All this is awesome. Can we also get collective bargaining and stronger workers’ rights, too, please?

“It is deeply offensive and ironic that the first people of this land would be subjected to questions around their citizenship” Jacqueline De Leon, senior staff attorney Native American Rights Fund Isleta Pueblo. “Yet nevertheless, that is exactly what we’re seeing.” www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Are you teaching students to produce historical scholarship? I'm the faculty advisor of Virginia Tech Undergraduate Historical Review, which publishes #OpenAccess original research, historiography, and reviews by undergrads. Please feel free to share with your history majors. vtuhr.org

#tdih 1865 Demands by Black ministers after Ebenezer Creek Massacre led to Special Field Order #15: a short-lived land distribution to freed people. They established civic institutions, schools, militia (for defense from Klan), & more. #TeachReconstruction 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sp...

Militarism is the most bipartisan commitment in American politics (matched only by policing and carceral punishment).

I am so humbled and thrilled to say that my first book, Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis, is a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social www.gilderlehrman.org/book-prizes/...

I’m exhausted by all the breaking news. Just break it already.

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

COINTELPRO 2026

I got an email from someone soliciting services to create a Wikipedia page for my book. While I don’t have money to pay someone else, I’m thinking it’s a good idea. Have any other authors done this?

Dreading the day when ICE are called heroes and become mythologized as defenders of freedom while protesters are demonized as un-American. Oh wait, that was pretty much a Fox News headline this morning. In the near future, they’ll claim: “we were spat upon and called murderers for doing our jobs.”

I curate the history series at public media's trade journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR, PBS and its affiliates, with some space to imagine public media's future. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate!

My dogs’ favorite letter is W.

The Church Committee's investigation into the crimes of the intelligence community is about as good a model as we have for the kind of investigation into the crimes of ICE and other agencies. This is really a must-read for understanding our own moment.

I need to record an oral history with this man.

The ICE agent who killed Renee Good is an Iraq War veteran. apnews.com/article/immi...

#tdih 1967, Julian Bond was finally sworn in as a member of Georgia House of Reps -- after a two year battle to claim his ELECTED seat. In 1965, House had refused to seat Bond because of his statements (on behalf of SNCC) in opposition to Vietnam War. ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ju...

For the last few months, I kept a document where every time I saw reports of fed immigration agents shooting or pointing their gun at someone, I made a note. The list grew and grew. It now includes 4 deaths. Here is what I noticed keeping that list. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/07/i...

a poignant read for the end of a tough day. inquest.org/the-terrain-...

I can’t watch the videos. Those of us who already know, get it. Those who don’t, never will. I shared Orwell this morning about Jan. 6, but it’s applicable to the murder of Good: "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Y’all are still on Twitter? Just delete everything and don’t look back. Trust me, you won’t regret it.

I work in academia. New Year’s Eve is June 30.

As I finish grading final projects and papers, I must say that teaching graduate students Oral History Methods has been one of the highlights of my teaching career. I am impressed with how much these students learned and grew both through class discussions and by doing their own interviews.

Are you looking for a gift for the history nerd in your life? Prisoners after War is 40% off from @umasspress. Use the code HOLIDAY. www.umasspress.com/978162534753...

For this #VeteransDay, listen to my interview with @jasonhiggins.bsky.social about his book "Prisoners after War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration" on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/prisoners-af...

The Oral History Association awarded the 2025 Book Award to @jasonhiggins.bsky.social, for "Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration." 🏆 A national honor recognizing outstanding oral history scholarship—congrats, Dr. Higgins! news.vt.edu/articles/202...

Last night was such a great celebration! I am honored to receive the Oral History Association Book Award in 2025 for Prisoners after War (@umasspress). Always great to reconnect with all the amazing people at OHA.

Dear conference apps, I do not want a constant stream of emails. Thank you, Everyone who has enough emails.

An important critique of the carceral logic of treatment courts: inquest.org/punishment-i...

On days like today, I am reminded how fortunate we are to have shared our short time on this planet with incredible humans like Jane Goodall, Daniel Ellsberg, and John Lewis. Keeping the light alive today are new generations, like Greta Thunberg, Malala Yousafzai, Ta’Nehisi Coates, and many more.

"Americans deserve history that is researched, peer-reviewed, and responsibly interpreted—not history edited by politicians. Attempts to scrub, minimize, or euphemize the history of slavery do not “unify” the nation; ... blackpast.org/in-defense-o...

The Society for Military History and the Veterans Studies Association conferences are during the same dates. Decisions will need to be made.

I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint. I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

I don’t know what it means, but I do not like it.

It takes years of study and research to create new knowledge and advance understanding of the sciences or humanities. There are no shortcuts. This administration is pedaling conspiracies, grifting, and lying. It has nothing of value to offer the world. And it’ll take years of work to refute it.

Oh, absolutely not. Deleting.

Harlem Hellfighters Awarded Congressional Gold Medal Amid Ongoing U.S. History Erasure www.blackenterprise.com/harlem-hellf...

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

My job is 90% administrative tasks and emails. 50% teaching and mentoring students. And 25% research and scholarship. If that doesn’t add up, I didn’t learn math or administration in grad school.

ftr, *this* is who they're shutting down. from ACLS:

Dr. Higginson was my global history field advisor, and he is a wealth of knowledge. His papers undoubtedly will be incredible valuable and significant

My daughter is reading Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent, and telling me about John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry. That’s my kid!

I grew up celebrating Juneteenth. In Wilmar, AR (very small town near where I’m from) there were BBQs, motorcycle and 4-wheeler rides, music, and lots of block parties. I realized recently that a formerly enslaved person from Galveston moved there after the war and carried the tradition with him.

On June 23, I'll be on @askhistorians.bsky.social to answer questions about my new book, World War Zoos! Hit me up with questions about zoos, war, animals...or some of my other interests, disabled veterans, war and crime, alligators. @uchicagopress.bsky.social

#tdih 1963 WWII vet Medgar Evers was murdered by white supremacist in driveway outside his home in Jackson. Evers was NAACP field secretary for Mississippi & under constant threat in his fight for democracy and against white supremacy. #TeachTruth 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/me...

‘Faces of Freedom’: The Story of African American Soldiers: An exhibition documenting the personal journeys of those who fought for freedom and union during the Civil War opens at Lincoln Depot Museum June 7 #USCT peekskillherald.com/27384/events...

#tdih 2020: brutal murder of George Floyd by police. 💔 Next week marks 5 years since the Black-led uprising for Black lives. Millions of people from all backgrounds poured into the streets. That unprecedented solidarity shook political establishment to its core. Backlash was swift & continues. ⬇️