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Nancy Baker

@drnbaker.bsky.social
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Historian, feminist, UU. My book on the long conservative women's movement in 20th-c. America is due out in 2027 from the University of Georgia Press. My other book project is on feminist legal reformers in 20th-c. Texas, particularly at mid-century.

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Nancy Baker @drnbaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🗃 EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE! 💙📚 My book "One Hundred Years of Fighting: The Long Conservative Women's Movement and the Equal Rights Amendment" will be published by UGA Press in April 2027. Pre-orders now available! cc: skystorians #WomensHistory #BookSky #NonFiction www.ugapress.org/978082037571...
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One Hundred Years of Fighting
One Hundred Years of Fighting argues that for a century the Equal Rights Amendment has been highly contested, divisive among women, and symbolic of drastic s...
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Kentucky Historical Society @kyhistsoc.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Our 2026 Register Derby winner has crossed the finish line! Congratulations to #2 Charles W. Anderson Jr.: A Black Legislator, Litigator, and Leader in Jim Crow Kentucky by Joshua D. Farrington. 🏇🌹🎉Official results here: www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-Jno…
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Nancy Baker @drnbaker.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The SHSU Civil War Consortium's 1st annual conference is June 12-13 at the Sam Houston Republic of Texas Presidential Library. The program has an impressive line-up of today's foremost Civil War scholars. Registration closes on May 15. Sign up today! #history #academia www.shsu.edu/academics/co...
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Conference Home
The annual Civil War Consortium at Sam Houston State University aims to promote research and academic community engagement related to the U.S. Civil War and its era.
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Kentucky Historical Society @kyhistsoc.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Derby Day is HERE! Congrats to our final three! Visit the link below to pick your favorite. Voting closes at 11:59 AM EST with results posted on KHS X - X.com/KyHistSoc www.surveymonkey.com/r/QDDLM5D
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Nancy Baker @drnbaker.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I am honored to be elected to serve as Vice President of the Alliance for Texas History. The ATxH was founded in 2024 to advance accurate, comprehensive, and inclusive Texas history and welcomes all, whether history professionals or enthusiasts. #history #academia #ATxH
Photos, names, and roles of newly elected officers and board members for the Alliance for Texas History.
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Nancy Baker @drnbaker.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I am honored that my article on 20th-c. conservatism in KY and TN won Round 2 of the KHS Register Derby! This means my article will compete in the Final Round next week. Thank you to all who voted for my article. 😃 #history #academia #Skystorians www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-T...
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Round Two KHS Register Derby 2026
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Nancy Baker @drnbaker.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
My article "Gender, Politics, and the Continuities of Conservatism in Twentieth-Century Kentucky and Tennessee" is competing this week in the KHS Register Derby! 😃 Please click below to vote for your favorite of three articles by the end of Sunday, 4/26. www.surveymonkey.com/r/RDJVLXB
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Round Two KHS Register Derby 2026
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Nancy Baker @drnbaker.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Free and online: the 2nd annual Texas Digital Humanities Symposium, Sept. 9-11. This virtual conference spans three days, and each day will run from 9am-11:30am CST and 1:30pm-4pm CST. Space is limited -- sign up now. libcal.baylor.edu/calendar/wor...
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Texas Digital Humanities Symposium 2025
Join Us at the Texas Digital Humanities Symposium! Date: September 9-11, 2025 Location: Virtual (Zoom) Immerse Yourself in Digital Humanities Join us in exploring digital...
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Nancy Baker @drnbaker.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Thanks to a suggestion from @artcrimeprof.bsky.social‬, I just purchased this book by @amayor.bsky.social and am looking forward to reading it! #BookSky #history www.amazon.com/dp/069124560...
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The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
Buy The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders
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Nancy Baker @drnbaker.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
During these challenging times, Moxie the cat wants to remind you that proper hydration is important to good self-care.
Photo of calico cat resting with her front legs entirely submerged in a large water dish while she looks at the camera.
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Nancy Baker @drnbaker.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Giving a research talk tomorrow to my university's Phi Alpha Theta history honors society on the feminist legal reformer Hermine Tobolowsky, known as "the mother of the Texas Equal Rights Amendment."
Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Lecture Series, Dr. Nancy Baker presents, "Hermine Tobolowsky's Cold War Feminism, the Military Draft, and the ERA in Texas," Monday, February 10th, 2 pm in Olson Auditorium. Decorative image of Hermine Tobolowsky.
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Nancy Baker @drnbaker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
My kitten dipped her paws in her water dish and left these markings on a pad of paper... is it art? Is it a coded message? What do you think she is trying to say??? 😸
Picture of kitten's wet paw prints on a pad of paper in a mysterious pattern that could be art or could be a coded message. Picture of small calico kitten balanced on a tree branch.
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Nancy Baker @drnbaker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Delighted that Percival Everett's book "James" won the National Book Award for fiction. Imaginative, funny, gut-wrenching, dramatic -- really, an incredible book. If you haven't read it yet, you should. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/b...
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Percival Everett, Author of ‘James,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction
Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.”
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Nancy Baker @drnbaker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Encouraging. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/o...
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Opinion | Down About the Election? There Is a Speech I Want You to Read.
Frederick Douglass knew what to do when faced with Jim Crow.
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Nancy Baker @drnbaker.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Joan DeJean's Mutinous Women (2022) traces 132 women wrongfully arrested and exiled in 1719 to the New World; they would become founders of New Orleans. This book is a tremendous accomplishment and well worth reading. 💙📚 #history #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory youtu.be/BLMrw6SHqog?...
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Mutinous Women - How French Convicts became founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
YouTube video by Fédération des Alliances Françaises USA
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