a great time to get @uncpress.bsky.social's *Mississippi Law* for yourself or your library. In it I show how the history of policing under Jim Crow segregation is an American History uncpress.org/978146968948...

Look at this incredible 1883 color-coded map of Washington showing the varieties of street pavement. From the People's Archive of the DC Public Library. digdc.dclibrary.org/do/523a37ae-...

Such an important history for people who think libraries have always been bastions of democracy. Some of those vestiges are still there! Ask Black librarians.

Making my list of things to read in the archives this summer for book two and I can barely contain myself! Any new tips for taking and organizing archival photos? 🗃️

I updated my post on The First Juneteenth in Houston to reflect that the Houston Daily Evening Star, which contains a rare report on the event, is now digitized at the Portal to Texas History. My article on this is forthcoming soon in the Journal of Texas History.

***New article from IEHS member Jonathan Cortez*** “For the Sake of Migrant Futures: Historicizing Migrant Deaths in Shipping Containers on the U.S. – Mexico Border in the Twentieth- and Twenty-First Centuries,” California History 3, no. 1 (Spring 2026): 70-107. online.ucpress.edu/ch/article/1...

Please read my essay in the new Journal of American History about how abolitionists used runaway slave ads to ridicule slavery. #slaveryarchive

Prof gets his day in court. “The Guardian has seen university emails; the suspension, termination and denial of appeal did not offer a substantive explanation for each decision and make no reference to specific rules, regulations or laws violated.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW: The Mississippi Department of Public Safety says the 1960s Klan materials that staff found in a closet were likely part of a decades-old investigation. A suitcase contained Klan regalia, pamphlets and notebooks—including notebooks listing the names of many of its members.

Solidarity with Idris Robinson. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

MISSISSIPPI LAW is on the syllabus y‘all uncpress.org/978146968948...

lord help me. Mississippi's state police found a box of Klan materials in a closet while moving into its new $70mil headquarters. and they are SO proud of themselves for turning it over to the state archives. #1) I need to see the chain of custody from the time... www.wapt.com/article/ku-k...

NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com show that the salaries of a small NH town’s while police department are paid by ICE as part of its 287(g) program. @sammysussman.bsky.social has the scoop. No paywall: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

CAUSE THE EYES OF A RANGER ARE UPON YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU DO HE'S GON SEE

Congrats @uncpress.bsky.social !!proud to be forever on the 2025 Southern History list uncpress.org/978146968948...

‘Power to the People, Y’all’ will premiere in Winston-Salem, NC, at the RiverRun International Film Festival on April 18th.  Producer: Tressie McMillan Cottom Director, Cinematographer & Editor: Holland Gallagher Cinematographer: Patrick Lebby Producer:Johnica Rivers Key Art: Shefon N. Taylor

Truly happy to reveal the cover of AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America. Available for preorder now!🙏♥️ read.macmillan.com/lp/an-inconv...

So honored that my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, will be the first in the new W. Hodding Carter III trade imprint from @uncpress.bsky.social. For those attending #OAH2026, please join us for a celebration of the new imprint! Pre-order the book here! tinyurl.com/mwcc4977

"Prosecutors have pointed to leftwing zines and flyers seized from the protesters, their use of the encrypted messaging app Signal...."

Many area residents in Southaven, Mississippi, and nearby Memphis, Tennessee, oppose xAI’s growing presence in their backyards, fearing what Elon Musk’s data centers’ operations could mean for their health and the surrounding environment. www.mississippifreepress.org/xai-faces-fi...

For #WomensHistoryMonth, check out Lorri Glover's #2025SHA presidential address in the February 2026 JSH: "Reimagining the American Revolution: Southern Women's Wars for Independence" muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Congrats to Brian Kwoba, author of HUBERT HARRISON, on winning the Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought 🏆👏

My friend Garrett created a mobile library called the Free Society People's Library a couple of years ago. www.freesocietylibrary.org/about "We provide free, accessible, information on radical movements and revolutionary ideas past and present to people of all ages."

Austin and Central Texas! I’m speaking about histories of policing under Jim Crow authoritarianism at one of my favorite bookstores. Alienated Majesty Books: 613 West 29th Street, Austin, TX 78705 RSVP here: alienatedmajestybooks.com/events/46225...

Amazon dethroned Walmart as the largest American company by revenue yesterday (bound to happen, surprising it took so long). I wrote about Walmart's position in these political times for n+1 a few weeks ago, feeling a lil more relevant today: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

I attended one of the best symposia I’ve ever been a part of yesterday, honoring David Montejano on the 40th anniversary of his landmark book Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas. It was organized by 3 grad students from the UT Department of Mexican American and Latino Studies /1

NYC! I’ll be discussing BORN IN FLAMES with these two legends on 3/4

In "Media Rurality," edited by Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney, contributors show how rural territories are highly mediated, technologized spaces profoundly enmeshed with global capitalism and colonialism. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/M8lC4sJ

So glad to see Judith Resnik's crucial new book.

Introducing Selling Safety! A report that lays bare the ethnically dubious world of marketing and selling police surveillance technology, how effectiveness numbers are manufactured, the role police play in a massive for-profit industry, and new critical questions for reporters and law makers.

Jesse Jackson has died at 84. In our latest forum, @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social writes on the democratic promise of his “rainbow coalition,” the enduring power of his moral vision, and his commitment to mobilizing “the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected, and the despised”:

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

Flock is from Atlanta. Fusus is from Atlanta. Cop City is in Atlanta--so much of the surveillance and policing around the country comes from here. That's exactly why we need strong independent journalism on the ground sounding the alarm. Please give if you can to @atlpresscollective.com.

The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument never stopped giving out brochures that describe Medgar Evers’ killer as a “racist,” despite reports saying they had been removed and later returned, says the monument’s superintendent, Keena Graham. www.mississippifreepress.org/evers-nation...

Just started! www.youtube.com/live/6AQDMKL...

My essay reckoning with Wendell Berry, in the first issue of Southlands magazine, is online now: southlandsmag.com/after-the-ye...

🎉 FSU is hiring a 2-year postdoc in Public History!! 🎉 Apps (cover letter + cv) due March 11, finalists will submit additional materials (letters + writing sample) More info available here: careers.historians.org/jobs/2201954...

In their new book "Sex Isn't Real," Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Read a Q&A about their bold argument on the blog today. buff.ly/hB1k4Cw

This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.

all while cutting PhD spots. loser stuff. www.ctinsider.com/news/educati...

Weds, Feb. 4, 3ET - CSUSB’s Conversations on Race and Policing I’ll talk about my @uncpress.bsky.social book *Mississippi Law* and lessons from the Jim Crow era about unaccountable policing and reform. come think with us! www.csusb.edu/event/593012

Next Thursday February 5 at 6:30, in person AT the SCHOMBURG Center, we're going to have a powerful conversation on the history of political repression and police violence and Black organizing against it. Please join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/policing-b...

Refusing to Forget mourns the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis. refusingtoforget.org/we-refuse-to...

a nation founded on law enforcement

Why would you believe people who tell you that the US can't shut down institutions at the drop of a hat when you are currently witnessing this administration do it in real time?

it has been noted that I nod a lot. and now my baby is doing it. cutest thing ever