I’m reading After Life. I’ve wanted to read this for a long time. Just finished the preface and felt calm afterwards. I think it felt like an attempt at collective grieving for the pandemic, or an acknowledgment of the need for it, that I haven’t experienced enough and needed. #PublicHealth #Covid

The Eaton fire devastated the LA suburb of Altadena & its large Black community. Why were Black folks in such a vulnerable spot? (1) Housing segregation & (2) the large KKK presence in California in the early 20th century. @popcultureamerica.bsky.social explains. 👇🏽 www.instagram.com/p/DEvNulYS9Q...

Would any #SkyStorians going to the AHA 2025 in NYC @historians.org join me for an impromptu field trip to the @metmuseum.bsky.social to see & discuss the amazing (and soon to close) exhibition "Mary Sully: Native Modern?" This video will be a new standard in my classes.

Would any #SkyStorians going to the AHA 2025 in NYC @historians.org join me for an impromptu field trip to the @metmuseum.bsky.social to see & discuss the amazing (and soon to close) exhibition "Mary Sully: Native Modern?" This video will be a new standard in my classes.

Thanks to @modamhist.bsky.social for that shout out! I recently published an essay on the banjo's Cold War for the Take 3 series alongside @popcultureamerica.bsky.social & @jakeblount.com The banjo is always a timely topic, esp. in light of the great @washingtonpost.com article linked below.

@popcultureamerica.bsky.social's Working Class Hero to Felon: Picking Apart the Banjo's Cinematic Character Assassination in Postwar Mass Culture and Film www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

@washingtonpost.com's recent piece uses the oldest extant country recording to explore the fraught relationship between race & music. MAH's new Take Three on the banjo provides perspectives from @jakeblount.com @jmthompson.bsky.social @popcultureamerica.bsky.social on the topic in the 20th century

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I want to talk about my mind-bending experience of seeing "Ragtime" at New York City Center hours after Donald J. Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election. It was the closest I'll ever come to experiencing the unhinged & wild interactive political theater culture emblematic of 19th-century NYC.

I want to talk about my mind-bending experience of seeing "Ragtime" at New York City Center hours after Donald J. Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election. It was the closest I'll ever come to experiencing the unhinged & wild interactive political theater culture emblematic of 19th-century NYC.