Unboxing a book that took 16 years. What’s it about, who is it for? How to order? www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati... want 🎧 to Dahlia Lithwick interview me about it? Fresh podcast below 👇🏽/
“I define the Streisand effect exactly as it appeared in the EO”
Another reminder that thanks to the good folks at the Mellon Foundation, @uncpress.bsky.social , @ecds-emory.bsky.social and @foxcenteremory.bsky.social my book is FREE on Kindle and to read online at jimcrowintheasylum.com
Can you imagine the train wreck of an interview of someone who had ChatGPT write their dissertation?
TGIF
New symposium on my book is out in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities!
It features essays by an extraordinary group of scholars from across Law and History followed by my response.
yaleconnect.yale.edu/yjlh/yjlh-is...
Congrats to two very deserving historians!
Beer Ghosts has a cover! Pageproofs and index almost done, coming your way in October. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I definitely did something right this week because I’m getting a bunch of whale videos in my feed
Call for Applications for the SHEAR DEI Fellowships! SHEAR will offer at least 2 research fellowships to scholars examining African diasporic, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and/or Pacific Island history from 1776 to 1861. Application deadline is May 1. Details here: shear.org/about-us/she....
Reporters dusting off the definition of stagflation for readers
www.npr.org/2026/03/06/g...
All eyes on the Kennedy School
Thrilled/nervous to be taking over as Chair of BrANCH (@branchuk.bsky.social) from October. Emily has left some enormous shoes to fill (figuratively...), but this is the first organization I joined back in the mists of PhD time, and it's an enormous honor to step up here. www.branch.org.uk
Your quarterly bibliography of new and interesting scholarship in Native American History and Indigenous studies.
michaelleroyoberg.com/new-publicat...
This is so foul
Full book jacket just dropped, and we're pretty happy with it. Huge thanks to @cecilefromont.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, Alice, and Andrés for your generous words! #earlymodern #BeyondTheOcean global.oup.com/academic/pro...
This is a really special map curator JOB working w/@en-dash.bsky.social at @bplmaps.bsky.social. Apply by March 30th. #glam #maps 🗃️
www.leventhalmap.org/about/jobs/c...
Re-reading Custer Died for Your Sins this weekend. Easy to forget about all the jokes and zingers in here
On this day in US history (1784), John Wesley chartered the first Methodist church in the United States. For more on how Wesleyan Methodism developed in the long nineteenth century, why not check out this OPEN ACCESS article by @randalljstephens.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Discussed in this excellent book
ABC’s Custer series from 1967, which the Tribal Indians Land Rights Association and NCAI protested for promoting stereotypes, is on YouTube. Gives a pretty clear picture of what organizers were dealing with back then. Went on for 17 episodes before getting cancelled
m.youtube.com/watch?v=AmnA...
This has been the longest year. This app used to be a bunch of nice little waterfall pics
Congrats!!!
Are class actions on behalf of corporations a thing? If not, they might be soon
www.ft.com/content/15a4...
Well worth a read. It seems there are a few database projects trying to document Indigenous slavery - saw this one about a project at Brown last year
www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
Is there a more disappointing historical site than Plymouth Rock?
