Fifty years after the 1976 Soweto Uprising, questions raised by student resistance remain unresolved. Samantha Nyakundi argues that recent movements like #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall recall broader historical struggles for liberation in South Africa. 🗃️ clioandthecontemporary.com/2026/06/30/1...

The 1976 Soweto Uprising, the Black Consciousness Movement and the Politics of Student Protest in South Africa

Fifty years after the 1976 Soweto Uprising, many of the questions raised by student resistance remain unresolved. Recent movements like #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall draw from broader historica…

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Despite a renowned career as a writer and activist, #UptonSinclair lacks a museum in his honor. His biographer @helenaluna.bsky.social reflects on Sinclair's legacy, the importance of #publichistory sites, and the role of historic homes in shaping public memory. 🗃️

Almost Forgotten: Upton Sinclair, Historical Homes, and Memory

Despite a renowned career as a writer and activist, Upton Sinclair lacks a museum in his honor. His home in California would make an ideal house museum. His biographer reflects on Sinclair’s …

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Two fantastic resources from @davidjustice.bsky.social: the first is a syllabus for a survey of US History, 2000-2015. Key topics include the War on Terror, culture-war battlegrounds, neoliberalism, and the expansion of the Internet. #syllabus #history 🗃️

The 2000s—Syllabus

This course is a survey of US History from 2000 to 2015. It examines the US through political, social, cultural, economic, and diplomatic lenses. Students will learn about major historical developm…

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Moon missions are grounded not only in technologies, but in the social and political realities of their time. Comparing Apollo and #Artemis eras, @drtylerpeterson.bsky.social draws throughlines of turmoil and innovation. 🗃️

Reflecting on Apollo in the Age of Artemis

The recent Artemis II launch reminds us that moon missions are grounded not only in technologies, but in the social and political realities of their time.

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Check out this guide from the FOIL King himself, my dear friend and comrade, @tedforsyth.bsky.social. It's pragmatic, detailed, and even funny--but most importantly, it's chock full of the wisdom from Ted's vast FOIL experience. #academia 🗃️

Clio and the Contemporary@cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ted Forsyth encourages historians to become more fluent in open records policies. This detailed and accessible guide demystifies New York State's FOIL process from initial inquiry to appeals. #academia 🗃️ clioandthecontemporary.com/2026/07/23/f...

Drawing from examples across the world, @cirapalliaspero.bsky.social shows how historical commissions function as state-sponsored public history initiatives that negotiate contested national pasts. 🗃️ clioandthecontemporary.com/2026/06/22/p...

Rewriting the Past in Public: Historical Commissions and Public History

Recently in France, debates on the legacies of colonialism have gained renewed political traction. This has taken the form of a series of state-led joint historical commissions addressing the colon…

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Fifty years ago, Laverne & Shirley debuted as the first blue-collar "single-girl" sitcom. Historian Kate Flach discusses its contribution to the genre and how it reflected a particular moment in American history. #TV #history #1970s 🗃️

Making Our Dreams Come True?: A Retrospective on Laverne & Shirley and the “Single-Girl” Sitcom

Fifty years ago, Laverne & Shirley debuted as the first blue-collar “single-girl” sitcom. The series’ anniversary provides an opportunity to discuss its contribution to the genre an…

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Check out our new guide to digital #archives that deal with sensitive material, written by archivists Virginia Dressler & @amaliasl.bsky.social. They explore 9 archives and their attempts to navigate ethical issues, such as representation of marginalized communities. 🗃️

Using Digital Archives to Engage Students, Part II: Accessing and Using Sensitive Material Online

Ethical access to digital archives includes issues of privacy, sensitive content, and ethical representation of marginalized communities. This piece examines nine digital archives and their attempt…

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Get some writing done with us. Drop in once or come every time. #amwriting #academicsky 🗃️

Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium@unyprc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Write in community with us. Casual weekly co-working sessions help us hold ourselves accountable to our work and root others on in theirs. Come make progress with us. Link in bio to sign up or visit uny-prc.org/working-group/

Newcomers welcome. We are building community around shared scholarly interests. Join us. 🗃️ #academicsky

Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium@unyprc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sign up to join our last Writing Workshop of the semester, featuring Dr. Jessica Olivares: uny-prc.org/writing-work... 🗃️ #academicsky #writingsky

Creative and unexpected angles from historians are particularly welcome. If you have early inklings of an idea, we'd love to help you shape it into a pitch. #Skystorians: Contact us! #writingsky

Clio and the Contemporary@cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We welcome new authors! Send us your pitch about historically significant anniversaries or forgotten events that deserve more attention. 🗃️#academicsky clioandthecontemporary.com/call-for-con...

This piece by @sayburgin.bsky.social caused me to rethink what I thought I knew about the early 1960s. I'll be updating some of my course materials as a result. 🗃️ #academicsky

Clio and the Contemporary@cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@sayburgin.bsky.social argues that today’s activists know what those in the Black freedom movement knew: Jail, No Bail was a critique of an entire system of unjust laws and courts. Then and now, they understand that power concedes nothing without a fight.🗃️ clioandthecontemporary.com/2026/03/26/j...

There's still time to sign up for Dr. Tiana Wilson's Writing Workshop next week. 🗃️ #academicsky Sign up: uny-prc.org/writing-work...

#skystorians teaching this film should assign @oaverettephillips.bsky.social and Taylor Black’s analysis. Check it out.

Clio and the Contemporary@cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 5mo ago

With the Oscars right around the corner, @oaverettephillips.bsky.social and Taylor Black explain how Ryan Coogler's Sinners forces audiences to confront much larger themes in Black American history such as conflicting visions of liberation and various interpretations of Black American religion. 🗃️

Thank you @sibylline.bsky.social for this urgent reminder of the power of knowing (and therefore the costs of erasing) Black History. 🗃️ #academicsky

Clio and the Contemporary@cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's been 100 years since the first Negro History Week in 1926. @sibyllan.bsky.social urges the United States to continue to confront the truth about its history in classrooms and in public—parks, museums, and government websites. 🗃️ #blackhistory clioandthecontemporary.com/2026/03/07/b...

Check out this fascinating and timely analysis from @guategamerphd.bsky.social. 🗃️#academicsky

Clio and the Contemporary@cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@guategamerphd.bsky.social uses "Mayor Mamdani’s use of a Quran from Schomburg’s collection" to highlight an embrace of "the Afro-diasporic history and identity that Arturo Schomburg strove to create through his archive-building and auto/biographical writing."

Thank you @keanuheydari.bsky.social! #academicsky

Clio and the Contemporary@cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 5mo ago

As war rages in the Middle East, @keanuheydari.bsky.social refocuses our attention to Iran’s late 2025 protests. The protests, triggered by economic collapse, were met with mass killing and an internet blackout that made casualty verification a central political struggle. 🗃️

Check it out!! #academicsky 🗃️

Clio and the Contemporary@cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We welcome pitches from historians and scholars in related fields on how 9/11 changed the United States and the world. Part of our 2026 anniversary series, this sub-series on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 will roll out in September. Follow the link below to send us your pitch. #skystorians

We are building community across disciplines among folks who study policing, carcerality, liberation, and related fields. Join us. #academicsky 🗃️

Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium@unyprc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Meet our Spring 2026 slate of featured authors for the UNY-PRC Writing Workshop Spring series. To receive precirculated papers and Zoom link, sign up at unyprc.org. Grad students and independent scholars are especially welcome. #amwriting

I love working on this team. Our editors are collaborative, the workload is manageable, and the engagement with authors on public-facing work is delightfully gratifying. Contact us and/or repost to help us get the word out to #academicsky. 🗃️

Clio and the Contemporary@cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We're expanding our editorial team! Check out the call for new editors, including folks who work in #publichistory!

I teach Taxi Driver in my History of Film class, and I will add this piece from @jasonhiggins.bsky.social to my syllabus.

Clio and the Contemporary@cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Are you talking to me?” This week is the 50th anniversary of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver. Historian @jasonhiggins.bsky.social explains how Taxi Driver, like many #VietnamWar era films, contains historical truths but also reinforces deeply problematic myths about veterans, homecoming, & trauma. 🗃️

Join us Feb 19, 2026, 3:30-5pm EST for our next Writing Workshop. Dr. Sarah Steele, postdoctoral scholar at the Trans+ People in Canadian Prisons Project, will present their paper: “Transmisogyny in BC Federal Prisons: Experiences and resistance strategies of incarcerated trans women.” #academicsky

In the wake of the ICE surge in Minnesota, @legg.bsky.social explains how federal immigration violence against Minnesotans echoes the historic federal violence committed against Minnesota’s Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century. 🗃️

A Continuum of Federal Violence: A History of Indigenous-US relations in Minnesota in the Wake of the Murders of Nicole Renee Good and Alex Pretti

Federal immigration violence against Minnesotans in January 2026 echoes the historic federal violence committed against Minnesota’s Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century.

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This month marks 55 years since the premiere of All in the Family. Historian @oscarwinberg.bsky.social, author of Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics (2025) explains the show's transformative impact on American television. 🗃️

Before Norman and After Norman: The Impact of All in the Family on American Television

Fifty-five years ago this month, All in the Family debuted, launching a transformation of the American sitcom.

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This is a friendly interdisciplinary group of researchers who believe working in community is essential to policing research and carceral studies. If that sounds like you, join us. 🗃️

Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium@unyprc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Dr. Laura Warren Hill presents this month about Betty Tyson and the Innocence Movement. Our Writing Group meets monthly. Sign up to join: uny-prc.org/writing-work... 🗃️ #academicsky

2026 is a big anni year, especially for US #skystorians. Yet there are so many events, large and small, worth remembering. We welcome creative--and global--approaches to this. Send us your pitch. #academicsky

Clio and the Contemporary@cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We welcome pitches from #skystorians looking to mark historically significant anniversaries or to draw attention to forgotten events. The past is present. clioandthecontemporary.com/call-for-con...

When honoring Dr. King's legacy, we must discuss the significance of Coretta Scott King, Dr. Kris Burrell argues. When Coretta declared, “I was called, too,” she insisted we remember her not as a shadow of her husband, but as an equal. 🗃️ clioandthecontemporary.com/2026/01/19/i...

“I Was Called, Too:” The Life and Work of Coretta Scott King

In honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy, it is both appropriate—and overdue—to discuss the significance of Coretta Scott King. When Coretta declared, “I was called, too,” she insisted we r…

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This historical examination of US capitalist interests and (lack of) respect for sovereignty from @eblevey.bsky.social is a must-read. 🗃️ #academicsky

Clio and the Contemporary@cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 7mo ago

While Cold-War era intervention shapes global responses to Nicolás Maduro’s kidnapping, @eblevey.bsky.social argues US policy today aligns more with the early 20th century, especially after Cuban independence from Spain and Wilson’s occupation of Haiti. clioandthecontemporary.com/2026/01/07/d...

With the end of 2025 upon us, I wanted to create a thread of everything I'm thankful for from this past year. 2025 was filled with highs and lows, but I'm filled with grace from all the comradery and support I received this year. Please share your own lists as well. 🗃️ Let's celebrate us!

As a UF alum, I'm delighted to see this serious #skystorian treatment of indoctrination--real or imagined--in Florida and beyond. Go Gators?! #academicsky

Clio and the Contemporary@cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 7mo ago

UF president Ben Sasse called for "less indoctrination" of students in 2023. Marcus Chatfield's syllabus explores the history of threats & perceived threats to freedom of thought, personal autonomy, and self-determination—touchstones of liberal democracy. 🗃️ clioandthecontemporary.com/2026/01/02/i...