My dissertation on Flemmie Kittrell & the international history of Home Economics is now available to download here:

I am not good at updating my website, but I spent some time with it tonight. 👉

After 232 years, the U.S. mint has made the last Penny.

Come to the Blackstone Valley Historical Society this Sunday, 11/16, for a talk on American Girl. This is a free event and all are welcome. 📍 https://t.co/rqqhPiKYjQ

I have so much admiration for @sarahkendzior - a person of truth and integrity who cares about her country and therefore thinks there are places worth saving and problems worth exposing. She says what many public servants fear they can’t or shouldn’t.

“A shutdown precludes possibility and shatters the political imagination. It never lets you move on but moves everything around you with bulldozer ferocity. They want you to watch and wait until that is all you do…”

“Felicity-gate was like, a million years ago.” 💇🏻‍♀️

not to get corny but I think the perpetual girlhood trend (girl math, girl dinner, I’m just a girl, he should pay for XYZ) comes from a real and genuine distain for adult women. it’s very embarrassing.

Around Rhode Island - lately 📸 Roger Williams National Memorial 📸 Roger Williams Park and Zoo 📸 Slatersville 📸 Blackstone River Bikeway

Free speech

We're excited to share the launch of the virtual exhibit in collaboration with the National Museum of Mental Health Project: Patriot, Hero, Distracted Person: James Otis, Jr. and Mental Health in the Eighteenth Century. Explore the virtual exhibit here: https://t.co/jh8DAskncA

#OTD September 3, 1803, Prudence Crandall (pictured) was born in Hope Valley. An advocate for the integrated education of women, in 1832, Crandall accepted Sarah Harris (also pictured) into her school in Connecticut, creating the 1st integrated school in the United States.

Good morning. Labor morning

Could not agree more, there are weeks of summer left and do not rush me

At first, I thought each square represented one child killed in Gaza. But each square actually represents TEN children.

#OTD August 23, 1882, in the first unofficial Labor Day parade in the United States, 1,000 people, led by the Knights of Labor, marched through downtown Providence, with over 10,000 spectators. Famed labor organizer Peter J. McGuire (pictured) spoke at the event. #OnThisDay

need to become a tour guide i’ve just realized it’s the only job i can think of that combines my loves of walking around and knowing more than everyone around me

got my McDonaldland Meal, my Mt.McDonaldland Shake, the only drama is where to sit

Would love recommendations for primary sources or books on the state of the natural world in RI / MA around 1770-1780. Thank you! 🍂

#OTD August 8, 1671, almost 70 years old, Roger Williams (pictured) rowed 30 miles from Providence to Newport to debate George Fox (also pictured), the founder of the Religious Society of Friends, now known as the Quakers. By the time Williams had arrived, Fox had already left.

Collaborating with the Park Service – AHA