Marc Reyes

You Can Study That? What could be more satisfying than immersing yourself in the history of something you love?

A brand new mailbag—yes, you CAN study that, but how?

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Episodes two weeks in a row?! That should tell you how much great stuff there is. I was so happy to get to talk to @andrewhartman.bsky.social about KARL MARX IN AMERICA (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and how he keeps going in the writing "grind." Listen here: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

🚨 Where is nuclear competition in South Asia and the Indo-Pacific today? What impact does US-China competition have on nuclear proliferation in Southern Asia?

I answer these questions in my new Texas National Security Review piece: tnsr.org/wp-content/u...

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

A killer line. So cool for the CFP.

A dynamite line thanks to @dinostalgia.bsky.social!

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

This week @contingent-mag.bsky.social announced a #cfp for our December series, A Time of Monsters.

If you have a monster pitch, please send it our way. Thanks to a Kitchings Family Foundation grant, every essay will be $300.

#skystorians #monsters

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#ScholarSunday Thread 244 (10/5/25) – Black and White and Read All Over Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possib...

Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️

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Normally our December issue is six mini-essays, but with the support of the Kitchings Family Foundation, we're going to be able to support six shorts--twice the word count, twice the pay!--as well as an amazing feature-length review we've already got lined up.

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.

The monster is a friend, or so we @contingent-mag.bsky.social suggest in our CFP... a fiend to historians especially, though not exclusively.

Pitch us an essay about your historical monster, whatever form that monster takes, by October 20!

“I call the big one Bitey.”

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.

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December issue CFP arrives today!

Today I am sending the final draft of *A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw to @uncpress.bsky.social. It's been an incredibly difficult year on a number of fronts, but today is certainly a day to celebrate and thank everyone who helped me to reach it. 🗃️

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This year, we'll be publishing a ✨deluxe✨ December issue with 6 shorts and a feature-length review, made possible in part by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation!

The CFP arrives on Wednesday October 1. Don't miss it.

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@contingent-mag.bsky.social's CFP for our special December issue is creeping along. Find out what spookiness we have unearthed on October 1.

Here it is, my 243rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

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The mad editors @contingent-mag.bsky.social have been conjuring a new CFP for our December issue. It will debut soon. Keep your eyes open and get ready to pitch. As always, the GIF is a hint.

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A new CFP emerges this week! Our seventh December issue is going to be bigger and better than ever, so make sure to keep an eye out for the call. As always, the GIF is a hint.

A screenshot of the desktop mode of our new website. A minimalist penguin is reading from a red book above a title "Black and White and Read All Over" subtitle Where Scholarship Meets the Public A menu for the site sits below the header with links for home review roulette, American studier, scholar Sunday and more Text on the page reads Welcome to our home of public scholarship covering American culture, history, film, and all things American Studies! Please use the above navigation to explore or one of the icons below Three hand drawn icons in black and white denote the blog spaces with a reel, an American flag, and a book shaped couch For the footer, the penguin and title of the site are next to a column for about sections on the site, Ben Railton, and Vaughn Joy,. And a column with links to the earlier pages, and a final column for contact and subscription details.

I made a whole ass website!!!

I'm so proud of it. I love our little penguin and the reel for Review Roulette. There are so many pages to click through and there's a space for announcements to celebrate the achievements of our academic community.

Please subscribe for RR, #ScholarSunday, and more!

Book cover with text reading: Emily Sneff, When the Declaration of Independence Was News. Background color fades from a peach-toned map at the top of the image to a blue-toned image of the parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Coming April 15, 2026!

The nation’s founding document at the moment of its creation in 1776, before anyone knew what the legacy of the Declaration would be or if the United States would win the war against Great Britain.

Pre-order information (and discount code!) will be available in the new year.

#ScholarSunday Thread 242 Published on September 21, 2025

From Nashville for one more Family Weekend, here’s my 242nd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

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Dressed for Reform Long before it was fashionable, Bloomer pioneered what would later be dubbed "respectability politics"

Great essay on 19th c. women's rights activist Amelia Bloomer, in @contingent-mag.bsky.social.
contingentmagazine.org/2025/09/09/d...

Lorne Michaels Gives the Harry Ransom Center a Blockbuster Archive Lorne Michaels with Shelley Duvall, Jane Curtain, Gilda Radner, and Lorraine Newman in 1977. Steve Wilson, BA ’79, BS ’95, was a UT freshman in 1975, living in the Jester Center. Back then, on your av...

#ICYMI: Alcalde (the official magazine of @texasexes.org) published a feature on the Lorne Michaels Collection. "Live From New York," a new @ransomcenter.bsky.social exhibit exploring Michaels's career, opens this week.

alcalde.texasexes.org/2025/08/lorn...

#comedy #SaturdayNightLive #SNL #ATX 🗃️📜

The Trump White House Is Trying to Price Law Students Out of Public Service A proposed Department of Education rule would make borrowers ineligible for loan forgiveness if the administration doesn’t approve of their work.

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration

Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes

ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

A reminder that we're collecting for our 2025 contingent publication lists!

I was honored to be invited to contribute a piece to the newly published @shafrhistorians.bsky.social Passport Roundtable paying tribute to the Cold War International History Project, formerly at @wilsoncenter.org. CWIHP will thrive elsewhere.

www.shafr.org/assets/docs/...

How Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell Does History “I didn’t know my quirky obsession could be a job in its own right.”

Including her own History I Do History:

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, Author at CONTINGENT Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell is a fashion historian, curator, and journalist. She is the author of five books including, most recently, <em>Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Cent...

Read more writing by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social for @contingent-mag.bsky.social here:

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