includes THE HUMANITIES! "Waseda University announced in a message issued by the president on June 20, 2025, that the university would provide support to early-career researchers facing difficulties in continuing their research activities in the United States." #academicjobs #highered #skystorians

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Getting ready to teach the #salemwitchtrials in class tomorrow. Came across this sentence: "In the summer of 1787, Philadelphians lynched a woman suspected of witchcraft in a street near where the Constitutional Convention was taking place."

As if the Administration's treatment of Abrego Garcia wasn't already cruel enough, Moshannan Valley Processing Center has been the site of extensive problems, from sexual abuse of a detainee by their chaplain, to excessive force, to a detainee's death. www.inquirer.com/news/ice-imm...

Fighting Disinformation - Norway's Proactive Approach www.aft.org/ae/fall2025/...

You can't use an Exec Order to wipe away a constitutional amendment as he's trying. The birthright citizenship clause was to address the citizenship of Black Americans; "illegal" not domiciled people were not the focus of the 14th Am framers. Here's the shortest summary for smart lay audiences.

Birthright citizenship's scope is not unclear in constitutional law. The words of the Constitution do mean what they mean and doctrinally, the issue has been reinforced by many legal precedents over and over at SCOTUS. Here's a brief by two historians tracing the history. 1/

A pinned collection of map projects, starting with "Lost Streams of Washington, DC," and "From Bay to Mountains," the Chesapeake Bay region's railroads, past and present.

Google Scholar strangeness. I'm looking for James W. Cook's The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum to see what later works cite it, and I'm getting lots of academic book reviews but not a record for the book itself. I think that's the first time that's happened.

GOP’s “free speech” law leaves students afraid to talk Ohio students tell Salon they're not feeling any freer after Republicans passed SB1, an overhaul of higher education "It’s doing a disservice to the future of Ohio” www.salon.com/2025/09/22/g...

Today’s “One First” looks at the status of the birthright citizenship cases—and their broader lessons for what we miss when we ignore the cases in which the Trump administration is both (1) losing; and (2) *not* seeking emergency/expedited appellate relief. It turns out that those are the majority:

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

Coincidentally have been reading Luibhéid's Pregnant on Arrival which intersects a lot with this article

I spoke with Amanda Heffernan, a nurse-midwife based in Seattle, about what's like to currently work with pregnant migrants in ICE custody. What she has witnessed in Washington state mirrors other recent cases of mistreatment in detention centers across the country: www.thecut.com/article/preg...

Are you writing your first book on immigration history? Then apply for our Immigration History Manuscript Workshop and present your work in progress at OAH 2026. Applications due Sept 30. More info at z.umn.edu/ManuscriptWorkshop @oah.org @iehs.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social

Ohio’s historically Black colleges lose millions after canceled ‘discriminatory’ grants Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said the Dept of Education will cease funding the grants because MSIs have “racial quotas,” which she said are discriminatory. by Katie Millard www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

Folks who are also on historians.social on Mastodon - the instance is shutting down at the end of October, so you'll want to migrate or whatever the appropriate verb is. 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern

Also came across this page about the history of women miners #appalachianhistory #womenshistory #laborhistory storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/fa45...

Can't believe I had never read this oral history of Best in Show: www.theringer.com/2020/09/29/m...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio gives away more than $12 billion a year in tax breaks — revenue the state chooses not to collect — yet those breaks rarely face the same scrutiny as spending on schools or health care. by Anna Staver www.cleveland.com/news/2025/09...

Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice Alan McPherson #latinamericanhistory #coldwar #historyofterrorism #legalhistory #transnationalnetworks #dchistory newbooksnetwork.com/ghosts-of-sh...

De Gaulle Julian Jackson newbooksnetwork.com/julian-jacks... #charlesdegaulle -- interesting as I have also been reading the bio of Frantz Fanon as well which makes for some interesting comparisons. #frenchhistory #imperialhistory #wwii

Btw it looks like NBN is posting some not-as-new episodes (which are still fascinating to listen to) -- another one I listened to this week, the interview started off discussing pandemic lockdown and I was kind of thrown off (especially w/ the recent resurgence)

Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine Carol A. Heimer #hivaids #legalhistory #publichealth #historyofmedicine newbooksnetwork.com/governing-th...

Stalin's War: A New History of World War II Sean McMeekin newbooksnetwork.com/stalins-war #wwi #militaryhistory

The Jagiellon Dynasty, 1386-1596: Politics, Culture, Diplomacy Darius Von Guttner-Sporzynski newbooksnetwork.com/jagiellon-dy... #polishhistory #lithuanianhistory

The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election Of 1968 Luke A. Nichter #chicago1968 #politicalhistory #presidentialhistory #lbj #billygraham newbooksnetwork.com/the-year-tha...

time for a few more podcast episodes

To whom it may concern: There is an open acces Anti-Autocracy Handbook (2025) calling to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. Download: zenodo.org/records/1569... #academia #academicchatter #academicSky

Our colleague and AAUP-OSU member Elissa Washuta, director of American Indian Studies, spoke to WOSU about OSU’s ban on land acknowledgements and why it has a “chilling” effect on our teaching. Link to article follows.

beyondsolitaire.buzzsprout.com/1091807/epis... great to hear about #sykespicot and also the painkillers game -- may be useful for #ohiohistory @rollplusfun.bsky.social

beyondsolitaire.buzzsprout.com/1091807/epis... - features @drawnonward.bsky.social - VERY interesting to hear about game design and LGBTQ+ history

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The TAMU President clearly did not want to fire the Professor. So that means he was pressured to do so by those on high. He should have resigned before complying with the thought police. As should the Provost. A despicable failure of academic leadership by both of them.

getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

New to BlueSky and interested in #citizenship? Here’s a Starter Pack with some folks working in the field of citizenship studies, or on related issues #migcitsky There’s still space to add people to the list! go.bsky.app/5vLDGon

I did a thing on Reddit: “Ask a Historian,” about my book, Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex. I’m posting it here if anyone wants to take a look. People asked lots of great questions!

A Slave between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa M’hamed Oualdi newbooksnetwork.com/mhamed-ouald... #historiesofslavery #migrationhistory #tunisianhistory #italianhistory #identity #historiesofexile

Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars: Dimensions of Conflict, 1917–1949 Yiannis Kokosalakis and Francisco J. Leira-Castiñeira newbooksnetwork.com/violence-and... discusses civil wars in Greece, Ireland, and Finland

A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69 Julia Sneeringer newbooksnetwork.com/julia-sneeri... #urbanhistory #germanhistory #beatles #musichistory #youthculture #hamburg

Microhistories in Armenian Studies Ara Sarafian, Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Ümit Kurt newbooksnetwork.com/microhistori... #armenianstudies #microhistory

time for a few more podcast episodes

I especially enjoyed the mystery of a bag of eaten French Fries - so many layers of mystery and investigation! torontolife.com/deep-dives/t... #truecrime

V late bc summer, but am excited my article "Desire, Sex and Surveillance" is out in the fab volume Socialist Subjectivities @uofmpress.bsky.social. It's a queer methods piece from my archival work on East German queer soldiers in the Stasi files. Open access: press.umich.edu/Books/S/Soci...

and related: Socialist Subjectivities: Queering East Germany under Honecker Scott Harrison, Jeff Hayton, and Katharine White newbooksnetwork.com/socialist-su... #gdr #booksky #lgbtqhistory #theory

The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State Ned Richardson-Little newbooksnetwork.com/the-german-d... #gdr #booksky #coldwarhistory LOTS about financing, consumer goods, changes in economy, debt management, and managing (or not) internal belief among mid-level officials

Controlling Women: The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Police Force Sandra Hempel newbooksnetwork.com/controlling-... #booksky #womenshistory -- lots of interest here, wwi, unusual coalitions, advocacy SA survivors, etc

Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II Paul Thomas Chamberlin newbooksnetwork.com/scorched-earth #booksky #wwii

so time for some more podcast episodes