Liette Gidlow
@profgidlow.bsky.social
Historian of US politics, voting rights, women, race, 19thA
Wrote TheBigVote & Obama,Clinton,Palin
Radcliffe Fellow@Harvard. Swam in RFK Sr's pool
Wrote TheBigVote & Obama,Clinton,Palin
Radcliffe Fellow@Harvard. Swam in RFK Sr's pool
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Liette Gidlow
@profgidlow.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Mavis Staples - "No Time For Cryin'" (Live)
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
www.youtube.com
No time for cryin'
We got work to do
-- Mavis Staples
mavisstaples.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7m-...
We got work to do
-- Mavis Staples
mavisstaples.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7m-...
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"This act of war [in Venezuela] is about regime change in the United States."
"This act of war [in Venezuela] is about regime change in the United States."
Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped – so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is about regime change in the United States. It only succeeds if Americans allow it to do so.
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
Venezuela: The Precedents
And America: The Future
snyder.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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"This act of war [in Venezuela] is about regime change in the United States."
"This act of war [in Venezuela] is about regime change in the United States."
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Oh you’re so close, old man. Just a little farther and you’ll get it
January 3, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Oh you’re so close, old man. Just a little farther and you’ll get it
looking forward to this one!
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Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
January 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM
looking forward to this one!
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December 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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The tragic yet all too familiar story of Robert Lewis: a Black man falsely accused and lynched by a white mob of 2,000 in 1892.
No arrests. No accountability. And for Port Jervis, NY... decades of silence.
Watch: youtu.be/BY3X7RnBDDI
No arrests. No accountability. And for Port Jervis, NY... decades of silence.
Watch: youtu.be/BY3X7RnBDDI
A LYNCHING IN NEW YORK: The Truth They Tried to Hide [AAHIAH Ep. #113]
YouTube video by African American History Is AMERICAN History
youtu.be
December 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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At the Library of Congress, a bullet casing fell out of a file detailing the near-lynching of Thurgood Marshall in Columbia, Tennessee. Made my heart stop.
www.tba.org?pg=Articles&...
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I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
At the Library of Congress, a bullet casing fell out of a file detailing the near-lynching of Thurgood Marshall in Columbia, Tennessee. Made my heart stop.
www.tba.org?pg=Articles&...
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Teaching is an act of resistance. Learning is an act of resistance.
December 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Teaching is an act of resistance. Learning is an act of resistance.
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Thrilled that my new research w/ @kiranstallone.bsky.social on Bogota's Manzanas del Cuidado -- Blocks of Care -- is now published via the @genderrhul.bsky.social and Ladysmith: we find that feminist care policy *is* possible and reproducible across contexts! pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/files/699028...
pure.royalholloway.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Thrilled that my new research w/ @kiranstallone.bsky.social on Bogota's Manzanas del Cuidado -- Blocks of Care -- is now published via the @genderrhul.bsky.social and Ladysmith: we find that feminist care policy *is* possible and reproducible across contexts! pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/files/699028...
As a professor, this is extremely relatable
Teacher: Your project is due today. How much have you got done?
Student: We have been working steadily producing ideas trying to address this.
T: So you have nothing 🤦♂️
Student: We have been working steadily producing ideas trying to address this.
T: So you have nothing 🤦♂️
Q: You guys were out for 2 months during the shutdown. Why has it taken until the end of the year to start addressing these healthcare bills? And what's your message to those who are going to see their premiums rise?
MIKE JOHNSON: We have been working steadily producing ideas trying to address this
MIKE JOHNSON: We have been working steadily producing ideas trying to address this
December 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
As a professor, this is extremely relatable
might be the best news all day
INCREDIBLE STORY: Rural Ohio trans candidate nearly drops out of race after being targeted online, wins seat in Republican stronghold.
✏️ @bjodway.com via @reportforamerica.bsky.social
thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/12/15/a...
✏️ @bjodway.com via @reportforamerica.bsky.social
thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/12/15/a...
Rural Ohio trans candidate nearly drops out of race after being targeted online, wins seat in Republican stronghold
Amy Heutmaker pledges to heal political divide in her rural Ohio township
thebuckeyeflame.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
might be the best news all day
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It must be such a psychic relief to be a straight white man, and to know that no matter what professional failures or disappointments you face, the problem is always with the undeserving women and people of color, and never with your own inadequacy.
One problem with this take is the number of high profile white millennial men in the media...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
December 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It must be such a psychic relief to be a straight white man, and to know that no matter what professional failures or disappointments you face, the problem is always with the undeserving women and people of color, and never with your own inadequacy.
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As with other fascist movements, Republicans are slashing benefits & services in a way that suggests that they do not believe that they will face a meaningful election ever again.
The endgame of authoritarian regimes is to no longer need popular approval. So don't be too sanguine about Trump's plummeting popularity.
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Tip for writers, especially academics . . .
December 3, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Tip for writers, especially academics . . .
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Today marks the 151st anniversary of the Woman’s Tea Party held at Faneuil Hall in 1873, commemorating the Boston Tea Party centennial & reminding people that women couldn't vote. Suffragist leaders delivered speeches to 3,000+ people, continuing the fight for women’s suffrage. bit.ly/3fXdr4s
December 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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You can also find the stories of more than 200 Civil Rights activists (including Baker) at www.infinite-women.com/category/act...
December 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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RIP and thank you, Ms. Allen Boyce. 🗃 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
RIP and thank you, Ms. Allen Boyce. 🗃 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
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So much joy in the performance. There is another thing going around on here about memorable theater experiences, and seeing Stop Making Sense with my best friend in college (who dragged me to it) is pretty much it for me. Everyone got up and danced during the film. It opened up worlds for me
December 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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In the crudest terms, it’s going to be difficult to fight a war over sunshine. No one will ever seize a tanker to get at its supply of solar energy, says @billmckibben.bsky.social.
Trump's Oil Piracy Shows Why the Push for Renewable Energy Is the Push for Peace
Conflict like the US targeting of Venezuela is probably inevitable as long as the world depends on an energy source that is available only in a few places.
www.commondreams.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I love this
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A historic marker celebrating a century of an Ohio organization’s service to the blind also comes in Braille and audio formats www.wyso.org/2025-12-09/s...
Seeing, hearing and touching the past: a new historical marker is an Ohio first
The Sight Center of Northwest Ohio recently unveiled a new historical marker with braille and audio components. The organization believes it’s the first of its kind in the state.
www.wyso.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I love this
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Same. Suggestions, anyone?
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Historians. Do any of you use a historical timeline feature in your teaching at the lower levels where students can collectively add to it? We can’t use Padlet here so I’m wondering what alternatives are out there. Any experiences to share?
December 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Same. Suggestions, anyone?
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Unedited 16mm footage of boxing matches set up in a ballroom at the Palmer House on Nov 30, 1977.
📽️ From the Frank Koza Collection.
📽️ From the Frank Koza Collection.
December 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Unedited 16mm footage of boxing matches set up in a ballroom at the Palmer House on Nov 30, 1977.
📽️ From the Frank Koza Collection.
📽️ From the Frank Koza Collection.
December 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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I swear nearly every public event that involves either Trump or a cabinet member makes me think of this video all over again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Pd...
December 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I swear nearly every public event that involves either Trump or a cabinet member makes me think of this video all over again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Pd...
Pam Bondi is the new A. Mitchell Palmer
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“Terrorism” labeling is always political
www.commondreams.org/news/pam-bon...
“The memo identifies the “domestic terrorism threat” as organizations that use “violence or the threat of violence” to advance political goals such as “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; (cont’d)
www.commondreams.org/news/pam-bon...
“The memo identifies the “domestic terrorism threat” as organizations that use “violence or the threat of violence” to advance political goals such as “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; (cont’d)
Leaked Memo Shows Pam Bondi Wants List of 'Domestic Terrorism' Groups Who Express 'Anti-American Sentiment' | Common Dreams
Leaked memo reveals US Attorney General's directive to target organizations with purportedly extreme views on immigration, gender, and anti-American sentiment.
www.commondreams.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Pam Bondi is the new A. Mitchell Palmer
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Reupping in light of the news that SCOTUS will review birthright citizenship conferred by 14th Amendment
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"The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were the target of repeated efforts at repeal in the 1900s and 1910s." 🗃️
I explore how in a scholarly article published in the J GildedAge/ProgressiveEra.
I explore how in a scholarly article published in the J GildedAge/ProgressiveEra.
December 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Reupping in light of the news that SCOTUS will review birthright citizenship conferred by 14th Amendment
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