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.

I think that this is an important image and it says so much about this country.

Today is publication day for The Nursing Clio Reader. As I write in the preface of the book, I started Nursing Clio back when I was a second-semester grad student as part of a final project in a public humanities seminar taught by historian Matthew Countryman at UMich. 🧵

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. ⬇️

Black lives still matter.

Events in Puerto Rico and Alaska added to the Teach Truth Day of Action (June 7) map. Check out the map & events planned to date -- then add your city. Lead a banned history lesson in a public place, host a history walking tour or rally, & more options. See: www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...

A depressing summary of where things stand w/r/t police accountability five years after the murder of George Floyd, by Jamiles Lartey at the Marshall Project.

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

"We see that there must be a radical redistribution of economic & political power . . .we have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society." -- Dr. Martin L. King #tdih 1968 Poor People's Campaign began ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/po...

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

#tdih "Arise, then, women of this day! Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.” -- Julia Ward Howe, 1870 #MothersDay Proclamation Don't let Hallmark co-opt (profit from) day, give gift of #FreeBlackMamas @nationalbailout.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mo...

Dr. Carla Hayden is the most qualified Librarian of Congress in the history of the position. She’s the *only* one who is a librarian. Before her the position was an appointment for life. When she was appointed they limited her term. She’s the only woman and only African American to hold the office.

Presented (virtually) with my amazing colleague @mariamismail.bsky.social at the Library Publishing Forum 2025 on “Entangling Stories to Organize Digital Scholarship: Creating Generative, Community-Engaged Workflows.” Give her a follow. She’s doing innovative, community-engaged digital scholarship.

It’s the last day of class. Students in my African American history course have created community and inspired me in a time of backlash and rising fascism. Today, we’re reading John Lewis’s timeless, posthumously published op-ed. Revisit it with us: www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/o...

Virginia Tech History is hiring an instructor of modern military history. If you have questions, feel free to reach out. careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...

Give #VietnamWar scholars & accounts a follow! If you study the Vietnam War, pls. comment so we can follow you! #skystorians @jasonhiggins.bsky.social @mikekoncewicz.bsky.social @karadixonvuic.bsky.social @amyjay401.bsky.social @gregorydaddis.bsky.social @drrobthompson.com @sarahking.bsky.social

The White House Liaison to the Dept of State just terminated all of the members of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, including me. We need this kind of outside oversight and advocacy now more than ever. But that doesn't align with this Administration's goals.

EXCLUSIVE: Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.

Help us reach 10K followers on Bluesky. We provide free people's history lessons, Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes, Teaching for Black Lives study groups, book giveaways, this day in people's history posts, & we organize to defend the right to teach truthfully. www.zinnedproject.org

Let’s keep the context up front. In early April masses of NEH grants were terminated as “an urgent priority.” Those included grants that fund 50 state humanities councils, which do community-based work all across the country. And rigorously peer-reviewed grants to individual scholars & orgs.

It seems like adding -gate to every single scandal has lost its effect.

The vast range of prison rules makes it nearly impossible to avoid infractions – and the punishments are horrific Should people really face solitary confinement–a form of torture–for receiving a minor violation behind bars? www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/disc...

Gaza-based photojournalist Fatma Hassona was the main subject of the film "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk." She was killed with her family this week in an Israeli airstrike, just a day after the film was selected to premiere at Cannes. Director Sepideh Farsi spoke with Democracy Now!

They are packing these detention centers, disregarding human rights, and creating conditions akin to a landlocked Middle Passage. This is despicable.

Years ago, in an undergrad class, we read Robert Paxton’s Anatomy of Fascism. At the time, I couldn’t understand how the intelligensia—the scholars, the educated, the socially and politically conscious people of a nation—were rendered powerless in the face of Nazism. I understand now.

This is excellent. Liberals & conservatives have tried to do to Jackie Robinson what they've tried to do to Martin Luther King — to de-radicalize them. To turn them into comforting icons of the American way. But their words & deeds tell a different story.

The brand that Said helped fashion, Columbia’s trustees appear to be saying, must be dismantled, packed away, forgotten... To bring universities to their knees, first deny intellectuals that role. Start by picking off the one who exemplified it best. www.chronicle.com/article/said...

Discussing Prisoners after War today with a group of students and advocates involved in the VT Prison Books initiative, which responds to letters from incarcerated people requesting literature. Books can empower and transform lives to people. Donate if you can. liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-...

I’m honored that you will name yours Higgins.

We’ve all been making the obvious connections to fascism, but gulags and the erasure of people from photos, historical documents, and public life happened under Stalin. When will the show trials begin?

This is courageous leadership in the face of unrelenting efforts to erase history.

A few years back, @jasonhiggins.bsky.social invited me to participate in a summer workshop on teaching about veterans in secondary schools. It was sponsored by the NEH. It's from this sort of woke, communist, lunatic indoctrination that Trump wants to save the kids.