Holly Gruntner
@hollygruntner.bsky.social
Landscape Historian at George Washington's Mount Vernon. Recent PhD frm William & Mary. Early America, knowledge-making, & kitchen gardens 🌱 public & digital history. She/her. Views my own.
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As of 21 August 2024, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is a fully open-access journal! #skystorians will be able to reach a much wider audience and there are no charges to individual authors for publishing OA. Come and publish with the RHS!
Society’s journal ‘Transactions’ now fully Open Access | RHS
royalhistsoc.org
August 22, 2024 at 10:39 AM
As of 21 August 2024, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is a fully open-access journal! #skystorians will be able to reach a much wider audience and there are no charges to individual authors for publishing OA. Come and publish with the RHS!
Dr. Bell!!!
Dissertation: defended. Call me Dr Bell! 💅🎓
July 11, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Dr. Bell!!!
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“We also write about the haystack, and don’t just treat the past as a pile of needles.’
Me on lessons I’ve learned the hard way about research with digitized newspapers 🗃️
williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2024/06/03/h...
Me on lessons I’ve learned the hard way about research with digitized newspapers 🗃️
williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2024/06/03/h...
How to Search Digitised Newspapers
Hot on the heels of my 'I did this badly so you don't have to' posts about archival research and spreadsheets for research... it's time for digitised newspapers. Yes, this is mostly the story of how S...
williamgpooley.wordpress.com
June 3, 2024 at 5:30 AM
“We also write about the haystack, and don’t just treat the past as a pile of needles.’
Me on lessons I’ve learned the hard way about research with digitized newspapers 🗃️
williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2024/06/03/h...
Me on lessons I’ve learned the hard way about research with digitized newspapers 🗃️
williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2024/06/03/h...
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Now accepting proposals for the 2024 H-Net Teaching Conference. The conference will take place virtually Aug. 19-24. This year's theme is “History, Social Science, and the Humanities: Working in Classrooms and Communities.” Proposals due May 24. CFP linked here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
CFP: 2024 H-Net Teaching Conference | H-Net
We are now accepting proposals for the 2024 H-Net Teaching Conference. The conference will take place virtually August 19-24. This year's theme is “History, Social Science, and the Humanities: Working...
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March 25, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Now accepting proposals for the 2024 H-Net Teaching Conference. The conference will take place virtually Aug. 19-24. This year's theme is “History, Social Science, and the Humanities: Working in Classrooms and Communities.” Proposals due May 24. CFP linked here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?"
This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for History Extra, but here's an excerpt!
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This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for History Extra, but here's an excerpt!
🧪🗃️
April 23, 2024 at 4:59 PM
You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?"
This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for History Extra, but here's an excerpt!
🧪🗃️
This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for History Extra, but here's an excerpt!
🧪🗃️
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📣ALSO OUT TODAY📣
The first post in the many-headed monster Online Symposium on 'The People and the Law'.
@zoejackson.bsky.social draws on court records to explore what ordinary folk knew about perjury, and what role it played in #EarlyModern communities. 🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2024/04/23/t...
The first post in the many-headed monster Online Symposium on 'The People and the Law'.
@zoejackson.bsky.social draws on court records to explore what ordinary folk knew about perjury, and what role it played in #EarlyModern communities. 🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2024/04/23/t...
Truth and Trust: Remembering Perjury in the Early Modern Community
This post is part of our 'The People and the Law' Online Symposium, a series exploring early modern English legal sources. Zoë Jackson (Twitter: @ZoeMJackson1, Bluesky: @zoejackson.bsky.social) is a P...
manyheadedmonster.com
April 23, 2024 at 8:23 AM
📣ALSO OUT TODAY📣
The first post in the many-headed monster Online Symposium on 'The People and the Law'.
@zoejackson.bsky.social draws on court records to explore what ordinary folk knew about perjury, and what role it played in #EarlyModern communities. 🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2024/04/23/t...
The first post in the many-headed monster Online Symposium on 'The People and the Law'.
@zoejackson.bsky.social draws on court records to explore what ordinary folk knew about perjury, and what role it played in #EarlyModern communities. 🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2024/04/23/t...
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Public history people: check out this call for papers for a special issue of THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN on labor and public history, edited by Andy Urban and Alena Pirok. Good opportunity for a much-needed discussion of these issues. 🗃️
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
CFP_Labor and Public History.docx
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April 22, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Public history people: check out this call for papers for a special issue of THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN on labor and public history, edited by Andy Urban and Alena Pirok. Good opportunity for a much-needed discussion of these issues. 🗃️
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
So thrilled for my amazing colleagues, and thrilled for us all that we get to learn from this find!
"Beard and other archaeologists have now discovered two intact bottles that still had, along with liquid, some of the cherries they contained when they were buried about 250 years ago." 🗃️🌸
"Beard and other archaeologists have now discovered two intact bottles that still had, along with liquid, some of the cherries they contained when they were buried about 250 years ago." 🗃️🌸
Centuries-old bottles of cherries unearthed at George Washington’s home
In a rare find, two bottles of cherries, buried for about 250 years, have been found at Mount Vernon.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 22, 2024 at 8:30 PM
So thrilled for my amazing colleagues, and thrilled for us all that we get to learn from this find!
"Beard and other archaeologists have now discovered two intact bottles that still had, along with liquid, some of the cherries they contained when they were buried about 250 years ago." 🗃️🌸
"Beard and other archaeologists have now discovered two intact bottles that still had, along with liquid, some of the cherries they contained when they were buried about 250 years ago." 🗃️🌸
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Hugest congrats to Dr. @hollygruntner.bsky.social who defended her terrific dissertation fr William & Mary this morning, "From the Ground Up: Practical Gardens and Horticultural Knowledge in Early America!" Dr. Gruntner is working at Mount Vernon on a grant act landscape history this year. Huzzah!!
April 12, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Hugest congrats to Dr. @hollygruntner.bsky.social who defended her terrific dissertation fr William & Mary this morning, "From the Ground Up: Practical Gardens and Horticultural Knowledge in Early America!" Dr. Gruntner is working at Mount Vernon on a grant act landscape history this year. Huzzah!!
Re-upping this fantastic opportunity for community and mentorship with the MHS. Current grad students & recent PhDs can apply. 🗃️
Grad students & recent PhDs (historians 🗃️ & beyond!), I encourage you to apply fr the MHS's Early Career Scholars Committee & Mentorship Program. Members connect w/ other grads, learn abt career paths & access the MHS's many resources. Apps due 3/15: masshistfellowships.slideroom.com#/login/progr...
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March 5, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Re-upping this fantastic opportunity for community and mentorship with the MHS. Current grad students & recent PhDs can apply. 🗃️
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Maria Sybilla Merian is in the @nytimes.com #Flashback quiz today. I first learned about Merian when I was a teaching assistant for #NatalieZemonDavis (NZD) in the early '80s. We should remind ourselves regularly how much of ♀️'s history has only been retrieved in the past few decades.
February 25, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Maria Sybilla Merian is in the @nytimes.com #Flashback quiz today. I first learned about Merian when I was a teaching assistant for #NatalieZemonDavis (NZD) in the early '80s. We should remind ourselves regularly how much of ♀️'s history has only been retrieved in the past few decades.
Grad students & recent PhDs (historians 🗃️ & beyond!), I encourage you to apply fr the MHS's Early Career Scholars Committee & Mentorship Program. Members connect w/ other grads, learn abt career paths & access the MHS's many resources. Apps due 3/15: masshistfellowships.slideroom.com#/login/progr...
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February 23, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Grad students & recent PhDs (historians 🗃️ & beyond!), I encourage you to apply fr the MHS's Early Career Scholars Committee & Mentorship Program. Members connect w/ other grads, learn abt career paths & access the MHS's many resources. Apps due 3/15: masshistfellowships.slideroom.com#/login/progr...
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Last week Dr. Marie Pellisier defended her diss. on food, memory, and historic interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg. 🎉🎉 It was an honor & a joy to advise Marie and this fantastic research. She's now a program officer at Mass Humanities! A taste (haha) of Marie's work is at Gender & History: 🗃️
February 12, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Last week Dr. Marie Pellisier defended her diss. on food, memory, and historic interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg. 🎉🎉 It was an honor & a joy to advise Marie and this fantastic research. She's now a program officer at Mass Humanities! A taste (haha) of Marie's work is at Gender & History: 🗃️
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In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr Day, some reflections on Black farmers' role in the Civil Rights movement.
Drs. Monica White & Cynthia Greenlee talk about it here:
civileats.com/2018/12/20/f...
Drs. Monica White & Cynthia Greenlee talk about it here:
civileats.com/2018/12/20/f...
‘Freedom Farmers’ Tells the History of Black Farmers Uniting Against Racism
In her new book, Monica M. White details the cooperative practices of Black farmers in the Deep South and Detroit who played a key role in the Civil Rights movement.
civileats.com
January 13, 2024 at 7:42 PM
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr Day, some reflections on Black farmers' role in the Civil Rights movement.
Drs. Monica White & Cynthia Greenlee talk about it here:
civileats.com/2018/12/20/f...
Drs. Monica White & Cynthia Greenlee talk about it here:
civileats.com/2018/12/20/f...
Minnesota has a new flag! Big proponent of flags that are easy to remember, that kids can draw, that don't try to say EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE. Also, the MN-shaped dark blue portion is genius. I'm into it! Thoughts?
www.startribune.com/tuesday-we-g...
www.startribune.com/tuesday-we-g...
Minnesota panel selects final state flag design
Unless the Legislature takes action to undo their work, the new flag will start flying on May 11.
www.startribune.com
December 19, 2023 at 6:31 PM
Minnesota has a new flag! Big proponent of flags that are easy to remember, that kids can draw, that don't try to say EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE. Also, the MN-shaped dark blue portion is genius. I'm into it! Thoughts?
www.startribune.com/tuesday-we-g...
www.startribune.com/tuesday-we-g...
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Post and repost Wulf's essay. Let's reclaim the narrative.
One of the most frustrating narratives links humanities majors w poor employment prospects and outcomes. “The data really does say otherwise.” I wrote abt the new & important Humanities Indicators state level report for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social 🗃️ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/12/14/h...
Humanities and Jobs Data: What's the Real Story? - The Scholarly Kitchen
Escalating attacks on the humanities often cite the problem of employment for humanities majors; a new report shows otherwise.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
December 14, 2023 at 9:30 PM
Post and repost Wulf's essay. Let's reclaim the narrative.
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My advice for writing History dissertation intros, in the traditional style. 🗃️
#skystorians #writing
#skystorians #writing
But to the matter at hand: if the rest of the diss is traditionally structured, you can build the intro in the traditional sections:
— descriptive intro
— your big arguments
— methodology (esp if it is unusual)
— historiographical intervention (without throwing fellow scholars under the bus)
— descriptive intro
— your big arguments
— methodology (esp if it is unusual)
— historiographical intervention (without throwing fellow scholars under the bus)
December 12, 2023 at 2:27 PM
My advice for writing History dissertation intros, in the traditional style. 🗃️
#skystorians #writing
#skystorians #writing
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Henri Joseph Redouté Renard, 1812.
American holly tree, Ilex opaca, with its fruit or berries.
American holly tree, Ilex opaca, with its fruit or berries.
December 12, 2023 at 7:47 PM
Henri Joseph Redouté Renard, 1812.
American holly tree, Ilex opaca, with its fruit or berries.
American holly tree, Ilex opaca, with its fruit or berries.
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Our most recent JCB blog post highlights Karin Wulf's recent piece in Common Place journal about finding the Brown brothers' sister in the stacks.
Details here:
jcblibrary.org/news/finding...
Details here:
jcblibrary.org/news/finding...
December 5, 2023 at 5:42 PM
Our most recent JCB blog post highlights Karin Wulf's recent piece in Common Place journal about finding the Brown brothers' sister in the stacks.
Details here:
jcblibrary.org/news/finding...
Details here:
jcblibrary.org/news/finding...
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He’s not on Bluesky yet but I wanted to share my friend and cohort member’s first ever peer-reviewed article in the Disability Studies Quarterly. Check out Jasper’s amazing work!
dsq-sds.org/index.php/ds...
dsq-sds.org/index.php/ds...
December 3, 2023 at 8:26 PM
He’s not on Bluesky yet but I wanted to share my friend and cohort member’s first ever peer-reviewed article in the Disability Studies Quarterly. Check out Jasper’s amazing work!
dsq-sds.org/index.php/ds...
dsq-sds.org/index.php/ds...
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Watching the firing of the bricks at Colonial Williamsburg. There are 19,000 bricks inside the kiln. 6,000 of these bricks will go to restoring the Bray School building. #ShareCW
November 17, 2023 at 11:24 PM
Watching the firing of the bricks at Colonial Williamsburg. There are 19,000 bricks inside the kiln. 6,000 of these bricks will go to restoring the Bray School building. #ShareCW
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I've incorporated suggestions from here & on Mastodon, and my revised graphic on doing historical research is now available for hi-res download. Please feel free to use it with your students! 🗃️
cassandragoodhistorian.com/2023/11/14/t...
cassandragoodhistorian.com/2023/11/14/t...
Teaching Historical Research
This semester, I've been frustrated by students' turning to websites rather than scholarly books and articles, even when I explicitly told them not to use websites. I realized that I needed to explain...
cassandragoodhistorian.com
November 14, 2023 at 4:03 PM
I've incorporated suggestions from here & on Mastodon, and my revised graphic on doing historical research is now available for hi-res download. Please feel free to use it with your students! 🗃️
cassandragoodhistorian.com/2023/11/14/t...
cassandragoodhistorian.com/2023/11/14/t...
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Looking for someone interested in a short-term copy editing job: fact checking notes, quotes, and translations, and ensuring conformity to our publisher's style guidelines. High level of French proficiency is required. Please share!
November 14, 2023 at 4:38 PM
Looking for someone interested in a short-term copy editing job: fact checking notes, quotes, and translations, and ensuring conformity to our publisher's style guidelines. High level of French proficiency is required. Please share!
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The #SHEAR2024 CFP is making the rounds if you’re interesting in submitting a proposal! www.shear.org/call-for-pap...
www.shear.org
November 9, 2023 at 8:12 AM
The #SHEAR2024 CFP is making the rounds if you’re interesting in submitting a proposal! www.shear.org/call-for-pap...