John H. Cable
@johnhenrycable.bsky.social
Historian | Assistant Professor, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College | Book: SOUTHERN ENCLOSURE (University Press of Kansas, Nov. 2023)
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My department is hiring in African history and the United States since 1865! Both positions are tenure-track, and both hires will be made at the assistant level. I'm not on either search committee (sabbatical, babyyyyy), but I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have. 🗃️
September 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
My department is hiring in African history and the United States since 1865! Both positions are tenure-track, and both hires will be made at the assistant level. I'm not on either search committee (sabbatical, babyyyyy), but I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have. 🗃️
Shameless plug: If you're teaching a spring history course on the US South, civil rights, Native Am., &/or settler colonialism, consider adopting my recent book, Southern Enclosure kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700635832/ (read reviews in AHR and Ag History).
September 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Shameless plug: If you're teaching a spring history course on the US South, civil rights, Native Am., &/or settler colonialism, consider adopting my recent book, Southern Enclosure kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700635832/ (read reviews in AHR and Ag History).
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Marxist Amílcar Lopes Cabral was born on this day in 1924.
As founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, Cabral was a leading voice of anti-colonialism in West Africa.
As founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, Cabral was a leading voice of anti-colonialism in West Africa.
September 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Marxist Amílcar Lopes Cabral was born on this day in 1924.
As founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, Cabral was a leading voice of anti-colonialism in West Africa.
As founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, Cabral was a leading voice of anti-colonialism in West Africa.
I’ve been assigning this speech/sermon to my students for the better part of a decade. Hits a little different every time.
King, Riverside Church, NY, April 1967
King, Riverside Church, NY, April 1967
July 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I’ve been assigning this speech/sermon to my students for the better part of a decade. Hits a little different every time.
King, Riverside Church, NY, April 1967
King, Riverside Church, NY, April 1967
Nice being back in Athens yesterday - digging into the papers of Clarence Jordan and the Koinonia farm community of Sumter County, GA.
July 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Nice being back in Athens yesterday - digging into the papers of Clarence Jordan and the Koinonia farm community of Sumter County, GA.
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The US is becoming to akin to apartheid-era South Africa, where racialized groups needed a "passbook" to travel from one part of the country to the other. Who brings a passsport with them when they are traveling domestically?
Oh wow. Lanes on I-10 narrowed suddenly, forcing ALL drivers to exit at a weigh station.
A makeshift checkpoint—digital sign read: “Have Passport Ready”
1 of like 12 ICE agents, all standing around—in full military gear—ordered me to open my window:
“You a U.S. citizen?”
“Uh yes” then let me go..
A makeshift checkpoint—digital sign read: “Have Passport Ready”
1 of like 12 ICE agents, all standing around—in full military gear—ordered me to open my window:
“You a U.S. citizen?”
“Uh yes” then let me go..
June 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The US is becoming to akin to apartheid-era South Africa, where racialized groups needed a "passbook" to travel from one part of the country to the other. Who brings a passsport with them when they are traveling domestically?
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On this National HIV Testing Day, I’m giving away up to four copies of my @uncpress.bsky.social book THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE. To claim your copy, please just donate to an HIV/AIDS-related cause of your choosing (preferably a local HIV/AIDS service organization) and send me the receipt. 🗃️
June 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
On this National HIV Testing Day, I’m giving away up to four copies of my @uncpress.bsky.social book THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE. To claim your copy, please just donate to an HIV/AIDS-related cause of your choosing (preferably a local HIV/AIDS service organization) and send me the receipt. 🗃️
If you're at the NAISA Conference, check out the @univpressofkansas.bsky.social book table! (And maybe pick up a copy of Southern Enclosure...) #NAISA2025
We are all set up at the NAISA Conference! Check out our booth and chit-chat with our senior acquisitions editor David Congdon @dwcongdon.com.
June 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
If you're at the NAISA Conference, check out the @univpressofkansas.bsky.social book table! (And maybe pick up a copy of Southern Enclosure...) #NAISA2025
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With all due respect, Kevin, the fascists are going to propagate racist claims about protesters regardless of which flags they wave. Also, appeasement strategies like this seldom work in the informal political realm—or when your opponents are fascists hellbent on brutalizing civilians.
June 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
With all due respect, Kevin, the fascists are going to propagate racist claims about protesters regardless of which flags they wave. Also, appeasement strategies like this seldom work in the informal political realm—or when your opponents are fascists hellbent on brutalizing civilians.
What an honor to have had Greta de Jong review my book for the journal Agricultural History. Many thanks to the Agricultural History Society for sending the book to one of my historian heroes. If you haven’t already, check out Greta’s fascinating work!
May 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
What an honor to have had Greta de Jong review my book for the journal Agricultural History. Many thanks to the Agricultural History Society for sending the book to one of my historian heroes. If you haven’t already, check out Greta’s fascinating work!
AHR review of my 2024 @Kansas_Press book, Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi
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John H. Cable. Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi.
In Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi, John H. Cable broadens the historiographical scope of enclosure b
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March 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
AHR review of my 2024 @Kansas_Press book, Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi
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Just recently submitted my manuscript for POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT. It's a retelling of the civil rights movement through its overlooked work against police violence—and the police who attacked the movement with surveillance, infiltration, and retaliatory prosecutions.
Publication next fall!
Publication next fall!
November 22, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Just recently submitted my manuscript for POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT. It's a retelling of the civil rights movement through its overlooked work against police violence—and the police who attacked the movement with surveillance, infiltration, and retaliatory prosecutions.
Publication next fall!
Publication next fall!
Hear me yap about my book, Southern Enclosure (@Kansas_Press, 2023), with Miranda Melcher @NewBooksNetwork @NewBooksAfroAm @NewBooksAmStudi
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April 28, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Hear me yap about my book, Southern Enclosure (@Kansas_Press, 2023), with Miranda Melcher @NewBooksNetwork @NewBooksAfroAm @NewBooksAmStudi
newbooksnetwork.com/southern-enc...
newbooksnetwork.com/southern-enc...
New piece by the brilliant @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social on underdevelopment/US South. Inserting into multiple syllabi to teach. (Also humbled/honored that she cites my book, Southern Enclosure.) aeon.co/essays/capit...
Capitalism and (under)development in the American South | Aeon Essays
In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy
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April 2, 2024 at 4:01 PM
New piece by the brilliant @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social on underdevelopment/US South. Inserting into multiple syllabi to teach. (Also humbled/honored that she cites my book, Southern Enclosure.) aeon.co/essays/capit...
Honored to have my book, Southern Enclosure, on sale in the shop at the (Wendell) Berry Center in New Castle, KY. If you haven’t read Wendell Berry, please skip my book and buy one of his.
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(L to R: Berry, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton)
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(L to R: Berry, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton)
January 25, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Honored to have my book, Southern Enclosure, on sale in the shop at the (Wendell) Berry Center in New Castle, KY. If you haven’t read Wendell Berry, please skip my book and buy one of his.
bookshop.org/p/books/southe…
(L to R: Berry, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton)
bookshop.org/p/books/southe…
(L to R: Berry, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton)
Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s resolutions from 1943 were more or less on point.
December 28, 2023 at 4:56 AM
Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s resolutions from 1943 were more or less on point.
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Mainstream media, center-right pundits, and Democratic politicians legitimizing a neo-McCarthyist crusade as a campaign against antisemitism in America – that establishes the kind of permission structure that allows people to go with Trump over “the Left.”
New piece:
New piece:
We Are Falling Apart
The Right is successfully exploiting fears over rising antisemitism for its reactionary crusade while the Israel-Hamas war is tearing the democratic popular front to pieces.
New Democracy Americana:
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The Right is successfully exploiting fears over rising antisemitism for its reactionary crusade while the Israel-Hamas war is tearing the democratic popular front to pieces.
New Democracy Americana:
🧵1/
thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/we-are-fal...
We Are Falling Apart
The Right is successfully exploiting fears over rising antisemitism for its reactionary crusade while the Israel-Hamas war is tearing the democratic popular front to pieces
thomaszimmer.substack.com
December 14, 2023 at 5:02 PM
Mainstream media, center-right pundits, and Democratic politicians legitimizing a neo-McCarthyist crusade as a campaign against antisemitism in America – that establishes the kind of permission structure that allows people to go with Trump over “the Left.”
New piece:
New piece:
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🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!
November 1, 2023 at 12:44 PM
🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!
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Guess what! It’s #GivingTuesday! We’d love (and need) your support to make this documentary possible!
November 28, 2023 at 4:22 PM
Guess what! It’s #GivingTuesday! We’d love (and need) your support to make this documentary possible!
Back in 2018. RIP Rosalynn Carter.
November 20, 2023 at 1:34 AM
Back in 2018. RIP Rosalynn Carter.
Release day! Grab a copy of SOUTHERN ENCLOSURE if you’re interested in 20th c. South, Native South, enclosure, and/or settler colonialism. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700635832/
November 17, 2023 at 6:03 PM
Release day! Grab a copy of SOUTHERN ENCLOSURE if you’re interested in 20th c. South, Native South, enclosure, and/or settler colonialism. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700635832/
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Just clicked submit. Should be on bookshelves this time next year.
November 13, 2023 at 9:00 PM
Just clicked submit. Should be on bookshelves this time next year.
Author copies arrived today from @Kansas_Press. Many thanks to everyone who helped make this possible! #southernenclosure
November 8, 2023 at 10:09 PM
Author copies arrived today from @Kansas_Press. Many thanks to everyone who helped make this possible! #southernenclosure
This time last year, we lost the Rev. Charles Sherrod (far right). He arrived in Southwest GA in 1961 w/SNCC and never left. I have a special fondness for Sherrod because he was my first oral history interviewee. I had no clue what I was doing. He was so kind. RIP, my friend.
October 27, 2023 at 3:33 AM
This time last year, we lost the Rev. Charles Sherrod (far right). He arrived in Southwest GA in 1961 w/SNCC and never left. I have a special fondness for Sherrod because he was my first oral history interviewee. I had no clue what I was doing. He was so kind. RIP, my friend.