Amy Froide
@afroide.bsky.social
History Prof.; Director Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC; early modern Britain, women's history, financial history
Reposted by Amy Froide
As a historian of the 18th c and an American, I've always known 2026 would be a critical moment. This doc is worth watching, and thinking through. Begins and ends w Indigenous contexts, conveys the horrors of a civil war wrought w racism + the ideals of liberty and equality we keep reaching for. 1/
_The American Revolution_ offers a look at how complex and violent — and also inspiring— the American founding was. Getting huge coverage, it may give folks time to digest that complexity as 2026 commences. Premieres tonight + PBS has preview clips of all episodes. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
The American Revolution
Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.
www.pbs.org
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
As a historian of the 18th c and an American, I've always known 2026 would be a critical moment. This doc is worth watching, and thinking through. Begins and ends w Indigenous contexts, conveys the horrors of a civil war wrought w racism + the ideals of liberty and equality we keep reaching for. 1/
Reposted by Amy Froide
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Reposted by Amy Froide
The Institute of Historical Research's 2026 June summer school in Bloomsbury is on Sickness and Health, from London's medieval history to the present. Suitable for the History-curious over the age of 16.
IHR London Summer School 2026: Sickness and Health
From the Black Death to the Covid-19 pandemic, from medieval medicine to public health across the centuries, from hospitals to archives & collections. Join us to discover Londo...
www.history.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The Institute of Historical Research's 2026 June summer school in Bloomsbury is on Sickness and Health, from London's medieval history to the present. Suitable for the History-curious over the age of 16.
Reposted by Amy Froide
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776).
In America, the law is king.
In America, the law is king.
October 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776).
In America, the law is king.
In America, the law is king.
Reposted by Amy Froide
For the final days of Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, scholar Carla Della Gatta looks at the growth of Latinx-inspired Shakespeare productions in the US beginning with "West Side Story" on Broadway in 1957.
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
Latinx Shakespeares of the 20th century | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
www.folger.edu
October 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
For the final days of Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, scholar Carla Della Gatta looks at the growth of Latinx-inspired Shakespeare productions in the US beginning with "West Side Story" on Broadway in 1957.
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
Reposted by Amy Froide
***UCLA Mapping Deportations Project***
Mapping Deportations, an educational resource uses maps, data, and a timeline to unmask the relationship between race and immigration enforcement throughout U.S. history.
mappingdeportations.com
Mapping Deportations, an educational resource uses maps, data, and a timeline to unmask the relationship between race and immigration enforcement throughout U.S. history.
mappingdeportations.com
Mapping Deportations – U.S. Immigration Control since 1790
mappingdeportations.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
***UCLA Mapping Deportations Project***
Mapping Deportations, an educational resource uses maps, data, and a timeline to unmask the relationship between race and immigration enforcement throughout U.S. history.
mappingdeportations.com
Mapping Deportations, an educational resource uses maps, data, and a timeline to unmask the relationship between race and immigration enforcement throughout U.S. history.
mappingdeportations.com
Reposted by Amy Froide
Don't miss the astonishing cut-paper works of Johanna Koerten at the National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibition, "Women Artists From Antwerp to Amsterdam: 1600-1750." They are miraculous, fragile and rare, with only about 15 surviving. Three are on view. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Review | The Dutch Golden Age was women’s work, too
A new show at the National Museum of Women spotlights major talents “from Antwerp to Amsterdam.”
www.washingtonpost.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Don't miss the astonishing cut-paper works of Johanna Koerten at the National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibition, "Women Artists From Antwerp to Amsterdam: 1600-1750." They are miraculous, fragile and rare, with only about 15 surviving. Three are on view. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Reposted by Amy Froide
A new NYT as-told-to series, "Lost Science," documents the work of researchers who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration. Share your story with us!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A new NYT as-told-to series, "Lost Science," documents the work of researchers who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration. Share your story with us!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
Reposted by Amy Froide
If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
October 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
Reposted by Amy Froide
When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.
September 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.
Reposted by Amy Froide
I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes
I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.
September 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes
Reposted by Amy Froide
If you're looking for state races where your donation can do some real work, I humbly suggest this one. Sarah Trone Garriott is a real one, and that district is absolutely winnable
September 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
If you're looking for state races where your donation can do some real work, I humbly suggest this one. Sarah Trone Garriott is a real one, and that district is absolutely winnable
Reposted by Amy Froide
In my one fox business appearance, Kennedy tried to “gotcha” me by saying cars kill people and we don’t ban them … I responded as you might expect (license, liability, etc) and she changed the subject.
It occurs to me that the only way the US would ever be able to legislate gun control would be to mandate at a federal level that anyone who owned a gun carried liability insurance of a certain level for anything that happened with the gun
and then let capitalism take its course
and then let capitalism take its course
September 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In my one fox business appearance, Kennedy tried to “gotcha” me by saying cars kill people and we don’t ban them … I responded as you might expect (license, liability, etc) and she changed the subject.
Reposted by Amy Froide
If the CDC is no longer the reliable source of health guidance it once was, where can Americans turn to for trustworthy information? Yasmin Tayag reports:
Where to Find Reliable Health Information Without the CDC
No American institution is equipped to replace the agency. But a few trusted resources can help.
bit.ly
September 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If the CDC is no longer the reliable source of health guidance it once was, where can Americans turn to for trustworthy information? Yasmin Tayag reports:
Reposted by Amy Froide
The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...
Advisory to Academic Workers
In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...
www.aaup.org
September 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...
Reposted by Amy Froide
Reposted by Amy Froide
The American Association of University Professors condemns the targeted elimination of humanities departments and programs at the University of Oregon
#WarOnEducation
#edusky
#signalboost
#UniversityofOregon
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...
#WarOnEducation
#edusky
#signalboost
#UniversityofOregon
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...
AAUP President Denounces Planned Cuts at the University of Oregon
The AAUP stands with the United Academics of the University of Oregon in protesting the administration's plan to slash multiple departments and programs and fire faculty.
www.aaup.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The American Association of University Professors condemns the targeted elimination of humanities departments and programs at the University of Oregon
#WarOnEducation
#edusky
#signalboost
#UniversityofOregon
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...
#WarOnEducation
#edusky
#signalboost
#UniversityofOregon
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...
Reposted by Amy Froide
Many thanks to our friends @hyperallergic.com for spreading the word about @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships!
Learn more by visiting the Center's website: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
#Humanities #Photography #Literature #ArtHistory #RareBooks #Theatre #FilmHistory 🗃️📜📚
Learn more by visiting the Center's website: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
#Humanities #Photography #Literature #ArtHistory #RareBooks #Theatre #FilmHistory 🗃️📜📚
UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center Provides Funded Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities
The humanities library and museum will award up to 50 fellowships to support scholars, artists, and writers conducting on-site archival research.
hyperallergic.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Many thanks to our friends @hyperallergic.com for spreading the word about @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships!
Learn more by visiting the Center's website: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
#Humanities #Photography #Literature #ArtHistory #RareBooks #Theatre #FilmHistory 🗃️📜📚
Learn more by visiting the Center's website: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
#Humanities #Photography #Literature #ArtHistory #RareBooks #Theatre #FilmHistory 🗃️📜📚
Reposted by Amy Froide
Thank you @maggielevenstein.bsky.social and @johnkubale.bsky.social for this great summary and action call in @theconversation.com on #DisappearingData
Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it
Detailed data that US government agencies collect and make available has underpinned research about people, medicine, science, crime, jobs, housing, climate and the economy.
theconversation.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Thank you @maggielevenstein.bsky.social and @johnkubale.bsky.social for this great summary and action call in @theconversation.com on #DisappearingData
Reposted by Amy Froide
Lex wrote this great article I included in my zine about genAI, and they've linked more articles in their thread - read them!
August 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Lex wrote this great article I included in my zine about genAI, and they've linked more articles in their thread - read them!
Reposted by Amy Froide
'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'
AI thrives where education has been devalued | The Observer
A culture that views knowledge as a means to an end invites the misuse of new technology
observer.co.uk
August 2, 2025 at 6:48 AM
'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'
Reposted by Amy Froide
@historians.org, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @modernlanguage.bsky.social celebrate Judge McMahon’s decision for @authorsguild.bsky.social, putting a stay on the cancellations of awarded NEH grants. We remain steadfast in our efforts to stop the unlawful dismantling of the NEH. 🗃️
Update on Lawsuit to Restore the NEH - AHA
American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, and Modern Language Association celebrate Judge Colleen McMahon’s decision for the Authors Guild, putting a stay on the cancella...
www.historians.org
July 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
@historians.org, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @modernlanguage.bsky.social celebrate Judge McMahon’s decision for @authorsguild.bsky.social, putting a stay on the cancellations of awarded NEH grants. We remain steadfast in our efforts to stop the unlawful dismantling of the NEH. 🗃️