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/1 Just realized that my latest article with @yalelawjournal.bsky.social just dropped! This is obviously a huge honor. I really appreciate the editors taking a chance on a young, no-name scholar with an idiosyncratic story to tell. www.yalelawjournal.org/article/resu...

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Senate Bill 10 now goes back to the Senate for concurrence before advancing to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it into law. via @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social

submitted 22 days ago • 588 comments

I love this 1816 Melish map. www.loc.gov/resource/g37... JQA used it in his negotiations that led to the 1818 Treaty with Britain It was option B for the cover of The Centrality of Slavery www.pennpress.org/978151282842...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

U.S. Historians of Migration, Immigration and Race. Learn from it, or repeat it ad nauseum. go.bsky.app/7nAqQwY

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

James A. Dun shares a record of 4,428 discrete voyages between Philadelphia and a variety of Dominguan/Haitian ports for scholars to explore. Click for Dun's introduction to the project (with a BONUS StoryMap!) ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04/28/a...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

The importance of a proper historical contextualization of the present (like this thread) is not to normalize or excuse the actions of this administration, but to press the importance of fundamental reform - it's not enough to say "this isn't who we are" when in fact, when it has been who we are.

submitted 27 days ago • 8 comments

We’re doing a thing! Want to talk about how to do a conference? Come ask somebody who’s made all the mistakes and survived: Me! . . . and also Will and @carolyneastman.bsky.social, who make far fewer mistakes ;)

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

On the anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first of a series of increasingly stringent exclusion laws that not only banned the Chinese but also became a blueprint for racially-charged US immigration policy that persists to this day - sharing a poem from Angel Island.

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

Summer is approaching, and with it comes the fourth AHA Summer Reading Challenge! Today in #AHAPerspectives, you'll find this year's tasks. Let me know if you're joining #AHAReads this year and what you're thinking about reading! 📚🏖️😎

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

Ben Franklin on inoculation, after his son died from smallpox. “In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.

submitted 44 days ago • 112 comments

Tomorrow's SCOTUS arguments address whether the Constitution allows church-run charter schools and whether states can refuse them. The Court may also answer a vital Indian law question:whether it will use the US's treatment of Natives as "history and tradition" to set constitutional rules elsewhere.

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

In a few days it’s gonna be May, but right now it’s gonna be my 222nd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

🗃️ This is an awesome and generous idea! Check it out, #skystorians!

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Phenomenal thread:

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

A great day to sign up for the following SCOTUS info: @chrisgeidner.bsky.social - @lawdorknews.bsky.social @stevevladeck.bsky.social ‘s One First Nation (for @elienyc.bsky.social ) Slate Plus ( @mjsdc.bsky.social @dahlialithwick.bsky.social ) +You can listen @strictscrutiny.bsky.social for free!

submitted 55 days ago • 23 comments

New(ish), from me: Andor returns on April 22. The first season detailed how bureaucracies in a totalitarian regime function, what is the toll of living under such regimes, and what causes people to rebel. Those themes feel more salient than ever. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-return...

submitted 60 days ago • 38 comments

As a historian of eugenics, I can tell you that the "taxes" thing is straight up from sterilization eugenics. Not only that, it represents an even more extreme form of early 20thC. eugenics that I study: euthanasia eugenics. They are tax burdens therefore they shouldn't exist. 1/2

submitted 61 days ago • 14 comments

The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is asking the public to help them track changes the Trump Admin is making to history-- in national parks, websites, wherever. Please share-- and please contribute! thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

submitted 68 days ago • 7 comments

“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

submitted 70 days ago • 14 comments

I discuss this in my book (www.amazon.com/Rot-Revival-...). The Supreme Court and its jurisprudence don't function as a counterweight to majoritarian politics. Instead, operates as a regime enforcer. The fact that 40 years out, the Court works like a well-oiled Reaganist machine is unsurprising.

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

This piece by @rtraister.bsky.social so thoroughly sums up my mindset, and the dichotomy of resistance and feeling like we’re hurtling off a cliff. open.substack.com/pub/rebeccat...

submitted 72 days ago • 9 comments

You had us at "a book of spells, the key to wonders."

submitted 74 days ago • 304 comments

Sen. Peter Squelch (Black Faced Shealthbill party) addressing congress today. He is attempting to champion a resolution to sell penguin eggs in return for tariff renegotiation. So far, he’s received cold shoulders and some Senators who’ve even flipped the bird, in a typically polite Ice House.

submitted 73 days ago • 214 comments

Spydere Man, Spydere Man Doth al things a spydere kan Sondry webbes he kan weaven Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man

submitted 73 days ago • 64 comments

So my phone started blowing up last night because guess who's on the banned book list at the naval academy? Yours truly. Go support an author today and buy a book off of this this list... Doesn't even have to be mine. Gift link coming

submitted 73 days ago • 72 comments

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

submitted 75 days ago • 228 comments

The answer to this and a lot of other supposed conundrums under the Constitution is the one that George Orwell gave in 1936: “I have a sort of belly-to-earth attitude and always feel uneasy when I get away from the ordinary world where grass is green, stones hard, etc.”

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

I want to talk about the concept of allegiance, which has been a big part of the birthright citizenship “debate.” (Really, there are maybe three ppl saying demonstrably wrong things and scholars demonstrating that they’re wrong.) There is an important bait-and-switch here, and I'll break it down. 1.

submitted 91 days ago • 9 comments

was reading the gettysburg address and got inspired constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

submitted 91 days ago • 92 comments

There doesn't appear to be any specific directive guiding what digital content is removed. It's incredibly sloppy. This allows the Defense Department to restore specific pages in response to public outrage, but we need to remember that the scrubbing/purging continues. 🗃️ www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...

submitted 91 days ago • 6 comments

I know there have been people who have flinched at my repeated references to the Dunning School— including along with my writing with @evanbernick.bsky.social and @paulgowder.bsky.social— but that’s exactly what is happening in America right now broadly. The erasure and manipulation of history.

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

🗃️ Looking for context on US immigration policy today? Read @juliarosekraut.bsky.social's "Threat of Dissent A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States." @harvardpress.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

submitted 93 days ago • 4 comments

Absolutely superb and important piece by Professors @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and @ryanenos.bsky.social The only way to fight authoritarianism is to fight together. Strongest institutions in the front. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 94 days ago • 37 comments

Things are moving quickly, but it looks like these Sen's especially need calls from constituents to vote NO on cloture: Angus King (ME) Amy Klobuchar (MN) Jacky Rosen (NV) Brian Schatz (HI) Maggie Hassan (NH) Jeanne Shaheen (NH) Gary Peters (MI) Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121.

submitted 95 days ago • 138 comments

This is NEW today. AOC sent this 11 am. Friday morning. Yes, your calls are still needed. The vote is in the early afternoon. There is still time!

submitted 95 days ago • 5 comments

Beautiful, moving, and important

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

submitted 95 days ago • 3091 comments

The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history. Archive is here: web.archive.org/web/20250304... Page was here: www.army.mil/asianpacific... Disgusting.

submitted 95 days ago • 153 comments

Update on the Erasure of History at Arlington National Cemetery: It's Much Worse Than I Thought 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

The "Cornerstone" of the Confederate War Effort Was Slavery 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

It’s been a very tough week for this AmericanStudier, but I continue to find comfort in community. So here’s my 215th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast eps, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share widely & enjoy!🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

submitted 100 days ago • 4 comments