Justin Gage
@justingage.bsky.social
Historian, Assistant Professor in Arkansas. Author of awards winning We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us. https://linktr.ee/justingage
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Western historians: consider this CFP for the digital history lightning round at the 2026 WHA conference in Portland! Great format for discussing work in progress with a supportive audience. Happy to answer any questions. Respond by Wed., Dec. 3. #AmWest 🗃️
WHA 2026 Digital Scholarship Lightning Round - Expression of Interest
Please complete the form below. Someone from the Digital Scholarship Committee will contact you to confirm your acceptance to the lightning round. Contact Sean Fraga, sfraga@usc.edu, with questions.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Western historians: consider this CFP for the digital history lightning round at the 2026 WHA conference in Portland! Great format for discussing work in progress with a supportive audience. Happy to answer any questions. Respond by Wed., Dec. 3. #AmWest 🗃️
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Today is publication day for my book, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, through the University of Minnesota Press!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...
Mixed-Blood Histories
An unprecedented study that puts mixed-ancestry Native Americans back into the heart of Indigenous history Historical accounts tend to neglect mixed-ancestry...
www.upress.umn.edu
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Today is publication day for my book, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, through the University of Minnesota Press!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...
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A photograph of Japanese American students at the Rohwer incarceration camp in Arkansas. The students rush between barracks to get to their respective classes. The photograph was taken by Tom Parker on November 17, 1942.
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A photograph of Japanese American students at the Rohwer incarceration camp in Arkansas. The students rush between barracks to get to their respective classes. The photograph was taken by Tom Parker on November 17, 1942.
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
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CALL FOR PAPERS!
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS!
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
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Applications due November 14! 🗃️
There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Applications due November 14! 🗃️
Applications due November 14! 🗃️
There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Applications due November 14! 🗃️
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Archivist Erin Fehr will speak about how Native American players helped cruise the Little Rock Travelers to a Southern League championship win in 1920 at CALS’ monthly Legacies & Lunch lecture.
UA Little Rock Downtown to host 'American Indians in Arkansas Baseball' lecture Wednesday - Arkansas Times
Archivist Erin Fehr will speak about how Native American players helped cruise the Little Rock Travelers to a Southern League championship win in 1920 at CALS' monthly Legacies & Lunch lecture.
arktimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Archivist Erin Fehr will speak about how Native American players helped cruise the Little Rock Travelers to a Southern League championship win in 1920 at CALS’ monthly Legacies & Lunch lecture.
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Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/
Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025.
Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025.
October 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/
Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025.
Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025.
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A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920.
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920
The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The
www.cam.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920.
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
September 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
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Tonight the University of Washington community is mourning the loss of professor Quintard Taylor.
His 1994 book “The Forging of a Black Community” is foundational reading about race, class, and urban planning in Seattle political history.
He will be missed sorely.
His 1994 book “The Forging of a Black Community” is foundational reading about race, class, and urban planning in Seattle political history.
He will be missed sorely.
September 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Tonight the University of Washington community is mourning the loss of professor Quintard Taylor.
His 1994 book “The Forging of a Black Community” is foundational reading about race, class, and urban planning in Seattle political history.
He will be missed sorely.
His 1994 book “The Forging of a Black Community” is foundational reading about race, class, and urban planning in Seattle political history.
He will be missed sorely.
There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
September 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
There's a job opportunity in my department at the University of Arkansas - Asst. Professor of Early American History jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69108
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
UA still experiencing enrollment growth each year. Our chancellor & vice provost are history dept. faculty members. And Fayetteville is a great place to live
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"In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."
Muir Woods exhibit is first casualty of White House directive to erase history
"In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."
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July 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."
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The world’s richest 1 per cent have increased their wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, “more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” according to new @oxfaminternational.bsky.social analysis.
World’s richest 1% increased wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, Oxfam says
That amount is “more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” according to a new analysis from the anti-poverty group.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The world’s richest 1 per cent have increased their wealth by $33.9 trillion since 2015, “more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” according to new @oxfaminternational.bsky.social analysis.
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June 21, 1925: A Ku Klux Klan baseball team plays a Black team in Wichita, Kan. The Black squad, the Wichita Monrovians, win, 10-8. How this matchup came to be is unexplained. Fans are warned against "strangle holds, razors, horsewhips, and other violent implements of argument."
June 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
June 21, 1925: A Ku Klux Klan baseball team plays a Black team in Wichita, Kan. The Black squad, the Wichita Monrovians, win, 10-8. How this matchup came to be is unexplained. Fans are warned against "strangle holds, razors, horsewhips, and other violent implements of argument."
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#AmRel Postdoc beginning July.
Bryn Mawr College 1-year renewable postdoct with expertise in contemporary American religion, partnering with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators on a large national project about the changing spiritual infrastructure of the United States.
Bryn Mawr College 1-year renewable postdoct with expertise in contemporary American religion, partnering with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators on a large national project about the changing spiritual infrastructure of the United States.
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May 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
#AmRel Postdoc beginning July.
Bryn Mawr College 1-year renewable postdoct with expertise in contemporary American religion, partnering with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators on a large national project about the changing spiritual infrastructure of the United States.
Bryn Mawr College 1-year renewable postdoct with expertise in contemporary American religion, partnering with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators on a large national project about the changing spiritual infrastructure of the United States.
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Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
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May 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
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***Digital History Seed Grants***
The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields.
Deadline: 8/1/25
iehs.org/awards/seed_...
The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields.
Deadline: 8/1/25
iehs.org/awards/seed_...
Digital History Seed Grants
Visit the post for more.
iehs.org
May 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
***Digital History Seed Grants***
The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields.
Deadline: 8/1/25
iehs.org/awards/seed_...
The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields.
Deadline: 8/1/25
iehs.org/awards/seed_...
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All five international students at the University of Arkansas who had their visa status revoked last month have been reinstated, a university spokesperson confirmed Thursday.
Visas reinstated for all University of Arkansas’ international students who had status revoked | Arkansas Advocate
All five international students at the University of Arkansas who had their visa status revoked last month have been reinstated, a university spokesperson confirmed Thursday.
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May 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
All five international students at the University of Arkansas who had their visa status revoked last month have been reinstated, a university spokesperson confirmed Thursday.
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NEW: A sweeping new study finds three-fourths of North America's bird species are in decline
Scientists say it should be a wake-up call for us since some of the pressures on birds — climate change, pollution, etc. — aren't good for people, either
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Scientists say it should be a wake-up call for us since some of the pressures on birds — climate change, pollution, etc. — aren't good for people, either
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
75 percent of North America’s bird species are in decline, study says
Birds are rapidly vanishing from North America, with dramatic population losses in places that were once thought safe.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
NEW: A sweeping new study finds three-fourths of North America's bird species are in decline
Scientists say it should be a wake-up call for us since some of the pressures on birds — climate change, pollution, etc. — aren't good for people, either
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Scientists say it should be a wake-up call for us since some of the pressures on birds — climate change, pollution, etc. — aren't good for people, either
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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NEW: DeSantis directed the University of Florida to cancel a nearly-complete search for its next dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — because the governor believed the finalists were not in alignment with the state's opposition to DEI
U. of Florida Calls Off Dean Search After DeSantis Intervenes
A spokesperson said the governor’s office stepped in after a right-wing group posted videos of the finalists on social media and claimed they were “radical progressives with disdain for Florida’s DEI ...
www.chronicle.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
NEW: DeSantis directed the University of Florida to cancel a nearly-complete search for its next dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — because the governor believed the finalists were not in alignment with the state's opposition to DEI
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Hey #skystorians if you are in the area do join us for the Hotz lecture at the University of Arkansas sponsored by the History department and the law school news.uark.edu/articles/772...
April 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Hey #skystorians if you are in the area do join us for the Hotz lecture at the University of Arkansas sponsored by the History department and the law school news.uark.edu/articles/772...
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And overnight your friends at @nehgov.bsky.social staff have been placed on Admin Leave.
April 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
And overnight your friends at @nehgov.bsky.social staff have been placed on Admin Leave.