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Marcy Norton

@marcynorton.bsky.social
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Historian & Writer. THE TAME & THE WILD: PEOPLE AND ANIMALS AFTER 1492 (Harvard, 2024).

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My blurb for Chloe Ireton’s new book, forthcoming from Hurst in November: “Chloe Ireton has brought to vivid life a love story in *Plotting for Freedom* and thereby made a unique, moving, deeply human, and sure to be lasting contribution to Atlantic history.” hurstpublishers.com/book/plottin...
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 12/09/2026
Every time a Democrat gets asked asked about “boys in girls sports” OR Hasan Piker, they should bring up this.
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Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Want to learn how early medieval people living on the coast in Scotland hunted seals and seabirds? Or how collecting sea snails on the beach was part of new Christian practice? You should check out my new article in Water History! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #medievalsky
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Wild animals, small practices, and the formation of an early medieval coastal landscape on the Firth of Forth - Water History
The large-scale landscape changes that occurred in northern Britain from roughly 400–800 C.E. were built on a vast array of smaller shifting practices which reflected the realities of local environmen...
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Upcoming conference at Columbia University on Thursday, September 24: "Animals Across Borders." Free and open to all, but you need to register ahead of time. Details on poster below.
A n i m a l s Across B o r d e r s
A Multidisciplinary Conference
L o c a t i o n
The Lehman Center
for American History
Columbia University
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9 am - s pm EST
Thursday
September 24, 2026
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Congratulations to our Penn Press finalists for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, Frederick Douglass Portrait and Abolition: Kim F. Hall's THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE and Casey Schmitt's THE PREDATORY SEA! bit.ly/46idC1c
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Yale Announces 2026 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists
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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Congratulations to all the finalists for this well-deserved recognition, with a special shout out to @csschmitt.bsky.social for writing a truly transformational book. macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...
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Yale Announces 2026 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NYT: “.. The move could prevent residents from raising concerns about — or even learning about — data centers before permits are approved and construction starts.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/c...
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
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Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook
Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Historian here A great response to the performative albeit damaging disguised as funny piece by Tyler Austin Harper by a historian of course newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...
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Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story
Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper
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Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Research funding opportunity aimed at early career and independent scholars and grad students- check it out, global early modernists! Apps due Nov. 1. @feegiconference.bsky.social #earlymodern #skystorians #globalhistory
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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Cambridge prof committed plagiarism, accused of sexual assault, still on the job and the press has barely noticed.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“We found that the data centers that already exist affect nearby residents and the nation as a whole in five main areas: air quality, water quality, noise levels, land use and energy costs.”
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
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A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Which Senate Dems STILL haven't signed onto S.4814 to #ExtendTPS #ProtectHaitians? Schiff (CA) Baldwin (WI) Hassan & Shaheen (NH) Heinrich (NM) Kaine & Warner (VA) Kelly & Gallego (AZ) Klobuchar (MN) Fetterman Peters & Slotkin (MI) Rosen (NV) Murphy (CT) & Ossoff (!) HAITIANS NEED US - ☎️✊
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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Political reasons for tenure denials are a violation of faculty governance and academic freedom The best part? The president (Jim Davis) is himself not an academic, and got tenure not as a result of a formal review, but pro forma from the Board of Regents as part of his hiring contract
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Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Very honored that our article on hammocks won this award from the RSA!
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Yohad Zacarías @yzacarias.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Espero no equivocarme, pero creo que es la primera reseña disponible en español del libro de @marcynorton.bsky.social. Ya publicada en revista Historia de la PUC (Chile, Stgo.) revistahistoria.uc.cl/index.php/rh...
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American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It’s here, finallly! We talk about the MEDIEVAL F-WORD!!! Of course we mean “feudalism.” Ada Kuskowski joins us to explain how the term is modern, not medieval, and what was really going on… Enjoy! #medievalsky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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The Medieval F-Word (“Feudalism”) with Ada Kuskowski
Podcast Episode · American Medieval · July 8 · 57m
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is the secret main essential true 250th anniversary event: the brave voice of democracy and justice; the brutal forces of silencing; it's all here.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Bounded or not, everything genAI produces is based on somebody’s words, and everything it produces is also not that person’s words
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This is really good “Concentration camps are places where groups of people targeted based on their identity are imprisoned in violation of their legal and human rights.” They then go through these criteria and explain how Delaney Hall meets each one.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🚨 RED ALERT: Our national forests are under attack. Trump is moving forward with an illegal plan to completely destroy the US Forest Service. We need to flood Congress with letters TODAY. It takes 60 seconds to auto-send yours. Click, sign, and share: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service
Contact Congress today!
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 12/06/2026
"The authors of the Vanderbilt report lob a ton of accusations at humanities research, but they seem to have read almost no actual works of scholarship (and there’s growing evidence that they seriously mis-represented the claims of what little scholarship they supposedly read)." shorturl.at/h1vjN
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Producing Epistemic Doubt About the Humanities For the Sake of Profit: AI's Version
The Center-Right's strategy to discredit cultural knowledge draws from the same playbook as Big Tobacco and Big Oil because humanist reason threatens their bottom line.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%
OpenAI in talks to lease 10GW data center from SB Energy in Ohio
Data center project on federal land in the state

June 10, 2026 By Georgia Butler  Have your say
OpenAI is in discussions regarding leasing a proposed 10GW data center being developed by SB Energy in Ohio.

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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 29/05/2026
Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)
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Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Friends, @alixhui.bsky.social and I and 70+ historians have been working on this gigantic project for three years and it finally feels like it's going to be real.
Page proof screenshot from MIT Press "A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency"
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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Powerful stuff from our students: "AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it.... With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship."
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J.D. Porter @jdporter.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!
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Critical Approaches to AI Working Group | Price Lab for Digital Humanities
The Price Lab is the University of Pennsylvania's center for innovative uses of technology in the study and teaching of history, art, and culture.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/02/2026
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
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William M. Cavert @williamcavert.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Emergency healthcare funds needed: A Twin Cities 18-yr old student, w/ parents unable to work because of ICE, suddenly diagnosed with leukemia. She is uninsured, has huge bills, and can't help support her family. Please help if you can. (I confirm this is genuine) www.gofundme.com/f/support-an...
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Donate to Support Anita’s Fight Against Leukemia, organized by Vicky Hidalgo
Hi, my name is Anita. I’m 18 years old, and I was just diagnosed with leukemia (A… Vicky Hidalgo needs your support for Support Anita’s Fight Against Leukemia
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2026
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
...and if it's the same "prison" or detention center in Texas where ICE has been sending people, there isn't enough food, and everyone is crying and screaming, and people can't get their medications, and no one can get in to help them. A FIVE YEAR OLD.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/01/2026
“Another adult living in the home was outside and begged the agents to let him take care of the small child and was refused." Instead, an agent “took the child, and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.
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ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy and used him as “bait”
The preschooler is one of at least four children from the same school district who have been detained this month, according to school officials.
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Despite all the redactions in the documents released yesterday, there is no question that Epstein’s trafficking was overt as was his language of “purchase” and “slave.”
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“The nation’s largest public funder of the humanities appears to be transforming into a vehicle narrowly tailored to the president’s agenda. “ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
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Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/11/2025
We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers. "Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
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ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
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Katharine Gerbner @ktgerbs.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
An archival irruption is a "rupture in the narrative field an archival source that creates an opportunity to write an alternative narration about the past." For those who want the full explanation, you can watch the virtual launch here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pbo...
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November 2025 | Archival Irruptions
YouTube video by DepartmentHistory
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
An open-access article on hammocks, by @marcynorton.bsky.social and @johnmkuhn.bsky.social, which will interested #earlymodern #histsci and #VastEarlyAmerica folks! 🗃
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Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I’m so grateful for this recognition for THE TAME AND THE WILD! @harvardpress.bsky.social
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Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The amazing @johnmkuhn.bsky.social and I have been talking about hammocks for 12 years! Our article is out today!
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina
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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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AAUP @aaup.org · 30/10/2025
“Trump’s compact is the greatest single incursion into the freedom & autonomy of higher education to ever happen in this country.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd
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‘Students Are Terrified’: How Trump’s Higher Education Compact Puts Queer Students at Risk
The heavy-handed document promises federal funding in exchange for ideological compliance. So far, it's unpopular.
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