Gregg Michel 🦋
@glmhistory.bsky.social
Historian | Faculty Athletics Rep | UTSA | Author of Spying on Students (LSU Press) 🗃️ | Views my own
Excited to teach Dylan Penningroth’s Before The Movement to my grad class today. Preparing for class I’m reminded how rich, insightful, and innovative the book is. 🗃️
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Excited to teach Dylan Penningroth’s Before The Movement to my grad class today. Preparing for class I’m reminded how rich, insightful, and innovative the book is. 🗃️
Congrats to all the UTSA History students presenting at the Cowden History Symposium. @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social 🗃️
October 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Congrats to all the UTSA History students presenting at the Cowden History Symposium. @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social 🗃️
@utsaroadrunners.bsky.social students show up! Día De Los Muertos celebration sponsored by the History Club. 🗃️
October 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
@utsaroadrunners.bsky.social students show up! Día De Los Muertos celebration sponsored by the History Club. 🗃️
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The AHA has sent a letter to Texas State University president Kelly Damphousse registering strong objection to the university’s decision to terminate the employment of Dr. Thomas Alter without due process. 🗃️
AHA Sends Letter Objecting to Firing of Texas State University Professor
The AHA has sent a letter to Texas State University professor Kelly Damphousse registering strong objection to the university’s decision to terminate the employment of Dr. Thomas Alter without due pro...
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September 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The AHA has sent a letter to Texas State University president Kelly Damphousse registering strong objection to the university’s decision to terminate the employment of Dr. Thomas Alter without due process. 🗃️
Deeply felt and ultimately sorrowful essay
The great historian Joan Wallach Scott writing for the Boston Review (@bostonreview.bsky.social); h/t @jvmoltke.bsky.social; #skystorians: www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...
A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
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September 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Deeply felt and ultimately sorrowful essay
Anthropic settlement is a win for authors. Will it set the pattern others follow?
September 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Anthropic settlement is a win for authors. Will it set the pattern others follow?
The King children put it succinctly about the latest file release: their father was “relentlessly targeted by an invasive, predatory, and deeply disturbing disinformation and surveillance campaign.” Never forget that fact. 🗃️
July 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The King children put it succinctly about the latest file release: their father was “relentlessly targeted by an invasive, predatory, and deeply disturbing disinformation and surveillance campaign.” Never forget that fact. 🗃️
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Really look forward to this new book from @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social. Will be an important addition to the growing historiography on police and the movements of the ‘60s. 🗃️
Really look forward to this new book from @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social. Will be an important addition to the growing historiography on police and the movements of the ‘60s. 🗃️
Police Against the Movement
A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century...
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July 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Really look forward to this new book from @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social. Will be an important addition to the growing historiography on police and the movements of the ‘60s. 🗃️
Really look forward to this new book from @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social. Will be an important addition to the growing historiography on police and the movements of the ‘60s. 🗃️
Tough couple days to lose both Sly Stone and Brian Wilson. Each changed the musical world with their innovations and brilliance.
June 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Tough couple days to lose both Sly Stone and Brian Wilson. Each changed the musical world with their innovations and brilliance.
I had great fun answering questions about surveillance and student activists in the 1960s at @askhistorians.bsky.social AMA. Thanks for inviting me, and check out my book, Spying on Students lsupress.org/978080718222..., to learn more about the topic. #skystorians.
June 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I had great fun answering questions about surveillance and student activists in the 1960s at @askhistorians.bsky.social AMA. Thanks for inviting me, and check out my book, Spying on Students lsupress.org/978080718222..., to learn more about the topic. #skystorians.
Like many others today, wishing a happy birthday to the incomparable Bob Dylan. His music expresses our humanity, beautifully poignantly, and without compare.
May 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Like many others today, wishing a happy birthday to the incomparable Bob Dylan. His music expresses our humanity, beautifully poignantly, and without compare.
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Wonderful story that highlights the rich history of Memphis. 🗃️
Wonderful story that highlights the rich history of Memphis. 🗃️
‘A Priceless Inheritance’: Preserving Memories of Black Life in Memphis
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May 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Wonderful story that highlights the rich history of Memphis. 🗃️
Wonderful story that highlights the rich history of Memphis. 🗃️
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Otis Sanford puts it well: “The culture historically of Memphis police in some respects has been oppressive to African-American citizens. That’s just a fact.” 🗃️
Otis Sanford puts it well: “The culture historically of Memphis police in some respects has been oppressive to African-American citizens. That’s just a fact.” 🗃️
Tyre Nichols Verdict Stirs Anger, Grief And Prayerful Reflection - Institute for Public Service Reporting - Memphis
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May 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Otis Sanford puts it well: “The culture historically of Memphis police in some respects has been oppressive to African-American citizens. That’s just a fact.” 🗃️
Otis Sanford puts it well: “The culture historically of Memphis police in some respects has been oppressive to African-American citizens. That’s just a fact.” 🗃️
Yesterday’s Nau Conference on Texas History hosted by the @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social History Dept showcased exciting new work on the state’s rich & diverse history and the digital tools that are making it even more accessible. Shout out to the incomparable Catherine Clinton for organizing. 🗃️
April 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Yesterday’s Nau Conference on Texas History hosted by the @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social History Dept showcased exciting new work on the state’s rich & diverse history and the digital tools that are making it even more accessible. Shout out to the incomparable Catherine Clinton for organizing. 🗃️
Kudos to my @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social colleagues who are integrating AI into their pedagogy. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...
Using Peer Networks to Integrate AI Literacy Into Liberal Arts
How one college is using grassroots support to help professors experiment with AI.
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April 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Kudos to my @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social colleagues who are integrating AI into their pedagogy. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...
Congratulations to the AAC champions. let’s keep rolling ! Birds Up🤙 #UTSA
‘Runners cut down the nets, top FAU, 60-42, on Senior Day
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March 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Congratulations to the AAC champions. let’s keep rolling ! Birds Up🤙 #UTSA
The one and only David Johansen. RIP.
March 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The one and only David Johansen. RIP.
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When Texas health officials talk like this you can understand the scope of the problem here: “I don’t want anybody to suffer from long-lasting disability because they got measles. But if you choose to live in Texas,” he added, “you can exercise that option.”
When Texas health officials talk like this you can understand the scope of the problem here: “I don’t want anybody to suffer from long-lasting disability because they got measles. But if you choose to live in Texas,” he added, “you can exercise that option.”
In Texas Measles Outbreak, Signs of a Riskier Future for Children
Vaccine hesitancy has been rising for years in the United States. Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the consequences.
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February 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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When Texas health officials talk like this you can understand the scope of the problem here: “I don’t want anybody to suffer from long-lasting disability because they got measles. But if you choose to live in Texas,” he added, “you can exercise that option.”
When Texas health officials talk like this you can understand the scope of the problem here: “I don’t want anybody to suffer from long-lasting disability because they got measles. But if you choose to live in Texas,” he added, “you can exercise that option.”
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Trump yesterday, repeating something he’s been saying for years (re: tariffs, which he said would make the US “rich’): “it’s going to stop us from being a laughingstock all over the world because we have been taken advantage of like no country has been taken advantage of.” Let’s unpack this a bit./1
February 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Trump yesterday, repeating something he’s been saying for years (re: tariffs, which he said would make the US “rich’): “it’s going to stop us from being a laughingstock all over the world because we have been taken advantage of like no country has been taken advantage of.” Let’s unpack this a bit./1
A great scholar and kind and gentle person.
Another huge loss. Martin Marty leaves a giant legacy in the field of religious history. I only interacted with him a couple times, and I wish I had been able to connect with him more.
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Obituary – Martin E. Marty
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February 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
A great scholar and kind and gentle person.
My sentiments exactly
February 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
My sentiments exactly
#skystorians I’m developing an upper-level course on the U.S. in the ‘60s and thinking of using Lakota Woman as one of the books. Anyone use it in similar course? Students respond well to it? Welcome any thoughts! 🗃️
February 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
#skystorians I’m developing an upper-level course on the U.S. in the ‘60s and thinking of using Lakota Woman as one of the books. Anyone use it in similar course? Students respond well to it? Welcome any thoughts! 🗃️
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"Intended to instill fear in teachers, this order itself ironically seems driven by fear, by a refusal to acknowledge the diversity of our nation and the wounds that cannot be healed until they are understood." 🗃️ newrepublic.com/article/1912...
Trump May Wish to Abolish
the Past. We Historians Will Not.
Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.
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February 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Intended to instill fear in teachers, this order itself ironically seems driven by fear, by a refusal to acknowledge the diversity of our nation and the wounds that cannot be healed until they are understood." 🗃️ newrepublic.com/article/1912...