Marla At Large
@marlaatlarge.bsky.social
Historian of women, work, craft & memory & Assoc Dean for Strategic Initiatives, #UMassAmherst College of Humanities & Fine Arts. Mainly thinking these days about #PublicHistory, #HealthHumanities, & #HealthyAging — who’s with me?
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Marla At Large
@marlaatlarge.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Hey hello! Introducing myself here to say I’m a historian of women and labor in early America with emphasis on #materialculture, but focused these days on #humanities and strategic planning. Looking forward to connecting with folks; hadn’t realized just how much I missed spaces like this!
So excited that Seminar week is here! If you can’t be with us in Deerfield this weekend, note that recordings for registrants are available on demand for the month following the Seminar! #AmRev250 #Publichistory
Register for our “Recalling the Revolution in New England” conference at Historic Deerfield next weekend, either online or in person, and you’ll have access to all the presentations for a month, from Anishanslin (keynote) to Zea (Putnam powder horn). dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-con...
Our 2025 Conference: “Recalling the Revolution in New England”
“Tercentenary, Paul Revere’s ride.” September 15, 1930. Boston Public Library. The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife’s 2025 gathering, Recalling the Revolution in New England, will …
dublin-seminar.org
June 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
So excited that Seminar week is here! If you can’t be with us in Deerfield this weekend, note that recordings for registrants are available on demand for the month following the Seminar! #AmRev250 #Publichistory
Getting so excited for the June 27-28 seminar on the #publichistory of the American Revolution. The keynote by @drzara.bsky.social is going to be 🔥!
Register here for in-person or online (talks accesssible for a month)! www.historic-deerfield.org/events/dubli...
Register here for in-person or online (talks accesssible for a month)! www.historic-deerfield.org/events/dubli...
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife: Recalling the Revolution in New England - Historic Deerfield
Learn about the broad range of ways the people of New England have looked back on the nation’s founding —and what they forgot, or chose to forget, in the process. We will explore how the peoples of th...
www.historic-deerfield.org
June 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Getting so excited for the June 27-28 seminar on the #publichistory of the American Revolution. The keynote by @drzara.bsky.social is going to be 🔥!
Register here for in-person or online (talks accesssible for a month)! www.historic-deerfield.org/events/dubli...
Register here for in-person or online (talks accesssible for a month)! www.historic-deerfield.org/events/dubli...
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History & Policy will shortly be unveiling the first publicly-searchable database of historians with policy-relevant expertise. If you are a professional historian who would like to engage more with policymakers, there's still time to submit a profile. Register your interest here: bit.ly/3YMcsXu
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May 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
History & Policy will shortly be unveiling the first publicly-searchable database of historians with policy-relevant expertise. If you are a professional historian who would like to engage more with policymakers, there's still time to submit a profile. Register your interest here: bit.ly/3YMcsXu
Am thinking about historians who write about ways folks in the past have imagined the future. Published or work in progress — is that a thing out there?
May 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Am thinking about historians who write about ways folks in the past have imagined the future. Published or work in progress — is that a thing out there?
So excited to see registration open for the June 2025 Dublin Seminar, “Recalling the Revolution in New England!” A deep #AmRev250 dive into #publichistory in the region! — www.historic-deerfield.org/events/dubli...
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife: Recalling the Revolution in New England - Historic Deerfield
Learn about the broad range of ways the people of New England have looked back on the nation’s founding —and what they forgot, or chose to forget, in the process. We will explore how the peoples of th...
www.historic-deerfield.org
April 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
So excited to see registration open for the June 2025 Dublin Seminar, “Recalling the Revolution in New England!” A deep #AmRev250 dive into #publichistory in the region! — www.historic-deerfield.org/events/dubli...
It's always exciting to see the winners of the @umasspress.bsky.social and UMass MFA for Poets and Writers announced. Where to start? Torn between Kirsten Kaschock's An Impossibility of Crows and Jason Bredle's Jason Bredle's I Love You But I Don’t Speak Your Language #booksky
Announcing the 2025 Juniper Literary Prize Winners - University of Massachusetts Press
The University of Massachusetts Press and the UMass Amherst MFA for Poets and Writers are thrilled to announce the 2025 winners of the Juniper Literary
www.umasspress.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It's always exciting to see the winners of the @umasspress.bsky.social and UMass MFA for Poets and Writers announced. Where to start? Torn between Kirsten Kaschock's An Impossibility of Crows and Jason Bredle's Jason Bredle's I Love You But I Don’t Speak Your Language #booksky
My fab @umasshfa.bsky.social & History dept colleague Audrey Altstadt has launched a series of posts for History@Work in which she will explore the histories and significance of federal programs whose future is now in jeopardy. To read along, tune in here: umasshistory.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/s...
Signal in the Noise
By Audrey L. Altstadt This article is the first in a multipart series by Audrey L. Altstadt reflecting on little known histories of several institutions whose existence is currently under threat fr…
umasshistory.wordpress.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
My fab @umasshfa.bsky.social & History dept colleague Audrey Altstadt has launched a series of posts for History@Work in which she will explore the histories and significance of federal programs whose future is now in jeopardy. To read along, tune in here: umasshistory.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/s...
Many thanks to my publisher (Macmillan) for joining this important effort!
Publishers Ask Congress to Defend Libraries as Federal Library Grant Funding Ends
Four of the Big Five publishers and Sourcebooks sent a letter to Congress on April 3 expressing “deep concern” for the nation’s libraries following a week of unprecedented turmoil at the Institute of ...
www.publishersweekly.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Many thanks to my publisher (Macmillan) for joining this important effort!
So happy to see our @umasspress.bsky.social series at the @ncph.bsky.social conference in Montreal! Very proud of the scholarship we have helped to bring out…. #booksky
March 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
So happy to see our @umasspress.bsky.social series at the @ncph.bsky.social conference in Montreal! Very proud of the scholarship we have helped to bring out…. #booksky
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Hey, for any particular thing you're furious about, one good way to channel that energy until April 1 is to do some phone banking to help Judge Susan Crawford beat the Trump henchman that Elon Musk has spent about $18 million to put on the WI Supreme Court
WisDems.org/call
WisDems.org/call
WisDems Virtual Phonebank! · WisDems
Join WisDems to make calls to voters! We’ll be making calls to talk to voters in Wisconsin about what issues are important to them & the importance of our Supreme Court Race and Spring Elections!
Fir...
WisDems.org
March 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Hey, for any particular thing you're furious about, one good way to channel that energy until April 1 is to do some phone banking to help Judge Susan Crawford beat the Trump henchman that Elon Musk has spent about $18 million to put on the WI Supreme Court
WisDems.org/call
WisDems.org/call
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Delighted to convene a new series at Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture (UC Press), where I’m founding associate editor. Articles written by the giant national team who collaborates to research sound history through the Library of Congress RPTF. online.ucpress.edu/res/article/...
March 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Delighted to convene a new series at Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture (UC Press), where I’m founding associate editor. Articles written by the giant national team who collaborates to research sound history through the Library of Congress RPTF. online.ucpress.edu/res/article/...
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Wisconsin: Early voting starts today. Please vote for Susan Crawford for State Supreme Court.
March 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Wisconsin: Early voting starts today. Please vote for Susan Crawford for State Supreme Court.
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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
So excited to see my issue of The Public Historian arrive, finally! Very excited about this scholarship on museums as landlords…..
March 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
So excited to see my issue of The Public Historian arrive, finally! Very excited about this scholarship on museums as landlords…..
So excited about “Branching Out,” a new title in our @umasspress.bsky.social series “Public History in Historical Perspective” www.umasspress.com/978162534832...
#booksky
#booksky
Branching Out
Trees are not just natural resources; they are also cultural ones that present unique challenges and opportunities for public historians. Trees can serve as...
www.umasspress.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
So excited about “Branching Out,” a new title in our @umasspress.bsky.social series “Public History in Historical Perspective” www.umasspress.com/978162534832...
#booksky
#booksky
Boosting this one last time (I’m not on the committee but helping spread the word)—priority deadline is March 8 for this #UMassAmherst position at the intersection of public history and histories of enslavement in the north. Please do share with colleagues!
March 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Boosting this one last time (I’m not on the committee but helping spread the word)—priority deadline is March 8 for this #UMassAmherst position at the intersection of public history and histories of enslavement in the north. Please do share with colleagues!
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The same party that shouted that Obama was a liar and booed Biden during their formal addresses to Congress is now worried about people disrespecting the president with crossed arms.
Mike Waltz on Zelenskyy: "Coming to the Oval Office with the body language, the shaking of head, the arms crossed -- we just found it incredibly disrespectful."
March 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The same party that shouted that Obama was a liar and booed Biden during their formal addresses to Congress is now worried about people disrespecting the president with crossed arms.
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A new $15 million jazz fellowship is granting 50 artists over the age of 62 a $100,000 grant, professional support and performance opportunities
New jazz fellowship honors the genre's elders and gives them each an unrestricted $100,000 grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Jazz Foundation of America on Tuesday announced the Jazz Legacies Fellowship -- a new $15 million program that will give 50 artists who are 62 years or older a ...
apnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A new $15 million jazz fellowship is granting 50 artists over the age of 62 a $100,000 grant, professional support and performance opportunities
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POSTDOC ALERT! Postdoc in the history of modern medicine or public health at Wisconsin: details at the link below. 2 years, excellent conditions. #Skystorians #HistMed #medhum please repost widely!
mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p...
mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p...
Postdoctoral Fellow: History of Modern (19th century-present) Medicine or Public Health
Position Requirements: PhD in history of modern (19th century-present) medicine or public health or closely related field, geographic area and specialty open. All requirements for the PhD, including t...
mhb.wisc.edu
February 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
POSTDOC ALERT! Postdoc in the history of modern medicine or public health at Wisconsin: details at the link below. 2 years, excellent conditions. #Skystorians #HistMed #medhum please repost widely!
mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p...
mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p...
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Wait wait wait freaking WEST BEND? The very center of the heart of reactionary darkness that is Washington County? The place where Trump won 67% of the vote in 2025?!
8/ Fitzgerald (WI) www.tmj4.com/news/washing...
West Bend voters raise concerns about Pres. Trump and Elon Musk at Republican Congressman's town hall
TMJ4's Chief Political Reporter Charles Benson was the only news station at the listening session for the fiery back-and-forth discussion.
www.tmj4.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Wait wait wait freaking WEST BEND? The very center of the heart of reactionary darkness that is Washington County? The place where Trump won 67% of the vote in 2025?!
February 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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This seems like it would be of interest to #DHmakes folks! tatter.org/events/craft...
Crafting a Better World - Tatter
A Virtual Panel with Diana Weymar, Sara Trail, and Jayna Zweiman
tatter.org
February 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
This seems like it would be of interest to #DHmakes folks! tatter.org/events/craft...
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Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world:
1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control
2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research
3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest”
All three are under threat.
1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control
2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research
3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest”
All three are under threat.
February 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world:
1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control
2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research
3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest”
All three are under threat.
1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control
2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research
3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest”
All three are under threat.