@sdamussen
Historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
I played Titania in 5th grade, so always have a soft spot for Midsummer Night's Dream. But also Much Ado, Measure for Measure, Coriolanus, Comedy of Errors, Winter's Tale, Tempest, Twelfth Night, As You Like it... But that's just a list for today. It might be different tomorrow.
I love Coriolanus. I wish I'd seen it performed, instead of reading it.
We know it’s all the fault of the faculty. It’s why we need more administrators.
It's so funny because my sense is I smell weed less now than I used to because edibles are available, and much less obvious!
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I think it's important pre-Laud *not* to think that there are set parties. There are the godly, but all within the CoE - very staunch puritans. And the 39 articles are Calvinist. So this guy sounds mainstream CofE, not part of any party.
My students are reading Ellesmere's speech on Calvin's Case today, and it's great to show the reference to Calvin's case in the briefs in Trump v. Barbara, but also, that Ellesmere refers to a case called Cobledickes case. #law #earlymodern
Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany, edited by Peter Hess, is out now with Berghahn books, and I've just learned that the introduction (which I wrote) is free to read on the website! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HessMa...
Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran
"That's the way it is," says the five-time draft dodger to our military families who fear their loved one in uniform could be next.
What a disgrace.
As a historian, I'd just like to remind the politicians who follow me that it is not, in fact, 2003 anymore and the current GOP war in the Middle East is not, in fact, even remotely popular.
So if you're a weathervane who just tries to do what's already popular, full-throated opposition is it!
Charles thought Monmouth was his son, but denied that he’d married Walter. There was no reason for Charles to acknowledge him if there were a question.
JOB ALERT! 📜📚
Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin?
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I’m so sorry. It’s so hard when thru go, but I’m glad you were able to give that gorgeous cat a cushy life.
Glad to learn something new. But wow.
A good summary of the federal complaint against UCLA.
Blimey. Skinners' Accounts, 1618-19; MS30727/6, p 46
cc @davidveevers.bsky.social et al
I will!
And for non-smokers, you had to walk past the smokers to get to the bathroom 🤦♀️.
Glad it’s helpful!
That is amazing.
i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
That’s a lot of Pocock.
The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.
Seems kinda bad?
Alas, there are some cycles I can only get by using the app on mine.
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Yes, but some of it goes in the footnote. 😬.
“Moderate to high risk schools” - you might learn something. Better not go there.
