The Plunder of Black America has a cover! Why has the Black-white racial wealth gap been so wide for so long? This book is a 400-year history of racial economic inequality told through family lives yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030025… #racialwealthgap #PlunderofBlackAmerica #twitterstorians

"Cynicism is not a neutral position—and although it asks almost nothing of us, it is highly infectious and destructive... Hopefulness isn't a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism." -- Nick Cave (/v kottke.org)

For The New York Review of Books, I wrote about the The American Folk Art Museum's Francesc Tosquelles show: nybooks.com/online/2024/08…

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Check out this little comedian. 🥸 Not long ago I fielded a question about how to interpret a newborn’s smiles and laughter - noting that (at three days old) these behaviors were probably more reflexive than intentional. In doing so, I also made a promise: that meaningful

Te gustan los perros caliente 🌭? Venga aqui. No gatos Ruff ruff 🐶 meow 😻 #presidentialdebate

One week from tomorrow, at the Chicago Humanities festival: "The Forces Shaping Immigration," with Adam Goodman, Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez, and Barbara Sostaita! chicagohumanities.org/events/attend/…

This is a truly wonderful opportunity for PhD students working on Indigenous and colonial topics in the Spanish Borderlands of North America. Please share! Western History Association WHA Grad Caucus Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) @NAISA__

New: Action on Armed Violence (AOAV)'s Voice Notes From Palestine In 2023, I taught a group of students in Gaza living with disabilities how to tell their stories on social media. A year on, their University lies in ruins, they are all refugees and one of them is dead. This is their story.

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Earlier this week, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife observed the first Klamath River Chinook salmon to travel above the CA/OR border since 1912! "The salmon remember." - Vice Chairman Frankie Myers nwsportsmanmag.com/odfw-spots-fir…

Congratulations Annabel!! 👏👏👏

Historians of North America from 1776-1861: I hope you'll submit a proposal to SHEAR 2025 (Providence, July 17-20). This terrific conference is always welcoming of junior scholars. It's also lots of fun. Proposals due 12/1 SHEAR WHA Grad Caucus OIEAHC shear.org/annual-meeting…

Hundreds of salmon are now spawning in Klamath River tributaries above the 4 recently dismantled dams for the first time 60 & 112 years. It is exciting and bodes well for the future. Still, it will take several years for fish runs to recover & there is still much more work to do.

Congratulations Kathleen DuVal 👏👏👏

Coming in June 2025, Sarah Gold McBride's WHISKEROLOGY examines how hair became a powerful indicator of race, gender, and national belonging in 19th-century America. Sarah Gold McBride Harvard University Press #CoverReveal Design: Gabriele Wilson; artwork: Pablo Delcan

(1/3) We're excited to announce the History PhD Pipeline Program is back for another year! HPPP is here to mentor and support prospective History PhD students from historically excluded and under-represented backgrounds. For more info, and to apply, visit history.berkeley.edu/pipeline