Happy to share that @molliebarnes.bsky.social's new book is headed to the @uscpress.bsky.social warehouse! Congrats on this accomplishment and happy reading to everyone engaged with the history of the Lowcountry and the Sea Islands! FYI @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Are you a Phd student? Do you work on American women writers? Would you like to receive mentorship from some of the foremost specialists in the field? If yes, read below! ⬇️ ✨ 1/3

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

As we all stagger home from vacations & begin working on syllabi in earnest, I’d offer my semesterly recommendation that @wcaleb.org's generic syllabus maker can generate a list of days your class will meet—all you have to do is delete any holidays, etc. from the list wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

Revolutionary Demand For Happiness Writing Residency! For more information see below and here: www.instagram.com/p/DL-tbSjyZH...

A powerful piece by Patricia Okker, former President of the New College of Florida, on how reading American women writers can shape our current moment. This is what the humanities can do, and this is why they are so afraid of us. Free access from Legacy: muse.jhu.edu/article/959226

Undermining the NEH, National Archives, Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian all at once also tells us this 360 is not just about higher ed or research but about how we have (finally, slowly, imperfectly) expanded the American story.

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

Hands off in Williamsburg, Virginia!

Cory Booker: "I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America." Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"

We have a cover! Forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press this fall!

We join with publishers, authors, booksellers & librarians to affirm that the White House executive order recognizing only two sexes constitutes censorship and has no place in a free society. University presses strive to give voice to the breadth of human knowledge & experience. 1/2

NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

Today is the day! Take a look at the CFP for the 2026 Biennial Conference of The Society of 19th-Century Americanists: UNDERGROUND www.c19society.org/2026-confere... The Conference website will go up at the end of April / early May, and submissions will be due Sept 5th.

We’ve had four consecutive years of 900+ fatalities on #Virginia roadways and what’s the Governor’s priority? Going to the WH to single out four trans kids in our entire commonwealth who play sports with their friends. The Governor needs to stop picking on kids and focus on fixing our roads.