Aaron Fountain
@aaronfountainjr.bsky.social
Historian (PhD) / Author / Freelancer / Video Editor
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My copies of High School Students Unite! arrived in the mail on Friday. And it looks like friends, interviewees, and others who pre-ordered their copies got theirs too! #education #activism #history #skystorians @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146969182...
Newspapers.com has uploaded a bunch of newspapers this year. If this happened last year, my list of 1K+ high school underground newspapers and 500+ high school independent organizations would be much longer. I found a bunch of new names since the book went into publication.
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Newspapers.com has uploaded a bunch of newspapers this year. If this happened last year, my list of 1K+ high school underground newspapers and 500+ high school independent organizations would be much longer. I found a bunch of new names since the book went into publication.
I keep finding incredible stories I can’t fit into the book, High School Students Unite! Here’s one: in 1973, students at Central High in Cheyenne, WY formed a group after 10 classmates were suspended for handing out a leaflet urging students to attend an MLK memorial. #skystorians
November 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I keep finding incredible stories I can’t fit into the book, High School Students Unite! Here’s one: in 1973, students at Central High in Cheyenne, WY formed a group after 10 classmates were suspended for handing out a leaflet urging students to attend an MLK memorial. #skystorians
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I’ve gotta get this book by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social (go IU!) about what he found in FOIA requests: white parents alerting the COINTELPRO-era FBI to their kids’ “radicalism.” Their language that their kids got sucked in by outside agitators and were too young to understand remains today.
The US parents who grassed on their anti-Vietnam war kids in the 60s
Aaron G. Fountain Jr. - Author, High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...
Aaron G. Fountain Jr. - Author, High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...
Newly Declassified Records Suggest Parents Collaborated With the FBI to Spy on Their Rebellious Teens During the 1960s
As high school students across the U.S. embraced political activism, adults turned to the authorities to shield their sons and daughters from radical influences
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I’ve gotta get this book by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social (go IU!) about what he found in FOIA requests: white parents alerting the COINTELPRO-era FBI to their kids’ “radicalism.” Their language that their kids got sucked in by outside agitators and were too young to understand remains today.
Reposted by Aaron Fountain
The US parents who grassed on their anti-Vietnam war kids in the 60s
Aaron G. Fountain Jr. - Author, High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...
Aaron G. Fountain Jr. - Author, High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...
Newly Declassified Records Suggest Parents Collaborated With the FBI to Spy on Their Rebellious Teens During the 1960s
As high school students across the U.S. embraced political activism, adults turned to the authorities to shield their sons and daughters from radical influences
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The US parents who grassed on their anti-Vietnam war kids in the 60s
Aaron G. Fountain Jr. - Author, High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...
Aaron G. Fountain Jr. - Author, High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...
Excited to share my new @smithsonianmag.bsky.social article, drawn from Chapter 10 of my upcoming book High School Students Unite! @uncpress.bsky.social
Newly Declassified Records Suggest Parents Collaborated With the FBI to Spy on Their Rebellious Teens... www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...
Newly Declassified Records Suggest Parents Collaborated With the FBI to Spy on Their Rebellious Teens... www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...
Newly Declassified Records Suggest Parents Collaborated With the FBI to Spy on Their Rebellious Teens During the 1960s
As high school students across the U.S. embraced political activism, adults turned to the authorities to shield their sons and daughters from radical influences
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Excited to share my new @smithsonianmag.bsky.social article, drawn from Chapter 10 of my upcoming book High School Students Unite! @uncpress.bsky.social
Newly Declassified Records Suggest Parents Collaborated With the FBI to Spy on Their Rebellious Teens... www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...
Newly Declassified Records Suggest Parents Collaborated With the FBI to Spy on Their Rebellious Teens... www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...
As more newspapers get digitized, I keep uncovering new high school independent student groups and underground papers, often from places I never saw in the archives while writing the book. Bangor, ME; Bismarck, ND; Topeka, KS… it really drives home how truly national this high school activism was.
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
As more newspapers get digitized, I keep uncovering new high school independent student groups and underground papers, often from places I never saw in the archives while writing the book. Bangor, ME; Bismarck, ND; Topeka, KS… it really drives home how truly national this high school activism was.
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This book is a must read. 🗃️
Andrew's book on the politics of smallpox in the American Revolution is such a great book and his argument below about people articulating inoculation as a *right* of the people is so important! @bachynski.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This book is a must read. 🗃️
An interviewee who lives in Thailand and just received a copy of my book sent me this message:
November 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
An interviewee who lives in Thailand and just received a copy of my book sent me this message:
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The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
Thanks to everyone who has so far pre-ordered the book, High School Students Unite! I've received several emails and text messages from friends and interviewees
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Thanks to everyone who has so far pre-ordered the book, High School Students Unite! I've received several emails and text messages from friends and interviewees
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Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun strijd tegen racisme binnen het leger – werden zonder toelichting verwijderd.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Sorry to hear the news.
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Sorry to hear the news.
I was literally working with Lex on a forthcoming article in Teen Vogue. I had no idea this had just occurred.
Lex McMenamin, one of many valuable Teen Vogue reporters laid off today, said, "Majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. There are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue." 💔
As @sifill.bsky.social noted, this is NOT a business decision. Goal is to suppress knowledge, analysis. 🧵
As @sifill.bsky.social noted, this is NOT a business decision. Goal is to suppress knowledge, analysis. 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I was literally working with Lex on a forthcoming article in Teen Vogue. I had no idea this had just occurred.
My copies of High School Students Unite! arrived in the mail on Friday. And it looks like friends, interviewees, and others who pre-ordered their copies got theirs too! #education #activism #history #skystorians @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146969182...
November 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My copies of High School Students Unite! arrived in the mail on Friday. And it looks like friends, interviewees, and others who pre-ordered their copies got theirs too! #education #activism #history #skystorians @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146969182...
I didn't expect to have a review this soon for my book "High School Students Unite!," but here is one from someone who requested an advance review copy
November 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I didn't expect to have a review this soon for my book "High School Students Unite!," but here is one from someone who requested an advance review copy
Despite its vast national reach and early recruitment of secondary school students, the Student Mobilization Committee is infrequently examined in major histories of the antiwar movement. I discuss its outreach efforts in my forthcoming book, High School Students Unite! uncpress.org/978146969182...
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Despite its vast national reach and early recruitment of secondary school students, the Student Mobilization Committee is infrequently examined in major histories of the antiwar movement. I discuss its outreach efforts in my forthcoming book, High School Students Unite! uncpress.org/978146969182...
You can preorder the book: uncpress.org/978146969182...
High School Students Unite!
Mid-twentieth-century student activism is a pivotal chapter in American history. While college activism has been well documented, the equally vital contribut...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
You can preorder the book: uncpress.org/978146969182...
In "High School Students Unite!" I discussed the long-forgotten San Francisco's Mission High School strike. The incidents led radical documentary film makers to make this video, High School Rising - 1969 - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage
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High School Rising - 1969 - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage
YouTube video by Charlie Dean Archives
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October 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
In "High School Students Unite!" I discussed the long-forgotten San Francisco's Mission High School strike. The incidents led radical documentary film makers to make this video, High School Rising - 1969 - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDS-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDS-...
Glad to see my book, High School Students Unite!, jump to number 3 in most requested. It will come out in two months.
Attn media/reviewers: Two new @uncpress.bsky.social titles are now up on @netgalley.bsky.social— for one month only!
📚HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS UNITE! by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social (Dec)
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📚HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS UNITE! by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social (Dec)
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October 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Glad to see my book, High School Students Unite!, jump to number 3 in most requested. It will come out in two months.
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Coming soon to a bookstore near you :-)
October 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Coming soon to a bookstore near you :-)
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Attn media/reviewers: Two new @uncpress.bsky.social titles are now up on @netgalley.bsky.social— for one month only!
📚HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS UNITE! by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social (Dec)
📚JIM CROW IN THE ASYLUM by @drkyliesmith.bsky.social
(Jan '26)
Check out UNC Press titles here: bit.ly/3ItM2WF
📚HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS UNITE! by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social (Dec)
📚JIM CROW IN THE ASYLUM by @drkyliesmith.bsky.social
(Jan '26)
Check out UNC Press titles here: bit.ly/3ItM2WF
Publisher Details | NetGalley
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Attn media/reviewers: Two new @uncpress.bsky.social titles are now up on @netgalley.bsky.social— for one month only!
📚HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS UNITE! by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social (Dec)
📚JIM CROW IN THE ASYLUM by @drkyliesmith.bsky.social
(Jan '26)
Check out UNC Press titles here: bit.ly/3ItM2WF
📚HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS UNITE! by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social (Dec)
📚JIM CROW IN THE ASYLUM by @drkyliesmith.bsky.social
(Jan '26)
Check out UNC Press titles here: bit.ly/3ItM2WF
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#tdih 1968 Teenagers from 25 schools formed the New York HS Student Union.
Learn about this group & more in forthcoming "High School Students Unite!: Teen Activism, Education Reform, & FBI Surveillance in Postwar America" by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social
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Learn about this group & more in forthcoming "High School Students Unite!: Teen Activism, Education Reform, & FBI Surveillance in Postwar America" by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ne...
Sept. 21, 1968: New York High School Student Union Founded
During the racially-charged Ocean Hill-Brownsville teachers’ strike in New York City, nearly 200 teenagers from 25 high schools established the New York High School Student Union.
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September 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
#tdih 1968 Teenagers from 25 schools formed the New York HS Student Union.
Learn about this group & more in forthcoming "High School Students Unite!: Teen Activism, Education Reform, & FBI Surveillance in Postwar America" by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ne...
Learn about this group & more in forthcoming "High School Students Unite!: Teen Activism, Education Reform, & FBI Surveillance in Postwar America" by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ne...
Sept. 21, 1968: New York High School Student Union Founded
I wrote this for @zinnedproject.bsky.social
I cover this group in my forthcoming book "High School Students Unite!" www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ne...
I wrote this for @zinnedproject.bsky.social
I cover this group in my forthcoming book "High School Students Unite!" www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ne...
Sept. 21, 1968: New York High School Student Union Founded
During the racially-charged Ocean Hill-Brownsville teachers’ strike in New York City, nearly 200 teenagers from 25 high schools established the New York High School Student Union.
www.zinnedproject.org
September 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Sept. 21, 1968: New York High School Student Union Founded
I wrote this for @zinnedproject.bsky.social
I cover this group in my forthcoming book "High School Students Unite!" www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ne...
I wrote this for @zinnedproject.bsky.social
I cover this group in my forthcoming book "High School Students Unite!" www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ne...