Associate Professor at UC Blue Ash for World & European History. Specialist in Imperial Russian cultural history. My tweets are my personal views, not UC's.
Joined August 2011
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Our Honors Student of the Year giving her speech! Congrats, Briana! @UCBlueAsh
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Looking for primary sources for researching or teaching early modern England?
I've put together a list of quarter sessions records for 22 counties that have been published online or in-print. Many are freely searchable or downloadable as PDFs!
List here: manyheadedmonster.com/2022/0…
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Dance like nobody's watching.
Email like it will one day be read aloud at a deposition.
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Continuing with #excavation of cupboard in @pompeii_sites , house of the Lararium : fascinating to see a closed 79 AD context with pottery & glass... Even more fascinating: of most of the shapes there are exactly 6 items! = number of people who lived here? 🕵️♂️
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Owen Simmons' 1903 "The Book of Bread" was intended as a technical guide for commercial bakeries, but looking at the extraordinary photographs now, more than a century later, the silver-bromide prints seem to our eyes to be modern or conceptual art. 1/
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Home Depot's singular positive mark on American society is thanks to the unknown hero on some product committee who was like "the people don't know what they want, we will show them" and then gifted us the 12 ft tall skeleton. Happy enormous skeleton season to all who celebrate.
Yes, we have it. Yes, we were and are idiots for not using it.
Cincinnati is home to the largest unused subway system in the world. atlasobscura.com/articles/ci…
HBO needs to do this with "House of the Dragon" screenings. Amped up crowds=lots of energy to burn!
Moviegoers in Warsaw pedal a static bike to power an outdoor cinema as part of an initiative by a services company to encourage Poles to think about more environmentally friendly ways of living reut.rs/3cTBrUR
Me in August: "This year, I am going to stick 100% to my schedule and keep weekends entirely free from work."
Me this past weekend: "But it's just an agenda...just a few assignments to grade...just a--"
(I stopped myself from going all-out, but still.)
Oh, man, this is painful. (Also, people, quit thinking the dragon man is a medieval expert. Expert in awful wedding experiences, yes.)
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So I am half-way through grading/replying to my students' self-introductions, & once again, I find myself falling in love with them & their dreams. I know it is the honeymoon period, but still, they're great.
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“I'm twenty-seven years old, I've no money and no prospects. I'm already too old for Leonardo DiCaprio and I’m frightened. So don't you judge me, Lizzy. Don't you dare judge me!”
ALT Charlotte Lucas addresses Lizzy about her lack of prospects and how Leonardo DiCaprio won’t date her. From Pride and Prejudice (2005)
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The deaths of 17 medieval Jews: An incredible new genetics paper has just dropped: The earliest Jewish genomes and the story of where they are from and how they died is incredibly important, and central to the origin of contemporary antisemitic conspiracy hatred. 🧵
Students, past and present: Check out the forthcoming announcements on student loan forgiveness and see if it applies to you.