Henry Snow
@henrysnow.bsky.social
Labor historian | they/them | political economy, maritime work, ships and shipbuilders | CONTROL SCIENCE out with Verso 5/26/26 | currently an adjunct at UConn
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preparing a research talk. this is the kind of art you don't get in the book
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
preparing a research talk. this is the kind of art you don't get in the book
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Had a terrific talk w Julia Fournier about her dissertation research into American childcare infrastructure (or lack thereof) in the late 20thC! Tune in here or wherever you find your podcasts!
In 1971 the U.S. nearly enacted a universal childcare policy, and the lack of affordable childcare has remained a problem ever since. Our latest #HagleyHistoryHangout features a social and political history of U.S. childcare 1970-1996 w PhD cand Julia Fournier. Join us www.hagley.org/research/his...
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Had a terrific talk w Julia Fournier about her dissertation research into American childcare infrastructure (or lack thereof) in the late 20thC! Tune in here or wherever you find your podcasts!
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do the highest reaches of literary studies know about this, for instance www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Falkenberg: Mike Miles takes story books from HISD kindergarteners
First HISD took the libraries. Now teachers say the district’s curriculum leaves no room for storybooks and some are secretly reading to students anyway.
www.houstonchronicle.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
do the highest reaches of literary studies know about this, for instance www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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Interesting detail from this thesis:
The Mineworkers Union of Namibia set up a company to reopen three closed copper mines in 1999 after Namibia's government provided loans and guarantees for the company.
I think it's the only example a trade union involved in running a mine in the region.
The Mineworkers Union of Namibia set up a company to reopen three closed copper mines in 1999 after Namibia's government provided loans and guarantees for the company.
I think it's the only example a trade union involved in running a mine in the region.
Sam Nujoma, 'Copper - its geology and economic impact on development in Namibia, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo' (2009).
You can even download it from the University of Namibia website:
repository.unam.edu.na/items/ccf663...
You can even download it from the University of Namibia website:
repository.unam.edu.na/items/ccf663...
Copper
Copper is the oldest industrial metal known to man and has contributed to the development of many civilizations in the world, including pre-colonial African communities in southern and central Africa,...
repository.unam.edu.na
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Interesting detail from this thesis:
The Mineworkers Union of Namibia set up a company to reopen three closed copper mines in 1999 after Namibia's government provided loans and guarantees for the company.
I think it's the only example a trade union involved in running a mine in the region.
The Mineworkers Union of Namibia set up a company to reopen three closed copper mines in 1999 after Namibia's government provided loans and guarantees for the company.
I think it's the only example a trade union involved in running a mine in the region.
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i wrote about why i am obsessed with going to the eye doctor api.omarshehata.me/substack-pro...
ways of not seeing
i am obsessed with the eye doctor
api.omarshehata.me
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
i wrote about why i am obsessed with going to the eye doctor api.omarshehata.me/substack-pro...
senator hassan, of my former home state, is reportedly one of the moderates considering ending the shutdown. here's what she was like as governor
www.boston.com/news/nationa...
www.boston.com/news/nationa...
Maggie Hassan is first Democratic governor to call for complete halt of Syrian refugees coming to U.S.
New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan was the first Democrat on Monday to oppose U.S. settlement of Syrian refugees, while the rest of New England’s governors were split on the issue.
www.boston.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
senator hassan, of my former home state, is reportedly one of the moderates considering ending the shutdown. here's what she was like as governor
www.boston.com/news/nationa...
www.boston.com/news/nationa...
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
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"Outsourcing our flagship state university’s future to drop-in budget consultants is not the way forward" -- Jeffrey Dudas, President of UConn AAUP @uconnaaup.bsky.social
Opinion: UConn's administration should consult its own experts
Genuine collaboration and shared governance - not outside consultants - should guide the decisions of a major university.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"Outsourcing our flagship state university’s future to drop-in budget consultants is not the way forward" -- Jeffrey Dudas, President of UConn AAUP @uconnaaup.bsky.social
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Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
now this is some convincing marketing copy, I want to learn from a guy with an ardent Thirst for Astronomic Knowledge (from the cover of a 1775 almanac series published by Solomon Southwick in Newport, RI)
November 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
now this is some convincing marketing copy, I want to learn from a guy with an ardent Thirst for Astronomic Knowledge (from the cover of a 1775 almanac series published by Solomon Southwick in Newport, RI)
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‘The US military is now carrying out extrajudicial executions on the high seas of people who in the past would have been put on trial and, if found guilty, given a federal prison sentence. Gone is any semblance of due process.’
A.S. Dillingham on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
A.S. Dillingham on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
A.S. Dillingham | Murder at Sea
Since President Nixon declared war on drugs in 1971, US policies of mass incarceration at home and interdiction and...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
‘The US military is now carrying out extrajudicial executions on the high seas of people who in the past would have been put on trial and, if found guilty, given a federal prison sentence. Gone is any semblance of due process.’
A.S. Dillingham on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
A.S. Dillingham on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
in most disciplines you would become a pariah for even suggesting this is worth researching, but in business schools apparently phrenology is alive and well
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
in most disciplines you would become a pariah for even suggesting this is worth researching, but in business schools apparently phrenology is alive and well
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We *know* shockingly little about prehistory—we *speculate* about it, in ways that tend to reaffirm our own assumptions and biases, and then these speculations become sage wisdom about human nature, but only to the exact extent that they assert that women evolved to make sandwiches.
THIS IS WHY WE ALL HATE EVOPSYCH. Can we please fucking discredit this pseudo-naturalist bullshit at last?
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We *know* shockingly little about prehistory—we *speculate* about it, in ways that tend to reaffirm our own assumptions and biases, and then these speculations become sage wisdom about human nature, but only to the exact extent that they assert that women evolved to make sandwiches.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
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Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
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[An excursus: if you're not already familiar w/ Hannah Barker's super essay, published in 2021, dispelling the story of alleged "biological warfare" involved in the siege of Caffa in 1346, treat yourself to some excellent scholarship: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Laying the Corpses to Rest: Grain, Embargoes, and Yersinia pestis in the Black Sea, 1346–48 | Speculum: Vol 96, No 1
Abstract: When, how, and why did the Black Death reach Europe? Historians have relied on Gabriele de’ Mussi’s account of Tatars catapulting plague-infested bodies into the besieged city of Caffa on th...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
[An excursus: if you're not already familiar w/ Hannah Barker's super essay, published in 2021, dispelling the story of alleged "biological warfare" involved in the siege of Caffa in 1346, treat yourself to some excellent scholarship: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
high modernism (laudatory)
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
high modernism (laudatory)
i have a lot of these, only a few of which made it into the book manuscripts. highlights include samuel nearly dying in a cave because he was obsessed with finding new rocks, inventing a worm-boat-train for catherine that I don't think she used, and a disastrous love affair
this now beats "jeremy bentham plagiarizing his brother and inventing the Panopticon because he was too shy to present his legal code to catherine the great" as my favorite 18th-century russian sovereign anecdote
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
i have a lot of these, only a few of which made it into the book manuscripts. highlights include samuel nearly dying in a cave because he was obsessed with finding new rocks, inventing a worm-boat-train for catherine that I don't think she used, and a disastrous love affair
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The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on coasts is now out! If you click on the link and scroll down a bit, the very eclectic table of contents is visible. Pleased to be a part of this. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025
muse.jhu.edu
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on coasts is now out! If you click on the link and scroll down a bit, the very eclectic table of contents is visible. Pleased to be a part of this. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
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This is Queen Mary and Queen Anne erasure
The Washington Post on Abigail Spanberger: "No woman has led Virginia since its colonial government was formed 406 years ago."
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This is Queen Mary and Queen Anne erasure
at least in economic contexts, "you can just do things" is Keynes's "anything we can actually do, we can afford" adapted for modern vernacular
November 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
at least in economic contexts, "you can just do things" is Keynes's "anything we can actually do, we can afford" adapted for modern vernacular
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Ok, I finally got around to writing something for the new blog. It's about what else I've been doing with my time lately! buttondown.com/cutterham/ar...
What I Do
I’m Tom Cutterham, and my job is to teach and research history at the University of Birmingham in the UK. I started this newsletter mainly to talk about a...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Ok, I finally got around to writing something for the new blog. It's about what else I've been doing with my time lately! buttondown.com/cutterham/ar...
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Friends, I could not be more excited to let you know that my book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, is out today from Penguin. I’m super proud of it and super grateful to all the scholars whose work informs it. I hope you’ll take a peek and spread the word!
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The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
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November 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Friends, I could not be more excited to let you know that my book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, is out today from Penguin. I’m super proud of it and super grateful to all the scholars whose work informs it. I hope you’ll take a peek and spread the word!
amzn.to/4nHkziG
amzn.to/4nHkziG