Rebecca Shrum
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Rebecca Shrum
@materialworld.bsky.social
Wife, mom, public historian. Living with long covid.
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Yup
October 28, 2023 at 1:40 AM
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Y’all, I’m begging you. Don’t drive in the evenings for the next few nights unless you absolutely have to. If you do have to drive, drive extra slow and be super focused, especially in neighborhoods.
October 28, 2023 at 12:53 AM
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Check out this engaging new piece up on History@Work: "Project Showcase: Kin/Folk/Lore" by GVGK Tang ncph.org/history-at-w...
Project Showcase: Kin/Folk/Lore | National Council on Public History
Kin/Folk/Lore (KFL) is a community-led history project that uses grassroots storytelling to incite meaningful dialogues across cultures, generations, and localities in Philadelphia. Participant-audien...
ncph.org
October 18, 2023 at 5:24 PM
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Exhibit, at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY, of handmade Black dolls made between the 1850s and the 1940s offers lesson in legacy of slavery, racism, and Black play abcnews.go.com/US/black-dol... Exhibit includes dolls made by Harriet Jacobs.
Exhibit of Black dolls offers lesson in legacy of slavery, racism
One part of the exhibit features dolls made by Harriet Jacobs, author of the renowned slavery narrative, “Life of a Slave Girl."
abcnews.go.com
October 21, 2023 at 3:10 PM
I’m on sabbatical this fall, which looks a lot like medical leave because I have long covid, but I am trying to write 500 words a day M-F. I posted about this on Twitter in September, but am trying to break up with Twitter, so am going to try this over here for October. Beginning tomorrow!
October 8, 2023 at 6:26 PM
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Hey BlueSky did you know if you work on 19thC materials & have a dataset we would be happy to review & maybe publish it so other scholars can see your data & maybe work with it, too? c19datacollective.com please share!
October 7, 2023 at 8:39 PM