Comparative history of enslavement in urban context. #skystorians ATLANTIC CAPITAL AND CAPTIVITY geniuslocus.com/2026/07/21/a...
Atlantic Capital and Captivity (21 July 2026)
[LLM Report] The expansion of global mercantile markets between 1520 and 1770 represents a profound transformation in human geography, economic organization, and institutional power. The early mode…
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Hervé Youmbi (Cameroon), “Tso Scream Mask” from the ‘Visage de masques (IX) series’ (2015-2023), wood, pigment, fiber, beads, textile, glue, velvet fabric, cotton fabric, silk embroidery, and horse hair www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/07/new-...
To read while awaiting Thursday's Knicks parade: a deep, wise, and totally unexpected YUPPIES write-up in this week's @newyorker.com. .
Prairie Lights, Iowa City, and @dygottlieb.bsky.social and Kate Grandjean sitting next to each other (with Team Kate and Never Thursday writing groups…😍)
Something intriguing for C18 readers. #oldnews #abolition @profmsinha.bsky.social
The Gray Sage@walterdgreason.bsky.social · 3d agoSpecial highlight from last week? New evidence for the debate about the illegality of enslavement under British law. In tribute to, and loving memory of, Larry Alexander and James Brewer Stewart. #writers @srtoliver.bsky.social BONDAGE COMPOUNDED geniuslocus.com/2026/07/21/b...
Summer film season is here! How many connections to films can you find in this latest collection of new research? #filmsky #moviesky #cinema @moremovies.co.uk
Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 3d agoAugust is here, & with it my 287th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
Finding amazing public scholarship for my threads all week is one of my very favorite things. But equally high on the list is seeing the resulting thread get shared & engaged far & wide, & for that one I need y'all. Please share widely if you see this & are able, & thanks! 🗃️ @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 3d agoAugust is here, & with it my 287th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
"You have to be a self-loathing sociopathic narcissist with Agamemnon’s ambition and Oedipus’s hubris to attempt to make a film of The Odyssey, and my goodness did Christopher Nolan go for it." --Vaughn Joy, blackwhiteandread.com/a-classicist...
A Classicist-Turned-Film-Scholar's Take on The Odyssey (2026) – Black and White and Read All Over
A Disciplinary Approach to The Odyssey (2026)
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I'm excited to read this, especially because my first encounter with smellscapes was vomiting after a smellscape in the Museum of London (Roman section) and Jorvik did it much more subtly, in my recollection!
Will Tullett@willtullett.bsky.social · 3d agoMy new article on Jorvik Viking Centre and its use of smells over the last 40 years has just come out today in The Public Historian! online.ucpress.edu/tph/article-... if you can't access it and want to read it, let me know.
Rep. Max Miller today: "Just want to be clear: no court, no agency has ever substantiated any allegation of abuse against me. No criminal charge has ever been filed against me." But here's a screenshot of his past criminal offenses.
🧵 I just posted a revised version of this article with a new title, "The Reconstructed First Amendment." My thesis remains that antislavery Republicans shifted 1A substantive theory towards a dissenters' rights focus without abandoning majoritarian enforcement. 1/5 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Reconstructed First Amendment
<div> The nineteenth-century history of expressive freedom is a puzzle that scholars are still trying to solve. There are two leading interpretations. Legal-tr
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Jerry Edwards@jerryedwards.bsky.social · 3w ago🧵Now on SSRN: The Birth of the Minority Rights First Amendment examines the antislavery conception of free speech. Scholars who analyzed the 19c legal & popular traditions of free speech came to seemingly contradictory conclusions. I resolve the contradictions. 1/13 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
August's birthday month at AmericanStudier: my sister's on the 2nd; @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social's on the 4th; my late Dad's on the 11th; & your humble AmericanStudier himself on the 15th. Well, maybe not so humble, as every year I dedicate a blog series to sharing favorite posts from each prior year! +
Historian of abolition here 💯Garrison always called it the slaveholders rebellion, that’s the correct term. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
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#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies. Web: chanda.science Newsletter: news.chanda.science Insta/threads: chanda.prescod.weinstein Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime!
The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos “With this extraordinary book, Prescod-Weinstein cements her status.....
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Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death
Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes
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Another example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
In Dropping Reflecting Pool Case, Pirro Draws Trump’s Wrath
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, blamed shoddy construction, contradicting President Trump’s pet theory. Mr. Trump said he disagreed “100%” with her.
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Fatima Ameaka followed all the rules and she still got scooped on a domestic flight, caged, shipped to another cage, and then released with a promise of trial. The labyrinthine paperwork system is already cruel, now it's punctuated with random kidnappings.
Johns Hopkins researcher Fatima Ameaka released from ICE custody
A public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University who was arrested by immigration officials while boarding a domestic flight has been released after spending multiple days in federal custody acro...
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"Documents are only partial records of the past. Archives preserve the records those in power choose to keep. Absence in the record is itself evidence." Read the new essay from @historyjacob.bsky.social, Chloë Farr, and Jessica Jack.
The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI
talkie’s poor representation of history is a side effect of a larger problem. The model was conceptually built as an experimental tool to see if language models can accurately predict the future, a…
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Our latest article on why respect for immigrants is essential to our society. fishersresists.substack.com/p/immigrants...
Immigrants Are Welcome in Fishers, Indiana
Fishers Resists, joined by many other local grass-roots groups, has organized the Hoosier Hospitality March on August 1 from 3:00 to 6:00 pm, starting at Holland Park in Fishers. This march is a respo...
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Hello new followers and fellow Twitter refugees. I’m a journalist & author; an international and disaster correspondent turned analyst of U.S. empire and America’s fascist turn. I’m going to keep fighting from here. Subscribe to my newsletter TheRacket.news Books and bio: jonathanmkatz.com
The Racket
Explore the unseen connections behind world affairs, politics, disaster, and more. By Jonathan M. Katz
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NEW: The website once owned by Cambridge Analytica (!) is now an AI content farm. Rebranded as "CA Privacy Watch," the site is littered with plagiarism and weird errors. It's also utilized at least one fake writer whose face seems to have been stolen from a random guy. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Cambridge Analytica's Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm
Cambridge Analytica has returned, in a very 2026 way: CambridgeAnalytica.org is now an AI-powered content farm.
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1/ They want patriotism to mean obedience. 2 scholars just called that bluff. The abolitionists dissented. The civil rights movement dissented. Loving this country has always meant refusing to shut up when power tells you to. This is that time - our time🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
For decades, Title VI and Fulbright-Hays have enabled scholars to develop essential language proficiency, regional expertise, and international partnerships. The proposal, which would rescind the regulations that govern these programs, threatens that. Read more at @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social: 🗃️
Guest Post - Another Challenge to International Education Programs - The Scholarly Kitchen
New OMB Guidance threatens the important Title VI and Fulbright-Hays international education programs. Comment period ends today, please add your voice!
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There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.
@carmenlynn.bsky.social · 5d agoThe Koch Nazis are back “A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college professors and administrators — and it's working.”
For writers everywhere, reading remains our secret superpower. Sharing another compendium of excellent writing from Scholar Sunday by @americanstudier.bsky.social . Please share with a writer you know. #NFL #HOF
Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 3d ago+ @douglasmack.bsky.social @orelb.bsky.social @brightwalldarkroom.com @srtoliver.bsky.social @anisekstrong.bsky.social @goldwagnathan.bsky.social @chanda.blacksky.app @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & many more! Please share the whole thread widely to get all this great work to all the folks, & enjoy, all!
