How Religious Food Movements Paved the Way for MAHA - UNC Press Blog The following is a guest blog post by Adrienne Krone, author of Free-Range Religion: Alternative Food Movements and Religious Life in the United States which is now available wherever books are sold. ...

How have religious food movements from the early nineteenth century have to do with America’s MAHA health agenda today?

@adriennekrone.bsky.social, author of FREE-RANGE-RELIGION, dives into the history in this recent blog post ⤵️

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I’ve gone down a Yoder-related rabbit hole on this lately, but I haven’t seen much. Would be very curious what others suggest.

UNI is hiring an Assistant Professor of Instruction focused on Religious Ethics. This is a promotable, renewable position. Happy to answer questions!

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I say this extremely seriously: one of the main skills children have to learn to be adults is to do things they *don't* find interesting. This is both because many necessary things in life are boring and because sometimes interesting things take time and effort first.

Back to School Helps Cara Burnidge shares four tools she likes to make syllabus prep faster, smarter, and more student-centered

Good tips and advice here for the inevitable last minute syllabus preps, from @burnidge.bsky.social

This is good. The parrot line is a nice touch!

Was just talking with a colleague about this. It is…interesting… that more haven’t made that move

Does anyone have examples of colleges or universities advertising themselves as AI-free or, better, anti-AI?

The thing is, by refusing to truly engage with the public and to support/value scholars who do, we cede the public understanding of history to these 'history buffs,' - and at the same time, contribute to the decline of our field, as the public doesn't know what we *do* that they should pay for.

Useful thread on Mahmoud v. Taylor from @scribnerumcp.bsky.social.

1 E.g., Colored People’s Convention of the State of South Carolina (1865, Charleston, SC), Colored Conventions Project Digital Records (last visited June 15, 2025), https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/ show/570 (“ ‘Right’ is defined to be the just claim, ownership, or lawful title which a person has to anything”).

There's something really interesting going on here methodologically in Justice Jackson's Medina v. Planned Parenthood dissent. You can see it in one footnote.

In short, Jackson is emphasizing that Black Americans are part of the original "public" about which "originalists" should be concerned.

amazing q&a with paul krugman

I’m so sorry to hear this. I heard great things about the union when I was doing my grad work there. Crossing my fingers for you all.

The Losses: The History of Genomics Program The archive my colleagues and I have built and maintained since 2012 is inaccessible.

"The NHGRI Communications Office, and with it the History of Genomics Program, was completely disbanded on April 2nd. My contractual position was finally terminated on April 28th."

The first piece in our series "The Losses"

Cold War Civil Rights A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearHow the fight for civil rights in America became an important front in the Cold War

It's the official publication day for the 25th anniversary edition of Cold War Civil Rights!! New preface sets it in the context of the contemporary global Black Lives Matter movement.
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.

That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY

Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance As Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

Good odds that June 2025 goes down as a fundamental turning point in American civil-military norms longer term (for several reasons).

These paragraphs are…in tension

Ohio State announces every student will use AI in class COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Starting this fall, every Ohio State student will be asked to use artificial intelligence. “Through AI Fluency, Ohio State students will be ‘bilingual’ — fluent …

OSU requiring “AI fluency” within every major.

Foolish and counterproductive—even on the terms set by the selective austerity hawks. $258 million is a drop in the bucket. Plus, an HIV vaccine would not only save countless lives at home and abroad; it would also make HIV prevention more effective and less costly in the long run.

The Future of Sanctuary - Dissent Magazine Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk.

From our spring issue: @elprofebarba.bsky.social and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social on the sanctuary movement.

Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk.

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Last summer, a team from @historians.org issued a report on the teaching of history in U.S. K-12 schools.

We asked them to write an essay-length version of that report for History of Education Quarterly.

And then we invited four leading scholars to comment. In this thread, I'll post links to all.

Your “centering” JAAR article. It was great!

We read two essays by @mjcressler.bsky.social in my “Religion and Race” class this semester, and here he is going for the hat trick.

Check it out!