Wikipedia, a site once considered not credible as a source and possibly spreading misinformation, now has higher standards for its content than universities have for students

This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame.

13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.

Apply by March 15! We are excited to expand our team!

Black History Month Celebrates 100 Years, Can it Survive the Trump Administration? The United States must confront the truth about its history in classrooms and in public—parks, museums, and government websites.

It's been 100 years since the first Negro History Week in 1926. @sibyllan.bsky.social urges the United States to continue to confront the truth about its history in classrooms and in public—parks, museums, and government websites. 🗃️ #blackhistory clioandthecontemporary.com/2026/03/07/b...

#skystorians teaching this film should assign @oaverettephillips.bsky.social and Taylor Black’s analysis. Check it out.

Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette | Official Trailer | FX YouTube video by FX Networks

Anyone interested in watching the new FX anthology “Love Story” and writing a review? The season focuses on the romantic relationship between John F Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."

Casualty and Legitimacy: A Post-1979 Perspective on Iran’s 2026 Mass Violence Iran’s late 2025 protests, triggered by economic collapse, were met with mass killing and an internet blackout that made casualty verification a central political struggle. This “politics of counti…

As war rages in the Middle East, @keanuheydari.bsky.social refocuses our attention to Iran’s late 2025 protests. The protests, triggered by economic collapse, were met with mass killing and an internet blackout that made casualty verification a central political struggle. 🗃️

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

A shot of the crowd after Canada scores its first goal

Canadian joy 🇨🇦 Love to see it!

If anyone wants to join an excellent team of scholars trying to bring the latest in historical analysis, teaching insight, public history knowledge, film reviews, and much more, we’re expanding our team @cliocontemporary.bsky.social. Check out the posting below, or reach out to me with questions. 🗃️

Check it out!! #academicsky 🗃️

This series is going to be fantastic. Send us your pitches now! We welcome scholars with varying regional and thematic specialties. Feel free to reach out to me via DM if you have questions!

I love working on this team. Our editors are collaborative, the workload is manageable, and the engagement with authors on public-facing work is delightfully gratifying. Contact us and/or repost to help us get the word out to #academicsky. 🗃️

Come work with me! We have an awesome team and fantastic projects in the works!

Reverend Jesse Jackson's march for jobs -- around the White House. By photographer Thomas O'Halloran, 1975. Photograph shows Jesse Jackson surrounded by marchers carrying signs advocating support for the Hawkins-Humphrey Bill for full employment. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. https://www.loc.gov/item/2003673988/

"You can’t plant a seed & pick the fruit the next morning."

So many lessons to learn from Rev. Jackson's (1941-2026) 💔words AND his years of on the ground organizing, in interracial coalitions, to challenge racism, sexism, anti-LGBTQ, poverty, unfair labor, militarism, mass incarceration, & more.

Rest in Peace - Jesse Jackson

Rich people think they live in a higher tier of society full of better and more brilliant people, but it’s actually just the same society except the people have more money to waste and lose. So much of what they do is just wealth-induced hallucination

Considering History: Bad Bunny, José Martí, and a Hemispheric America | The Saturday Evening Post Inspired by that Super Bowl performance from one of our moment’s most famous Caribbean young men, American Studies Professor Ben Railton share the story of another of history’s most prominent such fig...

This is one of my favorite @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History columns I’ve gotten to write & I’m gonna share the heck out of it! #LoSientoNoSiento 🗃️

www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/02/cons...

Great analysis by @jasonhiggins.bsky.social on the 50th anniversary of Taxi Driver. A must-read for those interested in the #VietnamWar, #filmhistory, and #veterans and their representation on film.

I really want SNL to cast Parker Posey to play Pam Bondi.

For the Confederacy, States’ Rights Stopped Where Slavery Began I’m a big fan of New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie. Much of his commentary is rooted in a deep reading of American history, especially the nineteenth century. You can find him on a number of soci...

The Confederacy lasted as long as it did because it was willing to exercise the full might of the federal government over states’ rights for the specific purpose of protecting slavery. kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/for-the-co...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

#ScholarSunday Thread 262 (2/8/26) – Black and White and Read All Over Whether you’re most excited for the Super Bowl, the Puppy Bowl, or the Superb Owl, start tailgating early with my 262nd #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming b...

Whether you’re most excited for the Super Bowl, the Puppy Bowl, or the Superb Owl, tailgate with my 262nd #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, team! 🗃️

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Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.

1. 20th Century Russia
2. Canadian Politics
3. US Foreign Policy
4. American Film since 1970
5. Religion and Politics in Europe

Call for Contributors: 2026 Anniversaries in Historical Context Clio and the Contemporary welcomes pitches from contributors looking to mark historically significant anniversaries or to draw attention to forgotten events. In 2026, we remember 1976, 1926, 1876, …

We welcome pitches from #skystorians looking to mark historically significant anniversaries or to draw attention to forgotten events. The past is present.
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