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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The governor of Ohio abolished tenure at the state's public universities last year. Professors regardless of tenure status can be fired for 'indoctrinating' students, although that term is not defined in the bill.
"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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They drafted Senate Bill 1, which ended tenure at public universities in Ohio last year.
"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."
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/
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.
I am old enough to remember when books about the woman suffrage movement were considered controversial, unserious, and unscholarly. Funny how the criticism of 'new' scholarship doesn't change much.
In Ohio, the Republican Party is considering a bill to ban drag shows. Really.