Michael Pierce
michaelcainpierce.bsky.social
Michael Pierce
@michaelcainpierce.bsky.social
Historian of labor, race, & Arkansas living in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Historians & other scholars at Arkansas’s public universities are now prohibited from using the term “West Bank” in a syllabus or other university document to refer to the west bank of the Jordan River. This is the state of academic freedom in Arkansas.

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arkleg.state.ar.us
August 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The Trump administration’s revocation of the visas of five international students at the University of Arkansas is an assault on the civil liberties that protect all of us. Here is something I wrote for today’s Democrat Gazette.

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Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
nwa.pressreader.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Congress might have surrendered, but I haven’t. At the American Federation of Government Employees #2201 rally at Fayetteville VA. We can’t let Trump and Musk destroy veterans’ healthcare.
March 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM