Shelby Balik
shelbymbalik.bsky.social
Shelby Balik
@shelbymbalik.bsky.social
Professor at MSU Denver. Historian of early America and American religion: politics, households, reading and writing, gender, and race. Parent of current and recent teenagers. I should be writing.
she/her/Dr.
There. Fixed it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 AM
In other news, Texas A&M will heretofore be known as TPUSA.
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I know you are, but what am I?
November 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I've got a bad feeling about this.
October 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Kavanaugh's argument that "if they're innocent they should have nothing to hide" is antithetical to the rule of law and does nothing to prevent an all-out assault on roughly half of LA's population.
September 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The Dept. of State needs to learn its history from some source other than Prager U.
September 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Dear Etsy: I don't know what you think "dark academia" is supposed to look like, but I'm guessing actual academics aren't really your market, are they?

Don't email us. We're in a mood. Maybe not this mood, though.
August 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
These are OUR archives. These are OUR records. Scholars use them, but so do ordinary people, for all kinds of reasons. We all pay for this resource. It is our shared history. And now they're trying to starve it out of existence.
June 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Care to explain who you saw when you looked at Sen. Padilla?
June 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
But what will they do with the gift shop?
May 5, 2025 at 4:50 AM
You know who said this? Napoleon.* So with any luck, this means we're somewhere between Elba and St. Helena.

* Credited, not confirmed.
February 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I hope folks who voted Trump because of the price of eggs are happy. And now we can't even track and coordinate a response to avian flu.

1 dozen, non-organic, store brand, suburban Denver.
January 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's been called the Gulf of Mexico since long before we were called the United States of America. (map published in 1733)
January 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
From eight years ago. Everything old is new again.
January 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM