California Humanities, the nonprofit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. If you have the capacity to donate before end of year, do consider this organization. Perhaps $5.00 or $50 in honor of its 50th? www.flipcause.com/secure/cause...

Books helped me get through this year. Words, phrases, sentences, ideas helped ground me and stir in me all that is meaningful and necessary. Here are some of the quotes that continue to stay with me

New Publication by Professor Leisy Abrego ⬇️

Dr @hollyguise.bsky.social has written a powerful book on the history of Alaska, Native internment and resilience, and World War II. Along the way, she centers Native voices through archival research & oral history. It made me feel deeply, which is why I will return to it time and time again.

CALL FOR PAPERS! Do you have a paper or panel to submit to the 2024 Western History Association Conference in Kansas City? Find the guidelines for proposals here, due 12/5: www.westernhistory.org/2024 Please share :)

Come be my UCLA colleague! Seeking an "interdisciplinary scholar at the level of Associate or Full Professor in Expressive Cultures and/or Histories of the Americas, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities, or Performance" recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF08948.

"Ed Ruscha’s street level photographs give us a new perspective on the traditional bird’s eye view of #urbanhistory." Museum of Modern Art & Getty Research Institute -> "LA Stories: Urbanism, Music, and AI in #EdRuscha’s Archive" youtu.be/7-RQekFyxgE?...

Exciting book forum happening at UCLA (and on Zoom) on Nov. 15 at 12pm! I will be moderating a discussion with Alfred Flores and Christen Sasaki about their work and connections across the Pacific. Link to register: www.eventbrite.com/e/oceanic-st...

On the importance of storytelling in transit activism "Transit is filled w/ compelling & memorable stories because transit is inherently @ journeys. It’s @ people trying to get places & everything that happens in between point A & B" carterlavin.substack.com/p/storytelli... @carterlavin.bsky.social

CFP "Free Soil? Migration, Dispossession, & Rising Up on Contested Ground," Western Historical Association 2024, due Dec 5 Humbled to serve as Program Co-Chair w/ @arikelman.bsky.social & Liz Ellis w/ incoming President Kelly Lytle Hernandez #skystorians 🔄 www.westernhistory.org/2024/proposa...

Save the Date! LA as Subject's 18th Annual Archives Bazaar will take place at USC's Doheny Memorial Library on October 28. laassubject.org/archives-baz...

How do Indigenous Oaxacan migrants transform how we think about social movements in the 21st century? Check out my essay in the new issue of Aztlán! Why Oaxaca? Why Now? The Political Currents of Indigenous Oaxacan...: Ingenta Connect - go.shr.lc/3Ex1vQ7

Putting this out into the skystorian void- our chair/commentator had to cancel for WHA and my panel on archives & Indigenous history is in need of at least a chair it’s the last day of the conference if any skystorians are there 🗃️