Justin Gage

The Clements Center for Southwest Studies invites fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year.

For more info and to apply:
www.smu.edu/dedman/resea...

If you're interested of have questions, feel free to contact me directly.

Remembering Quintard Taylor: Beloved professor, founder of BlackPast.org Remembering Quintard Taylor: Beloved professor, founder of BlackPast.org

Quintard Taylor was dedicated to studying Black people in the West — a field that often went unresearched, esp at the beginning of his research in the mid 1970s. Taylor’s work helped correct the narrative that the history of Black people in the West is insignificant. www.dailyuw.com/article/1353...

Nate Allen, who spent more than a half-century covering the Razorbacks, dies at 75 | Whole Hog Sports Whole Hog Sports

Nate Allen, who spent 52 years covering the Razorbacks for Arkansas newspapers big and small, died this afternoon in Fayetteville.

Remembering one of our state's great sports reporters.

www.wholehogsports.com/news/2025/de...

We found that the BLM skipped environmental review on 75% of its grazing land. Our new @propublica.org story explains the ”loophole” that allows BLM to bypass enviro reviews. www.propublica.org/article/graz...

WHA 2026 Digital Scholarship Lightning Round - Expression of Interest Please complete the form below. Someone from the Digital Scholarship Committee will contact you to confirm your acceptance to the lightning round. Contact Sean Fraga, sfraga@usc.edu, with questions.

Western historians: consider this CFP for the digital history lightning round at the 2026 WHA conference in Portland! Great format for discussing work in progress with a supportive audience. Happy to answer any questions. Respond by Wed., Dec. 3. #AmWest 🗃️

Congrats Jimmy!

Mixed-Blood Histories An unprecedented study that puts mixed-ancestry Native Americans back into the heart of Indigenous history Historical accounts tend to neglect mixed-ancestry...

Today is publication day for my book, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, through the University of Minnesota Press!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...

Found in the Densho Digital Repository

A photograph of Japanese American students at the Rohwer incarceration camp in Arkansas. The students rush between barracks to get to their respective classes. The photograph was taken by Tom Parker on November 17, 1942.
🗃 #skystorians #OTD

CALL FOR PAPERS!

Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).

Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History

Applications due November 14! 🗃️

Applications due November 14! 🗃️

UA Little Rock Downtown to host 'American Indians in Arkansas Baseball' lecture Wednesday - Arkansas Times Archivist Erin Fehr will speak about how Native American players helped cruise the Little Rock Travelers to a Southern League championship win in 1920 at CALS' monthly Legacies & Lunch lecture.

Archivist Erin Fehr will speak about how Native American players helped cruise the Little Rock Travelers to a Southern League championship win in 1920 at CALS’ monthly Legacies & Lunch lecture.

170 years ago, the US Army massacred a Lakota village. Their plundered belongings are now back in Nebraska 170 years ago, the U.S. Army massacred a Lakota village near Lewellen, Nebraska. Dozens of items plundered from the dead were recently returned to tribal descendants.

nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/

Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025.

A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920.

Please share widely!

No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live

Tonight the University of Washington community is mourning the loss of professor Quintard Taylor.

His 1994 book “The Forging of a Black Community” is foundational reading about race, class, and urban planning in Seattle political history.

He will be missed sorely.

There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live

Muir Woods exhibit is first casualty of White House directive to erase history "In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."

"In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."

World’s richest 1% increased wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, Oxfam says That amount is “more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” according to a new analysis from the anti-poverty group.

The world’s richest 1 per cent have increased their wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, “more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” according to new @oxfaminternational.bsky.social analysis.

Wichita Beacon

June 21, 1925: A Ku Klux Klan baseball team plays a Black team in Wichita, Kan. The Black squad, the Wichita Monrovians, win, 10-8. How this matchup came to be is unexplained. Fans are warned against "strangle holds, razors, horsewhips, and other violent implements of argument."

#AmRel Postdoc beginning July.

Bryn Mawr College 1-year renewable postdoct with expertise in contemporary American religion, partnering with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators on a large national project about the changing spiritual infrastructure of the United States.

About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down

Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

Digital History Seed Grants Visit the post for more.

***Digital History Seed Grants***

The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields.

Deadline: 8/1/25

iehs.org/awards/seed_...

Visas reinstated for all University of Arkansas’ international students who had status revoked | Arkansas Advocate All five international students at the University of Arkansas who had their visa status revoked last month have been reinstated, a university spokesperson confirmed Thursday.

All five international students at the University of Arkansas who had their visa status revoked last month have been reinstated, a university spokesperson confirmed Thursday.

75 percent of North America’s bird species are in decline, study says Birds are rapidly vanishing from North America, with dramatic population losses in places that were once thought safe.

NEW: A sweeping new study finds three-fourths of North America's bird species are in decline

Scientists say it should be a wake-up call for us since some of the pressures on birds — climate change, pollution, etc. — aren't good for people, either
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

U. of Florida Calls Off Dean Search After DeSantis Intervenes A spokesperson said the governor’s office stepped in after a right-wing group posted videos of the finalists on social media and claimed they were “radical progressives with disdain for Florida’s DEI ...

NEW: DeSantis directed the University of Florida to cancel a nearly-complete search for its next dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — because the governor believed the finalists were not in alignment with the state's opposition to DEI

Hey #skystorians if you are in the area do join us for the Hotz lecture at the University of Arkansas sponsored by the History department and the law school news.uark.edu/articles/772...