Jared Hardesty
@drhardesty.bsky.social
Professor of History at Western Washington University. Historian of colonial America, labor, and slavery.
Most recent book:
https://hackettpublishing.com/the-suriname-writings-of-john-gabriel-stedman
Most recent book:
https://hackettpublishing.com/the-suriname-writings-of-john-gabriel-stedman
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Happy Veterans Day to those of us who endured years of complete & utter nonsense interspersed with the occasional bit of Did I Almost Die. Enjoy your free food & have a beer.
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Happy Veterans Day to those of us who endured years of complete & utter nonsense interspersed with the occasional bit of Did I Almost Die. Enjoy your free food & have a beer.
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The amazing @johnmkuhn.bsky.social and I have been talking about hammocks for 12 years! Our article is out today!
if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Towards a history of the hammock: An Indigenous technology in the Atlantic world - postmedieval
When Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere beginning in the fifteenth century, they learned that Indigenous groups across the Caribbean and South America valued few technologies as much as the h...
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The amazing @johnmkuhn.bsky.social and I have been talking about hammocks for 12 years! Our article is out today!
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if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Towards a history of the hammock: An Indigenous technology in the Atlantic world - postmedieval
When Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere beginning in the fifteenth century, they learned that Indigenous groups across the Caribbean and South America valued few technologies as much as the h...
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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“I spent the money that I stole, and cannot give it back. It’s gone.”
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“I spent the money that I stole, and cannot give it back. It’s gone.”
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Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Studies of his six servants in the 1750s: masterful oil sketch by William Hogarth, who was born on this day in 1697.
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Studies of his six servants in the 1750s: masterful oil sketch by William Hogarth, who was born on this day in 1697.
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Reporter: Dr Oz said that—
Jeffries: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously… I’m not going to respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz who is woefully unqualified.
Jeffries: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously… I’m not going to respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz who is woefully unqualified.
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reporter: Dr Oz said that—
Jeffries: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously… I’m not going to respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz who is woefully unqualified.
Jeffries: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously… I’m not going to respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz who is woefully unqualified.
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Hello all!
I have made an Instagram account for all things history/research related! I’ll still be on here, but do give me a follow on the other place if you wish. I’ll be posting on there every now and again! 😊
I have made an Instagram account for all things history/research related! I’ll still be on here, but do give me a follow on the other place if you wish. I’ll be posting on there every now and again! 😊
November 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Hello all!
I have made an Instagram account for all things history/research related! I’ll still be on here, but do give me a follow on the other place if you wish. I’ll be posting on there every now and again! 😊
I have made an Instagram account for all things history/research related! I’ll still be on here, but do give me a follow on the other place if you wish. I’ll be posting on there every now and again! 😊
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...
A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win
I have what I suspect is a somewhat counterintuitive take on the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...
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I will admit that this is the single funniest outcome of us doing a Keep Politics Out Of Sports after a guy kneeled
Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I will admit that this is the single funniest outcome of us doing a Keep Politics Out Of Sports after a guy kneeled
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Trump spoke during the lions-commanders half time but it was near impossible to hear via the boos, jeers, and cheers
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Trump spoke during the lions-commanders half time but it was near impossible to hear via the boos, jeers, and cheers
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Holy shit this is really really loud booing
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Holy shit this is really really loud booing
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Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
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This is a plan for another shutdown crisis in January/February, ACA premiums still skyrocketing, & federal payrolls remaining in chaos, all because Congressional Republicans refuse to govern. And that assumes both every Senate Republican & the House Republicans caucus are willing to take the deal.
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is a plan for another shutdown crisis in January/February, ACA premiums still skyrocketing, & federal payrolls remaining in chaos, all because Congressional Republicans refuse to govern. And that assumes both every Senate Republican & the House Republicans caucus are willing to take the deal.
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Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
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This how I find out I have a son??
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This how I find out I have a son??
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This administration is pursuing a policy of starving American kids with more vigor than almost anything else they have done this year
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This administration is pursuing a policy of starving American kids with more vigor than almost anything else they have done this year
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Interesting "if you are poor we are cutting off your food, if you're not we're gonna fuck up your holiday travel" strategy
This administration is pursuing a policy of starving American kids with more vigor than almost anything else they have done this year
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Interesting "if you are poor we are cutting off your food, if you're not we're gonna fuck up your holiday travel" strategy
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So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
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