✨Please save the date! We're excited to announce the dates and location of #AAIHS2025 . More details coming soon.

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This Tuesday!
Join us at Wesleyan if you're around to learn about the history of mixed-status families, expatriation of birthright children, and US legal practice.

NYT: The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance nytimes.com/2024/03/21/art…

.William Sturkey's THE BALLAD OF ROY BENAVIDEZ is 'a robust account of a true American hero and his ability to overcome many different obstacles.” —Kirkus Reviews

Available June 11. Preorder your copy today: bit.ly/4c8fzz8

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Had two arguments with friends over Israel’s war in Gaza, and I thought I’d walk through my understanding of the argument for Israel, and why I reject it.

Want to keep up with the changes to Chronicling America? You can read about them here. loc.gov/ndnp/migration… #edchat #sschat #lmchat #ncss #ncte #aasl

the Emmett Till site is hiring a superintendent. share far and wide bc this is an important site. usajobs.gov/job/781452500

The affirmative action ruling wasn’t so inconsequential as how many Black kids go to Harvard. It was the culmination of a 50-year strategy to turn colorblindness against justice for descendants of slavery, & against our democracy itself. This is a warning. nytimes.com/2024/03/13/mag…

Finally, the book is in my hands! Available vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826506658/…

RIP Dorie Ladner. An incredible and heroic freedom fighter.

It’s here! So glad she’s officially out in the world. Thanks again to my Mighty co-editor Dr. Francoise N. Hamlin and Vanderbilt University Press editor Gianna Mosser.

Get yours here:

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#AAIHS2024 coincides with new faculty publications! On Saturday, March 8 at 1:45pm, conference participants can attend the 'Author Meets Engaged Reader Roundtable' with Andrew Kahrl on his new book: “The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America”

So, that dramatic sex trafficking story that Republican Senator Katie Britt told in her creepy kitchen table speech actually took place 20 years ago — during the Republican Bush administration. And it took place in Mexico. Katie Britt is not only a bad actor. She’s a liar.

Professor Stephanie McCurry is featured in a new volume, January 6 and the Politics of History, published by UGA Press

Edited by Dr. Jim Downs, the work includes contributions from historians Dr. Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755 on lots o’ platforms), Elizabeth Hinton, Jill Lepore, William Sturkey, & Julian Zelizer

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.William Sturkey's THE BALLAD OF ROY BENAVIDEZ is 'a robust account of a true American hero and his ability to overcome many different obstacles.” —Kirkus Reviews

Available June 11. Learn more: bit.ly/4c8fzz8

#RoyBenavidez kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/w…

The electability profile of this man:

-Black, obese, angry
-bankruptcy history
-paid for abortion
-antisemitic
-anti-Muslim
-anti-public schools
-anti-legal weed
-anti-gay
-against the civil rights movement (?)
-sexist
-limited experience w/ no accomplishments as Lt. gov

Come and help me celebrate the release of The Summer of 2020: George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement. PLEASE SHARE. Thanks
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'One marked grave had been broken wide open by a fallen tree limb, and had filled with water. I was horrified to see my ancestor’s skeletal remains floating at the top,' writes Edda Fields-Black (she/her/hers) on researching her family history. Read: nyti.ms/4abblVF

A simply brilliant piece with the numbers, how the state has systematically defunded UConn by Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar of UConn History Dept President of UConn AAUP in The Mirror read and Circulate! I hope Governor Ned Lamont will pay attention! ctmirror.org/2024/03/01/uco…