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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Excited to chat about ghosts at the @thesouthernsha.bsky.social Junior Scholars Workshop on October 15. 🗃️👻

Please join us for the next Southern Historical Association Junior Scholars Workshop of 2026-2027: Micah Carlson (University of New England) "Ghosts as a Resistance Archive: Silence, Dust, and Time in a Heritage Park" With brief comments by: Ethan Kleinberg (Wesleyan University) & Molly McGarry (University of California, Riverside) 4:30-5:30 p.m. EST Thursday, October 15, 2026. For more info and to receive the pre-circulated paper and zoom link by October 8, please visit: https://forms.gle/b8HFCJS2bPe5nm9cA

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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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DLC+ @dlcplus.org · 09/09/2026

📣 #CFP: TROPE / MAXXING Tropes are everywhere. Everything is being maxxed. What happens when we treat these as serious keywords for digital literary culture? We want papers that theorize these terms & test their limits. 📅 Abstracts due Oct. 2. dlcplus.org/fall-2026-trope-maxxing/

Colourful text on blue background. The words "trope" and "maxxing" appear in green on the top and bottom, with "DLC+" in the middle. The top right hand side reads: CFP: Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture. Mini-conference. Abstracts due Oct 2.

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Whither digital humanities in the age of AI: have we become scanners for the machine? ☕️

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“Reading is, for me, the most sacred relationship to a text. It is a sustained prayer to be *haunted* by a text: let it take me over, in an unanticipatable way.” Introduced movingly by Ranji Khanna, Gayatri Spivak on Jameson, the burden of reading, & “humanities as a weapon” 💙😭🙏

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: “Reading Jameson” | Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory

YouTube video by Holberg Prize

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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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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

On August 28, 1931, the fascist Italian regime issued a royal decree wherein all tenured and appointed professors were required to swear two oaths. The first of which was of allegiance to the fascist regime:

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Some *very scientific* ideas to find out what these are: 1. Smash them with a rock 2. Eat them 3. Squish in hands 4. Throw away and pretend they don’t exist 5. Put them in the garage to see if “it hatches” Chat, what do?

Four Small egg-shaped mysteries in the corner of a cardboard box

The egg shaped items are about 1/3 the size of a quarter and in a cardboard box. There is some light blue coloring.

Four egg-shaped items in the corner of a cardboard box. Coloration is white and light blue with some purple specks.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

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AI’s biggest casualty could be history itself

The Internet Archive is a vital resource that has helped the search for truth in more than one global event, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, but it is in danger of becoming the latest collateral damage of...

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

In other news, I successfully defended my dissertation today. 🎓

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“The bourgeoisie is leading its society to complete bankruptcy. It is capable of assuring the people neither bread nor peace.” - Trotsky

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I just remembered how my old cat Dennis used to bring in dead baby animals and hide them in my baby's room and wow what a cat

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

when this is all over one way or another, I cannot wait for the first work on this period that examines it through the lens of literally every faction desperately aping the aesthetics of perceived past successes utterly ignorant or uncaring of the context that made them successful

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The canvas hack has the kind of monocultural event vibe as old academic twitter. It brings me back to better times…. Anyway, the jokes are truly stellar.

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Secret rules are an old power structure refusing present-day oversight

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

RANDOM QUESTION: How do people feel about dance parties at academic conferences (in the humanities)? Thinking of helping an academic conference be more *human.* There are no jobs, the funding is snatched…I think we need more joy and community. Nerds need to be in their bodies, not just heads

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Feeling cute, might finish this dissertation or whatever

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

✨🌱🌙Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—🕯️🗃️✨

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

A reminder to partner, uplift community voices to speak for themselves, hold consent as a non-negotiable value, and never ever extract

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

April 9 is a significant date. On this date, Lee surrendered to Grant, Marian Anderson sang her famous concert at the Lincoln Memorial after the DAR denied her the use of their hall, and the Nazis executed Dietrich Bonhoeffer. These three events are more connected than you might think.

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We would have zero tolerance for people of the past who said “we did nothing because we couldn’t tell if he was joking or not.”

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

History is not a settled field. We remain in discussion, debate, and research on every event in the past and are likely to forever remain uncommitted to one singular “true” version of the past.

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Currently Frames of War, but ask me again tomorrow

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Today’s deep question on why education still matters in the era of AI.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

On the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, John Sloan's searing March 1911 illustration for the New York Call, a Socialist newspaper, responding to the tragic event

Drawing of a triangle with rent, profit, and interest on each of the three sides. Within it, the burnt body of a woman; a skeleton to the left, and a capitalist figure to the right

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I wonder how many archival documents are never used because they're only available on microfilm and historians come to the reasonable, measured conclusion that life is too short?

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The destruction of schools and universities is an attempt to destroy the possibility of imagining a future. Judith Butler, Barnard College, Feb. 28, 2026 (paraphrased)

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

John Quincy Adams had zero Fs to give when he sat for this daguerreotype c. 1843. Elected to Congress not long after his term as president, JQA spent years bashing the Slave Power on the House floor. @lmchervinsky.bsky.social for @inpursuitusa.bsky.social inpursuit.substack.com/p/john-quinc...

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Katzmutter @sidecarnage.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

My PhD thesis is on "Yo what's up!" on youtube. My degree has three copyright strikes and is now demonetized.

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Anyone know what's going on with Newspaper Archive? 🗃️

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

We're writing a publishing joke, but we need to get the copy right

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Bill Siemering, founding program director of NPR, author of its mission statement, has asked me to inquire if any profs might be interested in a Zoom class visit? No honorarium necessary. Bill founded All Things Considered, Fresh Air, won a MacArthur, etc.

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A Founding Father of NPR Worries About Its Fate

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

At sixteen, I checked myself out of high school to join Reverend Jesse Jackson as he opposed the death penalty for Wanda Jean Allen. I sat in the federal courtroom with him. I knew no one there, but his protest gave me something to do with my feet that agreed with my heart. Rest in power.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11/02/2026

The FAA is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport, for “special security reasons." The FAA's notice did not provide additional details.

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FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights

The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Butterfinger is not nearly as bad as I remembered.

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Today is the day to brush up on what we did for Citi Bank in Haiti and Vera Cruz for Oil in the early 20th century. #surveyprep 🗃️

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Is it possible that the instability and (gestures broadly) loss-of-luster we have experienced over the last 10-15 years is the result of widespread access to specialized knowledge (INCLUSIVE OF ALL SHORTCOMINGS!) without normal prerequisites thanks to the world wide web? Keep reading as I muse 1/? 🗃️

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

"When you revise a sentence you are revising not only the words of the sentence but also the *thought* in the sentence." —Lydia Davis, "Essays One"

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Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Happy course eval day to those who celebrate.

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