Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 7hA big auction this evening selling lots of Revolutionary-era and Early Republic documents from Londonderry, New Hampshire: www.auctionninja.com/ancient-and-... 2192
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisDr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"GenAI is here, so I'm going to teach my students how to use it well." Are educators who choose to do this aware that they're complicit in exploiting and traumatizing data labellers in Global Majority countries? I guess they would have willingly enslaved people 200 years ago.404media.co'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting BackKenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back. 48948
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisDrafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We picked some of our favorite nonfiction history book covers in recent memory. See what made our list and why, and tell us what you would add! www.draftingthepast.com/12-history-b... #bookskydraftingthepast.com12 History Book Covers We LoveThe covers of history books don't always stand out for their design, but these do. 1208
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisIan Taylor @wellhopper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#31DaysOfGraves day 5 - vehicle. The winged car tyre grave of Beatrice Blore-Browne in Llandudno, who in July 1914 became the first woman to drive a car up the Great Orme as reported in the Flintshire Observer, though I'm now a little more curious about the perils of playing draughts in Harringay 2367
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you liked "Madame Behave," a 1925 comedy starring famed female impersonator Julian Eltinge, whose character is forced to crossdress for Reasons, you might also like Veggie Tales' "Madame Blueberry," in which Christian produce adapt "Madame Bovary" to warn children against the sin of greed. 280
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Parents and teachers are being crushed by the app avalanche. The kids are also frustrated — they get very little direct instruction on how to use the bewildering ed tech, but plenty of punishment for getting it wrong. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/05/l...bostonglobe.comTwo kids, 12 apps, and zero clue? Welcome to the platformization of school, sports, and life, parents. - The Boston GlobeSchool updates. Sports schedules. Lunch menus. There’s an app for that — and parents are losing it. 2132
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisSI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Payment request for passage of an enslaved man from Bermuda to Virginia nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2011.10… 094
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Final mouse melon harvest of the season. These were a big hit with the toddlers in our lives. 3804
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yes, health care costs a lot in terms of money, but it also costs a lot in terms of my fucking patience because what do you mean that you have *denied* my request to have the "no-show" penalty removed from an appointment that was cancelled *by the doctor* and I have proof?????? 3502
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 02/10/2026Today in AI news: More libraries succumb to "high volume" traffic (AKA AI scraper bots) and are forced to make their services slower and more annoying for real researchers. 13814
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisAnna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Atrium of a nondescript midtown office building 12927
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026Truly, I already knew intellectually that medical emergency exceptions to abortion bans are useless, but Tierra Walker's case was ... painfully demonstrative ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...ballsandstrikes.orgTierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It PredictableRepublican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care. 824485
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisDan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The most disappointing video you’ll see today. 1022248653
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I wonder whether the Gen Alpha version of “millennial beige” will be a new Arts & Crafts movement. I don’t mean the current iteration of sticking a vinyl William Morris reproduction to a backsplash. I mean stenciling their walls with paint made from foraged berries. 1273
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026By targeting defendants in open criminal cases, ICE creates an infinite legal limbo: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/02/m... 0145
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026Want to learn about the history of our city? Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it. 13159141333
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026#31DaysOfGraves from @annaandthedead.bsky.social Day 1: Flower Samuel, Son of Mr Jabez West- cot & Anne his Wife who died March 24th AD. 1765. Aged 11 Months and 9 Days North Burial Ground, Providence, RI 410110
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisKevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026*A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw* Hits Bookstores Today #CivilWarMemory #booksky 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/a-glorious...kevinmlevin.substack.com*A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw* Hits Bookstores TodayIt’s been a long time coming, but today is the official release of A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. 14414
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Gravestone of Pompey Brenton in God's Little Acre, Newport, RI, 1772 This stone was carved by John Stevens III, who carved many portrait stones in the 1770s, including several for Black Newporters like Pompey Brenton. 1519
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...assignedmedia.orgDemocrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned MediaInsiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights. 311137333
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisChelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Villanova Theatre is hiring! We’ve just opened our search for a TT Assistant Professor of Playwriting position. Details below, and very happy to answer questions. jobs.villanova.edu/postings/36362jobs.villanova.eduTenure track Assistant Professor of PlaywritingWhy work at Villanova?Join a mission-driven organization. Since Villanova University’s founding in 1842, we have been inspired by the values of truth, unity, and love, and are a community dedicated to... 087
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisHenry Snow @henrys.now · 28/09/2026Five months ago I was fired by the US government. Now, one of the biggest categories on the academic job market is "being right wing." I wrote about what's at stake. buttondown.com/anotherway/a...buttondown.comThe "free speech" government fired me"Free speech" advocates are killing free speech 211831
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026While we’re talking about campus sexual violence, I want to revisit the recent history of a topic where we have seen some of the biggest backslides: Expelling rapists from school. 328099
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETaxamericasvoicecnn.substack.comCHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive. 770023342
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My high schooler has a teacher who requires that all assignments be submitted by typing answers into the speaker's notes on Google Slides, in case you're scratching your head over the baffling formatting choices in your college students' work. 3162
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026cw: discussion of how the campaign against trans athletes is part of the larger attack on Title IX that makes it even more difficult to punish sexual abusers on college campuses 0101
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisThiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Call for proposals for a workshop, my people! Slavery and transimperial trade next March at William & Mary. Please spread it far and wide: I want to read your many great proposals!atlanticexchanges.wm.edu2027 Workshop Call for Proposals - Atlantic Exchanges WorkshopAtlantic Exchanges 2027 Slavery and the Commercial Machinery of Empires The Atlantic Exchanges Workshop invites proposals for its second edition, […] 01826
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There is a vision of what the Real Electorate is in the minds of people like this that is mostly about their own experience of their long-ago childhood and is not troubled at all by reality, in which women in lower income households are overwhelmingly part of the workforce and long have been 829840
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisJason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Big congratulations to two of my dear friends on their book releases today. First up is @civilwarmemory.bsky.social's new book on the life and legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. You can get this for 30% at @uncpress.bsky.social by using code 01HATM30 uncpress.org/978146969717...uncpress.orgA Glorious FateRobert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) is best known as the heroic colonel who led the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment—one of the first regiments of Black so... 2358
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisTravis @travtufts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm astounded that the Boston Public Schools is still pushing forward with their "AI Ambassadors" program that pays students and staff to act as tech evangelists in the district. When your education policy aligns with Linda McMahon's, you are gravely off-course. 0127
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As a survivor reading between the lines of this very carefully written story it sounds like Jonathan McKinsey was a trans man in an abusive and controlling marriage who was targeted for violence repeatedly by his ex-wife and her parents and eventually murdered. But as a reporter? I can't be sure.nytimes.comCouple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76. 1149599
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisSandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And listen, I don’t know *shit* about this story and: None of this happens in a vacuum, either. Whole situation is vastly heartbreaking to me, this family’s story, this paper’s complicity with and erasure of trans genocide, etc. Obvs as a DV survivor, whole situation breaks my entire heart. 1164
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisDr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪 16615180
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026🏺 🗃️ Archaeologists/Historians - please shoot me your favourite examples & sources on ancient named animals, the older the better! Prefer farm animals but others also welcome 🐏 🐂 🐖 🫏... 🐕 #histsky (I already have Bramati 2025, & Alivernini & Bramanti 2023) 95225
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelis✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026This country is horrifying 822180
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisUniversal Hub @universalhub.com · 28/09/2026Soggy storrowing www.universalhub.com/2026/soggy-s... #CambridgeMA #MemorialDrive #storrowed 48719
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Made a little pouch for a relative who is turning 2 this week. 4471
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.theguardian.comICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious. 10888513
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisOld North @oldnorth1723.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Some historians draw distinctions between "slave societies" and "societies with slaves." As Jaimie argues in this video, when it comes to New England's ties to slavery, the truth is more complicated. 1115
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisSteven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Relatedly: of the 777 students admitted to Stuyvesant's freshman class this autumn, three (3) are Black www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/n...nytimes.comAn Elite N.Y.C. Public School Admitted 777 Students. Only 3 Were Black.New York’s specialized high schools give disproportionately few seats to Black and Hispanic students, continuing a pattern that has drawn criticism. 0173
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisNico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 25/09/2026I'll be presenting a paper on nonbinary erasure at Critical Feminist Histories in Canada, a hybrid conference taking place in Kingston and online next week. 🌈🗃️ 🏳️⚧️nicomaramckay.comSee me at the Critical Feminist Histories in Canada conference | Nico Mara-McKayI will be presenting a paper at the Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History's 2026 conference, Critical Feminist Histories in Canada. 0226
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisTom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This looks like a cool queer history conference! 14724
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisAcey Deecey 🚀🚀 @mcgarrygirl78.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Fantastic article on the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture. We're living in an era of the government trying to erase our achievements and darken our futures.smithsonianmag.comFor Years, the Smithsonian Strove to Bring the African American History and Culture Museum to the National Mall. Now, It Celebrates a Decade as a Beacon of Understanding, Community and ResilienceThe museum lovingly called the "Blacksonian" chronicles the past and present and envisions the future to tell the stories of Black life in America 36034
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisMaryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...scrippsnews.comInteractive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labelsPork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for. 11527461296
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisAnna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So I learned from my friend who is the director of the Wolfe Institute of the Humanities that they have lost funding & can either higher an administrator or run faculty fellowships. That Wolfe fellowship + one other fellowship at CUNY central were the only ways peeps at CUNY with a high teaching 1/ 27026
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Finally time for my autumn birch forest hat! 5471
Reposted by Caitlin G. DeAngelisRep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I am facing 17 years in federal prison for doing my job and standing up to Trump’s merciless immigration enforcement campaign. I am finding the strength to keep standing up every single day.inquirer.comU.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver is eight months pregnant and facing 17 years in jail | Jenice ArmstrongMcIver’s inner strength is next level. She is running for reelection while fighting efforts by the Trump administration to jail her. Plus, she’s repping her constituents and caring for her family. 211209423