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Marla At Large
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Historian of women, work, craft & memory & Assoc Dean for Strategic Initiatives, #UMassAmherst College of Humanities & Fine Arts. Mainly thinking these days about #PublicHistory, #HealthHumanities, & #HealthyAging — who’s with me?
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So happy to see our @umasspress.bsky.social series at the @ncph.bsky.social conference in Montreal! Very proud of the scholarship we have helped to bring out…. #booksky
Table with more than a dozen titles in the UMass press series “public History in Historical Perspective”
March 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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So excited to see my issue of The Public Historian arrive, finally! Very excited about this scholarship on museums as landlords…..
Abstract from The Public Historian article “Renting History”
March 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Finding my people….

#Booksky
Book jackets of Lesley Wheeler’s Voicing American Poetry, Derek Furr’s Recorded Poetry, anCathwrine Robson’s Heart Beats
February 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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TFW a book you ordered arrives, and at first (when you see the title) you are excited because of how it’s going to inform one project (HealthHumanities!) and then (when you see the subtitle) you are excited because of how it’s going to support another project (History of Poetry!) #Throughlines
Book jacket for Robson, Heartbeats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem
February 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Setting (I hope) a good tone for the new year ahead. #booksky
Cover of Dacher Kelter’s book Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it can Transform Your Life
January 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

20/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge
Book Jacket, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
December 14, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

19/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge
Book Jacket, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale
December 13, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

18/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge
Book Jacket, Michael Batinski, Pastkeepers in a Small Place
December 12, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

17/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge
Book Jacket: Edna St Vincent Millay, collected Lyrics
December 11, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

16/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge
Book Jacket, Martha Norkunas, Monuments and Memory: History and Representation in Lowell, Massachusetts
December 10, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

15/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge
Book Jacket: The Great River: Art and Society of the Connecticut Valley, 1635-1820
December 9, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

14/20

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Book Jacket: Keith Erekson, Everybody's History: Indiana's Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a President's Past
December 8, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

13/20

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Book Jacket, Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
December 7, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

12/20

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Book Jacket, Ross Gay, The Book of Delights
December 6, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

11/20

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Book Jacket: Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family Keepsake
December 5, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

10/20

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Book Jacket, Amy Tyson, The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public History's Front Lines
December 4, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

9/20

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Book Jacket, Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
December 3, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

8/20

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Book Jacket, Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism
December 2, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

7/20

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Book Jacket: Krista Lester, Bunny Buddhism: Hopping Along the Path to Enlightenment
December 1, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

6/20

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Book Jacket, Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
November 30, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

5/20

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Book Jacket, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
November 29, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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So fun to see the #UMassAmherst marching band in the Macy’s parade!
Photo of the TV broadcast of the Macy’s parade at the moment the UMass Amherst marching band appeared.
November 28, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

4/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge
Book Jacket, Kiki Smith, Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore
November 28, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

2/20

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Book Jacket, Lois Silverman, The Social Work of Museums
November 27, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

2/20

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Book Jacket, Richard White, Remembering Ahanagran: A History of Stories
November 26, 2024 at 9:32 AM