Dr. Mary Beth Fraser Connolly
@mbfconnolly.bsky.social
Historian, sometime adjunct, and currently Continuing Lecturer of History & Concurrent Enrollment Liaison for History at Purdue University Northwest
Ah, a new book has arrived. Congratulations to Joseph Mannard on his new book!
The Two Worlds of Ann Gertrude Wightt share.google/fbZIYqm5uggP...
The Two Worlds of Ann Gertrude Wightt share.google/fbZIYqm5uggP...
August 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Ah, a new book has arrived. Congratulations to Joseph Mannard on his new book!
The Two Worlds of Ann Gertrude Wightt share.google/fbZIYqm5uggP...
The Two Worlds of Ann Gertrude Wightt share.google/fbZIYqm5uggP...
Here is some Sunshine
youtu.be/2UQP6asc8CI?... The latest from Joan Hutton.
youtu.be/2UQP6asc8CI?... The latest from Joan Hutton.
Sunshine ☀️
YouTube video by Joan Hutton Music
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July 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Here is some Sunshine
youtu.be/2UQP6asc8CI?... The latest from Joan Hutton.
youtu.be/2UQP6asc8CI?... The latest from Joan Hutton.
Pilgrimage accomplished. Visited Old St. Joseph Cemetery and the Sisters of Mercy graves this afternoon. This included Mother Francis Xavier Warde's grave and those of the first Sisters of Mercy at Manchester, NH.
July 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Pilgrimage accomplished. Visited Old St. Joseph Cemetery and the Sisters of Mercy graves this afternoon. This included Mother Francis Xavier Warde's grave and those of the first Sisters of Mercy at Manchester, NH.
2-year postdoc opportunity: FCJ Postdoctoral Research Associate in the History of Catholicism at Durham University durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
FCJ Postdoctoral Research Associate in the History of Catholicism
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
July 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
2-year postdoc opportunity: FCJ Postdoctoral Research Associate in the History of Catholicism at Durham University durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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"My father, an early and prominent computer scientist, passed away more than two years ago. Since then I’ve been trying to make sense of how rapidly the world that helped make him, and in turn the one he helped shape, is unraveling." 1/ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...
Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” - The Scholarly Kitchen
Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
June 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"My father, an early and prominent computer scientist, passed away more than two years ago. Since then I’ve been trying to make sense of how rapidly the world that helped make him, and in turn the one he helped shape, is unraveling." 1/ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...
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26 June 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Helena Wilhelmina Polak, was born in Groningen.
In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection together with her younger brother Abraham.
In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection together with her younger brother Abraham.
June 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
26 June 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Helena Wilhelmina Polak, was born in Groningen.
In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection together with her younger brother Abraham.
In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection together with her younger brother Abraham.
The Conference on the History of Women Religious at the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism ended just yesterday. I think I will be processing all that I saw, heard, and most importantly learned for a good while. 1/2
June 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The Conference on the History of Women Religious at the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism ended just yesterday. I think I will be processing all that I saw, heard, and most importantly learned for a good while. 1/2
#CHWR2025 1st full day! & we [really] begin! (Last night's keynote from Katharine Massam was super!] Today, 1st panels begin at 9am, I'm a chair. Later at 2pm I join @carmenmangion.bsky.social & Christopher Eads. Day ends w the work-in-progress film on Corita Kent! It is going to be #nuntastic.
June 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
#CHWR2025 1st full day! & we [really] begin! (Last night's keynote from Katharine Massam was super!] Today, 1st panels begin at 9am, I'm a chair. Later at 2pm I join @carmenmangion.bsky.social & Christopher Eads. Day ends w the work-in-progress film on Corita Kent! It is going to be #nuntastic.
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In light of the Trump administration restricting access to trans-specific support on the national 988 suicide prevention hotline, I’m asking everyone to share this alternative loud and wide:
The Rainbow Youth Project is here.
There is always help.
The Rainbow Youth Project is here.
There is always help.
June 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In light of the Trump administration restricting access to trans-specific support on the national 988 suicide prevention hotline, I’m asking everyone to share this alternative loud and wide:
The Rainbow Youth Project is here.
There is always help.
The Rainbow Youth Project is here.
There is always help.
"You need not caution me regarding any little remarks which you might make for to no one living [underlined in orig.] would I reveal them. I too have many things which I would like to speak to you of but yet it would not do to write about."
Oh, come on Mother Agatha! Spill! #nuntastic gossip.
Oh, come on Mother Agatha! Spill! #nuntastic gossip.
June 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"You need not caution me regarding any little remarks which you might make for to no one living [underlined in orig.] would I reveal them. I too have many things which I would like to speak to you of but yet it would not do to write about."
Oh, come on Mother Agatha! Spill! #nuntastic gossip.
Oh, come on Mother Agatha! Spill! #nuntastic gossip.
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I have a feeling that the assholes currently running Interior are going to regret this directive in the end. There are too many smart, vindictive supporters of national parks out there.
I just wish that park rangers were not caught in the cross-fire.
#supportNPS
I just wish that park rangers were not caught in the cross-fire.
#supportNPS
The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service to post signage nationwide by June 13, asking visitors for feedback on any information they feel misrepresents American history.
National Park signage encourages the public to help erase negative stories at its sites
The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service to post signage nationwide by June 13, asking visitors for feedback on any information they feel misrepresents American history.
n.pr
June 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I have a feeling that the assholes currently running Interior are going to regret this directive in the end. There are too many smart, vindictive supporters of national parks out there.
I just wish that park rangers were not caught in the cross-fire.
#supportNPS
I just wish that park rangers were not caught in the cross-fire.
#supportNPS
Recalling travel from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in Dec 1843, w 1 leg a 2-night journey by stagecoach, a "heavy clumsy concern," that fit 9 people (7 sisters & 2 men) a Sister of Mercy reported: "Passing the night in it was quite a penitential exercise."
Oh, sister, tell me more. #nuntastic
Oh, sister, tell me more. #nuntastic
June 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Recalling travel from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in Dec 1843, w 1 leg a 2-night journey by stagecoach, a "heavy clumsy concern," that fit 9 people (7 sisters & 2 men) a Sister of Mercy reported: "Passing the night in it was quite a penitential exercise."
Oh, sister, tell me more. #nuntastic
Oh, sister, tell me more. #nuntastic
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I love this photo! Florence Barry was amazing - more on her here: map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/items/show/311 @lselibrary.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social @ncronline.bsky.social @cushwa.bsky.social @mbfconnolly.bsky.social @achahistory.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I love this photo! Florence Barry was amazing - more on her here: map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/items/show/311 @lselibrary.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social @ncronline.bsky.social @cushwa.bsky.social @mbfconnolly.bsky.social @achahistory.bsky.social
Tuesday, March 11, I will present for the Mercy Heritage Center.
My presentation is: "Willing to Engage in the American Mission": The Irish Sisters of Mercy in 1840s Pittsburgh and Chicago. This online presentation will be at 3pm Eastern/2pm Central. The Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/810…
My presentation is: "Willing to Engage in the American Mission": The Irish Sisters of Mercy in 1840s Pittsburgh and Chicago. This online presentation will be at 3pm Eastern/2pm Central. The Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/810…
March 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Tuesday, March 11, I will present for the Mercy Heritage Center.
My presentation is: "Willing to Engage in the American Mission": The Irish Sisters of Mercy in 1840s Pittsburgh and Chicago. This online presentation will be at 3pm Eastern/2pm Central. The Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/810…
My presentation is: "Willing to Engage in the American Mission": The Irish Sisters of Mercy in 1840s Pittsburgh and Chicago. This online presentation will be at 3pm Eastern/2pm Central. The Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/810…
So, there is a pomodoro timer? Is this a thing people use when writing?
February 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
So, there is a pomodoro timer? Is this a thing people use when writing?
Here's a Sybstack worth following.
The laying down of lights, and striking a new match.
Trooper, transitions, and trying again
open.substack.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Here's a Sybstack worth following.
Here we go, #ACHA2025 starting tomorrow! @achahistory.bsky.social
January 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Here we go, #ACHA2025 starting tomorrow! @achahistory.bsky.social
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If you're traveling this week, spend the travel time learning history!
Follow UNSUNG HISTORY on your favorite podcast app
A podcast about people and events in American history you may not know much about. Yet.
www.unsunghistorypodcast.com
December 26, 2024 at 2:41 PM
If you're traveling this week, spend the travel time learning history!
Oh my stars, grades in. Wow.
December 17, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Oh my stars, grades in. Wow.
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In 1907, Eugene Debs joined the staff of Appeal to Reason, a Socialist newspaper based in Girard, Kansas. His wife Katherine formed personal and professional relationships with some of the women instrumental to the paper's success, especially Grace Babbitt Brewer, the head of the Appeal Army.
December 9, 2024 at 12:34 PM
In 1907, Eugene Debs joined the staff of Appeal to Reason, a Socialist newspaper based in Girard, Kansas. His wife Katherine formed personal and professional relationships with some of the women instrumental to the paper's success, especially Grace Babbitt Brewer, the head of the Appeal Army.
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Mary Beth Fraser Connolly @mbfconnolly.bsky.social reviews 'Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle', by Shannen Dee Williams
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Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle, by Shannen Dee Williams
Shannen Dee Williams’s book looks directly at the history of anti-Black racism in the longer history of the American Catholic Church. This much-needed hist
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November 27, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Mary Beth Fraser Connolly @mbfconnolly.bsky.social reviews 'Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle', by Shannen Dee Williams
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @dukepress.bsky.social
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Why, yes, I did watch Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood while using the treadmill this morning. Everyone should start the day with Mr. Rogers. Refresher on how to make paper chains & lesson on how paper is made ✅️ Time to take on the day!
November 23, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Why, yes, I did watch Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood while using the treadmill this morning. Everyone should start the day with Mr. Rogers. Refresher on how to make paper chains & lesson on how paper is made ✅️ Time to take on the day!
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Hello everyone! Happy to join a healthier social media!
My name is Heather Augustyn and I have written eight books on ska history. You can see more about my work at skabook.com, or connect with me here!
My name is Heather Augustyn and I have written eight books on ska history. You can see more about my work at skabook.com, or connect with me here!
Heather Augustyn
Author of books about ska
skabook.com
November 7, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Hello everyone! Happy to join a healthier social media!
My name is Heather Augustyn and I have written eight books on ska history. You can see more about my work at skabook.com, or connect with me here!
My name is Heather Augustyn and I have written eight books on ska history. You can see more about my work at skabook.com, or connect with me here!