@oaverettephillips.bsky.social
PhD candidate - History & African American Studies at UC Davis; 19th-century working-class history; Managing Editor @cliocontemporary.bsky.social ; Host @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social ; Chair @scwhistorians.bsky.social GSCC ; Co-Chair @oah.org GSC
It's been 100 years since the first Negro History Week in 1926. @sibyllan.bsky.social urges the United States to continue to confront the truth about its history in classrooms and in public—parks, museums, and government websites. 🗃️ #blackhistory clioandthecontemporary.com/2026/03/07/b...
Anyone interested in watching the new FX anthology “Love Story” and writing a review? The season focuses on the romantic relationship between John F Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.
This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food
I genuinely don't even think we should be getting into a history of how long Muslims have been in this country. Don't debate racists. Of course Muslims belong here. The assertion that they don't is stupid, and I'm not going to dignify it with evidence like we're in a legitimate debate.
#skystorians teaching this film should assign @oaverettephillips.bsky.social and Taylor Black’s analysis. Check it out.
Really really wish I could assign this film (and this reading) in my US history in film course, but alas, it's much too R-rated. (I usually have high school dual-enrollment students who are likely under 18.)
Just sayin...
I was very excited to write this piece on Sinners with Taylor Black! For months we spoke about the film, its themes and our analysis of it before I said "we really should write something about this..."
HUGE thanks to @joshkluever.bsky.social who helped turn our ideas into something readable.
I wrote my first piece for @cliocontemporary.bsky.social!
@guategamerphd.bsky.social's piece does a great job connecting the past to the present.
Someone pay me to write a thing analyzing ideas of revolution/revoluntionaries in One Battle After Another
"This essay...asks why cycles of protest and repression in Iran have taken recurring forms since 1979, and why casualty accounting repeatedly becomes a struggle over political authority."
@keanuheydari.bsky.social has written a great piece for @cliocontemporary.bsky.social!
What is this bullshit?! "law enforcement officers" have always harassed, assaulted and killed Black and brown folk and those that were/are working-class. ICE is just following what is a CLEARLY established historical precedent.
Doesn't quite work when the regular police have such a reputation for brutality and shooting minorities that there was an entire social movement based around it.
democracy no longer exists as the wealth class crushes all democratic ability to counter them.
Ai companies must be destroyed and anyone helping them imprisoned of you want to regain democracy.
Happening in less than an hour!
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"abolish ice" does in fact require defunding the police because they are the same system causing harm.
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do you care about trans people?
cool!
cancel your new york times subscription!
oh, but you just play the games? thats the worst argument you could've made!
go fuck yourself!
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This is happening FRIDAY!
she knows...
Dan O'Sullivan, welcome to Life After Cars.
Taxi Driver is one of my favorite films of all time and @jasonhiggins.bsky.social has provided great analysis of the movie and larger historical context in this great piece
In the wake of the ICE surge in Minnesota, @legg.bsky.social explains how federal immigration violence against Minnesotans echoes the historic federal violence committed against Minnesota’s Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century. 🗃️
Historian here, “The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitution and machinery, to politicians and statesmen for the safety of its liberties never will have any.” Abolitionist Wendell Phillips
I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
Oh, like Philando Castile did?
