Mark Hlavacik

No apologies needed, this piece is great. An additional connection here is how acute this problem is at the regional publics that are the workhorses of higher ed.

How have the culture wars reshaped higher education?

Here's our full Future Trends Forum conversation with professor @schoolfuss.bsky.social :

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I had the opportunity to talk with @llassabe.bsky.social about one of the best/wildest stories from my new book about the education culture war. Check it out!

Tomorrow we're talking with professor Mark Hlavacik about his research into academia's role in America's culture wars.

Please join us from 2-3 pm ET, and you can register here:
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@schoolfuss.bsky.social

From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: AMA: The Education Culture Wars, 1970 to the Present Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community

I am doing an AMA about the education culture wars with @askhistorians.bsky.social today. So, if you have questions about the historical origins of the political turmoil in our schools and on our campuses, you can, ya know, ask me anything.

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Mark Hlavacik's "Willing Warriors" Mark Hlavacik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism and Texas A&M University. He studies controvers...

I took the Page 99 test with The Campaign for the American Reader. I'm not sure Willing Warriors passed, but it was a great excuse to talk about a few of the best stories from my book.

America’s Schools Are Less Divided Than You Think Teachers are generally much more concerned about doing right by their students than they are about angering parents and community members.

Check out Jonathan Zimmerman's review of Willing Warriors for @theatlantic.com.

Huge congrats to @schoolfuss.bsky.social on his new book, WILLING WARRIORS!

Honored to have blurbed it - it’s a very smart take on the school culture wars, a difficult topic to chronicle in a sensible and nuanced way

Another banger from
@uchicagopress.bsky.social

Thanks, Natalia! But the honor was entirely mine.

Opinion | The Roots of the Public’s Cynicism About Higher Ed In the ’80s, Allan Bloom taught America to be suspicious of academe.

I wrote a piece for @chronicle.com about the problem of public cynicism toward higher education. It recounts a very special episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. You can read more about it in Willing Warriors, out December 2nd with @uchicagopress.bsky.social.

www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Mark Hlavacik holding a copy of Willing Warriors: A New History of the Culture Wars. Photo credit: @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social

The good folks @uchicagopress.bsky.social sent me an advanced copy of Willing Warriors, my new book about the education culture wars. I'm thrilled to hold it and you can too this December! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor of Environmental History in College Station, TX for Texas A&M University, Department of History Exciting opportunity in College Station, TX for Texas A&M University, Department of History as a ...

Historians, please share these two exciting new positions in the Texas A&M History Department:

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A picture of my hand holding Absence of National Feeling by Michael Steudeman.

Look what I got in the mail yesterday! @msteudeman.bsky.social’s excellent new book from @upmississippi.bsky.social about the role of feeling in Reconstruction Era education reforms.

If you’re feeling jealous, you can get your own copy here: lnkd.in/gJxWTA8h

A Is for Arson by Campbell F. Scribner | Hardcover | Cornell University Press In A Is for Arson, Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of debris to uncover the conditions that have prompted school vandalism and to explain why attempts at prevention have inevitably...

If you have ever wondered why people so regularly destroy American schools, the answer just got a little more affordable!

Use code 095000 to take 50% off all books in print now through Friday, June 27th.

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Pre-Order at SUNY Press now available for "From a Whisper to a Movement Investigating the Shared Rhetorical Spaces of Whistleblowing and Social Protest"

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For inquiries direct message me here, email at jguitar@kean.edu, or email my coeditor, Alan Chu alanchu83@gmail.com

New pub in @trseeditor.bsky.social with @schoolfuss.bsky.social.

We analyzed 311 IDM lessons and identified 3 types—civic, personal, and seminar-style. Only civic inquiry fully aligns with the C3 Framework’s civic aims.

Limited free copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4ZEAA... 1/5

A placard listing the University of Chicago Press’s forthcoming books on education.

I was thrilled to see Willing Warriors listed right in the middle of the @uchicagopress.bsky.social forthcoming list at #AERA2025. If you’ve been thinking about that email asking conference attendees to refrain from recording each other without permission, Chapter 3 has a story for you!

Happy Friday! (Trying to bring positivity to the end of week)

"Redbone" - Childish Gambino #QuarantineHobby

“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration”

My NEH grant has been terminated

Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars

You can’t say history isn’t relevant

Some personal news--After 10 years at UNT working with the kindest colleagues and coolest students on the planet, I have accepted a new position a little ways down the road at Texas A&M. It is hard to leave Denton, but I am excited to start a new a chapter in College Station.

Willing Warriors How the rise of the culture wars afflicts the politics of education.   On August 9, 2022, the Denton Independent School District held a meeting to address complaints about its libraries. Like so many...

The University of Chicago Press put up a webpage for Willing Warriors, my new book about the education culture wars! It comes out December 2nd, but pre-orders are available now if you want to get a head start on your holiday shopping. ;-)

Briefly Noted Book Reviews Short reviews of recent releases.

So my book was "briefly noted" in The New Yorker. feeling totally normal about this, not jumping up and down at all. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Have "the culture wars" (re sex, religion, patriotism, testing, etc) come to YOUR public K-12 school?

I am eager to talk to students, teachers, parents, administrators, politicians, as well as others such as bus drivers, nurses, aides, paraprofessionals, cafeteria workers, etc.

DM/comment if you!

The latest issue of History of Education Quarterly is out. This thread has (open access or un-paywalled) links to all of the articles in it.

@moye.bsky.social gets it.

@rachellouisemoran.bsky.social got me this for my birthday. As if I, or anyone else who has ever finished The Power Broker, needs help working that fact into conversation.

Absence of National Feeling Before the start of the Civil War, the US Congress seldom took up the question of education, deferring regularly to a tradition of local control. In the period after the war, however, education became...

@msteudeman.bsky.social's new book about the emergence of federal education policy after the Civil War comes out this summer! If there is a rhetoric or education scholar you have not checked off your holiday shopping list, it appears that @upmississippi.bsky.social is accepting preorders.

#188 What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for Public Education? Donald Trump’s return to office is likely to have profound implications for the nation’s public schools. In this episode we start to grapple with five major policy areas that are likely to be impacted

What will a second Trump term mean for public education? In the latest @haveyouheard.bsky.social, @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social and I talk with Sophia Rodriguez, Jon Valant, Mimi Arnold Lyon, Derek Black, and Ben Justice.

When plural, it is "Reviewers 2," like attorneys general, right?

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)