Too many people: Cemeteries are scary and haunted Reality: Gravestones are incredible places to search for histories of politics, protest, and religion Visit a cemetery this Spooky Season 🪦

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Let me tell you something obvious --iow, I don't reallt need to tell you. Job applicants want you to read their applications. Students want you to read their writing. No one wants AI to do it. That means you should write your own email, memos, and opeds. W abundant typos (ok that's jsut me).

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Oh, the world. But the knots and loops for the closure on this parchment binding are so lovely. (It's a mss travelogue with maps @jcblibrary.bsky.social )

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"This week we’re in Rhode Island" — In this video from @photowalkstv.bsky.social, Professor of History and Director and Librarian of the @jcblibrary.bsky.social, @kawulf.bsky.social, was interviewed about Brown’s Revolutionary War-era history. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=72RbEbWzZJo

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Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Duval (our new book review editor)! Dr. Duval's book, The Home Front, was recently awarded the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic's Mary Kelley Prize in Gender and Women’s History. Her work was also co-awarded the SHEAR Book Prize. Amazing work!

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