@benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social
I study history in order to understand and help others understand the crazy world in which we live. Environment, climate, borders, violence and memory are key. Also @refusing2forget.bsky.social. My opinions are mine, sadly almost never my employer's.
Hey folks — I'll be appearing soon at the Dallas Jewish Bookfest to talk about "Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande."
The event is on Monday, December 8, at 7 pm at the Aaron Family JCC. See the link for details and registration.
www.jccdallas.org/events/bookf...
Glad to see Rogers fighting back.
sanantonioreport.org/alamo-trust-...
hey kids, check out Yale Press's sale. 30% off most titles with this code. That includes my books, but I just looked, and they publish other authors too, so check it out!
yalebooks.yale.edu/gift30/
liars, liars, liars. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/25/f...
25.11.2025 15:27 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0That sound you heard was every GOP elected official with a lick of sense absolutely SHITTING themselves thinking about the visual of Mark Kelly back in uniform before a military court as Whiskey Pete's handpicked chucklefucks try to railroad him on bogus charges.
24.11.2025 20:52 — 👍 23701 🔁 4587 💬 685 📌 196a list of Jews: what could possibly go wrong. FFS.
23.11.2025 15:43 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0But there are fine people on both sides, we are told
21.11.2025 19:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes the swatsika is “potentially divisive”
21.11.2025 19:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0totally unhinged
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Our virtual event is just one week away! Join us as we bring together these powerful voices to reflect on this urgent moment & the ongoing struggle to protect truthful history.
@stevanzetti.bsky.social @drmphillipsut.bsky.social
Access this event on our Patreon:
www.patreon.com/RefusingtoFo...
On Sunday, local community members made the yearly walk to the Matanza of 1915 historical marker. RTF cofounder @gonzalest956.bsky.social, said the murders happened "in response to the last colonial rebellion by ethnic Mexicans against U.S. sovereignty."
www.acrosstheamericas.com/la-caminata-...
a large road sign with the text fuck ICE located on a corner of an intersection in chicago
shout out chicago.
04.11.2025 22:50 — 👍 4446 🔁 659 💬 20 📌 31so pleased they asked about "revisionist history" and kept my response in
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new podcast on TX history dropped today. I'm the guest of honor on the first episode. Might take me weeks to screw up the courage to hear the sound of my own voice. Interviewer asked great questions, so I have high hopes . . .
www.griffynco.com/introducing-...
🕯Día de los Muertos is upon us.🕯
Join us in remembering the stories and honoring the lives of those who have been victims of racial violence in Texas and those who have fought against these cultures of violence.
View our virtual ofrendas on our website.
refusingtoforget.org/dia-de-los-m...
sadly this is the first
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Text of an email message insisting that Lyndon Johnson was behind the JFK assassination and berating the author of Texas: An American History for not saying so.
I have arrived as a Texas historian. My book yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... fails to finger LBJ as the mastermind of the JFK assassination.
31.10.2025 03:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0God I love this. (I’m from Texas as are both my parents and almost all my aunts and uncles are queer).
28.10.2025 16:35 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Damphousse has “provided a model for McCarthyite suppression of constitutionally-protected speech that will undoubtedly provide a toxic model for other colleges + universities across the country with similar timid and unethical leadership,” Michael Phillips said.
universitystar.com/33480/news/f...
History peeps, especially grad students and those who advise them: check out the CFP for Loyola's graduate student conference in February!
www.luc.edu/history/grad...
poor fragile Dan Patrick, read this article to see how easily he is rattled.
www.texastribune.org/2025/10/23/t...
PEOPLE OF AUSTIN, brace yourselves!
texasbookfestival.org/schedule/tex...
An all too timely look at the persistence of racism at the highest levels of law enforcement.
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A young Rafael Lopez. From Max Boardman, “Raphael ‘Red’ Lopez,” True West Magazine, April 27, 2015. https://truewestmagazine.com/article/raphael-red-lopez/
#OTD sometime in October of 1921 Texas Ranger Frank Hamer killed Mexican revolutionary and outlaw Rafael "Red" Lopez. His death marked the end of a years long tale that law enforcement would only fully come to understand in the early 2000s. /1
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Western history peeps, please come to the WHA business meeting Friday at 3:45 in the Anasazi Room to support a measure from the floor to defend Tom Alter. DM me for deets if you want and help spread the word. www.historians.org/news/aha-sen...
15.10.2025 15:21 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.
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The annual Crystal City Pilgrimage honors the memory of the men, women, & children imprisoned in the WWII DOJ Crystal City Family Internment Camp.
"The pilgrimage is an invitation to step into the past...
To feel rage and grief but also love & community & solidarity." www.crystalcitypilgrimage.org
*things could be
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