Beth Lew-Williams

That’s wonderful. I’m glad you’ll get more time to do the site justice.

Wyoming town erects new monument to violent, anti-immigrant history At a time when President Trump is going after foreign laborers in the U.S, and saying unflattering accounts of U.S. history should be removed, Rock Springs, Wyoming has put up a new monument to ethnic...

This NPR story highlights the AMAZING archeological work of Laura Ng @cocalola.bsky.social. Laura has been tracking down descendants of the original Chinatown, including my dad (who gets a few words in at the end). www.kuow.org/stories/wyom...

Might be possible! :)

Congratulations! Looks great.

The Ritual of Civic Apology More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to—or what the...

A moving, searching essay by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, who has an important new book, “John Doe Chinaman.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

The Ritual of Civic Apology More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to—or what the...

Excited to share this essay on racial violence, civic apology, and the elusive dream of racial reconciliation.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.

***Attention fellow historians, scholars, and concerned individuals***

The California Digital Newspaper Collection is under financial threat, facing a $300,000 deficit.

If you would like to keep this essential resource afloat, please consider donating:

www.givecampus.com/campaigns/61...

Infuriating - just learned from Renee Tajima-Peña that #PBSLearningMedia has disappeared the Vincent Chin teaching module.

Thanks for all your help!

John Doe Chinaman — Harvard University Press A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West—and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination.Legal discrimination ...

My next book. Out in September!
@harvardpress.bsky.social
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Please join an online event marking the 150th anniversary of the Page Act of 1875! @iehs.bsky.social and @ihrc-umn.bsky.social are pleased to hold this joint event on April 22. Register below!

umn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.

"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

A great essay by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, "Why Chinese Exclusion Matters (and Why It Doesn’t)," in @oah.org The American Historian. @iehs.bsky.social

www.oah.org/tah/industry...

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California Historical Society to Dissolve and Transfer Collections to Stanford The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch back before the Gold Rush.

I’m glad that Stanford is giving this amazing collection a new home. But I will miss the California Historical Society.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/a...

Opinion | America Is a Nation of Immigrants That Has Not Lived Up to Its Promise The huddled masses yearning to breathe free have not always been received with open arms.

The history we need right now.

From Ana Raquel Minian.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

Chinatown groups celebrate cancellation of 76ers arena deal Even as they celebrate a win against 76 Place, those who opposed the controversial arena can't help but think the whole city got played.

Congratulations to the organizers in Philly Chinatown! No arena!

6abc.com/post/chinato...

Exited to see @loriflores.bsky.social at #aha25 with her brand-new book, Awaiting Their Feast. Congratulations!

uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Participants and title of The Problem of Immigration in the Largest Slaving Polities of the Americas: A Roundtable on the Comparative Emergence of Migration Regulation in 19th-Century Brazil and the United States

🗃️ Looking forward to #AHA25 this weekend, attending as many panels as I can & participating in a roundtable on the comparative history of immigration policy in the context of slavery in 19th-century US & Brazil, sponsored by @iehs.bsky.social & Conference on Latin American History, Sunday at 3:30pm

The special issue, Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era, has just been published in the Journal of the Civil War Era! Read brilliant articles by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, Ikuko Asaka, Stacey L. Smith, & Tian Xu and an inspiring concluding essay by Mae Ngai! muse.jhu.edu/issue/51479

Now accepting applications for the Western History Dissertation Workshop.

This year Princeton will host in May 2024. It’s a great opportunity for PhD candidates working on the American West to share their work.

networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Pageproofs of the special issue, "Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era," in the Journal of the Civil War Era have arrived! The forum includes exciting essays by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, Ikuko Asaka, Stacey L. Smith, Tian Xu, and Mae Ngai. Looking forward to its publication in December!