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80 years ago, on the 5th of July 1946, nude dancer Micheline Bernardini debuted the bikini in Paris. Designer Louis Réard named the swimsuit after the Bikini Atoll where the American government performed a nuclear test 4 days prior on July 1st. Bernardini is currently still alive at 98. #otd 🗃️
Happy 4th of July to all who celebrate the most American way possible--protest & critique. 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Here is an interview with the amazing Bryant Simon about his new book on the history of public bathrooms, titled, "For Customers Only: Public Bathrooms and the Making of American Inequality" 🗃️ #EduSky: www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
In 1266 a widow named Avelina le Marescal wanted to pay off some sins for herself and her late husband. And so, like you do, she donated some eels. Avelina gave the priory of Norwich all the eels paid in rent from her mill in Bywick, thus securing the monks' prayers & blessings.🗃️🧪
The men in that photograph believe they represent America’s future. The historian in me knows better than to make predictions, but the record is clear: those who have bet against Black Americans claiming their rightful place in this country have always lost. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
The newly formed coalition US Scholars Speak just published an important and powerful statement titled “Confronting the AHA’s (@historians.org) Palestine Exception.” Fellow historians, please consider signing it if you haven’t already done so. 🗃️ www.usscholarsspeak.org
Historian colleagues, can you rec a book or article using/about rumors as source material? Theorization of same? There's a few good things in my field (Russia) but I'm looking for stuff from elsewhere. 🗃️ #historiansky
It’s not that hard. If you want to do a history comic, figure out if you’re taking something that someone *painstakingly pieced together * in the archives. If so, ask to license their book OR credit them at start of book OR don’t use THE SAME TITLE as the historian you based your work on. 🗃️
How to find hope in a polycrisis - @ellarhodespsych.bsky.social hears from @alekscichocka.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social @timwildschut.bsky.social and others. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Rest in Peace & Power, Mike Wallace. 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...
Roll up, roll up, sign this pretition for Humanities At Hertfordshire! Signing to support them is supporting the #Humanities - it might be them now, and whilst for many it's also us now, if it isn't already, it'll be you next. Sign!! #Skystorians 🗃
Ernst Mayr was born OTD in 1904. “Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.” 🧠🗃️🌱🐋🦋🦫🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci
For my series w/ The Great Courses, I couldn't use foot notes or end notes as it was a TV script. Instead as much as possible I shouted out the historians or archivists in the script. I added them to the optional reading list. & I asked permission if it was 1 person's work I pulled a section from 🗃️🧵
It just astonishes me how scared they are of even the most muted expressions of the reality of our shared past. 🗃️
It's worth knowing that Medievalists with Disabilities were instrumental in getting these spaces established. We lobbied & advised @imc-leeds.bsky.social on the need for them. Original quiet room supplies were donated by yours truly, from my postdoc #IMC2026 #MedievalSky 🗃️
Abigail’s still celebrating! #4thofJuly #Boston @universalhub.com 🗃️
Frida Kahlo – born on this day (6 July) in 1907 in Mexico City – photographed in 1937 sitting next to an agave plant (US Library of Congress) 🗃️
'This small but striking display of medieval documents also includes a 1402 receipt from Richard (Dick) Whittington and others documenting the purchase of property in Hertfordshire and the apprenticeship of Katherine Nougle 1392.' Currently at the London Archives. #Skystorians
I have updated this bibliography with a few books related to the clandestine aspects of the Ballroom project, particularly the deep history of the project’s engineering firm, AECOM. 🗃️
50% off with @manchesterup.bsky.social!!! Go on, get yourself a little treat. Our series of Studies in #earlymodern Europe history is basically one big treasure chest of shiny gems. #SkyStorians manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/studi...
Despite a renowned career as a writer and activist, #UptonSinclair lacks a museum in his honor. His biographer @helenaluna.bsky.social reflects on Sinclair's legacy, the importance of #publichistory sites, and the role of historic homes in shaping public memory. 🗃️
Eric @rauchway.bsky.social’s cheeky quotation in another thread reminded me of this absolute gem of a video, created at the height of what came to be known as the Founders’ Chic craze. Its juvenile iconoclasm is as relevant as ever 🗃️
It's been almost 10 years since we had the idea: TMS to the EBA to improve anorexia patients' body perception. We got the ethics in 2017, collected the data from 2019 to 2024, and now it is finally published in Translational Psychiatry 🎉 ! #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spoiler alert: John Adams would say Independence Day was actually July 2🗃️
Fashion #History #Skystorians
So much of the good history programming for the 250th is due in part to the work of John & AASLH. They stepped up & helped guide the planning nationwide for many years in the absence of national leadership. 🗃️
And hear it in Kreyòl, from @haitianstudies.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9F5... 🗃️
Latest papers: Ross Pain develops a methodological distinction between two approaches to the study of the mind; the philosophy-first view and the science-first view in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
#OpenAccess #Skystorians #GenderHistory
A photograph of Naomi Higaki, a Japanese American soldier, posing for a photograph. Caption on back: "Naomi - Taken July 3, '45 at Kawai's home on first furlough. Twin Falls, Idaho" 🗃 #skystorians #OTD
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