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Karin Wulf

@kawulf.bsky.social
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Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U #LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 28m
Absolutely this. There are experts out there, many of whom are sharing their work all the time. No need to "be someone else’s hype man if you don’t understand what you’re hyping."
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 14h
decade!
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 15h
Letters of recommendation! Overdue email! Run wild! Ask me how I know.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 15h
Starting to think it's the only option.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 15h
The tension between "stay informed" and "stay sane" is really something this weekend.
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
+ & the 452nd episode of @lizcovart.bsky.social’s Ben Franklin World’s podcast is a fascinating conversation with Timothy Compeau, Bonnie Huskins, & @kacytillman.bsky.social about everyday Loyalists in the Revolution. + benfranklinsworld.com/episode-452-...
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Episode 452: How Everyday Loyalists Experienced the American Revolution - Ben Franklin's World
Understand the American Revolution through Loyalist eyes and explore how everyday Loyalists experienced the Revolution.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 23h
Behold!! On this Indigenous People’s Day, the first page of the first number of THE CHEROKEE PHOENIX (1828)- featuring the Cherokee Constitution in English & Cherokee, in the syllabary created by Sequoyah. An epic milestone in Native American history and the history of print
Picture of the newspaper - with an engraving of a great Phoenix at the top, and double columns of type below, with English and Cherokee juxtaposed
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
2. Any discussion about higher ed that misses that women and people of color were largely excluded until the *1970s* misses the fulcrum of these debates. 6/
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A good day to revisit some thoughts about how we understand what’s actually happening in higher ed and why it’s so important to get robust coverage.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In re Seth’s first book on labor in early Baltimore inconveniently documenting racism and sexism.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Thank you @adamserwer.bsky.social for the fullest account of what’s actually dangerous in higher ed right now. State censorship at incredible scale. And for particulars of expert history framed as ideology I note @sethrockman.bsky.social on the block here. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas
The state now controls what professors can teach.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Bit of a break this weekend and starting by digging into @kkdumez.bsky.social essential new book. Read the intro a few weeks ago and have been holding on to this pocket of time. It’s sad, it’s enraging, it’s patriarchy. Also you learn where that perky LLL phrase originated.
Book on table bright red cover with a mid century woman silhouette title Live Love Laugh the secret history of white Christian women and the world they made
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The magic of @jcblibrary.bsky.social.. Charles Walker eminent historian of the Túpac Amaru rebellion, here to give the annual Bromsen lecture, points to a contemporary ref to Tupac that he’d never seen until… yesterday. 🤯🤓
Man pointing to a screen with a blown up printed text with mss inc note about Túpac amaru
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 10/10/2026
The Museum of African American History in Boston and Nantucket has received a $2.5 million Lilly grant to support research and broaden public understanding of Black Christian life and thought in the 18th and 19th centuries. baystatebanner.com/2026/10/08/m...
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 10/10/2026
Congregants celebrate the reconstruction of First Baptist Church of Williamsburg. Established by enslaved and free Black Americans in 1776, in defiance of laws banning Black assemblage and congregation, it is one of America's oldest Black churches abcnews.com/US/wireStory...
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Congregants celebrate the reconstruction of one of America's oldest Black churches
The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, one of the oldest Black churches in the U.S., celebrated the reconstruction of its original meeting house with a re-dedication on Friday
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The magic of @jcblibrary.bsky.social.. Charles Walker eminent historian of the Túpac Amaru rebellion, here to give the annual Bromsen lecture, points to a contemporary ref to Tupac that he’d never seen until… yesterday. 🤯🤓
Man pointing to a screen with a blown up printed text with mss inc note about Túpac amaru
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
💥💥💥TODAY! 💥💥💥 Join us for a talk by Peter C. Mancall about his most recent book, Contested Continent, which recounts how North America was forged from the experiences of millions of Indigenous women and men as well as Europeans and Africans. Free and open to the public, with reception to follow.
The poster features the cover of Mancall's book as well as the logistical information about the talk, which will take place on Thursday, October 8 at 4:30 pm at 94 George Street with a reception to follow.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a book. Highly recommend, relevant then, relevant now. I knew and appreciated it (and her work on race and regency!) before I got to know the wonderful @triciamatthew.bsky.social. I'm so sorry for the grief of this anniversary, but so grateful for both book and author.
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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'll never understand how "a lot of mostly/potentially/probably incorrect metadata is better for digital discovery than accurate but sparse metadata" became a popular idea than "we will put things online more slowly, but we will do it with accuracy"
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I really need to stop writing my last book. But it would help if there were fewer contemporary politicos with as much confidence and just about as much sense as Blackstone about patriarchy.
Screenshot from Blackstone's vol 1 p 78 of the Commnentaries, yellowed paper, eighteenth-centurey type.
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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey historians! Check out this incredible CFP and please share!🗃️ atlanticexchanges.wm.edu/home-2/2027-...
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2027 Workshop Call for Proposals - Atlantic Exchanges Workshop
Atlantic Exchanges 2027 Slavery and the Commercial Machinery of Empires The Atlantic Exchanges Workshop invites proposals for its second edition, […]
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Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Many thanks to @ala-booklist.bsky.social!!
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Anya Jabour @herstoryprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Highly recommend working @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social
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Patricia Hswe @pmhswe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Friends, please check out this new report on community-based archives, "Powerful But Precarious," linked from the Mellon website. A participatory action research study, it provides a rich portrait of these organizations—their aspirations, wants, and resilience. Enjoy! www.mellon.org/features/com...
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Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Historians know how important it is to understand the particulars and also how important it is not to let the larger context go unexamined. Historically, violence against women is not an eppidemic, it's endemic. //
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
College SA and policy failure in the context of so many other locations and policies. My colleague Wendy Schiller on domestic violence for ex which is overwhelmingly violence against women. In the US one in 4 *every year.* home.watson.brown.edu/research/res...
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Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States
Wendy Schiller recently co-authored a new book titled, Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can't summon the vocabulary for the last (week? months? years?) of emotional regulation required on this topic. I can't say I don't have *any* friends who never experienced SA, but most have. Mine was at 13-- or the worst, anyway. As a historian, my point is that college SA is in a context.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The whole world as sports ball, 16thc style.
A hand which looks to me like a baseball mitt holding the earth looking like a baseball, tonal, from an early modern print with latin visible.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Contrary to billing change over time as our beat, as a historian I'm here to tell you that violence against women is an absolute constant. Not generations but centuries of activism & policies have made that violence only somewhat more public. Our daily news reminds us how and why.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's esp important for male academics to learn more about how problematic the Title IX process is and how poorly universities treat survivors. I helped organize a conference panel on this topic in 2022. The room was full--of women. Two men came. This isn't a women's issue, it's a human issue.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Among other things am delighted that almost 100 years ago someone else was doing the same thing I do to figure out birthdates. Smudgey pencil satisfaction no thank you Claude/ Chat/AgentX.
Organey paper with two calclations in pencil for a birthdate of 1745 and 1735 each figured from a year and an age.
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Had bookmarked this and just now listened. Fantastic episode. The enslavement of Native Americans was based on *where* they were. They were on land that settler Americans wanted. It was qualitatively distinct from the enslavement of African Americans and those differences need to be understood.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s not just the stupidity but the *aggressive* stupidity, daring you to object or even register it.
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My department is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor of Public History! I am on the committee so please let me know if you have questions and please feel free to share! Job ID 303951. campus.kennesaw.edu/faculty-staf...
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Careers - Human Resources
find your next great career opportunity by finding jobs through the Department of Human Resources at Kennesaw State University!
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh and a whole convo about gender studies as the ur curriculum of the news cycle.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just had lunch w 6 undergrad researchers @theotherrbg.bsky.social and I have been working w and let me tell you the JOY of hearing them talk about ideas, history, literature, languages, science for humanity, classes on theory and why they want all that in the face of AI. We were 🥹🥹!
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
omg
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We might need the cheering!!
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
😄 🏈
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*now indescribably enhanced by @meaghanbrown.bsky.social's leadership of all things digital! We're lucky that the JCB is right-sized for ambitious/ experimental workflows, and that we have collaborative folks working across cataloging, digital, collections management & conservation teams.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As ever on point @rschon.bsky.social! Reading abt next steps for rare materials digitization +access I'm feeling *so* good abt @jcblibrary.bsky.social's work. nb when I call cataloging ->digitzation workflow* my main achievment & they think I'm kidding. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/09/29/a...
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Are libraries prepared for the second digital transformation of distinctive collections?
Academic and research libraries, as well as public libraries, historical societies, and other organizations, hold extensive collections of rare and unique materials, such as archival and manuscript co...
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"To create a new account ... to sign in ... to declare online profile bankruptcy..."
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ella Hawkins is a genius; I have so many posts about her research and otherwise buscuit projects saved to admire!
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When the "biscuification" is part of the research. Such a great illustration of what we tell students (and ourselves?) eg research is the process not just the product.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"biscuified!" 🤩
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No need for gender studies here, nope good thing we're doing away with that.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Literally just discussing at work why/ how our local (Providence Place) has this in effect. Terrible that kids have no social spaces.
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