The newest edition of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is now out! Find the entire issue here. A few highlights: hammerandhope.org

banger from @bakerdphd.bsky.social

is anyone planning to visit National Archives - College Park in the near future? I'm looking for someone to download a few digitized files on premises, to avoid paying their duplication fee for remote requests

nearly *7 years* wait on a routine FOIA request to declassify a thin FBI file (125 pages)

good stuff in the Missouri Historical Review (July 2024) digital.shsmo.org/digital/coll...

book launch w/ @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social Tuesday, Nov. 11 6:30 pm Central time / 7:30 pm Eastern Time f2f in Chicago + live stream anywhere. donations appreciated

In his new book, No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine, historian Jeff Schuhrke explains that the U.S. labor movement has never been neutral when it comes to Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Review by Digital Organizer Samantha Cooney: www.ueunion.org/ue-news-feat...

Hotels, restaurants, pools, parks, gas stations, restrooms, drinking fountains and roadside stops were not equally open to all Americans. The Green Book Project archives the data and memorializes this important history of segregation greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

Arun Kundnani (@arunkundnani.bsky.social), "Can Universities be Antiracist? Liberal Scholarship in Genocidal Times," Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 103 (2025), pp. 107-117

@pmheideman.bsky.social provides a precis of a classic by Claus Offe, a giant of critical sociology who recently passed along

On the “Black Liberal Arts Tradition.” Morehouse next Thursday thru Saturday. If you’re in ATL come through. Some great papers and keynotes from Joshua Myers and Crystal Sanders. sway.cloud.microsoft/lq4BYdHorMjj...

"At 100, Ms. Ginger was among the last of a generation of lawyers and activists who weathered McCarthyism and the Red Scare, and then helped train a new cohort during the 1960s and after." 🧵

Listen to historian @josephamccartin.bsky.social detail the essential role of Jews in the U.S. labor movement, which he had to explain to antiunion members of Congress trying to label contemporary unions with “antisemitism.” laborhistorytoday.podbean.com/e/unmasking-...

Our political discourse pits identity politics against economic populism. But the choice is false and contributes to incredible confusion about the working class across the political spectrum. For @hammerandhope.bsky.social I show why and sketch an alternative (sorry to crosspost):

July 5 marked the 90th anniversary of the signing of the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act. There are important lessons to be taken from the sorry state of this aged labor law. One is that labor law reform will not rescue unions. Only union struggles can do that. prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

Thanks @thenation.com for understanding the importance of learning the actual lessons from Martin and Coretta Scott King for this Juneteenth, how much he is distorted in public discourse, and what they give us for our struggles today: www.thenation.com/article/acti...