David Silkenat
@davidsilkenat
Professor of U.S. History @EdinburghUni. Starting in August 2024: Richard J. Milbauer Professor @UF
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http://www.amazon.com/David-Silkenat/e/B004G7P5WG/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1 06-05-2014 12:01:14
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Proud to present my finest achievement since joining National Library of Scotland- a mini exhibition about Taylor Swift! 🤩 It’s available to view up to and including the weekend of the Eras Tour arriving in Edinburgh and features friendship bracelets made by library staff 📚🌟🎶
Decoding the Jewels, publication day 🎉 National Museums Scotland Sidestone Press You can read it free online sidestone.com/books/decoding….
With huge thanks to wonderful contributors Geoffrey Munn Kate Anderson Helen Wyld & others Royal Collection Trust they just made today a little shinier ✨💫
UNC-Chapel Hill WTAF?! The UNC Business School secretly recorded classes? Claiming that policy allowed it, when policy explicitly DOES NOT allow it (yes, I'M SHOUTING). This is a big not ok moment, and heads should roll. Ok, Interim Chancellor Roberts. Act.
theassemblync.com/education/high…
Jeff Sharlet Dartmouth 🌲 Those cops were brutal to me. I promise I did absolutely nothing wrong. I was standing with a line of women faculty in the their 60s to 80s trying to protect our students. I have now been banned from the campus where I have taught for 34 years.
What a pleasure to have my book, An Unholy Traffic, reviewed in The Guardian today. Check it out and pick up a copy via OUP History.
theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…
Some outstanding letters of protest here from NYU (New York University) faculty to the President and Provost, but the below from Steven Hahn is pure 🔥 🔥 🔥 : facultyforpalestine.education/statements/fac…
Yesterday, Monticello welcomed Dr. Whitney Nell Stewart to talk about her first book, This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations. Find our conversation at the link below:
youtube.com/live/Wz_vw3ROJ…