RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century
So excited to announce my book comes out in the Fall; I owe many thanks to Lucas Church, Sarah Ehlers, Jennifer Clarvoe, @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social, @afilreis.bsky.social, @kristingrogan.bsky.social, @feinsod.bsky.social, @cmcgowan373.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social
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Kristin Grogan
if your opening gambit is an obviously false assertion — that there was an entire literature challenging the conventional view of birthright citizenship — and then you work your way backwards into an argument, you are a hack and a liar no matter how certain you are that you are right
"This committee’s report would be terrible in the best of times, with its secret evidence and embarrassingly weak arguments compounded by a call for administrative repression. But to make these fantastical claims during the middle of a war against the humanities is a particularly dangerous delusion"
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Modernist poetry has long had a reputation for craft formalism and political conservatism that overshadows its radical legacies. Lukas Moe shows how midcentu...
RIP Sonny Rollins! My favorite musician and a genius. Time to spin St. Thomas.
"Gaslighting can be many diff things...But in any manifestation, it is a form & function of narrative. [It] depends on the power to propagate a false story that negates another person’s reality." Get a taste of VICTORIAN GASLIGHTING on the @sunypress.bsky.social blog sunypress.edu/Blog/2026/Ga...
I was honored to write about Marjane Satrapi, about the sacred space of the seminar room, and about PERSEPOLIS — a work of art that will live forever.
For @newrepublic.com:
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My new essay, on "The Institution(s) of High School English," and the chasm that exists between high school and university English departments, is out now in Post45!
Such a pleasure to be thinking alongside this fabulous collection of teachers and scholars!
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Corbin Hiday
Marjane Satrapi’s inimitable art encompassed revolution and war, education and ideology, repression and rebellion.
When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...
In which Professor Wurman candidly admits why he sees the history of the common law differently than anyone who has honestly studied it, and why rather than doing scholarship he just wrote and op-ed and a (terrible, demonstrably wrong) article about the common law that should have been rejected.
Phillip Maciak
Alexander Manshel
Video
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30% off @sunypress.bsky.social LGBTQ+ titles for Pride Month--including preorders for new books, preorders for forthcoming paperbacks of books already out in hardcover, and not-so-oldie-but-goodies (eg our history of trans med in the US).
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Rebecca Colesworthy
📚New cluster!!
Ed. Robert LeBlanc
"The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more!
Check it out:
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Edited by Robert J. LeBlanc and T. Phillip Nichols
My column today for @insidehighered.com criticizes the new report on the decline of the #humanities and all its flaws.
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Contemporaries at Post45
Breaking News: Sonny Rollins, a jazz great with a forceful and imaginative approach to the tenor saxophone, has died at 95.
