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Thanks @kathleenbelew.bsky.social! Yes, please go read piece if you wanna know what's happening in this great city where the tension has ramped up because of the federal presence.

Yale history professor torches Trump's 'political war' on American history MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, historian, and Yale University professor David Blight who is calling out Donald Trump's attacks on the facts of U.S. history and ...

Here's historian David Blight talking about Trump's war on history, and some historian in Trump's orbit I've never heard of. Blight challenges him to a debate. He curated the project that my piece was a part of, and he wrote the introductory essay. Here's the clip:
www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

Trump Against History How is Trump changing our sense of who we are? We asked eminent Yale historian David W. Blight to round up some colleagues to consider the question. Here’s what they had to say.

Don't miss @thenewrepublic.bsky.social's new series on Trump's attack on history curated by @dblight.bsky.social. Four pieces dropped online today (by @dblight.bsky.social,
@geraldo-cadava.bsky.social, Leslie M. Harris & yours truly); more coming soon. newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...

The Diversity Bell That Trump Can’t Un-ring The biggest problem with the history Trump wants to impose on us is that it never, in fact, existed.

It was fun for me to write this essay as part of a project with so many historians I admire, about what it means to teach history in the second Trump administration.
newrepublic.com/article/1983...

Aquí en Chicago - English - Chicago History Museum Aquí en Chicago traces the lives of Latino/a/e communities that have maintained a persistent cultural presence and flourished in Chicago.

Can't wait for this!
www.chicagohistory.org/exhibition/a...

... Jessica Kim (Imperial Metropolis), Natalia Molina (Fit to Be Citizens and A Place at the Nayarit), Gustavo Arellano (everything he writes for the LA Times), and so many others. Go read their work!

I couldn't have written it without the work by lots of historians of Mexican Los Angeles. They've been doing it for years. Thank you Bill Deverell (Whitewashed Adobe), George Sanchez (Boyle Heights and Becoming Mexican American), Eric Avila (Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight) ....

The Fight for Mexican Los Angeles The city’s Mexican consul is trying to protect local immigrants, but there are limits to what he can accomplish.

Carlos González Gutiérrez, the Consul General of Mexico in L.A., is fighting for Mexican Los Angeles. "When you are here, if you are a Mexican national, you realize that you belong, that, to a great extent, this is a Mexican city." Thank you for reading.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

(And don't you love the art??)

What Therapists Treating Immigrants Hear Some mental-health-care providers are trying new approaches to treat patients whose worst fears have come true.

And in case you missed original story, here it is: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Weekend - Air India crash report points to pilot confusion in cockpit - BBC Sounds An air India plane crash killed 260 people with only one sole survivor last month

Check out this BBC News segment with Erica Lubliner and Dana Rusch, about the work they do with their Latino and immigrant patients. Starts at minute 27. They’re badass. I wrote about them in my recent @newyorker.com piece.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Erica Lubliner, who directs a clinic that offers mental-health services to Latinos at UCLA: “ICE is going after the gardener with his truck, the workers at the car wash. The idea that they are somehow dangerous cuts at their identity in a deep way…They feel unwanted. They feel targeted.”

Heartbreaking. It's so immoral to be traumatizing and retraumatizing whole communities like this.

Insight to the stress, psychological harm and wellbeing in immigrant communities caused by discrimination, ICE raids, and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
TY for the important reporting ‪@geraldo-cadava.bsky.social.

What Therapists Treating Immigrants Hear Some mental-health-care providers are trying new approaches to treat patients whose worst fears have come true.

I've been talking with therapists who treat immigrant patients. They've observed a level of terror they haven't seen before--this moment is "humanistically different," one told me. But they're also trying new treatments and seeing incredible resilience.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Albert Camarillo on “Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality” - Public Books Albert Camarillo is the Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He’s one of a small number of people who founded the academic

Such an honor to talk with Al Camarillo about his memoir, "Compton In My Soul: A Life In Pursuit of Racial Equality," published by @stanfordpress. This is the final episode of season three of Writing Latinos. Thanks for tuning in, more to come next spring.
www.publicbooks.org/albert-camar...

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on “Puerto Rico: A National History” - Public Books “Part of what the book is trying to do is to challenge this notion of Puerto Rican docility.”

🚨New Writing Latinos Episode!🚨 One of my faves. We talk with @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social about his book, Puerto Rico: A National History, plus his collaboration with Bad Bunny!
www.publicbooks.org/jorell-melen...

In Chicago, Will the Pope Bump Last? A historically Catholic American city considers the election of Leo XIV, a home-town Pontiff.

In Chicago, we're having a moment with Pope Leo XIV. But will it amount to more than that--a renewal of the church here? This was a fun one for me.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The new episode of Writing Latinos, featuring Justin Torres, is one of my favorites. We tried something I'd wanted to do for a long time: read a short piece together and discuss. The Afro-Puerto Rican writer Jesús Colón's vignette, "Youth: The Palisades as a Backdrop" was perfect. Check it out!

Thank you for coming María!

The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump | The New York Historical Learn about the history and development of the Hispanic Republican voting base and the significant role they play in American politics.

I'm really looking forward to this event in New York on Monday night--May 12--at New York Historical. Here's more information, and I would love to see you, friends!
www.nyhistory.org/programs/the...

Author Michael Luo: Strangers in the Land In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, CPL welcomes journalist Michael Luo to discuss his new book Strangers In The Land: Exclusion, Belonging, And The Epic Story Of The...

Chicago friends! TONIGHT: talking with
@michaelluo.bsky.social about his stunning book, "Strangers in the Land." It's a beautiful and moving narrative history of Chinese migrants and Chinese Americans. At Harold Washington Library Center. Here's more:
chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/6761b....

Author Michael Luo: Strangers in the Land In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, CPL welcomes journalist Michael Luo to discuss his new book Strangers In The Land: Exclusion, Belonging, And The Epic Story Of The...

Hello Chicago! I'm happy to be celebrating the publication of @michaelluo's book "Strangers in the Land," by talking with him at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center. It's next Tuesday, May 6. Read more here:
chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/6761b...

New York friends! Please join us at @mcnallyjackson.bsky.social on Tuesday 5/13. We're celebrating the publication of Mike Luo's book, Strangers in the Land, with a discussion on the uses of history today. With Mike Luo, Jelani Cobb, David Remnick, and me.
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/05132025

I'm really into this new episode of Writing Latinos! On Nicolás Medina Mora's novel, "América del Norte". Check it out!

In the new episode of Writing Latinos, we talk with @aranama about her book "LatinoLand," out now in paperback! Podcast from @publicbooks.bsky.social, book from Simon & Schuster.

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Truth and Sanity to American History RESTORING TRUTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by

Donald Trump's phobias and fantasies as marching orders for our public history.

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Lori A. Flores on “Awaiting their Feast” You probably remember the picture of himself, both thumbs up, that Donald Trump posted on social media with the caption, “Best Taco Bowl.” It was his ode to Mexican food on Cinco de Mayo 2016. The ...

“We as a nation have devalued in tandem Latinx food and Latinx food labor at the same time.”

New at PB, @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social‬ speaks with Lori A. Flores about her new book “Awaiting Their Feast”:

In the season premiere of our podcast “Writing Latinos,” @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social‬ chats with Lori A. Flores about her new book “Awaiting Their Feast” (@uncpress.bsky.social), which examines the history of Mexican food and Latinx food workers in the US.
www.publicbooks.org/lori-a-flore...

Lori A. Flores on “Awaiting their Feast” - Public Books You probably remember the picture of himself, both thumbs up, that Donald Trump posted on social media with the caption, “Best Taco Bowl.” It was his ode

Writing Latinos, Season 3, Episode 1: Lori Flores on her new book Awaiting Their Feast. @uncpress.bsky.social @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @loriflores.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/lori-a-flore...