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Historian of Indigenous America, writer of books, and hearer of bands you’ve never heard in dingy clubs you’ve not likely visited. Good at trivia. MichaelLeroyOberg.com

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I’ve never taught a course on Pirates.

06.03.2026 20:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Native American History
Indigenous Law & Public Policy
Haudenosaunee History
Historical Methods
The American Revolution
American Colonial History
The New Nation
Western Humanities
Writing 105

06.03.2026 18:36 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I’m calling on Voldemort to investigate Voldemort’s treatment of Harry Potter.

Come on, my Democrats. You may as well say that you’re gonna tell the teacher. Or call your mom.

Grow a goddamn pair, please. Stand for something, please. You can’t get the easy stuff right.

Just abolish ICE.

06.03.2026 18:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I want students to learn content, but also wisdom, empathy, &humility, to write from the heart, mind and soul. I want them to learn to move people, and to matter.

That’s why.

I would urge my school to promote itself as the alternative to what’s offered by our soulless corporate AI overlords.

06.03.2026 15:26 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don’t get too excited about Trump shitcanning Noem. She’s a pawn. The same SOBs are in charge.

05.03.2026 21:00 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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$450K Project Will Support 60 Fellowships in History The SUNY Geneseo campus. (SUNY Geneseo/Keith Walters ’11) The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation has awarded SUNY Geneseo distinguished professor of history Michael Leroy Oberg a $224K grant to fun...

www.geneseo.edu/news/450k-pr...

Since the pandemic, we’ve been able to bring in over a million dollars to fund fellowships for undergraduate students to work in historians’ offices across NYS. It’s a labor of love. I wish I could do this work full time.

05.03.2026 19:42 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Everything just became more stupid. And yet nothing has changed at the top. Nothing is better. One idiot replaced by another.

05.03.2026 19:02 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not gonna share the video of Republican US Senator Tim Sheehy breaking a protesting Marine's hand, but you can find it on @charlotteclymer.bsky.social's timeline.

I'll just say that in a functional country, Sheehy would be expelled by the Senate.

Democratic Senators should publicly push for that.

04.03.2026 22:48 👍 4379 🔁 1264 💬 32 📌 68
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Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors The Grammarly "Expert Review" feature uses AI to provide feedback on papers using the name and work of real professors, dead or alive.

I could write “Fuck Grammarly” in the margins of every paper I mark, but as my friends and former students would point out, nobody can read my handwriting anyways.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

05.03.2026 14:58 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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What You Need to Read, March 2026 Alves, Alexandre Guilherme da Cruz, “The Alcatraz Occupation and the American Indian Movement, 1969-1971,” Journal of American History, 111 (March 2025), 735-749. Beyreis, David. “`The Lawless Whit…

Your quarterly bibliography of new and interesting scholarship in Native American History and Indigenous studies.

michaelleroyoberg.com/new-publicat...

05.03.2026 12:00 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve heard more than once that business professors are using AI to write assignments, which students use AI to answer, submitting “work” that the professor grades using…AI.

05.03.2026 02:50 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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UA Little Rock Leads Nation in Preserving Native American World War I History More than 12,000 American Indian and Alaska Native men served in World War I, yet many of their stories have long been scattered or overlooked. Now, the University of Arkansas ... UA Little Rock Leads...

Hats off to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. I hope they are able to take this project into the soldiers’ communities to listen, learn and share.

This is good work for an under-studied period in Native American History. Congratulations.

ualr.edu/news/2026/03...

04.03.2026 13:30 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wouldn’t want to watch an AI video of my mom, who died back in September.

I did read through letters she wrote and scrapbooks she kept and genealogy she compiled and some of the books she kept
On the shelves in her office and found great comfort.

I wish you peace in your mourning.

03.03.2026 23:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Their leaders rape teens and blast the shit out of elementary schools in Iran and do nothing when sociopaths shoot up schools at home. Your Republican Party.

And Democrats, meanwhile, consistently fold before the cards are dealt.

02.03.2026 19:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks for the shout-out

01.03.2026 13:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Iran started this war in the same way that Mexico began the Mexican War.

28.02.2026 12:20 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The last time I had former military people in my classes we read Thucydides, Sophocles, Plato, Cicero, More, Dante, Augustine and…the Bible.

28.02.2026 10:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Don’t expect validation from colleagues and administrators. Or support or encouragement. Build a network of friends and colleagues who share your interests—I know, that’s hard with a big teaching load—but you deserve respect and you may need to look beyond your campus for that.

27.02.2026 22:25 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am so angry at Hegseth right now.

27.02.2026 22:21 👍 45 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

I keep in my files the searing essay one quiet Iraq war veteran wrote in his final essay, a reflection on the readings in our “great books” class, that taught me so much about how to read Thucydides, the Gospels, and Augustine’s I have learned so much from my veteran students.

27.02.2026 22:21 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve been teaching for over 30 years. Never at a school with grad programs, but I’ve had many former military in my courses. EVERY FACULTY MEMBER I’ve ever met has done nothing but express the greatest respect for the work ethic and hard-won wisdom of soldiers.

So, yeah, fuck Hegseth. Fuck ‘em all

27.02.2026 22:17 👍 132 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 0

I thought of you as I wrote that. Maybe you could take charge.

27.02.2026 17:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If the best that Maine Democrats can do is debate whether to support a fossil or a Nazi, maybe it’s time for the party’s supporters to look somewhere else.

27.02.2026 16:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think this is the case in general for liberal arts and Humanities programs, all of which can expect to come under attack soon. Students in all the -studies fields learn to read, write, analyze and construct an argument, and are far more career-ready than, say, business majors who know not much.

26.02.2026 18:24 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

You measure the justice of a society by how it treats its weakest minority. Kansas, where politicians are quick to cite the Bible, seems to have forgotten the prophet’s call to “seek justice, correct oppression,” as the only divine law worth following.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

26.02.2026 10:29 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Buffalo Police and Buffalo DHS have murdered a man. That it was not on video like Renee Good or Alex Pretti does not make it less of a murder

www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

25.02.2026 20:55 👍 21 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 1
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Absolutely infuriating.

Abolish ICE

www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

25.02.2026 21:36 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The government could easily make public higher ed. free for all students.

It’s simply a choice. Don’t believe there is nothing they can do about it. Government doesn’t do this either because it does not want
To or because the people we elected are too devoid of imagination to fix a real problem

25.02.2026 10:42 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

He wants the Congressional Medal of Honor in the same way that Bug Eyes Patel wanted that gold medal and Gollum wanted that ring.

25.02.2026 09:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I support and understand her anger.

I am disgusted by the Democrats who sat on their hands and said nothing while that child-rapist president spewed his vile, anti-immigrant hatred.

25.02.2026 09:49 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0