Julia Brock
@juliakbrock.bsky.social
Public historian, University of Alabama
Views my own.
Views my own.
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I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
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Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 250! (11/16/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more ...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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It's New Books Tuesday 🙌 Check out these two new titles publishing today
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New This Week: November 4th - UNC Press Blog
It’s New Books Tuesday and publishing today we have two new releases that offer fresh perspectives on race, space, and power in the United States. The Undesirable Many, part of our acclaimed Justice, ...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It's New Books Tuesday 🙌 Check out these two new titles publishing today
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Episode 158: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South with Dr. Julia Brock
Podcast Episode · Reckoning with Jason Herbert · 10/28/2025 · 1h 3m
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October 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Find the episode right here on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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It's up! This week @juliakbrock.bsky.social drops in to talk about how the implementation of conservation laws made significant strides in protecting endangered wildlife species, but it also disrupted traditional hunting practices and livelihoods, particularly among African Americans & poor whites.
October 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It's up! This week @juliakbrock.bsky.social drops in to talk about how the implementation of conservation laws made significant strides in protecting endangered wildlife species, but it also disrupted traditional hunting practices and livelihoods, particularly among African Americans & poor whites.
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New book review:
Barnett on Brock, Julia: _Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20126518
Barnett on Brock, Julia: _Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20126518
Brock, Julia. Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South. : University of North Carolina Press, 2025. 224 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469681467. Reviewed by Tracy L. Barnett (Old Dominion University) Published on H-Environment (September, 2025) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
networks.h-net.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
New book review:
Barnett on Brock, Julia: _Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20126518
Barnett on Brock, Julia: _Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20126518
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Creating a @zotero.org bibliography to teach and study #PublicHistory.
More info on the website of the European network of Masters of Public History.
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More info on the website of the European network of Masters of Public History.
publichistoryonline.org/public-histo...
September 18, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Creating a @zotero.org bibliography to teach and study #PublicHistory.
More info on the website of the European network of Masters of Public History.
publichistoryonline.org/public-histo...
More info on the website of the European network of Masters of Public History.
publichistoryonline.org/public-histo...
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My book Noisy Memory is out tomorrow (but you can still order it today)! And it just so happens that @uncpress.bsky.social is having a sale for the next 48 hours, with 50% off all of their books! Just use the code 01NEWSITE50 when you check out.
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Noisy Memory
Composer and sound artist Brian Harnetty explores the remarkable everyday stories of sound recordings and shows us a new way to listen to the past. From murd...
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August 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
My book Noisy Memory is out tomorrow (but you can still order it today)! And it just so happens that @uncpress.bsky.social is having a sale for the next 48 hours, with 50% off all of their books! Just use the code 01NEWSITE50 when you check out.
uncpress.org/978146969134...
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In honor of its new website, @uncpress.bsky.social is having a flash sale. You can save 50% off all books, including mine, for 48 hours with code 01NEWSITE50.
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Closed Seasons
In a unique and personal exploration of the game and fish laws in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi from the Progressive Era to the 1930s, Julia Brock offers...
uncpress.org
August 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In honor of its new website, @uncpress.bsky.social is having a flash sale. You can save 50% off all books, including mine, for 48 hours with code 01NEWSITE50.
uncpress.org/978146968146...
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More than 350 NPS locations are under threat of closure, the NPS is facing millions of dollars and thousands of staff cuts, and history is being erased and censored at NPS sites. The National Parks Conservation Association is leading a day of action on August 23 to preserve our parks and history.
Day of Action
Take action with Park Protectors across the country to protect every park.
www.npca.org
August 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
More than 350 NPS locations are under threat of closure, the NPS is facing millions of dollars and thousands of staff cuts, and history is being erased and censored at NPS sites. The National Parks Conservation Association is leading a day of action on August 23 to preserve our parks and history.
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The @c2dh.uni.lu offers one short-term fellowship (two months) for a scholar at risk in 2026 at @uni.lu. The application deadline is 15.10.2025.
Thanks for sharing
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Thanks for sharing
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Scholar at risk fellowship 2026
To promote international exchanges and collaborations in the field of contemporary, public and digital history, the C²DH offers one short-term fellowship position for 2 months for a scholar at risk.
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August 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The @c2dh.uni.lu offers one short-term fellowship (two months) for a scholar at risk in 2026 at @uni.lu. The application deadline is 15.10.2025.
Thanks for sharing
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Thanks for sharing
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Here it is, my 234th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 234
Shared on July 20, 2025
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July 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Here it is, my 234th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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New podcast episode dropped! @juliakbrock.bsky.social is talking about her book CLOSED SEASONS which traces the dizzying array of factors that led to game and fish laws in the South.
Listen from @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 👇 or wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
newbooksnetwork.com/closed-seasons
Listen from @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 👇 or wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
newbooksnetwork.com/closed-seasons
July 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
New podcast episode dropped! @juliakbrock.bsky.social is talking about her book CLOSED SEASONS which traces the dizzying array of factors that led to game and fish laws in the South.
Listen from @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 👇 or wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
newbooksnetwork.com/closed-seasons
Listen from @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 👇 or wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
newbooksnetwork.com/closed-seasons
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"Only by understanding the history of hunting and the politics that shaped it, Brock suggests, can we come to 'an open season to reimagine the field.'"
Check out this feature of CLOSED SEASONS by @juliakbrock.bsky.social in @gardenandgun.com
gardenandgun.com/articles/jul...
Check out this feature of CLOSED SEASONS by @juliakbrock.bsky.social in @gardenandgun.com
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Julia Brock’s <em>Closed Seasons</em> Recounts the History of the Hunt
A new chronicle of the sporting life targets a better future
gardenandgun.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"Only by understanding the history of hunting and the politics that shaped it, Brock suggests, can we come to 'an open season to reimagine the field.'"
Check out this feature of CLOSED SEASONS by @juliakbrock.bsky.social in @gardenandgun.com
gardenandgun.com/articles/jul...
Check out this feature of CLOSED SEASONS by @juliakbrock.bsky.social in @gardenandgun.com
gardenandgun.com/articles/jul...
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this is now online! check out the recording on the @c2dh.uni.lu website, link below.
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June 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
this is now online! check out the recording on the @c2dh.uni.lu website, link below.
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And while you're there you should pick up the fabulous CLOSED SEASONS by my brilliant friend and colleague @juliakbrock.bsky.social 🗃️
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Closed Seasons | Julia Brock | University of North Carolina Press
In a unique and personal exploration of the game and fish laws in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi from the Progressive Era to the 1930s, Julia Brock offers...
uncpress.org
June 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
And while you're there you should pick up the fabulous CLOSED SEASONS by my brilliant friend and colleague @juliakbrock.bsky.social 🗃️
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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Run, don't walk! @uncpress.bsky.social is having a banner summer sale and you can get THE WOMEN OF RENDEZVOUS for 30% off with code 01UNCP30 🗃️
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The Women of Rendezvous | Jenny Shaw | University of North Carolina Press
The Women of Rendezvous is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two o...
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June 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Run, don't walk! @uncpress.bsky.social is having a banner summer sale and you can get THE WOMEN OF RENDEZVOUS for 30% off with code 01UNCP30 🗃️
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The NEH has been a singular force for bringing people together. In this moment of hate, fear and isolation, the NEH helped us learn about our past and about each other.
Today we are losing almost all of the NEH public servants. We are all in their debt. A national shame. A profound cultural loss.
Today we are losing almost all of the NEH public servants. We are all in their debt. A national shame. A profound cultural loss.
June 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The NEH has been a singular force for bringing people together. In this moment of hate, fear and isolation, the NEH helped us learn about our past and about each other.
Today we are losing almost all of the NEH public servants. We are all in their debt. A national shame. A profound cultural loss.
Today we are losing almost all of the NEH public servants. We are all in their debt. A national shame. A profound cultural loss.
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Today is the last day at the NEH for me and many of my amazingly dedicated colleagues. We did our best to represent & serve the American people. To champion humanities research, teaching, public engagement, cultural heritage, infrastructure, and innovation.
June 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Today is the last day at the NEH for me and many of my amazingly dedicated colleagues. We did our best to represent & serve the American people. To champion humanities research, teaching, public engagement, cultural heritage, infrastructure, and innovation.
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Sharing these photos that just landed in our inbox from @juliakbrock.bsky.social 😍
Trying to focus on the @gardenandgun.com feature for CLOSED SEASONS but too distracted by the doggo 🐶
Trying to focus on the @gardenandgun.com feature for CLOSED SEASONS but too distracted by the doggo 🐶
June 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Sharing these photos that just landed in our inbox from @juliakbrock.bsky.social 😍
Trying to focus on the @gardenandgun.com feature for CLOSED SEASONS but too distracted by the doggo 🐶
Trying to focus on the @gardenandgun.com feature for CLOSED SEASONS but too distracted by the doggo 🐶
Thankful to Garden and Gun for including a profile of _Closed Seasons_ in its summer issue. The guaranteed last time I’ll share any kind of space with S.A. Cosby and Susan Orlean.
Shout out to Durrell Smith of the Minority Outdoor Alliance, quoted herein.
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Shout out to Durrell Smith of the Minority Outdoor Alliance, quoted herein.
www.instagram.com/minorityoutd...
May 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Thankful to Garden and Gun for including a profile of _Closed Seasons_ in its summer issue. The guaranteed last time I’ll share any kind of space with S.A. Cosby and Susan Orlean.
Shout out to Durrell Smith of the Minority Outdoor Alliance, quoted herein.
www.instagram.com/minorityoutd...
Shout out to Durrell Smith of the Minority Outdoor Alliance, quoted herein.
www.instagram.com/minorityoutd...
To be had at a discount from @uncpress.bsky.social with code 01SOCIAL30 🥳
Friends- my colleague @juliakbrock.bsky.social’s wonderful and important new book about transformations in hunting law and practice in the US South is out and it’s a marvel of a book and SO well written! Check it out!
_Closed Seasons_ is officially out this week 🎉 🦌
May 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
To be had at a discount from @uncpress.bsky.social with code 01SOCIAL30 🥳
_Closed Seasons_ is officially out this week 🎉 🦌
May 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
_Closed Seasons_ is officially out this week 🎉 🦌
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In Dot’s Reading Corner, she recommends @juliakbrock.bsky.social's new book about hunting in the South, “Closed Seasons," from @uncpress.bsky.social. Get your paws on it!
May 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
In Dot’s Reading Corner, she recommends @juliakbrock.bsky.social's new book about hunting in the South, “Closed Seasons," from @uncpress.bsky.social. Get your paws on it!