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Laura Ansley

@lmansley.bsky.social
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Director of Publications, @historians.org | Emerita, @nursingclio.bsky.social | she/her

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 9h
Girls don’t want boys girls want books that scratch precisely the same itch as the Westing Game
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 30/09/2026
How can you teach a state’s "hard histories" when state laws ban divisive concepts? In #AHAPerspectives, Katherine Perrotta and Leah Panther use place-based learning to engage students with the histories of Confederate monuments and race in Shermantown and Stone Mountain, Georgia.
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“Things Happened There” – AHA
Youth participatory action research projects invite students to investigate the complex histories of Stone Mountain and Shermantown, Georgia.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've been staying off social media a lot, because it's simply not healthy (physically, mentally, spiritually, you name it) to face this constant barrage of horrors so casually and constantly. From our politics to war to AI to sexual violence—I simply can't scroll all the time anymore.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Going to be speaking on this webinar panel tomorrow, and I’m really looking forward to 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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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Fall, join us as we share the importance of experts in the humanities & social sciences. Why do we need more historians, anthropologists, philosophers, sociologists, religious studies scholars, literary scholars? It’s time to highlight their value — now more than ever.
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2026 ACLS Social Media Campaign Toolkit
ACLS invites scholars and advocates to make a case for disciplines and research in the humanities and social sciences on social media.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 23/09/2026
Undergraduates: submit to #AHA27's Undergraduate Poster Session by October 22. The Poster Session is an opportunity for undergraduates to share their research with peers and established scholars in a visual format.
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Presenting Undergraduate Research at the Annual Meeting - AHA
Learn how to submit a proposal to present your undergraduate thesis or research at the AHA annual meeting.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 23/09/2026
The September #AHR is now available! In #AHAPerspectives, get a sneak peek at the latest issue, featuring new scholarship on Africa, Indonesia, the environment, and the family, plus a History Lab forum, History Unclassified essays, new #AHRSyllabus modules, and more.
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Nature’s Archive and Family Archives – AHA
Get a sneak peek of the September 2026 issue of the American Historical Review.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One of the great privileges of my time at the AHA has been editing the obituaries we publish in #AHAPerspectives. It’s such a special genre of writing. So I’m greatly enjoying reading Are They Dead Yet? by Sam Roberts.
Are They Dead Yet? The Art of the Obit by Sam Roberts
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have watched The Love Hypothesis movie. Missing a little of the sparkle of the book but a decent adaptation. 💕🧪
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Are you joining us in New Orleans this January? Registration for #AHA27 is now open!
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Sarah Handley-Cousins @sarahbelle721.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Joan Scott's "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis" turns 40 this year! Do you assign it? Has it been meaningful for your work? We want to hear from you!! Please submit reflections & remembrances to Nursing Clio & we'll compile a celebratory post! 🗃️ nursingclio.org/2026/09/23/a...
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Anglo-American Gender History turns 40!
Joan Wallach Scott’s 1986 article “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” turns 40 this year. Published in the American Historical Review, this article laid the ground on which Anglo-Ame…
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No matter how many times I receive one, those "you're a great editor!" emails from authors are always a treat.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It was a really fun evening! And now I gotta get back to the DAR Museum to check out the exhibits.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Breaking news: Leaving the house for a book talk and then dinner with friends is good, actually. Even if you gotta go downtown for it!
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I hope folks understand that this is a reaction to the Ellipse, the Reflecting Pool, the East Wing, the fences, the barriers, the National Guard, and the general state of the city, as well as the Kennedy Center.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
People forming a human chain around the Kennedy center
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
beyond bad faith part of what is happening here is that people who think this are basically incapable of thinking historically and see the political world as simply a set of actions and reactions.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 18/09/2026
Action Alert: The Department of Education has proposed changes to higher education accreditation that could weaken scholarly standards, treat ideological diversity as a measure of educational quality, and undervalue faculty expertise. Submit a public comment by Sept. 21. 🗃️
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Action Alert: Tell the Department of Education: Protect Academic Accreditation
The Department of Education has proposed an overhaul of the accreditation system for higher education in the Federal Register: Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization: The Secretary’s Recognition...
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 17/09/2026
Today, AHA executive director Sarah Weicksel joined members of Congress at the Capitol to announce the Smithsonian Integrity and Historical Independence Act of 2026. Read more about today’s press conference here: www.historians.org/news/aha-exe...
A group of individuals stand on the steps of the US Capitol, some holding signs that read "Hands off the Smithsonian." "Without that independence, we risk not only the integrity of historical interpretation but public trust in one of our most important public institutions."
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We ended up using it for the #AHAPerspectives September issue cover! Issue should be arriving in your mailbox now, and we'll be rolling out the articles online over the next month or so. Enjoy!
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September 2026
Read the September issue of Perspectives on History.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 16/09/2026
The nation’s largest gathering of historians is heading to New Orleans! 🎉 The #AHA27 program is now online, featuring 490+ sessions and events on research, teaching, professional development, public engagement, and more. Join us January 7–10, 2027:
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Program - AHA
Programs At the annual meeting, historians explore new approaches to research, teaching, public engagement, professional development, and more. Explore the schedule and plan your meeting experience us...
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When the science is on earthquakes, you have to be where the earth shakes! For the #histsci fans out there: Cristián Castro shares the story of how Chile, Japan, and the United States became the center of seismology. 🗃️
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Seismic Pacific – AHA
Over the course of the 20th century, the Pacific Rim, long treated as peripheral, became central to the production of earthquake knowledge.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Besides the obvious, egregious problems here, how could it possibly cost $7,000 per sign?!
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.
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Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net
1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On the way to the office today, I passed the spot on Columbia Island where Trump wants to put that absurd arch (between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery). There was a tiny protest of about 4–5 people there, standing up and speaking out against it. ✊🏻
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Those outside the DC region may not realize what a cultural gem the Kennedy Center is. I've seen musicals, ballet, and orchestral concerts there. It's been devastating to see this longstanding institution become a political football and be dismantled due to one person's narcissism.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 15/09/2026
After four seasons, History in Focus is taking a pause. In this special coda episode, Daniel Story looks back at the podcast’s journey and its collaborations. Thank you, @danieljstory.bsky.social, for four seasons of thoughtful, creative storytelling and for all you’ve brought to History in Focus!
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History in Focus Coda
In this special coda episode of History in Focus, Daniel says farewell, and looks back at four seasons of episodes and podcast collaborations.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 15/09/2026
What can a seized gold necklace tell us about women’s economic independence in Senegal? In #AHAPerspectives, summer columnist Becca Aponte traces how a dispute in colonial Senegal reveals the ways jewelry served as collateral, personal credit, and a marker of women’s social and economic status.
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Small Property, Big Meanings – AHA
A dispute over 11 francs and a stolen gold necklace in 1906 offers a vital insight into the economic world women in Senegal created for themselves.
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Becca Aponte @baponte.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Who doesn’t love some good old drama in the court records?! Thank you #AHAPerspectives for having me and sharing this work on ordinary women’s wearable wealth in colonial Senegal!
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In her second #AHAPerspectives column, @baponte.bsky.social shares a story about a stolen necklace, attempted stabbing, arrest, and trial in 1906 Senegal that illuminates the intersections of capitalism and women's history. 🗃️
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Small Property, Big Meanings – AHA
A dispute over 11 francs and a stolen gold necklace in 1906 offers a vital insight into the economic world women in Senegal created for themselves.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’m not watching the Emmys tonight, but this is perhaps the finest award preamble ever given.
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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
hello, edibuddies, an annual publication that I do copyediting for is looking for a new proofreader. Most of the freelance folks I know are copyeditors or developmental editors, so I'd be glad of any recommendations for folks who proofread academic work in the humanities/social sciences. thanks!
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M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska @mjrp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
looking for recommendations--has anyone written anything about the hashtag syllabus movement? or done any research into how people were actually using/engaging them? please help circulate if you see this...
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This past week, it was a year since The Nursing Clio Reader arrived. Still a marvel to me that this little blog project that @jackiantonovich.bsky.social dreamed up in a grad class has a book now and that I had the pleasure of helping create it. @nursingclio.bsky.social @rutgersupress.bsky.social 🗃️
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The Nursing Clio Reader
A powerful resource for classrooms and individual readers alike, The Nursing Clio Reader invites reflection on how the past informs current debates, urging us to engage deeply with the history of repr...
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Well there you go.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is circulating again—note that it’s from January, and it teases a conventional police procedural. The only real similarity to The Pitt that is cited is that … it will be an annual show with a season on the longer side. It is not, in any way, “a police version of The Pitt.”
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NOPE
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Whew—this hits me, personally, hard: "And although I know from speaking with multiple staffers that Trump’s attacks on the institution bolstered their commitment, time spent defending one’s work is time away from actually doing that work."
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Five years ago,Trevor Getz & Steve Harris did an #AHAPerspectives article about the History for the 21st Century initiative. Now, Jesse Spohnholz, Brenna Miller, Eric Nelson, Alex Honold, & Trevor Getz have returned with an update on the impressive teaching materials they have created. 🗃️
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Collaborating on the Intro Course, Five Years Later – AHA
Five years ago, History for the 21st Century set out to help fellow faculty rethink introductory courses through student-centered, inquiry-based learning. Now, they're sharing the classroom modules cr...
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sue Marchand knows her stuff about the classics and their influence on the present. It was a pleasure to work on this piece with her!
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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I have had this quote by Lonnie Bunch from the back cover of The 1619 Project on my office door for ages.
Let us use history to inspire us to push a country forward, to help us believe that all things are possible, and to demand a country lives up to its stated ideals.
LONNIE G. BUNCH II
14TH SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN
Not the original back cover, my image of that is blurry. I dolled this one up in canva- white serif font on blue starry background
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a post that goes even slightly viral will include a typo.
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Elliot C. Williams @ecwilliams.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How do Smithsonian employees around DC feel about this? DMs open / Signal: ecwilliams.30
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 08/09/2026
Upon the announcement of his upcoming retirement, the AHA congratulates Lonnie Bunch on his extraordinary tenure as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and his long career championing the importance of history in American life.
Lonnie Bunch speaking into a microphone at the AHA's 2025 annual meeting
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One of the most respected historians in the United States and a giant in the museums world—but above all, an incredible kind man. He will be president of the AHA in 2027 (taking the gavel during the January conference), and I could not be happier to have him lead the association in these times.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
From my dear friend @alexfinley.bsky.social:
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What are y’all reading this long weekend? #FridayReads My current reads in 📖 | 📱 | 📱:
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca RomneyEva Luna by Isabel Allende In Every Possible Way by Alicia Thompson
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Based on the university press directors email list discussion, all want to fix this! Reach out to your publisher ASAP.
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