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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I am exploring the Erie Canal in advance of tonight’s talk. Here’s original lock doors complete with original timber and hardware. So cool! 🗃️

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Timeline refresh with garden fresh veggies!

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The birds leave the raspberries but devour my blueberries. They left me just a few.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Even if you can't taste them, the sight of the enormous number of raspberries I harvested today from my yard might make your evening a bit sweeter.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Excited to share some seeds from my garden with @drhonor.bsky.social and other @shearites.bsky.social! My lupines bloomed earlier this month. I'm now gathering seeds. I hope to also bring some of last year's bean seeds. What seeds might you share?

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"Lepler does a wonderful job," Aaron W. Marrs writes in his new review of Canal Dreamers in the Journal of the Early Republic, suggesting that its historiographical contribution gives us "much to ponder." 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social @shearites.bsky.social #skystorians muse.jhu.edu/article/991497

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I’m thinking you might need this lupine loveliness today.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

And if you like your aphids eaten, here’s a gorgeous sight.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

And if you like apine beauty, here’s a dose.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Perhaps we could all use a little bit of lupine beauty.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

In some sort of secret sale, Amazon is selling the hardback of Canal Dreamers at less than half the retail price of the paperback. I wonder if this is algorithm specific to my account. Weird! a.co/d/0ctzDVO2 @uncpress.bsky.social

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I was walking through town today and stopped in my local bookstore. It was so heartwarming to see Canal Dreamers facing out at the top of the "American History" shelves. @uncpress.bsky.social 🗃️

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Canal Dreamers looks good large! How fun to celebrate books with the team at @uncpress.bsky.social in their booth @oah.org. If you are at the conference, check out the small version that you can actually open and read. 🗃️ #skystorians @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

Author holding her book in front of a poster depicting her book and several others.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Hey Philly Folks! I will be talking about my new book Canal Dreamers at the Library Company on April 15 at 5 PM (night before the OAH). It's an in person event. Register here: support.librarycompany.org/event/canal-... 🗃️ #skystorians #history @uncpress.bsky.social @mcneilcenter.bsky.social @oah.org

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This evening, my amazing UNH students churned butter with hundreds of elementary school students. This is our second year bringing humanities to STEAM night. Full SHTEAM ahead! Read about last year's event here: www.historians.org/perspectives... 🧈👶💪 🗃️ #skystorians

UNH Butter Churning Team poses for STEAM Night.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

My morning reading just won a Bancroft! Go Emilie Connolly! Eager to read Beth Lew-Williams’s winner too! 🗃️ #skystorians

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Hi #skystorians! A freshman in my History of Animals course wants to do research on the history of service animals. I would love some recommendations for secondary sources to get her started. Anybody working at the intersection of disability history and animal history? 🗃️#animalhistory

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Cultivated to be ephemeral, this Shaw's orchid has survived a decade. It was on death's door a few years ago. It hadn't produced a bud in about five years. And then, in the last six months, it has produced two rounds of flowers. Resiliency in floral form, and a model for us all.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Despite a nasty cold, I thoroughly enjoyed my chat with @londomomposino.bsky.social on his Colombia Calling podcast. His enthusiasm for my research was heartwarming. I loved discussing the British and Spanish American aspects of Canal Dreamers. colombiacalling.co #skystorians @uncpress 🗃️

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

@ksalex10.bsky.social and I wrote a new article about UNH students churning butter with 500 5-12 year olds to bring the humanities into an elementary school's STEAM night. The kids ate it up! Find the full article in @historians.org "Perspectives Magazine" www.historians.org/perspectives... 🗃️

Image of the UNH Butter Churning Team in an Elementary School Classroom.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Thank you @katecarp.bsky.social for the fabulous @draftingthepast.bsky.social swag! I totally approve of your color choice! It coordinates well with my ocean blue office. I had so much fun talking about history writing on your show and look forward to sipping my coffee along with future episodes. 🗃️

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Tonight’s aurora borealis in New Hampshire. Arctic temps are accompanying it. Brrrr

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I was so fortunate to share the evening’s celebration with my inspiring colleague Lucy Salyer who won the Graduate Faculty Mentor Award. I am very grateful to Kurk Dorsey who nominated me, and Molly Dorsey who is my encouraging and supportive department chair.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Last night, I was awarded a College Teaching Excellence Award from UNH. I count it amongst the highest honors of my career, and am so grateful for the more than 1,000 UNH students who have made teaching a joy for me for my 17 years here.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

It's not every day an author enjoys a phenomenal book review from a leading historian who also happens to be a descendant of one of the subjects of her book. Thank you for taking us on this walk with you @benjaminepark.bsky.social! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/p/19oo...

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The Canvas outage today made me think about that episode of "Arthur" when the internet goes out and, horror of horrors, the kids have to play with analog toys like Polaroid cameras. They end up having a blast. Here's hoping my students picked up the awesome book due next week. #academicsky

Cartoon of a photograph with a group of characters from the show Arthur in front of a tree.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I know Amazon's "Best Seller's Rank" is a fraught measure, but teenage me, who dreamed of becoming a US historian, would be so tickled to learn that, for a moment, she had authored a number one best-selling book in Nicaraguan history. @uncpress.bsky.social

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

At 7 PM tonight, I will be talking at Water Street Books in Exeter, NH. So excited to share my research! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Tonight’s full moonrise is breathtaking. What a lovely and slightly haunting end to an 82 degree day in October in New Hampshire. I appreciate the free trip to Florida, but global warming much?

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I really needed a sign today that what I do as a historian matters. I did not expect to literally see a sign. On the sidewalk. And in the window. Hooray for local bookstores! Water Street Bookstore totally made my day! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

The colors from my garden brighten any day!

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

One of the good things that happens when your book is about to celebrate its publication day is that you get to return books to the library. This is the first of three wagonloads! What will I fill those shelves with now that Canal Dreamers is done? 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Last week, a very special package from @uncpress.bsky.social arrived! I was traveling and eager to touch the Word files turned into PDF files transformed into real paper between glossy covers. Canal Dreamers is a dream come true for me! My nine-year-old son snapped a perfect memory of the moment. 🗃️

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

That’s it for me for #SHEAR2025. It was short but sweet. We had a full house at our panel this morning (ignore my empty chair), and I had a blast with old and new friends. Time to race home for my son’s Seussical Jr. performance. And I hear there’s a book—20 years in the making—waiting for me.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Might a giant bowl of hand-picked and home-grown raspberries brighten your day?

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Here’s today’s harvest. A bounty of color in the midst of a heatwave.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Gardening can be very therapeutic in troubling times. Here’s yesterday’s small but mighty harvest of beans and berries.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

So happy to catch up with my pal and @uncpress.bsky.social editor @dgershenowitz.bsky.social at #SHAFR2025. We are both so excited to hold Canal Dreamers in our hot little hands later this summer.

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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

So excited to talk about Canal Dreamers with these awesome folks tomorrow morning at #shafr2025. Join us! @uncpress.bsky.social @shafrhistorians.bsky.social 🗃️