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@onslies.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 12:00 PM

#histenv #envhist #EnvironmentalHistory #skystorians @ihr.bsky.social

@mobhistory.substack.comOct 10, 2026, 11:30 AM

#OTD (Oct 10)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

#QueensNY #WorcesterMA #Brooklyn #LasVegas #NewYork #Mafia #MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians

On this date, Oct 10... • in 1891, future Buffalo crime boss Stefano Magaddino is born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. • in 1911, Giuseppe Costabile is convicted in New York of carrying a bomb. • in 1925, Frank LaPuma is found murdered in New York City. Vito Genovese is arrested in Queens NY for homicide, later discharged. • in 1927, Raymond L.S. Patriarca is arrested at Worcester MA for bootlegging. • in 1928, boss of bosses Salvatore 'Toto' D'Aquila is shot to death in Manhattan. Mike Abbatemarco of Brooklyn is given an elaborate, well attended funeral. • in 1930, Thomas Reggione of New York begins a lengthy prison sentence for armed robbery. Murdered Brooklyn mobster Carmelo Piraino is buried. • in 1935, a federal grand jury at New York indicts Dutch Schultz on 11 counts of failing to file income tax returns. • in 1957, New York crime boss Joseph Bonanno is observed in Italy, traveling under an alias and accompanied by four men. • in 1963, an informant tells the FBI that mafiosi Tommy Eboli and Gerry Catena have paid Joseph Valachi's wife $10,000 to give the press negative information about her husband. • in 1971, Frank Rosenthal becomes an employee of the Las Vegas Stardust at an annual salary of $190,000. • in 1973, two New York television cameramen are beaten when they attempt to film the funeral for Paul Vario's son. Image of Joe Bonanno.
@kefauver4prez.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 12:15 AM

Look out, Senator, Estes is stealing your girl - and your job!

This 1948 cartoon from the Chattanooga Daily Times shows a key factor in Kefauver's upset win over Senator Tom Stewart: the Tennessee Valley Authority.

#skystorians #history #polisky

@cakrolik.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:15 PM

I just discovered the *NOTES* column option in Canvas's gradebook. WHY did I not know about this feature sooner!?

#academicsky #medievalsky #skystorians

@footnotesinhistory.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 5:03 PM

#OTD in 1944, Eugenie Sperling received her marriage license today while being swarmed by reporters. Sperling, who is engaged to Pvt. Masao Kuroki, refused to speak with reporters, stating, "I thought marriage was a private affair." The couple will be married at nearby Fort Lawton.
🗃 #skystorians

"Jap-American Gets License" Dashing from the marriage license bureau of the county auditor's office this forenoon after obtaining a license to marry a Japanese-American soldier, 19-year-old Eugenie Sperling declared bitterly to reporters and photographers: "I thought marriage was a private affair." The brown-haired young woman whose home is in Spokane, came here to be married to Pvt. Masao G. Kuroki, who is stationed at Fort Lawton. The couple applied for a license Thursday and then asked Presiding Judge Clay Allen to grant them a waiver of the three-day waiting period so that they might be married immediately. Judge Allen refused the request on the grounds that he must have a written request from Miss Sperling's mother, who is "violently opposed"' to the marriage. The Seattle Times, October 9, 1944Dressed neatly in a black coat and black sandals and carrying an overnight bag, the girl appeared at County Auditor Robert A. Morris' office this forenoon, without her fiance to pick up the marriage license. When reporters approached her she ran from the office. A few moments later however. she stopp and listened to their questions. "I don't care to talk and I'm not going to talk," she declared firmly. "You can say anything you want and you can stay as long as you want, but I'm still not going say anything." When asked if she was happy about her impending marriage, she said, "Sure I'm happy, but I'm not going to say anything. Someone told me not to talk, and I'm following their advice." The Seattle Times, October 9, 1944Miss Sperling came to Spokane a short time ago from Minnesota. Her mother, a forewoman in a Spokane launory, told The Times she had forbidden her daughter to marry the 24-year-old Japanese. Where and when Miss Sperling her soldier fiance wouid be and married was indefinite today. In asking the court for a waiver of the three-day wait, Private Kuroki had said he was not sure he would still be in Seatlle today. Army officials said he still was here, but there was question whether he could leave his post for the ceremony. In that case, there was a possibility that the wedding would be held at Fort Lawton. The Seattle Times, October 9, 1944
@ghilondon.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 5:01 PM

dynamics in society, and point to policies that work or that predictably lead to disasters.

#medievalisms #medievalhistory #middleages #modernity #historicalresearch #skystorians
8/8

@d-j-frost.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 4:26 PM

I'm trying to find a source for the biographical detail on the Wikipedia page for the Marxist philosopher John Lewis: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Le...

I've checked the references and it's not in them! And I can't find anything in the CPGB books I've got to hand...

Any ideas?

#skystorians

@psheridanhistory.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 4:05 PM

Working on my two last dissertation chapters and I love that I get to dive into my niche interest of state constitutions #skystorians

@laurajcleaver.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:07 PM

If you’d like to know more about the impact of 1066 in England, on 12 November Mark Hagger will be giving a much more nuanced lecture. Book now 👇 #Skystorians
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

@robertsmartino.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:02 PM

Can anyone help me decipher what I think is a name, please? The quote says 'responsiones domini [?] [?] curati de Dachett ad articulos predictos'. #skystorians #PalaeographyPuzzle

LAO/Cj.3/fol.68v
@adamchapman.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:58 AM

Available now: new draft text on some of the (very many), medieval religious foundations, including the chapel of Exeter castle; Benedictine foundations including the nuns of Polsloe; a host of hospitals, almshouses and minster churches and much, much more.

#MedievalSky #Skystorians

@vch-home.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:54 AM

The work in Devon is one of of FIVE (5) new projects for us, in Devon, Dorset, London, Kent, and Lincolnshire. For more, please see this blog post from our Co-General Editor, @ruthslatter.bsky.social.

#MedievalSky #Skystorians #LocalHistory

@mobhistory.substack.comOct 9, 2026, 10:15 AM

#OTD (Oct 09)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

#Detroit #KansasCity #Chicago #NewOrleans #Brooklyn #Philadelphia #Massachusetts #NewYork #Mafia #MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians

On this date, Oct 09... • in 1911, reputed Black Hand gangster Giuseppe Costabile goes on trial in New York City for carrying a bomb. • in 1913, Vito Adamo and Filippo Buccellato are brought to trial in Detroit for the murder of Carlo Callego. • in 1918, brothers Peter and Joseph DiGiovanni are arrested for murder, but the charges are soon dropped. • in 1925, federal investigators find no evidence of special jailhouses privileges provided to Johnny Torrio. • in 1939, Frank Costello, Phil Kastel and two codefendants are indicted at New Orleans for income tax violations. • in 1958, hoodlum Carmine Panariello is held as a material witness in the Brooklyn murder of John Robilotto. • in 1961, the Philadelphia Crime Family holds an induction ceremony at the Buck Eye Athletic Club. Narcotics defendant Albert Agueci fails to appear for a scheduled court appearance in New York and is declared a fugitive. • in 1963, Joseph Valachi testifies for a fifth and final time before the Senate McClellan Committee. • in 1969, fugitives Francis Salemme and Stephen Flemmi are indicted for attempting to kill a Massachusetts attorney with a bomb. • in 1974, Colombo Crime Family capodecina Dominick Scialo's body is found buried in a Brooklyn basement. Image of Frank Costello
@genderandhistory.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:55 AM

We are pleased to say that our October Issue is now out!

This Issue includes 20 original articles, 16 #OpenAccess, and 9 book reviews. #Skystorians #GenderHistory

Read it here 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

@royalhistsoc.orgOct 9, 2026, 8:25 AM

Booking is now available for the Society's 2026 Anniversary Lecture: 'From Cabaret Star to Gaullist Spy: Josephine Baker’s Secret War', with Professor Hanna Diamond (Cardiff) bit.ly/3VqcgiV

6pm, Friday 27 November, in person (London) and online. All are very welcome #Skystorians

@ideasroadshow.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:26 AM

🐴 Some of the magnificent horses in the The Procession of the Youngest King by Benozzo Gozzoli, c. 1459-1464.

Read more about this wonderful artist & his unique art 🧲 🐎: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/three-hidd....

#frescofriday 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #italy #horse

Details of a beautiful horse in the The Procession of the Youngest King by Benozzo Gozzoli, c. 1459-1464.Two beautiful horses, one white, one brown, in the The Procession of the Youngest King by Benozzo Gozzoli, c. 1459-1464.
@footnotesinhistory.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 4:10 AM

#OTD in 1944, Gordon Hirabayashi's legal battles with Selective Service continue. Charges stemming from a violation of Selective Service were dismissed but Assistant US Attorney Herbert O'Hare explained that Hirabayashi was being charged with "a more serious violation."
🗃 #skystorians

The Seattle Times, October 8, 1944
@iduhouse.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 3:35 AM

🌺 Artist of the Day: Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo painted pain, identity, and rebirth into vivid self-portraits that still speak across time. Her work was both intimate and universal, turning vulnerability into power and art into defiance.

fridakahlo.org

#CreatorsAtWork #Skystorians #Art #ArtSky

Black-and-white portrait of Frida Kahlo photographed by her father, Guillermo Kahlo, in Coyoacán on October 16, 1932. She faces the camera directly, hair center-parted and pinned back, wearing dangling earrings, layered necklaces, and a dark woven shawl. Her expression is steady and unsmiling, the plain gray background leaving her face to carry the image. The date makes this portrait especially charged. Earlier that year Frida and Diego Rivera had moved to Detroit for Rivera’s Detroit Industry mural commission. In July, after a traumatic miscarriage, Kahlo painted Henry Ford Hospital, turning blood, anatomy, grief, and the hospital bed into an unusually direct visual account of reproductive loss. Then, in September, she hurried back to Mexico after learning that her mother, Matilde Calderón, was gravely ill. Matilde died on September 15. Matilde had taught Frida a love of sewing, fabrics, and texture, giving the shawl here resonance. One month and one day later, Frida sat for this photograph by Guillermo. We cannot know what father and daughter intended the portrait to say, but its timing places it between two immense losses and a year in which Kahlo’s art became more insistently autobiographical. Guillermo was not simply a relative with a camera. A professional architectural photographer, he had photographed Frida since childhood, creating a visual record that predates the self-fashioned image she later constructed in paint and in collaborations with major photographers. Here that transformation is already visible. The shawl, jewelry, direct gaze, and composed stillness are not decorative details alone. Kahlo was developing a public image rooted in Mexican dress and self-possession while her paintings transformed private bodily history into modern art. The photograph catches her before worldwide “Frida” iconography hardened into legend: 25 years old, grieving, physically vulnerable, and already learning how powerfully an artist could author her own image.Frida Kahlo’s 1940 Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird. Kahlo faces us from a dense wall of green leaves, her joined eyebrows, faint mustache, braided hair, and calm gaze rendered with precise detail. A necklace of thorns bites into her neck and draws small drops of blood. A dead black hummingbird hangs at her throat; a spider monkey grips the thorns at one shoulder while a black cat watches from the other. Butterflies and dragonflies hover above her hair. Nothing in the image looks accidental, yet its symbols resist one fixed translation. Kahlo painted it during one of the most emotionally unsettled periods of her life. She and Diego Rivera divorced in late 1939 after a decade of marriage marked by devotion, political partnership, and affairs on both sides. Her long relationship with photographer Nickolas Muray had also ended as a romance. In 1940, while living independently and producing some of her strongest portraits, Kahlo turned her own body into a field where pain, nature, desire, Mexican visual culture, and endurance could coexist. The thorns evoke injury and sacrifice without reducing the image to victimhood: Kahlo remains upright, frontal, and almost unnervingly composed. The hummingbird, monkey, cat, insects, and vegetation have inspired religious, political, folkloric, and biographical readings, but the Harry Ransom Center notes that scholars interpret the work in multiple ways. That ambiguity is part of its power. The painting soon entered Muray’s collection and hung for decades in his New York apartment, where this intimate image of his former lover became part of daily family life before entering the Ransom Center collection in 1965. Kahlo and Rivera remarried in December 1940. Seen from that threshold, the portrait is not simply a picture of heartbreak. It is an act of self-construction by an artist insisting that suffering, love, cultural identity, and survival could occupy the same face without canceling one another.Black-and-white 1931 portrait of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera by Paul A. Juley, made in sculptor Ralph Stackpole’s studio in San Francisco. Rivera, in a three-piece suit, sits high on the arm of an upholstered chair and rests one arm around Kahlo. Frida sits below him in a patterned long skirt, dark rebozo, layered necklaces, earrings, and lace-up shoes, hands composed across her lap as both artists look toward the camera. The arrangement reflects a real imbalance in public recognition at the time. Rivera was already a celebrated muralist, invited to California for major commissions. Kahlo, in her early twenties and married to him since 1929, had not yet achieved comparable recognition. Yet San Francisco became an important stage in her emergence as an artist with a distinct language. The couple arrived in late 1930 while Rivera worked on murals for the San Francisco Stock Exchange and the California School of Fine Arts. Kahlo met physician Leo Eloesser, who became a lifelong friend and doctor, and entered a circle that included Stackpole and photographers Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham. The Frida captured in these photographs was shaping the Mexican clothing and jewelry that would become part of her public image. More importantly, she was painting. In San Francisco she made Frieda and Diego Rivera, an intimate alternative to the monumental mural tradition surrounding her. The painting was shown in 1931 at the San Francisco Society of Women Artists, an early public appearance of her work in the United States. SFMOMA notes that her California period helped move her painting toward a more focused, folkloric portrait language grounded in nineteenth-century Mexican popular art. So this photograph records more than a famous marriage. Rivera may physically tower over her, but Kahlo was already building an artistic identity that would eventually stand apart from his. The camera catches that transition while it is still happening.Frida Kahlo’s The Two Fridas, painted in 1939. Two versions of Kahlo sit side by side against a stormy blue-gray sky, holding hands. The Frida at left wears a white European-style lace dress; the Frida at right wears a colorful Tehuana blouse and long skirt central to Kahlo’s public image. Both hearts are exposed. A thin artery connects them: the Tehuana Frida holds a tiny portrait of Diego Rivera, while the artery travels across both bodies until the white-dressed Frida clamps its severed end with surgical forceps. Blood stains her white skirt. At roughly 173 centimeters square, it was one of her largest works. Kahlo painted this double self-portrait in the year she and Rivera divorced, making private rupture visible through anatomy, clothing, and doubling rather than conventional narrative. Museo Frida Kahlo describes the costumes as invoking two strands of her origins, European heritage and Mexican tradition, connected heart to heart. The Museo de Arte Moderno also reads the work as a split between identities and notes Rivera’s fondness for her Tehuana dress. Those interpretations matter, but the painting exceeds a simple “loved Frida” versus “rejected Frida” equation. Both women are Kahlo; both bleed into the same circulatory system; and they hold one another’s hand. The work arrived when André Breton had promoted Kahlo as a Surrealist. In 1940 it appeared in the International Exhibition of Surrealism, yet Kahlo resisted the idea that she painted dreams, insisting that her imagery came from lived reality. The Two Fridas makes that position visible: emotional pain becomes exposed organs, identity becomes costume, and heartbreak becomes a shared bloodstream. Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes purchased the painting directly from Kahlo in 1947, and it later entered the Museo de Arte Moderno collection. What began in the aftermath of a marriage became one of modern art’s enduring images of a self refusing to be singular.
@kefauver4prez.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:07 AM

Time to get cranking!

Kefauver in front of an old Model T Ford with a class of teenage boys in Massachusetts in April 1952. I presume he's handing over his hat so he can show the boys how to start the car up.

#skystorians #history #polisky

@christinkallama.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 10:54 PM

For the What's History Feed #Skystorians