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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, well this sounds intriguing!!

Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 5d

I dot know if they count, but I find the Holderness Family amusing

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 5d

Join this community forum to help NPS and ASALH design a plan for National Historic Landmark designation for Black public secondary schools.

Black Public High Schools 1870-1970 Project, led by Principal Investigator Amber N. Wiley, PhD.

Graphic for Black public hS listening session. October 9 on Zoom, 6 pm CDT

Community stakeholders in various parts of the country have expressed interest in National Historic Landmark designation for Black public secondary schools. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is working with National Park Service (NPS), scholars of the history of Black secondary education, and community advocates for extant schools to develop a strategy for evaluating eligibility for this designation. This listening session, which will be recorded for research purposes only, is one of the three community engagement activities of the Black Public High Schools 1870-1970 Project, led by Principal Investigator Amber N. Wiley, PhD.

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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 6d

UNM is awesome! Happy to sing its praises

Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 6d

***Job Opportunity***

Assistant Professor of Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies – Black Studies in Education, University of New Mexico

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Assistant Professor of Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies – Black Studies in Education - Albuquerque, NM 87106 - Indeed.com

University of New Mexico

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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 9d

Oh! I have an art mystery that I am currently working on- but we are mid-mystery, so no conclusion yet. And it is a portrait, not a book….

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 9d

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

a.co/d/29c7EIP

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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 9d

It is the truck nuts of Oval Office decor

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 10d

First, an important & exciting announcement for folks used to reading these threads on Substack—my wife @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & I have a new public scholarly website Black & White & Read All Over, & these threads will be fully migrating over here.

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Black and White and Read All Over

Where Scholarship Meets the Public

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12d

Cuts to and closures of university presses are 100% part of the separation (or as @mattseybold.bsky.social has called it "unbundling") of research and teaching in the humanities and the devaluation of both quite frankly--in this case at the expense of the career training admin claims to care about.

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12d

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net

A post from Feeding the

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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 13d

Good luck 👍

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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 13d

My son did. Are you trying on your phone? Apparently you have to use the desktop version

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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 13d

I see what you did there! 😂🐿️🌰

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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 13d

We are back!!! In this episode I interview my co-host Boyd Cothran about his recent book, _The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the Workd in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914_, published by @uncpress.bsky.social @shgape.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

104: The Voyage of the Edwin Fox

Podcast Episode · The Gilded Age and Progressive Era · 09/24/2025 · 1h

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · 14d

Kelly Goodman talks about the history of teacher strikes, funding challenges in public education and the impact of recent policy changes on school budgets. Listen to the interview below.
awf.labortools.com/listen/kelly...

Kelly Goodman on Teacher Strikes: Lessons from Detroit to Chicago

The America’s Work Force Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Kelly Goodman of Harvard University joined us on today’s show.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 14d

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.

Visit the awards page for details regarding all 2025-26 awards, including deadlines.

iehs.org/awards/

Awards Overview

Visit the post for more.

iehs.org

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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 19d

Tiya Miles! The introduction to wild girls is truly one of the most beautiful pieces. I’ve read in a while. And All That She Carried is masterful.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · Sep 8

Authors: if you believe Anthropic may have downloaded your book(s) from LibGen or PiLiMi, please visit www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com to provide your contact information to Class Counsel.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Sep 8

I just learned it was Yamiche. They let him talk to her that way again.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Sep 7

No solidarity. Reporters let Trump talk this way to a woman reporter and then clamor to get their own question answered. He used to do it to April Ryan, Yamiche Alcindor and Abby Phillip.

And that’s why he controls media. No solidarity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 7

Trump tells a reporter who asks him about going to war with American cities to “be quiet” and “listen”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Sep 7

No solidarity. Reporters let Trump talk this way to a woman reporter and then clamor to get their own question answered. He used to do it to April Ryan, Yamiche Alcindor and Abby Phillip.

And that’s why he controls media. No solidarity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 7

Trump tells a reporter who asks him about going to war with American cities to “be quiet” and “listen”

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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · Sep 7

In fairness, I am in the US system and the humanities- sounds like there are some distinct differences.

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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · Sep 7

I mean, isn’t this just recreating the wheel? This is why colleges and universities sponsored journals and why we have academic presses for books…that is (was?) the system

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Aug 31

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 26

I’m a labor nerd so this is how I found out lol

Congrats to union folks on building yet another union!

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce in an embrace, from an Instagram account:

AFL-CIO
AMERICA'S UNIONS
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aflcio An @afm_union and @sagaftra gal. An @nflpa guy. We love a union love story. Congrats @taylorswift and @killatrav!

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · Aug 24

Attention Catholic Studies folks

Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · Aug 24

***Job Opportunity***

Endowed Chair in Catholic Leadership and Director of the Habiger Institute, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

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University of St. Thomas, Minnesota - Endowed Chair in Catholic Leadership and Director of the Habiger Institute | H-Net

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Trump administration is intent on destroying U.S. higher education, which has for more than half a century been a beacon to the world.

CNN @cnn.com · Aug 18

US State Department has revoked more than 6,000 student visas, official says: cnn.it/45v8wxC

US State Department has revoked more than 6,000 student visas, official says | CNN Politics

The State Department has revoked more than 6,000 student visas this year, a State Department official said Monday, as the Trump administration continues its crackdown on some international students it...

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