Liette Gidlow
@profgidlow.bsky.social
Historian of US politics, voting rights, women, race, 19thA
Wrote TheBigVote & Obama,Clinton,Palin
Radcliffe Fellow@Harvard. Swam in RFK Sr's pool
Wrote TheBigVote & Obama,Clinton,Palin
Radcliffe Fellow@Harvard. Swam in RFK Sr's pool
"Engaging with this history is not a side issue: it is the key to picking the lock of looming authoritarianism.” 🗃️
This report from the AfAm Policy Forum spells out why authoritarians need to erase histories of past wrongs.
drive.google.com/file/d/1PGDX...
This report from the AfAm Policy Forum spells out why authoritarians need to erase histories of past wrongs.
drive.google.com/file/d/1PGDX...
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"Engaging with this history is not a side issue: it is the key to picking the lock of looming authoritarianism.” 🗃️
This report from the AfAm Policy Forum spells out why authoritarians need to erase histories of past wrongs.
drive.google.com/file/d/1PGDX...
This report from the AfAm Policy Forum spells out why authoritarians need to erase histories of past wrongs.
drive.google.com/file/d/1PGDX...
Learn/teach about the roots of SNAP with this explainer on the history of the Food Stamps program from the marvelous Digital Public Library of America dp.la/primary-sour... 🗃️
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Learn/teach about the roots of SNAP with this explainer on the history of the Food Stamps program from the marvelous Digital Public Library of America dp.la/primary-sour... 🗃️
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
October 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
July 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
"The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were the target of repeated efforts at repeal in the 1900s and 1910s." 🗃️
I explore how in a scholarly article published in the J GildedAge/ProgressiveEra.
I explore how in a scholarly article published in the J GildedAge/ProgressiveEra.
June 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were the target of repeated efforts at repeal in the 1900s and 1910s." 🗃️
I explore how in a scholarly article published in the J GildedAge/ProgressiveEra.
I explore how in a scholarly article published in the J GildedAge/ProgressiveEra.
sharing a small beautiful thing on a day when evil seems to flourish without restraint
here are some mini black-eyed susans from my garden
here are some mini black-eyed susans from my garden
June 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
sharing a small beautiful thing on a day when evil seems to flourish without restraint
here are some mini black-eyed susans from my garden
here are some mini black-eyed susans from my garden
Notable Days in Chicago Print Journalism
May 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Notable Days in Chicago Print Journalism
Chicago Sun-Times is talking about the page full of fake books it just recommended for summer reading.
The S-T has decided that its best response is to say 'but our *newsroom* didn't do this. You can still trust our *newsroom.*'
Lmao
The S-T has decided that its best response is to say 'but our *newsroom* didn't do this. You can still trust our *newsroom.*'
Lmao
May 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Chicago Sun-Times is talking about the page full of fake books it just recommended for summer reading.
The S-T has decided that its best response is to say 'but our *newsroom* didn't do this. You can still trust our *newsroom.*'
Lmao
The S-T has decided that its best response is to say 'but our *newsroom* didn't do this. You can still trust our *newsroom.*'
Lmao
May 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Historian here. 🗃️
So, apparently we're doing tainted milk again
So, apparently we're doing tainted milk again
April 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Historian here. 🗃️
So, apparently we're doing tainted milk again
So, apparently we're doing tainted milk again
Historian here.
So apparently we're doing tainted milk again
So apparently we're doing tainted milk again
April 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Historian here.
So apparently we're doing tainted milk again
So apparently we're doing tainted milk again
@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️
See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information.
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See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information.
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April 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️
See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information.
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See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information.
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social
@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️
See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information.
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@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️
See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information.
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April 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social
@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️
See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information.
Please repost.
@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️
See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information.
Please repost.
ABC News has backed off its report that Rubio will head the National Archives. I apologize for posting incorrect information. My original post has been deleted.
February 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
ABC News has backed off its report that Rubio will head the National Archives. I apologize for posting incorrect information. My original post has been deleted.
ABC News has backed off its report that Rubio will head the National Archives, so I'm posting this correction. I apologize for posting incorrect information and will delete the original post.
February 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
ABC News has backed off its report that Rubio will head the National Archives, so I'm posting this correction. I apologize for posting incorrect information and will delete the original post.
Hegseth's statement that "women will have access to ground combat roles" if "standards remain high" is the same sort of nonsense as Kavanaugh's statement that "Roe v Wade is settled law."
It's squishy, it sounds like he's ok with the status quo, but it leaves him plenty of room to reverse course
It's squishy, it sounds like he's ok with the status quo, but it leaves him plenty of room to reverse course
January 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Hegseth's statement that "women will have access to ground combat roles" if "standards remain high" is the same sort of nonsense as Kavanaugh's statement that "Roe v Wade is settled law."
It's squishy, it sounds like he's ok with the status quo, but it leaves him plenty of room to reverse course
It's squishy, it sounds like he's ok with the status quo, but it leaves him plenty of room to reverse course
Late spring 2020, a welcome adventure out of the house during the COVID lockdown
January 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Late spring 2020, a welcome adventure out of the house during the COVID lockdown
Tourtière, from my great-grandfather's recipe
Season's greetings
Season's greetings
December 26, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Tourtière, from my great-grandfather's recipe
Season's greetings
Season's greetings
December 8, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Biden's punch-list before leaving office should include publishing the ERA to make it the 28th Amendment
November 16, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Biden's punch-list before leaving office should include publishing the ERA to make it the 28th Amendment