***New book from IEHS member Hannah Zaves-Greene*** Able to Be American: Disability in US Immigration Policy and the American Jewish Response (University of North Carolina Press, 2026) uncpress.org/978146969777...

This is Nazi Brutality, by Ben Shahn American, born Lithuania, 1898-1969 1942 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/194744

Celebrating May Day with some of our favorite worker art. The Meaning of Social Security, Ben Shahn-in the Cohen Federal Building, DC.

SANCTIONED BIGOTRY challenges the long-held idea that America has been largely immune to #antisemitism. Drawing on centuries of primary sources, the book reveals a complex truth. From 1654 to today, this collection traces how discrimination has been embedded across institutions, culture, and policy.

We're thrilled former Katz Center fellow Britt P. Davis has published a new book, Sanctioned Bigotry: A Documentary History of Antisemitism in the United States.

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

Today is SANCTIONED BIGOTRY's publication day! Excited to share these 178 revealing primary sources, which will, I hope, reshape conversations about antisemitism in the United States.

Tomorrow is publication day for SANCTIONED BIGOTRY, meaning today is the last day to preorder! If you order from YUP, you can use the discount code OAH26 for 30 percent off. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

"This will transform historical research!" Cool but it's already being transformed out of existence by the same forces pushing these transformative technologies. Forgive us if we're skeptical of a moment that's telling us "This will help you do your work--which we despise--faster and better."

My sources tell me that Abe Foxman died. Baruch Dayan Emet. Abe, I never thought I’d miss you as head of the ADL. But what a world. #JewSky

why isn't this story getting more traction? a Republican State Representative proposed a Holocaust denier for the NH state commission that sets the standards for Holocaust education. the commission member in question had also been caught engaging in lewd behavior at a playground.

Is your semester done? Grading in? Fantastic! Time to pick up your 594 page copy of this brilliant new book by @britttevis.bsky.social

A student who sets out to write a research paper will now encounter chatbots who will offer to do their work in their word document, in their learning management system, in their email, in their web browser, and in certain library database interfaces.

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interviews @caperry.bsky.social, author of Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History. Listen to the episode here: newbooksnetwork.com/craig-perry-...

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

"the average hourly wage for American private sector workers grew by just 1.3% from 2024 to 2025, according to Oxfam and ITUC’s analysis. In comparison, earnings for the 384 CEOs in the S&P 500 for whom pay data is available increased by 25.6% between 2024 and 2025." www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/u...

It cost me $177 to renew my driver license today. Requiring certain ID to vote without making that ID easy, accessible, and free is 100% a poll tax.

Following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) Wednesday, legal scholars and advocates across the country demanded reforms to the Supreme Court to preserve free and fair elections and voting rights in the U.S. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Watching Taylor Swift talk about song writing feels like a present. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/m...

NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW American Jewish History 108.4, Oct 2024 
Special Issue: American Jews and Israel tiny.one/532xrv3n CONTRIBUTORS Ori Yehudai, Geoffrey P. Levin, Lila Corwin Berman, Devin E. Naar, Britt P. Tevis, Kate Rosenblatt, Derek Penslar, Shaul Magid, Jack Wertheimer, and more

This isn't the right time for anachronisms

Happy birthday to the Library of Congress! President John Adams signed legislation 226 years ago today-Apr. 24, 1800-appropriating $5,000 to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress.” Image: modern reading room in Library of Congress’s Thomas Jefferson Building. LOC photo.

David Sorkin - The Emancipationists Nineteenth-Century Jews' Campaign for Citizenship À paraître en septembre aux Yale UP

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.

Antisemitism in America isn't just a conspiracy theory — it has been a political project to deny Jews equal rights. Historian Britt Tevis makes the case with 178 archival documents. Interview in the Documensch newsletter and on our website. bermanarchive.stanford.edu/antisemitism...

Stevens to RFK Jr: "To top it off, Mr Secretary, I got a copy of HR-944. You know what it is? It's your impeachment articles, sir. You have abused your office, you have gutted America's public health! You should be ashamed."

Grateful for the chance to discuss my forthcoming volume, SANCTIONED BIGOTRY, out next month with @yalepress.bsky.social

Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

Bone-chilling.

to all who celebrate...

SLAVERY AND TREASON BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE

On this day, 1865: the last Confederate flag, a white dish towel.

On Confederate Surrender Day, I give you the Liberator's take on Jefferson Davis: "We believe Jefferson Davis to be the worst man in all history. He was a repudiator and slaveholder. He has been a secessionist, a traitor and rebel....He has sedulously endeavored to subvert our free institutions."

"By week one, I was already tired of his anti-rich, pro-Samaritan bullshit. I wanted to take a course in Christianity, not liberalism."

I canvassed in Waukesha in 2012 for the recall election of then governor Scott Walker and had many a door shut in my face. What a win!

This seems like a good thread to share the wonderful B corp Bookshop dot org. You can order their books and have all the profits go to the local bookstore of your choice! I’m not affiliated with them at all, just a fan! e-books also available, I use a BOOX Palma as reader. bookshop.org

#ICE #EndICECamps #ICEOut

Awful www.ajc.com/news/2026/02...

In light of the State Department's Easter post on X, I wanted to share that the first chapter of my book, out in May, discusses the blurring of church and state as a central example of antisemitism in US history.

there is only one right answer regarding birthright citizenship. that it's even being entertained as an open question legit makes me feel physically unwell

Justice! Happy to offer free advertising (for the First Amendment): www.syracuse.com/news/2026/03...

New reporting underscores the rise of Christian nationalism in our military. A government steered by religion cannot serve all of us — threatening the rights and freedoms of millions of Americans and the core of our democracy. @thebulwark.com @julieingersoll.bsky.social

Britt P. Tevis (ed.) - Sanctioned Bigotry A Documentary History of Antisemitism in the United States À paraître en mai aux Yale UP

I don’t like it going to another city in the region means having to build in time to download whatever parking app I’m going to be forced to use.