Dr. John R. Legg
@legg.bsky.social
Scholar of Indigenous & Digital Public History 📖 PhD, George Mason. Researching Indigenous mobility + diplomacy in the Civil War era. Book Review Editor H-CivWar. In Progress: _Degrees of Liberation_ editing w/ Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. web: johnlegg.org
I’m thrilled to share that Board of Governors of the UNL Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has appointed me Affiliate Fellow for the 2026-2031 term. I’m very thankful for Melissa Anne Amateis's nomination and excited to serve the Center for the next several years.
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I’m thrilled to share that Board of Governors of the UNL Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has appointed me Affiliate Fellow for the 2026-2031 term. I’m very thankful for Melissa Anne Amateis's nomination and excited to serve the Center for the next several years.
Look what came in the mail! You can read “Cracks in the Granite: Contested Civil War Memories in the American West” in this year’s December issue of Civil War History. @nielseichhorn.bsky.social. W/great company: @jjacobcalhoun.bsky.social & William S. Kiser. Thanks @jimdowns.bsky.social & staff
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Look what came in the mail! You can read “Cracks in the Granite: Contested Civil War Memories in the American West” in this year’s December issue of Civil War History. @nielseichhorn.bsky.social. W/great company: @jjacobcalhoun.bsky.social & William S. Kiser. Thanks @jimdowns.bsky.social & staff
Received page proofs for an article co-authored with @nielseichhorn.bsky.social in Civil War History (with excellent company)! Very excited to have this work out in the world this December! 🎉
August 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Received page proofs for an article co-authored with @nielseichhorn.bsky.social in Civil War History (with excellent company)! Very excited to have this work out in the world this December! 🎉
Fish gutters in New Orleans! Taken yesterday.
August 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Fish gutters in New Orleans! Taken yesterday.
Are the issues only because people are “overwhelmed, distracted, or frustrated with the technologies”?
What about the environmental factors? What about data scraping issues? Why don’t you have an environmental historian on the committee?
What about the environmental factors? What about data scraping issues? Why don’t you have an environmental historian on the committee?
August 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Are the issues only because people are “overwhelmed, distracted, or frustrated with the technologies”?
What about the environmental factors? What about data scraping issues? Why don’t you have an environmental historian on the committee?
What about the environmental factors? What about data scraping issues? Why don’t you have an environmental historian on the committee?
Excited about next week’s talk at the Galesburg (IL) Public Library, almost 80 years to the date of my grandpa sustaining wounds on Okinawa (May 16, 1945).
May 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Excited about next week’s talk at the Galesburg (IL) Public Library, almost 80 years to the date of my grandpa sustaining wounds on Okinawa (May 16, 1945).
Thanks for the book, @william-sturkey.bsky.social! We can’t wait to dive in before our move to Hattiesburg and USM! @jenandrella.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Thanks for the book, @william-sturkey.bsky.social! We can’t wait to dive in before our move to Hattiesburg and USM! @jenandrella.bsky.social
80 years ago, my Grandpa + his fellow Marines in Co. L of the 22nd Marines/6th Marine Division landed on Okinawa for the last major battle of WW2. Willard Legg survived a month + a half on Okinawa, sustaining wounds on May 16 fighting up Sugar Loaf Hill.
www.sixthmarinedivision.com/21StoryLegg....
www.sixthmarinedivision.com/21StoryLegg....
April 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
80 years ago, my Grandpa + his fellow Marines in Co. L of the 22nd Marines/6th Marine Division landed on Okinawa for the last major battle of WW2. Willard Legg survived a month + a half on Okinawa, sustaining wounds on May 16 fighting up Sugar Loaf Hill.
www.sixthmarinedivision.com/21StoryLegg....
www.sixthmarinedivision.com/21StoryLegg....
It’s Douglass Day! Happy Birthday, Frederick Douglass!@jenandrella.bsky.social, the Abolition Lab at Knox College, and Seymour Library is connecting Knox students to the annual transcribathon for materials at the Library of Congress! More here (if you’d like to connect at home): www.douglassday.org
February 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It’s Douglass Day! Happy Birthday, Frederick Douglass!@jenandrella.bsky.social, the Abolition Lab at Knox College, and Seymour Library is connecting Knox students to the annual transcribathon for materials at the Library of Congress! More here (if you’d like to connect at home): www.douglassday.org
January 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Me at the start of winter break versus me when I have to start working on Spring 2025 syllabi.
January 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Me at the start of winter break versus me when I have to start working on Spring 2025 syllabi.
I am pleased to share good news that I just signed a contract to teach a few online U.S. History since 1865 courses for Angelo State University in the Spring semester.
December 18, 2024 at 4:30 PM
I am pleased to share good news that I just signed a contract to teach a few online U.S. History since 1865 courses for Angelo State University in the Spring semester.
On this day in 1865, the U.S. Army executed Bdewákhaŋthuŋwaŋ Dakȟóta leaders Śakpe (Little Six) and Wakháŋ Ožáŋžaŋ (Medicine Bottle) at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Here's a quick thread that narrates their story in the immediate aftermath of the U.S.-Dakȟóta War of 1862.
November 11, 2024 at 2:44 PM
On this day in 1865, the U.S. Army executed Bdewákhaŋthuŋwaŋ Dakȟóta leaders Śakpe (Little Six) and Wakháŋ Ožáŋžaŋ (Medicine Bottle) at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Here's a quick thread that narrates their story in the immediate aftermath of the U.S.-Dakȟóta War of 1862.
In my Civil War course, I asked students to review Giesberg's _Sex and the Civil War._ After this past week, it was powerful for them to reflect on morality and 19th century access to contraception and abortion. Their connections to today's politics have been impressive.
November 10, 2024 at 4:03 AM
In my Civil War course, I asked students to review Giesberg's _Sex and the Civil War._ After this past week, it was powerful for them to reflect on morality and 19th century access to contraception and abortion. Their connections to today's politics have been impressive.
A great roundtable session with Claire Thomson, Jimmy Sweet, Dakota Goodhouse, and myself. We talked about Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Mobility in the Northern Great Plains and U.S.-Canadian Borderlands! #WHA2024
October 27, 2024 at 2:08 AM
A great roundtable session with Claire Thomson, Jimmy Sweet, Dakota Goodhouse, and myself. We talked about Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Mobility in the Northern Great Plains and U.S.-Canadian Borderlands! #WHA2024
I am pleased to share a CFP for an edited volume, Decolonizing the Campus, edited by myself and @llassabe.bsky.social. Please reach out if you have any questions.
September 28, 2024 at 7:46 PM
I am pleased to share a CFP for an edited volume, Decolonizing the Campus, edited by myself and @llassabe.bsky.social. Please reach out if you have any questions.
So excited to see the book in print! Thanks to Trae Welborn and Patrick Lewis for inviting me to write a chapter on Indigenous history and The Oregon Trail. Go pick up a copy from LSU Press!
August 28, 2024 at 8:48 PM
So excited to see the book in print! Thanks to Trae Welborn and Patrick Lewis for inviting me to write a chapter on Indigenous history and The Oregon Trail. Go pick up a copy from LSU Press!
Some professional news! This Fall, I’m teaching the online American Civil War course at Minnesota State Mankato, Mankato.
While I’m only slated to teach 1 course, I’ll use the free time to make progress on my book proposal, prep job materials, + finish revising an article.
While I’m only slated to teach 1 course, I’ll use the free time to make progress on my book proposal, prep job materials, + finish revising an article.
June 18, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Some professional news! This Fall, I’m teaching the online American Civil War course at Minnesota State Mankato, Mankato.
While I’m only slated to teach 1 course, I’ll use the free time to make progress on my book proposal, prep job materials, + finish revising an article.
While I’m only slated to teach 1 course, I’ll use the free time to make progress on my book proposal, prep job materials, + finish revising an article.
Yesterday I graduated from George Mason University with my PhD in History. What a journey it has been over the last few years. It was nice to travel to campus and celebrate with my advisor, other faculty, and my family! But dang, I forgot how busy the NoVA/DC area is at all times of the day!
May 10, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Yesterday I graduated from George Mason University with my PhD in History. What a journey it has been over the last few years. It was nice to travel to campus and celebrate with my advisor, other faculty, and my family! But dang, I forgot how busy the NoVA/DC area is at all times of the day!
Great news, all. This morning I successfully defended my dissertation and passed with no revisions! What a great journey it's been and I can't wait to see what comes next. Until then, I am going to celebrate and enjoy the moment.
March 20, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Great news, all. This morning I successfully defended my dissertation and passed with no revisions! What a great journey it's been and I can't wait to see what comes next. Until then, I am going to celebrate and enjoy the moment.
Diss defense scheduled! Wed., March 20, 9:30-11:30AM. Here's the abstract to those who are interested in what I've been working on over the last few years. Title: "In Our Own Rightful Territory": Dakota Mobility, Diplomacy, and Belonging in Mni Sota Makoce after the US-Dakota War
February 28, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Diss defense scheduled! Wed., March 20, 9:30-11:30AM. Here's the abstract to those who are interested in what I've been working on over the last few years. Title: "In Our Own Rightful Territory": Dakota Mobility, Diplomacy, and Belonging in Mni Sota Makoce after the US-Dakota War
I found this postcard of a monument to Sitting Bull in SD. The monument happens to be surrounded not only by a fence, but barbed wire. This is the only evidence of the fence as it has since been removed. I'm sure those who raised the monument and fence quickly realized how of bad of an idea this was
November 2, 2023 at 8:11 PM
I found this postcard of a monument to Sitting Bull in SD. The monument happens to be surrounded not only by a fence, but barbed wire. This is the only evidence of the fence as it has since been removed. I'm sure those who raised the monument and fence quickly realized how of bad of an idea this was
I can’t wait for our roundtable this Saturday between 1:30pm and 3pm at the #WHA2023 conference. Come out and engage in a conversation that seeks to center voices, perspectives, events, and regions often obfuscated in the history and memory of the Civil War era.
October 24, 2023 at 2:46 AM
I can’t wait for our roundtable this Saturday between 1:30pm and 3pm at the #WHA2023 conference. Come out and engage in a conversation that seeks to center voices, perspectives, events, and regions often obfuscated in the history and memory of the Civil War era.
Hey graduate students attending the WHA next week: @herberthistory.bsky.social and others have pooled together to fund up to five free headshot sessions for graduate students. Reach out to me or Jason with any questions!
October 20, 2023 at 1:23 PM
Hey graduate students attending the WHA next week: @herberthistory.bsky.social and others have pooled together to fund up to five free headshot sessions for graduate students. Reach out to me or Jason with any questions!