John O'Keefe

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Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

haven't listened to this one yet!

more items of interest here (as always!)

#ohiohistory

Also discusses the #publichistory aspect of memorializing those who died

Investigating ICE's Mass Detention System: A Conversation with Doug MacMillan of The Washington Post Few reporters have done more to expose what’s happening inside America’s sprawling immigrant detention system than Doug MacMillan.

Investigating ICE's Mass Detention System: A Conversation with Doug MacMillan of The Washington Post. Tuesday, February 17, 2026, at 1:00 PM Eastern. Zoom Registration required.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/investigat...

The Medieval Horse
Anastasija Ropa
newbooksnetwork.com/the-medieval...
#horses

The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty
by @tracyborman.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-stolen-c...
#earlymodernhistory #britishhistory
Turns out it was not such a smooth path for James I

Madrid on the Move:
Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century
Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo
newbooksnetwork.com/madrid-on-th... #urbanhistory #modernity #europeanhistory #visualculture

Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule
by @fangyuhu.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/good-wife-wi... #womenshistory #colonialism #chinesehistory

A few more podcast eps

Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor AI is reinscribing academic labor in ways that privilege certain economics interests.

Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor.
Who benefits when AI is introduced into higher education?
By Ulises A. Mejias (adapted from an earlier op-ed at Future U blog.) www.aaup.org/issue/winter...

And I should probably add the #skystorians tag to this as well

And more here as well: floc.com/about-floc/ #aflcio

more here: tlcpllaborhistory.omeka.net/exhibits/sho...

Protesters at Putnam County Courthouse 1978

Also in the 1970s and 1980s predominantly Latino farmworkers in Ohio and Michigan organized with help from Baldemar Velásquez, pressuring Campbell Soup and farmers for better working conditions. They organized a 600-mile march from Ohio to New Jersey. #ohiohistory #laborhistory #farmworkers #floc

Plus a PBS documentary: video.wbgu.org/video/1934-e...

Here's an online photo exhibit from the strike tlcpllaborhistory.omeka.net/exhibits/sho...

YouTube video by CriticalPast Clash between National Guard and strikers outside an auto accessory plant in Tole...HD Stock Footage

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qse2... #nationalguard #autolitestrike #generalstrike #teargas

Working on more material to assign for my #ohiohistory class. I currently have a brief newsreel about the 1934 Auto-Lite Strike in Toledo and I want to expand what's there. Looking at Korth and Beagle's oral history I Remember Like Today: The Auto-Lite Strike of 1934 (Michigan State U Press 1988)

📚 Black History Month Spotlight

FALSE PROMISES—by Ric S. Sheffield—is a powerful account of Black Ohioans who fought for their right to vote despite nineteenth‑century laws designed to silence them.

Learn more at www.ohioswallow.com/978080401257...

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026 #VotingRights

The Cartoons Of Helen Hokinson One of the artists featured in my documentary, WOMEN LAUGHING

lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/the-cartoo...

A Groundbreaking Woman Helen Hokinson, cartoonist for The New Yorker

Cartoons of Helen Hokinson lizadonnelly.medium.com/a-groundbrea... #newyorker #cartoons

The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903) Excerpts from a dazzling image collection, discovered in a Norwegian barn in the 1980s, that experiments with the presentation of gender.

Turn of the century photos of a Norwegian same-sex couple publicdomainreview.org/collection/b... #lgbtqhistory

I remember reading about the natural gas boom in the Lynds' Middletown, discussing Muncie Indiana, and being amazed at the wasteful use of natural gas during the boom period. Came across this a few weeks ago aoghs.org/petroleum-pi...
#middletown #energyhistory #environmentalhistory #fossilfuels

cleaning up some old tabs

We aren't even close to telling the full history of slavery in the United States but feats of research like this one help tremendously. 🗃️

Everything about trans history (and much LGBTQ+ history) has been erased from government websites since last year this time. See @outhistory.bsky.social @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social and other groups that have been speaking out and documenting this for a while now. 🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈

Quite important if you are relying on Google Books for teaching or research. Short-term snag or is it a hack? Just searched for 10 titles to no effect. #Skystorians

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

DHS is using administrative subpoenas to intimidate people www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... #DHS