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Annika Frieberg
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historian of northern and Central Europe. From Sweden/living in San Diego. Aspiring hermit/bog witch. Lover of coffee, oceans, forests, mountains, yoga, in no particular order. Recovering pessimist.
This article was in the pipeline for a long time but is finally out! 🗃️ #skystorians
July 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The AHA encourages members to contact their senators today through the Coalition for International Education & @humanitiesall.bsky.social's action alert, & urge them to sign on to Sen. Schatz's letter supporting robust funding for international education & foreign language infrastructure in FY26. 🗃️
Take Action for International Education!
I just took action to increase funding for Title VI and Fulbright-Hays! Join me and take action here.
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May 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
In honor of Eurovision - Laika Party wasn't exactly a party... 😢 #eurovision #esc
If you‘re watching Eurovisioon and wondering about Laika: she was a captured Moscow stray. The Soviets sent her into space in 1957 aboard Sputnik 2. She was sent in space to die, which she did, after overheating, hours into the flight, on the craft's fourth orbit. The craft‘s cooling system failed.
May 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️

See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information.

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April 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Got my Ph.D. in 2008 - this spring, I finally broke down and bought my regalia. The timing is either completely right or completely wrong (but I do need it for commencement and I refuse to rent the sweaty, threadworn $74 version one more year...).
April 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Dear Students - as of Wednesday, please, accept this free system that will a) come up with new ideas for you so you don't have to; b) write your outlines for your essays, and c) find the appropriate sources for said essays.
March 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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March is here, and that means one thing: Women’s History Month! 

All month long, I’ll be sharing stories of fascinating, trailblazing women you need to know about. Some you may recognize, others history tried to forget—but not on my watch.

Subscribe now!  www.historyinthemargins.com 🗃️
February 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
🗃️ #skystorians
I have page proofs!
February 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I have page proofs!
February 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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In When the Left Moves Right (@oxunipress.bsky.social, 2024), Maria Snegovaya asks why previously centre-left democratic parties have suffered electoral defeats, whilst populist parties have soared in post-Communist Central Europe. Read George Kordas' review. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/left-...
Left decline and rising populism in Eastern Europe - CEU Review of Books
In When the Left Moves Right (Oxford University Press, 2024), Maria Snegovaya asks why previously centre-left democratic parties have suffered electoral defeats, whilst right-wing populist parties hav...
ceureviewofbooks.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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AHA members: The AHA is accepting applications for the 2025-26 research grants until February 15, 2025. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs. 🗃️
Grants & Fellowships - AHA
AHA Research Grants Grants may be used for travel to a library or archive; microfilming, photography, or photocopying; borrowing or access fees; and similar research expenses-a list of purposes that i...
www.historians.org
February 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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If you are in London in April, do come to my lecture on my book #TheHourOfAbsinthe at the wonderful "Absinthe Parlour"! I really hope to meet some of you there! #DrinkingStudies #HistoryOfAlcohol #HistoryOfAbsinthe 🗃️🍸🧚

thelasttuesdaysociety.org/exhibition/t...
The Hour of Absinthe: France's Most Notorious Drink with Nina S. Studer - The Last Tuesday Society
Please note this is NOT a ZOOM Lecture but an in person lecture at our museum – tickets include a complimentary glass of Devil’s Botany Absinthe Doors open at 6:30pm […]
thelasttuesdaysociety.org
February 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I didn't attend the AHA meeting this year. But these are important questions - who decides how political, and in which ways/areas, AHA should be? I agree with the role of the historian as a "disrupter". I'd also like a clear answer as to why this majority-approved resolution on Gaza was vetoed?
February 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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"The AHA's carefully researched American Lesson Plan thoroughly refutes the executive order’s cynical & unsubstantiated depiction of the landscape of American education." Read Exec director @jgrossman.bsky.social's commentary on the “Executive Order Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling” 🗃️
On the K–12 Education Executive Order - AHA
The January 29 “Executive Order Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling” rests on—and even promotes—a misleading caricature of history education in the United States. This shaky premise underg...
www.historians.org
January 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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They analyzed "grinding" stones and found they weren't used to grind grains. Further analysis showed they weren't grinding stones but pounding stones for pounding starches/nuts.

Says they didn't make bread. They ate grains in forms like oatmeal or oatmeal cakes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Ax...
ALL GRUEL, NO BREAD? Discovering the Diet of Early Neolithic Farmers in Scandinavia
YouTube video by The Prehistory Guys
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I'd like this for my birthday, please...
January 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Café Bassam, San Diego
January 30, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. 🗃️
AHA Surveys: Historians Teaching Off the Tenure Track - AHA
Goals of the Surveys The Professional Division of the American Historical Association seeks to collect and collate information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty...
www.historians.org
December 20, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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Today in #AHAPerspectives, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine looks at the exceptions built into US abortion laws. 🗃️

(Spoiler alert: They often don't work well!)
Her “Health and Thus Her Life” – AHA
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the legal history of abortion bans and the exceptions built into the laws.
www.historians.org
January 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A little too close for comfort...
Ack, forgot AltText on the timelapse. I hope the post itself is descriptive enough!

This is the current view west from that same cam group. This is the Border 2 Fire. You can see the lights of San Diego in the distance.

This weekend's likely precip can't come soon enough. #cawx #wxsky
January 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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📚 Here is how to donate to the Huntington Library’s Disaster Relief Fund, which will aid impacted staff + collections. Please share, #skystorians #library #booksky friends, thank you! 🗃️ shorturl.at/TVPPE
The Huntington
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January 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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#GiftArticle #GiftLink for the NYTimes coverage of the AHA vote on Sunday. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/a...
January 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM