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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 31 days ago • 2305 comments

"I have come to see the struggle against colonialism less as a historical problem that can be judged from a comfortable distance, and more as an enduring one." A very worthwhile read here from @arthurasseraf.bsky.social.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Been devouring this the last few weeks and I cannot believe how essential it feels for understanding our current moment susanfaludi.com/backlash-cha...

submitted 50 days ago • 214 comments

Good riddance to one of the great political figures of modern French history - a vile yet charismatic character who unexpectedly became the vehicle for the postwar resurrection of France's long and distinguished far-right tradition. www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.

submitted 54 days ago • 18 comments

In 2013, I started a French Studies channel on the New Books Network & hosted it solo for over a decade. This interview w/Emily Marker re: BLACK FRANCE, WHITE EUROPE is my last official episode (for now, anyway). Biggest gratitude to all the authors & listeners out there. I had the best time!✌️

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

Hello blue world. Just wading in to let you know that I'm working on an indie digital humanities project: a website & repository for La Fraternité, a Haitian🇭🇹 newspaper in Paris🇫🇷 in the 1890s. It's still in development, but check it out if you're interested: scalar.library.yorku.ca/black-republ...

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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

submitted 80 days ago • 155 comments

An open letter from Marianne Hirsch, Jumana Manna, Pınar Öğrenci, Michael Rothberg, Marc Siegel on the cancellation of “The Art of Memory in Times of Trauma and Grief” — and on Germany’s dogged insistence on suppressing voices of Palestinians and others supportive of Palestinians, including Jews.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

If you don't see it as a moral imperative to oppose the mass deportation of millions of immigrants, I just don't know what to tell you

submitted 83 days ago • 63 comments

Uhhhh hard to understate how radical this is!!!! Really reshapes our whole concept of rights!! And freedom!!! Ha ha ha!!! I’m laughing!!! Cause I have to!!!!

submitted 87 days ago • 24 comments

Let’s fucking go. I was at the Madison protests in 2011 and it was my defining moment of radicalization. I am animated by the venom of pure hatred I hold for Scott Walker and the need to see his legacy undone

submitted 89 days ago • 34 comments

A group that helps low-income students attend college is warning immigrant families that the federal loan-application process may soon put them at risk of deportation www.chronicle.com/article/will...

submitted 95 days ago • 7 comments

Most of the folks interviewed are in my department. But what the piece doesn’t reveal is that this reactionary regime of censorship is working hand-in-hand with an assault on shared governance, fully enabled by each respective campus administration. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

submitted 100 days ago • 8 comments

I’m starting a medicine bank to try to keep meds affordable for my patients in 2025. I’ll stock it as fully as I can before tariffs come and Oz & RFK get rolling. If you just have $5 I can use it to get a patient a dose of emergency contraception. 🙏 #mutualaid #directprimarycare shorturl.at/8QKgg

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

My new virtual special issue of FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES @sfhs.bsky.social featuring CLASSIC ARTICLES ON 🇭🇹 & SLAVERY articles just dropped. #HaitianSky #FrenchHistory ATLANTIC ANTECEDENTS: BEFORE THE ‘HAITIAN TURN’ All open access, 🙏 @dukepress.bsky.social. read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Love to ban trans women from capitol restrooms in order to “protect women and girls” while suppressing a report about the incoming attorney general paying for the statutory rape of a minor while in congress and showing women’s nudes on the House floor

submitted 102 days ago • 100 comments

This from Joan Scott is excellent. FIRE has always been a right wing org that fooled lots of folks by draping itself in the mantle of free speech. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

submitted 104 days ago • 4 comments

"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

submitted 106 days ago • 86 comments

For those who [like me] are extremely concerned about forthcoming mass deportation, follow Detention Watch Network. They will be putting out action alerts (monthly at minimum) as needed to put people to work... Folks can sign up for their email list here: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/signup

submitted 112 days ago • 51 comments

Extremely good piece, required reading. Just taking a step back and reporting what trump actually says, examining how this is laundered into a framework of normal politics, and pointing out the consequences. More political commentary like this please

submitted 163 days ago • 8 comments

The results showed a dominance by the left and then the center, and Macron hands control over to the center-right instead, in total violation of the will of the people. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/w...

submitted 177 days ago • 11 comments

JUST IN: France has a new Prime Minister. Macron chose Michel Barnier, a conservative politician from the LR party. This makes explicit the long-tacit alliance between Macronists + conservatives. And Macron is choosing someone based on thinking far-right (RN) won't bring down. Explanation:

submitted 178 days ago • 13 comments

Adding a gift link for this b/c for many of us it is pretty remarkable to see uni presidents like this exist (despite that what he’s saying should be basic moderate consensus) “To strengthen our democracy and the educational institutions that depend on it, we must learn to practice freedom better.”

submitted 181 days ago • 15 comments

Despite its flaws the public university system is a jewel of civilization and the worst finance-brained losers on earth want to kill it for good

submitted 190 days ago • 8 comments

Feels like a good day to remind everyone that JD Vance was a no-show on the vote for my bill to expand the child tax credit when it was on the senate floor two weeks ago. My bill failed after Republicans blocked it, leaving 16 million kids worse off.

submitted 197 days ago • 33 comments

New essay on how higher ed got so broken www.thenation.com/article/cult...

submitted 314 days ago • 1 comment

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

submitted 331 days ago • 34 comments

Nobody knows (yet) how this new law is going to be turned into university policy and practice. But one thing it will certainly do is divert thousands, probably millions, of dollars from the key purpose of producing, transmitting, and preserving knowledge and toward "compliance."

submitted 352 days ago • 10 comments

SFHS Supports our Colleagues at Manhattan College. To find out more, read our announcement: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net

submitted 396 days ago • 0 comments

If I were a New York Times education reporter, I’d cover this, really looking at the consequences for students in New York City.

submitted 415 days ago • 39 comments

The new, 2023 issue of the Journal of the Western Society for French History (JWSFH) is out & it is FANTASTIC! Check it out now: journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/2...

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“In interviews, many Black women complained of being stereotyped by administrative staff, nurses and doctors and of being repeatedly asked about their marital status and insurance — even when they wore a wedding band, had a hyphenated last name or had private insurance.”

submitted 446 days ago • 6 comments

A list of books, chapters, and articles published in 2023 by lit studies scholars working off the tenure track, assembled by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social and @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social

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For a long time I’ve been thinking about why we are so terrified a child will regret a gender transition. This essay ended up being not just about gender but about all of our identities, how they shape us and, crucially, how we shape ourselves. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/o...

submitted 457 days ago • 73 comments

“Henry Kissinger’s insistence on recording practically every word he said remains the gift that keeps on giving to diplomatic historians... Kissinger’s aides later commented that he needed to keep track of which lie he told to whom."

submitted 458 days ago • 0 comments

🎉It's our 2023 book list, featuring historians working off the tenure track around the world 🎉

submitted 460 days ago • 2 comments

Big congrats to @profmkbyrnes.bsky.social -- so excited for this book.

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"fiction has put her back in the limited, familiar role of sacrificial mother that she inhabited in Capa’s photo" www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/o...

submitted 463 days ago • 1 comment

you might think that I’m antisemitic, but would an antisemite make vague, grandiose proclamations about wanting what’s best for the future of humanity?

submitted 468 days ago • 51 comments

We've got more than 50 submissions for this year's lists--get yours (or your colleague's) in by Sunday!

submitted 467 days ago • 1 comment

For TNR, I reviewed Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, which is entertaining, nice to look at, incredibly stupid, and historically meaningless

submitted 468 days ago • 11 comments