Stephanie A.T. Jacobe
@satjphd.bsky.social
Historian of the long 19th C. local history, business history, the Civil War, the built environment, Catholic history, Social and Cultural history. Diocesan Archivist during the day. Opinions are my own.
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"Ours is a beautiful, ancient craft essential for any society's needs for self-understanding. We are equipped with a host of modern methods, but guided ethically by very old rules that no authoritarian political project ought to be allowed to profane."
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WATCH: David Blight makes opening statement in hearing on how Smithsonian presents history
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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July 21, 2026 at 11:22 PM
"Ours is a beautiful, ancient craft essential for any society's needs for self-understanding. We are equipped with a host of modern methods, but guided ethically by very old rules that no authoritarian political project ought to be allowed to profane."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...
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Volunteers work to restore historic Black cemetery in La Grange, KY spectrumnews1.com/ky/bowling-g...
Volunteers work to restore historic Black cemetery in La Grange
Volunteers are restoring a historic Black cemetery in La Grange while working to uncover records and find possible unmarked graves.
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June 13, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Volunteers work to restore historic Black cemetery in La Grange, KY spectrumnews1.com/ky/bowling-g...
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"Entire fields of scholarship...have been targeted as suspect or illegitimate. In their place, the administration has advanced a standard of historical “truth” that requires conformity to a predetermined narrative of national greatness..." 🗃️
HARPP has released “The Federal Assault on History” the first comprehensive report documenting the Trump administration’s sweeping, coordinated effort since January 2025 to reshape how the American past is recorded, preserved, and shared with the public. Read the report: https://ow.ly/7ab150Zawe5
June 11, 2026 at 8:08 PM
"Entire fields of scholarship...have been targeted as suspect or illegitimate. In their place, the administration has advanced a standard of historical “truth” that requires conformity to a predetermined narrative of national greatness..." 🗃️
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« Public History and Societal Demands » Call for Participation. 12 & 13 November 2026 in Brussels (Belgium)
Annual conference of the European network of Masters in Public History (EUMAPH))
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Annual conference of the European network of Masters in Public History (EUMAPH))
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Call for Participation - EUMAPH-conferentie 2026
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June 3, 2026 at 4:36 AM
« Public History and Societal Demands » Call for Participation. 12 & 13 November 2026 in Brussels (Belgium)
Annual conference of the European network of Masters in Public History (EUMAPH))
www.arts.kuleuven.be/cultuurgesch...
Annual conference of the European network of Masters in Public History (EUMAPH))
www.arts.kuleuven.be/cultuurgesch...
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Come work with me on the William & Mary Anthropology Collections! We're looking for a postdoc in North American archaeology, preferably with experience on collections. Apply by April 2 for full consideration. 🏺🗃️ #academicsky
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March 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Come work with me on the William & Mary Anthropology Collections! We're looking for a postdoc in North American archaeology, preferably with experience on collections. Apply by April 2 for full consideration. 🏺🗃️ #academicsky
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The ACHA is now accepting submissions for several of our awards, including the John Gilmary Shea Prize, the John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award, and more! For more information and submission rules, visit achahistory.org/awards/.
February 1, 2026 at 10:00 PM
The ACHA is now accepting submissions for several of our awards, including the John Gilmary Shea Prize, the John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award, and more! For more information and submission rules, visit achahistory.org/awards/.
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Seeking roundtable panelist for late breaking session at #2026OAH in Philly on academic freedom and US history. Sponsored by Committee on Academic Freedom. Please repost! DM if interested. ##skystorians 🗃
historians writing as co-chair of the @oah.org academic freedom committee, trying to assemble a late-breaking session on academic freedom for convention 8:45 Friday April 17. Theme open, shouldn't conflict w session below, OK if you're already on program. Circulate, DM www.oah.org/conferences/...
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January 18, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Seeking roundtable panelist for late breaking session at #2026OAH in Philly on academic freedom and US history. Sponsored by Committee on Academic Freedom. Please repost! DM if interested. ##skystorians 🗃
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Academic and Native friends, please share this CFP and/or consider submitting a proposal! The organizers would love perspectives from outside the academy as well.
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www.historic-deerfield.org/call-for-pro...
Call for Proposals — 350th Anniversary of King Philip's War/Metacom's Rebellion - Historic Deerfield
Historic Deerfield is hosting a one-day conference next year to commemorate the 350th anniversary of King Philip’s War/Metacom’s Rebellion, with the goals of helping a broad audience learn more about ...
www.historic-deerfield.org
January 12, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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🗃️ Psst, friends at #AHA26 #MLA26 and beyond, please share word of the @susih.bsky.social Community Scholars Program, which unlocks library resources for 3 years (onsite + remote) for #contingent faculty & historians at work beyond the traditional academy, due 2/1 s-usih.org/2025/12/cfp-...
CFP: USIH-IU Community Scholars Program | Society for US Intellectual History
In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at Indiana University, the Society for U.S. Intellectual History is pleased to announce the continuation of a new opportunity to support continge...
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January 11, 2026 at 4:56 PM
🗃️ Psst, friends at #AHA26 #MLA26 and beyond, please share word of the @susih.bsky.social Community Scholars Program, which unlocks library resources for 3 years (onsite + remote) for #contingent faculty & historians at work beyond the traditional academy, due 2/1 s-usih.org/2025/12/cfp-...
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Historians have the right to expect that discussion of their historical work will be conducted in a civil manner, free from harassment and intimidation. The AHA provides resources for historians to support themselves and colleagues if faced with threats, punitive restrictions, and harassment.
Supporting Historians Under Threat
This guide is intended to provide resources for historians working in a range of different environments to support themselves and colleagues if faced with threats, punitive restrictions, and harassmen...
www.historians.org
December 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Historians have the right to expect that discussion of their historical work will be conducted in a civil manner, free from harassment and intimidation. The AHA provides resources for historians to support themselves and colleagues if faced with threats, punitive restrictions, and harassment.
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Are you trying to decide which panels you want to attend next week at our Annual Meeting in Chicago? Then look no further than the ACHA Program available via our website or by scanning the QR code! To view it, go to achahistory.org/chicago2026/.
December 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Are you trying to decide which panels you want to attend next week at our Annual Meeting in Chicago? Then look no further than the ACHA Program available via our website or by scanning the QR code! To view it, go to achahistory.org/chicago2026/.
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Fantastic resource for historians: a spreadsheet of NARA's digitized microfilm, with links to the files in the Archives catalog. May it help you as much as it has helped me.
www.archives.gov/files/colleg...
www.archives.gov/files/colleg...
www.archives.gov
August 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Fantastic resource for historians: a spreadsheet of NARA's digitized microfilm, with links to the files in the Archives catalog. May it help you as much as it has helped me.
www.archives.gov/files/colleg...
www.archives.gov/files/colleg...
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"Their resilience is why these sites still exist today to offer a fuller account of American history—and as a visitor, it is a privilege to hear their stories, on their own terms." 🗃️ www.cntraveler.com/story/museum...
Museums at Indian Boarding Schools Are Shining Light on Their Survivors
Inside the effort to map out more than 500 Indian boarding schools across the US—and memorialize a painful era of history that remains unknown to too many Americans.
www.cntraveler.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"Their resilience is why these sites still exist today to offer a fuller account of American history—and as a visitor, it is a privilege to hear their stories, on their own terms." 🗃️ www.cntraveler.com/story/museum...
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"In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."
Muir Woods exhibit is first casualty of White House directive to erase history
"In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."
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July 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
www.forkingpaths.co
June 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
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Contingent history peeps, check this out 🗃️
If you're interested in this position, we're open for applications till next Sunday 3/16 at midnight EDT! Sorry I forgot to put a closing date on this till now.
A New Editor
Contingent is hiring a new editor! This person will join Erin Bartram and Marc Reyes as the permanent third editor for the magazine as we enter our seventh year of publication this spring. We’re looki...
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March 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Contingent history peeps, check this out 🗃️
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Historians have the right to expect that discussion of their work be conducted in a civil manner—but that right can be violated by hate speech and online threats. The AHA has developed a guide for historians encountering harassment on social media. 🗃️
Guide for Dealing with Online Harassment - AHA
Guidelines to AHA members and historians who fear that they may become or have become targets of online harassment.
www.historians.org
February 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Historians have the right to expect that discussion of their work be conducted in a civil manner—but that right can be violated by hate speech and online threats. The AHA has developed a guide for historians encountering harassment on social media. 🗃️
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Registration for our free Virginia Conference on Introductory History Courses, March 28-29, at Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) in Richmond is open now. Join us for thought-provoking discussions and engaging sessions! 🗃️
Virginia Conference on Introductory History Courses – AHA
The American Historical Association will hold the inaugural Virginia Conference on Introductory History Courses on Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29, 2025, at the Virginia Museum of History and ...
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February 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Registration for our free Virginia Conference on Introductory History Courses, March 28-29, at Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) in Richmond is open now. Join us for thought-provoking discussions and engaging sessions! 🗃️
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🗃️ Newspapers.com has a free access weekend. Perfect time to grab any primary source newspapers you need for your research.
February 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
🗃️ Newspapers.com has a free access weekend. Perfect time to grab any primary source newspapers you need for your research.
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📚 Here is how to donate to the Huntington Library’s Disaster Relief Fund, which will aid impacted staff + collections. Please share, #skystorians #library #booksky friends, thank you! 🗃️ shorturl.at/TVPPE
The Huntington
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January 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
📚 Here is how to donate to the Huntington Library’s Disaster Relief Fund, which will aid impacted staff + collections. Please share, #skystorians #library #booksky friends, thank you! 🗃️ shorturl.at/TVPPE
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The founders anticipated someone like Trump partly because they’d been reading Edward Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.’
Jim Sleeper on America's rise and fall:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/americas-dec...
Jim Sleeper on America's rise and fall:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/americas-dec...
America’s Decline & Fall
The founders anticipated someone like Trump partly because they’d been reading Edward Gibbon’s 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
www.commonwealmagazine.org
January 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The founders anticipated someone like Trump partly because they’d been reading Edward Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.’
Jim Sleeper on America's rise and fall:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/americas-dec...
Jim Sleeper on America's rise and fall:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/americas-dec...
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This article editing workshop from @globalhistjnl.bsky.social looks like a great opportunity: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🗃️
Journal of Global History development editing workshop | H-Net
CFP: Journal of Global History development editing workshop As part of efforts to make the field of global history more truly ‘global’, the Journal of Global History is hosting an online development w...
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January 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This article editing workshop from @globalhistjnl.bsky.social looks like a great opportunity: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🗃️
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Hey, #skystorians🗃️ of maritime. Looky 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Shipbuilding manual, 1729
This is full of fantastic technical details and illustrations on early #c18th shipbuilding.
One thing I can't unsee is that the "Yacht or Pleasure Boat" is bristling with guns.
Google Books
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This is full of fantastic technical details and illustrations on early #c18th shipbuilding.
One thing I can't unsee is that the "Yacht or Pleasure Boat" is bristling with guns.
Google Books
www.google.co.uk/boo...
January 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Hey, #skystorians🗃️ of maritime. Looky 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼