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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Just look at that beautiful book jacket, and enjoy this teaser of all our photos! And the best news is that this volume can be yours for the low, low price of $19, on sale now through Bloomsbury Press (www.bloomsbury.com/us/us-histor...)

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Co-edited by Yours Truly and the indomitable Lauren Tilton, these short essays span Reconstruction to Selfie Culture. Tell your students it's a picture book! They don't need to know you're tricking them into learning key moments in American history through critical visual analysis.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Are you tired of the same old, same old in your US History II survey? Feeling stuck in a rut? Annoyed that your students won't read long articles? Have no fear -- "US History in 15 Photographs" is here to save the day!

book cover of us history in 15 photographs

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

One could say she's really cooking with gas!

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

You'll be pleased to know that I received an update. The presenter just married a man who was sitting in the front row! Please join me in a hearty congrats to the happy couple 🥂

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

She gracefully responded with a joke and moved right along to deliver a memorable talk, both in content and context. The sender, upon realizing her email error, apologized. I, on the other hand, thanked her for adding some levity to my day.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Three years ago, I received a mistaken email chronicling a presentation fiasco in which the speaker accidentally let a very audible fart rip - in the conference room with "the echo" no less!

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

4/ Logo design by artist Ruthy Logan (Wyandotte Nation).

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

3/ Over 40 people from the local community who joined us on a chilly morning to commemorate this important moment. Our next markers will be installed in Lebanon and North Bend in 2026, and our last in 2032. You can preview drafts of the remaining markers at uchistorylab.com/wyandot-trail/.

Four women stand in the grass posing in front of a historical marker on a sunny day. Two wear ribbon skirts.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

2/ This weekend, we dedicated the first of thirteen markers along the Wyandot Removal Trail. “We now have the opportunity to tell our own story from our perspective, and I am proud to say that it is not whitewashed to make communities feel more comfortable,” Kim Garcia told the crowd.

Woman in ribbon skirt stands in front of a covered historical marker. A reporter with recording equipment crouches on the ground next to her.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

1/ Four years ago, I approached the Wyandotte Nation with a proposal to replace a historical marker that described their removal as a “departure” and “journey.” "To see someone else's voice telling something about ... a monumental piece of our history just didn't seem right," Heather Miller said.

A marker underneath a cover that reads Ohio History Connection.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Tomorrow we will unveil the first of 13 historical markers along the Wyandot Removal Trail. Our project has been 4 years in the making, and we are thrilled to take this first step where it all began in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. www.wvxu.org/local-news/2...

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I'm sad it's still relevant. Thanks for helping it make another round!

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

It's been a while, but I have exciting news! Our department is hiring a Digital Historian with a specialization in Early America. Help us spread the word by sharing this opportunity within your networks. #DigitalHistory #DH #HigherEdJobs jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

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Assistant Professor in Digital and Early American History, Department of History, College of A&S

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

I had to run for the train this morning, which I feel is a Luxembourgish rite of passage. Also, indicative of my Sabbatical Life that I usually don't have anywhere to be at any particular time in the morning.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

While I am happy to hear from him and help advise his capstone, that's not my favorite part. Today I had the absolute privilege to tell him that teaching and learning go both ways -- that I, too, treasure what he taught me about being a teacher.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

He recently emailed me with his interdisciplinary senior capstone proposal about teaching history through physical artifacts. He told me that my class was impactful and that he respected me for respecting him.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

I sent him a private email explaining that I noticed the shift. I invited him to my office to chat about what we could do to turn it around. We found middle ground and both ended the semester feeling good about the outcome. I never saw him again, but I think of him when I prepare that syllabus.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Three years ago, a student entered my Public History class eager and excited. A month in he began disengaging. I watched his reactions to the material and the other students. It became increasingly clear that his stances were at odds with most students and that his joy history was diminishing.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 18/09/2024

I’m joining the starter pack train: here’s a bunch of historians of the American West here on Bluesky!

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

As a reminder, the deadline for the WHA's Trennert-Iverson Scholarship is tomorrow (June 15th). There's still time to get those applications in! We'll award two $500 scholarships to MA & PhD students to help defray the cost of attending the conference in Oct. www.westernhistory.org/awards/trenn...

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Trennert-Iverson Conference Scholarship

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

Remember dial up and how the internet would release a death wail every time it connected to the internet? Now it's me. I release the death wail.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Disseminate is still one of my least favorite words, but academics love it. Do I start a Change.org or...?

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

My students are stressed about getting a dream job directly out of college. So I tell them about how I got my first museum job bc I used to manage a cafe with a robust catering schedule & they needed someone to coordinate school tours. Not all jobs are dream jobs, but all jobs are skill-building.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

Today I learned that modern American fair culture traces back to Elkanah Watson and the Berkshire Society’s “cow show” in 1810. The thing that distinguishes American fairs from European predecessors? I'll give you one guess. .... .... .... Yeah you got it. Capitalism.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

my colleague signed off on an email with "yours, under water," and I feel this in my bones

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Today's Coffeeshop Chronicles include two women trying to get an older gentleman on their side in what they have dubbed "The Dog Park Fight."

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Me, on January 3rd, scheduling a meeting for June 21st.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

My sister was watching one of her favorite fashion historian YouTubers and lo and behold, she cited me. This might be the first time my sister has been excited about anything I've published. Bet she still won't read it though. 🤣

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

We are fortunate at UC to have a generous endowment through the Taft Research Center. I was just awarded an additional release to extend my sabbatical a full year. I should also announce that I will spend 2 months as a research fellow at the University of Luxembourg's C2DH. AY 24-25 FTW!

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

I feel like this question says a lot about your screens.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Forget hands -- are you right screened or left screened?

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

There's always a network if you tilt your head and squint just right. These are Crows farming cooperatively derived from 1915 & 1922 survey data.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Okay but why does DayQuil make their medicine so hard to open? I'm a weak, ill, history physician, not a marine with expertise in safecracking.

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Lindsey Wieck @lwieck.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

History friends: does anyone have any fun/interesting/unusual ways they teach a survey class? Looking for inspiration! (Mine will be approx 25 students and second half of US Survey)

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Last night I had nightmares about a student pouring contact lenses full of blood into my eyes and stabbing me repeatedly in the left eye with a needle. Anyway, I'm doing fine, thanks for asking.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Just revising some grad papers and imparting all my best wisdom.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Okay Editor. Act like it's easy. 👀🤣

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Academic Confessional Despite having one for the past 15 years, I still don't know if an MA is Master's or Masters, so I just never write it out. What's yours?

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

I have a PhD student who -- after 4 WEEKS -- finally found a clue to the name of a Black woman she's writing about from the 1890s. The three white men involved are all named. This is what historians mean when they talk about the difficulty in reconstituting the lives of marginalized people.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

About half of my students steadfastly refuse to revise their passive voice, so I started sending them a Very Scary Email in all active voice. Then I translate it into passive voice to prove that reading experience is the equivalent of a wet noodle.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Listening to coffee shop patrons argue over the pros and cons of the time change reveals just how untethered the whole thing has become from its historic origins.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

I hate to ruin all your mornings, but remember that woman who clipped her nails at the table next to me in the coffeeshop? She's back.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

I have enough now for every day of the conference. If you're lucky, I'll pack a couple for San Francisco. ✨

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Bringing this Delta energy with me for the rest of the week, betches.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Listening to another professor (don't know her) brag about how much time she saves by having ChatGPT write her letters of recommendation has me on edge.

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Sent the following to my #wha2023 presenters: Just a reminder to email me those slides by Wednesday evening. I'll be assembling them all into One PowerPoint To Rule Them All. I have a clicker and everything for you. And an airhorn. And a sparkle blazer. 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼Hoping I win this year! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 RSW

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 23/10/2023

Calling all historians, journalists, etc., of the North American West, I've set up a new Bluesky feed called American West that pulls in posts tagged with #amwest, #noramwest, or the current WHA conference hashtag, #WHA2023. Like and follow!

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Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

my hair falls out when I'm stressed is the vainest reason ive ever regretted my phd

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