Meg Mulrooney
@megmulrooney.bsky.social
1stGen Administrator/Scholar. #GenEd #Faculty #civicengagement #publichistory #RacePlaceandMemory #campushistory #IrishAmericanhistory. Views here are mine alone.
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
Got an email from the Anthropic settlement lawyers today with my unique ID #. Fortunately I already filed my claim. Full speed ahead.
December 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Got an email from the Anthropic settlement lawyers today with my unique ID #. Fortunately I already filed my claim. Full speed ahead.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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#OTD in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person (required by law on a full bus).
This sparked the Montgomery bus system boycott & led to the 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation.
A defining moment. #CivilRights
This sparked the Montgomery bus system boycott & led to the 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation.
A defining moment. #CivilRights
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
#OTD in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person (required by law on a full bus).
This sparked the Montgomery bus system boycott & led to the 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation.
A defining moment. #CivilRights
This sparked the Montgomery bus system boycott & led to the 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation.
A defining moment. #CivilRights
Yes but ironically
Does anyone say howdy genuinely. Because I do. I love saying howdy and I want more people to
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Yes but ironically
Tomorrow’s forecast. Wtf is liquid equivalent precipitation”?
December 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Tomorrow’s forecast. Wtf is liquid equivalent precipitation”?
Oof brutal
I named my fists Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries because when I need them the most they’re almost guaranteed to let me down.
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
December 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Oof brutal
Ha ha ha ha the huge walk in/ guest suite is my fave
December 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Ha ha ha ha the huge walk in/ guest suite is my fave
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I dunno man it just really seems like American universities have lost the plot over the past 30 years or so and while I too love college football and basketball, the people making key decisions at them don't seem to care about their educational mission at all
December 1, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I dunno man it just really seems like American universities have lost the plot over the past 30 years or so and while I too love college football and basketball, the people making key decisions at them don't seem to care about their educational mission at all
People I work with are gleefully talking about a certain football coach’s future and I’m like NO BRAIN TRAUMA
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
People I work with are gleefully talking about a certain football coach’s future and I’m like NO BRAIN TRAUMA
Thank god here’s one I understood. 👊
I named my fists Moby and Dick because I am about to whale on you.
I named my fists Chekhov and Gun because you know they're coming but you don't know when
December 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Thank god here’s one I understood. 👊
Only 4 bc not my period, tbh, but Forced Founders should be there, imho. Definitely changed things.
With 2026 just around the corner, we thought we'd see how everyone's reading bingo card is looking.
Which of these works have you read, and which ones should we add to our list?!
Which of these works have you read, and which ones should we add to our list?!
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Only 4 bc not my period, tbh, but Forced Founders should be there, imho. Definitely changed things.
I had a good conversation with colleagues just today about eudaemonia, human flourishing, Jefferson, and his BFF Madison, who you know designed the Constitution to protect us from the McCalls. (We take Madison seriously here at JMU. Some of us.)
But wait, there's more: "He also stated that the United States Constitution is a product of the errors of Enlightenment liberalism. The divine and natural law will always outweigh human law, McCall wrote, and public opinion and majority should not be used to determine what is legal."
a woman is making a funny face and says `` i can 't even ... '' .
ALT: a woman is making a funny face and says `` i can 't even ... '' .
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December 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I had a good conversation with colleagues just today about eudaemonia, human flourishing, Jefferson, and his BFF Madison, who you know designed the Constitution to protect us from the McCalls. (We take Madison seriously here at JMU. Some of us.)
I can’t get past “creative sanctuary.” None of priests or nuns in my Catholic HS ever used such language. He has to be making that up.
UGHHHHHH! "McCall wrote that no woman or girl in his family is allowed, nor desires, to wear pants. Research provides evidence that pants on women draw a man’s eye to her “creative sanctuary,” he stated, and skirts better encapsulate the “modest restraint” that all women should have."
Apropos of nothing.
December 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I can’t get past “creative sanctuary.” None of priests or nuns in my Catholic HS ever used such language. He has to be making that up.
Obsessed with a research subject, a woman who had 4 illegitimate sons by 4 men between 1903-1925. She grew up in a respectable family in a small town, Delaware City, DE. It seems she initially hoped to find a husband among the soldiers at Ft Dupont, like her sister. But I’m mystified by #2, 3, & 4.
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Obsessed with a research subject, a woman who had 4 illegitimate sons by 4 men between 1903-1925. She grew up in a respectable family in a small town, Delaware City, DE. It seems she initially hoped to find a husband among the soldiers at Ft Dupont, like her sister. But I’m mystified by #2, 3, & 4.
Paging @jackiantonovich.bsky.social @nursingclio.bsky.social @drkyliesmith.bsky.social maybe others?
Looking for recommendations for fiction, essays, and memoirs for a social history of health: gender and wellness seminar. (So far am decided on Audre Lorde, Cancer Journals; Eula Biss On Immunity, and Todd Haynes’ Safe).
December 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Paging @jackiantonovich.bsky.social @nursingclio.bsky.social @drkyliesmith.bsky.social maybe others?
I wish I had the money. What a CRIME they did to this historic Virginia house.
www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I wish I had the money. What a CRIME they did to this historic Virginia house.
www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
Stunning. I am stunned.
December 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Stunning. I am stunned.
More than 50% of our FYR reading/writing course is taught by adjuncts. For example.
Academic freedom has never been shared by all of the people teaching at your institution!
It only stops when university admins think it’s in their interest to protect the instructor. And even in the halcyon days of 10 years ago, they didn’t protect grad students.
November 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
More than 50% of our FYR reading/writing course is taught by adjuncts. For example.
A friend brought us a plate of homemade Christmas cookies today. Grateful for friends in these strange times. Let the merry begin!
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
A friend brought us a plate of homemade Christmas cookies today. Grateful for friends in these strange times. Let the merry begin!
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When I started writing this book in 2021, I knew that the rule of law would be central to its interpretation of the Declaration of Independence. What I didn't know was quite how relevant that matter would be when I finished writing it in 2025.
The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States. Available for pre-order and out in November 2025.
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/
The Course of Human Events
<b>How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning</b><br/><br/> Thomas Jefferson chose his words c
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November 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
When I started writing this book in 2021, I knew that the rule of law would be central to its interpretation of the Declaration of Independence. What I didn't know was quite how relevant that matter would be when I finished writing it in 2025.
Yay! This is what I want for Christmas, tbh, the collapse of the AI bubble.
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Yay! This is what I want for Christmas, tbh, the collapse of the AI bubble.
So much good here, but IMHO the key point is that close reading enables students to believe “that they are capable, that they can do it.” They have been hollowed out, too, denied self-efficacy by modern educational systems. Freire, hooks, so many have taught us how to teach. If we will only do it.
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
So much good here, but IMHO the key point is that close reading enables students to believe “that they are capable, that they can do it.” They have been hollowed out, too, denied self-efficacy by modern educational systems. Freire, hooks, so many have taught us how to teach. If we will only do it.
“The heart of Thanksgiving is in the home.”
On this Thanksgiving, I'm sharing one of my favorite Nursing Clio essays. nursingclio.org/2015/11/26/t...
The Paradox of Thanksgiving
With its odd combination of tradition and invention, its appeals to the past and to the future, its ancestor worship and its acceptance of diversity, Thanksgiving is not merely America’s most treas…
nursingclio.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“The heart of Thanksgiving is in the home.”
I’m sure there will be a new book to mark the parade’s 100th year in 2026, but here are some existing sources from LoC. guides.loc.gov/this-month-i...
Research Guides: This Month in Business History: Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
Compiled by specialists in Business Reference Services at the Library of Congress, this guide highlights stories about the people, places, and events that made their mark on business history.
guides.loc.gov
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I’m sure there will be a new book to mark the parade’s 100th year in 2026, but here are some existing sources from LoC. guides.loc.gov/this-month-i...