early american historian, creative writer, guitarist, occasional astronaut, sometimes blogs at https://xitter.gq/t.co/THxyoa4eWt also at @andyschocket@n-net.social
Bowling Green, OH
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Our Grad School Fair Week Zoom Info Session will be 9/29/2022 @ 1 pm. Learn about our MA program, Graduate Certificate in Public History, and Accelerated BA to MA program, tuition scholarships, graduate assistantships, and the application process.
Interested? Email Dr.Greene!
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BREAKING: Faculty at Eastern Michigan University are going on STRIKE for a fair contract.
Show your solidarity: Follow
@EMUAAUP
#1U #FairContractNow
As of midnight tonight we are on strike 332/365.
91% were forced to vote YES for a strike.
It did not have to be this way.
We hate to do this. It is breaking our hearts.
#faircontractnow #TruEMU #UnionStrong
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As of midnight tonight we are on strike 332/365.
91% were forced to vote YES for a strike.
It did not have to be this way.
We hate to do this. It is breaking our hearts.
#faircontractnow #TruEMU #UnionStrong
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We've had nearly 10,000 people take action in sending messages to the House of Representatives expressing their opposition to #HB327. If you haven't yet, send your message today: actionnetwork.org/letters/an…
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The freedom to learn our nation’s history is under siege. The AHA is leading or involved with several initiatives to combat divisive concepts bills and provide resources and support for educators advocating for teaching history. Learn more: historians.org/news-and-advo…
Come watch Karen Cook Bell @kbphd08 give a fascinating talk #Twitterstorians #VastEarlyAmerica
This Friday at noon, don’t miss “Black Women and the American Revolution” with Dr. Karen Cook Bell. Register at tinyurl.com/bgsublackhistory… #BlackHistoryMonth
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Tired of DEI initiatives that are all words and no action? Finally here's an opportunity that actually supports scholars in ways that matter. SHEAR is offering four funded fellowship for grad students, early career scholars or contingent faculty. Details:
thepanorama.shear.org/2021/1…
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Colleagues here in Australia and abroad, please do consider signing this petition to lend weight to arguments to retain Department structures in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sydney University. It will only take a minute. Many thanks.
Thanks to the thousands of people who viewed & shared our video on the attacks on the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sydney. There's now a petition to sign, as well as a link for sending messages to the administrators in charge. Please RT! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Congrats to the brilliant @MarjoleineKars
The 2021 #CundillHistoryPrize is awarded to...
@MarjoleineKars for #BloodOnTheRiver – the unanimous choice of the Jury!
"Kars vividly conveys the pain and violence of enslavement, and illuminates the challenges of undertaking an effort to overthrow a slaveholding regime."
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Looking forward to y'all reading my first long-form piece of scholarship, "The Slaves War, 1775-1783" in the forthcoming The Cambridge History of the American Revolution edited by @MarjoleineKars Andrew Shocket, and @HstyMattersSyd. goodreads.com/book/show/3999… via @goodreads
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Andrew Hartman, a history professor at Illinois State University, described the battle over critical race theory as typical of the culture wars, where "the issue itself is not always the thing driving the controversy." trib.al/vjcviMc
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"There’s a long history of conservatives in the United States thinking that the public schools are in the thrall of left-wing educators and even political operatives who are looking to indoctrinate American children on the public dime."
edweek.org/leadership/critic…
In other words, the legislation that conservatives want to pass in Ohio concerning CRT does the exact opposite of what they want to accomplish, in that it would require us to teach most of the founding generation of the US was composed of spineless hypocrites. 5/5
Same goes for Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, etc. And for everyone who voted to ratify a Constitution that allowed enslavement. 4/
So, if a student were to ask, say, why did George Washington own other human beings, by law, we’d have to answer that George Washington “deviated, betray[ed], or fails[d] to live up to the authentic founding principles of the United States” 3/
"With respect to their relationship to American values, slavery and racism are anything other than deviations from, betrayals of, or failures to live up to the authenticfounding principles of the United States, which include liberty and equality.” 2/
I guess there’s a silver lining to Ohio’s bill to ban critical race theory, which if passed would prohibit the teaching that "One race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex”: It would be illegal to require students to read Charles Murray’s “scholarship"
And if that floats your boat, then you have to check out the @FoundersSayCrap feed!
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