Jamie Paxton
@jamiepaxton.bsky.social
Historian at Moravian University
Double rainbow over Bethlehem tonight
May 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Double rainbow over Bethlehem tonight
Trump imagines himself as a combination of Jackson and McKinley but at this rate he is more like Hoover.
March 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Trump imagines himself as a combination of Jackson and McKinley but at this rate he is more like Hoover.
These guidelines are so broad and amorphous that no one in my department would receive funding for their research.
February 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
These guidelines are so broad and amorphous that no one in my department would receive funding for their research.
Reposted by Jamie Paxton
NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”
February 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”
Watching Doug Ford in CNN, and I wish he would stop throwing Mexico under the bus.
February 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Watching Doug Ford in CNN, and I wish he would stop throwing Mexico under the bus.
Reposted by Jamie Paxton
I'm a believer that digital archives are:
1. Important for increasing access to historical records
2. Part of government's duty to preserve and make records available to citizens.
Pennsylvania should not be giving ownership of digital records to ancestry.com
www.dailyitem.com/news/inside-...
1. Important for increasing access to historical records
2. Part of government's duty to preserve and make records available to citizens.
Pennsylvania should not be giving ownership of digital records to ancestry.com
www.dailyitem.com/news/inside-...
Inside the Pa. court case pitting a genealogist against Ancestry.com
Pennsylvania hired genealogy company Ancestry.com to digitize a sweeping list of historical documents. Now the company claims it owns those digital copies.
www.dailyitem.com
December 26, 2023 at 10:23 AM
I'm a believer that digital archives are:
1. Important for increasing access to historical records
2. Part of government's duty to preserve and make records available to citizens.
Pennsylvania should not be giving ownership of digital records to ancestry.com
www.dailyitem.com/news/inside-...
1. Important for increasing access to historical records
2. Part of government's duty to preserve and make records available to citizens.
Pennsylvania should not be giving ownership of digital records to ancestry.com
www.dailyitem.com/news/inside-...
After marking exams, submitting final grades, and compiling student evaluations for their periodic review, the cats can finally relax.
December 25, 2023 at 9:55 PM
After marking exams, submitting final grades, and compiling student evaluations for their periodic review, the cats can finally relax.
Just finished packing the car for a trip to visit my 86 year-old mother-in-law to find out my daughter has covid. A bummer but so glad we tested before leaving.
December 24, 2023 at 1:15 PM
Just finished packing the car for a trip to visit my 86 year-old mother-in-law to find out my daughter has covid. A bummer but so glad we tested before leaving.