Abigail R Gautreau
@abbygateau.bsky.social
public historian/history professor with adhd. into old buildings, Star Trek, and Zelda. horse girl and aspiring golden girl. she/her.
Oh man, someone is presenting at our college startup, and he’s trying to make jokes about Lord of the Rings, which would be great, except that he keeps screwing up the names, and I feel like I’m being trolled for knowing that Celebrimbor has a hard ”C.”
August 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Oh man, someone is presenting at our college startup, and he’s trying to make jokes about Lord of the Rings, which would be great, except that he keeps screwing up the names, and I feel like I’m being trolled for knowing that Celebrimbor has a hard ”C.”
So @uchicagopress.bsky.social , any idea when we’ll get a 10th edition of Turabian? Especially since the updates to the 2018 CMOS?
August 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
So @uchicagopress.bsky.social , any idea when we’ll get a 10th edition of Turabian? Especially since the updates to the 2018 CMOS?
Had a DELIGHTFUL evening at the @ncph.bsky.social book club where we discussed Caroline Fraser’s Prairie Fires, which I listened to before the pandemic and have basically been waiting to discuss with someone ever since.
July 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Had a DELIGHTFUL evening at the @ncph.bsky.social book club where we discussed Caroline Fraser’s Prairie Fires, which I listened to before the pandemic and have basically been waiting to discuss with someone ever since.
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Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia
Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia
WASHINGTON—Facing mounting backlash from his MAGA base over his perceived ties to the Jeffrey Epstein case, President Donald Trump reportedly encouraged his supporters Monday to simply move on from so...
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July 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia
The other day we were playing Wingspan, and anytime I got an invertebrate, I couldn’t stop myself from going into cursed canary voice from the audiobook of Swordheart (shoutout @tkingfisher.com and Jesse Vilinsky) about “THE WORM THAT GNAWS AT THE ROOTS OF THE WORLD.”
What's the most random/obscure thing you quote?
In "The Stand' by Stephen King (complete/uncut ed iirc), a character called The Kid would sometimes say "how do you like that happy crappy?" and I often say that to myself/out loud for various reasons lol.
In "The Stand' by Stephen King (complete/uncut ed iirc), a character called The Kid would sometimes say "how do you like that happy crappy?" and I often say that to myself/out loud for various reasons lol.
July 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The other day we were playing Wingspan, and anytime I got an invertebrate, I couldn’t stop myself from going into cursed canary voice from the audiobook of Swordheart (shoutout @tkingfisher.com and Jesse Vilinsky) about “THE WORM THAT GNAWS AT THE ROOTS OF THE WORLD.”
Catching up on the @youaregood.bsky.social ep on O Brother Where Art Thou, and remembering when my partner and I had to make our wedding website used the plot of that film as our engagement story and forgot about it for years until his cousin asked about it bc he was upset it wasn’t the true story
July 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Catching up on the @youaregood.bsky.social ep on O Brother Where Art Thou, and remembering when my partner and I had to make our wedding website used the plot of that film as our engagement story and forgot about it for years until his cousin asked about it bc he was upset it wasn’t the true story
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Why do so many places that sell t-shirts choose violence when they make their size guides?
“We could just tell customers the dimensions, but what if we show them every size on a random person instead?” “Ooh, and what if we give them a height/weight chart too?!”
“We could just tell customers the dimensions, but what if we show them every size on a random person instead?” “Ooh, and what if we give them a height/weight chart too?!”
May 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Why do so many places that sell t-shirts choose violence when they make their size guides?
“We could just tell customers the dimensions, but what if we show them every size on a random person instead?” “Ooh, and what if we give them a height/weight chart too?!”
“We could just tell customers the dimensions, but what if we show them every size on a random person instead?” “Ooh, and what if we give them a height/weight chart too?!”
As an ADHD person, there is truly no compliment that hits like being told I am “organized and timely.” Put that shit in an IV drip.
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
As an ADHD person, there is truly no compliment that hits like being told I am “organized and timely.” Put that shit in an IV drip.
Can we ban the phrase “no one knows about X”? Bc it must means you didn’t know. If someone wrote a book about it, I promise plenty of people know. Just say you recently learned about it, and let’s be proud of our curiosity.
April 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Can we ban the phrase “no one knows about X”? Bc it must means you didn’t know. If someone wrote a book about it, I promise plenty of people know. Just say you recently learned about it, and let’s be proud of our curiosity.
I am too tired to be posting on here, but I really need political commentators to stop saying that it’s unprecedented for a president to refuse to follow a SCOTUS decision. Andrew Jackson quite famously ignored the decision in Worcester v Georgia to continue Indian Removal.
April 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I am too tired to be posting on here, but I really need political commentators to stop saying that it’s unprecedented for a president to refuse to follow a SCOTUS decision. Andrew Jackson quite famously ignored the decision in Worcester v Georgia to continue Indian Removal.
I just watched Gayle King and Katy Perry go to space for ten seconds, and it’s wild to hear these newscasters call them astronauts. I guess technically? Seems very rude to Mae Jemison, who they had doing commentary.
April 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I just watched Gayle King and Katy Perry go to space for ten seconds, and it’s wild to hear these newscasters call them astronauts. I guess technically? Seems very rude to Mae Jemison, who they had doing commentary.
So it turns out I just missed being potentially exposed to measles on the Oregon Tr… wait, no, sorry it was the Grand Rapids Airport. It’s too bad there’s not some sort of preventative… wait, sorry, we’ve had a measles vaccine since 1971. WTF. www.cbsnews.com/amp/detroit/...
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April 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
So it turns out I just missed being potentially exposed to measles on the Oregon Tr… wait, no, sorry it was the Grand Rapids Airport. It’s too bad there’s not some sort of preventative… wait, sorry, we’ve had a measles vaccine since 1971. WTF. www.cbsnews.com/amp/detroit/...
Feeling very inspired post- #ncph2025. It’s been tough to find good projects for my undergrad public history class. I always want to work with community partners, but it’s tough w/uni policy on class size and my own limitations on time/energy.
April 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Feeling very inspired post- #ncph2025. It’s been tough to find good projects for my undergrad public history class. I always want to work with community partners, but it’s tough w/uni policy on class size and my own limitations on time/energy.
“When has real progress come to those who are willing to wait?” -the exchange student playing Max Eastman in my 8:30am US history survey during our Greenwich Village,1913 Reacting to the Past game.
Sometimes it feels like it would be easier not to play these games, but then these moments happen.
Sometimes it feels like it would be easier not to play these games, but then these moments happen.
April 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“When has real progress come to those who are willing to wait?” -the exchange student playing Max Eastman in my 8:30am US history survey during our Greenwich Village,1913 Reacting to the Past game.
Sometimes it feels like it would be easier not to play these games, but then these moments happen.
Sometimes it feels like it would be easier not to play these games, but then these moments happen.
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Overworked Emotional Support Dog Now Requires Its Own Smaller Emotional Support Dog
thehardtimes.net/culture/over...
thehardtimes.net/culture/over...
Overworked Emotional Support Dog Now Requires Its Own Smaller Emotional Support Dog
Local emotional support dog Gus is reportedly “at his limit” and has sought his own emotional support from local Yorkipoo, Lil Mama.
thehardtimes.net
February 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Overworked Emotional Support Dog Now Requires Its Own Smaller Emotional Support Dog
thehardtimes.net/culture/over...
thehardtimes.net/culture/over...
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A November 1957 Better Homes and Gardens feature writer, advocating for parents to follow vaccination schedules carefully and avoid complacency about the disease, put it best: “Don’t take immunity for granted.” www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/good...
When Good Housekeeping Meant Getting Vaccinated Against Polio
The pages of 1950s lifestyle magazines offer a glimpse of a time when childhood vaccines were anything but controversial.
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February 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A November 1957 Better Homes and Gardens feature writer, advocating for parents to follow vaccination schedules carefully and avoid complacency about the disease, put it best: “Don’t take immunity for granted.” www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/good...
Things are quite awful and my brain feels like a jello mold that got left in the car on a hot day, but a student messaged me while she was watching Iron-Jawed Angels for the midterm and gushed about how much she loves it, so there are some good things happening.
February 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Things are quite awful and my brain feels like a jello mold that got left in the car on a hot day, but a student messaged me while she was watching Iron-Jawed Angels for the midterm and gushed about how much she loves it, so there are some good things happening.
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Come be my #publichistory colleague! careers.umass.edu/en-us/job/52...
Details - Associate Professor (tenured) Public History/Associate Director of Slavery North Initiative | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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February 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Come be my #publichistory colleague! careers.umass.edu/en-us/job/52...
An excellent weekend so far. We experienced the convenience and joy of the South Shore Line for traveling to Chicago. We saw Taylor Tomlinson with friends. We wandered around the Art Institute of Chicago.
February 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
An excellent weekend so far. We experienced the convenience and joy of the South Shore Line for traveling to Chicago. We saw Taylor Tomlinson with friends. We wandered around the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Eagles offensive coordinator
February 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Eagles offensive coordinator
I have an alarm that reminds me to eat lunch on MWF at 12:15pm. My dept meetings are some Wednesdays at 12pm, so the alarm goes off during these meetings. This visibly annoys some of my colleagues, but like… bro if I can’t remember to eat lunch, do you think I’ll to remember to turn off that alarm?
February 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I have an alarm that reminds me to eat lunch on MWF at 12:15pm. My dept meetings are some Wednesdays at 12pm, so the alarm goes off during these meetings. This visibly annoys some of my colleagues, but like… bro if I can’t remember to eat lunch, do you think I’ll to remember to turn off that alarm?
Over here grading, and someone has got to tell the youths about the hottest thing in writing: paragraphs.
With paragraphs, your work can not be a wall of text no one wants to read!
Paragraphs let you separate your ideas to address all parts of the prompt clearly.
Try paragraphs today for free!
With paragraphs, your work can not be a wall of text no one wants to read!
Paragraphs let you separate your ideas to address all parts of the prompt clearly.
Try paragraphs today for free!
February 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Over here grading, and someone has got to tell the youths about the hottest thing in writing: paragraphs.
With paragraphs, your work can not be a wall of text no one wants to read!
Paragraphs let you separate your ideas to address all parts of the prompt clearly.
Try paragraphs today for free!
With paragraphs, your work can not be a wall of text no one wants to read!
Paragraphs let you separate your ideas to address all parts of the prompt clearly.
Try paragraphs today for free!
Today in Historian’s Craft (née Research Methods in History), I did a brand new presentation on how file storage works and how to computer, and I really thought this would put students to sleep. Who wants to listen to their millennial professor talk about Windows 98? It turns out a lot of students!
January 30, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Today in Historian’s Craft (née Research Methods in History), I did a brand new presentation on how file storage works and how to computer, and I really thought this would put students to sleep. Who wants to listen to their millennial professor talk about Windows 98? It turns out a lot of students!
Just in time to revamp my Research Methods syllabus!
December 24, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Just in time to revamp my Research Methods syllabus!