Michelle Orihel
@michelleorihel.bsky.social
Caregiver. Historian. Associate Professor. 1790s Politics and Print Culture. Transatlantic Revolution. Yellow Fever. Views my own, not my employer
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I can't decide whose head in early modern England would explode the most watching this video.
King Charles III prayed with Pope Leo XIV in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, marking the first time in modern history that the leaders of the Anglican and Catholic churches prayed together. Read more: nyti.ms/4o5fFwI
October 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I can't decide whose head in early modern England would explode the most watching this video.
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🗓️ As we near the end of 2025, I am preparing my calendar for the upcoming year. Do you need a guest speaker for your class or organization? Book me now before my 2026 schedule fills up!
You can DM me, email me (jamielhgoodall@gmail.com), or find more info on my website: jamiegoodall.com/speaking
You can DM me, email me (jamielhgoodall@gmail.com), or find more info on my website: jamiegoodall.com/speaking
Speaking • Jamie L.H. Goodall
I am an expert on golden age piracy from the Caribbean and Latin America to New England and the Atlantic Provinces of Canada, modern piracy (including the Gulf of Mexico and Somalia), early modern tav...
jamiegoodall.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🗓️ As we near the end of 2025, I am preparing my calendar for the upcoming year. Do you need a guest speaker for your class or organization? Book me now before my 2026 schedule fills up!
You can DM me, email me (jamielhgoodall@gmail.com), or find more info on my website: jamiegoodall.com/speaking
You can DM me, email me (jamielhgoodall@gmail.com), or find more info on my website: jamiegoodall.com/speaking
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"One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds."
Teaching is only possible with positive and trusting relationships. So AI is f*cking that up, along with everything else.
Teaching is only possible with positive and trusting relationships. So AI is f*cking that up, along with everything else.
Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students
A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.
www.edweek.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds."
Teaching is only possible with positive and trusting relationships. So AI is f*cking that up, along with everything else.
Teaching is only possible with positive and trusting relationships. So AI is f*cking that up, along with everything else.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Why yes, there are 4 bottles of sparkling grape juice in the departmental refrigerator for me. We're getting ready to write and perform toasts based on Am Revolution sources in one of my classes!
October 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Why yes, there are 4 bottles of sparkling grape juice in the departmental refrigerator for me. We're getting ready to write and perform toasts based on Am Revolution sources in one of my classes!
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Fantastic essay on historical erasures and an amazing portrait of an enslaved man.
Uncovering the lives of enslaved people is incredibly important. Here’s a great example of such work. #arthistory
hyperallergic.com/1047549/port...
hyperallergic.com/1047549/port...
Portrait of Enslaved Man Dispels Years of Falsehoods
The truth of Frederick Baker’s life was long obscured by a whitewashed history perpetuated by the Longwood mansion in Mississippi, new research says.
hyperallergic.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fantastic essay on historical erasures and an amazing portrait of an enslaved man.
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Knowing when you’re getting bullshitted by an LLM requires content knowledge our students don’t have yet.
You must use this tool which is so helpful and one of the skills you must learn and teach is how to recognize WHEN IT HALLUCINATES.
August 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Knowing when you’re getting bullshitted by an LLM requires content knowledge our students don’t have yet.
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Any proposal for using AI needs to answer 2 fundamental questions:
1. What is the problem we're trying to solve?
2. Is AI the right tool for solving it?
I have yet to see a single proposal that starts with these. Instead they start with "stusents are using them anyway" or "inevitable"
1. What is the problem we're trying to solve?
2. Is AI the right tool for solving it?
I have yet to see a single proposal that starts with these. Instead they start with "stusents are using them anyway" or "inevitable"
August 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Any proposal for using AI needs to answer 2 fundamental questions:
1. What is the problem we're trying to solve?
2. Is AI the right tool for solving it?
I have yet to see a single proposal that starts with these. Instead they start with "stusents are using them anyway" or "inevitable"
1. What is the problem we're trying to solve?
2. Is AI the right tool for solving it?
I have yet to see a single proposal that starts with these. Instead they start with "stusents are using them anyway" or "inevitable"
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As a trained historian: do not use AI to help you do anything.
The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️
Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education
These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.
www.historians.org
August 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
As a trained historian: do not use AI to help you do anything.
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Automated teaching generating automated student work being evaluated by automated grading in service of higher ed leadership’s ideal scenario:
Charging people $40k/year to stay at their kinda boring resorts in lame places and watch semi-pro sports.
Charging people $40k/year to stay at their kinda boring resorts in lame places and watch semi-pro sports.
I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.
August 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Automated teaching generating automated student work being evaluated by automated grading in service of higher ed leadership’s ideal scenario:
Charging people $40k/year to stay at their kinda boring resorts in lame places and watch semi-pro sports.
Charging people $40k/year to stay at their kinda boring resorts in lame places and watch semi-pro sports.
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"How can we expect [students] to grasp what education means when we, as educators, haven’t begun to undo the years of cognitive and spiritual damage inflicted by a society that treats schooling as a means to a high-paying job, maybe some social status, but nothing more?" thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-te...
I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats | The Walrus
I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated
thewalrus.ca
March 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"How can we expect [students] to grasp what education means when we, as educators, haven’t begun to undo the years of cognitive and spiritual damage inflicted by a society that treats schooling as a means to a high-paying job, maybe some social status, but nothing more?" thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-te...
Has anyone ever made pamphlets or zines in classes? If so, what materials have you used? I'm thinking about using regular computer paper alongside cover paper, needles, and waxed thread. Also looking at some marbled paper for fun. Anything I'm missing?
March 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Has anyone ever made pamphlets or zines in classes? If so, what materials have you used? I'm thinking about using regular computer paper alongside cover paper, needles, and waxed thread. Also looking at some marbled paper for fun. Anything I'm missing?
From a student: "Martha Ballard
has taught me that there is beauty to find in the mundane."
has taught me that there is beauty to find in the mundane."
March 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
From a student: "Martha Ballard
has taught me that there is beauty to find in the mundane."
has taught me that there is beauty to find in the mundane."
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Took my students to special collections and one of the items we looked at was this probably Algonquin birchbark box from the early 19th century. Such a perfect little thing.
February 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Took my students to special collections and one of the items we looked at was this probably Algonquin birchbark box from the early 19th century. Such a perfect little thing.
A student stopped by office hours the other day to introduce herself. She had taken my Honors seminar on Zoom in Spring 2021, so this was first time we'd met in person! She told me how much she had enjoyed the class, which was a consoling thought considering what a difficult time that was!
February 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A student stopped by office hours the other day to introduce herself. She had taken my Honors seminar on Zoom in Spring 2021, so this was first time we'd met in person! She told me how much she had enjoyed the class, which was a consoling thought considering what a difficult time that was!
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PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch.
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
Stream PBS and PBS KIDS Free on Prime Video
PBS and Amazon announced that more than 150 local PBS stations and the PBS KIDS Channel will launch ad-free as a Prime Video FAST offering. This marks the…
www.pbs.org
January 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch.
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
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This is so cool!
i went to a Chicago Public Library branch that I had never been to before and happened across these very cool Archival Grab and Go Kits with an invitation to archive your stories
January 27, 2025 at 5:53 AM
This is so cool!
I received two letters in the mail today, two actual letters. Correspondence makes the mail so much better. This is what it must have felt like in the eighteenth century!
January 16, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I received two letters in the mail today, two actual letters. Correspondence makes the mail so much better. This is what it must have felt like in the eighteenth century!
My dissertation advisor emailed me to say he'd sent a letter by post with remarks on my recent article. I couldn't love this more. I now feel so 18c (with a 21c twist) waiting in anticipation of that letter!
January 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My dissertation advisor emailed me to say he'd sent a letter by post with remarks on my recent article. I couldn't love this more. I now feel so 18c (with a 21c twist) waiting in anticipation of that letter!
Had a great discussion with my first-year Honors seminar today about adapting to university life. I used the three articles linked in the comments in case anyone is interested. This combination of readings worked very well!
January 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Had a great discussion with my first-year Honors seminar today about adapting to university life. I used the three articles linked in the comments in case anyone is interested. This combination of readings worked very well!
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#academicsky: I forgot that last year I wrote a guide for undergraduates on how to read an academic article or monograph (not monetized): christophersrose.com/2024/01/26/u...
Feel free to use if it's helpful - that's why I wrote it!
#academia #university
Feel free to use if it's helpful - that's why I wrote it!
#academia #university
Undergraduate Survival Guide: How to Read an Academic Article or Book
This post takes its inspiration from something I’m working on in one of my upper division courses this semester, which is guiding a group of History majors (and a couple of willing History mi…
christophersrose.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
#academicsky: I forgot that last year I wrote a guide for undergraduates on how to read an academic article or monograph (not monetized): christophersrose.com/2024/01/26/u...
Feel free to use if it's helpful - that's why I wrote it!
#academia #university
Feel free to use if it's helpful - that's why I wrote it!
#academia #university
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Thought I’d drop this here as the last 16 oz of AI water I use today since at the press conference in LA this morning, authorities begged residents to use less water so more is available for fighting fires. May the mayor, the gov. and fire dept. chief call on AI facilities to do their part as well!
January 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Thought I’d drop this here as the last 16 oz of AI water I use today since at the press conference in LA this morning, authorities begged residents to use less water so more is available for fighting fires. May the mayor, the gov. and fire dept. chief call on AI facilities to do their part as well!
First Day of Classes! Among other things, I'm excited to be teaching my early republic class this semester.
January 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
First Day of Classes! Among other things, I'm excited to be teaching my early republic class this semester.
One of my goals over the holiday break is to catch up with Outlander, Season 7, Part 2. Here's a link to a blog post I wrote a few summers ago on Outlander's use of history: ageofrevolutions.com/2023/07/03/i...
“If America doesn’t become America”: Outlander and the American Revolution
By Michelle Orihel When I was looking for something to watch last summer, I stumbled on a clip from Outlander. A woman in eighteenth-century dress walks along the road. She is distr…
ageofrevolutions.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:11 AM
One of my goals over the holiday break is to catch up with Outlander, Season 7, Part 2. Here's a link to a blog post I wrote a few summers ago on Outlander's use of history: ageofrevolutions.com/2023/07/03/i...
Final grades submitted. Fall 2024 survived. With all my personal upheavals this last year, I felt sure at the start of the fall that I didn't want to be a historian any longer. But the semester turned out surprisingly well, and I realized I'm pretty good at what I do.
December 17, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Final grades submitted. Fall 2024 survived. With all my personal upheavals this last year, I felt sure at the start of the fall that I didn't want to be a historian any longer. But the semester turned out surprisingly well, and I realized I'm pretty good at what I do.