Giuliana Perrone
@gperrone.bsky.social
Professor of U.S. History. Slavery & Abolition. Legal History. Civil War & Reconstruction. Author. Teacher. Forever Student. Texas Longhorn. Cal Bear. Sharing personal views only.
This senior lady just arrived at the shelter underweight and covered in matted fur. But, 2 dinners later, this is the beginning of the rest of her best life. #sheltersunday helps me remember the good amidst so much bad.
January 26, 2026 at 3:00 AM
This senior lady just arrived at the shelter underweight and covered in matted fur. But, 2 dinners later, this is the beginning of the rest of her best life. #sheltersunday helps me remember the good amidst so much bad.
To improve your mood, recharge your strength, and restore your faith in this world, I highly recommend volunteering at your local animal shelter. #sheltersunday
January 19, 2026 at 2:48 AM
To improve your mood, recharge your strength, and restore your faith in this world, I highly recommend volunteering at your local animal shelter. #sheltersunday
So yeah everything is shit, but my honors student just discovered how incredible archivists and librarians are (They found everything I needed and just brought it to me!!) and that deserves celebrating.
January 9, 2026 at 2:10 AM
So yeah everything is shit, but my honors student just discovered how incredible archivists and librarians are (They found everything I needed and just brought it to me!!) and that deserves celebrating.
It's Big Dick diplomacy.
January 3, 2026 at 5:57 PM
It's Big Dick diplomacy.
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
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CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸
December 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸
Did we run out of dreadnoughts? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump announces plans for new navy warships to be known as ‘Trump-class’
President says the ships will be bigger, faster and a hundred times more powerful than any previous US-built warship
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Did we run out of dreadnoughts? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This prompts me to think I should be teaching the second great awakening a bit differently in the US history survey.
JD Vance gets the biggest applause of his speech so far when he says "by the grace of God we always will be a Christian nation"
December 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This prompts me to think I should be teaching the second great awakening a bit differently in the US history survey.
Every year, I teach at least one class in a large auditorium like the one shooters targeted at Brown. And every year I worry about the risk knowing absolutely nothing will be done about it.
December 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Every year, I teach at least one class in a large auditorium like the one shooters targeted at Brown. And every year I worry about the risk knowing absolutely nothing will be done about it.
A fun thought experiment.
I saw someone ask elsewhere about what the common law said about the children of Confederates born during during the Civil War.
They were natural born American citizens. Why? Because there is no loyalty test—not for parents, not for children.
Had the Confederates won, children born before 1861…
They were natural born American citizens. Why? Because there is no loyalty test—not for parents, not for children.
Had the Confederates won, children born before 1861…
December 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
A fun thought experiment.
The scholarly chasm that opened up around this issue is WILD. I'm not enough on the inside of this to know all the dirty details, but it is shocking to watch unfold.
Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.
December 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The scholarly chasm that opened up around this issue is WILD. I'm not enough on the inside of this to know all the dirty details, but it is shocking to watch unfold.
Going back to my grad school roots and hosting an everyone welcome Thanksgiving where we just get to be grateful for a caring community and eat stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Going back to my grad school roots and hosting an everyone welcome Thanksgiving where we just get to be grateful for a caring community and eat stuff.
We all knew the institution was never going to love us back, but a little more fight would have been nice. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Commentary: The UC faculty just won a big court victory over Trump. But why didn't UC join their lawsuit?
The UC faculty went to court to fight Trump's funding cutoffs and won. Why has the university system tried to negotiate instead?
www.latimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We all knew the institution was never going to love us back, but a little more fight would have been nice. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Very good.
I've had an uptick in orders for this print recently, for reasons which are not particularly mysterious to me
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Very good.
Gus Johnson might not survive this.
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Gus Johnson might not survive this.
As a college professor who teaches US political and legal history, I'm not surprised by this. Y'all these kids are tough as nails and mad as hell. #lovethem
After years of decline, 18–29-year-olds delivered a 35-point margin for @SpanbergerForVA — the biggest for Dems since 2017.
Older voters barely moved, but young voters anchored the Democratic turnaround.
Older voters barely moved, but young voters anchored the Democratic turnaround.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
As a college professor who teaches US political and legal history, I'm not surprised by this. Y'all these kids are tough as nails and mad as hell. #lovethem
I had a similar experience with students. They thought gerrymandering was unconstitutional. To their credit, they came to ask because they were confused by the public discourse. What happens when there's no one to ask or no curiosity to learn? THIS. This <waves hands> is what happens.
Recently my brother in law explained what gerrymandering was to a coworker and they didn’t believe him because if that were really happening there would be riots in the street
This week I had someone tell me they're not worried about SNAP being cut off because "that's illegal, so it's impossible Trump could do that, so obviously it's just media sensationalism." Another person told me they weren't worried about ICE because "they can't detain you if you're legally here."
November 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I had a similar experience with students. They thought gerrymandering was unconstitutional. To their credit, they came to ask because they were confused by the public discourse. What happens when there's no one to ask or no curiosity to learn? THIS. This <waves hands> is what happens.
...except for the ones with allergies. We keep halloween pencils and other toys for them. 😀 Treats for all!
Totally. Also, don't gatekeep who gets candy or not. Everybody who asks for candy gets candy!
genuinely: it is fine and good for teenagers to go out trick-or-treating
let them enjoy their youth!
let them enjoy their youth!
November 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
...except for the ones with allergies. We keep halloween pencils and other toys for them. 😀 Treats for all!
"Caught between the government and faculty are campus administrators, some who have expressed distrust of Trump’s civil rights investigations. But they fear that resisting would not only be illegal but could result in devastating funding cuts."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
UC, CSU released troves of personal employee information to the feds. Now the backlash
Cal State and UC have face campus protest and intense rebuke by faculty, students and staff for sharing employee personal information with the Trump administration as part of investigations into alle...
www.latimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"Caught between the government and faculty are campus administrators, some who have expressed distrust of Trump’s civil rights investigations. But they fear that resisting would not only be illegal but could result in devastating funding cuts."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans
October 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans
that's why they want to censor history class!
October 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
that's why they want to censor history class!
Today's announcement about using the military to fight the "internal enemy" means we've left the Bleeding Kansas portion of the story and gotten to Harper's Ferry.
September 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Today's announcement about using the military to fight the "internal enemy" means we've left the Bleeding Kansas portion of the story and gotten to Harper's Ferry.
What are your favorite scholarly pieces on birthright citizenship?
I'm doing the Oxford bibliography on "Law and Society in Reconstruction America (basically everything), and I know there's a ton of new stuff on this out there that I'm afraid I'm missing.
I'm doing the Oxford bibliography on "Law and Society in Reconstruction America (basically everything), and I know there's a ton of new stuff on this out there that I'm afraid I'm missing.
September 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
What are your favorite scholarly pieces on birthright citizenship?
I'm doing the Oxford bibliography on "Law and Society in Reconstruction America (basically everything), and I know there's a ton of new stuff on this out there that I'm afraid I'm missing.
I'm doing the Oxford bibliography on "Law and Society in Reconstruction America (basically everything), and I know there's a ton of new stuff on this out there that I'm afraid I'm missing.
Our modern brain drain.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors leaving US south
Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Our modern brain drain.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This was a literal plot line in Parks and Rec a decade ago. We laughed at fictional people thinking fluoride was bad but "TDazzle" was amazing.
Colgate to change toothpaste packaging to address Texas AG fluoride concerns reut.rs/4nDE2Bj
Colgate to change toothpaste packaging to address Texas AG fluoride concerns
Colgate-Palmolive will introduce new packaging and marketing for its toothpaste products, after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton expressed concern that its marketing of fluoride could harm parents and children.
reut.rs
September 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This was a literal plot line in Parks and Rec a decade ago. We laughed at fictional people thinking fluoride was bad but "TDazzle" was amazing.