New St. Scholastica president Dr. Brenda Kelly takes over the private college at a difficult time. While enrollment is strong, the school is reportedly facing a $5.6 million budget deficit for fiscal year 2027 and recently laid off several faculty members.

College of St. Scholastica in Duluth welcomes 14th president

Brenda Kelly began work at the college this week. Previously Kelly was provost and dean at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn.

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My letter to the editor in the New York Times. Please read with this gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Opinion | When a Government Tracks Its Opponents

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My letter to the editor was published in the New York Times about the history of Native Americans in Minnesota and the state flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Opinion | When a Government Tracks Its Opponents

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This is the conference happening at my college. It really is exciting!

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This isn’t my field. I’m not working on anything even remotely related. I don’t generally read this area. However, this is the most exciting sounding conference and I would attend in a heartbeat if I could. Sugar: Bringing Sweetness to Light gustavus.edu/about/nobel-...

This isn’t my field. I’m not working on anything even remotely related. I don’t generally read this area. However, this is the most exciting sounding conference and I would attend in a heartbeat if I could. Sugar: Bringing Sweetness to Light gustavus.edu/about/nobel-...

Nobel Conference

Since 1965, the Nobel Conference has been bringing leading researchers and thinkers to Gustavus, to explore revolutionary, transformative and pressing scientific issues and the ethical questions that ...

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I met Melissa Hortman once at a fundraiser in our town about 70 miles southwest of the Twin Cities. Most people live in the metro area and its easy to ignore the rest of the state. But, Melissa came to see us. She was a kind and generous person and a great leader. Thank you. Rest in peace, Melissa.

Minnesota DFL Party@dfl.org · last yr.

Speaker Hortman’s life was grounded in caring — for her family, her colleagues, and Minnesota. Six years ago, she expressed it better than we ever could.

I hope I'm not too late to share this book by @richardivanjobs.bsky.social. I already ordered it for my college library, but would love a personal copy. I'm tagging @drsepinwall.bsky.social and @rpanchasi.bsky.social

Rick Jobs@richardivanjobs.bsky.social · last yr.

Today is my birthday, and INSTEAD of a military parade I’d like you to REPOST this Book Giveaway! To qualify, repost and tag two friends who you think might be interested. Winner receives a copy of ‘In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism’.🗃️🏺🎂

I have a new book review out in Nineteenth-Century French Studies. The book is Law, Order, and Empire: Policing and Crime in Colonial Algeria by Samuel Kalman. You can read it here: www.ncfs-journal.org/kathleen-kel...

My letter to the editor was published in the New Yorker! www.newyorker.com/.../letters-....

My letter to the editor was published in the New Yorker! www.newyorker.com/.../letters-....

I published a book review as part of an H-environment roundtable on the book _The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies_ By Yan Slobodkin. You can read it here: networks.h-net.org/slobodkin-st...

Recently learned that @chanda.bsky.social is coming to Gustavus next month. That's so cool. gustavus.edu/calendar/moe...

Moe Visiting Lecture by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein - March 19 at 7:30–9 p.m.

Time: March 19 at 7:30–9 p.m.Location:Alumni HallAudience:PublicCategory:GeneralDescriptionThe Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program is delighted to welcome Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein…

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Is anyone listening to the Ghost of a Chance podcast from the Star Tribune? It's a Minnesota history story. Very good. www.startribune.com/ghost-of-a-c...

New podcast follows reporter’s search for answers about his Minneapolis home’s former owners

Reporter Eric Roper traces the lives of a Black couple who owned his house in 1917. Their story reveals a history of race that unfolded a century before Minneapolis became ground zero for a global rac...

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80 Years After Killings, Senegal Wants the Facts From France (Gift Article)

The mass slaying of West African soldiers by colonial forces at the end of World War II in Senegal remains shrouded in secrecy. But Senegal’s new government won’t abide the mystery.

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My first bluesky post . . . I published a review of the important new book _Empire on the Seine_ by Amit Prakash. It's in the September issue of the American Historical Review. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

Amit Prakash. Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975.

The title of the book Empire on the Seine by Amit Prakash calls to mind one of the most egregious incidents in the history of the Algerian War that took pl

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