Sarah J. Purcell
@sarahjpurcell.bsky.social
(She/her) Historian-Teacher-Sometime Digital Humanist. Latest book: Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era from @UNC_Press
The OAH conference has plenty of bleak already, and it’s just starting now.
April 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The OAH conference has plenty of bleak already, and it’s just starting now.
If you're in Grinnell this Wednesday, get a free lunch and some free knowledge from my students!
October 14, 2024 at 1:43 PM
If you're in Grinnell this Wednesday, get a free lunch and some free knowledge from my students!
My research student Ellis Chen excelled at the Iowa Human Rights Research Conference today! His project on race and opium regulation in territorial WA is sharp!!
April 20, 2024 at 4:34 PM
My research student Ellis Chen excelled at the Iowa Human Rights Research Conference today! His project on race and opium regulation in territorial WA is sharp!!
I’m speaking at the Natchez Fim and Literary celebration on Thursday!
February 20, 2024 at 2:38 AM
I’m speaking at the Natchez Fim and Literary celebration on Thursday!
Paleography help? "statute so construed would probably be unconstitutional. If constitutional, it is highly ____ so constrained, and I have heretofore held that its crime would, in the interest of accused persons, be..." WHAT IS THAT BLANK?!
February 13, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Paleography help? "statute so construed would probably be unconstitutional. If constitutional, it is highly ____ so constrained, and I have heretofore held that its crime would, in the interest of accused persons, be..." WHAT IS THAT BLANK?!
Join us next week 2/15 for the SHA Junior Scholars' Workshop featuring @melissadevelvis.org scholarship! Comments from myself and @annesarah.bsky.social You only need to sign up for the Zoom link and paper if you're not already on the mailing list.
February 5, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Join us next week 2/15 for the SHA Junior Scholars' Workshop featuring @melissadevelvis.org scholarship! Comments from myself and @annesarah.bsky.social You only need to sign up for the Zoom link and paper if you're not already on the mailing list.
Don’t like Charles Warren at all, but I love this digital book plate attached to catalog record in the Harvard library catalog (Hollis)!
January 26, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Don’t like Charles Warren at all, but I love this digital book plate attached to catalog record in the Harvard library catalog (Hollis)!
My last day of classes for Fall 23–I have truly loved these students!
December 7, 2023 at 3:27 PM
My last day of classes for Fall 23–I have truly loved these students!
Grading at 4 am waiting for (still negative) Covid test results #HistorianLife
December 5, 2023 at 1:54 PM
Grading at 4 am waiting for (still negative) Covid test results #HistorianLife
Can’t wait to read the new book by @sarahkeyesphd.bsky.social on the significance of overland trail graves and Indigenous graves!
October 22, 2023 at 6:21 PM
Can’t wait to read the new book by @sarahkeyesphd.bsky.social on the significance of overland trail graves and Indigenous graves!
One of the great privileges of Professor life is fall break—I never take it for granted!
October 15, 2023 at 3:23 PM
One of the great privileges of Professor life is fall break—I never take it for granted!