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Sharon Ann Murphy

@sharonannmurphy.bsky.social
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Financial historian. Mom. Soccer player. Spouse. Wahoo. Mets fan. Archive rat. Avid reader. Wino. Jersey girl. Runner. World traveler. A wee bit batty.

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Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Artificial Education | The Harvard Crimson
Machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Wow - it rose from the dead!
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Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I'm extremely honored (and quite a bit stunned) to announce that I made this list. www.gf.org/stories/anno...
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Announcing the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists
Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
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Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
We need a critique of AI in academic publishing. Following my decision not to sign an AI addendum to my contract with Cambridge University Press, I wrote this short essay which is now out in the Dublin Review of Books. 👇 drb.ie/move-over-fo...
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Move over for AI - DRB
Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...
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Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Join me Tuesday for a virtual book talk at the AAS. www.americanantiquarian.org/node/13335
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Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States | American Antiquarian Society
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/
Map of Sinclair stations
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Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Come join me for a virtual book talk at the American Antiquarian Society next Tuesday 9/23 at 7pm. Book talk will be followed by Q&A with Mark Peterson and the audience. www.americanantiquarian.org/node/13335
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Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States | American Antiquarian Society
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Michael J. Illuzzi @polisci-michael.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
My new book, Mending the Nation: Reclaiming "We the People" in a Populist Age, is now available for pre-order! In a time of cynicism and despair, Mending the Nation uses lessons from the past to chart a new way forward. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640638/
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Mending the Nation
A bold message of political hope in a time of cynicism and despair, Mending the Nation uses lessons from the past to chart a new way forward.The United State...
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Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
AI update (especially relevant for JHUP authors): I just zoomed with the rep from JHUP & she capitulated. She will remove my books from the LLM license w/o me signing their ridiculous statement.
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Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Fave US history myth that needs to die sudden & quick death, GO: myth: self-made man; ppl pulling selves up by own bootstraps; meritocracy reality: behind every US success story is tangled web of opportunity from family wealth/connections, community support, govt-supported educ. & infrastructure...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The volume of Canadians taking road trips into the U.S.—the way most Canadians visit—dropped by 37% last month compared to July 2024, according to new data from Statistics Canada, following a 33% drop in June. There was also a 26% decline in air travelers from Canada year-over-year.
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Canada’s Travel Boycott Grows: Car Travel To U.S. Drops 37%
Steep year-over-year drop in car and air travel solidifies steep economic losses for U.S. tourism this year.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
But you wouldn’t steal a car? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
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Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Thoughts from an American traveling in Europe in 2025: I have spent time abroad (mostly in Europe) almost every year for 30 years, and almost always in the summer. I just returned from 2 weeks in Southern France. Some observations...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Exactly right. They simply want the end product — whether it’s an actual production of art or music or the end result of hard work like a PhD — without doing the work. It’s cheat codes all the way down.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 10/08/2025
The CHIPS Act set off a manufacturing boom, creating jobs and ensuring the technologies of the future are made here at home. By rolling back this law, Trump is weakening American leadership and letting our adversaries get ahead.
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Trump’s Call to Scrap ‘Horrible’ Chip Program Spreads Panic
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
There is just no precedent in recent world history of an advanced industrialized country sabotaging its own scientific establishment, and destroying the base of scientific knowledge necessary for basic policymaking. An avowedly, actively anti-knowledge regime.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is why Donald is crying about Elizabeth Warren.
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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Over the course of their career history majors out earn engineers and comp sci.
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Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
My personal fave from Tom Lehrer--for the Catholic crowd. youtu.be/pvhYqeGp_Do?...
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Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag - fabulous version - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“Univ. of Illinois report shows that a large humanities department like English produces substantial net profit; units like engineering and agriculture run at a loss. The widely respected Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity shows the same pattern.” /7 thi.ucsc.edu/the-humaniti...
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The Humanities Really Do Produce a Profit – The Humanities Institute
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Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Just received an email from publisher of one of my books trying to strongarm me into granting permission for it to be licensed for AI LLM use. My knee-jerk is "hell no." They want me to sign this disclaimer (copied in comments). Should I not be pissed at publisher for caving like this?
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
@entandsoc.bsky.social is delighted to announce that Prof. Ai Hisano has been chosen as incoming Editor-in-Chief. This is a truly exciting appointment that promises a bright new phase in the journal's history. More about Ai and her fascinating work can be found here: www.aihisano.com
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Ai Hisano | Historian
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
As I always say: there are plenty of people who want to study history, but from high school forward, they are told not to. And the same as true with the other liberal arts. We’re lucky that any students refuse to listen.
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Spotted in South Station, Boston.
Sign: “Making History Never gets Old”
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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Rowlf, the dog from the muppets who is also a fluffy brown dog, also seated at a piano, but with a confident expression, because he's actually a really good player
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Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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University Of Virginia Faculty Vote No Confidence In Governing Board
The University of Virginia Faculty Senate has voted it has no confidence in the school’s Board of Visitors by a margin of 46 to 6, with 8 senators abstaining.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
"In total, the [UVA Board of Visitors] members have donated over $4.8 million to Republican campaigns and candidates, approximately $10,000 to Democratic campaigns and candidates and approximately $39,000 to causes categorized as “other.”"
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
But for the arbitrary nature of birth and circumstance, any of us could be living in poverty, dependent upon assistance to put food on the table, to take our children to the doctor, and to pull ourselves out of debt. The lack of empathy, the pure callousness on display in this bill, is infuriating.
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Chris Seaman @cbseaman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This is a must-read story (including full text of letters from a FOIA request) by the Daily Cavalier about Trump admin's efforts to misuse federal antidiscrimination law in support of its ideological agenda against DEI at UVA. Kudos to the student journalists! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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Letters from DOJ reveal threats to U.Va. over admissions policies, Ryan’s leadership
“Time is running short, and the Department’s patience is wearing thin,” the final letter read
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
“What’s at stake is far more than one presidency or one institution: it’s the role of our public universities as bastions of intellectual freedom, diversity of thought, and innovation in a democratic society.”
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And Then They Came for the Intellectuals, II
Jim Ryan and UVA become latest casualties in war on Higher Education
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Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Sign the letter www.wahoos4uva.com/letter
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Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I am depressed and deflated.
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Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Apply here thebhc.org/john-e-roven... before Wednesday July 30 2025. #BizHis #EconHis #Funding #Fellowships #Rovensky2025
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Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This is a really important read.
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Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Rhode Island is not supposed to get this warm.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
"And when the radical priest comes to get me released, we was all on the cover of Newsweek..."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
“This is not policy, it is punishment, and it can only result in cruel and arbitrary outcomes ... Already we are hearing stories of innocent fathers and mothers being wrongly deported, with no recourse to appeal.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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LA archbishop slams Trump‘s cruel and arbitrary’ immigration agenda
Archbishop José Gomez accused the administration of having ‘no immigration policy beyond the stated goal of deporting thousands of people each day’
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Brok'n but still teach'n @historyell.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This graph is going in my lecture on colonial life
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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Many people have the comeback that an LLM shouldn’t be expected to know how to play chess. In that case, what other things is it not supposed be to be good at, but people are using/recommending it for?
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Linford Fisher @linford.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
One of two #nokings protests today in Providence, RI. We marched around the state house. Beautiful, unifying, and peaceful.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 10/06/2025
Tomorrow, on 6/11, the AHA will host a Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on tariffs. Panelists @douglasirwin.bsky.social, @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social, & @rauchway.bsky.social will discuss how the govt. has implemented tariffs in the past, & how they have impacted the economy.🗃️
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AHA Congressional Briefing: History of Tariffs – AHA
The American Historical Association (AHA) will host a Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on tariffs. The briefing will take place on Wednesday, June 11, at 9:00 a.m. ET in Rayburn...
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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Rhode Island finally ratified the constitution otd in 1790, so today I am celebrating with one of my favorite notes from the Ocean State. It features a beautiful vignette of a village, bridge, and waterfall next to portrait of an unhappy man. Phenix Village Bank, RI, $1, 18--.🗃️
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This, UVA’s 200th Commencement Address from Michael J. Suarez, SJ, University Professor and Director of the @rarebookschool, is very very good and something that needs more saying. Astonishing that we have to remind our higher ed leaders of that at this very moment. news.virginia.edu/content/fina...
“Academic freedom-the ability to pursue the truth wherever it might lead, and to make publicly available what one believes is true without interference or reprisal-is thus not the arcane privilege of an unworldly intellectual guild, but a prerogative essential to the functioning of our Republic and the education of its citizenry. As a producer of knowledge, teacher of skills and judgment, and caretaker of cultures and learning, the American university is entrusted with the work that helps guide and guard the full exercise of democratic freedom.”“On our 200th anniversary, you may be certain of this: Our ability to pursue the truth and communicate it freely is a national asset. The American university must compromise neither its moral position
nor its vision, lest the Republic and its citizens lose one of its most essential ways of learning about and understanding the world.
"Knowledge is power," said the first rector of this university, "and," he added, "... ignorance is weakness."”
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