jmadelman

jmadelman, 4 days ago to history

Federated social media holds great promise, but with it comes great responsibility. We don’t monetize your data, we don’t sell advertising. So we rely on donations. Thanks for your support of historians.social! @lizcovart @kawulf #ClioDigitalMedia #histodons
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jmadelman, 10 days ago to history

The Nashville Parthenon has announced plans to return 248 pre-Columbian objects to Mexico. Margaret Renkl offers an intriguing look at how the process unfolded. #vastearlyamerica #histodons #everythinghasahistory https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/opinion/nashville-museum-artifacts-mexico.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk0.efYO.WiXmVX1VZk53&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

jmadelman, 21 days ago to random

We’re so grateful for everyone who enjoys using historians.social and building a federated social media platform. Unlike commercial sites, @lizcovart @kawulf and I run it via a non-profit that supports server costs, moderation, and other expenses. With no advertising, we rely on your support to keep this instance running at a cost of just over $300 per month! If you’d like to see historians.social thrive and grow, please consider a donation: https://www.cliodigital.media/donate

jmadelman, 1 month ago to AppleTVPlus

Today, Apple TV+ releases the first three episodes of its new series, Franklin. I’ve reviewed the show—mostly positively—for Slate. #EverythingHasAHistory #AppleTVPlus #histodons #VastEarlyAmerica https://slate.com/culture/2024/04/ben-franklin-michael-douglas-apple-show-true-story-accuracy.html

glennf, 4 months ago to random

I don't recall giving Weather on my Apple devices notifications permissions. With recent updates, I get Weather notifications on all of them. I finally remembered to turn them all off. Did Apple just decide I wanted them?

jmadelman, 6 months ago to history

Very glad to see that History News Network (HNN) has found a new home at the University of Richmond and a partnership with Bunk. Check out the new site (and sign up for its new newsletter). #histodons @histodons https://hnn.us/

jmadelman, 7 months ago to random

Congratulations to @profwehrman for winning the 2023 Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize from the Massachusetts Historical Society for his book, Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution. Well deserved! #VastEarlyAmerica #AmericanRevolution #histodons https://www.masshist.org/media/2023Gomes

jmadelman, 7 months ago to random

I was not prepared to lose one of the Friends group this soon. RIP. https://people.com/matthew-perry-dead-at-54-7501992

NBarreyre, 8 months ago to random

Hey, #histodons, I have the vague impression that historians of the US and/or American historians are less active on Mastodon than a few months ago. You get the same impression too?

@jmadelman, maybe you have a more informed view of things, at historians.social?

glennf, 8 months ago to random

Imagine someone even more ineffectual as Speaker than Kevin McCarthy, should he be ousted—I dare you.

There was buzz when McCarthy was failing vote after vote for the position earlier this year that some Republicans might gang up with Democrats to pick a moderate Speaker. You only need a handful of Republicans to make that happen if the Speaker were 100% acceptable to Democrats.

jeffjarvis, 8 months ago to history

Fox debate attributes "shining city on a hill" to Ronald Reagan. No, it was John Winthrop in 1630. #history

jmadelman, 9 months ago to random

The expansion of AI, and especially LLMs such as ChatGPT, is … not going well, to say the least. @jeffjarvis offers self-described “unpopular opinions” about where we are and where we should (and will?) head. https://buzzmachine.com/2023/08/21/a-few-unpopular-opinions-about-ai/

glennf, 10 months ago to random

Bezel me mucho

jmadelman, 10 months ago to histodons

For my third #AHAReads of the summer I selected a book by an author with a different background from me (if one significant common interest): My Life with Benjamin Franklin by Claude-Anne Lopez, a former editor with the Papers of Benjamin Franklin. @AHAHistorians #histodons @histodons

kissane, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

But what is the actual PROBLEM with Mastodon?? Said one hundred dozen people over several months of threads here. So I wrote it up.

It's too long, but we got bad doors, stilt-walking French shepherds, water bugs, a bunch of @/shengokai@zirk.us quotations, What The Fuck Is Up With Bluesky, and more.

https://erinkissane.com/the-affordance-loop

jmadelman, 10 months ago to random

After a really enriching and enjoyable experience at #SHEAR2023, I’ve returned home to work and apply lots of things that I’ve learned. There are four big takeaways (or perhaps meta-takeaways) from the conference that I want to expand on at some point, but will put down here for starters. The first is a lesson about scholarship, and the other three are about organizations. Here’s goes.

jmadelman, 11 months ago to random

If you’ve ever thought, “so much stuff has happened since 1989, someone should do an update to Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire,” well — Fall Out Boy has you covered (literally). https://youtu.be/2LkVKCWL0U4

jmadelman, 11 months ago to random

Boston has opened a new exhibit on slavery in the city at Faneuil Hall. @jlbellwriter offers a preview at Boston 1775. #VastEarlyAmerica #slavery #BlackHistory https://boston1775.blogspot.com/2023/06/slavery-in-boston-exhibit-now-open-in.html

jmadelman, 1 year ago to random

It is a cruel irony of New England colleges that the campus often reaches its peak of springtime beauty the week after students depart.

jmadelman, 1 year ago to random

“In such times of institutional crisis, we argue, otherwise unspoken or less obvious normative conventions for the lop-sided, gendered division of academic labor may be rendered more visible or evident, and needs often threaten to outstrip resources in such scenarios.”

Interesting new study on how students perceived support early in the #pandemic—they expected female faculty to be more accommodating, which only worsened the gendered labor divide. #teaching #academia https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10755-023-09652-x