Dr. Michelle M. Martin
banner
drmartin1854.bsky.social
Dr. Michelle M. Martin
@drmartin1854.bsky.social
Human, historian, hiker, photographer and proud cat momma
I can't wait to reconnect with my @cwwh-west.bsky.social colleagues at the annual WHA conference! @kmassotphd.bsky.social @cathleendcahill.bsky.social
Hello Historians - the CWWH is looking forward to seeing everyone in ABQ for the WHA Conference.
October 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Today Josie got out of the house while workers were here and left the front door open. She explored almost the road when I snatched her up and brought her inside. Shortly after she napped. Enjoy a moment of cat zen.
October 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
October 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
Want to hear re: a president who wanted his opponents physically beaten & was accused of wanting to be king?

My lecture on Andrew Jackson

In this cartoon from his presidency, he’s standing on a shredded Constitution w/a book titled “Judiciary of the US” at his feet

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vri7...
October 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
The attack on Mark is another stunt by right-wing grifters to victimize a random person in an effort to use MAGA fear mongering to justify their existence. It should go without saying we should do anything possible to support his family.
I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
October 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
October 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.
October 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.
October 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.
September 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
First of all, Fuck You, Hegseth. It’s literally the CONGRESSIONAL Medal of Honor. Congress can enact the “Remove the Stain” Act anytime it wants. Not your call Rumbo.
2nd, their place in history is indeed settled, with the Paxton Boys, the Gnadenhutten child killers, and the Sand Creek mutilators.
September 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
got some bad news for anyone who voted for Trump because he promised to bring down prices
www.ft.com/content/dd6d...
Donald Trump announces 100% tariff on branded pharmaceutical products
The US president also unveiled levies on heavy trucks, kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities
www.ft.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
Trump gets humiliated at the UN, Kimmel returns, he drops further in the polls and just goes fucking crazy at the White House today. Insane new tariffs, Comey, war against his domestic opponents, shutting down the government.

He is losing it, and it’s getting dangerous out there.
September 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
Thread.
1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

Thread 👇
September 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
If you want to understand how truly despicable Hegseth’s Wounded Knee statement is, read Heather Richardson’s book. The tensions & military build-up were driven by federal patronage, corruption, factional politics, & the GOP’s desire to control the Western states.

The GOP is worse now.
"A brutal massacre followed, in which it’s estimated almost 150 Native Americans were killed (some historians put this number at twice as high), nearly half of them women and children."

www.history.com/this-day-in-...
September 26, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
This man is ignorant. Wounded Knee was a massacre, not a battle.
September 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
This is not OK under any administration. Under any circumstances. None of this is OK.
September 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
Odd, how we can’t afford to give Americans healthcare, but we can afford to drop $200,000,000,000 on Argentina with a moment’s notice.
September 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
He’s definitely making it harder. But he wants to make it impossible.
My mom — who is in her 70s and immunocompromised — could not get her vaccines today. RFK Jr. is lying when he says he's not making harder to get vaccines.
September 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
Four years ago, I tested for COVID. I'd had dinner with someone with cancer the night before. Thanks to the vaccine, I did not give that dinner companion COVID. And I only ran a low-grade fever for a few days. Fuck that idiot RFK Jr. and the equally stupid buffoon who hired him.
September 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
August 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I have been away from this platform for some time and have limited lots of social media interaction. So, for your enjoyment the red rocks of Sedona. I know the nation is in the grips of authoritarianism but we need to find beauty to keep grounded and sane.
August 31, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
For those asking, my American Revolution lecture course is free online here:

oyc.yale.edu/history/hist...
The American Revolution | Open Yale Courses
oyc.yale.edu
August 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Reposted by Dr. Michelle M. Martin
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
August 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM