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Reposting this again bc like — I want to be able to respond in some productive way to every awful thing I see, but we are literally not built for that. So I picked an org in my lane and I’m offering up my skills. Spent an hour today working through the first piece of a new plan. And it felt good.

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Gave my students extra credit for participating in Frederick Douglass Day 2025 at our uni library, transcribing documents from African American history. They reported back that so many people were participating nation wide that the website kept crashing. #skystorians #academicsky #fuckoffnazis

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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

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A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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"Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America." Happy Heavenly Birthday John Lewis, and thank you for everything.

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“consider this: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic” @govpritzker.illinois.gov quoted in yesterday’s @hcrichardson.bsky.social post: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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The works that come out of the new NEH cycle: • A Glorious March to Freedom: How Great Men Built America Without Any Complications • Manifest Greatness: The Inspiring Story of America's Perfect Journey Forward • Founding Fathers and Other Flawless Figures: America’s Unblemished Path to Glory

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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The Society of American Archivists condemns the widespread firing of archivists and cultural workers. #archives #libraries 📚 connect.archivists.org/discussion/s...

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There aren't that many things that I feel qualified to talk about, but during this crisis the one thing that I can speak out on, with some confidence, are the many dangers that the Trump administration poses to the preservation of historic sites and history education. 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com

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“CILIP [UK’s library & info org] is inviting members and wider information profession community to share examples of how content, reports, datasets, evidence, and tools are being removed by US authorities.” 🗃️#WhereWeAre

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"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." 60th Anniversary ⚖️✒️ #MalcolmX, African American #HumanRights activist and Muslim minister, was assassinated #OTD 21 February 1965 in New York, aged 39.

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I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

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“This is exactly what we predicted would happen and exactly what we were afraid would happen” www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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“In all, ProPublica found, more than $39 million has been earmarked to DOGE in the Trump administration’s first month”

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Celebrating authors & books from my 35 years in publishing every day of #BlackHistoryMonth Day #20 New book series on Black women’s history w/ Karen Cook Bell, Nikki M. Taylor, Kelly Houston Jones & Hettie V. Williams. Very excited about this. @cambridgeup.bsky.social

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"In America, THE LAW IS KING." Thomas Paine, 1776. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bjj...

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FEATURED JOB: Residential Research Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University, www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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Explore the AHA’s Resource Library, with hundreds of resources developed or vetted by the AHA and our partners. Our resources range from classroom syllabi, to archival documents from the Civil War, to standards and guidelines for the discipline, and more. 🗃️

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What were the impact & roles of older people in Black communities during slavery & emancipation? "Black Elders" by Frederick C. Knight examines them in the contexts of everyday #BlackHistory & #ageing #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #AmericanHistory #BlackStudies #AgeingStudies #AgeStudies #History

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Scholarship for International Doctoral Students in North American History, History of the Americas, or Transatlantic History in Munich. 🗃️ www.en.proamhist.amerikanistik.uni-muenchen.de/news/daadsti...

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"Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade for Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now' - new exhibition opening on 10 February.

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18 February #OTD Lilian Bader was born in 1918. Read by Lucia Wallbank’s blog on ‘one of the first Black British women in the Royal Air Force’. womenshistorynetwork.org/lilian-bader... #WomensHistory #GenderHist

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"Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Jim Moran (Kansas) and Steve Daines (Mont.) were all co-sponsors of this law. None responded to requests for comment."

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Anyone else bewildered? Bewilderment as a Way of Understanding America’s Present – and Past commonplace.online/article/bewi...

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Happy Toni Morrison Day and Audre Lorde Day! Ain't that the best of American writing & community? #BlackHistoryMonth memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/february-n...

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Looking for resources on teaching Black history this month? Check out this Teaching the JAH guide on Black record labels and the music industry: archive.oah.org/special-issu...

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📚📚📚 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54191

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How cool is this?! 🗃️

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On February 17, 1973, the USS Jesse L. Brown was commissioned, honoring the first Black U.S. Navy aviator. Ensign Jesse L. Brown’s courage in the Korean War broke racial barriers, inspiring greater inclusivity within the military. #StayCurious #Skystorians #DiveIntoDiscovery #BlackHistory

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NEW in the February 2025 JSH: The #2024SHA presidential address by R. J. M. Blackett, "Abductors/Liberators and the Underground Railroad" muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...

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Every time I read stuff like this I’m so super impressed by how well these folks managed to keep a lid on their racism/misogyny/ableism/homophobia for the past few? years of socially compelled inclusivity when people from diverse backgrounds were still grappling with discrimination. #Brave

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#CfP #CallForPapers deadline: 29 March 2025

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Every day for Black History Month I’ll be posting my favorite books on Black history and a link to the book to purchase if possible. Day 16 is Proudly We Can Be Africans by James Meriwether #BlackHistoryMonth uncpress.org/book/9780807...

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A website has been started in response to the orders to take down references to women’s accomplishments in government offices. We are not going to let them erase us this time. womenrefusingtobeerased.org

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A reminder that this week’s #ScholarSunday thread dropped yesterday! Please share all this public scholarly goodness widely. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @civilwarmemory.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social 🗃️

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#🗃️ #skystorians & public history peeps! idk if there's a feed for that specifically

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"White students in the Norwin School District had circulated a photo of themselves labeled ‘Kool Kids Klub,’ wore Confederate flag clothing, told a Black student to ‘go pick cotton’ and used racial epithets, investigators found." 🗃️ www.propublica.org/article/depa...

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Just pondering the history of toponyms. And how many early maps of the Gulf of Mexico we have @jcblibrary.bsky.social. This gorgeous one is French 1681, based on Marquette and the earliest European depictions of the Mississippi River, the delta and the "Golfe de Mexique." 🗃️

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