Karin Wulf

@kawulf.bsky.social

Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U

#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.

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Bit of a break this weekend and starting by digging into @kkdumez.bsky.social essential new book. Read the intro a few weeks ago and have been holding on to this pocket of time. It’s sad, it’s enraging, it’s patriarchy. Also you learn where that perky LLL phrase originated.

Book on table bright red cover with a mid century woman silhouette title Live Love Laugh the secret history of white Christian women and the world they made
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Congregants celebrate the reconstruction of First Baptist Church of Williamsburg. Established by enslaved and free Black Americans in 1776, in defiance of laws banning Black assemblage and congregation, it is one of America's oldest Black churches abcnews.com/US/wireStory...

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It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng : My wife: Can you read our baby a book? Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone. My wife: But then it won't be in your voice. Me: I can train a voice model. Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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💥💥💥TODAY! 💥💥💥 Join us for a talk by Peter C. Mancall about his most recent book, Contested Continent, which recounts how North America was forged from the experiences of millions of Indigenous women and men as well as Europeans and Africans. Free and open to the public, with reception to follow.

The poster features the cover of Mancall's book as well as the logistical information about the talk, which will take place on Thursday, October 8 at 4:30 pm at 94 George Street with a reception to follow.
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I'll never understand how "a lot of mostly/potentially/probably incorrect metadata is better for digital discovery than accurate but sparse metadata" became a popular idea than "we will put things online more slowly, but we will do it with accuracy"

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I really need to stop writing my last book. But it would help if there were fewer contemporary politicos with as much confidence and just about as much sense as Blackstone about patriarchy.

Screenshot from Blackstone's vol 1 p 78 of the Commnentaries, yellowed paper, eighteenth-centurey type.
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Friends, please check out this new report on community-based archives, "Powerful But Precarious," linked from the Mellon website. A participatory action research study, it provides a rich portrait of these organizations—their aspirations, wants, and resilience. Enjoy! www.mellon.org/features/com...

mellon.orgMellon FoundationThe Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
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Historians know how important it is to understand the particulars and also how important it is not to let the larger context go unexamined. Historically, violence against women is not an eppidemic, it's endemic. //

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I can't summon the vocabulary for the last (week? months? years?) of emotional regulation required on this topic. I can't say I don't have *any* friends who never experienced SA, but most have. Mine was at 13-- or the worst, anyway. As a historian, my point is that college SA is in a context.

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Contrary to billing change over time as our beat, as a historian I'm here to tell you that violence against women is an absolute constant. Not generations but centuries of activism & policies have made that violence only somewhat more public. Our daily news reminds us how and why.

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“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.”

Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...

startribune.comPerry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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