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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Here to validate the claim that academics are petty. I’d say more but pot, kettle, etc.

AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This is terrifying. In the past, Montana's Supreme Court has given some protections to women's reproductive rights. Not entirely clear that will continue. jessica.substack.com/p/montana-bi...

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Montana Bill Would Charge Women for 'Trafficking' Their Own Fetus

The legislation, House Bill 609, is the first of its kind in the country

AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Lol. Good point. In this case I dared to say something on FB.

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I'm having a "men explain things to me" day. Sigh.

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Good day at the Bozeman Public Library’s book sale.

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Perhaps this is why my dog is so interested in rabbits. They have something in common.

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

One things that has surprised me this semester is how many of my students never learned about the abolitionists or the people who opposed the annexation of Hawai'i and Texas. I need to do a better job of highlighting resistance in American history.

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Bio DeCasseres was the daughter of Stephen Mack, Jr., Joseph Smith's 1st cousin. Born on a Ho-Chunk reservation, she was an early Indigenous poet and author. Wish the search for the origins of Joseph Smith's interest in Native Americans included her family. amandahk.substack.com/p/bio-decass...

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Decided to start a Substack in hopes that writing really does beget more writing. I don't have paid subscriptions turned on yet, but it'll be a combo of Mormon history, environmental history, gender history, and literary history. Check it out! open.substack.com/pub/amandahk...

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Ina Coolbrith, Amelia Truesdell, and the 1906 San Francisco Fire

A few weeks ago, I received a message from The Huntington Library saying that they would be closing its special collections early due to a wind storm expected that afternoon.

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I've decided I'd make a great paralegal or coffee shop barista. I got attacked by white nationalists for something inane a few years ago. It made me realize there's no way to protect myself, and I just have to do what I think is right.

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One of the things we cover is how slavery changed over time in the American colonies and then the U.S. There have been forms of unfree labor in most societies, but I'm encouraging the students not to flatten societies and instead to dig into the details.

I'm teaching a course on family history right now, and wish I could zoom in on genealogical research on African American history in the 19th C. We spend 2 weeks on it, but it's such important work it needs a whole semester.

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It is.... Montana, BUT, the course is actually fairly common. I have friends at various universities and colleges that teach the history of slavery.

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My Slavery and Civil War class is giving me hope right now. Taught Ira Berlin (history of slavery), David Waldstreicher (slavery and the U.S. Constitution), and now turning to Manisha Sinha (abolition). Class is going better than it ever has.

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Teaching Roots tomorrow in my Family History course. My 8 yo was interested, so I let her watch Episode 3. She did fine. It made me think about how being forced to watch whatever your parents watched introduced kids to difficult topics. So much better than YouTube. www.imdb.com/title/tt0075...

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Roots (TV Mini Series 1977) ⭐ 8.4 | Biography, Drama, History

1h 14m | TV-14

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

That's the argument people make in support of asking students to debate both sides, but surely, there are other ways to get students to consider multiple points of view. The prob is the negative is required to take the opposite side no matter what the affirmative presents.

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It was a policy debate round. I never did Lincoln-Douglas. It depends heavily on whether you are doing Policy Forum, LD, policy, etc.

AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I just got back from judging HS debate. The kids were wonderful but I felt uneasy after. There aren't always 2 sides. In HS, I was asked to argue against overturning Korematsu. Today, some kids were asked to argue against Indigenous bio-sovereignty. What are the kids supposed to get out of that?

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Sounds like they were journaling? Mormons are encouraged to keep a diary throughout their lives, especially on their missions.

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Beginning to wonder if I should have paid more attention to those daytime TV ads about training for a career as a medical transcriptionist or paralegal.

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Your kids will know, trust me. Mine insult each other by saying "I heard you love Trump." We also talked about how weird it is that some of their friends have photos of Trump in their lockers. JTT and Ryder Strong were so much hotter.

instead of being made. As a result, it's hard for my students to imagine a world where chattel slavery didn't exist. It becomes too easy to assume that the equation of blackness + slavery is natural. This affects how they approach politics and the way they will teach their future students. 2/2

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I am teaching the Civil War and added a section on the history of slavery from the 15th century onward, since we don't have a course on slavery at my university. It's been eye opening. Most of the students received the same history education that I did, where slavery just pops into existence... 1/

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If Trump had trouble sitting through a modern Episcopal sermon, he would have died in the middle of a Puritan sermon. Quote from a Puritan sermon that I read today: "The best of our works are ‘as menstruous cloths’."

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Jack London is more interesting than I ever knew. His mother was a spiritualist who had a breakdown when her husband, a leading astrologist, denied being the father of her unborn child. His reasoning was that he was impotent. www.newspapers.com/article/san-...

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Article clipped from San Francisco Chronicle

Clipping found in San Francisco Chronicle published in San Francisco, California on 6/4/1875.

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Am I the only who gets embarrassed when you see your book in a bookstore? I had talk myself into going to a used bookstore today, because I knew they had a copy of my book in stock. Here’s a link to my book, I guess: www.amazon.com/Imperial-Zio...

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

My youngest has fallen in love with the musical Six and has a favorite wife of Henry VIII. It's Catherine Parr. Someone needs to tell her that Anne Boleyn is obviously the best wife.

Thumbnails of Henry VIII's wives - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr.

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Beautiful poem in the archives from Joseph Smith's niece Ina Coolbrith today. "Where is the peace that should with thee abide O Earth? Art still beneath the primal ban, Availing naught the Holy Crucified? No faith in God because no faith in man?"

AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

This early twentieth century drawing I found in the archives at The Huntington Library is perhaps too accurate a depiction of motherhood.

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I'm always shocked about how well flowers and leaves survive in the archives. 110 year old oak leaf from the Ina Coolbrith Collection.

Pressed oak leaf in a card with Miss Coolbrith written underneath.

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I am a finch. A bird very prone to anxiety. encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn...

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Came across a fun satire today in which Ina Coolbrith describes her fellow poets as rare birds. I wonder what @benjaminepark.bsky.social, @jstuart.bsky.social, and my other #MormonStudies would be like as birds? Please imagine for me.

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

My pastor just posted this image of Bozeman, MT, with a note telling the congregation that we have done a spectacular job and to keep it up. Never so glad to be in California.

AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

As a Mormon historian, I usually work with digitized documents. I get excited and nervous whenever I see the actual documents. These are LA court records from the 1860s. #Mormonstudies

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Started Kathryn Hughes' Catland after reading letter after letter from nineteenth century women about cats. www.amazon.com/Catland-Loui... It's so much fun. Who knew that cat breeds were developed less than 200 years ago?!

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Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I tend to decorate my bedroom with things related to what I study. Mary Hallock Foote just joined Emma and Mattie Hughes Cannon. Now I just need an image from Annie Pike Greenwood and Minerva Teichert. What items from your research are in your house? #mormonstudies #academicmom

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Worst pickup line ever: "There came into your eyes the deathless light and I saw not alone the Ina of your youth but the Ina of Ages. I was too deeply moved to speak of it then but cherish it as one of my most sacred memories." Asa Thurston Heydon to Ina Coolbrith Run, Ina!

Weird fact from a graduate student paper: In 1945, the Bishop of the German-speaking Logan 10th Ward enrolled in the Boy Scouts to prove his Americanness. There was no technical age limit. He then earned his Scout Badge. I imagine it looked something like this. #mormonstudies

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In 1973, BYU published a bio of Ina Coolbrith, an important early California poet & Joseph Smith's niece. It ends with a strong statement of her faith in God. Spoiler: she flirted w/ theosophy, Buddhism, & agnosticism. Why do we make ppl in the past more faithful than they were? #mormonstudies

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Mott Street by Ava Chin: 9780525557395 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Just finished Ava Chin's Mott Street. Thanks @jstuart.bsky.social! Looking forward to teaching it next semester. Beautifully written. Brings up silences in the archive, sexual identity, and the current politics of immigrant. Highly recommended. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/563929...

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“Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little...

AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

There was a nice letter later on in the collection, in which an early female journalist consoles her friend (a poet) about the death of her cat, Moon.

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Ambrose Bierce was a 19th C humorist & skeptic. He briefly courted Ina Peterson, the granddaughter of Don Carlos Smith. Her aunt, concerned the older man had confessed to "using up" girls, put an end to it. It's unclear if the famous atheist knew of Peterson's ancestry. #mormonstudies

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AmandaHK @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

There is an Idaho one that I follow. If we all posted something with a #mormonstudies tag once a day, it might help build it more quickly. I'll try to find something to post as I go through the archives today.