The Governor of Colorado recently named me alongside several other historians, educators, and community members to the Black Historical and Cultural Studies Advisory Committee.

What is happening to the National Park Service, Smithsonian and other important institutions is important, but the important work of documenting and commemorating African American history continues. www.wvtf.org/news/2026-01...

🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

When there is no real “Willie Horton” to use so you just have AI create your own updated version of that racist ad….

The assumption that generative AI could be a "valuable partner" is unevidenced and the example activity is critical thinking work that could better be done in the absence of AI. It's thinking of something you COULD do with AI. Rather than what students SHOULD do to learn.

🗃️ Submission to “Student AI use is inevitable so let’s lean into it” BY HISTORIANS is confounding. Thought we all knew about contingency: nothing is inevitable, the past, present, or future. AI is not a foregone conclusion. As present day historical actors, we can make choices, incl not using AI.

🗃️ Some really great research by @chasewoodruff.bsky.social, especially in consulting with @romeoguzman.bsky.social to contextualize Evans’ narrative. 10/10 no notes, only to say most salient point is that legality is not fixed, rather, it reflects politics & social values of historical moment.

🗃️None of this is surprising, but of course when my congressman Gabe Evans learned the truth he just ignored it rather than address his own hypocrisy. Also a lot for historians to chew on about leveraging of identity and the “right” immigration history/narrative.

A lot of Cuomo’s embarassing missteps here make more sense when you realize he’s never had to actually run in a competitive campaign ever. The party establishment lined up behind him to push him as nominee for AG in 2006. In 2010 he ran in a ridiculous unopposed Democratic primary for Governor.

🗃️This is a very good critical thread about AFT’s embrace of AI and Weingarten’s empty defense. These critiques also apply to higher ed as well!

Some words (by me) for Juneteenth that are 4 years old but still ring true. Check out the full article at slate.com/news-and-pol...

🗃️ I read the article and agree with @kawulf.bsky.social. I would add a few points in support: This article is premised on a basic misunderstanding of the historical research process. It’s important to note that, as far as I can tell, the author of the article is not a professional historian, i.e.

Historian to historian: 1) Clarification: Is the “foreign flag” in OP in reference to the Mexican flag? 2) Image you posted of UFW march doesn’t capture well that there’s also a Mexican flag in front of UFW flag (which includes Aztec eagle). Below is image that shows this. 3) Lastly,

🗃️Perhaps a reminder is needed that historians write about events (like protest) after the fact, and perhaps we should leave advising to those who have more experience and buy-in while events are on-going.

Just having Another normal one here in CO 🙃

I am glad to be able to be in conversation about the book and lessons for today at Busboys and Poets later this month. The book discusses many individuals and communities who chose remembrance as their politics in a landscape defined by lies, myths, and intentional forgetting. Come out if you can!

RU Always ♥️🖤

All are welcome at the Rutgers History Department's 47th annual Warren Susman Graduate Conference. Note that Dr. Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders (RU PhD) will deliver the keynote address. #Rutgers

you know the drill: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

My book Freedom Enterprise can be pre-ordered for 40% off using the code PENN-BHM2025 during the month of February. www.pennpress.org/978151282742... The book tells the story of southern migrants who built a thriving Black-owned business community in Detroit during the Great Migration.

Born #tdih 1868: William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois, one of most important scholars of 20th century. Sociologist, historian, Pan-Africanist, author, editor; co-founder of NAACP, leader of Niagara Movement, & editor of NAACP’s The Crisis Magazine. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...

This!

#They can’t take away what they didn’t give. asalh.org/about-us/abo...

I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔

Stunning cowardice by the AHA Council. For shame. "The Council considers the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza ... to contravene the Association’s Constitution and Bylaws because it lies outside the scope of the Association’s mission and purpose." 🗃️ www.historians.org/news/busines...

Thinking still this morning of the SCV member who decided to attend our AHA panel and specifically question me (the only Black member of the panel): “if you believe in desegregation so much, why do these Black colleges exist??” (A paraphrase, but it was that cartoonishly racist, yes) 🗃️

Not much of a CFP fan these days, but all the talk about our university’s second Heisman winner sent me looking for writing about the first. A tragic reminder about how these awards can shape lives and legacies: frontporchsports.substack.com/p/the-rise-a...

🗃️ Just said this in our department meeting. We need to be clear about the kinds of tasks AI does and whether it helps us teach historical literacy/disciplinary skills. I’ve yet to see how, but the point is that in the humanities we have to talk about this within our disciplines and across them. This

RIP. She was a courageous intellectual, and one of the reasons that other place was a worthwhile space when it was. I assigned her piece about the iconography of murdered Black women to my students. daniecal.medium.com/on-breonna-o...

The thing that kills me is you don't need a time machine to understand this. My buddy is in his 80s and grew up on Iowa. He point blank said as a kid sometimes other kids just died. That was his childhood.

"Elites profit off war at the expense of one of the most powerful movements for emancipation in the 21st century." This is from the previous issue of Hammer and Hope but putting it back around given that there are so many new folks on here hammerandhope.org/article/suda...

I am here. For now. I’m trying this out a bit, though I’m still unsure if this will be the place for me. 😬😬😬