was Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution. I work at #utampa and co-direct #honors here. Remember to #repost and not #favorite to boost scholars on Mastodon.