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Deb Harkness

Deb Harkness

@debharkness.bsky.social

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Feels too much. Never enough children, islands, mourners, gossips & vegetables. Warms the stars. Essentially a spy. She/her. A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES 🧙‍♀️SHADOW OF NIGHT 🌚 THE BOOK OF LIFE 📖 TIME'S CONVERT 🕰️ THE BLACK BIRD ORACLE🐦‍⬛ THE FALCON AND THE ROSE 🥀

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Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · Jan 28

I am so pleased to announce the title of the sixth book in the All Souls Series: THE FALCON AND THE ROSE. (#TFATR) More news soon on publication date, pre-orders, cover, foreign translations, audiobook, and all the rest. #AllSoulsSeries #AllSoulsSeriesBook6
#BuckleYourSeatbelts

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · Jul 14

This week's playlist now available. Link: open.spotify.com/playlist/0e8...

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Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · Jun 27

Ooooh. Let me know if you need a guest to zoom in! 😉

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · Jun 13

Need.

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · Jun 12

Senator Padilla was driven violently to his knees–as if made to kneel before the authority of the executive–because the administration called his questions “disrespectful”.

This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · Jun 13

1775. A shot heard around the world.

2025. An elected United States senator was put in cuffs for asking a question at a press conference.

The click of those cuffs echoed that past sound

Who will answer the call? #1IfByLand #spiritof1775 #nokingsprotest
📷 Brian/Facebook

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Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · Jun 12

I do it for them, too, but mostly I #persist because I don't like bullies.

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · Jun 12

I have no idea. The point is i was one of the first 11000 people on the platform. I won't be silenced.

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · Jun 12

This.

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · Jun 12

I keep posting on the Birdhouse because I was there before they are. Their throttling of accounts is so pathetic and obvious. Just like everything else they do.

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · Jun 12

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · Jun 4

Half an 18th century woman's shoe. Found it in the attic of new to me but very old house. An apotropaic deposit! 😍

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · May 20

It's not about where it's run. It's that he thinks that is writing.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · May 20

okay this is distressing as hell but after more than 20 years of doing this job I've learned that the only way the book gets written is if you sit your arse in the chair and write the book. unacceptable really.

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · May 20

AI is not intelligent. Don't use it. We can always tell. If you can't write your own sentences and research, you shouldn't be a journalist, novelist, student, scholar, or member of Congress. Full. Stop.

Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · May 20

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · May 20

If shoes could talk... #spiritualmiddensaremyjam

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · May 8

The first Augustinian was elected pope. Ask your neighborhood medieval or early modern historian why this is important in 2025. Hint: it has to do with the importance of learning

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · May 8

Also: Harvard for the win.

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · May 8

From @VillanovaU mission statement. This is the university that Pope Leo XIV attended, highlighting learning as the path to truth, respecting diversity as a path to unity, and compassion as a way to unconditional love. We need this kind of leadership. #veritas #unitas #caritas

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · May 5

So proud of our discipline for this list.

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · May 5

Kudos to their publishers, too, for making this important work available at this perilous moment in American History. Random House, @oxfordunipress.bsky.social, @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · May 5

I am immensely proud to be a historian at this moment and see my field represented with this excellent scholarship by @kathleenduval.bsky.social, Edda Fields Black, and @sethrockman.bsky.social.

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · May 5

This year's Pulitzer in history is shared by @kathleenduval.bsky.social and Edda L Fields-Black

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · May 5

Edda L. Fields-Black wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History.

Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War

(The History category has two winners this year.)

The Pulitzer Prize

WINNER
Combee: Harriet Tubman
the Combahee River Raid
and Black Freedom
During the Civil War
by Edda L. Fields-Black
(Oxford University Press)

Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social · May 5

And another round of applause for anoyher UCDavis historian, @sethrockman.bsky.social, for being one of the three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in history. #GoAggies