50% off all books at the @UnivNebPress thru the end of the year with the code 6HLW23 !!
That means you can buy my book, Bad Subjects : Libertine Lives in the French Atlantic AND
Histories of French Sexuality !
Thanks so much - please read it, write in it, and tell me what you think! I’m always happy to talk about libertines, so invite me to your class if you are reading or teaching it!
Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer J. Davis (@JenniferJ_Davis), whose book, Bad Subjects: Libertine Lives in the French Atlantic, 1619-1814, has been published by the University of Nebraska Press!
Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer J. Davis (@JenniferJ_Davis), whose book, Bad Subjects: Libertine Lives in the French Atlantic, 1619-1814, has been published by the University of Nebraska Press!
I was on @CNN to share some insights on the preoccupying situation in France, and the continuum between colonial violence, contemporary police abuse and the policing of France’s projects.
I speak of #revolts, not #riots
So much demands our best thinking. This, I needed to say: “What the Birthright-Citizenship Debate Is Really About. By questioning birthright, politicians threaten to undo a fundamental precept of our democracy.” https://t.co/lqHHMp6mi1
The Forgotten Occupation - Online Screening and Q&A
July 29 | 2PM ET | Zoom
https://t.co/XE7Rk6RIO4
With @drsepinwall, @YvelineAlexis, @PalmetiFilms
Any early Americanists out there interested in weather? Just took pics of a 1785-1786 journal kept by a Brit who traveled the U.S. East Coast & South. He recorded the day's weather in each entry. Happy to email PDFs of my images! (Examples in next tweet.) #twitterstorians
Sometimes to get remembered in history, you need a great publicist. For the anniversary of “Custer’s Last Stand,” @lindstorian explains how myths about the battle appeared in textbooks because of a lobbying campaign by Custer’s widow https://t.co/2njJdw57Xx
are there instances of women becoming obsessed with historic events? definitely a male preoccupation with certain phases of history (Civil War, Nazis, Hitler) & reenactments of battles. women may obsess over reading, music & dance, kitties, doggies, clothes, gardening, men.