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Susan Amussen

@sdamussen.bsky.social

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Historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer.

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 15h

A student asked me yesterday how those killed in battle were buried and I said I didn’t know. (She’s interested in 1549.). So this is helpful!

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 15h

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Building the camps

The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 15h

"El Apagón" is the song Bad Bunny was performing during this part of the halftime show using imagery that was apparently too subtle for some people

It's one of his most interesting songs with a ton of political context and meaning plus it’s an absolute banger

Screenshot from halftime show of Benito and backup dancers on sparking electric poles

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 19h

Well, he’s always confident in whatever he says.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 20h

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

Reposted by Catherine Baker, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Susan D. Amussen , and 1 more Catherine Baker, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Susan D. Amussen, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 23h

“This is a deliberate act of erasure . . . The Pride Flag is history, resistance, and Pride born at Stonewall itself. Taking it down does not diminish our community. It exposes an administration afraid of visibility and truth."

gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...

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Trump administration removes Rainbow Flag from Stonewall National Monument

The Trump administration removed a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, the National Park Service confirmed to Gay City News

gaycitynews.com

Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 1d

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 1d

The thread🧵

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Children Today Are Growing Up Too Fast

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, but I don’t have backup singers and dancers!

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 1d

In 1963 MLK supported a nationwide boycott of Xmas shopping. @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social notes that the NYT editorial board wrote a piece slamming the effort called “Strike Against Santa Claus” which they said would “put civil rights activists on the same level as those who did the church bombing.”

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Children Today Are Growing Up Too Fast

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 2d

The author, Gilad Edelman, covered tech for Wired and went to Yale Law. I would bet $$$$$ he wrote this because he’s friends with these guys

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

Last week the far right started peddling a narrative that the outrage over Epstein is a moral panic. Today, like clockwork, a more polite version of that narrative appears in the Atlantic.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 4d

"traditional Eurocentric perspectives .. have tended to focus primarily on empires & imperial agency as the dominant analytical category. [This book argues] instead that environmental factors played a much greater role in influencing the formation of trade routes." link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Long-Distance Trade in the Ancient World

This book presents a novel perspective on long-distance trade in the ancient world that integrates network theory and environmental analysis

link.springer.com

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 4d

I wish we still did this grade of expert disdain in academic writing: "The act was passed with almost masterly inattention to draftsmanship."

(that's Harvey C. Mansfield [père, not fils] on the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921)

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Reposted by Margot C. Finn, Susan D. Amussen, Nathan P. Kalmoe

CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 5d

Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies.

@kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

Race and the Early Modern — CEMS KCL Blog

kingsearlymodern.co.uk

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 6d

Looks terrific! Congratulations!

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 6d

No examples, but I’ve certainly seen it speculated about a century earlier.

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We Left With All Of My Popehats @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

/4 I continue to think that the constant theme is elite pundits being hostile to trends or discussions that criticize or hold accountable other elites.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 6d

For this Black History Month, given the regime’s vile smearing of Ohio’s Haitian population, I think it’s a good time to remember a literary giant of Haitian descent, Alexander Dumas, père

He gave us the Three Musketeers, the Count of Monte Cristo & so much more

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...

Alexandre Dumas - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6d

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 7d

A #Roman glass bowl in cobalt blue with white irregular swirls; it was made about 2000 years ago, probably in Italy, but ended up in a C1st AD grave in Roman Britain

#AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientRome

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 8d

‘Tasting History: Researching and Experiencing the Development of the Cheese Trade’, with @cheesetastingco.bsky.social and @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social, hosted by Birkbeck's Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Feb 24th!

Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Tasting History

Researching and Experiencing the Development of the Cheese Trade

Keynes Library, Gordon Square

Tuesday 24 February 2026
1500-1730
This interactive, experiential event will include a discussion with Ned Palmer, author of A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles, and Alasdair McNeill, a Birkbeck doctoral student researching the early modern cheese trade. It will be accompanied by a free tasting of six historic cheeses.

Ned will introduce each cheese by placing it in its historical context, and the tastings will be interspersed with a conversation between Ned and Alasdair about the development of the trade and its importance to broader histories of commercialisation, labour relations, and women’s social and economic role. They will also discuss the value, and limits, of experiential food studies. How can the history of cheese – from milking to mongering – illuminate the role of ordinary women and men in their local communities and wider society? How can producing and tasting historic foods help us understand their histories?

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 9d

Also, book publicity is like the stories about some new science discovery by your colleagues which turns out to be a footnote to something everyone knows

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 9d

The stories of all these men - and many more - are told in "Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation"!

The book is available for affordable preorder now :)

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

www.waterstones.com/book/belfast...

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 13d

Sigh

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 13d

Self-checkout is evil, and this is why.

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 13d

Here’s the thing about self checkout. Companies have determined that it is more cost effective to take the loss from theft that automation eases than it is to pay people to work in their stores. When one puts it like that, the quality of the tech or the apparent convenience* are beside the point.+

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 13d

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 14d

He lectured students in discussion sections about why the (female) professor was wrong about the British empire. So no discussion. Not cool, and the students were not happy.

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 14d

Very useful thread

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 14d

Every time I talk to someone outside of Minnesota, we always spend time on *really* basic things they have don’t understand about what is happening here.

So let’s do a Q&A. What are your most basic questions about what’s going on in Minnesota?

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