Patrick Allan Pospisek
@ppospisek.bsky.social
Historian; 3rd place Winner, 2016 Preschool Salsa Cookoff.
While we’re on the subject, The Onion reported on the discovery of the Midwest in 1997. How much knowledge could we have lost since then?
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November 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
While we’re on the subject, The Onion reported on the discovery of the Midwest in 1997. How much knowledge could we have lost since then?
theonion.com/midwest-disc...
theonion.com/midwest-disc...
Happy Festive Gourd Season, y’all
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Happy Festive Gourd Season, y’all
Reposted by Patrick Allan Pospisek
🚨CFP🚨 The Midwestern History Association invites proposals for the 12th Midwestern History Conference, Thursday, April 30–Friday, May 1, 2026, hosted by Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in conjunction with its annual Altman Symposium in the humanities. Submission Deadline: Monday, December 8, 2025.
2026 Conference — Midwestern History Association
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August 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
🚨CFP🚨 The Midwestern History Association invites proposals for the 12th Midwestern History Conference, Thursday, April 30–Friday, May 1, 2026, hosted by Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in conjunction with its annual Altman Symposium in the humanities. Submission Deadline: Monday, December 8, 2025.
I'm taking the mining history show on the road again this spring. Check out the Midwest History Association conference in Des Moines this May. Additional appearances to be announced soon. 🤘
www.midwesternhistory.com/2025-confere...
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2025 Conference — Midwestern History Association
www.midwesternhistory.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I'm taking the mining history show on the road again this spring. Check out the Midwest History Association conference in Des Moines this May. Additional appearances to be announced soon. 🤘
www.midwesternhistory.com/2025-confere...
www.midwesternhistory.com/2025-confere...
Empire had the better ending....
February 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Empire had the better ending....
Telling your humanities professor that you generally avoid reading is kind of like telling your pastor how you've been thinking this Satan guy isn't all bad.
December 13, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Telling your humanities professor that you generally avoid reading is kind of like telling your pastor how you've been thinking this Satan guy isn't all bad.
I think the alewives/witches story is like the IPA/India story in that they're more appropriately understood as stories told to tourists at American craft breweries.
Medieval alewives were not pushed out of brewing en masse because of witchcraft accusations. And the modern pop culture witch stereotype doesn't come from them either. I'm busting this myth again on my substack: braciatrixnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-alewif...
October 25, 2024 at 5:28 PM
I think the alewives/witches story is like the IPA/India story in that they're more appropriately understood as stories told to tourists at American craft breweries.
I've met these people. I like them. Go listen to them talk with words about things that are important.
October 23, 2024 at 7:06 PM
I've met these people. I like them. Go listen to them talk with words about things that are important.
Hey, Gen X profs pissed no one gets your Simpsons references: remember that there's a Ned Flanders themed metal band whose music not only kicks ass, but will also challenge your early '90s recollections.
youtu.be/8lnfOvc_jGg?...
youtu.be/8lnfOvc_jGg?...
Okilly Dokilly - Reneducation (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Okilly Dokilly
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October 4, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Hey, Gen X profs pissed no one gets your Simpsons references: remember that there's a Ned Flanders themed metal band whose music not only kicks ass, but will also challenge your early '90s recollections.
youtu.be/8lnfOvc_jGg?...
youtu.be/8lnfOvc_jGg?...
Cool Lego build and all but, ahem, pumpkins are native to the New World, not the Medieval fantasy world portrayed here. See, after 1492, the "Columbian Exchange" fueled the the movement of various foodstuffs from North and South America to the continents of Europe, Africa, and Asia...
September 14, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Cool Lego build and all but, ahem, pumpkins are native to the New World, not the Medieval fantasy world portrayed here. See, after 1492, the "Columbian Exchange" fueled the the movement of various foodstuffs from North and South America to the continents of Europe, Africa, and Asia...
I know of a local cider bar that probably has this image framed in the pub already.
the american drinker's mind cannot comprehend this
August 5, 2024 at 5:13 PM
I know of a local cider bar that probably has this image framed in the pub already.
Man, these things stink
June 18, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Man, these things stink
Well this looks fun!
Join us in Philly next May for a conference on early early America! Proposals due August 30th. More info here: www.mceas.org/events/2025/...
April 10, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Well this looks fun!
@midwesternhistory.bsky.social Can we help him out? I want to go to this panel.
My network on here is tiny compared to the other place, but anybody interested in putting together a panel/roundtable on religion in the US Midwest? Conference theme is "Lost and Found."
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December 27, 2023 at 10:07 PM
@midwesternhistory.bsky.social Can we help him out? I want to go to this panel.
Hey y'all! Look at this new thing I scholared:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
Project MUSE - "Natural Channels": Second Nature, the Illinois Central Railroad, and the Fortunes of...
muse.jhu.edu
November 21, 2023 at 2:20 PM
Hey y'all! Look at this new thing I scholared:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
The irony of reaching this point by light rail is not lost on me.
October 25, 2023 at 6:03 PM
The irony of reaching this point by light rail is not lost on me.