J.Schorb
@jodisch.bsky.social
Atomic Early Americanist ✨
Affable Abolitionist ⛓️💥
Amateur Sexologist 🏳️🌈 ⚧️ 🐌
Author of Reading Prisoners (Rutgers UP)
Affable Abolitionist ⛓️💥
Amateur Sexologist 🏳️🌈 ⚧️ 🐌
Author of Reading Prisoners (Rutgers UP)
Ticonderoga, 1775 & prison labor history. 👀
T. Cole Jones uncovers the coercive labor system Connecticut developed for British prisoners after the 1775 capture of Ticonderoga, revealing how revolutionary ideals clashed with the pragmatic exploitation of prisoner labor.
Now open access: muse.jhu.edu/article...
#EAS
@projectmuse.bsky.social
Now open access: muse.jhu.edu/article...
#EAS
@projectmuse.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Ticonderoga, 1775 & prison labor history. 👀
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Honored to have an essay in this special issue of @newrepublic.com organized by David Blight about why we must defend our profession from the Trump administration attack on U.S. history.
Learning our history is a radical and righteous form of resistance, and any one of us can do it.
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trib.al/mpThXI7
Learning History Is a Righteous Form of Resistance
It’s a way to combat Trump’s attempts at remaking the past to justify erasing protections for the most vulnerable.
trib.al
August 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Honored to have an essay in this special issue of @newrepublic.com organized by David Blight about why we must defend our profession from the Trump administration attack on U.S. history.
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@uminnpress.bsky.social is having a sale: if you order at least 3 paperbacks you get them for $10 EACH!
If you haven't gotten a copy of my book *Abolition Time* yet, now's your chance!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791789...
Pick it up along w/two other fantastic books & use code MN93820 at checkout!
If you haven't gotten a copy of my book *Abolition Time* yet, now's your chance!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791789...
Pick it up along w/two other fantastic books & use code MN93820 at checkout!
Abolition Time
How Black Atlantic literature can challenge conventions and redefine literary scholarshipAbolition Time is an invitation to reenvision abolitionist justice t...
www.upress.umn.edu
June 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
@uminnpress.bsky.social is having a sale: if you order at least 3 paperbacks you get them for $10 EACH!
If you haven't gotten a copy of my book *Abolition Time* yet, now's your chance!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791789...
Pick it up along w/two other fantastic books & use code MN93820 at checkout!
If you haven't gotten a copy of my book *Abolition Time* yet, now's your chance!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791789...
Pick it up along w/two other fantastic books & use code MN93820 at checkout!
#abolishICE
Miccosukee led by Betty Osceola (Panther tribe) join Friends of the Everglades & others to protest the erection of the massive makeshift detention camp “Alligator Alcatraz.”
All photographs by Dave Decker, photojournalist at Tampa Bay’s Creative Loafing.
Miccosukee led by Betty Osceola (Panther tribe) join Friends of the Everglades & others to protest the erection of the massive makeshift detention camp “Alligator Alcatraz.”
All photographs by Dave Decker, photojournalist at Tampa Bay’s Creative Loafing.
July 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
#abolishICE
Miccosukee led by Betty Osceola (Panther tribe) join Friends of the Everglades & others to protest the erection of the massive makeshift detention camp “Alligator Alcatraz.”
All photographs by Dave Decker, photojournalist at Tampa Bay’s Creative Loafing.
Miccosukee led by Betty Osceola (Panther tribe) join Friends of the Everglades & others to protest the erection of the massive makeshift detention camp “Alligator Alcatraz.”
All photographs by Dave Decker, photojournalist at Tampa Bay’s Creative Loafing.
A must-read! The admin has deactivited the NPS webpage about Publick Universal Friend. The granular nature of their relentless erasure of 🏳️⚧️ life still shocks.
Can’t help but point out that this admin, through erasure, just affirmed the Friend’s transness (…while historians still duke it out).
Can’t help but point out that this admin, through erasure, just affirmed the Friend’s transness (…while historians still duke it out).
🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥
"A Transgressive Revolution: America 250 and the Public Universal Friend"
by Sarah Pawlicki
Please Share!
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/a-t...
"A Transgressive Revolution: America 250 and the Public Universal Friend"
by Sarah Pawlicki
Please Share!
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/a-t...
A Transgressive Revolution: America 250 and the Public Universal Friend — INSURRECT!
“A political administration dedicated to pretending there is no room for complexity or self-discovery in people’s experiences of gender must erase the stories providing evidence to the contrary.” ...
www.insurrecthistory.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A must-read! The admin has deactivited the NPS webpage about Publick Universal Friend. The granular nature of their relentless erasure of 🏳️⚧️ life still shocks.
Can’t help but point out that this admin, through erasure, just affirmed the Friend’s transness (…while historians still duke it out).
Can’t help but point out that this admin, through erasure, just affirmed the Friend’s transness (…while historians still duke it out).
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The 19th century abolitionist movement utilized a diversity of tactics and engaged in constant critical internal debate in the mission to end slavery. The movement needed speeches, lawyers, lawbreakers, newspapers, and armed resisters. History teaches us that freedom requires all of the above.
June 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The 19th century abolitionist movement utilized a diversity of tactics and engaged in constant critical internal debate in the mission to end slavery. The movement needed speeches, lawyers, lawbreakers, newspapers, and armed resisters. History teaches us that freedom requires all of the above.
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Samuel Johnson - a man who lived with disfigurement and disability and who was a lifelong abolitionists - asked to give a toast at Oxford, raised his glass and said: “here’s to the next insurrection of the Negroes in the West Indies”.
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April 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Geek Note:
The Naval Academy book purge is not being fought by AI or keywords. The weapon is something more obscure:
the LCSH list.
Yup. Library of Congress Subject Headings.
Look to the last column.
This results in 381 titles that are familiar & … um… very odd targets.
#highered
#academia
The Naval Academy book purge is not being fought by AI or keywords. The weapon is something more obscure:
the LCSH list.
Yup. Library of Congress Subject Headings.
Look to the last column.
This results in 381 titles that are familiar & … um… very odd targets.
#highered
#academia
Read the Naval Academy’s list of removed books
The Navy released the titles of 381 books that were removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library on the Annapolis, Md., campus this week because their subject matter was seen as being related ...
www.nytimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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On Monday, March 31, 2025 we learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded.
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Save the NEH! – National Humanities Alliance
nhalliance.org
April 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
On Monday, March 31, 2025 we learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded.
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
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Eighteenth-Century Studies is looking for a new Reviews Editor. I'm finishing up my term and happy to answer questions about it!
asecs.org/publications...
asecs.org/publications...
Eighteenth-Century Studies – ASECS
asecs.org
March 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Eighteenth-Century Studies is looking for a new Reviews Editor. I'm finishing up my term and happy to answer questions about it!
asecs.org/publications...
asecs.org/publications...
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#OTD in 1846, #WilliamFreeman murdered 4 people who had never done him any harm. Why? And what does this crime mean for us today? I explored the story about #PrisonForProfit in #ThisDayInEsotericHistory. #OTDIH @kcarterjackson.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1qWn...
William Freeman's Shocking Revenge (1846) w/ Robin Bernstein (Part 1)
This Day · Episode
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March 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
#OTD in 1846, #WilliamFreeman murdered 4 people who had never done him any harm. Why? And what does this crime mean for us today? I explored the story about #PrisonForProfit in #ThisDayInEsotericHistory. #OTDIH @kcarterjackson.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1qWn...
CFP for GLQ.
#CallforPapers
GLQ is seeking submissions for an upcoming special issue to be titled: "Post/Anticolonial Queer and Transgender Studies: Radical Efflorescence from the Global South," edited by Svati P Shah and Paul Boyce.
View the full CFP here: buff.ly/AwP926C
GLQ is seeking submissions for an upcoming special issue to be titled: "Post/Anticolonial Queer and Transgender Studies: Radical Efflorescence from the Global South," edited by Svati P Shah and Paul Boyce.
View the full CFP here: buff.ly/AwP926C
March 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
CFP for GLQ.
Putting this plea on blast 💥….
Time to speak up: Trump's policy on passports will make it difficult or impossible for many trans & nonbinary people to use passports as ID or to travel. The State Department is accepting comments on these changes, the first deadline is March 17, more below. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Application for a U.S. Passport
The Department of State has submitted the information collection described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we a...
www.federalregister.gov
March 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Putting this plea on blast 💥….
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This brilliant piece on the wreck of the public university by Pete Coviello www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
www.nplusonemag.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
This brilliant piece on the wreck of the public university by Pete Coviello www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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In a searingly smart, absolutely lacerating article, @marthaschoolman.bsky.social writes about Mary Rowlandson, Israel/Palestine, and the contemporary Jewish left:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
March 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In a searingly smart, absolutely lacerating article, @marthaschoolman.bsky.social writes about Mary Rowlandson, Israel/Palestine, and the contemporary Jewish left:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Severence gets @annamaed! Great piece:
“As a child worker, Miss Huang might seem like an uncanny ghost of a bygone era of childhood. But I think she’s closer to a prophet: Her role as child-boss warns viewers about what a work-obsessed future holds…..”
“As a child worker, Miss Huang might seem like an uncanny ghost of a bygone era of childhood. But I think she’s closer to a prophet: Her role as child-boss warns viewers about what a work-obsessed future holds…..”
As a scholar of childhood studies, I couldn't resist writing about Miss Huang--capitalism's perfect child. She is strange, sure, but no stranger than our growing impatience with the inefficiency of childhood. #Severance
theconversation.com/the-child-bo...
theconversation.com/the-child-bo...
The child boss in ‘Severance’ reveals a devastating truth about work and child-rearing in the 21st century
As a child worker, Miss Huang might seem like an uncanny ghost of a bygone era of childhood. But she’s closer to a prophet, warning viewers about what a work-obsessed future holds.
theconversation.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Severence gets @annamaed! Great piece:
“As a child worker, Miss Huang might seem like an uncanny ghost of a bygone era of childhood. But I think she’s closer to a prophet: Her role as child-boss warns viewers about what a work-obsessed future holds…..”
“As a child worker, Miss Huang might seem like an uncanny ghost of a bygone era of childhood. But I think she’s closer to a prophet: Her role as child-boss warns viewers about what a work-obsessed future holds…..”
Incantation.
Whisper — Exchange for Change
Fifty miles out you will find arrowheads and flint tools evidence of human lives imprinted on the sea floor. Fifty miles inland you will find shark's teeth large as a woman's head evidence of monster...
www.exchange-for-change.org
January 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Incantation.