Reposted by Elise Wangsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“Beyond two parking tickets for not moving his vehicle during snowstorms, Abdullah has no criminal record in Minnesota and was working legally as a mechanic while his asylum application was pending. He arrived in the United States in early 2023.” 19789323
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As a medievalist, what is…”Olde English”? And if you mean Old English, who’s gonna translate Shakespeare’s thoroughly modern English? Hwaet! Can I volunteer?? 2254
Reposted by Elise WangJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_... 4827911164
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I read this in college and I was like ohhhhhhh that’s what history does and long story short now I’m a historian 190
Reposted by Elise WangJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 25/08/2026My kids and their friends know Dolly Parton because she’s the person who sends books out to everyone in the post and that’s just really nice isn’t it. 121325178
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The vagueness is the point, because it terrorizes all immigrants. I’m a citizen, but bc of my background all of this has made me change my behavior. I avoid land border crossings, I’ve canceled flights going through ICE-infested airports, and I carry my passport with me when I leave the house. 2145
Reposted by Elise WangFelipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026For @newrepublic.com I wrote about ICE's recent campaign of airport arrests, and the intentional vagueness about who is or isn't potentially subject to detention as part of the administration's broader narrative campaign of fear, intended to drive immigrants from public lifenewrepublic.comICE’s Airport Crackdowns Are Designed to Spread FearThe agency is snatching and grabbing travelers without any regard for their immigration status—and with no effort to be transparent about what they’re up to. 312870
Reposted by Elise WangMitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The deadline for ASLH Projects & Proposals applications is now extended to Oct.1, 2026. It's unusual (and great) for a scholarly society to offer these small grants! Please spread the word and/or consider applying: aslh.net/award/projec... @elizabethdkatz.bsky.socialaslh.netProjects and Proposals Funding | American Society for Legal HistoryThe Projects and Proposals Committee of the American Society for Legal History invites proposals for the funding of new initiatives in the study, presentation, and production of legal historical schol... 023
Reposted by Elise WangAmerican Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social · 10/08/2026another clip! here @elisewang.bsky.social reminds us how history can turn in a moment, how weird and possible everything really is... Enjoy #medievalsky! youtube.com/shorts/mHFrH...youtube.comWeird how history can turn in a moment. Change the world. Could've been otherwise. #podcast #historyYouTube video by American Medieval 0125
Reposted by Elise WangMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 10/08/2026instead, read theory www.vatican.va/content/leo-...vatican.vaEncyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________ 1317
Reposted by Elise WangKevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Historians may have played a decisive role last week in a judge's ruling that overturning a school board's decision to change the names of public school honoring Confederate generals ignored its impact on Black students. Historians matter. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/what-the-h...kevinmlevin.substack.comWhat the Historians Proved in Shenandoah County, VirginiaExpert testimony from two historians helped overturn a school board's 2024 decision, and showed exactly why the profession still matters. 8622166
Reposted by Elise WangAmerican Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social · 06/08/2026have a little taste of the episode! the brilliant @elisewang.bsky.social explains how conspiracy theories spread for the most banal reasons... youtube.com/shorts/gsTjd...youtube.comConspiracy theories spread for the most everyday reasons, even in the Middle Ages. #podcast #historyYouTube video by American Medieval 0194
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This was so much fun to do! Matt has great questions and we have a good chat about stumbling into the medieval period (me) and accidentally traumatizing ourselves (also me)! 2258
Reposted by Elise WangMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 30/07/2026next week on @americanmedieval.bsky.social i talk with @elisewang.bsky.social about the medieval origins of conspiracy theories 1165
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Forget that we should all be forced to take 6th grade common core math so that the parents don’t have to suffer alone 271
Reposted by Elise WangLaw & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social · 17/07/2026We’re back! The Law and History Review is excited to announce the publication of our first article this year in our digital imprint, The Docket. Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) told us about her new book. End the week on a strong note—check it out! lawandhistoryreview.org/article/anna...lawandhistoryreview.orgMigration and the Origins of American Citizenship: An Interview with Anna O. Law – Law & History Review 0127
Reposted by Elise WangAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Right. That’s how we know it’s a race argument, not an argument about culture. Because what makes you unacceptable is constant, inherited, and unalterable whether you’re born here or elsewhere. 313417
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026In medieval England it was…everyone! In fact you could get in big trouble if you saw a crime and DIDN’T arrest them! 1206
Reposted by Elise WangElise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 15/07/2026She’s five and she spent 118 days alone. What does your five year old like? Mine likes pandas and eating red peppers like apples and making elaborate “ships” out of pillows to sail to sea. She’s scared of loud noises and dogs and being alone. 12714
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 15/07/2026She’s five and she spent 118 days alone. What does your five year old like? Mine likes pandas and eating red peppers like apples and making elaborate “ships” out of pillows to sail to sea. She’s scared of loud noises and dogs and being alone. 12714
Reposted by Elise WangJay Rubenstein @medievaljay.bsky.social · 14/07/2026One of the striking things seeing the Melisende Psalter in person is how much the gold letters glitter. This is a page from a litany -- a long list of saints' names. Some names are written in gold, so when read the page, those names sparkle. In the high-res PDF, they are all a dull brown. 1175
Reposted by Elise WangThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us. 155188824440
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Before the Vikings descended on Lindisfarne in June of 793, the monks reported seeing “immense sheets of light rushed through the air" I’m just saying 080
Reposted by Elise WangSurprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 08/07/2026It's Wed., & you need an eel. But you also deserve a stork. So enjoy this stork eating an eel from a 13th C. edition of Gerald of Wales' book on Ireland. (I know it doesn't look quite like a stork, but you can see a faded label below the bird. Sometimes that's what you get from monastic artists) 1219038
Reposted by Elise WangRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 06/07/2026Everyone knows about the Renaissance book wheel, but I only today learned about the Holloway Reading Stand & Dictionary Holder, patented in the late 19th century by an Ohio company We used to be a proper country archive.org/details/holl... 1419665
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The excommunication is automatic, the unusual aspect is how direct the Vatican has been about this. It signals a church that will not allow the fascist splinter groups that have always lingered at its edges (or encroached on the center) to maintain plausible relationships to the church. 2131
Reposted by Elise WangClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/07/2026the official publication of the American Jesuits using the word "schismatic" is a sign that things are really popping offamericamagazine.orgPope Leo makes final appeal to SSPX before schismatic ordination of bishops: ‘Please turn back!’Pope Leo made a last-minute appeal to the SSPX to “turn back” from illicitly ordaining bishops, saying, “to tear the seamless garment of Christ is a sin of extreme gravity.” 41904380
Reposted by Elise Wanghonor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 30/06/2026You guys, seriously read the footnotes in Ketanji Brown Jackson's concurrence. It's, like, all historians: Jones, Masur, Blight, Guyatt, Foner. It's a beautiful thing. 437380
Reposted by Elise WangBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/06/2026“White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told reporters: ‘This country doesn’t have a future if we don’t end birthright citizenship…. One way or another, this nation has to end birthright citizenship.’” That “one way or another” is ominous. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...open.substack.comJune 26, 2026Wednesday night, after President Donald J. 2321369
Reposted by Elise WangNicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I don’t have much to say about Slaughter, and honestly I think we do too much justice to the Roberts Court by treating its opinions like serious judicial reasoning. But I will say that it’s striking how openly the court treats congressional oversight as somehow antithetical to democratic government 332597497
Reposted by Elise WangKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Justice Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench. It reads in part: "Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time. Its conclusion is wrong." 6941101388
Reposted by Elise WangDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.pbs.orgTens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted outSaturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ... 34212834723
Reposted by Elise Wangmorrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026The utterly glorious porch roof at St John the Baptist, Burford. Anyone who uses 'medieval' as a pejorative should be made to look at this until they promise never to do it again. Photo taken lying on my back shuffling around the floor until I was happy with the framing. 1545352668
Reposted by Elise WangActuel Moyen Âge @agemoyen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026En plus des 5 sens corporels (vue, odorat etc), les scientifiques médiévaux distinguaient 5 sens mentaux : sens commun, estimation, conceptualisation, mémoire et imagination. Ce dessin représente la localisation de ces sens dans le cerveau ! CuL MS Gg.1.1 (début du XIVe siècle) 712829
Reposted by Elise Wangjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals 10396591284
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 24/06/2026This is the reverse of an impassioned argument with a Slavic speaker (for whom all ice cream is “sweet ice”) about whether or not a popsicle is “ice cream.” His position was yes, my position was that his was an offense against god. Agree to disagree. 290
Reposted by Elise WangMateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 23/06/2026If you are a historian in Germany you know that the Strait of Hormuz is like a Kreisarchiv, open, yes, but only on Tuesday from 8:30 to 9:17 and (with previous appointment) on every twelfth Thursday for fifteen minutes after the lunch break. 45311
Reposted by Elise WangElise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 18/06/2026The best protection against AI is that we write and make art for connection, not product. A heartening and warm philosophical take on AI and intimacy:nautil.usThe Inventor of the Thinking Machine Didn’t Worry. Neither Should YouThe Inventor of the Thinking Machine Didn’t Worry. Neither Should You: In this age of AI anxiety, listen to your heart 1236
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 18/06/2026The best protection against AI is that we write and make art for connection, not product. A heartening and warm philosophical take on AI and intimacy:nautil.usThe Inventor of the Thinking Machine Didn’t Worry. Neither Should YouThe Inventor of the Thinking Machine Didn’t Worry. Neither Should You: In this age of AI anxiety, listen to your heart 1236
Reposted by Elise Wangderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter 1441382427415
Reposted by Elise WangBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Cape Verde wins, 0-0. 102318
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 15/06/2026“nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person WITHIN ITS JURISDICTION the equal protection of the laws.” Not citizens, not residents, anyone within the jurisdiction. 0136
Reposted by Elise WangElise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 14/06/2026One of my favorite genres is trad caths discovering papal supremacy and getting really mad about it 2597
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 14/06/2026One of my favorite genres is trad caths discovering papal supremacy and getting really mad about it 2597
Reposted by Elise WangHelena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/06/2026[taking the deepest possible breath] the Dutch East India Company was established in 1602, 6180501719
Reposted by Elise WangJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026humans have known how to construct a shoulder seam for thousands of years, but with AI, we are unlocking untold new ways to fuck it up 7344521427
Reposted by Elise WangRuss The Tedious Ghost @russ41.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Tell your friends about jury nullification. 3404118
Reposted by Elise WangKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 12/06/2026If you’ve been following the “rigged election” rumors from the CA primary and thinking, gosh, haven’t we seen this all before? Well, you’re right! Sounds like you’d be competitive in a friendly and frenetic game of “Rigged Election” Bingo! uwcip.substack.com/p/rigged-ele... 5333121