Jason A. Higgins, Ph.D

Jason Higgins wins national book award for “Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration”

The Oral History Association awarded the 2025 Book Award to @jasonhiggins.bsky.social, for "Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration."

🏆 A national honor recognizing outstanding oral history scholarship—congrats, Dr. Higgins!

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Troy Reeves presenting the award

A nice little trophy for my office

Author signing event

Last night was such a great celebration! I am honored to receive the Oral History Association Book Award in 2025 for Prisoners after War (@umasspress). Always great to reconnect with all the amazing people at OHA.

Dear conference apps,

I do not want a constant stream of emails.

Thank you,
Everyone who has enough emails.

Punishment in All but Name - Mary Ellen Stitt - Inquest Drug diversion programs are hyped by reformists as alternatives to prison—but they function just like punishment and people often end up incarcerated anyway.

An important critique of the carceral logic of treatment courts: inquest.org/punishment-i...

On days like today, I am reminded how fortunate we are to have shared our short time on this planet with incredible humans like Jane Goodall, Daniel Ellsberg, and John Lewis. Keeping the light alive today are new generations, like Greta Thunberg, Malala Yousafzai, Ta’Nehisi Coates, and many more.

Why Honest Museums Make a Stronger America When a nation tells the truth about itself, it gives future generations the tools to do better. That is why the Smithsonian Institution and other museums that document the history and afterlives of sl...

"Americans deserve history that is researched, peer-reviewed, and responsibly interpreted—not history edited by politicians. Attempts to scrub, minimize, or euphemize the history of slavery do not “unify” the nation; ... blackpast.org/in-defense-o...

The Society for Military History and the Veterans Studies Association conferences are during the same dates. Decisions will need to be made.

I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint.

I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100 Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

That’s very cool!

I don’t know what that means either, but it’s clearly much better.

I don’t know what it means, but I do not like it.

It takes years of study and research to create new knowledge and advance understanding of the sciences or humanities. There are no shortcuts.

This administration is pedaling conspiracies, grifting, and lying. It has nothing of value to offer the world.

And it’ll take years of work to refute it.

Oh, absolutely not. Deleting.

I think that this is an important image and it says so much about this country.

A picture of Jacki Antonovich standing in front of a copy of The Nursing Clio Reader on a book shelf.

Today is publication day for The Nursing Clio Reader. As I write in the preface of the book, I started Nursing Clio back when I was a second-semester grad student as part of a final project in a public humanities seminar taught by historian Matthew Countryman at UMich. 🧵

Harlem Hellfighters Awarded Congressional Gold Medal Amid Ongoing U.S. History Debate The Harlem Hellfighters, the most well-known group of Black World War I soldiers, received a long overdue honor from Congress on Sept. 3.

Harlem Hellfighters Awarded Congressional Gold Medal Amid Ongoing U.S. History Erasure www.blackenterprise.com/harlem-hellf...

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Are you working on an digital exhibits or sites that can feature the oral histories and showcase them beyond the book?

My job is 90% administrative tasks and emails. 50% teaching and mentoring students. And 25% research and scholarship.

If that doesn’t add up, I didn’t learn math or administration in grad school.

Virginia Tech Humanities for Public Service Major How one interdisciplinary department created a new major to better serve its students’ career ambitions

ftr, *this* is who they're shutting down. from ACLS:

Right. Nothing to see here.

Thank you so much! I hope all is well!

I despise when oppressors play the victims.

Dr. Higginson was my global history field advisor, and he is a wealth of knowledge. His papers undoubtedly will be incredible valuable and significant

My daughter is reading Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent, and telling me about John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry. That’s my kid!

I grew up celebrating Juneteenth. In Wilmar, AR (very small town near where I’m from) there were BBQs, motorcycle and 4-wheeler rides, music, and lots of block parties. I realized recently that a formerly enslaved person from Galveston moved there after the war and carried the tradition with him.

Cover of the book World War Zoos

On June 23, I'll be on @askhistorians.bsky.social to answer questions about my new book, World War Zoos!

Hit me up with questions about zoos, war, animals...or some of my other interests, disabled veterans, war and crime, alligators.

@uchicagopress.bsky.social

June 12, 1963: Medgar Evers Murdered in Mississippi Medgar Evers, WWII veteran and civil rights activist, was murdered by a white supremacist in Jackson, Mississippi.

#tdih 1963 WWII vet Medgar Evers was murdered by white supremacist in driveway outside his home in Jackson.

Evers was NAACP field secretary for Mississippi & under constant threat in his fight for democracy and against white supremacy. #TeachTruth 🧵
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