Bridgett Williams-Searle
@profbridgett.bsky.social
Writer, early retiree, former associate professor of 18th/19th US history. UIowa PhD/COGS-UE. Former dementia caregiver. Boomer by birth, Gen x by grace of god. Book project on long emancipation and Black resistance in southern Indiana, 1780-1830.
Potential hope on horizon. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/29cb3aa...
New drug could halt Alzheimer’s
Trials suggest ‘game-changing’ treatment could be the most powerful weapon yet against dementia
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Potential hope on horizon. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/29cb3aa...
I realize this is a small inconvenience in the overall scheme of things but I think I have, for the third year running, scheduled my summer vacation for the month that my garden is actually going to be producing. All the tending, none of the eating.
June 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I realize this is a small inconvenience in the overall scheme of things but I think I have, for the third year running, scheduled my summer vacation for the month that my garden is actually going to be producing. All the tending, none of the eating.
Why does J Rees-Mogg have a reality tv show?
March 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Why does J Rees-Mogg have a reality tv show?
In Thursday's Albany Times-Union, @law6pubhist.bsky.social is featured doing public history research on the economic history of the early Black community in Albany. Very interesting work.
Historians show how economic freedom birthed Albany’s early Black community
Economic freedom and independence from white society paved the way for a successful Black...
www.timesunion.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
In Thursday's Albany Times-Union, @law6pubhist.bsky.social is featured doing public history research on the economic history of the early Black community in Albany. Very interesting work.
Speak on it.
seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions
But when it comes to cutting aid budgets no one says “let’s spend less money on Israeli or Egyptian military capacity”. Instead you want to start by taking healthcare and education away from people who have been made vulnerable by the structural injustices you create and benefit from.
February 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Speak on it.
One door closes and another opens…today I got an invite to speak at a bigger venue and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without yesterday’s cancellation. This work will prosper and finds its audience.
January 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
One door closes and another opens…today I got an invite to speak at a bigger venue and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without yesterday’s cancellation. This work will prosper and finds its audience.
Here’s one reason I love my medical practice…today’s text.
January 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Here’s one reason I love my medical practice…today’s text.
Well, it’s been a hell of a day. There’s the….you know, whole DC situation…but more personally, one of my speaking invitations was withdrawn when it became clear that I really do plan to talk about Black survivance and white resistance to Black liberty. Cold feet happen a lot in southern Indiana.
January 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Well, it’s been a hell of a day. There’s the….you know, whole DC situation…but more personally, one of my speaking invitations was withdrawn when it became clear that I really do plan to talk about Black survivance and white resistance to Black liberty. Cold feet happen a lot in southern Indiana.
Today I'm being my own agent and coordinating a public history speaking tour. I'll be in Indianapolis on Juneteenth and am going to be doing talks in southern Indiana thereafter. My program title is "Surviving Emancipation in Southern Indiana."
January 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Today I'm being my own agent and coordinating a public history speaking tour. I'll be in Indianapolis on Juneteenth and am going to be doing talks in southern Indiana thereafter. My program title is "Surviving Emancipation in Southern Indiana."
This week triggered every bit of my brace for impact side. I both feel a little crazy and wonder why everyone isn’t finding their LifeStraws, solar lanterns, crank chargers, and Mason jars. At least I can do something about the state of my woodpile.
January 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This week triggered every bit of my brace for impact side. I both feel a little crazy and wonder why everyone isn’t finding their LifeStraws, solar lanterns, crank chargers, and Mason jars. At least I can do something about the state of my woodpile.
So, my liver is indeed bunged. Extent of bung yet to be determined. Waiting, waiting, waiting on a Friday afternoon so I don’t have to wait until Monday morning.
January 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
So, my liver is indeed bunged. Extent of bung yet to be determined. Waiting, waiting, waiting on a Friday afternoon so I don’t have to wait until Monday morning.
I do this kind of work. I do it independently for a reason. Harvard should be ashamed.
Harvard does not want to know the extent of the truth. That is why they have structured the program the way they have — so they can cut untenured people loose when they find things Harvard does not want to find.
January 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I do this kind of work. I do it independently for a reason. Harvard should be ashamed.
Limited By Body Habitus — “she’s fat and despite the widespread prevalence of obese people in the US population, we haven’t designed our machines or trained our techs to adequately diagnose…” because fat women should just crawl off and die, I guess.
January 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Limited By Body Habitus — “she’s fat and despite the widespread prevalence of obese people in the US population, we haven’t designed our machines or trained our techs to adequately diagnose…” because fat women should just crawl off and die, I guess.
Strike! Strike! Strike!!
BREAKING | ChatGPT down: AI chat app not working as website goes offline
ChatGPT is refusing to work
ChatGPT is offline, leaving users unable to talk to the AI chat app.
www.independent.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Strike! Strike! Strike!!
This morning’s bloodwork won me a “yeah, you should go right over to the imaging suite” ultrasound. I know people in US complain (rightly) about our healthcare system being slow, so you notice when everything suddenly picks up speed. Maybe they just want pics while I’m still fasting…
January 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This morning’s bloodwork won me a “yeah, you should go right over to the imaging suite” ultrasound. I know people in US complain (rightly) about our healthcare system being slow, so you notice when everything suddenly picks up speed. Maybe they just want pics while I’m still fasting…
Great work. Well worth a read.
You may know Elizabeth Freeman, who successfully sued Col. Ashley in MA for her freedom in 1781, but in a new piece at Commonplace, Olivia Scott digs deeper into the Ashley house before and after emancipation for a much richer picture of the enslaved community. 🗃️
commonplace.online/article/glim...
commonplace.online/article/glim...
Glimpses of Their Lives: Slavery and Emancipation at the Colonel John Ashley House - Commonplace
These individual biographies seek to foreground the experiences of all the individuals held in bondage by the Ashley family.
commonplace.online
January 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Great work. Well worth a read.
Reposted by Bridgett Williams-Searle
Freedom on the Move is back! Hello BluSky!
We have an announcement: We are recruiting for our final cohort of Data Fellows.
The ad will soon be posted to HNet.
Stay tuned.
#predoctoral #summerfellowships #oncampus
#History #enslavement
We have an announcement: We are recruiting for our final cohort of Data Fellows.
The ad will soon be posted to HNet.
Stay tuned.
#predoctoral #summerfellowships #oncampus
#History #enslavement
January 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Freedom on the Move is back! Hello BluSky!
We have an announcement: We are recruiting for our final cohort of Data Fellows.
The ad will soon be posted to HNet.
Stay tuned.
#predoctoral #summerfellowships #oncampus
#History #enslavement
We have an announcement: We are recruiting for our final cohort of Data Fellows.
The ad will soon be posted to HNet.
Stay tuned.
#predoctoral #summerfellowships #oncampus
#History #enslavement
I will not outlive all the bastards but I do plan to outlive this set.
January 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I will not outlive all the bastards but I do plan to outlive this set.
Crud. Bloodwork is suggesting my liver hates this new round of cancer drugs. Time for a quick consult.
January 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Crud. Bloodwork is suggesting my liver hates this new round of cancer drugs. Time for a quick consult.
Snoop understands how Gs operate. He’s got a lot of past criminal and civil cases and assuredly has a warehouse of unaired dirty laundry. That’s how fascist regimes coerce people. They live to force the outspoken into public submission. Hate the player if you want, but that’s the game.
January 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Snoop understands how Gs operate. He’s got a lot of past criminal and civil cases and assuredly has a warehouse of unaired dirty laundry. That’s how fascist regimes coerce people. They live to force the outspoken into public submission. Hate the player if you want, but that’s the game.
Disgraceful. If condemning the destruction of a national university system and the murder of faculty and students rests outside the AHA mission, it exists only to pamper and congratulate. No thanks.
After careful deliberation and consideration, the AHA Council has vetoed the "Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza" presented at the 2025 business meeting.
Business Meeting Resolution Update - AHA
Update as of January 17, 2025: The AHA Council deplores any intentional destruction of Palestinian educational institutions, libraries, universities, and archives in Gaza. The Council considers the “R...
www.historians.org
January 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Disgraceful. If condemning the destruction of a national university system and the murder of faculty and students rests outside the AHA mission, it exists only to pamper and congratulate. No thanks.
Today was more consultancy on the early Black history of Southern Indiana…helped a family reclaim an ancestor (joy! the best!) and turned up some records for a historical society so they can flesh out an upcoming community exhibit on a local Black community’s mutual aid work.
January 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Today was more consultancy on the early Black history of Southern Indiana…helped a family reclaim an ancestor (joy! the best!) and turned up some records for a historical society so they can flesh out an upcoming community exhibit on a local Black community’s mutual aid work.
Saved by the paywall from losing a little more faith in humanity. Thankfully, that obstacle gave me a moment to reconsider: is that tawdry heartbreak going to aid in my mission? Or is it just (confirming) gossip? Back to my work, then.
January 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Saved by the paywall from losing a little more faith in humanity. Thankfully, that obstacle gave me a moment to reconsider: is that tawdry heartbreak going to aid in my mission? Or is it just (confirming) gossip? Back to my work, then.
I did this back in my undergrad days (when I was a wee twee English major with a tendre for 18th c BritLit) and it was fun. I might do it again!
My wonderful grad students want to read Clarissa in real time. I sent some thoughts. Sharing them here in case anyone’s up for it (again!).
January 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I did this back in my undergrad days (when I was a wee twee English major with a tendre for 18th c BritLit) and it was fun. I might do it again!