Carol DeGrasse
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Carol DeGrasse
@caroldegrasse.bsky.social
@SMU PhD candidate. @CollegeKilgore Assistant prof. C19 visual media/history. Posts do not reflect my employer.
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The AHA’s Calls for Opportunities Calendar shares upcoming calls for papers, conference proposals, and other activities. Anyone may submit opportunities of interest to historians to the calendar. 🗃️
Calls for Opportunities - AHA
Search Opportunity Type Month Year Interested in Events? The AHA Events Calendar shares upcoming events, including conferences, webinars, and virtual events. Anyone may submit events of interest to hi...
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August 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Supremely helpful thread for anyone making their first visit to NARA this summer 🗃️
Summer is almost upon us, which means a lot of people are going to be embarking on research trips, including people who making their first visits to the National Archives in D.C. or College Park, Maryland. I wanted to offer a few tips to make your research experiences easier there.🧵
May 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Civil War history crowd, check out this useful tool by Library of Virginia that indexes all of the names of 11,000 Confederate veterans who published in Confederate Veteran magazine. Super handy. 🗃️ lva-virginia.libguides.com/confederate-...
Research Guides & Indexes: Confederate Veteran Magazine Index: Home
An index to the personal names of over 11,000 Confederate soldiers as published in the Confederate Veteran magazine for the years 1893 to 1932
lva-virginia.libguides.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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June is approaching fast, which means #AHAReads starts soon! Will you be joining the reading challenge?
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May 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Wat?!
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Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down

Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
www.loc.gov
May 17, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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I’ve spent 2 years trying to track down a primary source book. Only about 5 surviving copies exist in the world.

Then I finally reached out to my librarian and she was able to track down a copy within a week.

For every of historian, there are librarians making our work possible. 🗃️
May 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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It's always hard to keep toddlers from bumping their heads! Today we often baby-proof corners, but in the early modern era it was more common to put a padded "pudding cap" or "falling hat" on the child. 🗃️🪡 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
April 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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In memoriam: Peter Kolchin

Some nice remembrances here from former colleagues and students 🗃️
In Memoriam: Peter Kolchin | UDaily
Community remembers distinguished historian, expert on American slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction
www.udel.edu
January 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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I wrote an entire book about why it took so long for the Confederacy to finally pass legislation authorizing the enlistment of Black men as soldiers, but we tend to overlook the deep level of racism that blocked the enlistment of these very same men into to the United States Army until 1863. 🗃️
November 30, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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For those many, many of you newly here (very exciting, a little overwhelming!), I'd love to offer my project's blog on medicine, race-making, and slavery as teaching resource, research inspiration, and testament to an exciting community of new and established scholars

#EarlyModern
Blog — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
www.mmor.co.uk
November 30, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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Good morning to all the professors writing LORs for the December 1st deadlines!! You got this!! #AcademicSky
November 25, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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Great idea for #AcademicBlueSky accounts
Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID.

#AcademicSky
November 22, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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Small boast: I am caught up with my grading and all my exams for the semester have been sent off to the print shop.

Now I just need to build four classes from scratch in Canvas which I've never used before by the end of Thanksgiving break.

Ahhhh the academic life - so much free time.🍎
#AcademicSky
November 22, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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Call for Chapters: Higher Education Classrooms as Places for Inquiry: Stories and Methods from Practitioner Researchers | IGI Global
- go.shr.lc/3BAopHX via
@shareaholic #academicsky
Call for Chapters: Higher Education Classrooms as Places for Inquiry: Stories and Methods from Practitioner Researchers | IGI Global Scientific Publishing
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November 17, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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Can I please get some academic followers so I can follow you back? We need to collectively uphold intellectualism in an ever-growing anti-intellectual world #academicsky
November 17, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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#WritingTip:
You can always fix bad pages. You can’t fix no pages.

Write. Just write.
November 16, 2024 at 5:06 PM