Dr. John R. Legg
@legg.bsky.social
Scholar of Indigenous & Digital Public History 📖 PhD, George Mason. Researching Indigenous mobility + diplomacy in the Civil War era. Book Review Editor H-CivWar. In Progress: _Degrees of Liberation_ editing w/ Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. web: johnlegg.org
I’m thrilled to share that Board of Governors of the UNL Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has appointed me Affiliate Fellow for the 2026-2031 term. I’m very thankful for Melissa Anne Amateis's nomination and excited to serve the Center for the next several years.
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I’m thrilled to share that Board of Governors of the UNL Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has appointed me Affiliate Fellow for the 2026-2031 term. I’m very thankful for Melissa Anne Amateis's nomination and excited to serve the Center for the next several years.
Look what came in the mail! You can read “Cracks in the Granite: Contested Civil War Memories in the American West” in this year’s December issue of Civil War History. @nielseichhorn.bsky.social. W/great company: @jjacobcalhoun.bsky.social & William S. Kiser. Thanks @jimdowns.bsky.social & staff
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Look what came in the mail! You can read “Cracks in the Granite: Contested Civil War Memories in the American West” in this year’s December issue of Civil War History. @nielseichhorn.bsky.social. W/great company: @jjacobcalhoun.bsky.social & William S. Kiser. Thanks @jimdowns.bsky.social & staff
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Job: Digital Humanities Librarian
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Digital Humanities Librarian
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October 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Job: Digital Humanities Librarian
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employment.ku.edu/jobs/faculty...
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Historians - I'm looking for an article or essay that demonstrates how to tell the history of Black individuals/communities in the American West when you have a fragmented and sparse source base. Suggestions?
October 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Historians - I'm looking for an article or essay that demonstrates how to tell the history of Black individuals/communities in the American West when you have a fragmented and sparse source base. Suggestions?
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It's release day for -Of Many Minds-! Get your copy from Johns Hopkins University Press!
My copy of the wonderful -Of Many Minds: Neurodiversity and Mental Health Among University Faculty and Staff- arrived! I'm honored to have the first essay in this collection; it's far past time for us to talk about all the minds that work (sometimes idiosyncratically, always creatively) in higher ed
August 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It's release day for -Of Many Minds-! Get your copy from Johns Hopkins University Press!
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The ruling sided with environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe, who had filed a suit alleging that the facility built in the Florida Everglades violated federal environmental laws.
Federal Judge Orders ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ To Be Shut Down Within 60 Days—No New Detainees
The ruling sided with environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe, who had filed a suit alleging that the facility built in the Florida Everglades violated federal environmental laws.
www.forbes.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
The ruling sided with environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe, who had filed a suit alleging that the facility built in the Florida Everglades violated federal environmental laws.
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from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
August 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
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Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
August 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
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Cities aren’t scary.
You are scared.
There’s a difference
You are scared.
There’s a difference
August 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Cities aren’t scary.
You are scared.
There’s a difference
You are scared.
There’s a difference
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It’s time to wake up - we are literally on the verge of losing our democracy if Donald Trump cheats his way to those seats in Texas.
Pritzker: Neither Texas nor the FBI at the federal level has the authority to arrest these Texas Democrats
They’re welcome to visit to take in the great views and enjoy the incredible restaurants we have. But they won’t be taking anyone home with them, or out of the state.
They’re welcome to visit to take in the great views and enjoy the incredible restaurants we have. But they won’t be taking anyone home with them, or out of the state.
August 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It’s time to wake up - we are literally on the verge of losing our democracy if Donald Trump cheats his way to those seats in Texas.
Received page proofs for an article co-authored with @nielseichhorn.bsky.social in Civil War History (with excellent company)! Very excited to have this work out in the world this December! 🎉
August 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Received page proofs for an article co-authored with @nielseichhorn.bsky.social in Civil War History (with excellent company)! Very excited to have this work out in the world this December! 🎉
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With all the news about the return of Confederate monuments, I wanted to share my Confederate Monuments Syllabus page. It includes op-eds going back to 2017, interviews, lectures, teaching resources, primary sources, and a bibliography. #sschat #historyteacher 🗃️ cwmemory.com/civilwarmemo...
Confederate Monuments Syllabus
A Crowdsourcing Project About Confederate Monuments and Civil War Memory The horrific murders committed by Dylann Roof of nine churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015 catapulted the debate a...
cwmemory.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
With all the news about the return of Confederate monuments, I wanted to share my Confederate Monuments Syllabus page. It includes op-eds going back to 2017, interviews, lectures, teaching resources, primary sources, and a bibliography. #sschat #historyteacher 🗃️ cwmemory.com/civilwarmemo...
Fish gutters in New Orleans! Taken yesterday.
August 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Fish gutters in New Orleans! Taken yesterday.
Are the issues only because people are “overwhelmed, distracted, or frustrated with the technologies”?
What about the environmental factors? What about data scraping issues? Why don’t you have an environmental historian on the committee?
What about the environmental factors? What about data scraping issues? Why don’t you have an environmental historian on the committee?
August 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Are the issues only because people are “overwhelmed, distracted, or frustrated with the technologies”?
What about the environmental factors? What about data scraping issues? Why don’t you have an environmental historian on the committee?
What about the environmental factors? What about data scraping issues? Why don’t you have an environmental historian on the committee?
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To my academic friends! I’m looking for online adjunct opportunities for this fall and spring semester. If your department is looking for online/asynchronous support in history, please check out my academic website to learn more about my work.
www.johnlegg.org
www.johnlegg.org
johnlegg.org
photo credit: Dr. Jen Andrella, Michigan State University, 2021.
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July 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
To my academic friends! I’m looking for online adjunct opportunities for this fall and spring semester. If your department is looking for online/asynchronous support in history, please check out my academic website to learn more about my work.
www.johnlegg.org
www.johnlegg.org
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I know “A Century of Lawmaking” has been out of commission for a little while now, but I absolutely cannot stand the migration to congress.gov. It’s excruciating to search historical collections. I just want to browse the 1862 Congressional Globe 😢
July 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I know “A Century of Lawmaking” has been out of commission for a little while now, but I absolutely cannot stand the migration to congress.gov. It’s excruciating to search historical collections. I just want to browse the 1862 Congressional Globe 😢
Does anyone have any contacts with the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma or anyone who has cultural ties to Dickson Mounds in Illinois? Thanks in advance!
July 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Does anyone have any contacts with the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma or anyone who has cultural ties to Dickson Mounds in Illinois? Thanks in advance!
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This is every scholar’s nightmare come true 🗃️
Earlier today, Patrick J. Kearney emailed me to tell me that he fabricated five letters allegedly written from James Campbell Reddie to Henry Spencer Ashbee, a transcription of which he has posted on his website +
scissors-and-paste.net/pdf/Reddie_L...
scissors-and-paste.net/pdf/Reddie_L...
July 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This is every scholar’s nightmare come true 🗃️
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Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
June 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
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Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.
Sen. Chuck Schumer: "I just saw something that sickened my stomach; the manhandling of a United States Senator. We need immediate answers to what the hell went on."
June 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.
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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
June 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
Christopher Capozzola: we’re gonna need a new forward to your book…
This is a real thing being posted and circulated by the Department of Homeland Security, referring to undocumented immigrants as “foreign invaders” and urging good Americans to turn them in.
(I’ll leave it to BlueSky historians to find comparisons to WWII era materials.)
(I’ll leave it to BlueSky historians to find comparisons to WWII era materials.)
June 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Christopher Capozzola: we’re gonna need a new forward to your book…
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New headshots by the wonderful @legg.bsky.social. If you get the chance to work with John, do it!
May 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
New headshots by the wonderful @legg.bsky.social. If you get the chance to work with John, do it!