Join Susana Morris, Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Alison Parker, & Ashley Farmer on the importance of writing Black women's lives & the role of Black women's biographies in creating spaces for liberation, new histories, and projects for imagining new futures. Read here abusablepast.org/black-women-...

The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History stands as a documentary trove of people that have fought for women's reproductive rights. Come read an interview with the center's Collection Development Librarian, Kelly Wooten, on why such spaces are more important than ever. tinyurl.com/3xu8p3cd

In this timely conversation on racial terror and state-sanctioned violence, historian Seth Kotch explores how local racial designs in North Carolina scaled into sanitized state institutions and modern capital punishment across the 19th and 20th centuries. Read more abusablepast.org/lethal-state...

We invite you to read and listen to Stuart Schrader’s archival primer to Blue Power, his fascinating new history on the formation of police unions and their impact on national and local politics in the second half of the twentieth century. Read more here abusablepast.org/the-badge-me...

If you're an AHA member, please consider voting. The Abusable Past stands with these scholars & their commitment to ensuring the AHA is an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Learn more: tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk

If you're an AHA member, please consider voting. The Abusable Past stands with these scholars & their commitment to ensuring the AHA is an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Learn more: tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk

If you're an AHA member, please consider voting. The Abusable Past stands with these scholars & their commitment to ensuring the AHA is an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Learn more: tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk

If you're an AHA member, please consider voting. The Abusable Past stands with these scholars & their commitment to ensuring the AHA is an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Learn more: tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk

If you're an AHA member, please consider voting. The Abusable Past stands with these scholars & their commitment to ensuring the AHA is an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Learn more: tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk

We count on your vote for our Democracy Slate scholars & their commitment to an AHA as an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Meet the candidates! Learn more tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk

We count on your vote for our Democracy Slate scholars & their commitment to an AHA as an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Meet the candidates! Learn more tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk

Join us to ensure that the AHA functions democratically. We count on your vote for our Democracy Slate scholars & their commitment to an AHA as an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Meet the Scholars!

Join us to ensure that the AHA functions democratically. We count on your vote for our Democracy Slate scholars & their commitment to an AHA as an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Learn more tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk

Dr. Ravenscroft’s piece on W. E. B. Du Bois’s provides a fascinating history of a lesser-known part Du Bois’s work, following his visit to Japan. As Dr. Ravenscroft writes “Du Bois decried the imperial aggression of all states except one. Read her analysis here! abusablepast.org/w-e-b-du-boi...

The Pedagogy Lab & Center for Feminist Futures at UC Santa Barbara is seeking submissions for The Executive Dis/Order Project: Refusing Compliance. This project is looking for original art on executive power and its effects on democracy to build a visual archive of resistance to US suppression. /1

It would be an understatement to say 2025 so far has been difficult in the midst of political uncertainty and mounting assaults against our most vulnerable. Throughout this time, the Digital Collective has remained steadfast in our commitment to publish critical work and offers these pieces… /1

It is difficult to capture how the world was utterly transformed since October 7, 2023…This past summer, the Digital Collective joined those who encouraged a serious reflection on the violent administrative response to a wide range of student activism ... /1

"Seventy years ago today, Vito Marcantonio, the most left-wing congressman in US history, suffered a fatal heart attack. He had by then left office disappointed by McCarthyism and the failure of pro-worker and anti-racist legislative efforts." /1

The deadline has been extended until August 20!

Abusablepast@abusablepast.bsky.social · 2y ago

Abusable Past is accepting submissions for a new forum exploring the essence and boundaries of radical history. We aim to understand the definition of radical history, who practices it, and the challenges they face.

Deadline tomorrow!

Abusablepast@abusablepast.bsky.social · 2y ago

Abusable Past is accepting submissions for a new forum exploring the essence and boundaries of radical history. We aim to understand the definition of radical history, who practices it, and the challenges they face.

Looking for some reading material this weekend? Check out "Pushing Forward: 25 Years of Black AIDS Awareness," a microsyllabus by Aishah Scott. This piece focuses on how systemic marginalization intensified the AIDS crisis in Black communities. /1

Deadline is today!

Abusablepast@abusablepast.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Abusable Past seeks contributions that speak to faculty and student experiences with teaching and learning during the Palestine solidarity protests of 2024. More information here: abusablepast.org/a-call-for-s...

The Abusable Past seeks contributions that speak to faculty and student experiences with teaching and learning during the Palestine solidarity protests of 2024. More information here: abusablepast.org/a-call-for-s...

Abusable Past is accepting submissions for a new forum exploring the essence and boundaries of radical history. We aim to understand the definition of radical history, who practices it, and the challenges they face.

The Abusable Past seeks contributions that speak to faculty and student experiences with teaching and learning during the Palestine solidarity protests of 2024. More information here: mtsacecachronicle.com/7839/world/u...

Check out "Detention Nation: US Empire and Immigrant Prisons – Tina Shull and Elliott Young in Conversation." Dr. Elliott Young is a Professor in the History Department at Lewis and Clark College. Dr. Tina Shull (she/her) is an Associate Professor and Director of Public History at UNC Charlotte.

In "Immigration and Mental Health Collide, Again," Jeremy Peschard analyzes how U.S. policies tend to conflate asylum-seekers with having mental illnesses, harkening back to eugenics logic of the late 19th c.

An essential piece from Dr. Charlotte Mertens this morning on the ways that colonialism informs and continues to shape contemporary sexual violence in the conflict of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). abusablepast.org/the-weapon-o...

February 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Explore our new microsyllabus, "Pushing Forward: 25 Years of Black AIDS Awareness" from Dr. Aishah Scott which offers intersectional works from a variety of disciplines to commemorate the anniversary. abusablepast.org/pushing-forw...

Today on the The Abusable Past, Kat Fuller writes on misinformation and the devastating impact of residential school denialism in Canada. abusablepast.org/residential-...