Reposted by Simon NewmanRebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🔥🔥🔥 @profmoskowitz.bsky.social @simonatmadison.bsky.social @katejewell.bsky.social @jmadelman.bsky.social @mjrp.bsky.social 034
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Garden yield slowing, but still a satisfying bowl full each time I go out… 040
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Congratulations to @csschmitt.bsky.social and all of the finalists! macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...macmillan.yale.eduYale Announces 2026 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists 152
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 22/08/2026There is something wonderful about growing, harvesting, and canning tomatoes! 010
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 20/07/2026We have harvested 15 zucchini already! So, zucchini and goats cheese loaves, and a chocolate zucchini cake with cream cheese frosting. Tomorrow will be zucchini pizza (better than it sounds) 120
Reposted by Simon NewmanSuffolk Archives @suffolkarchives.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Have you heard of Lilian Redstone? She was one of the first women to make history her profession and helped establish the first county record offices in Suffolk, shaping how the county's history is kept and shared today. We're honouring her life and work with a range of events orlo.uk/1LVxg 06225
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Proud of @glasgow.ac.uk and delighted for the wonderful @deaconbluemusic.bsky.social I really wish I could have been there. 000
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Another morning in the kitchen, strawberry and rhubarb, and strawberry jam 011
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Cherries from the garden, some dried and some as jam. A morning well spent! 151
Reposted by Simon NewmanMarina Moskowitz @profmoskowitz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Hello Bluesky! Very pleased to say this is in the world, either in this fetching hardback or available for open access digital download! @lynncabrams.bsky.social @sallytuckett.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social 2307
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Congratulations Casey! Hard to think of anyone more deserving. 140
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Congratulations Lynn, Roslyn, Lin, Marina, and Sally! 010
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Wow. Gives me goosebumps every time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0be...youtube.comPaul Robeson sings to Scottish miners (1949)YouTube video by BFI 000
Reposted by Simon NewmanSeth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Look what's here! Just in time to order for your fall classes! It's the affordable paperback version of *Plantation Goods* from @uchicagopress.bsky.social 824345
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 22/04/2026If you are in Madison tomorrow, please come to our Freedom Seekers exhibition and lecture. The exhibition will be up in the lobby of the Wisconsin Historical Society for ten days. www.tickettailor.com/events/freed...tickettailor.comReserve tickets – Freedom Seekers Symposium: Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond – Wisconsin Historical SocietyFreedom Seekers Symposium: Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond – Wisconsin Historical Society, Thu Apr 23, 2026 - This event is free and open to the public! ... 021
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Hosting the appetizer course for our neighborhood progressive pot luck. Made polenta rounds, with artichoke spread, and then roasted carrots or roasted mushrooms or roasted mixed vegetables on them. 030
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Back in North Berwick for the first time in eight years! We truly love this place 040
Reposted by Simon NewmanFreedom Seekers: Stories of Black Liberation in the Am. Rev. @freedomseekers.bsky.social · 16/03/2026For us in the present, runaway advertisements offer windows into the lives of the enslaved. For 19th century abolitionists, these advertisements exposed the absurdity of human bondage. Check out @adamrothman.bsky.social excellent new article for the JAH: academic.oup.com/jah/article-...academic.oup.comSlip the Yoke and Change the Joke: How Abolitionists Used Runaway Slave Advertisements to Ridicule SlaverySpeaking to an abolitionist audience in New York City in May 1856, William Wells Brown read an advertisement sliced from the New Orleans Daily Picayune: 1127
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Some days cooking and baking are the best therapy. Bread this morning, fisherman’s pie this evening. 040
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 28/02/2026@agordonreed.bsky.social Madison book store. I agree with this message 280
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Thinking of @kawulf.bsky.social’s new book. This single quilt block was made in 1915 by Emma Reinsertsen in Milwaukee, using pieces of her mother’s wedding dress (1845), those of her sisters (1866 and 1875), and from her own (1871). UW Madison, Ctr Design & Material Culture. Quilted genealogy! 090
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Spring like weather in Madison, and Lake Mendota melting! Snow forecast later this week… 020
Reposted by Simon NewmanSimon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 11/02/2026New books on display at Wisconsin Historical Society, with @sethrockman.bsky.social included! 011
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 11/02/2026New books on display at Wisconsin Historical Society, with @sethrockman.bsky.social included! 011
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 04/02/2026This. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants. 000
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 01/02/2026The wonderful @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social do it again. Check this out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRHx...youtube.com"Minnesota" - Marsh Family adaptation of "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)"YouTube video by Marsh Family 131
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Very excited to have received my copy of the new book by @brookenewman.bsky.social Already deep into this timely, deeply researched and truly significant work. 081
Reposted by Simon NewmanFaculti @faculti.bsky.social · 21/01/2026How did fugitive lives in 17th-century London expose the metropolitan foundations of England’s emerging system of racial slavery? @simonatmadison.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk discusses: uolpress.co.uk/book/freedom... #History 022
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 04/12/202545 years ago I left England for Milwaukee as a JYA student. 2 years later I returned to begin graduate school at UW Milwaukee. Today, in Milwaukee, I became a U.S. citizen. I want to participate in the defence of the republic and the ideals for which it stands. From today I do that as a citizen. 🇺🇸🏴 250
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Congratulations Karin! Really looking forward to your online book talk on Thursday at www.congregationallibrary.org/events/lineagecongregationallibrary.orgLineage | Congregational Library & Archives 010
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Tonight I am thinking of Reg Horsman. He taught me when I started grad school 43 years ago, and I was often his teaching assistant. Remembering many late nights, and many, many games of darts. RIP Reg. www.feerickfuneralhome.com/obituary/reg...feerickfuneralhome.comObituary for Reginald Horsman at Feerick Funeral HomeReginald Horsman, a distinguished scholar and beloved husband, father and professor, passed away peacefully in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 20th, 2025, at the age of 93. He was surrounded by his lo... 180
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 28/08/2025My story is just like your’s (and at the same universities🙂): a grant funding my undergraduate education, and then fellowships funding my graduate education in the USA. Nothing that I have achieved since then would have been possible without this support. 010
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Basil plants went crazy this summer. No problem 150
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Variation on a Provençal Tomato Squash Gratin, with heritage and plum tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, basil and thyme from the garden. 050
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Somehow I had missed that Dame Cleo Laine had left us, at the grand age of 97. I met her at Winfield House in London, at an event honoring Dave Brubeck, and she was lovely. I was able to tell her that I had grown up listening to her music. 140
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Always happy to be back in Door County. The Wisconsin land of 🍒 140
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 22/06/2025On a day when the world seems even crazier than usual, I hope people find a little peace and joy in the scenery I have been taking in. The Atlantic coast of County Kerry. 🇮🇪 050
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 20/05/2025I will miss many things and many people in Providence. This is near the top of the list… 030
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Lovely afternoon tea to say goodbye to friends in Providence, in the beautiful Nightingale Brown house, where we have had offices. 040
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Dessert at Al Forno in Providence this evening. Blissful. 010
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 13/05/2025An unexpected visitor to Brown President Paxson’s house this morning. File under unexpected sightings in Providence… 140
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Always great to catch up with Peter Onuf, the Great Conceptualizer, and a lovely human being. 020
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Absolutely wonderful closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/ghentaltarpi...closertovaneyck.kikirpa.beCloser to Van EyckThe Ghent Altarpiece 000
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Great lecture on the antebellum origins of American business ethics by @sethrockman.bsky.social 031
