Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

Ladies, you do not need to get pregnant or become a tradwife. You need to unionize your workplace.

Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...

As a lady cyclist I must answer the affirmative.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

The Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working-Class History is now open for submissions! Full details here: go.illinois.edu/UIPGutmanPrize cc: @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social

fully 50% of the most recent People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive (TM) were humanities majors (and the others didn't go to college). Which points to an ongoing crisis in higher education: why are STEM programs taking our tax dollars yet failing to give our young men critical Sexiness skills?!

CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️

The cover of this morning’s New York Post was truly the main content I was waiting for.

Excellent morning for the socialist, immigrant, naturalized US citizen who grew up around universities and are erstwhile residents of Astoria, Queens demographic. Namely, well, me.

I’m enormously proud of what the socialist left in the United States has accomplished over the past decade. We’ve gone from nowhere to everywhere, working to build a majority coalition that can defeat fascist authoritarianism by transforming everyday people’s material conditions.

Standing on a stoop in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn doing shots of Serbian plum brandy before going out for Georgian food is a top tier experience in Zohran Mamdani’s New York.

sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively

Standing on a stoop in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn doing shots of Serbian plum brandy before going out for Georgian food is a top tier experience in Zohran Mamdani’s New York.

Last month (I have no idea where time goes) this short piece I wrote about Kansas, wheatgrass, and what it might be to life a life of abundance in the face of climate change came out. Many thanks to all at @carsoncenter.bsky.social!

Yale University Press London (@yalebooks.bsky.social) are having a 50% off sale for the month of November, which is ideal for early Christmas shopping (and enables you to purchase OUR NHS for £5.99 - or 1.61 pence per page): yalebooks.co.uk

Seven years and two-ish months ago after an early afternoon spent defending my dissertation I went here for a late afternoon beer and a hot dog with friends. 🫡

I highly recommend this program!! The Arizona Center for Med/Ren Studies sponsors a series of workshops on how to write for public audiences. I learned SO much last year; it's organized by Elizabeth Tavares(a universal force for good) and Daniel Pollack-Pelzner. Apply! acmrs.asu.edu/raceb4race/p...

We have Adrián Lerner and Pollyanna Rhee talking to us about cities and the Anthropocene in 30mins (3pm UK time). Feel free to join us using the sign-up link below!

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

more illinois solidarity, which comes of neighbors crowding and priests protesting and moms confronting, and let's keep going

Amazing opportunity to work with the wonderful and brilliant Eva Schreiner in Florence! (I might be hanging out too).

There are a lot of ways to shop at Costco correctly and this is one of them.

With the Arctic Refuge back in the news (yes, Trump is trying once again to turn it into an oil field), maybe it’s a good time to check out Defending the Arctic Refuge. @uncpress.bsky.social #envhist 📗❄️🦌

Amazing opportunity to work with the wonderful and brilliant Eva Schreiner in Florence! (I might be hanging out too).

I put my VISAWUS talk about suffragette violence up on my blog -- in an attempt to answer the question "Why was the British women's suffrage movement more violent than the American one?" eleanorcourtemanche.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/w...

Our first #Anthropocene histories seminar of the year will be on cities, next Weds 29 Oct at 15:00 GMT with Adrián Lerner (Cambridge) & @parhee.bsky.social, chaired by @andrewseaton.bsky.social. Do come and join us!

“There are many ways of looking at ICE’s recent terror campaign, but probably the most salient is a bunch of people who can’t get real jobs harassing and kidnapping people with real jobs.” www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-scum-m...

The Loyola Phoenix, the student newspaper of Loyola University Chicago, launched an ICE tracker where students/community members can report ICE sightings in the area. t.co/MmXDyN96CO

It's fine & true to say that in some of these fields there aren't really jobs but the better perspective is to emphasize that there's so much to be investigated in these fields-yes, even in German literature-and so fewer opportunities for that investigation is a bad thing for culture and society.

The University of Arizona has rejected the proposed compact offered to it and eight other universities by the Trump administration. tucson.com/news/local/e...

I think we can lay the groundwork to win this. @hammerandhope.bsky.social ran an interview with the folks who won Build Public Renewables in New York, lessons there worth checking out hammerandhope.org/article/clim...

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Two gourds my dad grew which I believe deserve the title of Absolute Units.

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

📡 📰 We are looking for our next Department of Architecture HEAD at TAMU! 📰📡 We have an opportunity to reenergize our department. Come join us! ***PLEASE SHARE WIDELY*** I’m in the advisory search committee and happy to answer general questions. Link: faculty.tamu.edu/JobDetail?Jo...

The executive committee of the University Faculty Senate for the SUNY system issued a strong statement this week urging university leaders to reject the Trump compact. It's worth a read. dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...

If you work in a history department where a book is required for tenure: do tenured faculty in your department ever offer to read untenured faculty draft book manuscripts? Is there a formal system for doing this, and if so when does this happen (i.e. 3rd/mid-track year review)? 🗃️

this is absolutely searing and entirely correct. also yet another example of huge financial decisions about the future of universities being made by people who have zero connection to the real work of teaching and researching www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Come work with me! My department at JMU is hiring for a tenure-track historian of the modern US (post 1950). Otherwise, the position is broadly construed. We are a large department in a growing university with strong enrollment, just 2 hrs from the archives in DC 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/69300/j...

I wrote an essay for @mihjournal.bsky.social on two very different books on planetary politics, each enlightening in their own way. Both contribute substantially to the discussion within the planetary turn. The piece can be found here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Rereading Sarah Igo’s magnificent The Averaged American and reminded of this delightful anecdote about a Gallop poll worker faced with a person with no understanding of the word atheist, and so rephrased a question by asking instead, “Would you vote a sinner for president?”

The Program in Sustainable Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign is hiring 2 tenure-track faculty. Among the perks: you could be my departmental colleague. Not on the search, but happy to answer questions. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

The Program in Sustainable Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign is hiring 2 tenure-track faculty. Among the perks: you could be my departmental colleague. Not on the search, but happy to answer questions. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Written by a fellow PASSHE public regional prof, love to see it: “These are small but significant reminders that the university is not doomed to permanent privatization.”

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Just got back from Normal, IL for a lecture at Illinois State University. Established in 1857 after this small town lawyer named Abe secured the funding. Was reminded once again that US public universities are the triumph of civilization