New Sufjan lore trickled out

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Worth re-sharing for #envhist and #envhum folks! We’re excited to feature new research into extraction in the Midwest, past and present.

My department at Florida State is hiring a postdoc in public history! I’m not on the search committee, but please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the position, the department, FSU, or Tallahassee. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/69772/f...

If any book review editors want a review essay putting these three books in conversation (once @mkn.bsky.social’s comes out), hit me up.

USA @ 250: Fighting Genocide-Dispossession, the Revolution, an Enduring Haudenosaunee Right to Land Faculty experts will delve into a variety of topics, from democracy and women’s voices to the Declaration of Independence, in a series of weekly lectures.

Some of this talk I expect to go into the final chapter of a book I am working on now on the Sullivan Clinton Campaign of 1779. If you are free on the 9th of February, I hope to see you (virtually) there. You can register for the Zoom in the link below.

www.maxwell.syr.edu/events/2026/...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Patrick Wolfe’s Settler Colonial Theory, 20 Years On This special issue of Settler Colonial Studies aims to collaboratively examine the residual impacts of Patrick Wolfe’s influential essay, “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native." • What did this essay do to shift or situate the conversation of postcolonial studies towards settler colonialism? • What chord did it strike that made it so widely taken up? And how have the essay’s key concepts travelled globally? • How do the essay’s arguments hold up when considered in settler colonial contexts not addressed in Wolfe’s essay. Our aim is to curate a special issue by inviting a mix of scholars from across the globe, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, established and newer voices, to comment on the essay in 2026 as a way to examine the current state of the field. We seek research article contributions of 5,000 words that will undergo double-blind peer-review and also encourage reflective essays and creative responses to “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native.” We will hold an online symposium in June 2026, where a working version of accepted essays will be shared with scholars from across the globe. Our target deadlines are as follows: • 350 word abstracts by March 15, 2026; • Conference version of the paper for the online symposium in June 2026; • Submitted draft for peer review, October 2026; • Revised and final draft for publication, Jan 2027; • Publication: May 2027. Please send abstracts of 350 words with a 1 page CV to: Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, rebeccawh@vt.edu or raweav1@yahoo.com. Please make sure the subject line indicates the special issue. Abstracts will be acknowledged with an email. If you do not receive a response within 2 weeks, please email Rebecca (in case your original email was unintentionally filtered out by her email program).

Attention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the
Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence.

Details below. Please circulate widely!

The Clements Center for Southwest Studies invites fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year.

For more info and to apply:
www.smu.edu/dedman/resea...

If you're interested of have questions, feel free to contact me directly.

Remembering Quintard Taylor: Beloved professor, founder of BlackPast.org Remembering Quintard Taylor: Beloved professor, founder of BlackPast.org

Quintard Taylor was dedicated to studying Black people in the West — a field that often went unresearched, esp at the beginning of his research in the mid 1970s. Taylor’s work helped correct the narrative that the history of Black people in the West is insignificant. www.dailyuw.com/article/1353...

Nate Allen, who spent more than a half-century covering the Razorbacks, dies at 75 | Whole Hog Sports Whole Hog Sports

Nate Allen, who spent 52 years covering the Razorbacks for Arkansas newspapers big and small, died this afternoon in Fayetteville.

Remembering one of our state's great sports reporters.

www.wholehogsports.com/news/2025/de...

We found that the BLM skipped environmental review on 75% of its grazing land. Our new @propublica.org story explains the ”loophole” that allows BLM to bypass enviro reviews. www.propublica.org/article/graz...

WHA 2026 Digital Scholarship Lightning Round - Expression of Interest Please complete the form below. Someone from the Digital Scholarship Committee will contact you to confirm your acceptance to the lightning round. Contact Sean Fraga, sfraga@usc.edu, with questions.

Western historians: consider this CFP for the digital history lightning round at the 2026 WHA conference in Portland! Great format for discussing work in progress with a supportive audience. Happy to answer any questions. Respond by Wed., Dec. 3. #AmWest 🗃️

Congrats Jimmy!

Mixed-Blood Histories An unprecedented study that puts mixed-ancestry Native Americans back into the heart of Indigenous history Historical accounts tend to neglect mixed-ancestry...

Today is publication day for my book, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, through the University of Minnesota Press!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...

Found in the Densho Digital Repository

A photograph of Japanese American students at the Rohwer incarceration camp in Arkansas. The students rush between barracks to get to their respective classes. The photograph was taken by Tom Parker on November 17, 1942.
🗃 #skystorians #OTD

CALL FOR PAPERS!

Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).

Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History

Applications due November 14! 🗃️

Applications due November 14! 🗃️

UA Little Rock Downtown to host 'American Indians in Arkansas Baseball' lecture Wednesday - Arkansas Times Archivist Erin Fehr will speak about how Native American players helped cruise the Little Rock Travelers to a Southern League championship win in 1920 at CALS' monthly Legacies & Lunch lecture.

Archivist Erin Fehr will speak about how Native American players helped cruise the Little Rock Travelers to a Southern League championship win in 1920 at CALS’ monthly Legacies & Lunch lecture.

170 years ago, the US Army massacred a Lakota village. Their plundered belongings are now back in Nebraska 170 years ago, the U.S. Army massacred a Lakota village near Lewellen, Nebraska. Dozens of items plundered from the dead were recently returned to tribal descendants.

nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/

Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025.

A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920.

Please share widely!

No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live

Tonight the University of Washington community is mourning the loss of professor Quintard Taylor.

His 1994 book “The Forging of a Black Community” is foundational reading about race, class, and urban planning in Seattle political history.

He will be missed sorely.

There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live

Muir Woods exhibit is first casualty of White House directive to erase history "In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."

"In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."

World’s richest 1% increased wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, Oxfam says That amount is “more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” according to a new analysis from the anti-poverty group.

The world’s richest 1 per cent have increased their wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, “more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” according to new @oxfaminternational.bsky.social analysis.

Wichita Beacon

June 21, 1925: A Ku Klux Klan baseball team plays a Black team in Wichita, Kan. The Black squad, the Wichita Monrovians, win, 10-8. How this matchup came to be is unexplained. Fans are warned against "strangle holds, razors, horsewhips, and other violent implements of argument."