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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m doing a thing! Join me in October for a walking tour of Old Wilmington as we explore the city’s descent into war, plague, and death in 1862. Tickets are limited: kbsherman.com/store/p/city...

Promo image for City of Ghosts tour with Dr. Kim Sherman

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thank you for putting this into words! I have been wrestling with the same for a few days. I really appreciate the statement from the Henry Sheldon Museum as well. I look forward to adding Walden’s work to my collection! www.henrysheldonmuseum.org/statement-on...

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Statement on Charity & Sylvia — Henry Sheldon Museum

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Doing a little house rest today before the new semester starts. Glad I have podcasts like @draftingthepast.bsky.social and @thisguysucked.com to keep me motivated!

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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My four year old loves the Museum of the American Revolution but calls it the Imaginary Revolution Museum, and there is a metaphor in there somewhere.

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JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Looking for new ways to engage students with primary sources? Artstor on JSTOR supports assignments that invite students to create digital exhibits, explore visual evidence, and connect #art and history. Read more about bringing these approaches into the classroom: bit.ly/4g5zqTh

Illustration of a medieval farming scene with four oxen pulling a plow across freshly turned fields. Farmers guide the team while others harvest grain, rake hay, and work nearby plots. A village with a church sits in the distance beneath a cloudy sky, showing agricultural life across the landscape.

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Katja, li'l scamperer ｢Amethyst｣ @vulpine.house · 31/07/2026

if Amnesty International won’t stand up for trans people in the UK, why should anyone expect it to stand up for them? they should never have apologised to JKR or her fascist brethren.

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Can any fellow #skystorians help me out? I’m looking for a short reading to share with my US survey students this fall on what the role of the historian is/what does history do for society.

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McNeil Center for Early American Studies @mcneilcenter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Deadline Approaching: CFP for "Empires in Early American History" Submission deadline: September 1, 2026 Conference: April 29–May 1, 2027 Sponsors: The Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies and The McNeil Center for Early American Studies. bit.ly/4fDCxAt

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Can any fellow #skystorians help me out? I’m looking for a short reading to share with my US survey students this fall on what the role of the historian is/what does history do for society.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Census enumerator: Where were you born?

Victorian handwriting on a white background reading: 'somewhere'.

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Every time I feel a little bit unmoored as a historian in 2026 America, I look to @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jbf1755.bsky.social — thank you both for keeping us grounded! You deserve all the good things 💜 www.youtube.com/live/2WNe6CW...

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What the Heck Just Happened?

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A little writing inspo for a small project I’m working on

Collage of images related to 18th century Glasgow, Scotland and maritime history

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I have a collection of 19c letters I need to read but a lot of them have cross-writing and I want to cry. 😭

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Monday morning to-do’s: 1. Summer teaching admin 2. Review final grad projects from Summer Institute 3. Work on the online history community I’m launching in August!

Moira Rose from Schitts Creek saying “One must champion oneself and say, ‘I am ready for this!’”

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Keep seeing stuff about AI in family history. Let me tell you a cautionary tale. Last week, a mate asked me to help her research a crime she'd heard about on social media. A 10 year old girl sentenced to transportation, a mudlarked memento found in the Thames close to Millbank.

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I’m so glad I decided to assign Dunbar’s Never acaught for my undergrads this fall. I’ve also decided that we’re doing a mini exhibit project based on it.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Historian here. Last call teachers to register for this online seminar on slavery and abolition, July 27-31. Registrations close this Monday on July 20th. Hope to see you there!

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

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Daniel Johnson @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Every time someone says “it’s coming home”, the British Museum has to return an item to where it belongs

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Meeping wainscot @ohnoiratebrian.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Well this will break your heart into tiny pieces. From www.instagram.com/frasergrut/

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I am crying so much right now. What an amazing person. I loved his work so much and all his love for AoNZ and his little farm. Goddammit.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I feel like playing “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” over and over again. Apropos of nothing 💁‍♀️

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Scarecrow Dancing in Wizard Of Oz

ALT: Scarecrow Dancing in Wizard Of Oz

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Man, all I’m craving is field peas and cornbread. Okra too. It’s this time of the year that I miss my grandfather and his garden the most.

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Landis Blair @landisblair.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Guardian Angel. #CemeterySaturday Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY ▪️ Many thanks to @cwpalomba.bsky.social for the commission.

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Yesterday was National Kitten Day and it just so happened to be the day I brought this lil guy home! Meet Louis Ambrose 🖤

A black rescue kitten lounges on a bed with colorful plaid sheets

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My neighborhood landscaping crew is working for the THIRD day in a row and using loud equipment. Trying to work on research and I am slowly losing my marbles.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/07/2026

I just saw someone say that hindsight is 20/20 on Graham Platner, and let me just say that if you did not see this coming, your vision for such things needs to be checked.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Wonderful to see familiar names in the ToC of this special issue of the American Historical Review! “‘76 Objects” is designed to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence. The full contents are available online at academic.oup.com/ahr/issue/13...

The image shows the cover of the American Historical Review, which includes the quote "To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

TIL Nirvana covered one of my all-time favorite songs and if you’re thinking “Kim, why didn’t you know this?!” Well, I didn’t have the pleasure of growing up listening to 90s grunge but I am LOVING the discovery I get to have in my adulthood. youtu.be/hEMm7gxBYSc?...

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Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Live On MTV Unplugged, 1993 / Unedited)

YouTube video by NirvanaVEVO

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Research find: Tracy Chapman playing an anti-apartheid rally on the Boston Common in 1986. (Photo by Mark Lurie)

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Next time I moderate a panel at an academic conference, I will be using a system of yellow and red cards to keep things moving along properly: yellow cards for speakers going overtime, red cards for multiple infractions on time and any audience member who offers a comment instead of a question.

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Listening to the fireworks outside & thinking about childhood July 4 celebrations. A big cookout and pool party with the family we were close to. Their girls were a little older and babysat me & my sibling. One year one of the girls set her grandma’s hair on fire with a sparkler (accidentally).

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 04/07/2026

“We the People” means all of us. Republicans can have January 6th — the 4th belongs to everyone else. Happy Independence Day🇺🇸

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 03/07/2026

Like every patriotic American, I am celebrating the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg and the Union victory at Vicksburg this weekend, which just happen to line up with the days (July 3 & 4) that the Declaration of Independence was published and widely distributed. That’s why we celebrate, right?

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/07/2026

Oh look the prolific author version of the false and stupid “people didn’t know it was wrong back then” argument! 1. The enslaved knew it was barbaric the whole time. 2. Many witnesses knew it was barbaric the whole time. 3. Many enslavers told on themselves the whole time. Thx bye

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Solidarity to my fellow Americans who just want a nation that lives up to the “with liberty and justice for all” that we pledged every morning back in elementary school. We keep loving. We keep fighting. 💙❤️

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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#Readercon folks! Remember the 500-Year Time Capsule project from last year? Want to know what happened with that? I'll be in Author's Alley this year, and I'll have a limited number of THESE in hard copy, which tells the tale:

Book cover for "Entering an Apothecary's Dream: The Making of an Arts & Sciences Installation". The cover art is a photograph from the Workshop portion of the installation, with chemical glassware, Early Modern art, and ad hoc apothecary tools cluttered together on a corner riser loosely draped with rich cloth. The light of flickering LED candles give glints to the glassware and metal reflectors, and makes the room's stucco walls glow warmly.

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Liz Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Hug your trans kids extra hard today. Tell them you love them unconditionally. Create whatever sense of safety for them you can.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

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Kim Sherman, PhD @ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Relieved at the birthright citizenship ruling (while concerned at the 6-3 split), but even more terrified for the ruling over trans athletes that will only serve to embolden anti-trans movements. Trans people are not the reason your life is shit, y’all.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/06/2026

"Women, people of color, and immigrants were essential to the Revolution’s success." America was, and is, about all of us. It's a story we have to keep telling and improving upon.

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Who Gets to Claim 1776?

If the republic is to last another 250 years, Americans need to see themselves in its origin story.

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