BREAKING: The Supreme Court significantly narrowed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, further eroding the impact of the landmark civil rights-era law.

Happy Earth Day 🌎 Covers by Ilonka Karasz, Tom Gauld, William Steig, Bob Knox, Rea Irvin, Jenni Oliver, Arthur Getz, Charles E Martin, William Steig, Jean-Jacques Sempe, Eric Drooker, Edna Eicke, Mary Petty, Loveis Wise, and Andrea Arroyo.

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Dr. Risch presented his new book, Ukraine’s Euromaidan From Revolutionary Euphoria to the Madness of War, to faculty and students this past Friday. Congratulations Dr. Risch!

"US immigration enforcement has evolved into a rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar industry in which profitability increasingly dictates policy and enforcement priorities." By: @tylermcbrien.com inkstickmedia.com/the-us-immig...

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, a panel made up of Trump appointees, approved the president's White House ballroom proposal.

The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84. See his life in pictures: bit.ly/3OxOT3f

The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Congratulations to Dr. Doug Oetter, our colleague in the Department of History and Geography, on winning the COAS Faculty Award for Excellence in Service!

For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM Watch or (Rewatch) "The Mortal Storm" (1940) - Dir. Frank Borzage, about the rise of Nazism (starring Jimmy Stewart & Margaret Sullavan). It so infuriated Joseph Goebbels that he banned it in Germany & also all MGM films. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p12s...

Our own Dr. Risch once again bringing cutting edge scholarship on Ukraine!

The Democratic Senator told the New York Times that the U.S. attorney for D.C., Jeanine Pirro, had written to the Senate’s sergeant-at-arms seeking an interview with her.

On this day in COVID history, January 12, 2020: COVID-19 - China Source: WHO https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2020-DON233

Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.

“When we enlisted in the military, we were proud to serve our country. We never imagined that, after our service, we would have to fight for our own healthcare.” @tennesseelookout.com

#OtD 30 Oct 1916 members of the radical @IWW union in Everett, WA, who had gone to support a strike were forced to run a gauntlet and beaten: just one of many episodes of savage repression of the working class movt in the US in the early 20th century workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/w...

The Constitution is not self-enforcing. The only thing holding our Republic together are our norms. And the only thing that enforces those norms is The People. No one is coming to save us. It's entirely up to us.

A very happy birthday to Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, better known as #BelaLugosi, born this day in 1882. He defined forever the appearance of the #vampire, after starring in the 1931 film #Dracula. He was then immortalised in #gothicrock by #Bauhaus in their 1979 debut single "Bela Lugosi's Dead"

Georgia College invites applications for the position of chair of the Department of History and Geography

We are hiring!

After 80 years, Senate House Library has reunited a rare 14th-century manuscript looted in WWII with the Chandon family. Thanks to expert detective work, MS541 will remain accessible for study, preserving its history for future generations. www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

On this day in COVID history, September 10, 2021: Vaccines beat natural immunity in fight against COVID-19 Source: Johns Hopkins University https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/09/10/infection-from-covid-vs-vaccines/

On this day in COVID history, September 9, 2021: Biden announces new vaccine mandates that could cover 100 million Americans | CNN Politics Source: CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/09/politics/joe-biden-covid-speech/index.html

NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that Trump’s deployment of military forces to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a law that prohibits the use of the armed forces as a domestic police force.

One of our history alumni, Jessica Scott (third from right), spent this summer doing an intensive language study in South Korea. She'll be starting her second year in the History MA program at Georgetown this week. Go, Jessica!

As historians, we agree.

fdoc!!!

Good Night World

Congratulations to our History and Geography Honors Award winners! We are thrilled to have helped foster such an outstanding group of young scholars. Well done!

Research Day is tomorrow!

#NationalLibraryWeek #LiteracyMatters

Come to Research Day to meet one of our finest alums and learn about the exciting world of Digital History!

Come hear Dr. Opperman talk about her fascinating new book--this is a can't-miss!

Come work with us! Swipe for details on how to apply.

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

We stand with the AHA.

*sitting down* damn, Dictionary got hands

It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.

Our digital history students are loving Cambridge's Medieval Murder Map!

Forensic Files be like "this double murder was unsolved for 15 years till a young detective had the brilliant idea to try this niche technology called reading"

Bye Elon! Check out the archives of our Twitter posts at our old account: x.com/historygcsu