March 11, 2013
Top Tumblrs for Historians
By Vanessa Varin
Tumblr is a virtual goldmine of creative, niche micro-blogs. A few weeks ago, I asked our Twitter followers to recommend their favorite funny Tumblrs, and received a number of endorsements. I rounded up the top recommendations into a short list, guaranteed to distract you for a few hours. Take a look, and let us know if we missed any.
*Fair warning, some of the Tumblrs use colorful language.
- When in Academia
- My Daguerreotype Boyfriend *By far the most popular recommendation by Twitterstorians.
- Our Presidents
- What Should Social Science Grad Students Call Me?
- Life
- Librarian Problems
- BackStory with the American History Guys
- Harry Truman Adventures
Comment:
Thrilled to see our colleagues at OurPresidents listed!
Two of our favorite history tumblrs (and surprised not to see them already listed):
Obit of the Day: http://www.obitoftheday.com/
and Cool Chicks from History:
http://coolchicksfromhistory.tumblr.com/
and would it be shameless to suggest our own? Today’s Document:
http://todaysdocument.tumblr.com/
— Darren Cole Mar 11, 02:46 PM
Comment:
Classified Humanity finds some great stuff in old newspapers: http://classifiedhumanity.com/
And here is a semi-shameless self promotion (‘semi’ because I feel kinda bad about it but I’m going to do it anyway): Questionable Advice & Ads from history
http://questionableadvice.tumblr.com/
— Laura Grover Mar 12, 07:02 PM
Comment:
I would add Jessica M Johnson’s African Diaspora PhD http://africandiasporaphd.tumblr.com/ for great material on people of African descent in the Americas.
— Kidada WIlliams Mar 27, 06:28 AM