My newest article is out! It argues that racial and religious outsiders, such as Black Protestants and white Latter-day Saints, used sacred music to break into powerful networks' exclusive programming lineups during the height of radio's national influence 🗃️ #amrel #radio

Fascinating 👇 Black Protestants & white Latter-day Saints infiltrated networks’ programming lineups, producing sounds that challenged & reinforced assumed whiteness of network radio and the nation, forming racial and religious identities, including the emerging category of “American religion.”

"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million." Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.

Earlier this year, @wendylrouse.bsky.social was one of the first to sound the alarm about federal censorship of historical work. Today at #AHAPerspectives, she writes about what happened with her own article on the NPS website and the longer history of LGBTQ+ erasure. 🗃️

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

#Facebook appears to have kicked this education professor off its platforms bc she quoted Harvey Milk. #meta apparently considers calling for “a safe and supportive environment” for all young people a form of child exploitation. Happy Pride Month from our corporate overlords! 🌈 #pride #pride2025

“We are in danger of not being able to help this next generation of American citizens understand the nation’s past,” said Cathy Gorn, the exec. dir. of National History Day. “There’s a lot to lose here.” Canceled remaining National History Day funding: $825,000 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/a...

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

UPDATE: The National Park Service have now removed “queer” and the “Q+” from the web page for stonewall, along with any mentions of transgender people.

‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+". The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history. This pride, we riot.

A public State Department procurement document for fiscal year 2025 listed the purchase for $400 million. It comes as ethics experts raise conflict of interest questions about Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is a top White House official.

Checks and balances are apparently as outdated as balancing a checkbook #civics #ConstitutionalCrisis

Every professor should join the AAUP right now if you haven't. www.aaup.org Also join your local campus workers union, or any other union relevant to your work (they do different things!). If the government won't protect us, and our administrations won't protect us, we need to protect each other.

Each executive order is terrible on its own, but the cumulative effect is the impression that POTUS is the government and everything else—Congress, courts, local gov, etc — doesn’t matter.

Terribly weak and embarrassing move. He should be a man, like William Henry Harrison.

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The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication @annenbergcargc.bsky.social at @asc.upenn.edu invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship. We are esp. interested in candidates whose work connects media industries, popular culture, and citizenship. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

For crying out loud Not only is this a fake Jefferson quote, but it's out of character. Over 20,000 Jefferson documents are online. He wrote "Jesus Christ" in only 13. One is a list of books He created his OWN version of the Bible. He also supported the separation of church & state. So...stop.

Since I couldn't get to #ASCH because of pneumonia, I'll still revel in the joy that @rns.org gave me today in their archival photo section of the newsletter. This photo shows Rev. Elizabeth J. Canham as she celebrated her ordination on December 5, 1981, in the Episcopal Church.

Fellow #academicsky profs working on syllabi & looking for assignments that AI can't complete--check out my book hunt assignment. Students have to search for & check out a book from the library. It was a hit with my survey course this fall! /1 cassandragoodhistorian.com/2024/11/12/t... 🗃️

AHA members: The AHA is accepting applications for the 2025-26 research grants until February 15, 2025. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs. 🗃️

On Christmas Eve 1855 enslaved teenagers from Loudon County, Virginia fended off slave patrollers as they made their escape to freedom in Philadelphia. This image, “A Bold Stroke for Freedom,” is housed in the Library of Congress.

A right wing car maker who bought a media outlet in order to amplify antisemitic conspiracy theories is advocating for a far right German party that promises to expel a disfavored minority? You don’t say.

Just in case any of you don’t know about the amazing resources PH have been putting out, including how to implement your own handwriting transcription program (for free for <5000 images/month) programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/t... 🗃️

Jeffries: In our nation's history, 25% of our nation's debt was accumulated during the four years of the former president, 25%. How dare you lecture America about fiscal responsibility ever.

And if you see anyone using student evals negatively in a tenure process … stop them.

The call for proposals for #AHA26 is open until February 15, 2025. Our 2026 annual meeting will take place on January 8–11, 2026, in Chicago. The Program Committee welcomes and encourages all historians to submit proposals. 🗃️

Any labor #skystorians who want to write a piece for @cliocontemporary.bsky.social about the teamsters Amazon strike that’s set to launch soon? Reach out and let me know! Or suggest someone who may be interested and I can reach out

Very cool!

So I’ve had my 1st Black History Month event cancellation because of “DEI concerns,” citing a fear of frivolous suits. Funny thing is, I don’t do DEI, I’m a historian of the Black American experience. A reminder that DEI is just a dog whistle about suppressing history, if you need a reminder.

Yes, you read that right! @uncpress.bsky.social is hiring for the Acquisitions Assistant position. This person works closely with editors and it can be a great early career position for people interested in publishing. More details on the UNCP website or at the @aupresses.bsky.social job board!

That’s my sis! Buy her stuff: rachelkenaston.com/shop

🗃️ CFP for 2026 Textbooks and Teaching Section of The Journal of American History. Deadline June 1, 2025. We invite submissions for the March 2026 Textbooks and Teaching section of the Journal of American History. We are particularly interested in

For history teachers (and teachers overall): I will reiterate that requiring students to critique A.I., using quoted and properly cited evidence from the document A.I. is attempting to talk about, appears to be an effective approach in the classroom. Happy to share details. 🗃️

My review of Dixie Heretic by the late Tennant Williams is in the Dec issue of the JAH! It’s a fine-grained biography of white Southern minister Renick Kennedy and his (often unsuccessful) efforts to change his fellow white Christians’ attitudes about race and poverty #amrel #southernhistory 🗃️

So much of "AI can help you learn!" makes me think of when I'd let students each bring a sheet of notes into the final examp and there'd be one group of students who would divide the work up and make one sheet. They'd always do poorly because making the sheet itself was the studying that mattered.

This is huge. An entire faith-based movement, the Sanctuary Movement and, more recently, the New Sanctuary Movement, was built around this policy, where houses of worship allow undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation to live in their facilities until their deportation order is dropped.

Want to learn more about the history of sanctuary activism and what might lie ahead for faith-informed migrant justice? Tune into SANCTUARY: On the Border Between Church and State, a limited podcast series from me and Lloyd Barba! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

How about some glorious historical drag queens to start your day? A thread 🧵 (1/7) Left image: John Lindstrom, c. 1890-1910 Right image: Julian Elting, c. 1916 #LGBTQhistory #queerhistory #pride #LGBTQ #19thC #20thC #skystorians #drag 🗃️

Gonna try this here: #skystorians: What articles do you like to use to teach historical methods to undergrads? I'm aware of the classic books, but I would like some shorter & accessible pieces. Thanks! And please reshare!

Come work with me! This is a pretty great three-year visiting gig for scholars of American culture. I really enjoyed leading the travel-oriented American Culture Program the last two years! App deadline Dec 15. #academicjobs #amst 🗃️

Have you got a screenshot of an encounter with AI which is unsettling, strange, surprising, laughable or troubling? Still time to submit to our call for screenshots! A selection will be featured in an online publication and workshop. Deadline end of 10th Dec (any time zone): troubling-ai.glitch.me

James Taylor was my most listened to artist this year… which basically means I took a lot of naps 😴

I screened No Más Bebés in class two years ago and was deeply moved by Madrigal’s testimony, as were my students. Thankful for her courage!

#OTD, 5 Dec 1935, Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women – a US council to bring together other national organisations working towards women’s equality. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️

Really enjoyed this excerpt from @dsuisman.bsky.social ‘s new book. Fascinating read abt how the soundtrack for most GIs in Vietnam wasn’t the rock and roll we often imagine but the more mainstream, curated tunes of the American Forces Vietnam Network 📻

I took a shot at getting a Radio Studies starter pack going - I've definitely most certainly missed people so please sound off below if you want to be added (or removed) go.bsky.app/7NpY1kR