🗺️ Historical context matters! In 17th Century Tottenville History Comes Alive, I explore how this community connects to broader historical movements.

This perspective transforms dates and facts into human experiences that readers can connect with emotionally.

Available here: https://www.amazon.com/Century-Tottenville-History-Comes-Alive/dp/B08WK2LD44

#Microhistory #HistoricalContext #LocalHistory #NewYorkHistory #TottenvilleHistory #CommunityStories #HistoricalNarrative

I am in the mood for a good, detailed microhistory on some random topic. In the past I have read books on the history of salt, the color blue, Dutch tulips, where do clothing donations actually go, soccer and it's historical relationship to global politics, history of the alphabet, etc.

So, watcha got for me?

I need a new book.

#bookstodon #reading #microhistory

New paper on the telegraph line is out! It’s a #microhistory of Strangways Springs//Pangki Warruna, exploring its evolution from a #pastoral property to a #telegraph station to a #railway stop, and how these transitions shaped innovation in #Australia 🤩📝

We also highlight the importance of #water in creating and sustaining these innovations (as is the case for technologies of today like #AI 😉).

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10761-025-00788-4

#openaccess #cybernetics #archaeology #techhistory #systemsthinking

Le tracce di un patriota sardo, Matteo Luigi Simon, si perdono a Notre-Dame de Paris — S'Indipendente

https://www.sindipendente.com/blog/le-tracce-di-un-patriota-sardo-matteo-luigi-simon-si-perdono-a-notre-dame-de-paris/

"Secondo il documento rinvenuto dalla scrivente presso gli Archivi di Notre-Dame de Paris, il corpo del patriota, spentosi il venerdì 10 maggio 1816, fu condotto nella cattedrale di Parigi il sabato 11 maggio 1816 in presenza di testimoni".

#istòriasarda #storiasarda #sardinianposting #microstoria #MicroHistory #sardinia #Angioy

On Monday, 27 January, we welcome Alejandro Salamanca @alejandrosalamanca (EUI Florence) for the Prize Papers Talks.

Paper: Microhistories of Migration - The Agata Galera, a Dutch frigate crossing the Spanish Atlantic.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-papers-talks-tickets-1067307006989

#earlymodern #maritimehistory @UniOldenburg @histodons @historikerinnen #microhistory

#Histodon Job Opp: Looking to hire a private tutor to help me refine the craft of writing #microhistory. $2,500 for ~3hrs/wk for 16 weeks. FIrst 2-3 weeks will be 1:1 conversations & then transition to less time mtg and more time providing writing feedback. Hrs negotiable. I live in the US eastern time zone. I fancy myself an amateur historian, but do have an adv degree in education and substantial nonfiction writing experience. Prefer to work with someone whose field is #MedievalAfrica.

That artist Gill gave a supper for friends before leaving on Horrocks' 1846 expedition is, in itself, a small story. It involved just a few people and Gill had only modest social recognition. So it's odd the event was treated with such a lengthy newspaper report.

My new narrative article features Australia's first camel, a dubious newspaper reporter and unidentified expeditioners.

#microHistory #S_T_Gill #1840s #SouthAustralia #Adelaide #camel #convicts

1846. The Camel, Horrocks's Expedition, Gill's Parting Supper and a Newspaper Reporter
https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/1846_Camel_Horrocks_Supper_Willshire.htm

Natalie Zemon Davis: three brilliant examples of her microhistory writing https://theconversation.com/natalie-zemon-davis-three-brilliant-examples-of-her-microhistory-writing-216785?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton via @ConversationUK #history #MicroHistory

Thank you Baltimore & thank you Sixteenth Century Society for this fantastic conference - I really enjoyed it! Many thanks to Ute Lotz-Heumann, Joel Harrington & Annie Morphew for their hospitality and our great panel on microhistory!

#SCSC2023 #history #microhistory #histodons @histodons @earlymodernmaritimestudies

Looking forward to presenting my work at the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference in Baltimore this year (26-29 October 2023).

"A Merchant’s Mail and Microhistory: Telling the Story of the Hamburg Merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens based on a Forgotten Archive."

Thursday, October 26, 2023.
1:50pm, EST

Many thanks to Prof. Ute Lotz-Heumann for the invitation. Traveling to the US for the first time!

@histodons #histodons #history #prizepapers #microhistory #SCSC2023

Elisabeth Heijmans (University of Antwerp). Book Review:
The Power of Persuasion. Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century, Bielefeld 2022.

H-Soz-Kult: https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-117334

It's great to hear that there are still people in this world who read books with 600 and more pages :)

I am very grateful for this review.

@histodons #histodons #history #merchants #letters #microhistory

I'm a little emotional today since I just heard that my book made it to the - hsozkult - starting page thanks to Elisabeth Heijmans' wonderful book review.

https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-117334?title=l-haasis-the-power-of-persuasion

#history #merchants #microhistory #letters #prizepapers @histodons @earlymodernmaritimestudies #earlymodons #histodons

Fascinating comments by Carlo Ginzburg on micro history, the role of evidence and historical narrative.
https://www.versobooks.Italy -close-up-implies-an-off-screen-scene

#history #histodons #microhistory #Italy #witches ##Ginzburg #methods #truth

I've been somewhat quiet these last few weeks as there were things to do... Yesterday, I finally presented my #research on #earlymodern #siege #warfare to the faculty at @unibwm. #HabilKolloquium

Was warfare in the era of "cabinet warfare" and #Enlightenment becoming more humane? A #microhistory inquiry reveals that the practices of siege warfare remained horrendous (as they still are!), but also that sensibilities for this suffering were raised - and even voiced by practitioners of war.

Here's a public talk I gave on my masters thesis, "Deepening: Place Relationship in the Valley of Lake Creek, Oregon," during my defense. It's an ethnography of place, involving mythology, archaeology, history and ethnographic interviews. (Think of it as a 45-minute podcast ep.) Fun!

Listen: https://www.patreon.com/posts/masters-thesis-75471374?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

#GradSchool #Thesis #Anthropology #History #Microhistory #Mythology #Archaeology #Ethnography #Folklore #Rural #Native #Indigenous

Pluto Press books at half-price - sale ends today. Here's one I would heartily recommend: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745334110/flip-flop/

#ethnography #microhistory #globalizaton

A recent NYT article about tracing family history from old photos (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/23/magazine/italy-photos.html) reminded me of this, and my wife pointed me to the #MicroHistory tag.

I'm realizing that most of the #OaklandHistory research I do is of this form, focusing on a single person (or family) or event or even a photo.

But part of the fun of having the Oakland Wiki to collect these assorted pieces is that eventually the pieces start to fit together. https://oaklandwiki.org/George_Turner

#Introduction #histodons
Hello. My name is Lucas Haasis. I am a postdoc & the research coordinator of the UK-German #PrizePapers Project (www.prizepapers.de). I am also a lecturer of #EarlyModern History at Oldenburg University. My research focusses on #18thcentury #letters, mercantile culture of the 18th century, #praxeological approaches, global #microhistory.
I like: #teaching #writing #cooperation #games and #organising events.
I don't like: envy, elbowing, resentment, egoism and Elon Musk.

#Histodons: Can you share links or other resources for the process of writing #microhistory? I'm working on a #Quaker #reparations #history project for my Meeting and and would like to begin sharing some of the stories using this approach. A Google search hasn't gotten me any truly helpful writing guides, yet. Any recommendations are truly appreciated.

A #OnePlaceWednesday heads-up that on #BlackFriday . . . our membership subscription will be the same amazing bargain that it is on the other 364 days of the year!

Interested in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite? Join up and join in for just £10 a year (free for full time students under 21). http://one-place-studies.org/join-us/

#Genealogy #Geneadons #MicroHistory #SocialHistory #PopulationStudies