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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry to miss #AHA26 #AHA2026 this year, but delighted to see that "Threat of Dissent" was able to make it to the conference.

Thank you to @harvardpress.bsky.social for displaying "Threat of Dissent" at the book exhibit & to my terrific editor @birdmaddgirl.bsky.social for sending me this photo. 🗃️

Photo of Harvard University Press exhibit at the American Historical Association Conference 2026 - featuring the book "Threat of Dissent."

Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Charlotte

Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. Both of the first two maps are problematic

Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, indeed. A much better map. Thank you!

🚩SofiaRune 🏴 @sofiarune.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, looking at the map the other user posted... isn't great either.

This map is significantly better. Click on the traditional territories option.
www.whose.land/en/

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www.whose.land

🚩SofiaRune 🏴 @sofiarune.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, looking at the map the other user posted... isn't great either.

This map is significantly better. Click on the traditional territories option.
www.whose.land/en/

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www.whose.land

Gay Timmons @organicdays.bsky.social · 1d

Trained as a Calif archeologist in the 70s. Astonishing how much more we have learned abt human movement on the land since then. The DNA & technological evidence is amazing. Even these maps are only a snapshot in time.

🚩SofiaRune 🏴 @sofiarune.bsky.social · 1d

The original also has a slur on it. Arctic people are Inuit, not... what the map says.

Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 1d

Locke's theory of private property conjured up by the application of an individual's labor to the earth turned land into property--whose original occupants could then be dispossessed.

Jab @forcedryder.bsky.social · 1d

So many good points!

I would also emphasize that the US and its founding mythos were not only built upon dispossession, but that this dispossession was precipitated by the invention and imposition of the Lockean concept of possession—one that warrants critical examination

Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, citizenship excludes as well as includes. By definition, US birthright citizenship excludes most people in the world. Yet the 14th amendment mentions naturalization as the second criterion--& there is no test for citizenship in the US, by race, ethnicity, culture, religion, or parental status.

Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, citizenship excludes as well as includes. By definition, US birthright citizenship excludes most people in the world. Yet the 14th amendment mentions naturalization as the second criterion--& there is no test for citizenship in the US, by race, ethnicity, culture, religion, or parental status.

Jab @forcedryder.bsky.social · 1d

However, I do think the 14th Amendment regime also needs to be scrutinized for imposing citizenship, contributing to citizenship becoming an apartheid-like system (what Hannah Arendt referred to as ‘the right to have rights’), and turning the United States into a gatekeeping nation…

Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, citizenship excludes as well as includes. By definition, US birthright citizenship excludes most people in the world. Yet the 14th amendment mentions naturalization as the second criterion--& there is no test for citizenship in the US, by race, ethnicity, culture, religion, or parental status.

Jab @forcedryder.bsky.social · 1d

However, I do think the 14th Amendment regime also needs to be scrutinized for imposing citizenship, contributing to citizenship becoming an apartheid-like system (what Hannah Arendt referred to as ‘the right to have rights’), and turning the United States into a gatekeeping nation…

Jab @forcedryder.bsky.social · 1d

So many good points!

I would also emphasize that the US and its founding mythos were not only built upon dispossession, but that this dispossession was precipitated by the invention and imposition of the Lockean concept of possession—one that warrants critical examination

Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 2d

Skyline Sunset - New York City #FridayPhoto 🗃️📷📸

Manhattan Skyline behind bridge at sunset

Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 2d

These are also times that try men’s souls. Which means it’s a damn good time to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, with the help of my new @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History column. 🗃️

www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/01/cons...