Doctor Historianess
banner
historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy
Doctor Historianess
@historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy
Rebecca Anne Goetz, Associate Professor of History, NYU. Opinions are mine; facts and evidence belong to everybody. If I'm not in the library I probably […]

[bridged from https://mastodon.sdf.org/@historianess on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
And there’s my sign—I am a Thomas Paine fan.
June 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Here’s my video from #NoKings Blue Hill, ME yesterday!
June 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The archivists never substituted in Arabic numerals here, so I've got to scan for the right folio in...roman numerals.

Can someone please just kill me now?
May 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Sometimes my own research astounds me. I did not know i had grabbed this, but what it is is Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's 1544 testimony, including extensive information about slaving on Santo Domingo. He did not write about anything like this in his Historia General de las Indias.
May 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Lady Elsa von Dingbat is helping me read.
May 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Some estimates are for 100K in Manhattan but that is absolutely not confirmed yet. Anyways, Patience and Fortitude are anti-Trump too,
April 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Yesterday. I hurt in places I didn’t know I had!
March 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Several thousand in WSP and stretched up Fifth Avenue
February 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
With @lavaeolus as witness, I assaulted Dussmans and came away with new music for the new year!
January 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Mama Deer and her two-year-old daughter have come looking for peanuts.
December 23, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Word from another NYU colleague the administration has declared persona non grata:
December 14, 2024 at 2:17 PM
November 18, 2024 at 2:17 PM
I'm terrified about the election but I still did my #team500 today. I reread chapter two, which I have not worked on since spring 2019. I had to start somewhere, though, so...

Here is the escudo of Jacome de Castellón, granting in 1528. The human heads are […]

[Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
November 5, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Wittenberg University on lockdown after threats against Haitian students and staff:
September 15, 2024 at 2:27 PM