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Liette Gidlow

@profgidlow.bsky.social

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Historian of US politics, voting rights, women, race, 19thA Wrote TheBigVote & Obama,Clinton,Palin Radcliffe Fellow@Harvard. Swam in RFK Sr's pool

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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · Nov 14

No time for cryin'
We got work to do
-- Mavis Staples

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Mavis Staples - "No Time For Cryin'" (Live)

YouTube video by ANTI- Records

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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 1d

wtaf

Fruney @fruney.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe someone should investigate if Wells Fargo asked ICE to evict the occupants for them.

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Inside real estate fight that led to South Shore immigration raid

City of Chicago inspected the troubled 130-unit apartment complex two weeks before massive federal operation on Chicago’s South Side.

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 1d

Witness an ICE raid, call a local Rapid Response Team! These community networks verify raids, support families & connect people with legal help. Know your rights.

Resources for immigrants and families

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

#DefendHigherEd

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 3d

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Tom (Anne) Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 4d

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

State Terror

A brief guide for Americans

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 5d

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Please buy my book. Since I’m unemployed and all.

The Last Lincoln Republican

Of all the great “what if” scenarios in American history, the aftermath of the presidential election of 1880 stands out as one of the most tantal...

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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, @btarrington.bsky.social, for your service 🗃️

Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 5d

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Yeah, that’s me.

EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles

The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 7d

I'm teaching the Lavender Scare right now. It resonates

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 8d

Good message

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 8d

If I’m running messaging, the word on the street is that Democrats are refusing to fund a dictatorship. Either Article 1 means something or nobody gets anything.

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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 9d

scaffolded assignments building the project over the course of the semester. It's not foolproof but Ss need to pass each one to progress to the next, and LLMs aren't very helpful on some of them. fwiw

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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · 9d

This NPR story highlights the AMAZING archeological work of Laura Ng @cocalola.bsky.social. Laura has been tracking down descendants of the original Chinatown, including my dad (who gets a few words in at the end). www.kuow.org/stories/wyom...

Wyoming town erects new monument to violent, anti-immigrant history

At a time when President Trump is going after foreign laborers in the U.S, and saying unflattering accounts of U.S. history should be removed, Rock Springs, Wyoming has put up a new monument to ethnic...

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Adam Zyglis @adamzyglis.bsky.social · 14d

Holding the line…
#theKimmelEffect

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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 22d

suggestion: check the NARA website for teaching resources. They have a form for this purpose

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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 23d

“I’m holding a sign that says something about the Bill of Rights; my sister’s says, “My daddy is a man of courage; he should be admired, not fired.” From an early age, we knew that his fight was ours too.” @bostonreview.bsky.social

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 24d

My latest for Critical Thinking 101.

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It Is My Right Not to Weep: On (Compelled) National Mourning

I didn’t want to write this piece today: I know I am risking racist/White supremacist vitriol by pushing “post” on this piece.

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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 28d

trophy pics -- disgusting

Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 28d

my students love your podcast -- I use it in a methods seminar -- and so do I :)

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · Sep 8

History rhymes, and we can learn from the cadence.

This poster, which was created and disseminated by abolitionist Theodore Parker, warns black people in Boston to beware of watchmen and police officers, who were legally allowed to act as kidnappers due to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Text reads: Caution!! Colored people of Boston, one & all, you are hereby respectfully cautioned and advised, to avoid conversing with the watchmen and police officers of Boston, for since the recent order of the mayor & aldermen, they are empowered to act as kidnappers and slave catchers ... Keep a sharp look out for kidnappers, and have top eye open. April 24, 1851

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · Sep 5

Looking for a book to make you rethink everything you thought you knew? That's kind of our thing.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Sep 5

BIG NEWS this morning!

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Introducing “The Refounding” from the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy

Far too many Americans still do not know about the promise and potential power of the 14th Amendment, or its role in transforming America

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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · Sep 1

which is to say, i love your work and writing!

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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · Sep 1

happy Labor Day

bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · Sep 1

More Than a Paycheck
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More Than A Paycheck

YouTube video by Sweet Honey in the Rock - Topic

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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · Sep 1

which side are you on?

bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · Sep 1

❤️✊

Florence Reece segment from Harlan County, USA
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Florence Reece segment from Harlan County, USA

YouTube video by Oakland Public Education

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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · Sep 1

"I think I'd like to hold off judgment on a thing like that, sir, until all the facts are in...I don't think it's quite fair to condemn the whole program because of a single slip up, sir."
-- Gen. Buck Turgidson, Dr Strangelove

a man in a suit and tie is talking on a phone in front of a map

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking on a phone in front of a map

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