July 4th from below! How rebellious sailors, enslaved people, and the motley crew propelled the American Revolution, a condensed chapter of *The Many-Headed Hydra*, written by Peter Linebaugh and me, now published in *Economic and Political Weekly*, based in Mumbai. www.epw.in/journal/2026...

Summer's coming....

Anna Duensing presents a small cohort of Black Americans who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War and World War II in LaborOnline's second essay about the Black anti-fascist tradition. lawcha.org/2026/04/23/a...

In Beneath the Wage, @anniemcc.bsky.social retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated. Now available worldwide! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Sociology

Yep, pretty much newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

#Peoples250: In this archival recording, Zoila Reyes recalls SEIU's Justice for Janitors campaign in Washington, DC. #america250 #americanhistory #dchistory #seiu youtube.com/shorts/u5eQU...

Dave Pozen at Columbia and Dan Hemel at NYU make the case for democratization of university governance in the US and away from the liberal autocracies of trustees and administrators, as better for higher education and the country as a whole. Read it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My latest for Truthout. Black job loss due to structural racism in Trump 2.0 truthout.org/articles/bla...

#skystorians Please sign and share. Petition to save the Humanities at University of Hertfordshire c.org/kK5v9MTdNr

📣 Registration is open for our symposium, “UK American Studies Against the Genocide!” 🍉 We have an incredible program of students, scholars, and activists. ✊ Come join us! www.ticketsource.com/uk-am-studie...

In a Ghana-led resolution, UN declared transatlantic slave trade “the gravest crime against humanity,” passing 123-3. The U.S., Argentina, & Israel voted no. theconversation.com/the-transatl... Read our reparations lesson & teach why they matter. #TeachTruth www.zinnedproject.org/materials/le...

Congratulations to former #SHAFR President Andrew Preston (UVA) whose book, Total Defense, won the @smh-historians.bsky.social 2026 Distinguished Book Award!! www.smh-hq.org/awards/books... cc: @harvardpress.bsky.social

@drashleydfarmer.bsky.social's 2018 piece engages with the problem of sources for Black women's history: Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

@katherineturk.bsky.social's article tracks the fate of caring labor in the 1970s when Americans debated how to value feminized work as women's social roles shifted. Read the full article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Emma Day at @uclamericas.bsky.social looks at how, in the late 20th c., the American prison system expanded in ways that denied women—esp. working-class & women of color—adequate medical care for HIV-AIDS and reproductive, chronic, and other illnesses. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ministers are reportedly exploring how to cancel dangerous spy-tech firm Palantir's contract to handle NHS data after over 150k people joined me in calling on them to break the contract. Join us - together we can kick out Palantir out of our NHS: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

This is no time for half-measures. Protect families from the energy price hike. Paid for by: A tighter oil & gas windfall tax. Taxing income from wealth the same as from work. And double down on renewables and energy efficiency to protect us from future shocks.

28th March in Trafalgar Square #LoveHouseMusicHateRacism

Around International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating the powerful women’s movements leading the struggle for justice around the world. Share our video highlighting the inspiring women and movements standing up for change. 🧡 #IWD26 #InternationalWomensDay #IWD

'Stories of personal and collective action demonstrate that positive change is possible, in ways that scientific facts and data often fail.' Barbara Brayshay and saskia papadakis introduce the OHEM archive which is now available British Library

My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period. Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳

« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

So the Obama administration oral history project went live today. An extraordinary resource for historians and teachers, and a great credit to the team of folks who compiled them all, including Evan McCormick, @pastpunditry.bsky.social and many others.

Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.

"he Home Office's decision to proscribe Palestine Action under anti-terrorism legislation was unlawful, the High Court has ruled." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My friend and colleague Eladio Bobadilla will soon publish a new and timely book, *Dangerous Migrations: Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights* -- a labor history of migration and struggle from below. Pre-order with discount using the code below. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

This looks like a fascinating article. I have a whole chapter on how hopes for - and visions of - peace sustained soldiers during the First World War. See below if the Clarke et al. piece sparks your interest in how perceptions of the future inflect the experience of conflict. bit.ly/3MAHZJY

Now wait just a minute?! hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

What does it *feel like* to build worker power? Season two of Haymarket Originals is bringing you inside one of the most dynamic and inspiring organizing drives in the labor movement today. Heat The Ground Up is an oral history of Starbucks Workers United, voiced by the baristas who built it.

The risk of nuclear war is rising again. We need a new movement for global peace | David Cortright

Join us in congratulating @briannanofil.bsky.social, whose book The Migrant’s Jail is a finalist for the Order of the Coif Book Award! Her research explores the century-long history of immigrant incarceration in the United States. Explore this timely title here: hubs.ly/Q04289nW0

On this day in 1759, 267 years ago, the radical abolitionist Benjamin Lay passed away at age 77. A hundred years before William Lloyd Garrison, Lay called for the immediate and complete abolition of slavery worldwide, with no payments to enslavers. Let us remember him. Art by Marco Lorenzetti.

Episode 5 of my audiodocumentary on the Cuban Missile Crisis is live! In this episode, Dustin Walcher and I *finally* get around to discussing the crisis itself, yay! Please share and give it a listen! #history 🗃️ @shafrhistorians.bsky.social soundcloud.com/historiaspod...

Some great news! I learned that Living in the DAISY Age made it onto USA Today’s national bestseller list! I spent most of the day in shock about it (while driving to Ann Arbor). Thank you all for buying the book, telling others about it, and sending pics of it! I appreciate your support!

Our new graphic novel, *The Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad*, will be published in June 2026 by @beaconpress.bsky.social. We hope you can help us by pre-ordering the book through any of the five different booksellers offered through this link. Thank you! www.beacon.org/The-Black-Sc...

The latest issue of History Workshop Journal is out now, and it marks two exciting milestones: 50 years and 100 issues of innovative radical history. You can read the journal on the HWJ website through the link below! academic.oup.com/hwj...

Always read @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. A lot of problems I think about would be less intractable if we talked to real humans.

I’ve begun work on my new book project, now called “History from Below: The Making of a Radical Tradition.” Here is the preliminary working bookshelf on my desk. Notice how beaten up are my copies of the books by E.P. Thompson and Christopher Hill.

Calling all UK-based Americanists!! There is no ceasefire. The genocide continues. And we too must continue to speak up, organise, and fight for a free Palestine - in the streets and in our work places. Join us.

🔊 Dear Colleagues & Comrades! We are pleased to announce a network dedicated to addressing the omission of Palestine and the ongoing genocide within UK-based American Studies. We are hosting a symposium in Central London on the 9th May 2026. Abstracts are due on 6th February 2026. Please circulate!