The AHA has sent a letter to Texas State University president Kelly Damphousse registering strong objection to the university’s decision to terminate the employment of Dr. Thomas Alter without due process. 🗃️

Deeply felt and ultimately sorrowful essay

Anthropic settlement is a win for authors. Will it set the pattern others follow?

Early morning at JFK. #airport

The King children put it succinctly about the latest file release: their father was “relentlessly targeted by an invasive, predatory, and deeply disturbing disinformation and surveillance campaign.” Never forget that fact. 🗃️

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... Really look forward to this new book from @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social. Will be an important addition to the growing historiography on police and the movements of the ‘60s. 🗃️

Marking the 4th at Willie’s picnic and hoping for good news from Hunt about the missing kids. #texas

Tough couple days to lose both Sly Stone and Brian Wilson. Each changed the musical world with their innovations and brilliance.

I had great fun answering questions about surveillance and student activists in the 1960s at @askhistorians.bsky.social AMA. Thanks for inviting me, and check out my book, Spying on Students lsupress.org/978080718222..., to learn more about the topic. #skystorians.

Like many others today, wishing a happy birthday to the incomparable Bob Dylan. His music expresses our humanity, beautifully poignantly, and without compare.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/a... Wonderful story that highlights the rich history of Memphis. 🗃️

www.psrmemphis.org/tyre-nichols... Otis Sanford puts it well: “The culture historically of Memphis police in some respects has been oppressive to African-American citizens. That’s just a fact.” 🗃️

Yesterday’s Nau Conference on Texas History hosted by the @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social History Dept showcased exciting new work on the state’s rich & diverse history and the digital tools that are making it even more accessible. Shout out to the incomparable Catherine Clinton for organizing. 🗃️

Kudos to my @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social colleagues who are integrating AI into their pedagogy. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...

Congratulations to the AAC champions. let’s keep rolling ! Birds Up🤙 #UTSA

The one and only David Johansen. RIP.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/h... When Texas health officials talk like this you can understand the scope of the problem here: “I don’t want anybody to suffer from long-lasting disability because they got measles. But if you choose to live in Texas,” he added, “you can exercise that option.”

Trump yesterday, repeating something he’s been saying for years (re: tariffs, which he said would make the US “rich’): “it’s going to stop us from being a laughingstock all over the world because we have been taken advantage of like no country has been taken advantage of.” Let’s unpack this a bit./1

A great scholar and kind and gentle person.

My sentiments exactly

#skystorians I’m developing an upper-level course on the U.S. in the ‘60s and thinking of using Lakota Woman as one of the books. Anyone use it in similar course? Students respond well to it? Welcome any thoughts! 🗃️

"Intended to instill fear in teachers, this order itself ironically seems driven by fear, by a refusal to acknowledge the diversity of our nation and the wounds that cannot be healed until they are understood." 🗃️ newrepublic.com/article/1912...

Both Leucthenburg and Thernsrom passed this week. Two titans who did much to shape their fields. 🗃️

Federal workers are disproportionately Black. Ending DEI AND also eliminating the explicit prohibition against discrimination in hiring and in federal contracting is therefore about more than the culture wars. It, like the affirmative action ban, is about limiting opportunity for Black advancement.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... This is some strange shit.

@harryshearer.bsky.social “Celluloid Heroes” was an inspired and poignant choice for this week’s program. Thank you!

Birthday wishes to Michael Stipe!

Happy public domain day to all those who celebrate! We can now enjoyed all published works from 1929 and before, including the great fashion illustrations of Gordon Conway, especially this "gown for winter festivities." 🗃️

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/a... Farewell to an unsung hero of the southern movement. SNCC activist, SSOC founder, leader of student movement at Tulane in addition to her groundbreaking photography. #skystorians 🗃️

What's big in Texas? Really big! Oil, cattle ranching, and timber. Duh. Well, maybe I didn't know timber. Wonder how come UT is so filthy rich? Look at all the royalty lands they own in the Permian Basin. www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...

Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts diner was immortalized in Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 song “Alice’s Restaurant,” died on Thursday — just a week before Thanksgiving, the holiday during which the story at the center of the song takes place. She was 83.

Truth at the local coffee shop

Great to see my American Athletic conf FAR friends at the FARA annual meeting in Texas. Keep up the great work! #fara @utsa

A great way to spend a Saturday morning: with UTSA History students and scholars at the 2024 Nau History Scholars Symposium. #skystorians 🗃️

Wonderful to see my new book at #sha24 and grateful to the team at LSU Press their support #skystorians 🗃️

Thrilled to speak about my new book, Spying on Students, with @llassabe.bsky.social on her awesome new podcast, "American Campus." Give it a listen! #skystorians 🗃️ www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

The SHA @joursouhist.bsky.social is hosting the annual Across the Generations interview with Kellie Carter Jackson and Richard Blackett on Tuesday October 15th 3-4PM ET. Joseph P. Reidy moderating. Register via zoom: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Very happy that LSU Press is offering a very generous discount on my new book. 🗃️#skystorians

My latest installment for the Saturday Evening Post column #CommonThreads, this time on the mini-midi debate of 1970 and why we are so obsessed with skirts' hemlines. Check it out🗃️ www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/09/comm...

I asked for three words that come to mind when you think of studying history. Here's what students said vs. what you all said on here:

Such are the times we live in that at first glance I thought that this was a new effort to extend book bans to screenplays.

Happy Book Publication Day! lsupress.org/978080718222... 🗃️#skystorians

Save the Date! Book launch event for my new book, Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South. Wed., Sept. 4, 12pm EDT. I'll talk about the book, the unique sources I used, and take questions. Join us! 🗃️https://www.facebook.com/share/J19ANpD9eEFNSb2q/

Great talk today by Kate Ballantyne at the East Tenn Historical Societyon her important new book Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee 🗃️

It's been a long journey but thrilled to see my new book in print. Many thanks to the team at LSU Press for the fine work to craft a beautiful book. 🗃️ #skystorians #booksky

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/u... Pretty damn outrageous. Not to mention ironic since only major vote harvesting case in recent years was tied to GOP in NC. 🗃️#Texas

There’s nowhere I find more rejuvenating than the Boothbay region of Maine. Temperate weather, lots of hiking and boating, wonderful food. The way life should always be, indeed. #Maine

Eclectic book-buying in Maine

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/u... “The interval evaporates when you stand there. . . . It just disappears.” 🗃️

Sad to lose the incomparable Bob Newhart today. He had most understated, driest sense of humor.