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Stephanie Lawton, PhD
@skaylawton.bsky.social
not-quite-as-newbie history professor at a SLAC; CA girl in the South,
working on 19th c. US history, presidents, funerals, classics; creator of #histgym
Its Thanksgiving so I want to say thank you to the wonderful editors and peer reviewers who make excellent scholarship possible. Now that I'm a real PhD, I want to pay it forward by writing minimum 1 book review a year & peer-reviewing at least one article a year. So hit me up! #editing #Skystorians
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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A friend helps run a large food bank serving our state. Asked her how things look. For every 1 meal provided by a food bank, SNAP provides 9. They’re looking at a tenfold increase in need within days. There hasn’t been a threat of mass hunger in America like this in living memory. Help if you can 🍽️
October 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
#skystorians @shgape.bsky.social I need folks help. I'm teaching a 400 level courses on US history 1870s-1920 and trying to find a good synthetic book on the period to assign to accompany other readings. Any recs?

Most I've found seem a tad outdated
October 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2
October 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
so it's not just me then
“What a week, eh?”
“Peter, it’s Wednesday.”
September 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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specifically, the proposed rule would exclude borrowers from loan forgiveness if the Secretary of Education determines “by a preponderance of the evidence” that their employers “engage in activities that have a substantial illegal purpose”

that seems...flexible!

ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
The Trump White House Is Trying to Price Law Students Out of Public Service
A proposed Department of Education rule would make borrowers ineligible for loan forgiveness if the administration doesn’t approve of their work.
ballsandstrikes.org
September 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
#HATM I love that she gets to off him so much
September 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
super cool stuff in this thread!
Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor.

In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
September 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Please help spread the word about our CFP? Id love to get a wide variety of posts for this series
CFP: 'Academic Processes and Digital Humanities' - Global Maritime History
GlobalMaritimeHistory welcomes proposals for our new series ‘Academic Processes and Digital Humanities’. We are looking for people to talk about the processes (especially technical processes) that they use to do their research, analysis or both.  Some of the things we would love to have you write about Transcription of Documents Textual Analysis Materials Analysis Materials Conservation/Art Conservation Mapping, GIS and related topics Use of R and data visualization Databases and their varied uses Using websites to display projects and findings Collective projects/collaboration This series is very much about these processes, and it is not at all required that your research be on a maritime topic. If how you do what you do is neat and you think that it would interest other people or help other people with their research, we would love to hear from you. Proposals do not need to be any particular length. The blogposts should be approximately 800-1000 words, however we absolutely do encourage longer posts. We also encourage embedded youtube videos, images, anything that can be embedded into our posts. Also, please do not feel the need to moderate your enthusiasm. This is an audience that appreciates procedural and technical enthusiasm. Posts should be written for an educated but not expert audience. Links to tutorials and similar material is always appreciated. We are also open to tutorial videos, or other formats instead of written blog posts. If it is technically possible to be done on WordPress then we are very much open to creative approaches to discusses processes.  If you are unable to submit something in the near future but are interested in contributing over the longer term, please do get in touch. We’d love to hear from you as well. This series is open to grad students, early career researchers as well as more established researchers. We will not be entertaining any proposals either written by or having to do with the use of generative AI. If you are interested in contributing to this series please email Dr Samuel McLean
globalmaritimehistory.com
September 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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August 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Fantastic resource for historians: a spreadsheet of NARA's digitized microfilm, with links to the files in the Archives catalog. May it help you as much as it has helped me.

www.archives.gov/files/colleg...
www.archives.gov
August 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
As is the case with any summer deadline, this is a last minute query. But if anyone is interested in putting together a panel or roundtable. for this conference, let me know. Deadline is July 18
#history #cfp #ohio #kentucky

networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
CFP: 2025 Ohio Valley History Conference at the Kentucky Historical Society (Deadline 18 July) | H-Net
The Kentucky Historical Society is excited to announce the 2025 Ohio Valley History Conference on October 9-11, hosted in historic downtown Frankfort.
networks.h-net.org
July 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
i've finally finished that dang doctorate, so wall hat advice do you have about planning out a longer term research plan? How do you decide on which projects to pursue?

Caveats: full-time teaching faculty, accelerated courses, no sabbaticals/course releases, little funding
#scholars #historians
June 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Students wanted extra credit, I need more eval responses.

I offered students 5pts if 80% of class fills it out, 10pts if 90%, and 20pts if 100% - in a 200pt test category worth 50% of their grade

After 4 days haranguing, we're at 67%. So 5 secs of work is still too much to get a free 10% boost
April 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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It's publication day for "Green & Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military: 1861-1865"! Now available for purchase in hardcopy and ebook. It examines the experience of the c.250,000 Irish Americans who served in U.S. forces, making use of 100s of letters by enlisted men to wives and mothers.
April 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
okay #skystorians. I'm trying to decide to attend graduation or not. I took me 10 yrs to finish (long story) & only a few faculty know me. I'm afraid it will just be an awkward experience of people wondering who the heck I am. But ceremonies provide closure & its been a long journey. Should I do it?
April 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A bit ago, a family member said I shouldn't get upset at things not affecting me. I pushed back & said this admin's politics were getting really darn close & closing in. Today, a nail hit.
mhsarchive.org, a NPS archive is gone, vital for my work. So can I be mad NOW?!
mhsarchive.org
April 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...
thegriffinlist.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Help save @nehgov.bsky.social! Use this handy link to write your representative. #Skystorians #History
I did this. Takes maybe one minute. Via American Historical Association.
p2a.co/DdtlGIT
URGENT: Save the NEH
p2a.co
April 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
ok y'all. The guidance at my dissertation institution about embargoing is lamentable.

IN a humanities field, what are and are not acceptable reasons for embargoing a dissertation?

Did you embargo, and why did you do so?
April 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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69 MILLION American women will be DISFRANCHISED by the SAVE Act.

Married women who've changed their names will be forced to jump through hoops just to cast their ballots.

This is a WAR ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS.

#HandsOffHerVote

social.demcast.com/s/5eYYTpyI
Contact Your Members of Congress
social.demcast.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM