Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

@mentalblock.bsky.social here's the link! Help us spread the word. This is a great opportunity for early career folks to get their foot in the door!

Full Time Instructor, Social Sciences - History The Department of Social Sciences at Shawnee State University invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure track Instructor in American History. This is a renewable annual appointment beginning in...

My department is hiring a new Full Time Instructor (FTI) in American History and we're looking for someone with a speciality in post-Civil War America, Appalachia or Upper Ohio Valley, and experience with public history projects.
#AmericanHistory #Appalachia #PublicHistory #shawneestateuniversity

Appalachian Ohio's public schools face tough choices with potential state, federal funding cuts • Ohio Capital Journal Public school leaders in Appalachian Ohio say that state funding cuts would cause suffering for schools and the students they serve. An analysis of the Ohio House Republican budget proposal shows it w...

"An analysis of the Ohio House Republican budget proposal shows it would result in more than $565 million in lost funds for Appalachian school districts over the next two years and a loss of $2.75 billion for public schools statewide." #shameful #appalachia

Pentagon orders military to pull library books about diversity, anti-racism, gender issues It is the broadest and most detailed directive so far on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign to rid the military of diversity and equity programs, policies and instructional materials.

Fascists are going to fascist. If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, salutes like a duck, then .... Damn! WTF? Pardon my French. But, how can any true American support book bans in our nation's libraries?

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Endnotes or footnotes? #ChicagoPope

I’m sorry to report that “Inclusive Excellence” should no longer be considered a “safe” synonym. There are reliable reports that a university in West Virginia recently thought best to abandon the term as a variation of “inclusion.”

AmeriCorps cuts prompt two dozen states to sue Trump administration About two dozen states have sued the Trump administration over the dismantling of AmeriCorps. That's the 30-year-old federal agency for volunteer service.

Sad and pathetic, but that's what the MAGA cultural revolutionaries want; they aim to destroy our cultural institutions and defund community efforts that are preserving and promoting local history. It's shameful. #AmeriCorps

“Interior Sec. Doug Burgum signed away significant control of the Interior Department in a secretarial order Thursday night. The order gives a DOGE operative, Tyler Hassen, the power to oversee the Interior Department for “consolidation, unification and optimization of administrative functions.”

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

Trump admin pulls Black history grants to Whitney Plantation The federal government has terminated two grants for African American history and culture awarded to the Whitney Plantation, a museum aimed at memorializing slavery, as the Trump administration works ...

“It’s disturbing. These grants like ours are going to small museums who are doing good work in communities. And to think that the history of African Americans in the South, the history of slavery, does not align with the priorities of the United States is very concerning.” - Ashley Rogers

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

More of this, please. “The Japanese American National Museum will “scrub nothing,” Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in.”

Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow

“Extensive changes were made to multiple NPS pages about the UGRR, and a landing page directing children to educational materials about it has been offline since last month. Since 1998, the NPS has been required by federal law to recognize the UGRR and to produce educational materials about it.”

Prediction: The newly hired faculty will get to teach the newly required course in "American Civic Literacy," which was included in the recent SB1 Higher Ed law that Gov. Dewine signed last week.

Miami University selects leader for state-mandated 'intellectual diversity' center Miami University says Flagg Taylor will be responsible for developing courses for the center and hiring its faculty.

"Ohio law requires Miami to have 10 tenure-tracked faculty allotted to teach at the center. The Center will be an independent academic unit within Miami's College of Arts and Sciences. State law says no faculty outside the center can have the authority to block any of its faculty hires."

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A clearinghouse for gathering info on NEH (see second post) and a toolkit for advocacy. ⬇️

A black and white photograph depicting a large crowd, possibly of students or military personnel walking down a street lined with trees. The photo seems to have been taken on March 1st, judging by the date noted in the upper left corner. It features several individuals wearing various types of uniforms, suggesting some sort of organized gathering or march.

Campus of University of California, Berkeley, California. Students assembling for Peace Day address of General Smedley Butler

#California #PeaceDay #SmedleyButler #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771855/

Ohio Humanities receives notice its federal grant funds are 'terminated' State humanities councils were established by Congress about 50 years ago to make sure National Endowment for Humanities funds made it to smaller communities and organizations.

Among the grants canceled was one helping fund a documentary about the Underground Railroad in southern Ohio. Defunding NEH is a devastating blow to local history societies, museums, colleges, and universities. Our cultural heritage is being sacrificed to provide tax cuts for American oligarchs.

Folks are going to freeze to death next winter if #HEAP funding is eliminated. #Fact

Picked a great time to teach my Practicing Public History course. With Executive Orders impacting the practice and profession on the daily, the field definitely appears more dynamic than ever, but its prospects (and public funding), in the short term, look very dark. #KeepHistoryAlive

No surprise these cuts are hitting Appalachia hard, but politically you gotta wonder how well this is going to go over with some of his base in the region. Nothing more dangerous than an Appalachian betrayed.

AASLH and the @ncph.bsky.social will hold a joint conference in 2026. Save the date to join us in September in Providence, Rhode Island to explore public history and "The Work of Revolution." We will begin accepting proposals for this conference in July.

Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with 'improper ideology' President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”

Trump's EO "hints at the return of statues and monuments of Confederate figures, many of which were taken down or replaced around the country after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 and the rise of the BLM movement, which is detested by Trump and other conservatives."

Defending Our Full, Shared History at the Smithsonian and National Park Service Yesterday, President Trump issued an executive order that attempts to dictate what history is shared at Smithsonian Institution and National Park Service sites. The order seeks to replace evidence-bas...

"Like detective work, doing history is a rigorous, complex, and ongoing process. .... Attempting to disregard this process and instead promote a false, sanitized narrative hinders our efforts to become a more perfect union through the study of the nation’s past." #AASLH

And so begins the destruction of higher education in Ohio. Can’t wait to see how students respond to being required by the government to read 5 complete Federalist Papers.

I had a neighbor quote the same highlighted passage and say, "This is why we voted for him."

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

I will not go silently. I will not stop teaching the truth about American history in all its glory and all its blemishes. Learning from our past is what enables us to understand the present and face our problems with the courage needed to maintain our constitutional republic.

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

A moronic, shameful low: Attacks on freedom of thought and expression in Ohio and American education • Ohio Capital Journal A nation abandoning academic freedom, policing freedom of thought in the classroom, persecuting freedom of expression on campus, dismantling education, and ripping down its own pillars of…

New Editor Commentary: A nation abandoning academic freedom, policing thought in the classroom, persecuting freedom of expression on campus, dismantling education, ripping down its own pillars of research, this is a nation in the wild-eyed throes of moronic and shameful madness.