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Rachel Herrmann
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Migrant. Historian. Eater. Co-Editor, Global Food History. Author of No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution; Editor of To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic. More: rachelbherrmann.com
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What’s everyone making this weekend? I have gone very carby with the Smitten Kitchen sour cream and cheese biscuits, and ropa vieja and plantain empanadas
Square-shaped biscuits with many layers, golden brown on top. There are bananas and a bowl of garlic in the background A generous portion of half moon-shaped empanadas that have been crimped with a fork and fried, on a paper towel on top of a plate
November 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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This Friday end of Week 4, I am grateful to Paz Purrmann for his support on edits and emails
October 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Yesterday I submitted the proofs for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic. This volume I’m editing with Jessica Roney is out next spring with @pennpress.bsky.social, but here’s a peek now at our table of contents!
October 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Please wish me luck attempting to have a research day today in light of the cute to-do list that Past Rachel left me for next week
October 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Timeline cleanse: meet Paz Purrmann
June 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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If you wait long enough into January, the news cycle will make clear what image your syllabus needs. Benjamin Martyn and James Oglethorpe, map from Martyn’s 2d edition of Reasons for Establishing the Colony of Georgia, available @jcblibrary.bsky.social: jcb.lunaimaging.com/ll/thumbnail...
A sepia-tone 1733 map of the places that became the southeastern United States, before the United States existed and when Spain claimed more territory than England. The sea below the Florida panhandle is labelled “part of the bay of Mexico.” The land to the north is falsely described as having no inhabitants.
January 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Roll up, early rising Skystorians 🗃️. Hope to see you at our Saturday 8:30am AHA panel next week celebrating American Contact with @popcultureamerica.bsky.social, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Abimbola Kai-Lewis, Jessica Linker, Isadora Moura Mota, Daniel Radus, and Corinna Zeltsman
December 28, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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I’m visiting Mexico City for the first time this week for holiday, but of course the Floridas are following me. Encountered Bernardo de Gálvez in Castelo de Chapultepec
Portrait of Bernardo de Gálvez riding a horse with its two front legs in the air. Gálvez’a face and hands are skin-toned but his uniform and the horse are depicted with swirling white lines Another portrait of Gálvez describing his activities in Louisiana and the Floridas. He wears blue and red with lace at his cuffs and gazes at the viewer
December 22, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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I was very lucky that Jessica Roney was in my class of fellows at @mcneilcenter.bsky.social, and now, many years and a grant later, I am luckier to be co-editing a volume with her. Stay turned for our volume on borders and the people who crossed them, now under contract with @pennpress.bsky.social
Publishing agreement with the University of Pennsylvania Press naming Rachel B. Herrmann and Jessica Choppin Roney editors for a volume provisionally titled Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic
December 13, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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Sunday kitchen scenes: mountains of butter and cream cheese
Kitchen island with a measuring scale, food processor, and two bowls heaped with softening butter and Philadelphia cream cheese
December 8, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Happy Saturday, food history folks! Please share this call for the Global Food History Prize for an Emerging Food Historian, with a deadline of January 1: rachelbherrmann.com/global-food-...
The editors of Global Food History are pleased to announce that in 2025 the journal will once again offer a Prize for an Emerging Food Historian. Award winners will receive $100, the opportunity to have their contribution peer-reviewed and—pending successful reviews and revisions—published in the journal with an acknowledgment of the prize win. Articles should be 8,000 to 10,000 words (including notes), and should be based on primary source research. Articles should deal with at least one of the following historical concepts: time (change or continuity), causation and causality, context (historical and historiographical), or complexity. A full description of the journal’s aims and scope is available [link]
December 7, 2024 at 11:04 AM
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Look, if you followed me because you missed the train and commuting updates, I’m pleased to share this gorgeous view from Temple Meads, which was followed pretty much immediately by my train being cancelled
Sunrise from the train station Text from the Cross Country train app showing no train updates available
December 6, 2024 at 8:11 AM