Dr. John R. Legg

Digital Humanities Librarian

Job: Digital Humanities Librarian
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Historians - I'm looking for an article or essay that demonstrates how to tell the history of Black individuals/communities in the American West when you have a fragmented and sparse source base. Suggestions?

Feb. 6, 1939.

It's release day for -Of Many Minds-! Get your copy from Johns Hopkins University Press!

Federal Judge Orders ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ To Be Shut Down Within 60 Days—No New Detainees The ruling sided with environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe, who had filed a suit alleging that the facility built in the Florida Everglades violated federal environmental laws.

The ruling sided with environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe, who had filed a suit alleging that the facility built in the Florida Everglades violated federal environmental laws.

Nothing made slavery’s toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper South, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. 129 With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers “learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter.” The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the “goodlooking” daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, “every private in the ranks” cursed “that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women,” according to one member of the regiment. 130 When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, “By G–d I’ll fight till hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on.” 131

from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

Unbelievable.

I've never had an issue with a MacBook.

Cities aren’t scary.
You are scared.
There’s a difference

...and that doesn't happen that quickly. Still trying to figure that out (I think comps really ruined reading for me).

It’s time to wake up - we are literally on the verge of losing our democracy if Donald Trump cheats his way to those seats in Texas.

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Received page proofs for an article co-authored with @nielseichhorn.bsky.social in Civil War History (with excellent company)! Very excited to have this work out in the world this December! 🎉

With all the news about the return of Confederate monuments, I wanted to share my Confederate Monuments Syllabus page. It includes op-eds going back to 2017, interviews, lectures, teaching resources, primary sources, and a bibliography. #sschat #historyteacher 🗃️ cwmemory.com/civilwarmemo...

You’ll love Biloxi! We’ve already been a few times since moving to Hattiesburg.

Fish gutters in New Orleans! Taken yesterday.

Are the issues only because people are “overwhelmed, distracted, or frustrated with the technologies”?

What about the environmental factors? What about data scraping issues? Why don’t you have an environmental historian on the committee?

Dune, 1965

johnlegg.org photo credit: Dr. Jen Andrella, Michigan State University, 2021.

To my academic friends! I’m looking for online adjunct opportunities for this fall and spring semester. If your department is looking for online/asynchronous support in history, please check out my academic website to learn more about my work.

www.johnlegg.org

I am currently writing on NAGPRA in the US (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). I am curious how other countries handle repatriation of Indigenous remains, sacred objects, or items of cultural patrimony? #AskAnArchaeologistDay

I know “A Century of Lawmaking” has been out of commission for a little while now, but I absolutely cannot stand the migration to congress.gov. It’s excruciating to search historical collections. I just want to browse the 1862 Congressional Globe 😢

Does anyone have any contacts with the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma or anyone who has cultural ties to Dickson Mounds in Illinois? Thanks in advance!

This is every scholar’s nightmare come true 🗃️

Hokie Hokie Hokie A-I?

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

Christopher Capozzola: we’re gonna need a new forward to your book…

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A photograph of a white woman with short auburn hair and tortoiseshell glasses, grinning at the camera. She's wearing a green dress and white cardigan. Behind her is a red wall covered in flaking grey paint.

A photograph of a white woman with short auburn hair and tortoiseshell glasses. She's standing in front of a screen made up of the ends of pipes, near a spackled wall. She is wearing a green dress and white cardigan.

New headshots by the wonderful @legg.bsky.social. If you get the chance to work with John, do it!