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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 15h

Loved Black Cake, so I’ve been looking forward to reading Charmaine Wilkerson’s second novel. #Owntober

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 21h

Switching gears to something completely different. #Owntober

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Are they EVER going to give these poor people a recipe for the technical?!?

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Started out as a great morning, with a bit of sleeping in, a trip to the farmers market, and my favorite breakfast burrito. Then we turned on the latest GBBO episode, and my good mood was ruined. 😂

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Can't someone in Gen X step up? I don't want to hear you've been skipped over yet again if we get a millennial president first. 😂 (And don't remind me, I turn 40 myself in 2028...)

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I learned yesterday that he's not even 40 yet. I also understand why he might want to wait a bit!

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I mean, not unprecedented. We've all seen those instances where someone darkens their opponent's skin or whatever other racist nonsense they can come up with. But wow.

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Let me be the dozenth to say: Lexicon is so fun

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧵 about the 250th and how much of the activity was decentralized at state and local level. (The November issue of #AHAPerspectives will include a sampling of accounts from the historians and curators behind such programming, including at least one that John names below.)

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This one has been recommended to me so many times. Probably took me too long to get to it! #Owntober

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 07/10/2026

"Teaching students how historians work, rather than simply what historians know, has proved a powerful pedagogical tool." In #AHAPerspectives, Arminda Lawrence Sr. shares a class assignment that asks high school students to research, write, and edit their own history book.

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Making Students into Historians – AHA

In a high school historical methods course, students researched, wrote, and edited their own history books.

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the second, Arminda Lawrence Sr. discusses the methods class she has developed for high school seniors, in which the class completes two monographs (from choosing topics all the way through final edits) on local Atlanta history. #AHAPerspectives

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Making Students into Historians – AHA

In a high school historical methods course, students researched, wrote, and edited their own history books.

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the latest issue of #AHAPerspectives, we had a nice pairing of articles about high school history education. Coincidentally, both were in Atlanta! In the first, Katherine Perrotta + Leah Panther write about students doing research on and with the Black community around Stone Mountain.

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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 · 07/10/2026

I believe I was shown it in an undergrad class (in which we also we read the novel). And it had stayed with me forever!

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Show them Mickey Mouse in blackface in that Uncle Tom's Cabin cartoon, see if that provokes a reaction

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Recent one that I'm enjoying is Blair Braverman's What to Carry, What to Burn. Each episode is a different story of survival (shipwrecks, plane crashes, solo trips gone wrong, etc.).

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The toppings made me wonder if Paul saw an ad for Crumbl cookies and thinks that’s what all American cookies are.

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Starting with a book I received as a gift from one of my best friends. #Owntober

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Often in January, I put aside library books (and the due dates that often drive my reading) and read exclusively books I own. I call it #Ownuary. The TBR shelf has filled again, so I am ready to start an #Owntober. Let’s see how many I can get moved off this shelf in the next 4 weeks!

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

23. Read a microhistory. @rebeccaromney.com achieved something special and beautiful with Jane Austen’s Bookshelf. And it’s been the perfect companion to my yearlong Austen class!

JANE AUSTEN'S BOOKSHELF
A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
REBECCA ROMNEY

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There once was an improv theater in Philadelphia that brought in scholars to give a brief talk before it inspired the improv. They often invited historians like @jackiantonovich.bsky.social (which is how I learned about it)

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Finding the Funny – AHA

History hits the comedy stage at the Philly Improv Theater.

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jim Grossman has often referenced a talk Welke gave about this project and how moving it was. I will definitely be checking this out.

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes, I update that religiously! The only social media that doesn't inevitably depress me, lol (as long as I ignore its ownership)

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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 want to know about how she decided on the demon *ahem* body differences. 😂 (Though I'll need you to report back )

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I loooooved that book. Epistolary novels are often a hit for me, but the main character was written particularly well through her crotchety letters.

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At the same time, I miss the good stuff. The connections with long-time mutuals, the jokes, the book recs, the amazing work you all do (especially the historians). But I've started to think those days won't come back any time soon.

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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

22. Read a YA book by a Latine author. The Poet X by @acevedowrite.bsky.social is a stunning achievement, a novel written in the form of spoken word poetry. Acevedo reads the audiobook, which makes for a special listening experience.

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (audiobook cover)

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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 thought the leads were pretty good, and her friend Ahn too. They have to condense some story stuff, but most of the major beats are still there!

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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 · 26/09/2026

NEXT YEAR?? How is that possible

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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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