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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈

@drkarenlcox.bsky.social

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Award-winning historian. Professor Emerita. Author of four books. Another in the hopper. My share of op-eds in NYT, WaPo, CNN, Time, & Smithsonian Magazine.

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Karen L. Cox is a historian and professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who specializes in and has written extensively on Southern history.

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 14h

Pardons for only the WORST people.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 15h

President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing the Republican’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a Justice Department official says.
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Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others who backed efforts to overturn 2020 election, official says

Government pardon attorney Ed Martin posted on social media a signed proclamation of the pardons.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 15h

Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others who backed efforts to overturn 2020 election, official says

Government pardon attorney Ed Martin posted on social media a signed proclamation of the pardons.

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 1d

The retirees have spoken.

The 8 Senate Democratic Caucus members who voted to end the shutdown

There are few obvious threads connecting the group who broke the partisan impasse.

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 1d

If Dem senators cave to a promise of a vote on the ACA they are toast if they run for reelection. Hold the damn line.

Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 1d

The Heritage Foundation’s racism knows no bounds.

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 1d

This is a terrific piece of writing and insight about where we are with the Times, and where the Times is with us.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d

Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 3d

New intro that covers last 5 years.

Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! Good eye.

Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s the link:

www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...

No Common Ground, Second Edition

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Debates over their meaning have sparked legislative battles, courtroom fights, and public ...

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 3d

Exciting news. We’ve got a pub date for the 2nd edition of No Common Ground & it’s in paperback! It’ll be out Feb. 1, 2026 & there’s a 30% discount on preorders by using the code 01SOCIAL30. @uncpress.bsky.social

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Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social · 4d

No Common Ground, 2nd edition by @drkarenlcox.bsky.social

The go-to book on Confederate monuments, newly updated through the years since George Floyd. Removals, lawsuits, reckonings, and still, no common ground in sight. uncpress.org/978146969596...

No Common Ground, Second Edition

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Debates over their meaning have sparked legislative battles, courtroom fights, and public ...

uncpress.org

Reposted by Karen L. Cox

Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 5d

Headed to the Southern? @drkarenlcox.bsky.social sat down with me for a very real and very raw conversation about her life, the challenges that made her, and where we need to go as historians. This is about as unfiltered as it gets. Like and share if you dig it.

Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 5d

Alright now! This is outstanding.

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 5d

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.

Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 5d

Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 6d

Mmmhmmm.

Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party

The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside.

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 7d

Shame on Condé Nast. I hope these staffers find a place for their talents--free from being silenced.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 7d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 7d

Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 9d

Priorities. 🙄

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Theresa Kaminski @theresakaminski.bsky.social · 11d

A series on southern history from @uncpress.bsky.social, co-edited by @drkarenlcox.bsky.social. 🗃️

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Boundless South

Series Editors: Karen L. Cox, University of North Carolina, Charlotte & Françoise N. Hamlin, Brown University The Boundless South series publishes books that are regional, readable, an...

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 11d

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/30/f... They are targeting children and religious holidays. They are staging ICE raids in cemeteries. There is nothing about this that has anything to do with law and order. This is lawlessness and desecration.

Feds Won't Pause Immigration Blitz During Halloween, Día De Los Muertos, Homeland Security Boss Says

During a news conference Thusday, Gov. JB Pritzker also slammed federal agents' targeting of people without criminal records and using tear gas on neighborhood streets.

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 11d

A 21st century Lost Cause approach to history. Erase. Whitewash. Repeat.

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11d

The Justice Department locked two federal prosecutors out of their devices and placed them on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol.”
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DOJ Puts Prosecutors On Leave For Accurately Describing Jan. 6 Attack

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