Historian. #envhist Also (and mostly) at @brianleechphd@historians.social, https://xitter.cf/t.co/GVN4XaYqCi, & https://xitter.cf/t.co/QyfGOEGo5X
Rock Island, IL
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My latest publication is out for #envhist #mininghistory folks. “Butte Undermined: Complaint Files, Community Activism, and the Slow Violence of Mine Subsidence in Butte, Montana, 1940–1990” benefits from some fine editing, great layout, & lots of great photos.
Augustana College Professor Brian Leech wrote about mine subsidence and community activism in Butte in the Summer Montana The Magazine of Western History. Thanks for the great research and the article, Brian!
#ReadMontana #mininghistory #twitterstorian #ButteMT @brianleechphd
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The person who called this meeting that starts in five minutes suddenly has something else to do but would like the group to meet anyway and share the notes with her.
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Moving forward, the Regents have directed us to seed all of the assistant professors in a tenure bracket
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Graduate Student Opportunities: Mining Danger Project Call for Students
Students who are interested in studying any aspect of mine workers or mining communities are encouraged to contact any of the co-investigators for info.
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#envhist #mining
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Just thinking of that time in 2018 when Quincy Jones gave a couple of remarkable interviews with eye-popping details. RIP to a real one.
Here's the Vulture interview (1/2)
vulture.com/2018/02/quincy-j…
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Call for Chapter Proposals: AFTER RUST: The Post-Industrial American Midwest in Historical Perspective networks.h-net.org/group/ann… @jacob_bruggeman @IllinoisPress @PreservationOH @OhioMuseums @BuckeyeHistory @post_industry @vinceguerrieri @litcleveland @KatieTrostel #twitterstorians
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Deadline less than one month away!!! CFP for the Eleventh Annual Midwestern History Conference. It will be held from May 15-16, 2025, and we're excited to partner with the State Historical Society of Iowa and the University of Iowa. Link: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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🌊The Built Ocean: EAHN Thematic Conference
📌Porto, 10–13 September 2025
This themed conference aims to shift the focus of architectural history from the land to the sea.
thebuiltocean.com/
#bluehumanities #architecturehistory
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We are looking for peer reviewers. Please send us an e-mail if you are interested and willing to review. We'd love to have you. We're gearing up for our first issue in 2025 and we can use all the help we can get! @KatieTrostel @ValentinoLucaZ
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🦥Calling students/grads studying animals! 🦥As part of our efforts to reach out to students with an interest in #HumanAnimalStudies, @asi_org has created Sloth: A Journal of Emerging Voices in Human Animal Studies -- a journal for undergraduate students and recent graduates.🧵
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📢Call for chapter proposals📢
See more information here - networks.h-net.org/group/ann……
@IllinoisPress @jacob_bruggeman @jlauck1941 @MwHWG @post_industry @MiddleWestRev
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Please join the Energy History Working Group, which operates online via @chstmorg. We have a great 2024-25 schedule, starting October 11 with @RLifset on #envhist and the 1970s oil crisis. Join any of our meetings here: chstm.org/content/energy-his…. #energyhist @sarahthestan
ALT Schedule on a cream color from October 2024 to May 2025, also accessible via the website link.
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🌟The call for the ESEH 2025 Tallinn Dissertation Prize is now open🌟
eseh.org/call-for-submission…
If you have a PhD thesis in European #envhist from the past two years, please consider applying. If you know someone who does, spread the word!
Please join the Energy History Working Group, which operates online via @chstmorg. We have a great 2024-25 schedule, starting October 11 with @RLifset on #envhist and the 1970s oil crisis. Join any of our meetings here: chstm.org/content/energy-his…. #energyhist @sarahthestan
ALT Schedule on a cream color from October 2024 to May 2025, also accessible via the website link.
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Our new issue is out! It features a special symposium on Midwestern geography muse.jhu.edu/issue/53238 @NoahSabich @RayBoomhower @theAAG @LSEGeography @HuskerHusa @Hayden_L_Nelson @myHNN @NewberryLibrary @USFWSMidwest @MwHWG @JoshLipnik @MidWestMuseums #twitterstorians
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Our new issue is out! Here's a free/open article about the decline of history doctoral programs in the region: "The Contraction of History PhD Programs in the Midwest" muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/…
@KevinMasonCity @chronicle @WhaHistory @myHNN @simon_schama @The_OAH #twitterstorians
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I asked a colleague if he could be less condescending and pushy in the emails he sends me (which are usually pleas for my help with something) and he said they were all written by ChatGPT.
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Reminder: Call for Papers is out for MHA 2025 in Iowa. We can’t wait to see old friends and new faces as we explore “New Directions in Midwest History”
Breaking News! CFP Available for the Eleventh Annual Midwestern History Conference. It will be held from May 15-16, 2025, and we're excited to partner with the State Historical Society of Iowa and the University of Iowa. Link: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Deadline Looming: Call-for-Proposals: THE COLD WAR MIDWEST: we seek proposals for articles and essays for a special symposium exploring the various dimensions of the Cold War era Midwest networks.h-net.org/group/ann… photo @KCStar 1954 Kansas City evacuation map @MwHWG @WhaHistory
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This gets passed around a lot, but I constantly think about Bill Hader's writing advice, "When people give you notes on something, when they tell you it's wrong, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're wrong."
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