Re-upping this one ... I'm still troubled by it. I have serious nostalgia for newsrooms that no longer exist, I guess.
The Death of the Times Record
And how it hurts Fort Smith
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Justin Gage
@justingage.bsky.social
Historian, Assistant Professor in Arkansas. Author of awards winning We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us. https://linktr.ee/justingage
Columbia is hiring a post-doctoral fellow in Asian American history! Details below. networks.h-net.org/jobs/70431/c...
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The History Department at the University of Arkansas (my department) is hiring an Assistant Professor in U.S. Latino/a/e History! The U of A is setting enrollment & graduation rate records each year. Please help spread the word 🗃️: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UAF_Ex...
The History Department at the University of Arkansas (my department) is hiring an Assistant Professor in U.S. Latino/a/e History! The U of A is setting enrollment & graduation rate records each year. Please help spread the word 🗃️: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UAF_Ex...
Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.
Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 4w agoOh. That's a heck of a subsidy.
***OAH Letter Writing Event for NARA*** The OAH Committee on the Status of African American, Latina/o, Asian American, and Native American Historians (ALANA) has an upcoming event to preserve the National Archives and Records Administration facilities in San Bruno and Chicago. Thread - 1/
Excited for this new project from @petermanseau.bsky.social & friends at the Smithsonian's Center for Understanding Religion & American History. It's 25 essays from a wonderful set of authors on the many ways religion has shaped the US over the last 250 years. www.undergods.org
Home | Under Gods
New stories about the plural and powerful nature of religion in the United States, past and present.
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The NARA San Francisco office is *the* place to study histories of US immigration and western histories of all sorts. Its staff are extraordinarily valuable for researchers, historians, and citizens who visit daily to learn more about these topics. This is terrible. www.kqed.org/news/1208890...
Exclusive: The Bay Area’s National Archives Office Is Closing. Researchers Are Worried | KQED
The Bay Area collection includes original records from landmark birthright citizenship case United States v. Wong Kim Ark, and inmate records from Alcatraz. Federal officials didn’t provide details ab...
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Check out Ernest Lee's review of Caroline Peyton's "Radioactive Dixie: A Nuclear History of the American South," published in 2025 by @ugapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #nuclear www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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Worth re-sharing for #envhist and #envhum folks! We’re excited to feature new research into extraction in the Midwest, past and present.
Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵@haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 6mo agoCall for Proposals! I’m co-editing a collection on “The Extractive Midwest” with @brianleechphd.bsky.social, Jeff Schramm, and Sarah Mittlefehldt. We seek 300-500 word abstracts for book chapters between 6,000-8,000 words (not including notes). Send us your submissions before August 30, 2026!
My department at Florida State is hiring a postdoc in public history! I’m not on the search committee, but please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the position, the department, FSU, or Tallahassee. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/69772/f...
Florida State University - Dean's Postdoctoral Scholar (Public History) | H-Net
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If any book review editors want a review essay putting these three books in conversation (once @mkn.bsky.social’s comes out), hit me up.
Jason Heppler@jasonheppler.org · 8mo agoIt’s been a good couple of years for western synthesis: Elliott West’s Continental Reckonings, Paul’s book below, and @mkn.bsky.social’s forthcoming book.
Some of this talk I expect to go into the final chapter of a book I am working on now on the Sullivan Clinton Campaign of 1779. If you are free on the 9th of February, I hope to see you (virtually) there. You can register for the Zoom in the link below. www.maxwell.syr.edu/events/2026/...
USA @ 250: Fighting Genocide-Dispossession, the Revolution, an Enduring Haudenosaunee Right to Land
Faculty experts will delve into a variety of topics, from democracy and women’s voices to the Declaration of Independence, in a series of weekly lectures.
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Attention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence. Details below. Please circulate widely!
The Clements Center for Southwest Studies invites fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year. For more info and to apply: www.smu.edu/dedman/resea... If you're interested of have questions, feel free to contact me directly.
Quintard Taylor was dedicated to studying Black people in the West — a field that often went unresearched, esp at the beginning of his research in the mid 1970s. Taylor’s work helped correct the narrative that the history of Black people in the West is insignificant. www.dailyuw.com/article/1353...
Remembering Quintard Taylor: Beloved professor, founder of BlackPast.org
Remembering Quintard Taylor: Beloved professor, founder of BlackPast.org
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Nate Allen, who spent 52 years covering the Razorbacks for Arkansas newspapers big and small, died this afternoon in Fayetteville. Remembering one of our state's great sports reporters. www.wholehogsports.com/news/2025/de...
Nate Allen, who spent more than a half-century covering the Razorbacks, dies at 75 | Whole Hog Sports
Whole Hog Sports
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We found that the BLM skipped environmental review on 75% of its grazing land. Our new @propublica.org story explains the ”loophole” that allows BLM to bypass enviro reviews. www.propublica.org/article/graz...
Western historians: consider this CFP for the digital history lightning round at the 2026 WHA conference in Portland! Great format for discussing work in progress with a supportive audience. Happy to answer any questions. Respond by Wed., Dec. 3. #AmWest 🗃️
WHA 2026 Digital Scholarship Lightning Round - Expression of Interest
Please complete the form below. Someone from the Digital Scholarship Committee will contact you to confirm your acceptance to the lightning round. Contact Sean Fraga, sfraga@usc.edu, with questions.
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Today is publication day for my book, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, through the University of Minnesota Press! www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...
Mixed-Blood Histories
An unprecedented study that puts mixed-ancestry Native Americans back into the heart of Indigenous history Historical accounts tend to neglect mixed-ancestry...
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A photograph of Japanese American students at the Rohwer incarceration camp in Arkansas. The students rush between barracks to get to their respective classes. The photograph was taken by Tom Parker on November 17, 1942. 🗃 #skystorians #OTD
CALL FOR PAPERS! Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026). Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
Applications due November 14! 🗃️
Justin Gage@justingage.bsky.social · last yr.There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108 UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
Applications due November 14! 🗃️
Justin Gage@justingage.bsky.social · last yr.There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108 UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
Archivist Erin Fehr will speak about how Native American players helped cruise the Little Rock Travelers to a Southern League championship win in 1920 at CALS’ monthly Legacies & Lunch lecture.
UA Little Rock Downtown to host 'American Indians in Arkansas Baseball' lecture Wednesday - Arkansas Times
Archivist Erin Fehr will speak about how Native American players helped cruise the Little Rock Travelers to a Southern League championship win in 1920 at CALS' monthly Legacies & Lunch lecture.
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170 years ago, the US Army massacred a Lakota village. Their plundered belongings are now back in Nebraska
170 years ago, the U.S. Army massacred a Lakota village near Lewellen, Nebraska. Dozens of items plundered from the dead were recently returned to tribal descendants.
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Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/ Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025.
