PhD candidate/historian/writer• I ♥️ history+art history, literary childhoods, intellectual pasts, books, prints, myths, maps, fairy tales, old sites, the cozy+

Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie

A blue dot in rural Missouri, working for change. Clean water,air, soil, & sound. Protect wildlife and public lands. AI is a tool for them, not for WE The Peo