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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 27/09/2026

It's official. Augusta's WGST minor is dead

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you guys broke watergate

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 25/09/2026

Happy album drop to #MsRachel, we no longer have to frantically scroll the 60 minute YouTube while the child screams their request!! Also, "I Listen to my Body" genuinely SLAPS I love Broadway nerds open.spotify.com/track/2HHFaM...

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I Listen to My Body

Ms. Rachel · I'm So Happy · Song · 2026

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

Relief sculpture of a lithe figure in a dancing-like pose

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 22/09/2026

The moment I submitted this fan poll I remembered Silo oops

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I swear to god this is almost every single historian I know

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 21/09/2026

So glad we have an education expert as head of the university system...what's that? It's a CEO of utility company? Can't wait for him to run universities like a business, which has worked so well for us. I bet he definitely won't be beholden to Republican political interests in the position 🫠🫠

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 20/09/2026

Rallying at this scale for a building and not for concentration camps sure says a lot about the American liberal, doesn't it

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Family history and genealogy, media juicing up controversy and fawning over science while failing to get that yes the historical analysis was conclusive. I couldn't not write about this! Shorter: just read @agordonreed.bsky.social. karinwulf.com/trove/the-fa...

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The Family History of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, and the Politics of Genealogy. - Karin Wulf

[The cover image is a page from Jefferson’s “Farm Book” at the Massachusetts Historical Society where he listed enslaved recipients of “Bread” at Monticello in 1810 –including Sally Hemings and four o...

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 17/09/2026

Every time I learn something about the Quakers--in history or otherwise--it is something good. Do you know how rare that is

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 15/09/2026

Augusta University is trying to cancel its low enrollment minors now. Aka it's coming for the Women and Gender Studies program.

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 14/09/2026

Man, watching my former professors fall for AI history scams on Facebook is bleak

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 13/09/2026

Any good vibes (rare and debatable) I had for Texas immediately gone with Sark blowing off Holly Rowe like that

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The Organization of American Historians @oah.org · 08/09/2026

Lonnie Bunch has announced that he is retiring from his post as Secretary of the Smithsonian. Link here for the full OAH statement on his remarkable impact: bit.ly/4iSfoNY

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The more you read about the Antebellum South, the more you realize how much white slave owners whined.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We know that AI is crippling kids' cognitive development, so therefore we must [checks notes] continue to shoehorn it into everything they see and do.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 31/08/2026

While the 911 calls we obtained may be difficult to listen to, they offer a glimpse into a place reporters cannot access. And they show failures in responding to mental health and medical emergencies in a place where three people died over six weeks.

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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”

Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 28/08/2026

Big new Flock camera at the front of my university, pointing at the bus stop, love that for us 💞💞

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

any time you can chase off one of your starters by recruiting a player from the country that threw the greatest player you ever coached in prison, you simply have to do it

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

UPDATE: Israel finally admits they murdered Hind Rajab. www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/m...

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 19/08/2026

My Christian students don't actually know a lot about Christianity, I've found. When I teach about Puritans and the faith by works debate during my colonial unit, it's the first time they've heard of it

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Apply to (symbolically!) replace Linda Kerber and Landon Storrs! It’s a phenomenal department at a phenomenal university in a phenomenal college town. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/70222/u...

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The University of Iowa - Assistant Professor, U.S. Women's History (Tenure Track) | H-Net

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 17/08/2026

In a one-woman fight with the accessibility scanner my university put into our LMS

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 13/08/2026

New year new headshot! Soft smiles babey

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 13/08/2026

Starting off the new semester by being a hater, on brand

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is exactly the same thing John Sununu did while chief of Staff under Bush I, which caused a months long scandal resulting in Sununu’s resignation and reimbursement of the cost of travel.

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 07/08/2026

Does Llama llama red pajama have a single mama?

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 19/07/2026

Got me thinking about Sinclair's The Jungle, where he tried to show us the horrors of worker conditions and we made the FDA instead

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A White House report has defended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, pushing back against its characterization by a Smithsonian Institution exhibit that the law was racially motivated. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

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White House Defends 1882 Immigration Law Excluding Chinese Immigrants

The Trump administration is defending the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act against the charge that the law had a racist intent.

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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Another killing by ICE today in Maine. The third government killing of a civilian in less than a week since Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Tyrin Johnson.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 08/07/2026

Today is the 150th anniversary of the Hamburg Massacre. Please consider checking out this podcast episode that my student wrote! open.spotify.com/episode/0DuL...

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The Death of Democracy

The Death of Democracy: The Hamburg Massacre of 1876 · Episode

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Kathleen Gier @kgier.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not to keep bringing ✨women✨ into it, but calling this "the most important match in U.S. Soccer history" is crazy work.

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 06/07/2026

Hey academics with kids who become stay-at-home parents in the summer: How?

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Dr Jessica Parr @provatlantic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Anyone who is mad about the appropriation of @rachelcleves.bsky.social 's research should go buy her book and encourage others to do the same: bookshop.org/p/books/char...