If you've done research at NARA, you know about the binders... If anyone needs the binder for Record Group 96 (Resettlement, Farm Security Administration, etc.), I can DM a PDF.

My department is hiring in African history and the United States since 1865! Both positions are tenure-track, and both hires will be made at the assistant level. I'm not on either search committee (sabbatical, babyyyyy), but I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have. 🗃️

Shameless plug: If you're teaching a spring history course on the US South, civil rights, Native Am., &/or settler colonialism, consider adopting my recent book, Southern Enclosure kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700635832/ (read reviews in AHR and Ag History).

Marxist Amílcar Lopes Cabral was born on this day in 1924.

As founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, Cabral was a leading voice of anti-colonialism in West Africa.

I’ve been assigning this speech/sermon to my students for the better part of a decade. Hits a little different every time.

King, Riverside Church, NY, April 1967

Nice being back in Athens yesterday - digging into the papers of Clarence Jordan and the Koinonia farm community of Sumter County, GA.

The US is becoming to akin to apartheid-era South Africa, where racialized groups needed a "passbook" to travel from one part of the country to the other. Who brings a passsport with them when they are traveling domestically?

On this National HIV Testing Day, I’m giving away up to four copies of my @uncpress.bsky.social book THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE. To claim your copy, please just donate to an HIV/AIDS-related cause of your choosing (preferably a local HIV/AIDS service organization) and send me the receipt. 🗃️

If you're at the NAISA Conference, check out the @univpressofkansas.bsky.social book table! (And maybe pick up a copy of Southern Enclosure...) #NAISA2025

With all due respect, Kevin, the fascists are going to propagate racist claims about protesters regardless of which flags they wave. Also, appeasement strategies like this seldom work in the informal political realm—or when your opponents are fascists hellbent on brutalizing civilians.

What an honor to have had Greta de Jong review my book for the journal Agricultural History. Many thanks to the Agricultural History Society for sending the book to one of my historian heroes. If you haven’t already, check out Greta’s fascinating work!

John H. Cable. Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi. In Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi, John H. Cable broadens the historiographical scope of enclosure b

AHR review of my 2024 @Kansas_Press book, Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi
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New York Police Department surveillance photograph of protesters denouncing police violence and demanding a civilian review board

POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT: THE SABOTAGE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE THE ACTIVISTS WHO FOUGHT BACK Joshua Clark Davis Princeton University Press 2025

Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1. Political Police Chapter 2. Jim Crow’s Cops Chapter 3. Collusion Chapter 4. Freedom Now Chapter 5. Up North Chapter 6. Undercover Chapter 7. Infiltration Chapter 8. Traitor Chapter 9. Deacons and Dynamite Chapter 10. Retaliation Chapter 11. Provocateurs Chapter 12. The Unraveling Chapter 13. The Unmasking Chapter 14: The Unremembering

Just recently submitted my manuscript for POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT. It's a retelling of the civil rights movement through its overlooked work against police violence—and the police who attacked the movement with surveillance, infiltration, and retaliatory prosecutions.

Publication next fall!

Hear me yap about my book, Southern Enclosure (@Kansas_Press, 2023), with Miranda Melcher @NewBooksNetwork @NewBooksAfroAm @NewBooksAmStudi

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Capitalism and (under)development in the American South | Aeon Essays In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy

New piece by the brilliant @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social on underdevelopment/US South. Inserting into multiple syllabi to teach. (Also humbled/honored that she cites my book, Southern Enclosure.) aeon.co/essays/capit...

Honored to have my book, Southern Enclosure, on sale in the shop at the (Wendell) Berry Center in New Castle, KY. If you haven’t read Wendell Berry, please skip my book and buy one of his.

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(L to R: Berry, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton)

Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s resolutions from 1943 were more or less on point.

Mainstream media, center-right pundits, and Democratic politicians legitimizing a neo-McCarthyist crusade as a campaign against antisemitism in America – that establishes the kind of permission structure that allows people to go with Trump over “the Left.”

New piece:

🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!

Guess what! It’s #GivingTuesday! We’d love (and need) your support to make this documentary possible!

Back in 2018. RIP Rosalynn Carter.

Release day! Grab a copy of SOUTHERN ENCLOSURE if you’re interested in 20th c. South, Native South, enclosure, and/or settler colonialism. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700635832/

Just clicked submit. Should be on bookshelves this time next year.

Author copies arrived today from @Kansas_Press. Many thanks to everyone who helped make this possible! #southernenclosure

(Photo by Danny Lyon)

This time last year, we lost the Rev. Charles Sherrod (far right). He arrived in Southwest GA in 1961 w/SNCC and never left. I have a special fondness for Sherrod because he was my first oral history interviewee. I had no clue what I was doing. He was so kind. RIP, my friend.