Now that I’ve been accepted into my first choice PhD program, I’d like to share some of the advice I wish I’d been given throughout my collegiate education as a first gen student (my first thread on this platform!)

I’ve found my new public history enemy: the sign standing in the cemetery at the Carlisle Indian School. I’m excited to see what they replace it with when the monument goes in

Scaffolding Xmas tree: folk art on display, Petone Beach

My dad would have been 57 tomorrow. Today, I passed my masters thesis defense. I am the first of his children to earn a college degree of any kind and, by passing my defense, I kept a promise I made him at 8 years old - that I would be the first to earn a graduate degree

Grad school is so fun because one second you’re ten layers deep in a digital archive and the next you’re making a PowerPoint on mental health resources for other students and you have absolutely no idea how you got from one thing to the other

My personal specialty is compiling incredibly specific playlists of folksongs by topic

Thinking about when I was getting ready to study abroad and I decided to try duo lingo to learn French and every time I logged on, all of the prompts were about horses and asking people if they were a horse

Please enjoy this photo series of me reacting to the horrible experience of opening a molded book (who knew book mold smells like decay?)

This is your sign to take your niece to her first musical

Long shot ask but is anyone on here experienced with record chart analysis? I’m struggling with a thought I have for my thesis but I’m the only music based cultural historian in my class rn so I don’t have an experienced audience to run my thoughts by

Thesis editing <

Progress is progress?

Also, can we move #histgym here?

The hazards of hand drafting your manuscript as a vintage fashion stan

As a historian, I take the utmost pride in curating the most historically accurate and entirely normal playlists on the planet

Hosting honor society meetings in the Tivoli >>>