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linford.bsky.social
Early American historian @ Brown University; author of The Indian Great Awakening; Decoding Roger Williams; Reading Roger Williams. PI for @stolenrelations.bsky.social; father of four; loves to sail, run, hike, and run.
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We are nearing a precipice.

submitted 16 days ago • 2073 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 16 days ago • 385 comments

Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

submitted 16 days ago • 491 comments

Two excellent and unrelated developments today, summarized in two pictures. 1) a revised book manuscript back to the production team at Norton; 2) a lucky entrance by lottery to the Canyon de Chelly ultra marathon this October! 55k - nbd.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Glad to be included alongside @natboundunbound.bsky.social in the article published by @typewriterninja.bsky.social at @usatoday.com on the history of Indigenous enslavement and the two projects chronicling this phenomenon www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Millions of indigenous people were enslaved in the Americas, including the United States. Most were women and children, in contrast with the African slave trade -- and evidence suggests such practices lingered into the 20th century. Two projects aim to tell the story. My article from @usatoday.com.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Grateful for this excellent coverage of the @stolenrelations.bsky.social ns.bsky.social and the @natboundunbound.bsky.social projects. @browncds.bsky.social @brownhist.bsky.social @brownhist.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 30 days ago • 232 comments

Hey friends, please consider following @stolenrelations.bsky.social project! Follow this thread to learn more about us, and look for an official launch with a new website (and better images) in May-ish 2025! Very grateful for all of our tribal representatives and our team @browncds.bsky.social.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool

submitted 33 days ago • 25 comments

If you are 1) a federal civil servant/contractor ordered not to release scheduled data or reports, or 2) an academic who has lost access to government data in the past week ...please get in touch. I'm happy to keep our conversations confidential. crampell[@]washpost[dot]com

submitted 37 days ago • 42 comments

Deb Haaland, the country's first indigenous cabinet secretary, used her term at the Interior Department to make what activists say is irreversible impact in recognizing the painful history of the government's treatment Native Americans.

submitted 43 days ago • 41 comments

Remarkable clarity from George Stephanopoulos www.mediaite.com/politics/geo...

submitted 309 days ago • 20 comments

Happy to finally see this hit the shelves! With thanks to my co-editors and our Narragansett readers -- I think we've managed to present a more complicated and complicit Roger Williams through his letters and publications. #indigenous #earlyamerica #rhodeisland

submitted 343 days ago • 0 comments

It has been the greatest honor of my career to write a Foreword for the Harv Law Rev. I am grateful to be able to tell this story and tell it from the heart in such a prominent forum. As always, I dream of a day when words can change minds and hearts—and worlds: harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 476 days ago • 5 comments