Nathan Tanner
@mnathantanner.bsky.social
PhD from Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Assistant Professor of Education Leadership at the University of Nevada, Reno. Former social studies & language teacher. Current #histed and #edpolicy scholar researching colonialism/racism/religion. he/him ♊️⚾☕️📚🗃️🥾
Patrick Wolfe has written about this. And yes, it is something worth getting and taking seriously.
Sam Brody@samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 17h agoI don’t remember whose insight this is, but it blew my mind when I first read that to understand American history you have to get that race law was designed to increase the number of enslavable people (one-drop rule) and decrease the number of claimants to indigenous land (blood quantum)
Solid episode of the podcast on the use of archeology as military weapon of settler colonization. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
Archaeology and Annexation in Palestine (w/ Jasper Nathaniel)
Podcast Episode · Know Your Enemy · August 10 · 1h 40m
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Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
“…faculty and graduate students…are, after all, the people on whom any defense, let alone a remaking, of the university will rely.” From @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
What Happened to the American University?
Once the envy of the world, higher education in the United States is now in a state of endless crisis.
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As an add-on to my bibliography about problems with (largely generative) AI, here's how I've been working with students on AI in classes where I have banned its use: substack.com/home/post/p-...
How I'm Teaching About Generative AI
Every choice I make about how to discuss GenAI with my students is predicated on trusting them
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Wanted to share an article I published a couple years ago titled, "Navajo Practices of Language Ontologies A Historical Case of Language Socialization at Intermountain Indian School." It appears in Wicazo Sa Review, an important AIS Journal (w/o DOI). Link here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic... /1
For a year we didn’t have a couch (sold it when we moved), and have used just a small futon that didn’t fit more than two people at a time. Now we have a couch. I will never again underestimate the value of having a couch at home. 🛋️
it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
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“Fire Climate”: Hot, Dry, Windy Days Are Becoming Common, Making Wildfires Harder to Control
The Pacific Northwest is facing its worst fire season in more than 30 years. Scientists say drought, extreme heat and climate change are making wildfire seasons longer, more frequent and more destruct...
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“The burden of resistance does not rest solely with the young. Their movements provide a map, not an alibi for the inaction of others.” www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/31/f...
From India to Gaza: Youth Revolts and the Struggle to Break Open the Future
The youth-led Cockroach Janta Party converted defiance into a rapidly expanding movement. With more than 20 million followers on Instagram, it built an alternative public sphere beyond the government...
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Greece was the experience of a lifetime. Very grateful to have been able to visit. I’d been dreaming of seeing some of these sites for 30 years, since first learning about them in the 6th grade! 🇬🇷🏛️🏺
"Ours is a beautiful, ancient craft essential for any society's needs for self-understanding. We are equipped with a host of modern methods, but guided ethically by very old rules that no authoritarian political project ought to be allowed to profane." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...
WATCH: David Blight makes opening statement in hearing on how Smithsonian presents history
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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What a great privilege to attend and present at @ische-news.bsky.social and to do so with these great humans and scholars. @melli75.bsky.social #HistEd
This is my first time participating in an international conference. Not due to lack of interest, but access. It is expensive to travel, and especially so across the globe. I’m grateful to have been awarded a small travel grant that has permitted me to attend @ische-news.bsky.social in Athens. /1
Went on a wonderful tour of the National Library of Greece with this group of scholars as part of @ische-news.bsky.social. Incredible experience! #HistEd
Egypt absolutely got screwed this game. This isn't a game. This is FIFA making sure Argentina advances.
I think a bunch of historians would agree that de-Trumpification needs to dig deep--all the way back to the de-Confederatization that never happened under Andrew Johnson.
“The textbook describes the Crusades as “part of Europe’s ongoing work of self-restoration” rather than an act of aggression. It claims there are no peoples who can truly be called native to America because everyone ultimately migrated there from somewhere else.”
Dr. Bradley Onishi@bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 2mo ago@tlecaque.bsky.social explains how Christian nationalists are rewriting American history courses in Florida with the help of Christopher Rufo and Hillsdale College:
I had a great time in Nixon last night proposing a new study I’m working on w/ my friend & colleague Joel Miller and Gaylene Williams, one of UNR’s fantastic Native Doc students, before the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council. Our proposal was approved! Looking forward to the work.
Children with disabilities in schools are students who deserve education, not patients in need of treatment.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo agoBreaking News: The Trump administration took its most aggressive steps to dismantle the Education Department by breaking away key programs for disabled students and the enforcement of civil rights laws in schools.
Apparently UnitedHealth currently has colon and pancreatic cancer screenings on hold (at least where I live) for people my age. I guess all I’m saying is #FreeLuigi lol.
I know that everyone hates my downer historian takes, but: using the World Cup to manufacture consent for repressive regimes/policies is a Thing www.espn.com/espn/feature... and that is what is happening right now
FC: World Cup brings back memories of Argentina's Dirty War
At the same time Argentina hosted the 1978 World Cup, the nation's dictators were waging their
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dr. e. katherine@actualkatherine.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is a fucking racist-ass World Cup (because US immigration/visa policy is extraordinarily racist right now), and we have been presented with ample evidence of this for months. I am just saying
My fave posts I’ve seen about the Knick’s’ victory are: 1. The Mamdate of Heaven. 2. Look at all Mamdani has achieved in just six months. 3. Everyone wishes they had a socialist mayor. 4. They literally only lost the one Trump came to. Al Gore’s internet can be really great.
Congrats to New York! 🏀
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo agoFrom @theathletic.com: The New York Knicks are NBA champions for the first time since 1973 and for just the third time in team history. They stunned the San Antonio Spurs, again, with another comeback win in Game 5 of the finals. www.nytimes.com/athletic/735...
Two days ago a sitting US Senator was pepper sprayed for protesting ICE and it didn’t even become national news.
Today is Nakba Day. For Palestinians, the Nakba is not only a history of 1948 displacement. It is an ongoing reality of occupation, besiegement, settlement expansion and dispossession.
The Nakba Never Ends
Steve Askin wrote about the exclusion of Palestinians from Israeli “democracy” in 1984. On the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, his reflections are still too relevant.
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