Aaron Fountain
@aaronfountainjr.bsky.social
Historian (PhD) / Author / Freelancer / Video Editor
Pre-order my book: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469691824/high-school-students-unite/
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An interviewee who lives in Thailand and just received a copy of my book sent me this message:
November 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
An interviewee who lives in Thailand and just received a copy of my book sent me this message:
Thanks to everyone who has so far pre-ordered the book, High School Students Unite! I've received several emails and text messages from friends and interviewees
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Thanks to everyone who has so far pre-ordered the book, High School Students Unite! I've received several emails and text messages from friends and interviewees
My copies of High School Students Unite! arrived in the mail on Friday. And it looks like friends, interviewees, and others who pre-ordered their copies got theirs too! #education #activism #history #skystorians @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146969182...
November 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My copies of High School Students Unite! arrived in the mail on Friday. And it looks like friends, interviewees, and others who pre-ordered their copies got theirs too! #education #activism #history #skystorians @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146969182...
I didn't expect to have a review this soon for my book "High School Students Unite!," but here is one from someone who requested an advance review copy
November 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I didn't expect to have a review this soon for my book "High School Students Unite!," but here is one from someone who requested an advance review copy
Despite its vast national reach and early recruitment of secondary school students, the Student Mobilization Committee is infrequently examined in major histories of the antiwar movement. I discuss its outreach efforts in my forthcoming book, High School Students Unite! uncpress.org/978146969182...
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Despite its vast national reach and early recruitment of secondary school students, the Student Mobilization Committee is infrequently examined in major histories of the antiwar movement. I discuss its outreach efforts in my forthcoming book, High School Students Unite! uncpress.org/978146969182...
Some exciting news: I’ll be giving a book talk at Book Passage in San Francisco on January 11, 2026, about my forthcoming book High School Students Unite! www.bookpassage.com/event/aaron-...
September 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Some exciting news: I’ll be giving a book talk at Book Passage in San Francisco on January 11, 2026, about my forthcoming book High School Students Unite! www.bookpassage.com/event/aaron-...
For ten consecutive years, Collinwood High School in Cleveland, Ohio was shaken by racial violence. Despite its significance, the Collinwood riots lacked a full historical account, until now. Preorder High School Students Unite! uncpress.org/978146969182...
August 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
For ten consecutive years, Collinwood High School in Cleveland, Ohio was shaken by racial violence. Despite its significance, the Collinwood riots lacked a full historical account, until now. Preorder High School Students Unite! uncpress.org/978146969182...
Over 1,000 underground high school papers circulated between 1965-75. One, The New York High School Free Press, peaked at 40,000 copies. I cover it in my forthcoming book High School Students Unite! (available for preorder) 👉 uncpress.org/book/9781469...
July 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Over 1,000 underground high school papers circulated between 1965-75. One, The New York High School Free Press, peaked at 40,000 copies. I cover it in my forthcoming book High School Students Unite! (available for preorder) 👉 uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Discussions about U.S. complicity in the Israel-Gaza War reminds me of my second book project, where Canadian antiwar activists called out Canada's complicity in Vietnam
July 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Discussions about U.S. complicity in the Israel-Gaza War reminds me of my second book project, where Canadian antiwar activists called out Canada's complicity in Vietnam
The title of my forthcoming book, "High School Students Unite!," comes from a political cartoon that first ran in a NYC underground paper and was reprinted in high school publications across North America for at least 7 years. Available for preorder: uncpress.org/book/9781469...
July 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The title of my forthcoming book, "High School Students Unite!," comes from a political cartoon that first ran in a NYC underground paper and was reprinted in high school publications across North America for at least 7 years. Available for preorder: uncpress.org/book/9781469...
For the first time in my life, I'm officially unemployed (I've been underemployed but I always had some paid job). I lost my job back in late March because a @nytimes.com reporter cited my employer, despite me telling them I cannot represent my job. Nonetheless, I am a finalist for a position.
July 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
For the first time in my life, I'm officially unemployed (I've been underemployed but I always had some paid job). I lost my job back in late March because a @nytimes.com reporter cited my employer, despite me telling them I cannot represent my job. Nonetheless, I am a finalist for a position.
I made another Google Veo 3 video to promote my book "High School Students Unite!" As a video editor, this feels too much like a shortcut and something anyone can do (literally), but it was fun to play with: uncpress.org/book/9781469...
June 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I made another Google Veo 3 video to promote my book "High School Students Unite!" As a video editor, this feels too much like a shortcut and something anyone can do (literally), but it was fun to play with: uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Here’s a rough cut of me experimenting with #googleveo3 to explore creative ways of promoting the book. I created a fictionalized version of a brief story from the book re: parents and the FBI. The dialogue is entirely fictional, but it’s inspired by real events. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
June 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Here’s a rough cut of me experimenting with #googleveo3 to explore creative ways of promoting the book. I created a fictionalized version of a brief story from the book re: parents and the FBI. The dialogue is entirely fictional, but it’s inspired by real events. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
I've been toying around with #googleveo 2 (version 3 is a bit pricey). It's giving me ideas on how to market my forthcoming book: uncpress.org/book/9781469... A mother confronting her son about an underground newspaper
June 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I've been toying around with #googleveo 2 (version 3 is a bit pricey). It's giving me ideas on how to market my forthcoming book: uncpress.org/book/9781469... A mother confronting her son about an underground newspaper
Most people know the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, but did you know San Francisco high schoolers led their own free speech fight over a banned underground paper in 1965?
I tell this long-forgotten story in High School Students Unite (pre-order link): uncpress.org/book/9781469...
I tell this long-forgotten story in High School Students Unite (pre-order link): uncpress.org/book/9781469...
June 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Most people know the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, but did you know San Francisco high schoolers led their own free speech fight over a banned underground paper in 1965?
I tell this long-forgotten story in High School Students Unite (pre-order link): uncpress.org/book/9781469...
I tell this long-forgotten story in High School Students Unite (pre-order link): uncpress.org/book/9781469...
In Nov. 1968 and Feb. 1969, students John Hay High School in #Cleveland, OH, organized two walkouts to protest a new discipline policy and made other demands. The controversy went on for 5 months. You can learn more about historic student uprisings in my forthcoming book uncpress.org/book/9781469...
May 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
In Nov. 1968 and Feb. 1969, students John Hay High School in #Cleveland, OH, organized two walkouts to protest a new discipline policy and made other demands. The controversy went on for 5 months. You can learn more about historic student uprisings in my forthcoming book uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Why did the #FBI spy on high school students in the '60s and '70s?
One reason: parents, school officials, and even classmates helped them do it.
My new book uncovers the story.
Pre-order now with 30% off: 01UNCP30 @uncpress.bsky.social #skystorians
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
One reason: parents, school officials, and even classmates helped them do it.
My new book uncovers the story.
Pre-order now with 30% off: 01UNCP30 @uncpress.bsky.social #skystorians
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
May 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Why did the #FBI spy on high school students in the '60s and '70s?
One reason: parents, school officials, and even classmates helped them do it.
My new book uncovers the story.
Pre-order now with 30% off: 01UNCP30 @uncpress.bsky.social #skystorians
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
One reason: parents, school officials, and even classmates helped them do it.
My new book uncovers the story.
Pre-order now with 30% off: 01UNCP30 @uncpress.bsky.social #skystorians
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Have you ever heard of the 1968 #Cincinnati High School Sit-ins? I discuss it and more I my forthcoming book, High School Students Unite! Available for pre-order #history #education #skystorians @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/book/9781469...
May 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Have you ever heard of the 1968 #Cincinnati High School Sit-ins? I discuss it and more I my forthcoming book, High School Students Unite! Available for pre-order #history #education #skystorians @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/book/9781469...
In August 1969, students from thirty-one high schools across the Bay Area attended a 3-day meeting in San Francisco called the Bay Area High School Liberation Conference. You can learn more about it in my book available for preorder: #highschoolactivism uncpress.org/book/9781469...
May 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
In August 1969, students from thirty-one high schools across the Bay Area attended a 3-day meeting in San Francisco called the Bay Area High School Liberation Conference. You can learn more about it in my book available for preorder: #highschoolactivism uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Every author takes inspiration from somewhere. These books shaped how I wrote my forthcoming book, High School Students Unite!. It can be pre-ordered with a 30 percent discount at uncpress.org/book/9781469...
May 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Every author takes inspiration from somewhere. These books shaped how I wrote my forthcoming book, High School Students Unite!. It can be pre-ordered with a 30 percent discount at uncpress.org/book/9781469...
The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago.
In High School Students Unite!, I show how teens mobilized against it, so powerfully that adult organizers called them the "backbone and organizer" of the antiwar movement. #VietnamWar #Activism Available for preorder: uncpress.org/book/9781469...
In High School Students Unite!, I show how teens mobilized against it, so powerfully that adult organizers called them the "backbone and organizer" of the antiwar movement. #VietnamWar #Activism Available for preorder: uncpress.org/book/9781469...
May 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago.
In High School Students Unite!, I show how teens mobilized against it, so powerfully that adult organizers called them the "backbone and organizer" of the antiwar movement. #VietnamWar #Activism Available for preorder: uncpress.org/book/9781469...
In High School Students Unite!, I show how teens mobilized against it, so powerfully that adult organizers called them the "backbone and organizer" of the antiwar movement. #VietnamWar #Activism Available for preorder: uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Want to know why the FBI spied on teenagers in the 1960s and 1970s? Or how did teenagers form their own social movement? My book, High School Students Unite!, is now available for pre-order @uncpress.bsky.social
LINK: uncpress.org/book/9781469...
🎉 Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!
LINK: uncpress.org/book/9781469...
🎉 Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!
April 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Want to know why the FBI spied on teenagers in the 1960s and 1970s? Or how did teenagers form their own social movement? My book, High School Students Unite!, is now available for pre-order @uncpress.bsky.social
LINK: uncpress.org/book/9781469...
🎉 Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!
LINK: uncpress.org/book/9781469...
🎉 Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!
Gatineau, Quebec, from the Library and Archives Canada.
April 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Gatineau, Quebec, from the Library and Archives Canada.
The cover of my forthcoming book by @uncpress.bsky.social. I'm glad this story (and the character-driven stories in the book) on 1960s and 1970s high school student activism will get out to the wider world.
March 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The cover of my forthcoming book by @uncpress.bsky.social. I'm glad this story (and the character-driven stories in the book) on 1960s and 1970s high school student activism will get out to the wider world.
New professional headshots
Credit: Kristina Sherk Photography
Credit: Kristina Sherk Photography
January 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
New professional headshots
Credit: Kristina Sherk Photography
Credit: Kristina Sherk Photography