Preorder the 2nd edition of my book No Common Ground using the code 01SOCIAL30 on uncpress.org to get 30% off. @uncpress.bsky.social #confederate #monuments

One of the final texts we read in the Work & Poverty Unit in my Honors Seminar on America in the Gilded Age is Stephen Crane's "An Experiment in Misery." Published when he was not yet 23, it's as complex as all Crane, but displays remarkable depth & empathy. 🗃️ storyoftheweek.loa.org/2011/06/expe...

3. Dynamic duo @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social and @americanstudier.bsky.social teamed up for a new website to share their public scholarship. As a long time follower of #ScholarSunday since the old days of #AcademicTwitter (sigh), this conversation was delightful theacademicdesigner.com/2025/public-...

Here's 7 Academic Writing Month (AcWriMo) resources for you. Happy writing ✍️💻 Please share with a friend 🫶 1. A live podcast recording about public writing for academics with my friend Lisa Munro, PhD @llmunro.bsky.social. That'll broadcast on YouTube tomorrow, Wednesday, November 12. #AcademicSky

Happy Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Day & Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day! memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/november-n...

My new Considering History column on Ira Hayes is one of many times I've had the chance to write about America's veterans, soldiers, & the painful, inspiring, vital histories to which they connect. I thought for #VeteransDay I'd share a bunch of those columns from across my 8 years at the Post! 🗃️

My new Considering History column on Ira Hayes is one of many times I've had the chance to write about America's veterans, soldiers, & the painful, inspiring, vital histories to which they connect. I thought for #VeteransDay I'd share a bunch of those columns from across my 8 years at the Post! 🗃️

Here at 11:11 on November 11th, here's my new @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History column, on the heroic, tragic, vitally American story & truths behind the iconic WWII soldier & veteran Ira Hayes. Please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/cons...

I just drafted an op-ed that I hope I'll get to place somewhere with more reach than my own platforms (but if not I will just post it eventually). 🗃️ The gist is that Christmas is an active word. We DO Christmas. Christmas is a call to secular civic action. 1/4

Here at 11:11 on November 11th, here's my new @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History column, on the heroic, tragic, vitally American story & truths behind the iconic WWII soldier & veteran Ira Hayes. Please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/cons...

Teaching a Winter session version of my Intro to Sci Fi & Fantasy course (a class I created long ago in response to student demand), & this will make for a great supplemental resource!

I just hit 100 subscribers on Review Roulette!! Thank you all so much! Rebuilding on a new site is rough going and it was hard to say goodbye to our much higher subscriber counts on Substack, but I'm so proud of this site and @americanstudier.bsky.social's and my work on it. Please subscribe if...

Happy Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Day! No better read for Veterans' Day than Slaughterhouse-Five. memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/november-n...

In these fraught times, we need spaces & communities of our own, that we can make what we want & use to support each other & our work. &, yes, to avoid Nazis as much as possible. That's why we left Substack, & why @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social worked so hard on our new website. So+🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com

Veterans' Day is first & foremost an occasion to commemorate the millions of Americans, past & present, who have served & sacrificed as part of our armed forces. A list that includes both of my grandfathers, my wife's grandfather, & I know many folks with whom I'm connected on this site as well. +

I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.

Teaching favorite songs by @brucespringsteen.net, @darwilliams.bsky.social, & J. Cole in Writing I today, as practice for a close reading paper where they work with a song of their choice. One of my favorite assignments in any class I teach, & a nice way to dwell together in the best of art & us.

Happy Samuel Gridley Howe Day & Russell Means Day! Activism ain't quick or easy, & it never ends, but we have so damn many inspirations for the fight. memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/november-n...

Here’s today’s thread once more for the evening crowd. Please share all this great public scholarship widely, thanks! @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️

Here's today's #ScholarSunday thread for the brunch crowd. If your work is featured, if you've benefited from being connected to any of the public scholarship in these threads, or if you just feel so inclined, please share as widely as possible, thanks! @sifill.bsky.social 🗃️

Here's today's #ScholarSunday thread for the brunch crowd. If your work is featured, if you've benefited from being connected to any of the public scholarship in these threads, or if you just feel so inclined, please share as widely as possible, thanks! @sifill.bsky.social 🗃️

Have you gotten more #grahichistory this week? bsky.app/profile/walt...

@dahlialithwick.bsky.social, would you be able to share the overall thread to get all this great work to your followers? Thanks! bsky.app/profile/amer...

Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Thanks, Ben! One more podcast offering - I appeared on the Halloween special episode of the @prospectmagazine.co.uk podcast, to talk about Humans: A Monstrous History: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

On Black & White & Read All Over, we have a resources page for academics to find publications to pitch their work to, an announcements page to celebrate the accomplishments of our colleagues, and a page that's literally just pictures of our cat Biscuits because we understand this community's needs.

Proud to be part of this Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/DVvnBGh

Happy Dorothy Day Day! memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/november-n...

Happy Herman Mankiewicz Day! Ain't that American film & culture? memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/november-n...

I reviewed The Godfather Part II (1974) this week and am actively nervous to share it because it's a comparative study. Be cool, everyone just be cool and know that I'm sorry. Here's my latest: The Godfather 2½: Simba's Pride

Honestly, a banger of a lineup on this schedule. You won't want to miss it! Also this is my first ever keynote and is due in large part to @lizwfab.bsky.social and their neverending support!

Teaching Faulkner in Am Lit II this afternoon, the first time I'll do so since Dad's passing. Which will be another tough moment of course, but also an occasion to share--with them, & with y'all--the third & most impressive of his DH projects, Digital Yoknapatawpha! 🗃️ faulkner.iath.virginia.edu

Happy John Philip Sousa Day & Derrick Bell Day! Ain't that celebratory & critical patriotism? memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/november-n...

Have an op-ed bubbling up about yesterday's results or an essay on Eugene Debs or a blog post on the concept of "hope" that you just have to write but don't know where to pitch it? Head over to our Pitchables page to find over 50 public publications, sites, and podcasts open to pitches:

Humanities programs have 3 perfect tools here: "There's a reason they don't want you studying it" paired with "The only way to tear this down and rebuild is by practicing the empathy, understanding, and critical thought that can come with studying the humanities" and "We're already doing it."

Happy Benjamin Butler Day & Ida Tarbell Day! Inspiring American figures for a very inspiring & American morning. memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/november-n...

We are in the midst of the 140 year anniversary of the three day reign of anti-Chinese terror in Tacoma (though that terror preceded and extended far after Chinese Tacomas were driven out by a mob led by the Tacoma mayor). www.tacomamethod.com#home-section

Obviously there are lots of vital ways to commemorate Native American Heritage Month, but high on the list is voting. Proud of the millions who did so today. www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/10/cons...

A few years into blogging, I was fortunate enough to be asked by the one & only @hcrichardson.bsky.social to cross-post some of my pieces & share new thoughts on public scholarship on her The Historical Society blog. It was a turning point for me, & I believe for her turn to public scholarship too.

As part of an FSU faculty speaker series, I had the chance yesterday to share some of my experiences, choices, & lessons from creating the 1st season of my podcast, The Celestials' Last Game: Baseball, Bigotry, & the Battle for America. Just 30 mins, so check it out! drive.google.com/file/d/1KIbS...

What a hero.

Another piece of art as protest, just down the road from the Dunkin. The words of the 14th Amendment still show through the painting-over, & goddamn right they do. bsky.app/profile/stou...

Another reason we all need to read & share @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social’s forthcoming book.

Not trying to be ghoulish, but I'll say this: Dick Cheney represents the worst of our political traditions & legacies. (Trump is a whole new horror, as Cheney recognized, but that don't change the past.) @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social represents the best of our story & future. I like the duality.

Happy Will Rogers Day & Ruth Handler Day! memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/november-n...

On the wall of an abandoned Dunkin in Fitchburg, just down the street from my campus, somebody spray-painted key words from the 14th Amendment. A few days later it had been painted over--2025, y'know--but @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social was able to snag a pic first. & it got me thinking about protest art.

15 years ago this week, I started my AmericanStudier daily blog. A ton has happened since then, with the blog (which migrated to Wordpress, then back to Blogspot, & now has moved to our new website), with my public scholarly career, &, well, in a heck of a lot of other ways for AmericanStudying. +

No, YOU made a webpage on your public scholarship site for your cat so she would feel more involved in the family business.

We've hit 200 subscribers for our new Black & White & Read All Over site! Thanks so much to folks who've connected to us in that way, & to everyone who's checked it out. It's a tough thing to leave our established communities at Substack, but worth it, especially with support! blackwhiteandread.com