Victoria W. Wolcott

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

"The President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Budget proposes to terminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." bit.ly/4kEnEPo

Who Is Geraldine Pointer? A former political prisoner in Buffalo seeks to clear her name so she can finally "feel free."

Love and honor to Miss Geraldine.

“What happened to Geraldine Pointer and Martin Sostre reminds us never to underestimate the lengths to which the state will go to violently attack dreams of Black liberation and the power of everyday people.” hammerandhope.org/article/gera...

AHA Surveys: Historians Teaching Off the Tenure Track - AHA Goals of the Surveys The Professional Division of the American Historical Association seeks to collect and collate information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty...

The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. 🗃️

Projection of Trump and Poilievre on Niagara Falls with the text "DON'T TRUMP CANADA"

Sometimes, a single moment captures everything we stand for. Tonight, at Niagara Falls, we are shouting with lights: DON’T TRUMP CANADA!

Join the movement >> act.gp/42pGl3b

The History Books Purged From the Naval Academy's Library The Trump administration is engaged in something much worse than book burning. It is attempting to burn down the entire cultural infrastructure that supports the pursuit of history.

The History Books Purged From the Naval Academy's Library 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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The Communal Counterpoint | Carryall Victoria W. Wolcott responds to Chapter 6—Roots and Rootlessness (1920-45) in Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.

I enjoyed posing as an intellectual historian to contribute to Michael Kramer's new project thecarryall.org/the-communal...

Devastating.

Teaching Mario Savio and the free speech movement in my Post-45 class today. Sadly relevant.

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!

To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

Changes Our University Is Making to Pre-Comply with Possible Future Regulations “[T]he University of North Texas administration recently censored the content of more than two hundred academic courses, including by mandating the...

Changes Our University Is Making to Pre-Comply with Possible Future Regulations www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...

From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: Dr. Jake Newsome on the Nazi Persecution of LGBTQ+ People - Ask Me Anything! Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community

Its #AMA time for #Skystorians! We have the brilliant Dr. Jake Newsome on AskHistorians to discuss the Nazi Persecution of LGBTQ+ People, and answer all your questions on this important topic. Don’t miss out, come join in!

My book “Spiritual Criminals is the lead story in the National Catholic Reporter.” This is a fantastic review by religious journalist Renee Roden www.ncronline.org

Guide for Dealing with Online Harassment - AHA Guidelines to AHA members and historians who fear that they may become or have become targets of online harassment.

Historians have the right to expect that discussion of their work be conducted in a civil manner—but that right can be violated by hate speech and online threats. The AHA has developed a guide for historians encountering harassment on social media. 🗃️

A 15% cap on indirect/overhead costs (plus the demographic cliff) may be the end of the modern research university. But I suppose that was the point.

do i roll my eyes at a lot of DEI stuff? yeah, i wrote a whole essay about why i thought it was bullshit back in 2020. but trump et al aren’t saying, “corporate DEI policies mainly exist to protect corporate interests from discrimination lawsuits.” they’re saying “get the blacks out”

United States Agency for International Development - Wikipedia

Doing some research on USAID history for my class this morning and was impressed that the Wikipedia page had lots of updated information (while the official web pages are all down): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

NEW: Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

Have they even tasted a butter tart?

these people are segregationists and their position is that no one who isn’t a white man is qualified to do skilled work of any kind

Trump White House suspends all civil rights enforcement. Remember this applies to race, sex discrimination, disabilities etc

This is an excellent piece. And everyone should read "American Gandhi."

Real, but I see now that it still isn't published. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Here we go! Welcome to the constitution, ERA.

Yoga teacher made us send good vibes to Joshie this morning, so I’m confident the Bills will win.

Spitting Hot Fire: Malibu Wildfires and the Santa Anas Malibu is the wildfire capital of North America and, possibly, the world, but residents continue to have a love affair with the beachfront area.

The California wildfires in the #PacificPalisades are terrible, but this has been a problem for years and with climate change will only get worse, our senior editor on Mike Davis, Malibu, and CA wildfires from a few years back: www.pbssocal.org/history-soci...

Dellinger to publisher in 1971, “Can you make the cover more psychedelic?”

Although I keep telling her Beverly Gage is a great writer/historian Suki insists on chewing Hoover’s face.