The memorial/the mill — I visited Honea Path yesterday, to see the marker to the strikers killed at Chiquola Mill in 1934 and the mill’s ruins.

Someone at the SC Experiment Station’s dairy dept had a real sense of humor

What kind of time-traveling shit poster went back to 1920s South Carolina to name a bull “Sarcastic Hero Lad”?

South Carolina summer (blazing heat and humidity not pictured)

Was not expecting this 1934 report from FDR’s National Resources Board to go quite so hard

The best part of summer in the South

I’ll be giving a book talk tomorrow at USC-Lancaster — and there’s a link if you want to attend virtually: bit.ly/4hUpnPr?fbcl...

"Solidarity is the only answer." -- Robin D. G. Kelley on the lessons of Hammer and Hoe, in a 2013 interview from the American Quarterly. jstor.org/stable/41809...

From the August 30, 1930 edition of the Southern Worker (digitized here www.marxists.org/history/usa/...). Happy May Day!

I promise I did actually attend the OAH itself. But I also walked around Chicago a lot.

Got to pilgrimage to the Haymarket memorial during the OAH — the statue isn’t the most inspiring in its design, but the plaques on it are.

Charlotte march —

Happy New Year, y’all!

And my son brutally rejecting it because he absolutely had to have raisins instead and cake would not do!

The Buche de Noel that my dad and I made for my son’s second birthday, since he’s a Christmas baby!

Hi y'all! Doing my once-every-six-months check-in over here, in part because I'll be doing a short book talk/Q&A in my hometown on Saturday and thought there might be Columbia, SC folks over here who have fled Twitter! Join me :)

A couple photos from my talk on my book Hurricane Jim Crow for the Reconstruction Era National Historical Park last week, which was held at Penn Center's Darrah Hall, on St. Helena Island, SC.

(Bonus photo of a nearby salt marsh, taken from Hunting Island)