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Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

New Call for Abstracts! The International Journal of the History of Sport @ijhs.bsky.social is looking for exciting new research on cycling 🚴‍♀️ history! Abstract deadline September 1, 2026 for 2027 publication #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️ think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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Cycling History

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

i wish there had been some way to know a republican president would start an unwinnable war in the middle east that did nothing more than pad the bank accounts of him and his cronies

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The Muppets were the best part of this game so far ❤️ #worldcup2026

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The history itself has not gone anywhere. The administration is simply betting that if visitors are not asked to confront it, most never will. Proving that bet wrong is now the work in front of all of us. #America250 #publichistory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Ona Judge Didn't Run Away From a House

She ran away from George Washington. The new exhibit on Independence Mall would rather you not think about that.

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Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Excited for this special issue of @ijhs.bsky.social - if your research relates to #sportheritage and clubs please submit an abstract! Deadline: August 31 #skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"The strength of American democracy has always depended on the public’s ability to encounter a complete and honest account of its past, told by those trained to do that work with rigor and integrity." Statement by the @oah.org on the recent White House Report: 🗃️ #EduSky www.oah.org/advocacy-sta...

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Jason Sharples, The World That Fear Made

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Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Thanks @kentuckypress.bsky.social for promoting my edited book Soccer Diplomacy ⚽️ before next week’s World Cup! #skystorians 🗃️ #sportdiplomacy #sporthistory

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

UConn also has an ag school & herd of cattle. Their ice cream is amazing 🍦

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Thanks! I really need something that covers the civil war through about 2013, but this is still helpful context.

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

#skystorians Does anyone know of a book that provides a good survey of modern Liberia’s history, through the end of the 2010s preferably? Looking for something accessible for an undergraduate. Thanks 🙏

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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

🗃️ One thing the “AI will help you do research crowd” doesn’t understand about historical research is that we don’t (or shouldn’t!) rip documents out of their context in relation to other documents. 1/

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

In my piece for the Atlantic Council published yesterday, I centered the Iranian people’s perspective. Please read and share. www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/d...

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Don’t overlook how ordinary Iranians view the war

The current blind spot of how ordinary Iranians are faring carries both humanitarian and policy implications.

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I’m available for speaking engagements, especially for anyone at a university trying to help students make sense of this moment and what the Iranian people actually want and have experienced, recently & historically. Also happy to Zoom into your class.

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I know this was posted a few days ago, but here’s my op ed on Iran. In all of the noise from overnight Iran “experts,” as a historian of US-Iran relations, I’m trying to center the Iranian people. Hopefully this is helpful for readers. www.ms.now/opinion/iran...

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Opinion | Trump says Iranians should rise up. Regime change isn't that simple.

Kelly J. Shannon: The administration's message for regime change was undercut by its own actions.

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"Pre-1979 is irrelevant ancient history," said no one who knows anything about US, Iranian, or world history.🗃️

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Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The 2026 Olympic Games in Milan Cortina start in 10 days! I’ll share historical facts & related history scholarship about the Olympic Winter Games daily until the opening ceremony 🧵 #olympics #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This is a great breakdown from @inquirer.com on the exhibits that were removed from President’s House in Independence National Historical Park. #NationalParks 🗃️ www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

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Here are the signs the Trump administration removed from Independence Park

Following last year’s review, every sign has been removed from the President’s House site.

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A visa limited to just 4 years means that no international students could enroll in a history PhD program at a US university. Not to mention the postdocs and faculty who contribute so much to US higher education. Please let the federal government know what you think about this proposal! 🧵🗃️

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I don’t think they were X. But they seemed annoyed that I was writing about women’s rights as a policy issue and women as policymakers, so…

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Something along the lines of: “The author could rework this book to be more like X’s [title], but I doubt she has the intellectual capacity to do that.” Yup, called me stupid. But then I won one of the top awards in my field for my scholarship, so I guess I’m not THAT stupid.

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

ardening (food), bread baking, cooking, pickling, and riding/training/caring for horses and care for other animals. Creative cheeseball sculpting. Plus very basic bookbinding skills, wall painting, drywall & spackle, embroidery, make cocktails, sing, brew beer 🍺

A holiday cheeseball shaped like a hedgehog, with white cheese, black olive eyes and nose, almonds as the spikes, and the hedgehog is sitting on a round yellow cheese serving plate.

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Here we go! The Mershon Center @mershoncenter.bsky.social at THE Ohio State University is hosting the 2026 Summer Institute of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations @shafrhistorians.bsky.social - take a look, apply, all are welcome, open to advanced PhD candidate + early career🗃️

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Completely normal. I really love the Rockefeller Archive Center and the archives at LOC. Such a great researcher experience at both.

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I just deleted my account from Academia.edu because they started generating AI slop - "podcasts" and "reviews" - based on my papers and profile. No notice, no message offering an opt-out. This is disgusting. FYI if you also don't want your intellectual property used for AI #academicsky #EDUsky

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Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

"Iran coordinated the attacks on the American air base in Qatar with Qatari officials and gave advanced notice that attacks were coming to minimize casualties, according to three Iranian officials familiar with the plans." - www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Live Updates: Iran Fires Missiles at U.S. Base in Qatar, Iranian Officials Say

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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Not only is this an almost impossible time to be an historian, structurally, it’s also a hugely morally distressing one. Our work is manipulated, defunded, and then ignored, and we sit here watching humanity do the same dumb shit over and over again. Thanks, I hate it.

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

…it breaks my heart to see them suffer even more now. They just want to live in freedom and dignity. They don’t deserve this. And for Netanyahu to call on them to rise up against the IRI - seriously, dude? Most Iranians want nothing more than to replace the Islamic Republic, but how are they…

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

… between their own much-hated regime, which has oppressed them for the past four & a half decades, and an increasingly emboldened Israel. The Iranian people have had no say in this situation, but they are dying in strikes and fleeing their homes in fear. They’ve already suffered so much that…

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

Tim Naftali's tweet on the termination of the HAC members without cause.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 20/03/2025

Credible Redditors reporting The Institute of Museum & Library Services is being dismantled right now, 3/20 by DOGE at 955 L'Enfant Plaza. DHS is on-site to intimidate civil servants. No media coverage. Every library & museum system relies on these grants. Record & report if you’re in the area.

DOGE is at the Institue of Museum and Library Services right now,
AM 03/20, to shut down the agency
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is being raided by DOGE and the new Acting Director (also somehow DepSec of Labor) Keith Sonderling with the express intent to shut it down. Sonderling was sworn-in in the lobby of the office building (955 L'Enfant Plaza) and they are proceeding with quickly and quietly dismantling the agency. There is no major reporting on the death of IMLS.
There are Deparment of Homeland Security personnel present - to bully a bunch of civil servants who administer grants to museums and libraries.
IMLS offices are on the 4th floor of 955 L'Enfant. There is no media present to document this efficiency saving of .004% of the federal budget. Every library system in the country receives these grants. Museums in every state depend on them. Every penny disbursed is American tax dollars back in American communities.
This is one of the 7 federal agencies offered up as a needless sacrificial lamb in the catastrophic resolution and last week's EO.

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Michael Livingston @michaellivingston.com · 20/03/2025

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

They’re just jealous. Brotherly Shove all the way! Go Birds! 🦅

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Civic Grit @civicgrit.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Go birds

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Stephen @tgk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Anyway, Philadelphia is the greatest city on the planet

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

“am not arguing that the humanities should adopt scientific norms, but that they should have the financial means to complement, contest, or rival science in explaining people, societies, and cultures. To do this properly today, they need a step-function increase in funding.”

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Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core

Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works - Volume 1

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Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Thread: A great photo essay by NPR on #Iran's Bakhtiari tribe. Enayat Asadi, the photojournalist, lived with the nomadic tribe for a month to capture their rich culture. The piece also captures the outsized role played by women in this community. www.npr.org/sections/goa... 1/3

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