Virginia bluebell in New York State

Opinion | Why DOGE Slashed the National Endowment for the Humanities (Gift Article) Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost the American people something precious.

“Americans really like book festivals and local history museums…We especially like it when such gifts are available to everyone, and not just to those who can afford the price of a ticket.” Excellent @margaretrenkl.bsky.social on the high ROI of the NEH. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Maria Scott recounting the history of @uksdn.bsky.social #SDNDurham2025

It was an enormous pleasure and privilege to chair our first keynote speaker at #SDNDurham2025, Professor Pratima Prasad, with a fascinating paper on enslavement, marronnage and freedom in the French Indian Ocean in a spectacular venue. Very much looking forward to the book! @uksdn.bsky.social

From the songs of the workers to Wagner, vaudeville and yodelling - a great panel covering humour, parody and cultural identity throughout the C19th. #SDNDurham2025

A wonderfully warm welcome from Ed Welch and @MLACdurham colleagues in Durham Castle! #SDNDurham2025

Cloudless blue skies over Durham for day 2 of #SDNDurham2025 - starting the day with Nationalismes et imaginaires raciaux.

Hope you are all looking forward to a great conference and wishing everyone safe travels to Durham #SDNDurham2025

Pratima Prasad’s wonderful keynote in a beautiful setting #sdndurham2025

Delighted to be in Durham for #SDNDurham2025 - an opportunity to catch up and share ideas. Looking forward to the brilliant keynotes and papers, and to meeting up with all the PGs and ECRs! @uksdn.bsky.social

Pratima Prasad giving her plenary paper #SDNDurham2025 @uksdn.bsky.social

Brilliant 🔥

#SDNDurham2025

Susan McCready on 19th-c heartthrobs!!

Pauline de Tholozany-on pride, melancholy & female ambition!

#SDNDurham2025

There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com

Mosse-Zucker/Goldberg New Book Series Uniform Fantasies Cover of book: Two men in blue uniforms Jeffrey Schneider is Professor of German Studies, Faculty Director of Affirmative Action, and Director of Global Nineteenth Century Studies at Vassar. Schneider works on foreign language pedagogy as well as the interactions between the Prussian military and the modern queer emancipation movement in imperial Germany. Comment by: Professor Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia Picture of Jeffrey Schneider George L. Mosse Program in History Mosse Lectures Chair: Professor Chad Gibbs, College of Charleston, Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies March 19, 2025 4pm EST 3 PM Central Webinar link: https://go.wisc.edu/e3c4ul College of Charleston Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies The Center for European Studies Department of History University of Wisconsin-Madison

Join us tomorrow afternoon at 3 central for Jeffrey Schneider’s virtual book talk about his new book, Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany.

If you’re interested in attending, don’t forget to RSVP to receive the Zoom link! Register here: go.wisc.edu/e3c4u1

Selma is Stronger than MAGA On Loving Your Country

My latest essay is up. “Selma is Stronger than MAGA: On Loving Your Country.” Inspired by the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday…and, ironically Justice Kennedy. READ AND SHARE.
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Lovely to receive the paperback edition of our edited volume on the French decadent movement, colonialism and oreientalism, with @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social !

Thank you for writing and sharing this.

What Do We Do With Monstrous Mentors? It’s time for a reckoning.

I wrote a piece about a certain flavor of academic abuse. I have carried parts of this story for upwards of 25 yrs, & I’m grateful to @chronicle.com for helping me to tell it.
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #PHDchat

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Drawing of Rachilde showcasing their androgynous features

Late for trans day of visibility but wanted to share this drawing of Rachilde by one of my wonderful BU grad students #FrHistory #transhistory #LGBTQ 🌈🎓
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My thought exactly!