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Elizabeth Drummond

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Historian | Nationalism | German-Polish borderlands | Max Thalmann | German Studies Collaboratory | usual disclaimers that views my own and reposts ≠ endorsements | she/sie | eadhistory.org

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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I am spending the weekend at a conference on Ignatian AI, so…
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WIRED @wired.com · 30/09/2026
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Checkpoints are suffocating Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank. Over 18 months, WIRED and our reporting partners investigated the full scope of the system that has carved the West Bank up. www.wired.com/story/how-is...
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How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have no words for this, though I appreciate the OP's alt text.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I remember well @nhannahjones.bsky.social's article about choosing a school for her daughter, the kind of thoughtful and thought-provoking piece that sticks with you. This follow-up that reflects on the decision, in all its complexity, will also stick. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Wahlrecht.de @wahlrecht.de · 20/09/2026
Die 18-Uhr-Prognosen für Meck-Pomm • AfD wohl stärkste Kraft vor der SPD. CDU, Grüne und BSW knapp um Fünfprozenthürde. • Alle Hochrechnungen: www.wahlrecht.de/news/2026/la... #ltwmv
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Wahlrecht.de @wahlrecht.de · 20/09/2026
Die 18-Uhr-Prognosen für Berlin • Die Linke liegt vorn und wird stärkste Kraft. BSW wieder einmal auf der Kippe an der 5 %-Hürde. • Alle Hochrechnungen: www.wahlrecht.de/news/2026/ab... #aghw
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
LMU's Foley Center (middle) was also designed by Stone. It's been described as a scaled-down version of US embassy in India (right). A DC-native, I always thought of it as a scaled-down Kennedy Center (middle). But it predates the Kennedy Center, so maybe Kennedy is a scaled-up version of Foley.
White building with arched columns and reflecting pool in front. LMU's Foley CenterWhite building with columns and patio facing river. Kennedy CenterWhite building with goldish columns and seal in center, with reflecting pool in front. US embassy in New Delhi
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Noting the gap between the infected and the well, the Gates Foundation pledges at least $1 billion to help the uninfected join this exciting development in which Microsoft is so precariously invested."
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 12/09/2026
human beings working together to create something beautiful just gets me, every time 🥹 what a gorgeous tribute. double props to the arranger
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Famu Marching 100 | "UM Halftime Show" | (2026)
YouTube video by MARCHING 100 PAPARAZZI
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There are so many images from 9/11 that are seared into memory. Father Mychal being carried out after being killed while ministering is one of them for me.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I know the feeling.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My feed today is filled with AfD and AI, and it's raining in here in L.A., so it just seems like a good day to tune out the world and curl up with a book or to watch a movie. Except that I have work to do.
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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
See the exit poll figure below.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The thing about the people who insist that AI will "revolutionise" my teaching in history classrooms if I would just be open-minded is that there is existing tech that I do already teach with. I use digital mapping tools to map the Black Death, annotation technology, 3D printing to build exhibits.
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The demographic which voted the least for the AfD was socialized entirely in the GDR, the highest share at 53% (35-44) were children or infants when the wall came down and 42% of those born in the 21st century voted for them.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The conflation of AI-critical with technophobic is tactical & infuriating. While accusing us of just knee-jerk hating tech, they’re enshittifying search engines, degrading digital archives, sundowning or enclosing popular tools, etc. We were all happily using that tech!
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Now, more than ever, we must: - resist the “will of the people” propaganda - fight back against the nationalistic essentialism - reject the tendency to normalize and sanitize the Far Right - repudiate the defeatist accommodationism - refuse to perpetuate rightwing assertions of inevitable dominance
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Looks like this is indeed a watershed moment in postwar German history - in the worst possible way. Exit polls indicate the AfD is even stronger than what polls suggested, even an outright majority of seats is possible. The extremists will likely have a path to power. bsky.app/profile/wahl...
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So much for the wehrhafte Demokratie.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
5-alarm fire here, and this is important for far more than just Sachsen-Anhalt and Germany.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I have some tickets to a couple of swimming sessions, but more and more I'm thinking that I might be taking nice long holiday from LA in the second half of July 2028. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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L.A. freeways, roads to be closed to general traffic for 2028 Olympics. How will it hit your commute?
A plan to block off freeway and street lanes for exclusive use by athletes, staff and others is in the works for the 2028 Olympics.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Always enjoyed Gloria Steinem's satirical writing, which so pointedly got at the social constructions of gender & dynamics of patriarchy. Many people know the 1978 essay "If Men Could Menstruate"; more people should read her 1994 piece on Phyllis Freud & womb envy. library.stlawu.edu/system/files...
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"AI chatbots present a problem for the teaching of history not only because they hallucinate, nor simply because they threaten to make even conscientious students’ writing less original, but because they thwart the process that might lead students toward original interpretations in the first place."
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Los Angeles Unified has banned generative AI on school-issues devices. NYC public schools have banned generative AI use through 8th grade for this year. Both districts have chosen to wait and study rather than to embrace the AI hype. 👏👏👏
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A beautiful tribute to an incredible woman, from one writer to another.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Reading and listening to Tressie McMillan Cottom is always worth the time. So smart about how we are not creating/replacing the things that make possible the new brilliance that might replace what we've lost with the deaths of Dolly and Prince (and others). Worth a trip over to IG for a listen.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026
This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When we say Dolly Parton changed lives, she did, it was clear, it was evident, it was everywhere. The Imagination Library was a supreme act of loving children and families and showing it through books and money and effort. The Moderna vaccines she funded. The money she poured into her hometown.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I saw Dolly live at the Hollywood Bowl, & it was an experience in pure joy – how she was on stage, the audience atmosphere, the music, everything. The combination of an older phone & lighting meant that Dolly ended up as a figure of light in the photo. Because that's what she was in this world!
Photo of Dolly Parton in concert, with Dolly appear as just a figure of light.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I wrote this too quickly, but here’s my very brief explainer for “One First” on why this afternoon’s #SCOTUS ruling is problematic, but not (yet) an existential threat to mail-in voting in the midterms: www.stevevladeck.com/p/246-making...
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246. Making Sense of the Mail-in Ballots Ruling
The Supreme Court’s grant of a stay in one of the mail-in ballot cases is deeply wrong, but it’s also not the main event over whether Trump’s patently unlawful executive order can take effect.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Also this 👇
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’m an alumna of the Berlin Program and benefited so much from it, not just during the program while working on my dissertation but all the years afterwards. A massive loss for the field.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
FYI: Free webinar for those interested in the history of the Kindertransport and/or the work of W.G. Sebald. To register: wmich.webex.com/webappng/sit...
Flyer for webinar
Kindertransport and W.G. Sebald: Historiography, Literature, and Place 25 Years On
Free Webinar in connection with Central European History
Participants:
Amy Williams, Association of Jewish Refugees
Maya Barzilai, University of Michigan
John Greenacre, University of Suffolk
Mark Edwards, University of Suffolk
Moderators:
Eli Rubin, Western Michigan University
Mike Sauter, University of Suffolk
Date: September 5th, 2026
Time: 9:30am - 2:30pm EST
Register Now (link for registration is in post)
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’m debuting Experiments in Reading this fall, a 1-unit pass/fail course designed to help students develop a habit (and love) of reading. I’m looking forward to it and hope to do it every semester, or at least most. Inspired by an @aktange.bsky.social post on here!
Photos of people reading in the corners: by flashlight under covers; lying on the grass; in a hammock, cross-legged. Text reads: Remember when you tried to win the summer reading contest at the local library? Or reading by flashlight after bedtime? Want to rediscovery our love of reading? Or develop one? Need time to read uninterrupted? Want to strengthen your reading skills? Just need a 1-unit course to round out your schedule? Experiments in Reading is an opportunity to “drop everything and read,” to experiment with different reading scenarios and habits, and to cultivate a love of reading. BCLA 1998-01 | CRN 43156 SS: Experiments in Reading, 1 unit, CR/NC, Mondays 1:45 - 3:15pm, Marymount Institute, UNH 3002
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Cassidy apparently not learning the lesson of his RFK vote.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m sure that there’s a max limit on watching Knicks Finals highlights. But I have not yet reached it.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It seems that the presidents of Washington St. Louis, ASU, Kansas, and Johns Hopkins helped write the letter. With leaders like this, who needs enemies.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"...history has the potential to change a people’s future by changing its self-understanding." History is exceptionally powerful, which is why its expert work is degraded, distorted, accepted only as tourism. Always the authoritarian political instrument of choice. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
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Opinion | Trump's Smithsonian Attacks Are Attacks on America’s Future (Gift Article)
This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Hanif Abdurraqib gets right at what I'll miss most about Glen Hansard: whether busking, in trad sessions, in concerts, at funerals (Shane MacGowan's), he always invited in the audience and created community through music. The Irish are good at this; he was great. www.newyorker.com/news/postscr...
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Glen Hansard’s Street-Corner Stories
Both as a young busker and as a famous singer-songwriter, Hansard understood how to make people stop and listen and feel one single thing.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
And not a single person in the Trump State Department looked at this and said, “hmm, that doesn’t look right.” So much for the idea of AI as a tool that supports and deepens thinking rather than replaces it. (Also, they could have just annotated an existing map.)
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Anyone who has spent any time reading student writing, no matter the institution, knows that we need to strengthen writing programs and centers and focus more on developing students' writing skills. At least anyone who really cares about educating students, not just graduating them.
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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
My heart is often in Berlin...tonight it's a broken one. www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/liveb...
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CSD Berlin 2026 abgebrochen: Auto fährt im Tiergarten in Menschenmenge – ein Toter, Täter flüchtig
Schwerer Zwischenfall beim Christopher Street Day mit vielen Verletzten + Polizei fahndet nach flüchtigen Tatverdächtigen + Finale am Brandenburger Tor abgebrochen + Alle Entwicklungen in Newsblog.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I once eavesdropped on a conversation among literary translators on a airport shuttle bus after a conference. It was fascinating! I have had a much greater appreciation for the art and scholarship of translation ever since.
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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When I was teaching in Mississippi, a student brought her 8-10 year-old son to class one day (an in-service day at his school). He sat next to her in the front row of the lecture hall and not only paid attention but took notes. That was well over 20 years ago, and I can still see him. 🥰
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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
German broadcast. Nailed it
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