Paul Renfro

Still time to join us tonight for this event with @renfro.bsky.social! SMU, Dallas Hall, 6pm.

If you're in the Dallas-area, join us Thursday (2/19) night at SMU for our event *The Life and Death of Ryan White4: AIDS and Inequality in America.* Featuring @renfro.bsky.social. Register for this free event here: lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/a9jgesk
@uncpress.bsky.social

The Reactionary Heartland Is a Myth Don't believe the media stereotype. An inclusive left-populism has won in the Midwest before, and it can win again.

Jesse Jackson's passing has reminded me of this @dissentmag.bsky.social piece that I cowrote with my dear friend Matt Stanley in 2019, ahead of the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries. I think it's aged fairly well. 🗃️ dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Jesse Jackson was an early and ardent supporter of gay rights. In fact, on July 17, 1984 at the DNC in San Fransisco, the first speech EVER at a national political convention calling for gay rights was delivered by none other than Rev. Jackson himself.

The Reactionary Heartland Is a Myth Don't believe the media stereotype. An inclusive left-populism has won in the Midwest before, and it can win again.

Jesse Jackson's passing has reminded me of this @dissentmag.bsky.social piece that I cowrote with my dear friend Matt Stanley in 2019, ahead of the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries. I think it's aged fairly well. 🗃️ dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Jesse Jackson’s 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns certainly weren’t perfect. But with an emphasis on hopeful inclusion, they offered a bold, much-needed rejoinder to Reagan’s exclusionary, jingoistic politics of nostalgia and fear. Rest in power. 🗃️

Really looking forward to this! See y'all later this week.

A headline from earlier today that reads: “Confederate flag that flew over I-85 taken down in South Carolina”

A headline from July 2024 that reads: “Atlanta man drives to South Carolina to lower Confederate flag on interstate, deputies say”

Thinking of this king today.

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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

“The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence.”

“Hi.”

A literal baby

More photographic evidence.

Flexing in my office this morning.

For those who may not know, Florida A&M is a historically Black university.

It is finished.

Just a half!

No turning back now.

Fantastic! I’ll let you know, for sure.

🙏🙏🙏

Photo of FSUs main building— a large red brick building surrounded by tropical plants and Spanish moss.

🎉 FSU is hiring a 2-year postdoc in Public History!! 🎉

Apps (cover letter + cv) due March 11, finalists will submit additional materials (letters + writing sample)

More info available here: careers.historians.org/jobs/2201954...

1. Brandon M. Terry, Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope 2. Casey D. Nichols, Poverty Rebels 3. Jesse Montgomery, It is Not Enough to Survive: 4. Cecilia Márquez, Making the Latino South 5. Sam Klug, The Internal Colony 6. Michelle Adams, The Containment 7. Nic John Ramos, Health as Property 8. Kathryn Cramer Brownell, 24/7 Politics Bench Ansfield, Born in Flames 10. Danielle Wiggins, Black Excellence 11. Heather Ann Thompson, Fear and Fury 12. Dylan Gottlieb, Yuppies 13. René Esparza, From Vice to Nice 14. Katie Batza, AIDS in the Heartland 15. Nicole Hemmer, Partisans 16. John Bodnar, Divided by Terror

Here are the books I'm assigning for my Fall 2026 graduate readings course in US History since 1965. (I know I've posted this list before, but I just submitted my textbook orders for the fall, so I thought I would circulate it again.) 🗃️

My department at Florida State is hiring a postdoc in public history! I’m not on the search committee, but please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the position, the department, FSU, or Tallahassee. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/69772/f...

The NYT’s “The Morning” brief for today: “Good morning. We’re gearing up to report live from the Westminster Dog Show in New York, and we hope you’ll follow along. And there’s a lot more (serious) news below. Let’s start in Gaza.”

A fundamentally evil news media organization.

Gay spaniel on a gay chinoiserie sofa

Common Mamdani W

Flawless baby

"The use of which term by President Ronald Reagan at the 1980 Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi generated significant controversy?" a. "outside agitators" b. "new world order" c. "states' rights" d. "welfare queen" e. "no homo"

A question on the midterm exam in my America in the 1980s course.

Wait, wait—a mediocre shithead at an Ivy League university?! Say it ain’t so!

Yes! Thank you!