Karin Wulf
@kawulf.bsky.social
Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
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Karin Wulf
@kawulf.bsky.social
· Dec 28
It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️
"When institutions reward us more when we write for “someone else” rather than for each other, we may be feeling an extension of a corporatized economy ...that continues ...to be interpreted as evidence of the humanities’ lack of value." Really thoughtful. 1/ www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Opinion | Writing for ‘the Public’ Won’t Save Us
We created new venues to affirm our value. Now they’re at risk of collapsing too.
www.chronicle.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
"When institutions reward us more when we write for “someone else” rather than for each other, we may be feeling an extension of a corporatized economy ...that continues ...to be interpreted as evidence of the humanities’ lack of value." Really thoughtful. 1/ www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Read more about it here:
www.historians.org/perspectives...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Read more about it here:
www.historians.org/perspectives...
www.historians.org/perspectives...
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The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30
uncpress.org/978146969484...
uncpress.org/978146969484...
White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
uncpress.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30
uncpress.org/978146969484...
uncpress.org/978146969484...
Super excited to be @ the AAS on December 4th! The AAS gave me a fellowship a long time ago, when I was juggling babies that's how long ago, to start working on the project that through many iterations became _Lineage_. www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve...
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Super excited to be @ the AAS on December 4th! The AAS gave me a fellowship a long time ago, when I was juggling babies that's how long ago, to start working on the project that through many iterations became _Lineage_. www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Less than an hour and more than 1,000 replies…
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Less than an hour and more than 1,000 replies…
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Big thanks to @wendyqueen.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about some of the work our team at @aip.bsky.social is doing to to support the physical sciences community through humanities and social science research. Stay tuned for part two!
Guest Post — Science as Story, Memory as Infrastructure: A Conversation with Trevor Owens, Part 1 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/19/g...
Guest Post — Science as Story, Memory as Infrastructure: A Conversation with Trevor Owens, Part 1 - The Scholarly Kitchen
In today's guest post, Wendy Queen (JHUP) speaks with Trevor Owens (AIP) about how the tools and sensibilities of the humanities are helping to preserve the record of the physical sciences.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Big thanks to @wendyqueen.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about some of the work our team at @aip.bsky.social is doing to to support the physical sciences community through humanities and social science research. Stay tuned for part two!
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JOB POSTING!
Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu
amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...
Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu
amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...
Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints
The Folger Shakespeare Library knows that an exceptional staff is the backbone of any great organization. We hire exceptionally qualified individuals who are committed to the mission, vision, and valu...
amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
JOB POSTING!
Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu
amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...
Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu
amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...
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Join us on Monday, December 1, 2025 at noon for a JCB Reads virtual discussion of The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean by Casey Schmitt.
This event is online only. All are welcome!
Register here! brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This event is online only. All are welcome!
Register here! brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Join us on Monday, December 1, 2025 at noon for a JCB Reads virtual discussion of The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean by Casey Schmitt.
This event is online only. All are welcome!
Register here! brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This event is online only. All are welcome!
Register here! brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Going to The Game? #Harvard and #Yale are rivals on the field but off the field, we’re working together with alumni from other schools around the country to defend academic freedom against the Trump administration’s authoritarianism. Come join us. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/11...
Yale, Harvard alumni hosting tailgate for academic freedom at The Game
Alumni groups Stand Up for Yale and Crimson Courage will host a joint tailgate to gather signatures for a letter they plan to send to their universities’ presidents about protecting academic freedom.
yaledailynews.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Going to The Game? #Harvard and #Yale are rivals on the field but off the field, we’re working together with alumni from other schools around the country to defend academic freedom against the Trump administration’s authoritarianism. Come join us. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/11...
No I’m sorry there is only one Blaskowitz of consequence. 😁
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
No I’m sorry there is only one Blaskowitz of consequence. 😁
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Betsy Ambler is a cool figure. She later joined other women in founding the Richmond Female Humane Association, which aimed to help poor white women and girls.
A great biographical essay can be found in "Virginia Women," edited by Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra G. Treadway
#HATM #AmericanRevolution
A great biographical essay can be found in "Virginia Women," edited by Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra G. Treadway
#HATM #AmericanRevolution
November 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Betsy Ambler is a cool figure. She later joined other women in founding the Richmond Female Humane Association, which aimed to help poor white women and girls.
A great biographical essay can be found in "Virginia Women," edited by Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra G. Treadway
#HATM #AmericanRevolution
A great biographical essay can be found in "Virginia Women," edited by Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra G. Treadway
#HATM #AmericanRevolution
When people say make it make sense and you know that nothing makes sense and you wonder why they're even asking.
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
When people say make it make sense and you know that nothing makes sense and you wonder why they're even asking.
Not immune to this commercial/ representational art. Hello, Baltimore oh so briefly.
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Not immune to this commercial/ representational art. Hello, Baltimore oh so briefly.
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Absolutely agreed.
And an excellent analog to so many things and so much expertise that people don't see as part of a process and thus think happen without that process.
And an excellent analog to so many things and so much expertise that people don't see as part of a process and thus think happen without that process.
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Absolutely agreed.
And an excellent analog to so many things and so much expertise that people don't see as part of a process and thus think happen without that process.
And an excellent analog to so many things and so much expertise that people don't see as part of a process and thus think happen without that process.
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www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
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‘By 1790, one in eight Liverpool households were dependent on the slave trade.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
‘By 1790, one in eight Liverpool households were dependent on the slave trade.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Absolutely agreed.
And an excellent analog to so many things and so much expertise that people don't see as part of a process and thus think happen without that process.
And an excellent analog to so many things and so much expertise that people don't see as part of a process and thus think happen without that process.
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Absolutely agreed.
And an excellent analog to so many things and so much expertise that people don't see as part of a process and thus think happen without that process.
And an excellent analog to so many things and so much expertise that people don't see as part of a process and thus think happen without that process.
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"When we undermine our colleges, we are not “owning” some distant ivory tower; we are weakening our talent pipeline, our innovation capacity and our civic fabric."
Really lovely defense of higher education—focused on local colleges but applicable more broadly. Higher Ed is so crucial to economies, to people, to imaginations
Opinion: How higher education now powers the Lehigh Valley
Opinion: Colleges and universities function as anchor institutions in the Lehigh Valley
www.mcall.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"When we undermine our colleges, we are not “owning” some distant ivory tower; we are weakening our talent pipeline, our innovation capacity and our civic fabric."
Lots of folks not familiar w these histories are intrigued by Mercy Otis Warren - even those who know well the great MOW - @jcblibrary.bsky.social copy of her 1775 play The Group skewering the Mass. royal govt has helpfully annotated dramatis personae. “Court sycophants,” anyone?
November 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Lots of folks not familiar w these histories are intrigued by Mercy Otis Warren - even those who know well the great MOW - @jcblibrary.bsky.social copy of her 1775 play The Group skewering the Mass. royal govt has helpfully annotated dramatis personae. “Court sycophants,” anyone?
“what it’s like to lead a high-profile research university during Donald Trump’s second term as president — a confusing and distrustful era in which every day feels like a battle for the soul of higher education.” www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
The Plot Against Jim Ryan
Was his ouster a federal coup — or an opportunistic inside job?
www.chronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
“what it’s like to lead a high-profile research university during Donald Trump’s second term as president — a confusing and distrustful era in which every day feels like a battle for the soul of higher education.” www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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One last reminder that I’m doing a live watch along of the first episode of the documentary with @lizcovart.bsky.social and @herberthistory.bsky.social of #HATM TONIGHT! We go live at 7:45pm ET.
riverside.fm/studio/histo...
riverside.fm/studio/histo...
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
One last reminder that I’m doing a live watch along of the first episode of the documentary with @lizcovart.bsky.social and @herberthistory.bsky.social of #HATM TONIGHT! We go live at 7:45pm ET.
riverside.fm/studio/histo...
riverside.fm/studio/histo...