Writer, early retiree, former associate professor of 18th/19th US history. UIowa PhD/COGS-UE. Former dementia caregiver. Boomer by birth, Gen x by grace of god. Book project on long emancipation and Black resistance in southern Indiana, 1780-1830.https://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3m7gguaipck23Sad and beautiful world…07 Dec 2025 21:17 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7gguaipck23https://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lv73svdhis2yPotential hope on horizon. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/29cb3aa042b0aab530 Jul 2025 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv73svdhis2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lrjhika2cs25I realize this is a small inconvenience in the overall scheme of things but I think I have, for the third year running, scheduled my summer vacation for the month that my garden is actually going to be producing. All the tending, none of the eating.13 Jun 2025 22:14 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrjhika2cs25https://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3ljhrhacajk24Why does J Rees-Mogg have a reality tv show?03 Mar 2025 10:45 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljhrhacajk24https://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lia6punjv22jIn Thursday's Albany Times-Union, @law6pubhist.bsky.social is featured doing public history research on the economic history of the early Black community in Albany. Very interesting work. https://www.timesunion.com/history/article/how-economic-freedom-birthed-much-of-albany-s-16927677.php15 Feb 2025 16:56 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lia6punjv22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lhbw5m7sh22rSpeak on it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Feb 2025 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhbw5m7sh22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lgvvdvw5qk2uOne door closes and another opens…today I got an invite to speak at a bigger venue and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without yesterday’s cancellation. This work will prosper and finds its audience.29 Jan 2025 21:16 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgvvdvw5qk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lgvjnucpss2hHere’s one reason I love my medical practice…today’s text.29 Jan 2025 17:47 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgvjnucpss2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lgu24yakas2cWell, it’s been a hell of a day. There’s the….you know, whole DC situation…but more personally, one of my speaking invitations was withdrawn when it became clear that I really do plan to talk about Black survivance and white resistance to Black liberty. Cold feet happen a lot in southern Indiana.29 Jan 2025 03:37 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgu24yakas2chttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lgqgvqshus2oToday I'm being my own agent and coordinating a public history speaking tour. I'll be in Indianapolis on Juneteenth and am going to be doing talks in southern Indiana thereafter. My program title is "Surviving Emancipation in Southern Indiana."27 Jan 2025 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgqgvqshus2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lgo52e3ib22fThis week triggered every bit of my brace for impact side. I both feel a little crazy and wonder why everyone isn’t finding their LifeStraws, solar lanterns, crank chargers, and Mason jars. At least I can do something about the state of my woodpile.26 Jan 2025 19:13 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgo52e3ib22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lgiu3k4yhs24So, my liver is indeed bunged. Extent of bung yet to be determined. Waiting, waiting, waiting on a Friday afternoon so I don’t have to wait until Monday morning.24 Jan 2025 16:49 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgiu3k4yhs24https://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lggnbxwbi22fI do this kind of work. I do it independently for a reason. Harvard should be ashamed. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jan 2025 19:42 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lggnbxwbi22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lgghsn3nc22fLimited By Body Habitus — “she’s fat and despite the widespread prevalence of obese people in the US population, we haven’t designed our machines or trained our techs to adequately diagnose…” because fat women should just crawl off and die, I guess.23 Jan 2025 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgghsn3nc22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lgg3zypy7227Strike! Strike! Strike!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jan 2025 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgg3zypy7227https://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lgg3spar3s27This morning’s bloodwork won me a “yeah, you should go right over to the imaging suite” ultrasound. I know people in US complain (rightly) about our healthcare system being slow, so you notice when everything suddenly picks up speed. Maybe they just want pics while I’m still fasting…23 Jan 2025 14:29 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgg3spar3s27https://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lgcjcyeroc2aGreat work. Well worth a read. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jan 2025 04:20 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgcjcyeroc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lg7ws6l4bc2uI will not outlive all the bastards but I do plan to outlive this set.21 Jan 2025 03:44 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg7ws6l4bc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lg6qfnapk22gCrud. Bloodwork is suggesting my liver hates this new round of cancer drugs. Time for a quick consult.20 Jan 2025 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg6qfnapk22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lg4557m7mk2jSnoop understands how Gs operate. He’s got a lot of past criminal and civil cases and assuredly has a warehouse of unaired dirty laundry. That’s how fascist regimes coerce people. They live to force the outspoken into public submission. Hate the player if you want, but that’s the game.19 Jan 2025 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg4557m7mk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lfxjvlvrws24Disgraceful. If condemning the destruction of a national university system and the murder of faculty and students rests outside the AHA mission, it exists only to pamper and congratulate. No thanks. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jan 2025 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfxjvlvrws24https://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lfnysbwnnk2tToday was more consultancy on the early Black history of Southern Indiana…helped a family reclaim an ancestor (joy! the best!) and turned up some records for a historical society so they can flesh out an upcoming community exhibit on a local Black community’s mutual aid work.14 Jan 2025 00:32 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfnysbwnnk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lfn4edto7e2ySaved by the paywall from losing a little more faith in humanity. Thankfully, that obstacle gave me a moment to reconsider: is that tawdry heartbreak going to aid in my mission? Or is it just (confirming) gossip? Back to my work, then.13 Jan 2025 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfn4edto7e2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lfi25wr5g22gI did this back in my undergrad days (when I was a wee twee English major with a tendre for 18th c BritLit) and it was fun. I might do it again! [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Jan 2025 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfi25wr5g22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lfgde3tbms22Pursuant to my post a week ago about the plume of industrial toxins that regularly spread over my house…another of my childhood neighbors who was part of “the study” has died prematurely. Not alleging anything, for we were all poor as bridge rats and poor people don’t live so long in the US, but…10 Jan 2025 23:19 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfgde3tbms22https://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lfgbk2rdqk22Today I had a Zoom meeting with a southern Indiana county historical society that’s doing some solid Black history primary research collecting to discuss their funding needs, grant possibilities, and ways to connect to others doing the same. It was a lot of fun hearing what they were up to…10 Jan 2025 22:47 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfgbk2rdqk22https://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lfcz3xs3nc2x“There’s a weapon that we must use in our defense -silence.”09 Jan 2025 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfcz3xs3nc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/profbridgett.bsky.social/post/3lfao7iivg22jAgain, I remind followers that if you try to sell me something, I block you. That’s not why I’m here.08 Jan 2025 17:17 +0000at://did:plc:xe2tt6opcanfolybynuctnpe/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfao7iivg22j