Joseph Stuart
@jstuart.bsky.social
History Professor | Race, Religion, and Masculinity in the Black Freedom Struggle
Like a river flows
Surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some things are meant to be
youtu.be/jmU1UjGxGEs?...
Surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some things are meant to be
youtu.be/jmU1UjGxGEs?...
I Can’t Help Falling In Love -Elvis Presley (Allison Young cover)
YouTube video by Allison Young
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Like a river flows
Surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some things are meant to be
youtu.be/jmU1UjGxGEs?...
Surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some things are meant to be
youtu.be/jmU1UjGxGEs?...
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To celebrate my YouTube channel hitting 10k subs(!), & to corral my various videos, essays, interviews, & etc in one place, I:
1) started a newsletter on Kit that will compile things into a semi-frequent email, and
2) will send a signed copy of AMERICAN ZION to one subscriber in the 1st week.
1) started a newsletter on Kit that will compile things into a semi-frequent email, and
2) will send a signed copy of AMERICAN ZION to one subscriber in the 1st week.
History Has Never Been More Relevant
benjaminpark.kit.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
To celebrate my YouTube channel hitting 10k subs(!), & to corral my various videos, essays, interviews, & etc in one place, I:
1) started a newsletter on Kit that will compile things into a semi-frequent email, and
2) will send a signed copy of AMERICAN ZION to one subscriber in the 1st week.
1) started a newsletter on Kit that will compile things into a semi-frequent email, and
2) will send a signed copy of AMERICAN ZION to one subscriber in the 1st week.
An under-discussed reason why folks in power love AI:
it doesn't talk back.
it doesn't talk back.
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
An under-discussed reason why folks in power love AI:
it doesn't talk back.
it doesn't talk back.
It's so smart!
🎉Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity: Theology, Politics, Ethics is now available @fordhampress.bsky.social!🎉
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Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity
Anthropologically explores the entanglement of theology and politics among contemporary Orthodox Christians Much of the anthropological literature on Christianity tends to concentrate on Protestants a...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It's so smart!
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
Just stop your crying
It'll be alright
They told me that the end is near
We gotta get away from here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f45-...
It'll be alright
They told me that the end is near
We gotta get away from here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f45-...
Harry Styles - Sign Of The Times in the Live Lounge
YouTube video by BBCRadio1VEVO
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Just stop your crying
It'll be alright
They told me that the end is near
We gotta get away from here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f45-...
It'll be alright
They told me that the end is near
We gotta get away from here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f45-...
I hope @andyblarsen.bsky.social somehow has access to the data that haralobob on jazz over/unders mentioned today on Pablo Torre’s pod.
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I hope @andyblarsen.bsky.social somehow has access to the data that haralobob on jazz over/unders mentioned today on Pablo Torre’s pod.
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This changes everything
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This changes everything
I cheered for Dante Bichette and I want his kid to get a ring so badly!
November 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I cheered for Dante Bichette and I want his kid to get a ring so badly!
Making my kids eat vegetables before trick or treating while whispering "I protect the family"
October 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Making my kids eat vegetables before trick or treating while whispering "I protect the family"
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would love to hear from US historians about the carceral histories on your syllabus for next semester
October 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
would love to hear from US historians about the carceral histories on your syllabus for next semester
My students will never think I'm cool but they WILL think about research while listening to Taylor Swift. And I think that's beautiful. #amteaching
October 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
My students will never think I'm cool but they WILL think about research while listening to Taylor Swift. And I think that's beautiful. #amteaching
I'll be thinking about this for awhile:
"We talk about equity and excellence, but we’ve built a system where a student’s educational experience depends almost entirely on which teacher they happen to get."
rodjnaquin.substack.com/p/why-school...
"We talk about equity and excellence, but we’ve built a system where a student’s educational experience depends almost entirely on which teacher they happen to get."
rodjnaquin.substack.com/p/why-school...
Why schools feel like a thousand different experiences
Schools struggle because they lack coherence—the various systems supporting teaching send contradictory messages that fragment students' educational experiences.
rodjnaquin.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I'll be thinking about this for awhile:
"We talk about equity and excellence, but we’ve built a system where a student’s educational experience depends almost entirely on which teacher they happen to get."
rodjnaquin.substack.com/p/why-school...
"We talk about equity and excellence, but we’ve built a system where a student’s educational experience depends almost entirely on which teacher they happen to get."
rodjnaquin.substack.com/p/why-school...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
defector.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...
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Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Tisa Wenger on We Have a Religion (2009). Wenger reflects on the genesis of the book’s theoretical framing and new directions in Indigenous scholarship since publication. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/w....
We Have a Religion in Retrospect — American Religion
Tisa Wenger on We Have a Religion (2009)
www.american-religion.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Thursday installment: Tisa Wenger on We Have a Religion (2009). Wenger reflects on the genesis of the book’s theoretical framing and new directions in Indigenous scholarship since publication. Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/w....
Today we are discussing writing semester projects in my class on the US South. I'll be introducing students to writing concepts using music.
Here's the game plan for today 👇
Here's the game plan for today 👇
The Wellerman (Sea Shanty) - From TikTok to Epic Remix
YouTube video by The Kiffness
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October 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Today we are discussing writing semester projects in my class on the US South. I'll be introducing students to writing concepts using music.
Here's the game plan for today 👇
Here's the game plan for today 👇
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Excited to announce I've been offered an advance contract for a new book, Parley P. Pratt: A Mormon Evangelist, which will be published as part of the University of Illinois Press's Introductions to Mormon Thought series, edited by Matt Bowman and Joseph Spencer.
October 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Excited to announce I've been offered an advance contract for a new book, Parley P. Pratt: A Mormon Evangelist, which will be published as part of the University of Illinois Press's Introductions to Mormon Thought series, edited by Matt Bowman and Joseph Spencer.
Today, students are writing Tinder profiles for historical figures based on changing standards of what makes one of "marriageable material."
Fingers crossed that students buy in
Fingers crossed that students buy in
a woman with her eyes closed and the words please do this for me above her
ALT: a woman with her eyes closed and the words please do this for me above her
media.tenor.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Today, students are writing Tinder profiles for historical figures based on changing standards of what makes one of "marriageable material."
Fingers crossed that students buy in
Fingers crossed that students buy in
Absolutely incredible work. This comes as no surprise to anyone who has ever engaged Dr. Harris’s work.
October 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Absolutely incredible work. This comes as no surprise to anyone who has ever engaged Dr. Harris’s work.
Seconded
If you are interested in the intersections of religion, college sports, and capitalism, then pre-order this book coming out December 1. It’s phenomenal.
October 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Seconded
Century of Black Mormons · Willson, Mary · J. Willard Marriott Library Exhibits
exhibits.lib.utah.edu
October 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Oh, you can just read stuff to students and they will just LEARN it? As a college lecturer, this is news to me
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Oh, you can just read stuff to students and they will just LEARN it? As a college lecturer, this is news to me
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Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Paul Harvey on his book, “Redeeming the South” (1997). Harvey discusses the “cult of the archive,” salient questions in religious historiography, and recent work on biography.Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...
Redeeming My Own Work — American Religion
Paul Harvey on Redeeming the South (1997)
www.american-religion.org
October 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Back Pages is back again with your biweekly Tuesday installment: Paul Harvey on his book, “Redeeming the South” (1997). Harvey discusses the “cult of the archive,” salient questions in religious historiography, and recent work on biography.Read further here: www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r...
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UVA's Sociology department is looking to hire a tenured sociologist of religion at the Associate or Full level. Here is the advertisement. @sssreligion.bsky.social @asareligion.bsky.social
Details here: apply.interfolio.com/173879
Details here: apply.interfolio.com/173879
October 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
UVA's Sociology department is looking to hire a tenured sociologist of religion at the Associate or Full level. Here is the advertisement. @sssreligion.bsky.social @asareligion.bsky.social
Details here: apply.interfolio.com/173879
Details here: apply.interfolio.com/173879