Katie Fapp
@katiefapp.bsky.social
Historian of transnational women's suffrage, departmental lecturer at University of Oxford; film fanatic on the side
Calling all early US legal historians! My new home at the Kinder Institute for Constitutional Democracy is hiring an Assistant Professor of of US Constitutional Law and Legal History. Can attest — a great community to work in! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69126/u...
University of Missouri - Columbia - Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of U.S. Constitutional Law and Legal History | H-Net
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September 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Calling all early US legal historians! My new home at the Kinder Institute for Constitutional Democracy is hiring an Assistant Professor of of US Constitutional Law and Legal History. Can attest — a great community to work in! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69126/u...
Found this on the anniversary of the 19th Amendment's Ratification. Coincidence? In any case, sharing to highlight a resource I was begging for at the start of my DPhil: an interactive women's suffrage map! GREAT way to visualize the growth of women's suffrage! depts.washington.edu/moves/WomanS...
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August 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Found this on the anniversary of the 19th Amendment's Ratification. Coincidence? In any case, sharing to highlight a resource I was begging for at the start of my DPhil: an interactive women's suffrage map! GREAT way to visualize the growth of women's suffrage! depts.washington.edu/moves/WomanS...
pleasantly surprised with how Chief of War has shown the Pacific World so far. Really expected them to gloss over Ka'iana's time with the trading ship — instead we're getting treated to a full look at just how wide and interconnected it was! Jumping from Alaska to the Philippines in one episode.
August 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
pleasantly surprised with how Chief of War has shown the Pacific World so far. Really expected them to gloss over Ka'iana's time with the trading ship — instead we're getting treated to a full look at just how wide and interconnected it was! Jumping from Alaska to the Philippines in one episode.
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We’re advertising for a 12 month teaching post in 20th Century US History. Deadline 28/7 (a short turn around because we need to interview in mid-August).
We’re a great, collegial and fun US history community. Happy to answer any and all questions about the role, and the RAI Bake Off.
We’re a great, collegial and fun US history community. Happy to answer any and all questions about the role, and the RAI Bake Off.
Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History at University of Oxford
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History on jobs.ac.uk!
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July 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
We’re advertising for a 12 month teaching post in 20th Century US History. Deadline 28/7 (a short turn around because we need to interview in mid-August).
We’re a great, collegial and fun US history community. Happy to answer any and all questions about the role, and the RAI Bake Off.
We’re a great, collegial and fun US history community. Happy to answer any and all questions about the role, and the RAI Bake Off.
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Happy Jeanette Rankin Day! We could use some Congressional courage atm.
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June Nominees
June 1: Marilyn Monroe , for all the reasons detailed in that weeklong series! June 2: Betty Freeman , whose philanthropic support of c...
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June 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Happy Jeanette Rankin Day! We could use some Congressional courage atm.
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Call me crazy, but I really can't imagine that Union soldiers would love the idea of their names being used as a political football to honor a Confederate at the expense of Union surgeon!!!!
The US Army said it will restore the names of seven Army bases that previously honored Confederate leaders.
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June 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Call me crazy, but I really can't imagine that Union soldiers would love the idea of their names being used as a political football to honor a Confederate at the expense of Union surgeon!!!!
With record-breaking speed for my podcast, I got to cover Sinners on Flashback! Was so lucky to meet Tammy in the wake of this fantastic movie and have this conversation with her about the power of music in telling and shaping our histories.
Watch out who you invite inside...our episode on SINNERS is out now! Dr Tammy Kernodle joins to unpack all the history — but especially the music! — behind the latest historical blockbuster to take cinemas by storm 🎵🧛♂️ Available wherever fine podcasts are found! open.spotify.com/episode/7pJ6...
June 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
With record-breaking speed for my podcast, I got to cover Sinners on Flashback! Was so lucky to meet Tammy in the wake of this fantastic movie and have this conversation with her about the power of music in telling and shaping our histories.
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Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Lecturer in American History - Cardiff University - Job Details
Job Details: Lecturer in American HistorySchool of History, Archaeology and ReligionAn exciting new opportunity has arisen
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May 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Need some lightly-themed Memorial Day listening? Flashback's episode on the Patriot is out now! A lot of fun with this one, and was joined by the fantastic Krysten Blackstone — a historian of soldiers' lived experiences and morale in the Revolution!
Our episode on THE PATRIOT is out now! Dr Krysten Blackstone joins as we dive deep into this infamous Revolutionary War movie (and, briefly, Liberty's Kids) 🇺🇸 Available now wherever you find your podcasts! open.spotify.com/episode/5UsV...
May 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Need some lightly-themed Memorial Day listening? Flashback's episode on the Patriot is out now! A lot of fun with this one, and was joined by the fantastic Krysten Blackstone — a historian of soldiers' lived experiences and morale in the Revolution!
Such a fun ep! If you enjoyed Fraser in any of his other fish-out-of-water premises, definitely check this one out for a hefty dose of 60s and 90s nostalgia. And Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek as a delightful married couple and accidental cult leaders!
Gee Wilikers! This week we're taking it back to BLAST FROM THE PAST, a 1999 sci-fi rom-com starring Brendan Fraser as a man raised in a nuclear bunker. Historian of gender and the Cold War Tom Bishop joins to discuss this delightfully zany flick of a man out of time — out now! tinyurl.com/yckfz47z
May 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Such a fun ep! If you enjoyed Fraser in any of his other fish-out-of-water premises, definitely check this one out for a hefty dose of 60s and 90s nostalgia. And Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek as a delightful married couple and accidental cult leaders!
in WHAT world would I want an "ai assistant" to pop up over being able to access the damn table of contents in an ebook. Proquest has got to be kidding
May 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
in WHAT world would I want an "ai assistant" to pop up over being able to access the damn table of contents in an ebook. Proquest has got to be kidding
One of the more interesting watches for the podcast — and then an equally great record with @benwillis.bsky.social unpacking its relationship to Lincoln, the Civil War, and of course, vampires and the slave power. Out now wherever you get your podcasts!
A fan of Sinners and want to think more about American history and vampires? Have we got just the thing — our new episode on ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER is out now! Ben Willis joins to talk the other Lincoln movie from 2012 to kick off our new season. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/4HEJ...
April 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
One of the more interesting watches for the podcast — and then an equally great record with @benwillis.bsky.social unpacking its relationship to Lincoln, the Civil War, and of course, vampires and the slave power. Out now wherever you get your podcasts!
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The Faculty of History and the RAI are delighted to announce that expressions of interest are now invited for the Harmsworth Visiting Professorship of American History for the academic years 2027-28, 2028-29, and 2029-30. Details: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies.
Jobs and Vacancies
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April 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The Faculty of History and the RAI are delighted to announce that expressions of interest are now invited for the Harmsworth Visiting Professorship of American History for the academic years 2027-28, 2028-29, and 2029-30. Details: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies.
Morning inbox check revealed some dismaying news: the CA state legislature's proposed 2026 budget has cut funding for the California Digital Newspaper Collection. This is such an important resource — and per its director will go offline if it does not receive its typical state support 🗃️🧵
April 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Morning inbox check revealed some dismaying news: the CA state legislature's proposed 2026 budget has cut funding for the California Digital Newspaper Collection. This is such an important resource — and per its director will go offline if it does not receive its typical state support 🗃️🧵
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This week in history, 1911: thousands of residents line the streets of New York to attend the funeral of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The blaze, which broke out on March 25, claimed the lives of 146 people, mostly women.
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April 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This week in history, 1911: thousands of residents line the streets of New York to attend the funeral of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The blaze, which broke out on March 25, claimed the lives of 146 people, mostly women.
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Abolitionist and woman suffragist Lucy Stone came through Louisville in 1853 as part of a lecture tour of MO, IN and WV. In her Bloomer costume, Stone gave three speeches, with thousands packing the halls each night. Orators in the suffrage movement bragged of a good event as "a Kentucky welcome."
March 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Abolitionist and woman suffragist Lucy Stone came through Louisville in 1853 as part of a lecture tour of MO, IN and WV. In her Bloomer costume, Stone gave three speeches, with thousands packing the halls each night. Orators in the suffrage movement bragged of a good event as "a Kentucky welcome."
This episode was SO much fun to record with Emily — really my ideal for the pod, chatting with friends about movies we love!! And an episode about the early 2010s as much as it is about the 1920s. Listen now!
Gatsby? What Gatsby? Why the GREAT Gatsby of course — this week @emilybrady.bsky.social joins to talk Baz Luhrmann's 2013 adaptation of the classic novel in all of its maximalist, blockbuster, and 2010s glory ✨🍾🟢 Available now wherever you listen to podcasts, or at the link here bit.ly/41vWZxzThe
February 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This episode was SO much fun to record with Emily — really my ideal for the pod, chatting with friends about movies we love!! And an episode about the early 2010s as much as it is about the 1920s. Listen now!
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ICYMI, last week we published an interactive map of more than $300 billion worth of Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan infrastructure law funding. Enter your ZIP code or city and a search radius and find projects in your area:
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Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go? Search our map by ZIP code.
From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood.
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February 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
ICYMI, last week we published an interactive map of more than $300 billion worth of Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan infrastructure law funding. Enter your ZIP code or city and a search radius and find projects in your area:
grist.org/accountabili...
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Considering dropping the weekly hint format for the next season, but if I do I'm glad I got to go out on this one tbh
Happy Friday! The last episode of this season is out Monday — and the picture below is a hint as to what it covers. This is a supersized one — any guesses?
February 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Considering dropping the weekly hint format for the next season, but if I do I'm glad I got to go out on this one tbh
historical literacy issues abound but sometimes you just go back to the classics: or, what people think "victorian" is
February 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
historical literacy issues abound but sometimes you just go back to the classics: or, what people think "victorian" is
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“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order
Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month.
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February 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
time to check bluesky for my daily dose of news anxiety ☕️ and now back to writing
February 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
time to check bluesky for my daily dose of news anxiety ☕️ and now back to writing
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Tomorrow I am spending 2 hours transcribing documents for the Library of Congress in honor of Frederick Douglas' birthday celebration. Anybody can do this online.
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Tomorrow I am spending 2 hours transcribing documents for the Library of Congress in honor of Frederick Douglas' birthday celebration. Anybody can do this online.
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February 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Tomorrow I am spending 2 hours transcribing documents for the Library of Congress in honor of Frederick Douglas' birthday celebration. Anybody can do this online.
historyhub.history.gov/crowd-loc/f/...
Tomorrow I am spending 2 hours transcribing documents for the Library of Congress in honor of Frederick Douglas' birthday celebration. Anybody can do this online.
historyhub.history.gov/crowd-loc/f/...
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BAAS regrets to announce that the BAAS / US Embassy Small Grants Programme has been cancelled. 1/7
February 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
BAAS regrets to announce that the BAAS / US Embassy Small Grants Programme has been cancelled. 1/7
Loads of fun with this one and Samantha as we stepped back in time to discuss a big 'ole 1950s musical and learnt the context behind washing that man out of our hair. Out now!
Another Monday means another Flashback! The newest ep, on 1958's SOUTH PACIFIC is out now 🏝️ @slanevi.bsky.social joins to unpack this WW2-set Rogers and Hammerstein war romance — available now wherever you listen to podcasts!
February 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Loads of fun with this one and Samantha as we stepped back in time to discuss a big 'ole 1950s musical and learnt the context behind washing that man out of our hair. Out now!