“this effort has been absurd; there is no way to kill someone without some element of torture, either psychological, physical, or both.”
Tortured to Death in Alabama - The Atlantic
25.10.2025 11:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Inside a Web of Love: Thoughts on Gurney Norman - Front Porch Republic
As Gurney’s family and friends wrestle with the loss of their friend, I hope they—or more accurately we—will lean into being lonely inside a web of love.
Grateful to the folks at Front Porch Republic for inviting me to share on the passing of Gurney Norman—writer, documentarian, advocate, Kentucky poet laureate, teacher, mentor, & friend.
Whether you read them, let me encourage you to read some of Gurney’s words. You’ll be better for doing so.
16.10.2025 10:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What Besieged Universities Can Learn From the Christian Resurgence
Educators can fight back against Trump’s attacks by re-embracing “old-fashioned” disciplines and ideas.
The best way to prove universities’ value is to get countercultural again.…That means defending inefficient, human-centered learning: strange and premodern practices such as reading an old book, then writing a long essay about it.”
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
24.08.2025 12:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What an amazing conversation between @silashouse and @crystalwilki about the writing of creative nonfiction. Once again, I’m reminded how much these folks rock. Y’all find it wherever you go for podcasts and listen.
21.08.2025 15:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Indoctrination”? We Call It “Education.”
It’s not “divisive” to teach about division. It’s divisive to bury it.
“Leaving the next generation ignorant of this historical knowledge, of the institutions, cultural practices, and processes that have either created or nourished division, will only perpetuate and deepen division.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/198366/indoctrination-call-education
18.08.2025 11:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What if History Died by Sanctioned Ignorance?
We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.
A taste of Blight’s usual incisive prose: “official triumphal narratives rooted in a brand of pickled patriotism designed to force the past to serve the present.”
Pickled patriotism.
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
16.08.2025 12:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Progressively getting situated in a new space. This gift from some students seemed appropriate to bring over on Wendell’s ninety-first birthday.
05.08.2025 15:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Though a few years removed, I’ve been haunted (in a good way) by memories of Easy Bistro’s “Ode to Peanuts.” Today, Broadbent hams helped me relive that experience.
26.07.2025 17:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here we are: bringing up the rear #SHEAR2025
20.07.2025 16:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing? — The New Yorker
The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.
I love (read: laugh/hate/some such verb) seeing folks (both in & out of classroom spaces) passing off AI-generated ideas as their own believing no one can tell. I don’t begrudge them (this piece shares some of the reasons why) but I “love” it nonetheless.
apple.news/AJiQDJ5H9QVO...
01.07.2025 11:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A good morning to return (once again) to •The Long-Legged House•
22.06.2025 14:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I just did so much damage. Didn’t need to see this.
15.05.2025 22:02 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
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Pre-archives time spent writing on a manuscript purportedly arguing about race & early American evangelicalism while uncertain how these pages made it thru a survey course let alone to the desk of a major university press.
Friends, given what I had to write, I did not do what the cup encouraged.
07.05.2025 15:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/larry-david-hitler-dinner.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ck8.ddzT.B602iqCCOMOA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
26.04.2025 11:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As I wait to learn what many friends have found out, namely, that already-awarded and appropriated funding is being disappeared , please let me remind you work of the @nehgov.bsky.social matters.
04.04.2025 04:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“[W]hen it works, it trains people to think critically, powerfully and unflinchingly.”
Oh, that “we” would want it to work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opinion/university-defunding-trump-rufo.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
22.03.2025 13:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One way to spend a rainy day in March
17.03.2025 16:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Seemed to be more than a few disconnects. Say you don’t know what folks are doing without saying you don’t know what folks are doing 🤦♂️
15.03.2025 14:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
"Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens."
Not the official @nehgov.bsky.social account, but a collective of Hercules Mulligans.
#AltGov but NOT related to AltNPS.
New album, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, out now on Nonesuch Records! https://linktr.ee/rhiannongiddens
Commonplace: the journal of early American life since 2000. Published by a partnership of the OIEAHC and AAS. Commonplace.online
Associate Professor of History, Penn State
Enslavement, Emancipation, and Empire in North America, 1750 - 1820 https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828429/the-centrality-of-slavery/
https://sites.psu.edu/jch24/
Assistant Professor of US History - The City College of New York, CUNY - slavery/antislavery/empire/capitalism - father & musician
Historian of early modern of encounter at the University of East Anglia. Working on The Global Library Project (https://www.globallibrary.net/). English and Scottish visits to foreign libraries. Also early modern queer history. She/Her
Official Bluesky of Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas. Housed at the Brown Center for Digital Scholarship @browncds.bsky.social; PI Linford Fisher @linford.bsky.social.
stolenrelations.org
Being unhinged is revolutionary.
High noon’s for amateurs—try midnight
Vulgar Marxist, Kentucky proud, fuck work. She/her
anniemcclanahan.com
"Race Politics & Irish America" (Oxford UP bit.ly/3XKj0nn) Winner: 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award. Excerpt: bit.ly/3FuH1sa Podcast: bit.ly/3ZT7pnW Juanita Casey "Horse of Selene" Afterword: bit.ly/3QTOlSo Page: https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burk
(Address is college nickname. My name and initials were taken) Historian of modern US social movements; fan of Kentucky Shakespeare and local performing arts; hiker, nature lover, music fan and bibliophile.
Maker of textiles (knitting, spinning, weaving) and sewist. Historian. Human and greyhound mom. New Yorker in Alabama. Easily amused. Fueled by coffee and seltzer. Fuchsia is my neutral.
Making art and media in the mountains since 1969.
Press inquiries to press@appalshop.org.
linktr.ee/appalshop
www.appalshop.org
John Brown fan, historian of Reconstruction & Lost Cause education, HS teacher of history & political science. Enemy of nostalgia. Long-suffering Chicago Bears fan. Army vet. Heavy metal enthusiast.
Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
