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Dr. Kelly Smith (But Scary) 🧙
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Senior Lecturer/Historian of Early Modern Europe at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Everything I know about pop culture is 350 years out of date. She/her
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Not wrong.

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Happy Jimmy Carter can vote for Harris day, to all who celebrate

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RGroxanegay.bsky.social

I understand protest votes and I'm not sure they've ever been more important or appropriate but I will also never be able to wrap my mind around the notion that a Trump win will teach the Democrats a lesson and at the expense of... everyone?

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Me teaching students: History is a bit more complex than simply a timeline going from 'bad' to 'good' or 'poor' to 'rich'. The Nobel Prize in Economics 2024:

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Francis Bacon vs the Scholastics existentialcomics.com/comic/572

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In March 2006, Professor Daniel M. Oppenheimer published a paper that argued writers seem more intelligent when using simple words than fancy ones. His paper was titled “Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly”

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At least you worked at a place that sold books and could get store credit out of it.

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love when someone says "historians will look back in horror" and historians chime in like "we are presently horrified also", great times to live inlove when someone says "historians will look back in horror" and historians chime in like "we are presently horrified also", great times to live in

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Dr. Kelly Smith (But Scary) 🧙
@kellyms.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer/Historian of Early Modern Europe at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Everything I know about pop culture is 350 years out of date. She/her
229 followers283 following167 posts