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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network ‪@womenshistnet.bsky.social‬ annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...

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The Women’s History Network Annual Conference

Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections Reg…

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Rust Belt Lab @rustbeltlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

We're currently accepting articles for our 2026 issue, The Regenerative Rust Belt. Send us your articles and write with any questions. Also, please share the CFP far and wide! @katietrostel.bsky.social @valentinolzullo.bsky.social #academicsky #booksky

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1970: As many as 20,000 women protest in the Women’s Strike for Equality in New York City, with more throughout the U.S. The event was held on the 50th anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the constitutional right to vote. /1

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Women's Suffrage in the U.S., record numbers of women march along 5th Avenue in New York City on Aug. 26, 1970. Photo credit: Fred W. McDarrah / Getty Images.

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Read about John Hurty and the wider scope of eugenics in Indiana in our September 2010 issue. #Indiana #PublicHealth #eugenics #sterilization #Skystorians #IUScholarWorks

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The booklet also offered judgment on who should and who should not reproduce: "Those possessing inherited, and hence transmissible physical and mental defects, should never become parents." Under the 1907 state law, across several decades, at least 2,500 people were involuntarily sterilized.

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Hurty, for 26 years the secretary of the state Board of Health, reformed public health in Indiana in the early 20th century; he was also an influential proponent of eugenic theory. Among the board's many publications was The Indiana Mothers' Baby Book, which offered tips on baby care.

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

In 1907, Indiana became the first state to pass a eugenics-based sterilization law, allowing sterilization of the imprisoned and institutionalized who were deemed mentally or morally deficient. One of the most influential proponents of eugenic theory in early 20th-century Indiana was Dr. John Hurty.

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Ed Fujawa @edfujawa.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Perfect weather this week for some time in our local parks, including White River State Park downtown. This post takes a detailed look at a 1981 panoramic photo of the land that what would become @WhiteRiverStPrk. www.class900indy.com/post/panoram...

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Panorama of White River State Park: A Closer Look

Exploring several highlights contained within a 1981 panoramic photo taken of Indianapolis from a vantage point in White River State Park.

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

In "Indiana's Public Health Pioneer and History's Iron Pen," Burek Pierce examines Hurty's innovations in public health as well as his advocacy for eugenic principles and practices. #IUScholarWorks #PublicHealth #Indiana #eugenics #sterilization #Skystorians

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Nearly a decade before the federal 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, Hurty had put into place regulations to improve the quality of food, water, and drugs in the state of Indiana. Read more about Hurty's work in public health in Jennifer Burek Pierce's article in our September 2010 issue.

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

John N. Hurty was the secretary of the Indiana State Board of Health from 1896 to 1922. He advocated for a scientific approach to public health and became so well-known for a variety of public health reforms that a state medical journal titled him "Indiana's most useful citizen."

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Read William G. Eidson's "Confusion, Controversy, and Quarantine" in our December 1990 issue. #IUScholarWorks #vaccines #PublicHealth #Muncie #Indiana #Skystorians

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

150 Muncie citizens contracted smallpox during the epidemic of 1893; 22 died. Nearly half the population was vaccinated; infected citizens were cared for in two hastily constructed quarantine hospitals. On November 4, 1893, the quarantine was lifted.

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Mix one grain of sulphate of zinc and one grain of foxglove (digitalis) in half a teaspoon of water, add four ounces of water, and drink. This "infallible" mixture, according to advertisements in Muncie newspapers in August 1893, would cure smallpox within twelve hours.

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

We are thrilled to share the programme for our upcoming seminar series. Please continue to check our socials and our website over the coming weeks as the links to register for each of the seminars are published. We look forward to seeing you all there!

A document entitled 'The Women's History Network Autumn Seminar Series' detailing the five seminars which will comprise our upcoming series. The seminars are as follows: A Special Roundtable on 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View' at 4pm BST on 10 September 2025, a paper entitled 'Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan' by Christine De Matos at 10am BST on 24 September 2025, a paper entitled 'Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty' by Margarette Lincoln at 4pm BST on 1 October 2025, a paper (title TBC) by Merry Wiesner-Hanks at 4pm BST on 15 October 2025, and a special roundtable entitled 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' at 4pm GMT on 5 November 2025.

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Sara Catterall @scatterall.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

My biography of Amelia Bloomer just got another nice review, this one from the Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social The author wished I had given more detail on where to read more of Bloomer's writing. Here you go!

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Where to read The Lily and The Mayflower

A recent review of Amelia Bloomer: Journalist, Suffragist, Anti-fashion Icon in the Indiana Magazine of History was very complimentary. The author wanted to read more of Bloomer’s writing, wh…

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

We're glad we could feature a review of your book, Sara. Thanks for the recommendations for more readings!

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Ten thousand of the 22,000 citizens in Muncie were eventually vaccinated. 150 people contracted smallpox; 22 died. Read William Eidson's "Confusion, Controversy, and Quarantine" in our December 1990 issue. #IUScholarWorks #epidemics #vaccination #Muncie #smallpox

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

When the local schools required every child to be vaccinated in order to attend class, the local Anti-Vaccination Society filed a legal complaint. Newspapers were filled with ads for "cures," such as drinking a quart of water in which a spoonful of cream of tartar had been dissolved.

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Other local doctors questioned the diagnosis. Many of the infected families, and their neighbors, defied the quarantine, going in and out of each other's houses by the back door to avoid the guards at the front. Some families threw infected bedding into neighbors' yards.

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

In August 1893, Dr. Frank Jackson, city health officer of Muncie, diagnosed 14 cases of smallpox within one of the city's neighborhoods. The city council quarantined the affected houses, called for a widespread vaccination program, and began building 2 hospitals to house the sick.

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The Organization of American Historians @oah.org · 14/08/2025

📢 The OAH has issued a Statement on the White House Review of the Smithsonian. Read the statement: ow.ly/hgLR50WGhfQ

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Find out more in "Confusion, Controversy, and Quarantine: The Muncie Smallpox Epidemic of 1893" by William Eidson, in our December 1990 issue, available online through IU ScholarWorks. #vaccines #smallpox #Muncie #ProjectMuse #IUScholarWorks

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Skepticism and impatience soon took over, with other local doctors challenging Johnson's diagnosis and affected families defying the quarantine. Muncie residents were slow to take the vaccine--and the disease continued to spread.

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

What Johnson found was the first case of smallpox to appear in Muncie since an epidemic in 1876. Further investigation found more children and adults in the same neighborhood with similar symptoms. City officials, after consideration, implemented a quarantine around affected homes.

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

August is National Immunization Awareness Month. Vaccines have a long history in Indiana. In August 1893, Dr. Frank Johnson, the first public health officer of Muncie, Indiana, was called out to see a child suffering, he was told, from chicken pox.

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

historian and scholar friends (I forget the hashtag for this lol): What are some good secondary sources analyzing racial capitalism/industrialization and Native American removal in the 19th century? please repost! thanks in advance!

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Since the 1950s, Summer Language Workshops at Indiana University have provided training in Russian, East European, and Central Asian languages. Generations have come to Bloomington to study Romanian, Polish, Kazakh, etc. Rubio just cancelled all of them languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-langu...

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Title VIII: Funding: Summer Language Workshop: Language Workshop: Indiana University Bloomington

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

KKK was *everywhere* in 1920s Indiana. George Dale, the editor of a Muncie newspaper, refused to bow to them. He survived and eventually became mayor. For more on "the crossroads of America" in this era, see also: James Madison, _A Lynching in the Heartland_ Timothy Egan, _Fever in the Heartland_

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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

If you're struggling to understand how eugenics impacts daily life right now, I recommend going back to the historical records to see how the eugenics movement took off 100 years ago. We need to be able to recognize it when we see it, so that we can push back and resist. 1/20

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New at PB, Jessica Rucker interviews @katemasur.bsky.social about her new graphic novel “Freedom Was In Sight” (@uncpress.bsky.social with illustrations by Liz Clarke), which uses storytelling and illustration to tell the history of Reconstruction.

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Rethinking Reconstruction: Kate Masur on Freedom Was in Sight

“Freedom Was in Sight” conveys that even as Reconstruction ended and the Jim Crow order took shape in the South, not everything was lost.

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The Journal of the Civil War Era @jcwe.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Please consider applying for this awesome opportunity!

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Today (Feb 22) in 1943, three courageous young people in the group White Rose were executed for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets in Germany. Sophie Scholl: "The greatest damage is caused by the silent majority that just wants to survive, submit and go along with everything."

Black and white photo of Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst, three members of White Rose who were executed for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets in Germany in 1943

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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The federal government has now removed the entire LGBTQ Heritage Theme Study from the National Park Service website. Be a rebel - read banned history. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho... 🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈 🍎 🗺️ #sschat #skystorians

Cover of LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of LGBTQ History published by the NPS

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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Not sure if it was the same tour but here’s a post (and thread) I did earlier about the site where Frederick Douglass got rushed by a mob in nearby Pendleton which also was the site of the hanging of three men who murdered Native Americans bsky.app/profile/hist...

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Journal of Southern History @joursouhist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This is just a portion of the publications we consult to compile the annual bibliography of articles in southern history. We regularly check 300+ different journal titles! But also, if you've had an article out in 2024 related to the history of the U.S. South, let us know so we can check it out.

tall stack of print journals of various titles (owl stuffed animal sitting on top)

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

To dismiss the grief in Victorian stories as old-fashioned is to assume they're outdated bc of the passage of time. But a high child mortality rate was eradicated not by time, but by effort. To dismantle a century of resolute public health measures, like vaccination, invites those horrors to return.

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Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today

Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Learn more about Byron's work in Peggy Siegel's "A Fort Wayne Nurse, A Public Health Crisis, and World War I," in the March 2021 issue of the IMH. #Indiana #publichealth #historyofnursing. 118 years of the journal's articles are available online at scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind....

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

In the early 20th century, 4,000 Hoosiers died every year from tuberculosis. Irene Byron was a public health nurse in Fort Wayne, Indiana, serving for four years as part of the city's campaign against the disease. Byron worked in the city clinic and tent hospital, and visited patients at home.

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Read more about Douglass's visit to Indianapolis and the pioneering work of Moses Broyles, pastor, educator, and activist, in "We Have a Right to Live in This Country" in our March 2024 issue. #projectmuse #Blackhistory #Baptisthistory #FrederickDouglass #Indiana

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

After his first night's speech, Douglass demanded that the audience be desegregated and refused to appear again until his demand was met. Fearing the loss of revenue, the organization conceded. Douglass spoke to packed houses for two nights.

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Rev. Moses Broyles, pastor of Second Baptist Church in Indianapolis, was instrumental in bringing Frederick Douglass to the city to speak at a two-night fundraiser for the local YMCA. The organization set aside seats for Black audience members in the balcony of the local opera house.

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The Appeal Army enlisted thousands of women volunteers across the country to spread support for Socialism. Read about Indiana's ties to this Kansas newspaper in Michelle Morahn's "Comrade Wives Behind the Scenes," in the March 2022 issue of the IMH. #Socialism #Indiana #women'shistory

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Indiana Magazine of History @inhistoryeditor.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In 1907, Eugene Debs joined the staff of Appeal to Reason, a Socialist newspaper based in Girard, Kansas. His wife Katherine formed personal and professional relationships with some of the women instrumental to the paper's success, especially Grace Babbitt Brewer, the head of the Appeal Army.

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 06/12/2024

The AHR’s December 2024 issue is now available. This issue inaugurates the annual publication of a special issue of the journal. Inside the issue authors explore how historical context and contingency shape and inflect resilience. 🗃️

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Volume 129 Issue 4 | The American Historical Review | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the American Historical Association. Publishes research that brings together scholarship from every major field of historical study. Articles include original interpretation an...

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Commonplace: the journal of early American life @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🎤 Is this thing on? Hi, Bluesky! We're Commonplace Journal, an online publication for anyone interested in American history before 1900. Slightly less formal than a journal, slightly more scholarly than a popular magazine, we strive to bring early American history to a wide audience.

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Calvin Schermerhorn @calscherm.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It arrived! Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery by @sethrockman.bsky.social tells a story of American capitalism through the materials that connected enslavers and “coerced consumers” to spinners weavers & owners in the North press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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