Two-day countdown to drive from Springfield MA to Morgantown WV. Thanks to everyone who helped make next phase possible - esp those who helped w packing boxes! Sad to be leaving home area, ready for the adventures. New gig is up and running: @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

All of this. This is why the vanishing of material support for reading and thinking is such a massive crisis for the historical profession. 🗃️

I've read this piece by Mitchell every summer since it was published in 2019, and I read it again today. If you work at a university, you might want to read it too. thenewinquiry.com/summertime-s...

+ @thisistheheff.bsky.social @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social @nitzanl1.bsky.social & many more. Please share the whole thread widely if you’re able, & I hope it’s a peaceful & reflective rest of the holiday weekend, all! blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Joe McCartin joined the Valley Labor Report to talk about the way we approach the history of the United States this July 4. Interview begins at the 44 minute mark. #america250 @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social @josephamccartin.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo-U...

Collection of Reuters photos of hundreds of masked white nationalists in Washington DC to stake their claim to 250th. Caps read "Manifest Destiny." What I find especially provocative, however, are all the people of diverse backgrounds & ethnicities going about their day on the sidewalks and metro.

The NARA San Francisco office is *the* place to study histories of US immigration and western histories of all sorts. Its staff are extraordinarily valuable for researchers, historians, and citizens who visit daily to learn more about these topics. This is terrible. www.kqed.org/news/1208890...

What can George Washington's life tell us about the country he helped found? Judy Woodruff speaks with historian Lindsay Chervinsky about Washington's achievements, contradictions and enduring influence on the American presidency. https://to.pbs.org/4v5Vfq3

Thanks for inviting me -- interesting points of view and ideas about the idea of "the American working class" and who gets to tell the stories and shape the mainstream ideas of workers #labor

#Peoples250: In the early 2000s historian Bill Barry spoke to former steelworker Sharon Pritchard about her first days working at Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point in Baltimore. #americanhistory #america250 #history #baltimore youtube.com/shorts/dUl04...

#Peoples250 The celebration of American working people and labor actions -- what made America, who made America. #labor

#Peoples250 Ken Germanson from the Wisconsin Labor History Society recalls the 1962 strike and buyout at the Milwaukee Sentinel. #america250 #americanhistory #laborhistory #Milwaukee youtu.be/7D8GB9CnxU8

Colleen O'Neill joined Liza Black to discuss her new book, Waging Sovereignty: Native Americans and the Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century. Read the interview at LaborOnline: lawcha.org/2026/06/19/c...

***Register for the Next IEHS Online Book Event*** Join us at 3:00 PM EST on Thursday, August 13 for our next online book event with Eladio Bobadilla and Nicole Greer Golda. Juan Ignacio Mora will moderate the discussion. Please register here: iehs.org/event/online...

CFP is up! Submission portal will open 8/1. Panels, roundtables >>>>>>>

Vaccines are a working-class issue -- one in which their health interests and well-being with govt subsidized vax has been twisted by the authoritarian narcissists. Keon Talik McDaniel, 25, died June 16, according to his obituary. This young man did not have to die.

“. . . it’s not just that most academic writing doesn’t earn you anything—most of the time, it costs you.”

Rep. Riley Moore, R-WV, has promoted cuts to the federal budget, even leading a working group in the House to help claw back money already in the budget. Now he’s asking for $250 million to help water projects in West Virginia. mountainstatespotlight.org/2026/05/24/m...

Each module fuses scholarly content and teaching, nesting the source in a core question, a brief context essay based on the latest scholarship, and a teaching plan that suggests varied ways to dissect the primary source. High school social studies teachers and college professors!

As I learned from reading historians, enslaved people in Texas heard about 1863 Emancipation Proclamation -- word travels -- but were remote, isolated w slaveowners. What happened June 19 1865 was enforcement of emancipation with the arrival of Union a couple months after the end of Civil War.

Watchable clear episode on environmental impacts of increasing fast fashion + petroleum-based fabrics. Great paired w a reading on global trade + finance agreements that drive it as much as human tendency toward expression that get most of attention in episode. #climatechange #labor

A Vietnamese national deported to South Sudan by the Trump administration under its controversial third-country deportation program was repatriated to Vietnam on Friday after spending more than a year in detention. https://to.pbs.org/3Siqvog

In a new Member Spotlight, literary agent Renée Zuckerbrot discusses what draws her to a manuscript, the effects of the industry’s financial challenges on agents and editors today, and the joy of literary community. https://pen.org/conversation-with-renee-zuckerbrot/ #authors #agents #books

Clean water is a labor and working-class issue, especially in this era of rapid climate change. Privatization of a needed public resource >>>>>>> #climatechange #workingclass

A homeschooling support center in Manhattan is part of Alpha School’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.”

“I am the person I am not because of the nice things I did, but because of the mistakes I made, the slaps I got… So do not be scared to rebel if someone oppresses you. I am a rebellious woman and I am proud!”–Marjane Satrapi, 1969-2026

The Trump administration is offering up tens of thousands of acres of elk habitat in Colorado near Dinosaur National Monument to Big Oil companies. The June 16 public land lease sale will be the largest in modern Colorado history, threatening wildlife and recreation. Source: @highcountrynews.org

Jasmine Clark is part of a growing conversation in the Democratic Party about age, one that increased in urgency after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race amid widespread concerns about his age and mental acuity, and after several House Democrats died in office.

Excited to welcome @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social to LibCon2026, July 16-17 at The Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC. conference.ismaglobal.org?utm_source=b...

ASEH 2027 Conference Call for Proposals will be opening soon! We can't wait to see you in Richmond for ASEH's 50th Anniversary, March 31-April 3.

Debt Collective founders and our allies are answering this question in a recently released report, which amplifies vital strategies used by social movements around the world to resist unjust debt and climate change in the same frame. #climatechange #workingclass

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

Congratulations to Brenda Boudreau and Kelli Maloy—winners of this year’s award honoring Ray and Pat Browne edited or co-edited scholarly books (hardcover or paperbound). The award recognizes collections with more than one or two contributors, published within the past year.

Species protection/wildlife preservation are labor issues! Usually the poorest people exploited by dealers the pay price in violence and arrests. Earth League International goes after the organized criminals at the upper levels. An amazing organization!! earthleagueinternational.org/operations-r...

Amazing discussion links labor and solidarity w Orion and its focus on natural world "lively conversation in celebration of Spr 2026 issue, Working the Land: Lessons in Labor and Collective Action, three contributors—journalist Kim Kelly and scholar Naomi R Williams—moderated by author Emma Pattee"

Yessss -- evasion and avoidance and illegal hoarding.

As I like to say, follow that $$$$$$

Your TBR is about to get longer 📚 @aupresses.bsky.social put together a US at 250: University Press Books list 👏 bookshop.org/lists/us-at-...

Women's Bureau has been a source in every project I've done. "Established in 1920, Women’s Bureau is both one of oldest of the nation’s statistic gathering agencies and today a canary in the coal mine for women, workers, and anyone dependent on reliable, nonpartisan data collection and reporting"

My latest for Truthout. Black job loss due to structural racism in Trump 2.0 truthout.org/articles/bla...

History is a battleground. "Cowboys... not Texas’s golden boys, but at moments, enemies of powerful men who built state.... [C]owboys were actually some of the first labor organizers; not lone wolves, but people who worked together to fight for fair wages and public ownership of Texas’s vast land."

Working people need a strong Department of Labor that enforces their workplace rights, protects them from bad bosses and prepares people for good jobs of the future. Cuts to the Department of Labor put all working people at risk.

Congratulations to the finalists of the 2026 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction! www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

Always remember that Alabama state government was *not* created to be representative of the people who live here. Its central aim is to keep power consolidated among a handful of individuals and groups at the top.

US women's history, feminist history, southern history? This distinctive archive is growing. Generous donor funded 3-yr women's stud archivist. And I'm joining team as Robbins Chair in US History. Come see us! @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social

Screwed up the link yesterday! Here’s my Boots Riley profile, a splashy exposé of Oakland cocktail culture, Prince fanhood, Communism, surrealism, maximalism, non-medicated colonoscopies & the real reason Boots wears his hats: Boots Riley, Marx Brother www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

JUST NOW: Trump defends stealing $1.7 BILLION from taxpayers for himself and his fellow allies/lawbreakers Also notice “1.776 Billion” — because he wants to seem patriotic as he robs taxpayers blind

Wow!*!*!* Good wow. Tu 5/19 2pm ET Amazing virtual seminar - about issue close to my professional, personal, civic soul. Orion’s Spr 2026 issue, Working the Land: Lessons in Labor and Collective Action, explores relationship between labor and the environment. Also imagine alternatives!!

Brilliant evisceration by @billmckibben.bsky.social of the corruption caused by the fossil fuel companies over decades. When historians write about this period, they will be aghast at the evil decisions made by those companies and their facilitators. billmckibben.substack.com/p/big-oil-br...

An insane level of corruption—even for Trump. A $1.7 BILLION slush fund for Trump’s hand-picked stooges to hand money to January 6th insurrectionists and his political allies. Here’s the President’s priority as Americans sell their plasma to afford gas and groceries: