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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Portland State U historian @catherinemcneur.bsky.social is doing a very cool series of local history posts on TikTok. Portland folks will be especially interested in them, but so might many others out there. This one is about the horseshoe courts in Laurelhurst Park. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SXnEWH/

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Horseshoe tossing was the pickleball of 100 years ago. Are we overdue for a horseshoe revival or do you think the city should repurpose these spaces? #portland #portlandparks #historytok #history #hi...

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Check out @catherinemcneur.bsky.social's review of‪@mike-stark.bsky.social's "Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird," published in 2025 @univnebpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #birds #animalhist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

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Catherine McNeur @catherinemcneur.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

What role should journalists be playing at this moment when so much is at stake? @saratexas.bsky.social’s article is a clarion call to us all, journalists, writers, citizens: nonprofitquarterly.org/when-journal...

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When Journalism Becomes a Weapon: A Call for Ethical Reporting - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

A call from NPQ's editor in chief for ethical reporting and journalism to defend democracy, civil society institutions, and civil rights.

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Catherine McNeur @catherinemcneur.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

All of us deserve to have a place in our country’s history without fear of erasure. These are the books on my shelf that I go to for the history of trans Americans. What else would you add, historians? They were here, they are here, they will be here.

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Catherine McNeur @catherinemcneur.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Referring to the NPS’s erasure of trans participation in the 1969 Stonewall riots, Hugh Ryan writes “All autocracies attempt to control the past in order to control the future.” When you erase the past, it makes anything happening now seem too new, an aberration. It is not. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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The Trump Administration Just Deleted Part of American History. If They Get Away With It, We Could Be Headed to a Very Dark Place.

This is far more serious than the loss of a few letters.

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Catherine McNeur @catherinemcneur.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Always a great day when I get to hang out with the best Seths—Seth Cotlar and Seth Rockman—historians extraordinaire, particularly at Powell’s, particularly during an extended celebration of Seth Rockman’s fantastic new book, Plantation Goods. Worth a read!

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Catherine McNeur @catherinemcneur.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

On Wednesday, February 12th at 12pm Eastern (9am Pacific), I’ll be joining the Library of Congress’s Manuscript Division historians Josh Levy and Elizabeth A. Novara for a talk about Mischievous Creatures, live-streamed at zoomgov.com (and recorded for later viewing). #envhum #envhist

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Finis Dunaway @finisdunaway.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Unfortunately, this seem an apt time to share: A group of historians annotated sections of Project 2025, contextualizing and commenting on its plans to undermine environmental protections, exacerbate inequalities, and burn, burn, burn more fossil fuels. #envhist 🌎

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Project 2025 Annotation: A Summary – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

Eighteen environmental historians from EDGI's Environmental Historians Action Collaborative working group are annotating environmental chapters and sections from Project 2025. For all the discussions ...

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Catherine McNeur @catherinemcneur.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Looking forward to joining Boston University’s Andrew Robichaud next week (9/17 at 5:30) at the Massachusetts Historical Society to talk about Mischievous Creatures! Boston friends: I hope to see you there! www.masshist.org/events/misch...

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Catherine McNeur @catherinemcneur.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

The cicadas are emerging now, and amid all the buzz there is a story of a stolen name that is not making it into the news. In 1846, Margaretta Hare Morris had told the men at the Academy of Natural Sciences of her discovery of a new species. She even gave them specimens! …

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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

If you're looking for a good book about women and nature, I just finished these three fabulous new books and highly recommend them. #WomenInScience 🧪🌾🌎

Three books sitting on a chaotic garden wall: Soil by Camille Dungy, Radiant: the dancer, the scientist, and a friendship forged in light by Liz Heinecke, and Mischievous Creatures: The forgotten sisters who transformed early American science by Catherine McNeur

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Michael D. Barton @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

Who knew the story of 2 sisters in 19thC America, one an entomologist & the other a botanist, could be so engrossing. Really enjoying historian @catherinemcneur.bsky.social's Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science, even by book light.

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Catherine McNeur @catherinemcneur.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

What ChatGPT has done to me (besides making me grumble when I spot its use by students) is made me love human errors so much more. This wobbly line brought me joy when I was walking past because it was so clearly the work of a human with an elbow that jerked at the wrong moment.

Lane dividing line on showing imperfection.

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Melanie A. Kiechle @melaniekiechle.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

January is moving swiftly--don't miss your chance to apply to be the founding editor of ASEH's new online publication, Environmental History Review. 🗃️📗 Details here, to read and share widely: aseh.org/Environmenta.... Applications due to search chair @catherinemcneur.bsky.social by February 1.

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Catherine McNeur @catherinemcneur.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

I may not be at #aha24 this week but I’m glad that the Morris sisters are. Many thanks to Chris Wells for spotting Mischievous Creatures in the wild! 📗#envhum

Pile of books at a conference display featuring Mischievous Creatures by Catherine McNeur

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Catherine McNeur @catherinemcneur.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

I’m chairing the search for the editor of an exciting new digital journal, Environmental History Review. Consider applying! And please share with all the creative scholars you know. aseh.org/Environmenta...

Do you want to be the first editor of the new digital journal Environmental History Review? Applications due Feb 1st.

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Catherine McNeur @catherinemcneur.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Remedial Herstory is a wonderful nonprofit organization focused on getting women’s history into primary and secondary school classrooms. The interview I recorded with Rachel Perez for their podcast is live today. … podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Leila Belkora PhD, astrophysics @leilabelkora.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

This episode is such fun! Particularly interesting if you write for a broad audience or are crossing over from academia. Or if you like books about women who’ve been erased from the history of science. Or if you love to hear about incredible serendipitous research finds! 🧪 #histsci #scicomm

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

NEW! I might have alarmed Catherine McNeur with my enthusiasm, because I love her work so much -- including her new MISCHIEVOUS CREATURES. In this ep, I asked how she writes beautifully about place and learned this book resulted from multiple archival surprises. 🗃️ draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

Smiling woman with blond curly hair against a backdrop of greenery. Text reads: Episode 36, Catherine McNeur.

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