Justin Gage
@justingage.bsky.social
Historian, Assistant Professor in Arkansas. Author of awards winning We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us. https://linktr.ee/justingage
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My department at Florida State is hiring a postdoc in public history! I’m not on the search committee, but please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the position, the department, FSU, or Tallahassee. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/69772/f...
Florida State University - Dean's Postdoctoral Scholar (Public History) | H-Net
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February 4, 2026 at 11:30 AM
My department at Florida State is hiring a postdoc in public history! I’m not on the search committee, but please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the position, the department, FSU, or Tallahassee. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/69772/f...
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If any book review editors want a review essay putting these three books in conversation (once @mkn.bsky.social’s comes out), hit me up.
It’s been a good couple of years for western synthesis: Elliott West’s Continental Reckonings, Paul’s book below, and @mkn.bsky.social’s forthcoming book.
Finished reading: The Undiscovered Country by Paul Andrew Hutton 📚
February 1, 2026 at 9:07 PM
If any book review editors want a review essay putting these three books in conversation (once @mkn.bsky.social’s comes out), hit me up.
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Some of this talk I expect to go into the final chapter of a book I am working on now on the Sullivan Clinton Campaign of 1779. If you are free on the 9th of February, I hope to see you (virtually) there. You can register for the Zoom in the link below.
www.maxwell.syr.edu/events/2026/...
www.maxwell.syr.edu/events/2026/...
USA @ 250: Fighting Genocide-Dispossession, the Revolution, an Enduring Haudenosaunee Right to Land
Faculty experts will delve into a variety of topics, from democracy and women’s voices to the Declaration of Independence, in a series of weekly lectures.
www.maxwell.syr.edu
January 29, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Some of this talk I expect to go into the final chapter of a book I am working on now on the Sullivan Clinton Campaign of 1779. If you are free on the 9th of February, I hope to see you (virtually) there. You can register for the Zoom in the link below.
www.maxwell.syr.edu/events/2026/...
www.maxwell.syr.edu/events/2026/...
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Attention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the
Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence.
Details below. Please circulate widely!
Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence.
Details below. Please circulate widely!
December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Attention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the
Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence.
Details below. Please circulate widely!
Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence.
Details below. Please circulate widely!
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The Clements Center for Southwest Studies invites fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year.
For more info and to apply:
www.smu.edu/dedman/resea...
If you're interested of have questions, feel free to contact me directly.
For more info and to apply:
www.smu.edu/dedman/resea...
If you're interested of have questions, feel free to contact me directly.
December 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The Clements Center for Southwest Studies invites fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year.
For more info and to apply:
www.smu.edu/dedman/resea...
If you're interested of have questions, feel free to contact me directly.
For more info and to apply:
www.smu.edu/dedman/resea...
If you're interested of have questions, feel free to contact me directly.
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Quintard Taylor was dedicated to studying Black people in the West — a field that often went unresearched, esp at the beginning of his research in the mid 1970s. Taylor’s work helped correct the narrative that the history of Black people in the West is insignificant. www.dailyuw.com/article/1353...
Remembering Quintard Taylor: Beloved professor, founder of BlackPast.org
Remembering Quintard Taylor: Beloved professor, founder of BlackPast.org
www.dailyuw.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Quintard Taylor was dedicated to studying Black people in the West — a field that often went unresearched, esp at the beginning of his research in the mid 1970s. Taylor’s work helped correct the narrative that the history of Black people in the West is insignificant. www.dailyuw.com/article/1353...
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Nate Allen, who spent 52 years covering the Razorbacks for Arkansas newspapers big and small, died this afternoon in Fayetteville.
Remembering one of our state's great sports reporters.
www.wholehogsports.com/news/2025/de...
Remembering one of our state's great sports reporters.
www.wholehogsports.com/news/2025/de...
Nate Allen, who spent more than a half-century covering the Razorbacks, dies at 75 | Whole Hog Sports
Whole Hog Sports
www.wholehogsports.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Nate Allen, who spent 52 years covering the Razorbacks for Arkansas newspapers big and small, died this afternoon in Fayetteville.
Remembering one of our state's great sports reporters.
www.wholehogsports.com/news/2025/de...
Remembering one of our state's great sports reporters.
www.wholehogsports.com/news/2025/de...
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We found that the BLM skipped environmental review on 75% of its grazing land. Our new @propublica.org story explains the ”loophole” that allows BLM to bypass enviro reviews. www.propublica.org/article/graz...
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We found that the BLM skipped environmental review on 75% of its grazing land. Our new @propublica.org story explains the ”loophole” that allows BLM to bypass enviro reviews. www.propublica.org/article/graz...
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Western historians: consider this CFP for the digital history lightning round at the 2026 WHA conference in Portland! Great format for discussing work in progress with a supportive audience. Happy to answer any questions. Respond by Wed., Dec. 3. #AmWest 🗃️
WHA 2026 Digital Scholarship Lightning Round - Expression of Interest
Please complete the form below. Someone from the Digital Scholarship Committee will contact you to confirm your acceptance to the lightning round. Contact Sean Fraga, sfraga@usc.edu, with questions.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Western historians: consider this CFP for the digital history lightning round at the 2026 WHA conference in Portland! Great format for discussing work in progress with a supportive audience. Happy to answer any questions. Respond by Wed., Dec. 3. #AmWest 🗃️
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Today is publication day for my book, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, through the University of Minnesota Press!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...
Mixed-Blood Histories
An unprecedented study that puts mixed-ancestry Native Americans back into the heart of Indigenous history Historical accounts tend to neglect mixed-ancestry...
www.upress.umn.edu
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Today is publication day for my book, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, through the University of Minnesota Press!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...
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A photograph of Japanese American students at the Rohwer incarceration camp in Arkansas. The students rush between barracks to get to their respective classes. The photograph was taken by Tom Parker on November 17, 1942.
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A photograph of Japanese American students at the Rohwer incarceration camp in Arkansas. The students rush between barracks to get to their respective classes. The photograph was taken by Tom Parker on November 17, 1942.
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
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CALL FOR PAPERS!
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS!
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
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Applications due November 14! 🗃️
There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Applications due November 14! 🗃️
Applications due November 14! 🗃️
There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Applications due November 14! 🗃️
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Archivist Erin Fehr will speak about how Native American players helped cruise the Little Rock Travelers to a Southern League championship win in 1920 at CALS’ monthly Legacies & Lunch lecture.
UA Little Rock Downtown to host 'American Indians in Arkansas Baseball' lecture Wednesday - Arkansas Times
Archivist Erin Fehr will speak about how Native American players helped cruise the Little Rock Travelers to a Southern League championship win in 1920 at CALS' monthly Legacies & Lunch lecture.
arktimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Archivist Erin Fehr will speak about how Native American players helped cruise the Little Rock Travelers to a Southern League championship win in 1920 at CALS’ monthly Legacies & Lunch lecture.
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Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/
Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025.
Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025.
October 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/
Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025.
Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025.
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A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920.
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920
The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The
www.cam.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920.
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
September 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
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Tonight the University of Washington community is mourning the loss of professor Quintard Taylor.
His 1994 book “The Forging of a Black Community” is foundational reading about race, class, and urban planning in Seattle political history.
He will be missed sorely.
His 1994 book “The Forging of a Black Community” is foundational reading about race, class, and urban planning in Seattle political history.
He will be missed sorely.
September 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Tonight the University of Washington community is mourning the loss of professor Quintard Taylor.
His 1994 book “The Forging of a Black Community” is foundational reading about race, class, and urban planning in Seattle political history.
He will be missed sorely.
His 1994 book “The Forging of a Black Community” is foundational reading about race, class, and urban planning in Seattle political history.
He will be missed sorely.
There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
September 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
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"In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."
Muir Woods exhibit is first casualty of White House directive to erase history
"In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."
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July 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."
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The world’s richest 1 per cent have increased their wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, “more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” according to new @oxfaminternational.bsky.social analysis.
World’s richest 1% increased wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, Oxfam says
That amount is “more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” according to a new analysis from the anti-poverty group.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The world’s richest 1 per cent have increased their wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, “more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” according to new @oxfaminternational.bsky.social analysis.
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June 21, 1925: A Ku Klux Klan baseball team plays a Black team in Wichita, Kan. The Black squad, the Wichita Monrovians, win, 10-8. How this matchup came to be is unexplained. Fans are warned against "strangle holds, razors, horsewhips, and other violent implements of argument."
June 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
June 21, 1925: A Ku Klux Klan baseball team plays a Black team in Wichita, Kan. The Black squad, the Wichita Monrovians, win, 10-8. How this matchup came to be is unexplained. Fans are warned against "strangle holds, razors, horsewhips, and other violent implements of argument."