Sarah Swedberg
@sweddy65.bsky.social
Former academic. Author of Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution. Happy to be back in a city.
Two popular signs at today’s Professional Women’s Hockey League game in DC: 1) Cottage after this, queens! 2) Yay! Lesbians!
January 18, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Two popular signs at today’s Professional Women’s Hockey League game in DC: 1) Cottage after this, queens! 2) Yay! Lesbians!
I haven’t finished watching the latest season of Stranger Things, so no spoilers, but I LOVE that coming out is a superpower.
January 17, 2026 at 8:51 PM
I haven’t finished watching the latest season of Stranger Things, so no spoilers, but I LOVE that coming out is a superpower.
It’s easy to despair but my kindergartners draw “person” as brown. I’m the person on the left. (I’m white.)
January 7, 2026 at 8:23 PM
It’s easy to despair but my kindergartners draw “person” as brown. I’m the person on the left. (I’m white.)
That's the sound of historians screaming into the void.
January 3, 2026 at 11:15 PM
That's the sound of historians screaming into the void.
This is true.
There is only the the long eightheenth century. There are historians who persist in believing the nineteenth century exists and they are wrong.
January 3, 2026 at 12:32 AM
This is true.
Sometimes I wonder how I continue on the job market. Many years and counting. (I am employed. I have been employed. My current employment is a step along the way. And I need to keep applying for jobs because what I do now is only a step along the way.)
I guess I'm resilient???
I guess I'm resilient???
December 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Sometimes I wonder how I continue on the job market. Many years and counting. (I am employed. I have been employed. My current employment is a step along the way. And I need to keep applying for jobs because what I do now is only a step along the way.)
I guess I'm resilient???
I guess I'm resilient???
I love living in DC. In the morning our kindergartners learned about Kwanzaa from a staff member who celebrates.
I lived in the rural west for a loooong time before this.
I lived in the rural west for a loooong time before this.
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I love living in DC. In the morning our kindergartners learned about Kwanzaa from a staff member who celebrates.
I lived in the rural west for a loooong time before this.
I lived in the rural west for a loooong time before this.
Reason #17 why I dislike APA. Wall. Of. Text. Give me a footnote. Or even an endnote. Please. I beg you.
December 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Reason #17 why I dislike APA. Wall. Of. Text. Give me a footnote. Or even an endnote. Please. I beg you.
My first time at a pottery wheel. I see no potential in my pottery ability but I sure had fun!
December 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
My first time at a pottery wheel. I see no potential in my pottery ability but I sure had fun!
No one told me 27% of working in an elementary school would be having to buy themed clothing.
December 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
No one told me 27% of working in an elementary school would be having to buy themed clothing.
Education curriculum: We are going to fix the broken educational system!
Me, historian: <waves arms at all the previous such claims>
n.b. I am glad to be taking education classes and learning but am also irked some of the time. Also, I still dislike APA.
Me, historian: <waves arms at all the previous such claims>
n.b. I am glad to be taking education classes and learning but am also irked some of the time. Also, I still dislike APA.
December 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Education curriculum: We are going to fix the broken educational system!
Me, historian: <waves arms at all the previous such claims>
n.b. I am glad to be taking education classes and learning but am also irked some of the time. Also, I still dislike APA.
Me, historian: <waves arms at all the previous such claims>
n.b. I am glad to be taking education classes and learning but am also irked some of the time. Also, I still dislike APA.
Finally watching the American Revolution. My book as companion. I’ve been away from academia for three years so need to check my memory (which is pretty dang good).
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Finally watching the American Revolution. My book as companion. I’ve been away from academia for three years so need to check my memory (which is pretty dang good).
😂 Had to attend a citations meeting for an online class. Signaled hard that, having been an academic forever, I was familiar with citations.
Tried not to become testy with the nice woman doing her job.
Tried not to become testy with the nice woman doing her job.
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
😂 Had to attend a citations meeting for an online class. Signaled hard that, having been an academic forever, I was familiar with citations.
Tried not to become testy with the nice woman doing her job.
Tried not to become testy with the nice woman doing her job.
Do I rage read Ken Burns's book on the American Revolution?
November 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Do I rage read Ken Burns's book on the American Revolution?
Scholarship on early American Jewish History? Give me your titles. Asking for a student. I'm out of my depth here.
November 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I just found myself singing this to my dog. youtu.be/DcaIMF_-1J4?...
LIbby's Commercial 1971
YouTube video by Robbie Rist
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October 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I just found myself singing this to my dog. youtu.be/DcaIMF_-1J4?...
For all its broken parts, the genius of the US public school system, is that it brings together kids from incredibly different backgrounds. In my classroom, we have a kid whose family is living in a shelter and a kid whose godmother is a Supreme Court justice.
October 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
For all its broken parts, the genius of the US public school system, is that it brings together kids from incredibly different backgrounds. In my classroom, we have a kid whose family is living in a shelter and a kid whose godmother is a Supreme Court justice.
Being observed teaching in kindergarten vs. being observed teaching in university:
The university students always had my back. The kindergartners are sowers of chaos and do not have my back (but I love them).
The university students always had my back. The kindergartners are sowers of chaos and do not have my back (but I love them).
October 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Being observed teaching in kindergarten vs. being observed teaching in university:
The university students always had my back. The kindergartners are sowers of chaos and do not have my back (but I love them).
The university students always had my back. The kindergartners are sowers of chaos and do not have my back (but I love them).
The largest cockroach I’ve ever seen in our kindergarten classroom today but, hey, let’s spend more money on ICE.
October 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The largest cockroach I’ve ever seen in our kindergarten classroom today but, hey, let’s spend more money on ICE.
I love living in DC.
District Readers Make Their Own Choices on Challenged Books
Library reports zero challenges in 2025 for Banned Books Week
www.dclibrary.org
October 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I love living in DC.
I don't know if I'll be any good at it, but I really want to move from instructional aide to elementary school teacher next year. I'm learning so much as an aide and just had the privilege of sitting in on/contributing to parent-teacher conferences.
The kids are all right as are the parents.
The kids are all right as are the parents.
October 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I don't know if I'll be any good at it, but I really want to move from instructional aide to elementary school teacher next year. I'm learning so much as an aide and just had the privilege of sitting in on/contributing to parent-teacher conferences.
The kids are all right as are the parents.
The kids are all right as are the parents.
Historians AND experts??????
Sorry, friends, you are JUST historians AND NOT experts.
Sorry, friends, you are JUST historians AND NOT experts.
October 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Historians AND experts??????
Sorry, friends, you are JUST historians AND NOT experts.
Sorry, friends, you are JUST historians AND NOT experts.