Christian Pinnen

View of lake in Blue Ridge Mountains, Table Rock

Getting mind, body, and spirit ready for the approaching academic year.

I Have Avenged America A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule  ...

PUBLICATION DAY!

_I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social

To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

If any historian is working on Mississippi, consider a submission for commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026 in the Journal of Mississippi History. See link www.mississippihistory.org/call-for-pap...

Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libraries and Museums, Thanks to Trump’s Latest Cuts The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side.

#humanities #highered #neh

slate.com/news-and-pol...

Trump order threatens funding for Miss. colleges, cultural centers Mississippi's cultural centers/institutions are in limbo as federal grants are on pause

Mississippi's cultural centers/institutions are in limbo as federal grants are on pause

screenshot for the website neh for all, with "impact" "local perspectives" and "resources" options.

The @humanitiesall.bsky.social has a resource, NEH for All, w data about the impact of the NEH locally and nationally. Yes, it is important to right now use the contact and advocacy resources, but it's also critical, imho, to read, gather, & share this info w family &community. www.nehforall.org

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

Notable statement by Medgar Evers’s family.

My family issued the following after Medgar Evers was partially removed from the Arlington National Cemetery website under the direction of the Department of the Army.

“It is a spit in the face to all who have served, honored, and fought for this country,” said Myrlie Evers.

Full statement below:

Oklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’ A new social studies agenda approved by the education board would require high-schoolers to review baseless claims related to President Trump’s 2020 election loss.

If passed the state of Oklahoma will no longer be teaching history. #sschat #historyteacher www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Some years ago, I posted a thread on X/Tw*tter about Marc Bloch. I thought it appropriate to update it and post it here. 0/

Employment Opportunities

We are hiring a TT position for Social Studies Ed. Specialization open:

www.mc.edu/offices/huma...

Fantastic group of students working in groups discussing their reading assignments

I was late to class because a meeting went long. When I finally made it, my students had simply started working on their own, splitting up in groups and discussing their readings. Pretty good teaching moment!

Employment Opportunities

We are hiring a TT position for Social Studies Ed. Specialization open:

www.mc.edu/offices/huma...

Come see @drvholden.bsky.social speak at Mississippi College as part of our Black History Program on February 6th at 6 pm in the Entergy Theater. We would love to see you and support African American Studies at Mississippi College!

Birthright Citizenship Is a Sacred Guarantee The attack on it is a violation of the nation’s post–Civil War rebirth.

Some wise, succinct, and powerdul words from David Blight. It is important to remain staunchly commited tonthese principles www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Darf sich eine Partei, die verfassungswidrige Vorschläge zur Migrationspolitik mit Hilfe von Verfassungsfeinden durchsetzen will, noch Verfassungspartei nennen?

TWO MORE DAYS to apply! Thriving, collegial department in a healthy public regional university in a beautiful town! Let me know if you have questions.

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

A History Of “Segregation Scholarships” And The Impact On HBCUs A Forgotten Migration explores the history of “segregation scholarships,” a practice used by Southern states in the U.S. to fund Black students’ graduate education.

GREAT piece on @crystalsanders.bsky.social A FORGOTTEN MIGRATION by marybeth gasman in @forbes.com! @uncpress.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/marybe...

Ad for the position posted at interfolio @ apply.interfolio.com/159279

Could you all share? We're advertising a 2 yr postdoc position for someone who works in #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas to help coordinate the @jcblibrary.bsky.social projects and programs around 2026. Fuller info here: apply.interfolio.com/159279 and v happy to answer questions!

Historian This position is located in Washington DC, at Rock Creek Park, in the Resource Management Division. <p>Open to the first <b>75</b> applicants or until 12/10/2024 whichever comes first. All application...

history job alert!

GS-9 Historian position with National Park Service at Rock Creek Park in DC. Term, 13 months and up to 4 years

this looks like a great job for a historian who wants to get their foot in the door with the federal system

downside: maybe your entire office will get cut!

It’s finally done! My OA article in the Journal of British Studies is out today on political reform in George III’s early reign and the roots of the American Revolution.

For anyone interested in maps, politics and how authoritarian systems rise from liberalism and frankly who isn’t these days?

Sunny sky over a beach and ocean view

Not answering emails until
Monday after next. Deal with it…..

I wrote a book about the genesis of race and slavery across four legal systems in the lower Mississippi Valley

ugapress.org/book/9780820...

Welcome new followers. Just wanted to re-up my brief introduction below and poo t you to the website in my bio for more information if interested!

I've created a starter pack for those researching and writing histories of the Atlantic world. If you are working in any field that falls within, or is related to, Atlantic history you are welcome. Just reply below and I'll add you.

go.bsky.app/E8itZWt

Starter pack on the world as we know it. Eg the foundational early Americas. Fields & implications too vast for 1, here are 2 w terrific scholars working on essential history. Room to grow in the second so let me know if I missed you. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas 🗃️ go.bsky.app/RDvzxbj

Thank you!

I work on the colonial Spanish borderlands in North America