For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKkz... This is the nuance this national milestone needs. Well @rezekjoe.bsky.social!

We ordered a new grill for my dad. Y’all it’s coming from Mesquite, Texas.

Good lord!!!

Congratulations to the East Baton Rouge Parish Library on their epic win and no tears for the book banning library haters on their giant LOSS! #ALAAC26 @uabookbans.bsky.social @la-cac.org @everylibrary.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social @aabbwashington.bsky.social www.wbrz.com/news/ebr-vot...

I’m just a scholar, staring at university press website, BEGGING you to include a table of contents with information about the book. Puhleeze!

My Dutch cousins are torn between pride in Oranje and fury about the Netherlands’ racist culture and politics. It’s complicated!

“It’s double Dutch in Houston!” is funny.

Patricia Williams. Just so necessary. Always (sigh)

It’s a good thing God built me for things other than ⚽️ because if I could do what these folks do even ONCE I would be impossible!

Whoa! That goal! 🇨🇴 😳

HISTORY.

Yeesh!!!

A helpful patron just explained to another patron (unprompted) that this will be like Bridgerton. Suddenly my hair burst into flames.

And if they plant native (to the particular state) plants and wildflowers

Proposed: a tax break for gardeners, especially if their gardens face a public street.

If you haven't seen Is God Is, I highly recommend! I think this may be the last weekend it's in theaters, per Aleasha's insta, and it's worth seeing on a big screen. I love that the weapon of choice is a rock in a sock, b/c everyone in the story exists within a prison of patriarchy

I think these are happening across the state (lots of friends from different parts of the state are posting about this). I hope so!

My pencil case has been missing since 6:00 this morning. It’s a wonder I didn’t collapse and crawl under the bed! Found it at 11:31.52

#Louisiana folks is this petition getting traction? thecurrentla.com/2026/voters-...

Many of us are getting a lot of calls from journalists trying to understand the argument about a "Christian founding." This is a helpful piece in explaining that a key piece of inconography was, like much else about the founding, the work of 19th c nationalist nostaglia.

🐙 @colindickey.com

Saw “Is God Is.” Oh my goodness!

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Princeton University Press is having a 50% discount sale on history books. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... My book, Native America: The Story of the First Peoples. Now on sale from the press for $19.98. Winner of the 2026 Popular Book Award from the Society for American Archaeology.

I recently bought a new bookshelf to manage the stacks of books around my apartment. It’s already full. And then @yalebooks.bsky.social put so much good work on sale! 50% off!

June 2021. It was a good time! (also, I can’t believe I am still awake)

In Monstrous Intimacies, @hystericalblkns.bsky.social mobilizes psychoanalysis as a method to analyze slavery’s psychic, cultural, and material hold on the present. Join us in Toronto from June 22nd to 24th to discuss this and other insights from her monumental text.

Get it!

You want to watch Joe talk common sense about COMMON SENSE! Trust me.

Here is the link. This will basically be a talk from my essay coming out in EAL in the fall

Whenever I see any kind of cutesy clip of Bush, I think of this first.

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” https://bit.ly/4wmbFg8

In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Today I learned that if you take your plant to the plant store for help, the plant people will coo over it like it’s a baby…or a dog. Also I learned I’m TOTALLY up for this!

Says the man who loves to talk about Cousin Pookie…

Forget Dad Books. MORE MOM BOOKS. Here are 4 excellent, insightful books about mothers and mothering in early America and beyond. Likely available second hand, too, for modeling reuse and recycle.

It’s May the 4th. Here is your permission to listen to that theme as many times as you need to today…

The Sound and the Irritation

Hey @cadaverformosus.bsky.social!

Today!!! Join us for Koritha Mitchell!!!

We are happy to discuss projects for the series. Contact us: [email protected] I’m guessing it goes without saying that we are eager to work with scholars of color.

Just taking a moment to be thankful that my dad at 84 (just last week) is going strong. Just back from a 17-day cruise. Still hilarious. He’s sending me back to Brooklyn with slices of GOOD ham—once-a-year ham.

So, I'm fancy now? I've been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.💅🏽 🤯 In the company of incredible scholars and activists who have been lights for me made my way through the wilds of academia. Having all the feels 🤯 🎉 😳 🎉 💃🏽

Today is Narwhal Appreciation Day so if you haven't already please sign my petition to have their name changed to "tunacorns"

I don’t talk about what happens in my classroom on social media too often but a compliment I just invented is “You’re on it like a bonnet.” And that’s both the blackest and regenciest thing that has come out of my mouth this year.

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Me: a middle-aged scholar entrusted with Austen editions. Mansfield Park: The Lay of the Last Minstrel Me: “Lay” heh, heh, heh “Lay” 😈