“Demand letters to universities, a compact which is nothing more than a loyalty oath, ideologically driven state houses that are ending tenure and collective-bargaining rights, ending academic freedom — and you’re going to tell me I should be neutral?”
Today is the official release date for my new book about free people of color in the Civil War era. My first book events are coming up next month in the Boston area. I’ll be at the Cambridge Public Library on 5/13 and the Museum of African American History on 5/14. Both events start at 6 pm.
"Not on board? The average American. ... newest survey finds about 7 in 10 people would now strongly oppose [a data center] — a steep and shockingly rapid decline in public support for the infrastructure of artificial intelligence, or AI."
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"In the past few years, I’ve spoken to a number of academics and instructors at the college and high-school level who have said similar things. They talk about a sense of loss and of despair, because the one thing that brought them meaning has been erased, or blotted out, by the arrival of A.I."
Now on First View: The latest MAH Q&A on how the national crisis in higher ed affects historians of the modern United States. Lauren Jae Gutterman speaks to Julio Capó, Jr., Joan E. Cashin, Alex Lichtenstein, and Melanie Newport.
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5 Resistance Museums Recall the Bravery of ‘Ordinary People’ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/t...
From police to politicians, a corrupt Establishment thinks citizens fighting data centers must be terror threats or foreign agents.
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Disability history folks, please check out this call for abstracts and spread it to your networks! Caroline Lieffers and I are seeking contributors for a volume we're co-editing on disability and the life course 🗃️
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#OTD in 1892, The Awakening by Kate Chopin is published.
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Works by Chopin at PG:
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Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired...
"My role was to hold down a desk that allowed Harvard to mislead the press about how serious they were about making reparations and confronting centuries of profiting from slavery."
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Muster's @robertdbland.bsky.social discusses the JCWE June special issue on material culture with guest editors joanecashin.bsky.social and Alaina E. Roberts:
https://www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/07/conversation-with-june-2025-special-issue-editors-joan-e-cashin-and-alaina-e-roberts/
In today’s Muster, Associate Editor Robert Bland discusses the JCWE’s June special issue on material culture with guest editors Joan E. Cashin and Alaina E. Roberts. Dr. Cashin is a professor of histo...
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The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired in controversy as academics allege obstruction
