Immigration attorney lets us know what's going on in Minnesota. Grim, indeed. Thread!

Post-doc in civic education at Iowa State University. Come work with me. I have nothing to do with hiring for thisnposition, but I’d love to see someone with social studies teaching experience in it 🗺️🗃️ isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...

Another awesome research and teaching resource just gone 🗃️🗺️ www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

This seems not great 🗃️ www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

🗃️ CfP: Journal of American History Textbooks and Teaching section, 2027 (of which I am the new co-editor!). See image below as well as thread: We invite submissions for the March 2027 Textbooks and Teaching section of the Journal of American History. We are particularly interested in essays

“In theater” - Minneapolis, I guess, is the Northern Front. We’re at war with ourselves.

Turns out it’s impossible to go through the history of women’s service in the US military in 17 minutes, but I had fun giving it the old college try. If anyone’s needs it, my segment (or the whole show) might make for a good lesson starter. 🗃️🗺️ www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/rive...

Currently listening to the child of German Jewish refugees talk about his parents’ experiences in the 1930s.There are many ways to parallel the past and present, but here’s mine. 1/

Ames, Iowa. And anyone else who wants to share in their communities.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Trump's ICE detention system is making people untraceable. Detention documentation specialists at AFSC spent the past 6 months tracking. A pattern emerged. People do not simply get lost in Trump's immigration system. The system itself is designed to lose them.

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Heard this on @npr.org this afternoon, and all I could think about were the networks of people who made the Montgomery bus boycott work in 1955. They were also targeted by law enforcement & on the side of right, even as they were tarred as lawbreakers. 🗃️ www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

🗃️ Psst, friends at #AHA26 #MLA26 and beyond, please share word of the @susih.bsky.social Community Scholars Program, which unlocks library resources for 3 years (onsite + remote) for #contingent faculty & historians at work beyond the traditional academy, due 2/1 s-usih.org/2025/12/cfp-...

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🧵 A friend was at Roosevelt HS in MPS when it was raided today. My friend is now dealing with the effects of the tear gas that was deployed on school grounds AT DISMISSAL TIME. Bovino popped out of a car for photos while children sheltered in place. 1/ www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

For everyone writing and re-writing syllabi this week, media literacy has to be part of what we do. Students aren’t learning this stuff anywhere else. 🗃️

For those trying to make sense of the underlying ideas & motivations at work here, in the history of US foreign relations ideology, unilateralism + interventionism have been core components of isolationism along with Monroe Doctrine justification to use force + assert influence in the hemisphere.🗃️

I’m glad to see the GI Rights hotline and Quaker House getting some news coverage. Folks doing this work are so important, and the fact that these services have hung on since the Vietnam War is pretty amazing. 🗃️ #milhist www.npr.org/2025/12/12/n...

Historians - What are your top assigned reading recommendations for a grad level 20th century US History seminar? 🗃️

Hi Historians. We’re splitting our US history, 1945-present course in half. I have to write the proposal for the new 1975-present course. What scholarship do you recommend for me to read to better get a grip on the just emerging historiography? #AcademicSky 🗃️

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I learned a ton from @hollyguise.bsky.social ‘s excellent Alaska Native Resilience. Highly recommend. 🗃️

Since the issues are back in the news again, it seems a good time to reiterate that service people have both rights and responsibilities. Refusing to carry out illegal and especially unconstitutional orders is both. www.npr.org/2025/11/20/n...

Something calming, because we all need it. Aurora borealis in Iowa.

And the firehouse of news that will be forgotten tomorrow continues. A Department of Homeland Secirity document “also says individuals cannot decline to be photographed, and that photos are stored for 15 years, even if there is no match.” www.npr.org/2025/11/08/n...

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If you haven't seen this incredible historical data project yet, make it a priority! Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement. mappingdeportations.com

Or if you’d rather be of the twenty-first century, here’s the Insta link. Either way, historians at Iowa State have fun! www.instagram.com/reel/DQrx518...

The Department of History at Iowa State has a lot of amazing educators - and whatever else, we know how to have fun www.facebook.com/share/v/14PE...

One of the q's on the new citizenship test is incorrect. 1920 is not when "all women" got the right to vote. The 19th A prohibited sex-based disenfranchisement, but didn't guarantee voting. Many women, esp. women of color, remained disenfranchised. #WeTheMen www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

Because there is not enough gross, weird, or funny on this app, here is what a two-pound gummy worm looks like - just in case anyone is interested 🤢

For those wondering what the law says about changing the design of the White House. Warning: History incoming. 🗃️

Ames, Iowa: The middle of the middle. #NoKings

This should be required reading in every historical methods and social studies classroom. Something very important is being lost. 🗃️🗺️

This is a really amazing opportunity for grad students and early career scholars. You do teach military history, even if it’s not your field #milhist #academicsky 🗃️

Haven’t listened to the referenced podcast, but yep, this 🧵 is spot on. Recruiting standards move because they have to, push and pull. And they cannot be extricated from social values. I wrote a whole book on it. #civmil #milhist a.co/d/ftzprwH

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If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)? Hoover FDR Truman Eisenhower JFK LBJ Ford Carter And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

I can’t yet parse the details, but when my students student teach, they are fingerprinted and background checked. Dr. Robert’s certainly was, esp since Iowa issued him a superintendent’s license (a requirement of the job).

Hegseth killed DACOWITS, a DOD institution since 1951. Since the 2010s, it’s focused on things like sexual assault prevention and women’s health. This move brings new meaning to the word “lethality,” unfortunately. #civmil www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

The pres saying that women should avoid Tylenol feels like another way that men are diminishing women and their pain.

There is nothing about any of this that isn’t despicable - from Kirk’s murder, to how and why it happened, to celebration of political violence, to the utter hypocrisy of this response. Free speech be damned. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was. But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

But if we use the exact same factors in things like hiring or college admissions decisions, It’s “woke DEI,” discriminatory, and illegal. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants: The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.