ATTN intellectual historians!

⁦⁦Society for U.S. Intellectual History⁩ is now accepting sponsored panel and roundtable proposals for #AHA2025

Send me your proposals by Tuesday, May 28!

Details here ⬇️⬇️ s-usih.org/2024/05/usih-a…

Historians: I need your help. Teaching a grad seminar in the fall on Indigenous polities and expanding states in the Americas during the long 19th-c. Would love your reading recommendations: books, articles, chapters, etc. 🙏

Why has the U.S. become so polarized? The 2024 class of #CarnegieFellows will explore how we got here and what we can do about it.

Get to know the fellows and their projects: carnegie.io/4brVd2x

#polarization

I am in serious need of registration desk volunteers SHAFR Conference in Toronto this June. Give us 3 hours of your time, we comp registration. It's a great way to meet people, save money, and help out. Please share widely! #SHAFR2024

Here is an email from Dean Christa Acampora to UVA faculty and graduate instructors which acknowledges that those arrested and receiving No Trespassing Orders 'included bystanders and others who were simply transiting through the site unaware of what was transpiring'

I and 20 others were arrested at UT-Dallas on Wed. I wrote a short reflection w student and colleague input tentatively titled, 'What my students and I learned in jail.' In past experience, submitting to op-ed portals is a black hole. If any editors want a look, pls reach out

Please help us spread the word about this great teaching opportunity for recent PhD grads!

At this very moment, UNC Press Fall '24 sales conference is happening (hat tip Columbia Univ Press). At a time when UPs / AUPresses 📚 are more vital than ever & academia is a war zone, I'm extra grateful to be able to publish those discuss, debate, & advocate. uncpress.org/fall-2024-seas…

“And I think what Brown (University) showed itself willing to do is to actually listen, to not say it's outside agitators or these are Hamas- or Hezbollah-funded entities. These are students with ideas. That's why they're in college, and they have ideas that they want to bring to…

Congratulations to our 4 finalists for the 2024 CPH Book Prize!
Sheyda Jahanbani *The Poverty of the World* (Winner!)
Una Bergmane *Politics of Uncertainty*
Stephanie Freeman *Dreams for a Decade*
Pete Millwood 米维德 *Improbable Diplomats*
Stand-out books among many more great submissions!

you’re only as good as your last envelope In most cases, it appears that the disruption of the regular and essential operations of the institution are coming from law enforcement.

The AAUP stands w/ our members nationwide defending student free speech. We call on institutional leaders to drop charges against peaceful protesters, observe due process in disciplinary actions, & stop armed law enforcement from assaulting students.
10/10
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Could have been this way every day it seems but the administration selected to bring in the troops and make arrests instead. So glad yesterday went well Wednesday protest at Ohio State: what we know after protesters peacefully dispersed dispatch.com/story/news/edu… via Columbus Dispatch

Mae Ngai 💚

Sometimes I just feel like history does rhyme. And we live in a very bleak time.

Come on, just don't beat the students. Or other members of the community, faculty, staff, alumni... Is it that hard?

This. This. This.

The whole “it’s outside agitators who have co-opted the students so we must go in because who knows what we’ll find” president and police narrative was nonsense from the start.

You know what they found when they “went in”???

STUDENTS!

Surprise.

Ouch!

Here’s the scene. Most people sitting down. No tents yet. People passing out water, pizza, falafel and other food

Hmmmmm