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).

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

Nice being back in Athens yesterday - digging into the papers of Clarence Jordan and the Koinonia farm community of Sumter County, GA.

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!

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)

Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s resolutions from 1943 were more or less on point.

Back in 2018. RIP Rosalynn Carter.

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.