Kendyl
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Kendyl
@kendylschmidt.bsky.social
PhD Candidate - American Studies
Saint Louis University
Anatomy riots in antebellum America and other 19c. weirdness
A sickly Victorian child trapped in a millenial's body 🪦
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Well beyond the battlefield—firearms were instruments of authority in early America. Explore a new lesson in the #JERPano Teaching the Early Republic series that opens opportunities for students to think about the materiality and symbolism of power and control: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/11/06/f...
Lesson Plan: The Architecture of Firearms and Power in Early America
Shannan Mason offers a complete, two day lesson plan on women and the American Revolution featuring Lauren Duval’s recent article from The Pano.
thepanorama.shear.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Feeling the midsemester slump? You’re not alone.

The Panorama's series -Teaching the Early American Republic contains ready-to-use lesson plans, strategies, fresh ideas, and reflections to reinvigorate your classroom.

Visit the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/04/t...
Teaching the Early American Republic
Check out recent Pano pieces on teaching to find inspiration for your classroom.
thepanorama.shear.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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lmaoo never gets old
June 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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MOMENTS AGO: NBC News' @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports from L.A., as law enforcement on horses disperse crowds.
June 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Expected but still very upsetting. I should have known better than to let myself get excited for an opportunity I knew would be taken away.
Oscillating between fear and outrage and sadness and anger and worry and all of the emotions is exhausting, and they're exhausting us like this on purpose.
April 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Cory motherfu*cking Filibuster Booker.
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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This bill does enormous damage and has literally no upside. Faculty will leave or quit, enrollments will drop, out-of-state tuition will evaporate, programs will languish. For what? Some authoritarian turd polishing? So bleak.
March 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Track and field will introduce mandatory DNA sex testing for athletes entering female competitions, its global leader said Tuesday, making it the first Olympic sport to add the requirement.
Olympic Track Officials to Require Sex Tests for Female Athletes
The change affects women with atypical genetics who have been able to compete if they suppressed their testosterone levels.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Had the privilege to present on the methods and methodologies I used in my dissertation at the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science conference last weekend with two exceptional friends and colleagues!
March 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Trump attacked Federal Funding for Libraries.

We need Americans like you to take action today!

Please sign and share the petition before it's too late!

action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
PETITION: Stop Trump's E.O. Attacks on Federal Funding for Libraries
In a new executive order, President Trump has targeted the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state librari...
action.everylibrary.org
March 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I think I have the academic yips.
February 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I just discovered Yellowjackets last week, and that's why I will not be making my next writing deadline. 🤷
January 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I’m sick of living through Wikipedia entries.
January 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Still never correct but it's progress over their last attempt!
December 4, 2024 at 2:39 PM
What am I thankful for? Newspapers.com, Beyonce, and dogs in costumes (not necessarily in that order).
November 26, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Will millennials ever not be blamed everything?
Millennials choosing to be DINKs could push GDP down by as much as 4%
"By the time you get to 2030, you're talking about a birth rate that is wildly different to what was in the assumptions made at the beginning of the decade."
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November 24, 2024 at 4:59 PM
So close and honestly, not the worst attempted spelling I've encountered.
November 20, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Yes, let's blame the greedy grad students for higher ed's financial woes 🙄
BU suspends admissions to humanities, other Ph.D. programs
The university didn’t announce its decision in a news release and hasn’t fully explained it, but two deans blamed a new grad workers’ union contract for the cutbacks to a dozen programs including Engl...
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November 19, 2024 at 4:40 PM