#tdih 1968 Teenagers from 25 schools formed the New York HS Student Union. Learn about this group & more in forthcoming "High School Students Unite!: Teen Activism, Education Reform, & FBI Surveillance in Postwar America" by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social Read ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ne...

Sept. 21, 1968: New York High School Student Union Founded I wrote this for @zinnedproject.bsky.social I cover this group in my forthcoming book "High School Students Unite!" www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ne...

I just saw him speak at Indiana University

Some exciting news: I’ll be giving a book talk at Book Passage in San Francisco on January 11, 2026, about my forthcoming book High School Students Unite! www.bookpassage.com/event/aaron-...

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

The offer still stands today

Exciting news! @uncpress.bsky.social is having a flash sale to celebrate their new website You can save 50% off all books, including mine, for 48 hours with code 01NEWSITE50 My book tells a character-driven narrative of student activism in the '60s and '70s uncpress.org/978146969182...

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

For ten consecutive years, Collinwood High School in Cleveland, Ohio was shaken by racial violence. Despite its significance, the Collinwood riots lacked a full historical account, until now. Preorder High School Students Unite! uncpress.org/978146969182...

Over 1,000 underground high school papers circulated between 1965-75. One, The New York High School Free Press, peaked at 40,000 copies. I cover it in my forthcoming book High School Students Unite! (available for preorder) 👉 uncpress.org/book/9781469...

As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.

Discussions about U.S. complicity in the Israel-Gaza War reminds me of my second book project, where Canadian antiwar activists called out Canada's complicity in Vietnam

"But Harvard has also cracked down on Palestine scholarship, demotings scholars and canceling related programs. “Harvard is being held up as the heroic institution, but what’s happening internally is much more complicated,” said Abu El-Haj."

Thank you Rachel!! We are trying, despite the destruction of the NEH. Y’all can read more & help make the film a reality here: southerndocumentaryfund.networkforgood.com/projects/240...

The number of historical markers about lynchings in America have to be in the triple digits. As the head of the Loudon County NAACP noted as a new marker went up in Virginia, part of its importance is that markers are hard to tear down. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...

my favorite people on tiktok are the folks who call themselves “history buffs” by which they mean they read one book and then uncritically summarize it for their viewers

The title of my forthcoming book, "High School Students Unite!," comes from a political cartoon that first ran in a NYC underground paper and was reprinted in high school publications across North America for at least 7 years. Available for preorder: uncpress.org/book/9781469...

For the first time in my life, I'm officially unemployed (I've been underemployed but I always had some paid job). I lost my job back in late March because a @nytimes.com reporter cited my employer, despite me telling them I cannot represent my job. Nonetheless, I am a finalist for a position.

In a rare account of the notorious prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration deported Venezuelan and Salvadoran migrants, Kilmar Abrego García’s lawyers said he and others were severely beaten and forced to kneel for nine straight hours.

I made another Google Veo 3 video to promote my book "High School Students Unite!" As a video editor, this feels too much like a shortcut and something anyone can do (literally), but it was fun to play with: uncpress.org/book/9781469...

I have thought of a lot of inventive ways to use this combining my video editing and storytelling experience. However, I ensure that the viewer knows these are fictional portrayals of real events and it's AI generated (but I also see this tech being use for negative purposes).

Here’s a rough cut of me experimenting with #googleveo3 to explore creative ways of promoting the book. I created a fictionalized version of a brief story from the book re: parents and the FBI. The dialogue is entirely fictional, but it’s inspired by real events. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

I've been toying around with #googleveo 2 (version 3 is a bit pricey). It's giving me ideas on how to market my forthcoming book: uncpress.org/book/9781469... A mother confronting her son about an underground newspaper

I was only in sixth grade when the Iraq War began (remember watching it on TV), but I distinctly remember my 8th grade civics teacher claiming that the U.S. would win simply because it we are geographically larger. SMH.

Most people know the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, but did you know San Francisco high schoolers led their own free speech fight over a banned underground paper in 1965? I tell this long-forgotten story in High School Students Unite (pre-order link): uncpress.org/book/9781469...

I am worried as well, but visitors to Manzanar and other NPS sites with difficult history are likely self-selected. The important thing for people to do is flood these QR codes with positive feedback when they see them. www.sfgate.com/california-p...

"Bluesky is dead." Meanwhile, on Bluesky...

#HighSchoolActivism in Silveer Spring, MD (where I live) www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/h...

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

I recently joined the show Disrupted on Connecticut Public Radio (WNPR) to talk about my forthcoming book High School Students Unite! (@uncpress.bsky.social) and the history of high school student activism in the United States Listen to the full segment here: www.ctpublic.org/show/disrupt...

Hundreds of NYC students walk out of class for ‘anti-Trump, nonpartisan’ protest www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

In Nov. 1968 and Feb. 1969, students John Hay High School in #Cleveland, OH, organized two walkouts to protest a new discipline policy and made other demands. The controversy went on for 5 months. You can learn more about historic student uprisings in my forthcoming book uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Although most of the comments here are about the topic, rather than the book, I'd like to put in an actual plug for @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's new memoir, "The Last American Road Trip," which (like all her books) is fantastic. I grew up in a road-tripping family, but this book is eye-opening.

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

These investigations occurred in cities, suburbs, and small towns such as #Albuquerque #PaloAlto, #NewYork, and Aberdeen, South Dakota. Some parents wrote letters directly to Director J. Edgar Hoover

Why did the #FBI spy on high school students in the '60s and '70s? One reason: parents, school officials, and even classmates helped them do it. My new book uncovers the story. Pre-order now with 30% off: 01UNCP30 @uncpress.bsky.social #skystorians uncpress.org/book/9781469...

There is a reason why people are cheering the burning of Nottoway Plantation, but it didn't have to be this way. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Job Listing: I'm seeking a Research Associate to join the Public History Lab at the Munk School, University of Toronto. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Have you ever heard of the 1968 #Cincinnati High School Sit-ins? I discuss it and more I my forthcoming book, High School Students Unite! Available for pre-order #history #education #skystorians @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/book/9781469...

it has taken me a minute to finish, but if you’re a 19th century american history/legal theory nerd you will love this book yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

In August 1969, students from thirty-one high schools across the Bay Area attended a 3-day meeting in San Francisco called the Bay Area High School Liberation Conference. You can learn more about it in my book available for preorder: #highschoolactivism uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Every author takes inspiration from somewhere. These books shaped how I wrote my forthcoming book, High School Students Unite!. It can be pre-ordered with a 30 percent discount at uncpress.org/book/9781469...

High School Students Unite! by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social spotlights the teens who led walkouts, reshaped schools & challenged authority in postwar America. A vital new history of youth power. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

I use to write about this a few years ago. And because of Tiktok, these online influencers' reach have expanded.

New book from @dukepress.bsky.social: Squatter Life: Persistence at the Urban Margins of Buenos Aires by Javier Auyero and Sofía Servián www.dukeupress.edu/squatter-life

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago. In High School Students Unite!, I show how teens mobilized against it, so powerfully that adult organizers called them the "backbone and organizer" of the antiwar movement. #VietnamWar #Activism Available for preorder: uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Want to know why the FBI spied on teenagers in the 1960s and 1970s? Or how did teenagers form their own social movement? My book, High School Students Unite!,  is now available for pre-order @uncpress.bsky.social LINK: uncpress.org/book/9781469... 🎉  Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!

Gatineau, Quebec, from the Library and Archives Canada.

This professor studies dictatorships. He helped convince Harvard to stand up to Trump