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Brian Luskey

@profluskey.bsky.social
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Historian, 19thcUS. Author/Editor of _On the Make_; _Capitalism by Gaslight_; _Men Is Cheap_. Chasing paper, getting nowhere. #ynwa #lfc history.wvu.edu/faculty-and-staff/f…

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AndCouldHePlay7 @andcouldheplay7.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“That’s a victory for being thick skinned and defiant”, says Peter Drury. Funny, because I thought it was a victory for repeated cheating to the point that the football club should be kicked out of English football.
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jay 💫 @jaymc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I fucking love Liverpool you know. Pushed these bastards relentlessly for years when everyone else just wanted us kept off our perch. Kept them quiet today with no senior forwards fit, kid who was at stoke last season up front playing his heart out for us. Took 2 dodgy cards to lay a glove on us.
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TheCenci @thecenci.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No idea why Sky are so excited. Until the punishments are handed down the season means nothing. The game is a farce now, the League table a nonsense because there’s no competitive football till this has been resolved. No one will end today with points so why bother? We might as well wait till August
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 11/10/2026
As disappointed as I am, this is probably the perfect result to sum up the sorry state of the Premier League as it stands. We’re watching a sham. The cheats still prosper.
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Brian Luskey @profluskey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Peter Drury basically just said the same thing on the American broadcast. The Premier League has an integrity problem until City have been expelled.
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AndCouldHePlay7 @andcouldheplay7.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No one in the media will mention that the match referee is from Manchester. They won’t talk about it on coms. It’s never mentioned because English exceptionalism means referees being bent is for dirty foreigners like in Italy, not for our good old British boys.
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AndCouldHePlay7 @andcouldheplay7.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Definitely nothing at all suspect about a referee from Manchester just making up two fouls in order to send off our best performing player in the match & hand the advantage to a team literally found to be cheating & paying people off the books. Nothing at all suspect about that.
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The Anfield Wrap @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
All won without cheating
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I was asked to provide access to the course on the history of American slavery that I posted on Twitter back in 2020, and I'm going to take this opportunity to post the whole thread again here with all the links to readings and sources. threadreaderapp.com/thread/12167...
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Thread by @arothmanhistory on Thread Reader App
@arothmanhistory: I'm teaching the history of slavery in North America this semester. Anybody want to follow along here on Twitter if I post sources, readings, etc? Well, you've convinced me. Thanks f...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026
I think students should read full books.
Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech," from "The Four Freedoms," 1943
https://prints.nrm.org/detail/260937/rockwell-freedom-of-speech-1943?srsltid=AU7gw4V4FH-u5tF-MWC6kxNw8lDeOazTP-7MNiQoCo3kEiIMRLgK7l7-
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s a plagiarism machine. I don’t know why it isn’t a scandal. It steals his ideas. And my ideas. And your ideas. And the ideas of those long dead.
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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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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/
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Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Officially official. library.yale.edu/news/yale-li...
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Yale Library names Abigail Swingen executive director of Lewis Walpole Library
In October, Abigail Swingen joins Yale Library as the W. S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director of Lewis Walpole Library.
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sobering, insightful essay on how chatbots mangle historical primary sources. 🗃 www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...
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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It is such an incredible honor to have my book included as a finalist alongside the excellent scholarship of Kim Hall and Daniel Lord Smail. I haven't stopped smiling since they made the announcement! 🗃️ macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...
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Yale Announces 2026 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists
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Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I repeat: the province was named after the lake, not the reverse. “Ontario“ means ”lake of shining waters” in Haudenosaunee. It’s been called that since before the US or Canada existed.
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm chairing this search committee for an assistant prof of the history of science/science, tech, and society! Applications due September 1. Please be in touch with any questions, DMs open and grao at american edu
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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Today was my last day as a Surfacing Overlooked Stories Fellow at @bpl.boston.gov. Over the past ten weeks in Special Collections, I read through 294 boxes of papers and 19 manuscript volumes, plus a further 134 boxes at other archives. Numbers, however, don’t really tell the story 🗃️🧵
Boston Public Library’s McKim Building
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
He has a name and it’s Alexis de Tocqueville
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
What's wrong with a college seminar? You talk to each other and learn things. They're delightful!
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Brian Luskey @profluskey.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Congratulations, @adamrothman.bsky.social, on the publication of your article about abolitionists' use of irony and humor to clarify the hypocrisy of slaveholders. It's fantastic. Everyone should read it!
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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 19/04/2026
Rosenthal 1993 McAllister 2001 Kuyt 2007 Mané 2016 Origi 2018 van Dijk 2026 Last minute winners against Everton.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
hello good morning howdy, I am teaching undergrads today for the first time in a long time and I hate that I have to start with the AI speech. Has to happen. I just hate it.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I wrote this little thing for your amusement. May it amuse you.
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Brian Luskey @profluskey.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
My favorite, too. Running down the wing.
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Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
My employer Canterbury Shaker Village lost a small NEH grant. I wrote it. I used words such as "equality" and "citizenship." The same words were used in CHATGPT to cancel grants. The same words are in the nation's founding documents.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities
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Theodosius Calhoun @dailygrumbles.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
10/10 No notes.
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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point
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Brian Luskey @profluskey.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Shout out to @drzara.bsky.social and Jo Cohen for their wonderful podcast Thing4Things. I binge-listened to three episodes on my very long drive to work and I loved it!
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/12/2025
Universities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI” Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages
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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Good mail day. Emilie Connolly’s new book that I am excited to read. 🗃️
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Brian Luskey @profluskey.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
A wonderful essay about what we and our students can accomplish through close reading.
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30 uncpress.org/978146969484...
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White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
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Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Emilie Connolly's book about native dispossession and public is coming out next week. She's not on here to be embarrassed by me saying this is the proverbial "highly anticipated" book but at it is, at least by me. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Teaching a favorite session today on #FrederickDouglass #Narrative — after decades of scrounging cheap original printings (1799 - 1832) of the #ColumbianOrator … I finally have enough to give one to each student & say, DISCUSS: What kinds of things could an enslaved teenager learn with this book?
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Emily Sneff @emilysneff.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
There is an incredible amount of good history being done at the local level and in small museums--the folks who will actually engage the public during this anniversary
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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.
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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Want to learn more about early American history from the 25 years of articles and reviews on Commonplace? Select a topic on our Subject page that you want to know more about, such as Slavery and Abolition. Click on the tag and it creates a new subject page: 🗃️ commonplace.online/article/subj...
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Got my advance reader copies of Living in a DAISY Age yesterday! They look amazing! It’s hard to put into words how I feel holding a physical copy of my book 🤯 Preorder: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Living...
I'm sitting and holding an advanced copy of my book, Living in a DAISY Age. This picture is a copy of my book, Living in a DAISY Age, sitting in front of Hello Kitty.
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Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
MORE SHOCKING HAY FRAUDS!!! On the arrest of Captain Ferguson at his office in the Alexandria depot, a Mr. Rowland (a clerk and also Ferguson's brother in law) "abstracted" (i.e., took) a package containing $18,500 worth of federal bonds--equivalent to about half a million dollars today!
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Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Last week, a very special package from @uncpress.bsky.social arrived! I was traveling and eager to touch the Word files turned into PDF files transformed into real paper between glossy covers. Canal Dreamers is a dream come true for me! My nine-year-old son snapped a perfect memory of the moment. 🗃️
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Brian Luskey @profluskey.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
So exciting!
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
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Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
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