Cheryl Reeve, winningest coach in WNBA history, defends transgender athletes against sports bans. “Exclusion is never the answer. Separate isn’t equal. Trans lives matter.” 💗🏳️⚧️💗🏀💗
David Silkenat
@davidsilkenat.bsky.social
Milbauer Chair of Southern History, University of Florida https://history.ufl.edu/directory/david-silkenat/
Check out our exciting new roundtable: “Challenges and opportunities in writing Black biography”, with Katherine Burns (Glasgow), Adam Domby (Auburn), @hngreen.bsky.social (Davidson) and @davidsilkenat.bsky.social (Florida): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Challenges and opportunities in writing Black biography: a roundtable discussion
This roundtable is an outgrowth of a panel held at the BrANCH annual conference in Cardiff in September 2025. While the BrANCH panel focused on the particulars of the research findings of the panel...
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Eatonville, FL, was incorporated in 1887 and is recognized as one of the country’s first self-governing, all-Black towns. Today, community members are meeting to preserve the town’s history amid Hungerford property fight www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2... #blacktowns
Eatonville community meeting focuses on preserving town’s history amid Hungerford property fight
Eatonville residents met at St. Lawrence A.M.E. Church to discuss the town’s history and the disputed sale of the former Hungerford School property. The property, sold to Dr. Phillips Charities for re...
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‘He became a sensation’: Manchester, England, pays tribute to Black American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, marking the 180th anniversary of a series of lectures that Douglass gave at venues across the region. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
‘He became a sensation’: Manchester pays tribute to abolitionist Frederick Douglass
Annual lectures will discuss work of writer and campaigner who ‘revitalised the anti-slavery cause’ in Britain
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I wonder when (if ever) Trump actually visited the Smithsonian and actually spent time with the exhibits.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w agoBreaking News: President Trump ordered new signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to warn that its depiction of U.S. history, in his view, is “inaccurate.” It was the latest escalation in his dispute with the institution.
I miss the days when newspapers had titles like the Sedalia Weekly Bazoo.
Dr. Kathryn Benjamin Golden on the Great Dismal Swamp in conversation with Dr. Christy Hyman podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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‘Odyssey’ comes from the name Odysseus. The first known use of ‘odyssey’ as a generic term for “journey” was in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Kidnapped” in 1886.
These books are at the OUP booth at SHEAR. I recommend Disparate Regimes, which I reviewed, but it's gated. It's a Civil War to Civil Rights study of how states defined the contents of formal citizenship via state laws and their interpretations of federal law under police powers doctrine.
Glorious bit of trivia from Eddie Johns on Threads: Since Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, every single President has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover. It would still have applied even if Kamala Harris had won. She was born the exact same day Hoover died, October 20, 1964.
New article by @hngreen.bsky.social, Adam Domby, Katherine Burns, and me in @anchistjournal.bsky.social on writing Black biography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Challenges and opportunities in writing Black biography: a roundtable discussion
This roundtable is an outgrowth of a panel held at the BrANCH annual conference in Cardiff in September 2025. While the BrANCH panel focused on the particulars of the research findings of the panel...
tandfonline.com
New article by @hngreen.bsky.social, Adam Domby, Katherine Burns, and me in @anchistjournal.bsky.social on writing Black biography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Challenges and opportunities in writing Black biography: a roundtable discussion
This roundtable is an outgrowth of a panel held at the BrANCH annual conference in Cardiff in September 2025. While the BrANCH panel focused on the particulars of the research findings of the panel...
tandfonline.com
Hey @shearites.bsky.social, stick around until Sunday morning, you won't want to miss this roundtable conversation featuring authors of recent books related to the Declaration of Independence! @michaelhattem.bsky.social @rparkinson.bsky.social @frankcogliano.bsky.social @stevesarson.bsky.social
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/aut... @liveright.bsky.social @frankcogliano.bsky.social #booksky #podcast #thomasjeffersonsurvives
Authors on Audio: Peter S. Onuf and Francis D. Cogliano | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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The Atlanta History Center’s new Civil War exhibit is excellent
I wrote about Kerri Greenidge because the vague-accusation-to-career-ending-punishment math isn’t mathing. Show us the work. substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Scandal and the Scale
I was bleary-eyed on a delayed flight when I spotted a New York Times article about Kerri Greenidge, a historian of Black political life and memory.
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So many questions not answered by the article. Does Liveright use peer review? (Most trade presses don't.) Could she really have lost tenure for factual mistakes and incorrect citations? (Well meaning errors we have surely all committed.) Did the Tufts panel investigate sloppy work or falsification?
Lauren MacIvor Thompson@lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is...wow. I just read the review in Reviews in American History (linked in the article) too. Its paywalled unless you have Project Muse access but here is a NYT Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/b...
Awful. At first take this kerfuffle reminds me of what happened with Michael Bellesiles's “Arming America.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/b...
Historian Kerri K. Greenidge and Her Book ‘The Grimkes’ Come Under Fire
Kerri K. Greenidge appeared to lose her professorship at Tufts University after scholars began scrutinizing her 2022 book, “The Grimkes,” which is no longer listed on its publisher’s website.
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#OTD in 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified, guaranteeing birthright citizenship, due process and equal protection under the law. Over 150 years later, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship, a reminder that its protections remain essential today.
BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.
I sure hope everyone on the Mall is wearing ear protection, because I am 9 miles away and my house is shaking
At the Durham Bulls game vs Gwinnett Stripers. Kinda wish they were the Gwinnett Buttons for the Fourth of July
This is well done. @frankcogliano.bsky.social and other friends featured with Tyrants too! english.elpais.com/usa/2026-07-...
A bitter anniversary: The American ideal turns 250 amid turmoil
The United States is celebrating the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence on July 4. It does so amidst protests from the ‘No Kings’ movement, which rallies against Trump’s authoritaria...
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Celebrate America's 250th with history books! This weekend only, shop a selection of books for just $17.76 📚⏳ https://uncpress.org/250-2/
Dreich, smirr, smugrach, and everything in between 🌧️ From Burns's 'Tam O'Shanter' to James Hutton's 'Theory of Rain', from artwork by Raasay Primary School to a documentary from 1975, our curator Sarah Mackay explores nine objects that capture how rain has soaked into the nation's imagination.
