A fact that's sure to win over hearts&minds in every city between Allentown and Sheboygan.

In a ghoulish new low, West Virginia's flagship is blaming the end of its Appalachian studies program on Travis Stimeling—who died, in his 40s, during the transformation scandal, and was the greatest champion of the study of Appalachia I've ever known: insidehighered.com/news/faculty-i…

"Spilling the Black Girl Tea: Unfiltered Stories from the Heart of Appalachia" is officially out now! Produced by Justice & Jubilee , this is a conversation you won’t want to miss. Tune in now! #BlackGirlMagic #Appalachia #SpillingTheTea

Still waiting for the Leon Panetta speech bump…

Historians: Have you edited an anthology/edited volume? If so, approximately how long was your introduction?

Original version featured trumpet by Emory VA's own FRANKIE NEWTON, whose name historian Eric Hobsbawm used as a pseudonym for his jazz criticism writings #blackappalachia

Can anyone recommend a good synthesis of the GW Bush presidency?

There's scant, but not unsubstantial, evidence that Chain had previously been a soldier garrisoned in Brownsville TX during the 1906 "Brownsville incident."

Actor James Earl Jones, known for his booming voice and roles like Darth Vader, died Monday at age 93. Here's Jones reading the Frederick Douglass speech "What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?" during a performance of "Voices of a People’s History of the United States" in 2003.

Here's Chris Cooper getting emotional talking abt working w/ James Earl Jones on Matewan. The filmmakers wanted "a James Earl Jones-type" for this part, thinking they couldn't get Jones himself w/ such a low budget. But there was nobody like him, so they asked him & he said yes.

This trivial factoid—true for every Republican since Warren G Harding—still functions primarily as a way for rich liberals to avoid addressing the real historical shift here: not the MAGA boaters but the *unenthusiastic* working-class voters whose ballots made Trump president

Johnson was a WV native who taught math in SWVA. Like Chuck Yeager, Homer Hickam, and Francis Gary Powers she was a major Appalachian contributor to the Space Age.

I could draw a line from certain types of people harping on "harmful appalachian stereotypes" to Vance claiming Haitian immigrants are eating pets but I'll spare myself

For grist: grist.org/business/a-new… “There has long been tremendous amounts of investment into Appalachia….The problem is by whom and for what purpose.”

This's the NR's way of saying trump lost badly.

The The New Yorker has produced a remarkable database that lists investigations into potential war crimes committed by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, during its War on Terror newyorker.com/podcast/in-the…

My dept (ISU History Education) is HIRING tenure-track (asst/assc) prof of history & social studies education. Candidates should have PhD in history, secondary teaching experience, & ability/willingness to teach methods to aspiring history teachers. Share widely please!

Is this one of those "ESG" things?