For #WomensHistoryMonth, check out Lorri Glover's #2025SHA presidential address in the February 2026 JSH:
"Reimagining the American Revolution: Southern Women's Wars for Independence"
muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people
Congrats to Brian Kwoba, author of HUBERT HARRISON, on winning the Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought 🏆👏
My friend Garrett created a mobile library called the Free Society People's Library a couple of years ago. www.freesocietylibrary.org/about
"We provide free, accessible, information on radical movements and revolutionary ideas past and present to people of all ages."
<3 I know! it’s like life goal unlocked. Such a great space
Austin and Central Texas! I’m speaking about histories of policing under Jim Crow authoritarianism at one of my favorite bookstores. Alienated Majesty Books: 613 West 29th Street, Austin, TX 78705
RSVP here: alienatedmajestybooks.com/events/46225...
Crowd shot of ~100 people listening to David Montejano
I attended one of the best symposia I’ve ever been a part of yesterday, honoring David Montejano on the 40th anniversary of his landmark book Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas. It was organized by 3 grad students from the UT Department of Mexican American and Latino Studies /1
NYC! I’ll be discussing BORN IN FLAMES with these two legends on 3/4
Cover of Media Rurality edited by Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney. The cover photograph depicts mountains in the far background, behind a city, and winding roads leading to rural fields in the foreground. The title appears in mixed serif and sanserif fonts in large type on the top left of the cover. The editors' names are in small caps immediately below.
In "Media Rurality," edited by Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney, contributors show how rural territories are highly mediated, technologized spaces profoundly enmeshed with global capitalism and colonialism. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/M8lC4sJ
A book: Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy by Judith Resnik.
So glad to see Judith Resnik's crucial new book.
Introducing Selling Safety! A report that lays bare the ethnically dubious world of marketing and selling police surveillance technology, how effectiveness numbers are manufactured, the role police play in a massive for-profit industry, and new critical questions for reporters and law makers.
Jesse Jackson has died at 84.
In our latest forum, @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social writes on the democratic promise of his “rainbow coalition,” the enduring power of his moral vision, and his commitment to mobilizing “the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected, and the despised”:
🗑️ = waste, fraud, abuse
How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.
Flock is from Atlanta. Fusus is from Atlanta. Cop City is in Atlanta--so much of the surveillance and policing around the country comes from here. That's exactly why we need strong independent journalism on the ground sounding the alarm. Please give if you can to @atlpresscollective.com.
The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument never stopped giving out brochures that describe Medgar Evers’ killer as a “racist,” despite reports saying they had been removed and later returned, says the monument’s superintendent, Keena Graham.
www.mississippifreepress.org/evers-nation...
Just started! www.youtube.com/live/6AQDMKL...
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...
Cover of Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary by Beans Velocci. The cover features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background. The title is written large in a serif font in the center of the cover. Each word is a different color— ‘sex’ is a light orange; ‘isn’t’ is a grey blue; ‘real’ is a teal. The subtitle is directly below in white. The author’s name is above the title also in white.
In their new book "Sex Isn't Real," Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Read a Q&A about their bold argument on the blog today. buff.ly/hB1k4Cw
This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.
all while cutting PhD spots. loser stuff. www.ctinsider.com/news/educati...
Weds, Feb. 4, 3ET - CSUSB’s Conversations on Race and Policing
I’ll talk about my @uncpress.bsky.social book *Mississippi Law* and lessons from the Jim Crow era about unaccountable policing and reform. come think with us! www.csusb.edu/event/593012
Next Thursday February 5 at 6:30, in person AT the SCHOMBURG Center, we're going to have a powerful conversation on the history of political repression and police violence and Black organizing against it. Please join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/policing-b...
Refusing to Forget mourns the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis.
refusingtoforget.org/we-refuse-to...
Matt Herron photograph of Mississippi state trooper ripping an American flag from young Anthony Quin’s hands - Jackson, Mississippi, 1965
a nation founded on law enforcement
