Hi #skystorians i’m preparing to teach a lower level undergraduate course on the history of 20th century American consumerism. Please send me your secondary reading recs. Thank you!

Today is publication day! Wow. Thanks to everyone who preordered the book. I really appreciate it. If you have not preordered, then you can go to your local bookstore and pick up a copy. Please send me a pic if you already have a copy or when you go pick it up! I'd love to see it!

I hope all the AI boosters understand that they’re training their kids that only chumps do things the hard way—by working diligently and going through the discomfort and hassle of learning and acquiring skills. And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

Yup.

The National Basketball Players Association has released a statement on the killings in Minneapolis: “Following the news of yet another fatal shooting in Minneapolis, a city that has been on the forefront of fight against injustices, NBA players can no longer remain silent”

Proud of my town for showing up today.

The Rodney King video is one of the most important moments in American history because it showed people, particularly comfortable white people, irrefutable evidence that marginalized people’s stories of how police behaved - which were never believed - were in fact true.

Q: They defied a search warrant this morning. Do you think they'll abide by a federal court order? FREY: Everybody listen to that question. The question is 'will this administration abide by a court order.' These are the underpinnings of our democracy and Constitution. The answer better be yes.

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

We can do this everyone. We can do it.

The Olympics, too.

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

Hey #skystorians If you’d like to invite me to campus to talk about Influenza and Black Chicago, the Chicago Black Renaissance, Policy Gambling in Black Chicago (some 4th Amendment stuff in there, too), or the Louisiana State Lottery and Homer Plessy let me know! I’m on sabbatical and available.

As it should!

What a terrible terrible day.

What a throw Caleb Williams!

Renee Good’s Murder and Other Acts of Terror An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren... | @bostonreview.bsky.social

“We have been taught that safety lies in passivity, but that's a crock, because if our silence was supposed to have brought us safety, why aren't we safe and rich and happy?” Audre Lorde on the radio, 1979, but applies just as well to those preaching silence & passivity in 2026

As we near Martin Luther King’s birthday on January 15, let us introduce some and review for others, his definition and righteous understanding of “outside agitator” from “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” in which he discusses the “interrelatedness of all communities and states,” arguing that 1/

If you need inspiration to keep going right now, may I recommend the story of Robert Smalls, who stole a confederate steamboat and piloted his family and almost 20 others to freedom and went on to become one of the first Black people elected to Congress ✊🏽 www.usatoday.com/story/life/b...

whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him

Holy cow Indiana is good.

"The imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural" always got me.

Pilsen, Chicago

Their lies are not working, not this time. From Heather Cox Richardson:

Look at the hundreds of people in that community in Minneapolis who ran TOWARDS the danger. Look at those who documented in their heads what happened so they could accurately recount it afterwards, look at those currently out protesting. Pay attention & do your part too.

I'm usually not in the business of quoting Churchill (...), but: "Never give in. Never, never, never, never. In nothing, great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

We've published deeply on Cuba, Venezuela, and US policy toward Latin America, and as these issues return to the headlines, history matters more than ever. Authors: if you’ve written on this topic, drop your book title + link below and let's build a thread that helps make sense of this moment.

Here we goooooo!

And classes start tomorrow. I’m not feeling ready. It’s going to be a heavy term.

My kid made shepards pie tonight. It was delicious!

Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait with Cropped Hair, 1943, Frida cut her hair after her divorce from Diego Rivera due to his infidelity as an act of defiance, here she wears her ex husband's suit and is holding scissors-symbolically at castration level #UnlockingWomensArt

I think I’ll share these on the first day of class.

Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

We don't need a New You in this New Year, we just need you. You in your fullness, you in all your messy beauty, you with all your creative joy and honest heartbreak. You. You are the only you we'll ever have, and we are not us without you.

As we move into Hate Yourself Publicly Season, I also wish for us a year in which we have the courage to value ourselves for who we are & not hate ourselves for who we're not, a year in which we listen not to those who line their pockets with our insecurities, but to voices of tenderness & respect.

This was so much fun! I’ve never been this close to the ice. My husband caught a puck.

You can get 25% off if you preorder a copy of my book from Barnes and Noble between now and Jan. 1! Use the code: PREORDER25

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

Two naps, a walk, and some pie. It’s been a wonderful Christmas.

The thing is, these people don't really want military history (which incidentally can be social history, art history, disability history, economic history, and more) they want noble tales of White men fighting off dark skinned barbarian hordes, the subtext is very clear.

Snowflakes at The Chicago Cultural Center.

Baking Christmas cookies and all I can say is I tried.

This is devastating. My former employer terminating 47 people five days before Christmas. My heart is broken. Earlham is such a unique and good place.

Hey OAH members. There's a post on Facebook that requires us to object. I did. Screenshot of post below and screenshots of email I sent to OAH leadership following.

What the absolute [expletive] was that?!?

In Boston, we like our protests with a whole lot of history. #teaparty #dumpICE #Dec16

My book _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom_ (@yalepress.bsky.social) has been out for 6 months! I’m thrilled that in 2026, it will be available as an audiobook (March) and a paperback (July)! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...