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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Dr. Krista Sigler retweeted
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…
Dr. Krista Sigler retweeted
Dance like nobody's watching.
Email like it will one day be read aloud at a deposition.
Dr. Krista Sigler retweeted
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? 🕵️♂️
Dr. Krista Sigler retweeted
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/
Dr. Krista Sigler retweeted
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.
Dr. Krista Sigler retweeted
“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)
Dr. Krista Sigler retweeted
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. 🧵
Dr. Krista Sigler retweeted
I don't know for sure, but I have a sneaky feeling that Terry Pratchett would have absolutely loved the Suez boat thing
Dr. Krista Sigler retweeted
Descartes: the original Kinder Surprise Egg.
Dr. Krista Sigler retweeted
As March comes I want to acknowledge the disabled, chronically ill, and immune compromised folks who have spent the entire year inside, who have suffered lack of care from health care providers because of the pandemic, &who have been so resilient in a time we shouldn’t have to be
Dr. Krista Sigler retweeted
*But we’re not actually surprised because erasure is a key part of fascist regimes.
You know how we know?
We studied history.
Dr. Krista Sigler retweeted
Our statement on today’s White House History Conference: What the actual fuck.*
Dr. Krista Sigler retweeted
Listening to White House Conference on American History. If I were there (and rest assured neither I nor anyone connected with @AHAhistorians was invited or even notified) I would initiative a conversation on patriotism. #EverythinghasaHistory historians.org/publications-…
Dr. Krista Sigler retweeted
I just sent this to a media outlet that asked me to respond to today's "history" conference.
Passing it along.
Dr. Krista Sigler retweeted
You will always have work to do, but you will never get the time back that you spent working “off the clock.”
Set boundaries.
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