Alexandria N. Ruble @RubleHistory Twitter profile

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Alexandria N. Ruble

10 months

I was excited to open a package from @utpress yesterday and find copies of Entangled Emancipation!!! Thank you to @ShapiroUTP for making this happen!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

9 months

I ran into a former history professor from undergrad at Panera today. He recognized my dining companion but didn't remember me. He asked me if I was currently reading the book on the table. I replied, "I wrote it."

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

@sincerelysione Is this the academic version of unsolicited dick pics?

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

1 year

Finally able to post this: I am excited to announce that I will be joining the University of Idaho @uidaho as an Assistant Professor of History in the fall! Looking forward to lots of exciting new opportunities out west!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

2 years

I finished teaching to find an email from @ShapiroUTP with this gorgeous proof attached!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

9 months

@elmunc Given the amount of time and money I spent at Panera during undergrad, I may as well have!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

Thanks to everyone who welcomed me to the community (cesspool?) that is Twitter! I am excited to join my fellow #twitterstorians on here. New followers: be prepared for Tweets about German history, karate, politics, Oxford commas, turtlenecks, blazers, and hipsters.

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

2 years

Coming to a bookshelf near you: I am excited to announce that I turned in my final manuscript (~titled Entangled Emancipation: Women's Rights in Cold War Germany) to @ShapiroUTP at @utpress ! Still have to get through production stages, but it's under contract and on its way!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

Well. This proved to be an interesting semester to teach "Europe in the Era of the World Wars."

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

9 months

@jonathanbfine Ohhh, I thought it was because of the systemic erosion of higher ed because of neoliberalism since the 1980s, but this makes so much more sense.

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

8 months

Thanks, @utpress , for the feature!! It was such a pleasure and honor to publish with UTP!

University of Toronto Press

@utpress

8 months

" @RubleHistory has written an essential history of women’s rights and the family in Cold War Germany." @Astrid_M_Eckert @EmoryUniversity Order your copy today: #GermanHistory #History #WomensHistory #Twitterstorians

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

9 months

My book is officially available for purchase! Order directly from @utpress here:

University of Toronto Press - Entangled Emancipation

In 1900, German legislators passed the Civil Code, a controversial law that designated women as second-class citizens with regard to marriage, parental right...

utorontopress.com

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

1 year

@emilypawley I have a lot of athletes and one of them requested to keep the lights off recently because she had a minor concussion and it was giving her a migraine. I happily obliged and it gave me a new perspective on some students' situations.

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

2 years

3 flights. 2 layovers. 1 mad dash through the airport to catch a connecting flight. 0 hours of sleep. All worth it to see the Fernsehturm looming in the distance as my plane glided into the new-to-me BER airport!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

10 months

Thank you, @Astrid_M_Eckert , for your flattering blurb!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

If you're curious about what German history can teach us about Joe Biden's American Families Plan, check out my op ed in the @washingtonpost @madebyhistory ! Perspective | The two big risks for Biden’s American Families Plan

Perspective | The two big risks for Biden’s American Families Plan

Why piecemeal and underfunded programs won’t work.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

Friends/Romans/countrypeople: I’m honored to receive an @AAUW American Fellowship this year to complete my research on family law in Cold War Germany at @sprhill . It's AAUW's largest and oldest funding program that has supported female scholars since 1888:

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

As one of the coordinators for the GSA Family and Kinship Network, I invite you to apply for our panel/panel series for the 2022 GSA conference titled “From Unification to Reunification: The Family in Modern Germany.” Inquire within! (i.e. DM/email me for details).

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

8 months

@NimishaBarton They're just deconstructed. New York hipsters would pay good money for those!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

I did a thing! Many thanks to @jec_free for editing this piece and getting it out on the @ghilondon blog! Super exciting to see it.

Jane Freeland

@jec_free

3 years

New post on 1950s women’s activism and democratization in West Germany from ⁦ @RubleHistory ⁩ reveals important links b/w US occupation, women’s rights and the media

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

I got my booster shot and flu shot this morning. I had a lovely chat with the pharmacist about history (he took a 400-level History of the South class at Ole Miss as a non-major back in the day). It was a delightful human interaction! Go humanities!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

It's no turtleneck and blazer, but it'll do. #academia #harrypotterrobes #gdtbath #sprhill

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

10 months

I have been looking forward to this conversation with @MikkelDack and @schuneke for months, and it's almost here! You can attend virtually or in person, just make sure to register!

Mason Center for Humanities Research

@CHR_GMU

1 year

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT In the years after World War II, Germany underwent a profound political and social transformation. These efforts were largely oriented around ridding the country of the last vestiges of National Socialism and fostering a new commitment to democracy. (cont'd...)

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

2 years

CFP! Fifteenth Southeast German Studies Workshop – Tuscaloosa, AL, February 23-24, 2023. I'm on the organizing committee and can guarantee that you don't want to miss this event! Inquire within!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

2 years

@suboticjelena Wait, Germany didn't start WWI?

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

@CindyErmus

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

When you're trying to work but get distracted by a NY Times headline that sounds like an indie band name.

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

2 years

I reread my AAUW fellowship application from 2020 today, for which I received a fellowship in 2021-22. I am proud to say I did everything I promised to do. Thank you, @AAUW , for your support and for helping me achieve a huge professional goal!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

Fellow Germanists: I just had the pleasure of chatting with @on_germany about my research! What an awesome opportunity to nerd out (okay, fine, ramble) about German gender history for an hour!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

That feeling when you are watching Loki and are brought back to your many stints in German archives.

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

Memories of this conversation are keeping me going today: Diss. committee reader: "This is a big project." Me: "Oh, I know. It's so much work doing two Germanys." Reader: "No, I mean, in terms of its contribution. This is an important project." Me: *blushes*

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

10 months

It was such a pleasure to see @jec_free , @CB_Ewing , @NikolaosPapado7 , and many other historians online this morning for a lively working group discussion of gender and sexuality in Europe! Looking forward to the next one!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

1 year

Grades are submitted! Lest I forget, thank you to @laurenstokes @BrianDrohan @JohnVsetecka @MikkelDack @r_s_terrell @schuneke @Chad_G101 for participating in my class interview project! My students really enjoyed speaking with you all and I enjoyed watching the videos!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

1 year

Okay, folks, in your opinions, what books should go on a modern European history comps list for a grad student? I already included @tnflorvil and @gdrhistoria :-D

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

@herong But I guarantee Republicans have opinions about eel sex.

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

2 years

The Stabi: A Still Life.

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

10 months

You don't want a lot for Christmas, there is just one thing you need:

University of Toronto Press - Entangled Emancipation

In 1900, German legislators passed the Civil Code, a controversial law that designated women as second-class citizens with regard to marriage, parental right...

utorontopress.com

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

Just finished moderating an incredible panel ("Family Policies and Feminist Health Activism in the Two Germanies and Eastern Europe") featuring @JLRodgers76 and several other fabulous German and Polish scholars! @TheGSA @thegsa2021

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

2 years

This panel has everything, guys! Gender! Games! A new take on Oklahoma City! You don't want to miss it. @BestHistories @MichelleLKahn @REFrankel @prs70

Jeremy Best

@BestHistories

2 years

Feels like a sweet time slot, Saturday @TheGSA . "Reconstructing the German-American Alliance after 1945: Politics, Militarism, and the Legacy of Nazism." Excited to present with @MichelleLKahn and @RubleHistory . Comment by @REFrankel and moderator @prs70 !

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@RubleHistory

3 years

Getting ready for Day 2 of our seminar "Entanglements and Separations: German Histories since 1945" at the #thegsa2021 ! Excited to hear from @r_s_terrell and other participants about all the ways we can do integrated German histories!

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@RubleHistory

3 years

Day 3 of our seminar "Entanglements and Separations: German Histories since 1945" at the #thegsa2021 ! And what better time to discuss this topic than #TagderDeutschenEinheit . @gdrhistoria @LRStiglich and a few other folks will offer us some new insights today!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

6 months

Wow! I am flattered that Entangled Emancipation was featured alongside some amazing work by @jec_free and others here!

German Historical Institute London

@ghilondon

6 months

New Featured Books from the #GHIL #library : Feminism and Women's Activism To mark #InternationalWomensDay and #WomensHistoryMonth , we have chosen a selection of books presenting a German angle on women's campaigns for equal rights. 1/4 👇

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@RubleHistory

1 year

That moment when you hurry up and revise something to meet a deadline, only to get an automatic "out of office until the end of the month" reply.

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

@waitmanb Might be a weird connection to make, but these are probably the same people who claimed that Simone Biles was weak, unpatriotic, and turned her back on her country for withdrawing from her events two weeks ago...

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

@waitmanb Part 2: I was once told that the reason the Wehrmacht lost WWII is because women were working in the factories and they didn't know how to assemble equipment properly, which led to German losses on the front.

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

1 year

Very excited to be part of this amazing event with @MikkelDack and organized by @schuneke !

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@schuneke

1 year

Very excited to be hosting this event with @RubleHistory and @MikkelDack on Nov. 1! If you can’t make it to GMU for this panel, there is a virtual option. For more information visit the event site:

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@RubleHistory

3 years

"Suffering. That's college, man." --Random undergraduate student, overheard by professor on way to procure herself more caffeine

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

2 years

Surefire way of knowing you are a historian of East Germany: your phone autocorrects "self" to "SED."

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

1 year

Reading my page proofs, and no spoilers, but there is some juicy history in Entangled Emancipation, folks!

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@RubleHistory

2 years

*insert sappy post about #theGSA2022 and how much I love @TheGSA here*

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

@CaponeTeaches @VegHistory I think the problem is how we think of "student-driven" as educators encouraging intellectual curiosity is very different than how university administrators think of "student-driven" as code for "consumer-driven."

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

9 months

@jonathanbfine My friend asked a grad professor to be on a committee and was refused because said person claimed she was going out of the country. Guess who she ran into the day of her defense...apparently that was a very long and uncomfortable elevator ride.

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

1 year

My amazing department is hiring in North American environmental/indigenous history, and we want YOU *points finger*! Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions:

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

@AdamHDomby Sarah, Cosima, Alison, Helena, and Beth if they are girls. Art and Felix for boys.

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

2 years

Not going to lie, every time my local radio station announces its name (W-ABD), as a PhD, I get a little bit triggered.

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

I slept in my 40th anniversary of @TheGSA t-shirt so now I am exhausted, bleary-eyed, and also excited about all these new ideas. That's how this thread works, right? #gsa2021

Rebecca Fachner

@rebecca_fachner

3 years

Slept in a New Kids on the Block shirt. Now I’m hanging tough. Keep it going.

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@RubleHistory

1 year

You might be a Germanist if you had a dream about choosing between shopping in a DM versus a Rossmann in Berlin. Guess which one my subconscious chose. IYKYK.

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

10 months

Today's the day!

Mason Center for Humanities Research

@CHR_GMU

1 year

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT In the years after World War II, Germany underwent a profound political and social transformation. These efforts were largely oriented around ridding the country of the last vestiges of National Socialism and fostering a new commitment to democracy. (cont'd...)

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

2 years

Very excited to be able to carry out a new and interesting course with the help of @HEF_NU !

Holocaust Educational Foundation NU

@HEF_NU

2 years

HEFNU congratulates the award recipients of our 2023 teaching grants. More information here:

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@RubleHistory

3 years

Just your friendly neighborhood German historian here to remind you that we are a global community and climate change affects us all, even states that consistently rank in the top ten of environmentally friendly countries.

Flooding in Europe: Flooding Recedes in Europe, but Death Toll Rises and Questions Mount (Published...

At least 170 are reported dead in Germany and Belgium, and hundreds are still unaccounted for as the disaster cut off communications. Many are asking why flood control efforts were so easily overwh...

www.nytimes.com

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

"Oh, you're into gender history? That's hot. I'm really into gender. There's, like, one woman in my dissertation."

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@RubleHistory

2 years

@rebecca_fachner There's one way for her to drop 200 pounds real fast...just saying.

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@RubleHistory

3 years

Considering including this at the beginning of my revised manuscript.

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@RubleHistory

3 years

@PFLerner Shoutout to the student at UNC years ago who wrote me an email that began with, "Dear TA Alex." They at least tried to give me a title?

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@RubleHistory

1 year

I think I am finally beginning to understand why professors have large stacks of papers on their desks: so they can hide from people coming to their offices.

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

1 year

Forget moving boxes. I'm using my stash of indestructible Stabi plastic bags instead.

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@RubleHistory

1 year

She came from nothing. She conquered everything in my parents' house.

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@RubleHistory

1 year

Excited to see this in print soon (and get my copy)!

Jennifer Evans

@JenniferVEvans

1 year

We have a cover! Gender in Germany and Beyond. Exploring the Legacy of Jean Quataert is slated for release mid May.

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

@TheGSA @JLRodgers76 @BrianECrim1 @kira_thurman Office cat, Twig, checking out my German history books. Twig belongs to my colleague and I watch him sometimes. Twig never does the reading but he always has an opinion about it.

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@RubleHistory

3 years

We have a CfP link! Send us your abstracts for the GSA 2022 by January 31st!

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@RubleHistory

2 years

I went running today. I thought people were staring at my new weighted vest, but then I realized they were staring at my "Well behaved women rarely make history" t-shirt instead.

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@RubleHistory

1 year

Congrats, @gdrhistoria !!!

Julie Ault

@gdrhistoria

1 year

So excited that the Special Issue @HistoryNed and @laurenstokes championed on "The GDR's [East Germany's] Global Border" is out in Central European History through @cambUP_History ! My article, "A River Runs Through It,"...

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@RubleHistory

2 years

Well, I *was* under the word count on my book manuscript until I spelled out "Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik." #germanistproblems

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

Tweeting on behalf of a friend who doesn't Tweet. If you apply, you get to work with her and she's awesome! Please circulate widely! Latin American History at U. Houston-Clear Lake.

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@RubleHistory

1 year

I'll drink to this!

Philipp Stelzel

@pjstelzel

1 year

The galleys of "The Faculty Lounge" (out Sept. 5 with @iupress ) have arrived.

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@RubleHistory

2 years

Trending in this house today: #copyediting #amwriting #SundayFunday

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@RubleHistory

1 year

The proof of the pudding is in the arrival of page proofs from @utpress !!! Really excited to start on the final stage of Entangled Emancipation! #amwriting #amediting

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@RubleHistory

3 years

Folks, we have enough submissions for an entire panel series, about which we are so excited. We are looking to add a panel covering the earlier era--ideally, 18th/19th century. Inquire within!

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@RubleHistory

1 year

I don't know this author but I am a fan of Rubles so I wholeheartedly endorse this book and encourage you to spend your hard-earned rubles on it.

Ekaterina Pravilova

@e_pravilova

1 year

#TheRuble book has arrived! @OxUniPress

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@RubleHistory

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@AJohnsonHist

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@RubleHistory

3 years

#Twitterstorians : discussion exercises or teaching strategies that have not held up well over time? I found this in a folder from a World History course I took when I was an undergrad. Probably would not employ this exercise right now myself...

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@RubleHistory

3 years

Undergrad walking by: "I'm on my way to history." Her friend: "Have fun." Undergrad, cheerily: "I wooonnn't!!" Me in office: *looks at camera and breaks fourth wall with forlorn look*

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@RubleHistory

1 year

Set-up for the Undergraduate Research Symposium #urs2023 @shillcollege is almost complete! #HillYeah ! Come see some excellent research presentations between 12 and 1:30, Springhillians! @VladNKravtsov @PaigeRaney @RebeccaLCantor @WyndiLud

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@RubleHistory

2 years

I had the honor of reading some chapters for Jane and let me tell you, 11/10, get this book on your shelves!

Jane Freeland

@jec_free

2 years

Folks, Feminist Transformations has landed and it is 🔥! It’s already available through open access, and for purchase from Nov. 10.

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@RubleHistory

3 years

It was such a pleasure to work with @on_germany on this podcast! Jacob asked intriguing questions--all interpretations and mistakes contained within the answers are my own!

Podcast on Germany

@on_germany

3 years

In our first interview for the 3 year anniversary of the Podcast we are join by Dr. Alexandria Rubble @RubleHistory who takes us on a fascinating discussion of German women's rights in the tumultuous 20th century through the lens of family law.

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@RubleHistory

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@waitmanb If you think that's fun, try being the young-looking woman who does gender history who gets stuck talking to the "history buff" at the dinner party...

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@RubleHistory

2 years

Whoops?

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It'll be exciting to see this book in print! I remember when it was just a seedling of a master's/dissertation project at @UNChistory !

Sarah McNamara

@Dr_SarahMac

2 years

The cover has arrived! Coming April 2023 @UNC_Press .

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@RubleHistory

1 year

Part 2 of @shillcollege 's Undergraduate Research Symposium!

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@RubleHistory

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@manwithoutatan Lucky, lucky students!

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@RubleHistory

11 months

That awkward moment when a book you're reviewing was published by Oxford University Press and doesn't use Oxford commas.

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@RubleHistory

2 years

#twitterstorians -- looking for someone who researches war crimes trials/Holocaust/Nazi Germany. it can be Nuremberg or later trials. One of my students is interested in recent trials and hoping to interview a historian about their research. Thank you!

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@RubleHistory

2 years

Still a little ways off, but if the Twittersphere has any recommendations for qualified indexers, or tips on indexing, I would appreciate any and all suggestions!

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@RubleHistory

3 years

@MichelleLKahn @ModEuroHistColl @BestHistories Less of a direct focus nowadays, at least in the book manuscript, but I have done work in the past on the Women's Affairs branch of OMGUS and its activities in Germany, and it remains a side project for me:

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

8 months

@sgreerpitt Yup, that's the book my old professor was eyeing! I had a copy on the table that I had given to the friend with whom I was dining. It just came out a few weeks ago!

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@RubleHistory

3 years

Be safe, my fellow Gulf Coast folx!

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Alexandria N. Ruble

@RubleHistory

3 years

I am excited to announce that SHC is hosting Dr. Wendy Warren virtually next week on Wednesday, November 10th, at 7pm Central! Please email portier.lecture @gmail .com to register and receive the Zoom link for this fascinating talk!