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Amílcar E. Challú

@amilcarchallu.bsky.social
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Historian: #econhist #envhist . Mexico, the midwest and North America in general, 18th to 21st centuries. Department of History at Bowling Green State University. orcid.org/0009-0000-2784-6506

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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I feel a lot of gratitude that I got to know and learn from the great Jeff Williamson. Unparalleled intellect and such a warm and generous mentor.
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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I’ll be giving a virtual talk on “The Midwestern Roots of Forestry: Industrialization, Indigenous Lands, and the Environment, 1867-1933” on April 22 from 12:00pm-1:15pm (eastern) for the Grey Towers Heritage Association. For more info and to register:
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Events & Programs – Grey Towers Heritage Association
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I wrote this blog post after spending the last couple of days with the staff of the Wyandotte Nation Cultural Division. History is a pursuit of knowledge, but history vibe when it helps rekindle the love for people, place and the world. blogs.bgsu.edu/achallu/2026...
Community gathering in the Nature Center of St John's Woods, Bowling Green, Ohio.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
#envhist and environmental humanities folk near Lake Erie, this event may be of interest to you! Wyandotte storytellers will narrate their stories inspired in their ancestral homelands in northern Ohio. Sat. Feb. 21st, 2–3pm in Wintergarden Woods Nature Preserve, Bowling Green, Ohio.
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Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Discovery of a shipwreck in Denmark 👇 arstechnica.com/science/2026... #MaritimeHistory #Shipwreck
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Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark
The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Having a blast in this talk by Remington Schneider, Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy, about traditional ecological and economic knowledge. Part of our programming centered on Braiding Sweetgras at BGSU. www.bgsu.edu/the-arts/in-...
Tribal economic principles Remington Schneider
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Día de Muertos is coming and we have a beautiful tradition on campus to make altars in different buildings. Here’s Theater’s. We’ll make ours in history on Thursday.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We have some fantastic programming leading to Robin Kimmerer’s visit to campus in spring. My colleagues in the water center are leading the next seminar. Some #envhist coming down the road too.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Question for #envhist and humanities peeps: I’m working on an outreach plan supporting a wetland restoration project. Does anybody have recommendations of authors or projects using history to increase public awareness on restoration projects?
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Guido Alfani @guidoalfani.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Next Monday (Oct 6) the two-days conference "Inequality & History" will begin, hosted by @dondenacentre.bsky.social at Bocconi University (Milan). Join us to explore & debate inequality across history, from Classical Antiquity until today! Remote attendance possible; QR code in the program below👇
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Great loss in #Econhist. We were just talking about Temin with some colleagues in #wehc2025. He was a regular in the Boston-area Econ hist workshop and always insightful. news.mit.edu/2025/profess...
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Professor Emeritus Peter Temin, influential and prolific economic historian, dies at 87
MIT Professor Emeritus Peter Temin, a highly influential and prolific economic historian, has died at 87. The longtime MIT scholar and former department head used the tools of economics to shed new li...
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Great time in Lund for the #WEHC2025
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
So happy to be part of this initiative. I piloted the new History in the Age of AI course this past spring, focusing on text recognition models (and more broadly on AI literacy). It was a very rewarding experience. www.statenews.org/section/the-...
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Bowling Green plans to offer a new major next school year: AI + X
A new major at Bowling Green State is hoping to teach students how to make artificial intelligence – and how to use it responsibly.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Last year Matt Emberg developed a board game about the conquest of Tenochtitlan. Today we got to play the finalized version. I loved the process of helping Matt design the game and now seeing the outcome. Another reason why I love my job.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I bumped into the Lorax in our park’s native plants sale.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
So happy to share this byline with John Coatsworth. revista.drclas.harvard.edu/the-history-...
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The History of Inequality
For the last few decades, a strong consensus has held that Latin America is not only the most economically unequal region in the world, but also one where inequality has become structurally entrenched...
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This explains it all. theonion.com/trump-calmly...
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Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering
WASHINGTON—Seeking to reassure the public after his latest tariffs sent both U.S. and international markets into free fall, President Donald Trump calmly reminded the nation Thursday that desire is th...
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CEPH @cephie.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Last month, Prof. Jane Humphries (@ox.ac.uk) delivered the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture titled "Caring About Care: The Economic History of Caring Labour" The lecture is available here, but we'd like to highlight some of the research that supported it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BoY...
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"Caring About Care", Jane Humphries, 27.02.2025
YouTube video by CEPH
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Dave Sayers @davesayers.eurosky.social · 29/03/2025
If you want to prevent use of AI in student assignments, try this method of mine. It works really nicely. In the process, it also gives students transparent tools to prove they did their own work (to me and to future employers). www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/simpl...
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A simple hack to ChatGPT-proof assignments using Google Drive
What if there was a way to maintain the essay in all its three constituent parts – reading, thinking, writing – in the age of ChatGPT? Dave Sayers thinks he has an answer
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Fascinating essay.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
ICYMI "This is the story of the Wyandot’s resilience—their ability to endure and adapt during an intense period of adversity and extreme weather events—in an unfamiliar land." - Mckelvey Kelly niche-canada.org/2025/03/27/s... #wyandot #indigenous #indigenoushistory #envhist
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Storms, Strength, and Survival: Wyandot Adaptations on the Kansas Prairies
The Wyandot endured forced removal, disease, and extreme weather in 1843, but demonstrated resilience, rebuilding their community in Kansas City.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
And on the other side of the spectrum, this great note about the commemoration of March 24 (the last military coup in Argentina) brings the focus to the deep damage of state-sponsored terrorism, transcending the discussion on the number of victims. lavanguardiadigital.com.ar/index.php/20...
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24 de marzo: en torno al número de víctimas de la dictadura y los desafíos actuales de la democracia - La Vanguardia
A casi medio siglo de distancia, la polémica en torno al número de víctimas de la dictadura se repite una vez más. El historiador Roy Hora propone trascender esta discusión para ponderar la gravedad d...
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Interesting forum about assessing forty years of democracy in Latin America. journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/ib...
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A 40 años de la Tercera Ola de Democratización: trayectorias democráticas en América Latina | IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
#WorldWaterDay Read @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social on the historical cooperation of the US and Canada on actions related to Great Lakes water quality. niche-canada.org/2023/08/21/n... #envhist #greatlakes #waterhistory
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Natural Allies: Great Lakes Water Quality
In response to Great Lakes pollution, Canada and the US created the Boundary Waters Treaty and International Joint Commission.
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Leticia Arroyo Abad @larroyoabad.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
New post on Broadstreet by yours truly! Check it out. #econhistory #peru #laborcoercion open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...
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The arm of history is long, but not always strong: The effects of labor coercion in colonial and postcolonial Peru
Our project on the effects of forced labor in colonial Peru began years ago, when I, Leticia, was still a graduate student.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
BGSU's Center for Archival Collections offers 3 short travel grants to use their collections. It's the repository of local government docs in NW #Ohio, and also has fascinating collections relevant to the #envhist and #econhist of the #GreatLakes region. More info: www.bgsu.edu/library/cac/...
QR code to the travel grant opportunity
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
@colinwoodard.bsky.social’s work on American regionalism has implications on the #econhist of persistence à la Acemoglu-Robinson. Woodard’s work has created very interesting questions about regional inequalities in public health.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
A luxury for our history majors to meet @colinwoodard.bsky.social. “Desperately we need people who can bring everything together. That’s the historian.”
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Colin Woodard (@colinwoodard.bsky.social)
Director, Nationhood Lab, @PellCenter.bsky.social - Salve Regina University. Author, American Nations, American Character, Union, Republic of Pirates, and others. www.colinwoodard.com and www.nationho...
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
So much looking forward to reading Richard Salvucci’s new book!
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Johan Fourie @johanfourieza.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Econ history community! Please join us in South Africa in May to discuss disseminating economic history to a broad audience. Brad DeLong will deliver the keynote address. We'll also cover accommodation in Stellenbosch in autumn, the best time of year to visit.
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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
🆕 How colonial segregation policies impact land values in Mexico today Today's article by Luis Baldomero-Quintana @global-wm.bsky.social, Guillermo Woo-Mora @pse.bsky.social & @enriquedlrosa.bsky.social King's College London ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/instit...
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How colonial segregation policies impact land values in Mexico today
Colonial segregation policies in Mexico City entrenched divisions between Spaniards and indigenous communities, shaping modern economic inequalities because of weak property rights, unequal provision ...
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Lex Heerma van Voss @lexhvv01.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 07/12/2024
A fantastic interactive feature about the newly restored Notre-Dame cathedral. “Each day we have 20 difficulties. But it’s different when you work on a building that has a soul. Beauty makes everything easier.” [nytimes.com]
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Notre-Dame Reopens in Paris After a Fire. It’s Astonishing.
Five years after a fire nearly felled the cathedral that has dazzled visitors for almost 900 years, the heart of Paris beats anew.
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A drawing of a turkeyfied T-Rex about to eat a pilgrim. (Was circulating on social media many years ago, apologies original source unknown)The Dinosaur on the Thanksgiving Table diagram of a turkey skeleton with text describing anatomical features (Was circulating on social media many years ago, apologies original source unknown).
"Shared derived traits of various clades as seen in Meleagris gallipavo:
Loss of digit V: Theropoda
Loss of digit IN: Avetheropoda
Carpometacarpus: Ornithothoraces
Semilunate Carpal: Pennaraptora
No unquals on manus: Carinatae
neck vortebrao
Cervicals distinct from dorsals:
radius
Ornithodira
Additional cervicals:
Ornithothoraces
Enlarged Deltapectoral Crest: *numerus
Dinosauria (drumette)
Furcula: Neotheropoda
furcula (wishbone =
fused collarbones)
Enlarged sternum:
Maniraptora?, and again at Ornithothoraces
Keeled sternum:
Carinatasternum
(breas|bone)|
Parasagittal stance: Dinosauromorpha
Obligate Bipedality: Dinosauria
Endothermy: Dinosauria?? Ornithodira??
ITEMS NOTVISIBLE IN ROASTER TURKEYS
Feathers: Teta nurae? Dinosauria?
Pennaceous feathers: Maniraptoriformes
Toothless skull: Aves
Antorbital fenestra: Archosauriformes
Mandibular fenestra lost: Avialae
Tarsometatarsus: Omithothorace:
Di stally-placed metatarsal I: Eumaniraptora
Backwards-pointing metatarsal I: Omithothoraces
Laterally-oriented shoulder joint:
Pennaraptora back vertebrae
tail vertebraepygostyle: Pygostylia
Stubby pygostyle: Euornithes
tibiotarsus
(drumstick)|
Proxmially-mobile caudals:
Eumaniraptora
lechium
pubis
Backwards-pointing pubis:
femur Maniraptora? or within Avialae?
(thighbone)
Tibiotarsus: Aves
• fibula
shinbone)
Hinge-like ankle joint:
Dinosauromorpha
Original skeleton by Matthew Wedel
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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Now that @bsky.app have pinned tweets, high time for self-promotion of book that came out earlier this year w/Elodie Peyrol, Agnes Delahaye, and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke from @manchesterup.bsky.social : manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167330/
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Manchester University Press - Agents of European overseas empires
Agents of European overseas empires - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Agents of European overseas empires by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Thursday 10/10 at 4pm EST I'll be on Falcon Radio to listen to Argentine music from the 1970s, 1980s and beyond. Host Tate Baughman will throw stuff and me and I react with historical commentary. If you want to tune in, it's on bgfalconmedia.com/falcon-radio...
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Falcon Radio
Falcon Radio is BG Falcon Media’s streaming-only radio station, broadcasting 24/7 out of the Falcon Radio Studio in the Michael & Sara Kuhlin Center. You can listen by clicking on the player at the to...
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 26/05/2024
Any reading recommendations about walking and walkability in urban #envhist?
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
Proud to be in the organizing committee of the Ohio Latin Americanist Conference, October 3-4, 2024. We are accepting paper and panels proposals. Great featured events and atmosphere to share research. Learn more at scholarworks.bgsu.edu/olac/
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Ohio Latin Americanist Conference | Bowling Green State University
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
I had a lot of fun in the Eclipsing History booth at the BG Schools' Astroexpo. This has been quite a journey. I learned a lot from the public's reactions to eclipses and their history. Stay tuned in bgsu.edu/eclipsinghistory for a bonus episode with the kids' testimonials of #Eclipse2024
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
All you wanted to know about the history of #eclipse and you were afraid to ask. In five episodes. And bonus episodes too! apple.co/3PGRFB4
Banner featuring eclipsing history banner
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
These days we hear a lot about #eclipse chasing and watch parties. But this is a very recent development! Before sharp predictions, the transportation revolution and smoked glasses, eclipses were local. Learn more about this in episode 4 of Eclipsing History. overcast.fm/+BHqmwti70Q
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Episode 4: Chasing Dreams, Watching Shadows — Eclipsing History
Episode 4 delves into the tourist economy of eclipse watching from the past to the present, highlighting how ordinary people described these rare celestial experiences. It explores the intersection of...
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
“Written in the stars” is the third installment of Eclipsing History podcast. Soon in the drafting of the podcast we got hooked by #indigenous astronomical knowledge all over North America. It made me think a lot about the significance of this knowledge. overcast.fm/+BHqmysr5ac
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Episode 3: Written in the Stars — Eclipsing History
Episode 3 delves into the fields of ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy to explore how the Indigenous Nations of North America understood the stars from ancient times to the present. With a focus on t...
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Geeking out over #Eclipse2024? Check out our just released Eclipsing History podcast at bgsu.edu/eclipsinghistory . Eclipses are powerful phenomenons that influenced the #history of #NorthAmerica, often in unexpected ways.
Cover art
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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
🍃CfP: Nature and Environment in Early Modern Worlds - please share! Keynote speaker 👉🏾 @USC_EMSI’s Prof Peter Mancall. 24-25 June; PG students especially encouraged to submit! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/wp-conte...
CFP for Nature and Environment in Early Modern Worlds see link for PDF version
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Shirley Green giving a talk based on her book Revolutionary Blacks. Fascinating account based on her family history. #BlackHistoryMonth #Historyp
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Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!
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History Clippings @historyclippings.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
Think Christmas was safe from creepy Victorian spiritualism? Nope. Here's a horoscope puzzle from 1888. I printed this out and did it so you don't have to. Lets see what my Christmas fortune is in a 🧵 #c19th #mysticism #history 🗃️ 1/7
Victorian Christmas fortune teller advertisement 1888
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
I had a blast working with Israel G Solares and Aurora Gomez Galvarriato in this article. Rent–wage inequality in Mexico City, 1770–1930 in my favorite journal onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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