Why is Tim Walz getting so much attention in electoral coverage? @DrLisaCorrigan explains Walz's political and affective appeals and discusses the gender/race dynamics of his pick as VP. clioandthecontemporary.com/2024/09/04/bey…

🚨Submissions are now open for the 2025 Maria Stewart Prize for the best journal article in Black intellectual history. 👉🏾Awarded to the author of the best article published in each volume of #GlobalBlackThought. Follow the link below for details. aaihs.org/accepting-subm…

CANNOT WAIT to share what has been one of the coolest and most important projects I’ve worked on, a podcast series on the history of the sanctuary movement. This collaboration with my pal Lloyd D. Barba and our partners at Institute for Religion Media and Civic Engagement examines…

I am pleased to share a CFP for an edited volume, Decolonizing the Campus, edited by myself and Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. Please reach out if you have any questions.

How can #twitterstorians prepare students for a digital future? Chuning Xie challenges assumptions about the divide between tech and humanities and makes a compelling case that history students are particularly well-equipped to learn to code. clioandthecontemporary.com/?p=5894&previe…

The academic year is packed with work, meetings, readings, and teaching, but the summers can feel empty and hard to navigate. Here is some advice on how to find the summer employment opportunity that best fits your needs. clioandthecontemporary.com/2024/11/05/fin…

In this post-election reflection, Dr. William Horne asks: if America’s greatness is its love of freedom, who held the firehoses in Birmingham? Who wielded clubs on Edmund Pettus Bridge? clioandthecontemporary.com/?p=5945&previe…

In time for holiday dinner conversations that combat American myths with historical realities, Sarah Keyes (@sarahkeyesphd.bsky.social) argues that while Ch1 of Kevin Costner’s Horizon was a box office failure, its portrayal of cowboy masculinity helps to explain Trump’s victory. clioandthecontemporary.com/2024/11/27/wil…

ICYMI: In a post for Clio and the Contemporary, Sarah Keyes (@sarahkeyesphd.bsky.social) (AMERICAN BURIAL GROUND) explores how a Kevin Costner box office failure nonetheless helps us understand the cultural mythologies of the US West & cowboy masculinity—and the outcome of the 2024 election. ow.ly/83pB50UqH08

Amidst the recent wave of labor organizing, graduate students are leading the fight to better colleges and universities. In this piece, Omari Averette-Phillips offers helpful guidance for graduate students looking to organize on their campus clioandthecontemporary.com/2024/12/27/lab…

The next chair of the Democratic National Committee will likely come from the Upper Midwest. Cory Haala explores the tradition of progressive, populist politics from Democrats in the Midwest in order to better understand the region. clioandthecontemporary.com/2025/01/31/ken…

The new biopic of Bob Dylan fails to elevate itself above the limits of its genre, primarily by leaving a complex political and historical figure all too well known. Review by Robert Reginio. clioandthecontemporary.com/2025/02/03/unk…