Ansley Quiros

@baylorhistory.bsky.social @joursouhist.bsky.social

The Perils of the Supreme Court Forgetting the Past Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to erase a critical chapter of the past and to weaken the Voting Rights Act.

A reflection on history and freedom. "Histories can be revised; rights revoked."

time.com/7325167/supr...

Please read and share!

Thanks to Allie Lopez and Made By History for working with me on this.

The Perils of the Supreme Court Forgetting the Past Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to erase a critical chapter of the past and to weaken the Voting Rights Act.

Yep: time.com/7325167/supr...

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor of History - HigherEdJobs Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

📣 JOB 📣: The University of North Alabama is hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Medieval History, subfield in science, technology, or medicine preferred. Great department in a growing public regional university and beautiful town. Come be my colleague!

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Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor; History - HigherEdJobs Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

📣 JOB 📣: The University of North Alabama is hiring!
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of 19th/20th Century Britain, subfield in African or Asian history. Great department in a stable, growing public regional university. Come be my colleague!
www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

Was moved listening last week and grateful for this recording. Thank you, Matthew! (Also, meant to send you a note but couldn't track down your email address. Thank you, sincerely!)

Thanks Peter! Hope you're well.

A reminder for all, again, now: Freedoms and rights can be gotten and taken away again. Be aware, keep going, hold hope in the long struggle. time.com/7314300/voti...

New job:

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor; History

University of North Alabama

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New job:

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor of History

University of North Alabama

jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69184

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Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor of History - HigherEdJobs Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

📣 JOB 📣: The University of North Alabama is hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Medieval History, subfield in science, technology, or medicine preferred. Great department in a growing public regional university and beautiful town. Come be my colleague!

www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

hey maybe they'll add your box score to the newsletter!

Hey 28 minutes is not bad!🤣

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor; History - HigherEdJobs Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

📣 JOB 📣: The University of North Alabama is hiring!
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of 19th/20th Century Britain, subfield in African or Asian history. Great department in a stable, growing public regional university. Come be my colleague!
www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

even though NCCU picks up the credit via Getty here, that photo was shot by Alexander Rivera, one of the few black news photographers working in the south at that time. NCCU holds his archive. Worked for the Pittsburgh Courier

The Voting Rights Act Is a Lesson in Overcoming Setbacks While the Voting Rights Act was undoubtedly a singular achievement, it represented the culmination of a long struggle.

In case you missed it yesterday, Allie Roberts Lopez and I wrote a hopeful story of democracy in action for @madebyhistory. Read if it you need to hear a little good news. Protect the VRA.

time.com/7314300/voti...
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The Voting Rights Act Is a Lesson in Overcoming Setbacks While the Voting Rights Act was undoubtedly a singular achievement, it represented the culmination of a long struggle.

It's bad. And it's been bad before.
If you'd like to read about how some Americans believed in and pursued democracy over the long haul, despite legal and extralegal opposition, here you go:
time.com/7314300/voti....

… did Bryce block?

70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was killed by white men because he whistled at a white woman. Now the gun used in his death is in a museum.

It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was lynched by a mob of white men.

Christ Or Moloch?: A Reflection On Nonviolence And The Civil Rights Movement During the month of April at the Anxious Bench, a number of our columnists are participating in a joint collaboration with the AACC (Asian American

Written two years ago and tragically timely again. A reflection on America's antichrist gun worship and nonviolence as the only moral choice to make us whole.

www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

As PBS Stations Confront Cuts, American History Takes a Hit

What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...

"I am an American who believes that the only way to understand this country—the only way to love this country—is to tell the truth about it. Part of that truth is that chattel slavery, which lasted...for nearly 250 years, was indeed quite bad." Clearly said, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social.

Truly a damaged, damaging human.

60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the Supreme Court could curtail its remaining protections for minority voters.

PRRI data finds that 47% of Americans believe that eligible voters being denied the right to vote is one of the most significant issues facing our elections.
On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act's signing into law, the future of the private right of action under the act is uncertain.

Any political scientists out there done work on how late civil rights efforts (late 1970s-1990s) might be opposed not with language of segregation/law and order but with language of anti-welfare/fed gov or privatization?

Anyone working on segregated proms? Like in Wilcox County, GA? Or know students working on this?

Historians out there! Anyone know if there's ever been any substantial work done on Greek scholar and civil rights activist/Freedom Rider Elizabeth "Betsy" Wyckoff (1915-1994)?

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage