Teresa Mangum
@teresamangum.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof still cooking with gas on 19th-century studies, animal studies, age studies burners. Co-editor U Iowa Press Humanities and Public Life book series.
IC Friends--On Saturday, May 10 from 2-4, a host of great local bands are holding what promises to be a super fun Day of Dylan--playing many of Bob Dylan's hits. The proceeds will support this summer's Iowa City Summer of the Arts events. Please share! See you there!
May 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
IC Friends--On Saturday, May 10 from 2-4, a host of great local bands are holding what promises to be a super fun Day of Dylan--playing many of Bob Dylan's hits. The proceeds will support this summer's Iowa City Summer of the Arts events. Please share! See you there!
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This was a great session; recording coming soon @modernlanguage.bsky.social
Enjoyed joining the MLA’s webinar yesterday on using the new MLA Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship. I was asked to prepare an overview of our MLA Committee on Information Technology’s goals for the new guidelines (www.mla.org/About-Us/Gov...). Here are my notes for that (screenshot).
April 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This was a great session; recording coming soon @modernlanguage.bsky.social
@katinalynn.bsky.social interviewed over 40 recipients about the devastating impact on communities and scholars when NEH grants were cancelled. The scariest part? The cancellations came from a NON-governmental email address. Crucial reading. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump’s Latest Cuts Will Hit Small-Town Culture Hard
The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.
slate.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
@katinalynn.bsky.social interviewed over 40 recipients about the devastating impact on communities and scholars when NEH grants were cancelled. The scariest part? The cancellations came from a NON-governmental email address. Crucial reading. slate.com/news-and-pol...
While the world burns...grappling with Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop. Has anyone taught it lately? How? What on earth did students make of it? Reading it now, I'm convinced we're all getting Quilped on a daily basis.
April 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
While the world burns...grappling with Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop. Has anyone taught it lately? How? What on earth did students make of it? Reading it now, I'm convinced we're all getting Quilped on a daily basis.
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COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
April 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
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NINE STATES are now refusing to sign the public ed order from the federal government.
I’m so so SO done with the ridiculous narrative that Vermont is giving nothing away by signing.
THIS IS WHY we asked for someone with experience & integrity to lead the department 💔
I’m so so SO done with the ridiculous narrative that Vermont is giving nothing away by signing.
THIS IS WHY we asked for someone with experience & integrity to lead the department 💔
April 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
NINE STATES are now refusing to sign the public ed order from the federal government.
I’m so so SO done with the ridiculous narrative that Vermont is giving nothing away by signing.
THIS IS WHY we asked for someone with experience & integrity to lead the department 💔
I’m so so SO done with the ridiculous narrative that Vermont is giving nothing away by signing.
THIS IS WHY we asked for someone with experience & integrity to lead the department 💔
Wonderful Hands Off gathering in Iowa City. And now back to making phone calls.
April 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Wonderful Hands Off gathering in Iowa City. And now back to making phone calls.
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Adding a link to the data I shared earlier, for historical context. The Black Lives Matter uprising of 2020 (which postdates the chart below) remains the largest protest mobilization in U.S. history by every measure.
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For the data nerds out there, here's a chart of the largest coordinated protests in U.S. history from my 2018 book HOW TO READ A PROTEST
Today's "Hands Off" protests, in 1000+ locations around the country, rank as one of the very largest decentralized days of protests EVER.
Today's "Hands Off" protests, in 1000+ locations around the country, rank as one of the very largest decentralized days of protests EVER.
April 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Adding a link to the data I shared earlier, for historical context. The Black Lives Matter uprising of 2020 (which postdates the chart below) remains the largest protest mobilization in U.S. history by every measure.
bsky.app/profile/laka...
bsky.app/profile/laka...
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Some judges are telling the fElon #HandsOff too.
Almost 350 of them.
They’ve signed an amicus brief backing the Perkins Coie law firm in its suit against the Trump regime.
Another brief signed by more than 300 law firms is expected.
#HandsOff the rule of law!
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Almost 350 of them.
They’ve signed an amicus brief backing the Perkins Coie law firm in its suit against the Trump regime.
Another brief signed by more than 300 law firms is expected.
#HandsOff the rule of law!
archive.ph/2025.04.04-1...
April 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Some judges are telling the fElon #HandsOff too.
Almost 350 of them.
They’ve signed an amicus brief backing the Perkins Coie law firm in its suit against the Trump regime.
Another brief signed by more than 300 law firms is expected.
#HandsOff the rule of law!
archive.ph/2025.04.04-1...
Almost 350 of them.
They’ve signed an amicus brief backing the Perkins Coie law firm in its suit against the Trump regime.
Another brief signed by more than 300 law firms is expected.
#HandsOff the rule of law!
archive.ph/2025.04.04-1...
Looking forward to seeing lots of hopeful, determined friends tomorrow at the Hands Off rally in Iowa City (right after the great Darwin Day events)!
April 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Looking forward to seeing lots of hopeful, determined friends tomorrow at the Hands Off rally in Iowa City (right after the great Darwin Day events)!
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I'm going to post some of my fav humanities scholarship, in appreciation for the work that smart people do.
The @ccp-org.bsky.social is one of my fav projects. It focuses on Black organizing in 19th century U.S. The websites and #DigBlk scholars are worth looking into.
coloredconventions.org
The @ccp-org.bsky.social is one of my fav projects. It focuses on Black organizing in 19th century U.S. The websites and #DigBlk scholars are worth looking into.
coloredconventions.org
Home - Colored Conventions Project
The Colored Conventions Project (CCP) is a scholarly and community research project dedicated to bringing the seven decades-long history of nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life. Mirrori...
coloredconventions.org
April 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I'm going to post some of my fav humanities scholarship, in appreciation for the work that smart people do.
The @ccp-org.bsky.social is one of my fav projects. It focuses on Black organizing in 19th century U.S. The websites and #DigBlk scholars are worth looking into.
coloredconventions.org
The @ccp-org.bsky.social is one of my fav projects. It focuses on Black organizing in 19th century U.S. The websites and #DigBlk scholars are worth looking into.
coloredconventions.org
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Check your name here: thegriffinlist.com
The Griffin List
A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to
early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted.
...
thegriffinlist.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Check your name here: thegriffinlist.com
I absolutely love seeing that little old Lisbon and Red Oak, Iowa are planning Hands Off! events this Saturday. I also love I'll be with so many of you in spirit all across the country when I head to our local Iowa City protest. ❤️ mobilize.us/handsoff/
Hands Off! Join the National Mobilization to Fight Back · Hands Off on Mobilize
Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Hands Off.
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April 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I absolutely love seeing that little old Lisbon and Red Oak, Iowa are planning Hands Off! events this Saturday. I also love I'll be with so many of you in spirit all across the country when I head to our local Iowa City protest. ❤️ mobilize.us/handsoff/
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ALA is deeply concerned by reports that IMLS is sending notices to libraries claiming to cancel grants that are required by law. This harmful action will disrupt libraries' ability to serve their communities.
Tell Congress to protect library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
#ForOurLibraries
Tell Congress to protect library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
#ForOurLibraries
April 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
ALA is deeply concerned by reports that IMLS is sending notices to libraries claiming to cancel grants that are required by law. This harmful action will disrupt libraries' ability to serve their communities.
Tell Congress to protect library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
#ForOurLibraries
Tell Congress to protect library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
#ForOurLibraries
Your State Humanities Council has probably hosted scholars at your public lib, public history projects, hard community conversations, and far more. NEH fellowships won't be far behind. Call your legislators with good stories of NEH impact asap! www.statehumanities.org/action-alert...
Action Alert: NEH Targeted by DOGE - Federation of State Humanities Councils
Save Our Humanities Councils: DOGE Cuts to NEH will Damage Cultural Organizations in Every State April 3, 2025 – UPDATE Late last night, Wednesday, April 2, all humanities councils received … Read mor...
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April 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Your State Humanities Council has probably hosted scholars at your public lib, public history projects, hard community conversations, and far more. NEH fellowships won't be far behind. Call your legislators with good stories of NEH impact asap! www.statehumanities.org/action-alert...
Watching NEH shut down grants and IPR / NPR threatened, I try to resist hopelessness. Mariame Kaba has a creative list of suggestions in case you're struggling, too. H/T @katinalynn.bsky.social for the reminder.
Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting
Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting A list adapted from & inspired by Frontline Medics. Here was their original list of 25 actions. I’ve added a lot of things and edited other things. [Not...
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March 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Watching NEH shut down grants and IPR / NPR threatened, I try to resist hopelessness. Mariame Kaba has a creative list of suggestions in case you're struggling, too. H/T @katinalynn.bsky.social for the reminder.
I agree that the Social Security Administration is not responsible for the improper disclosure of any information that the Social Security Administration has provided to me or any information that is on or from my computer or other device, whether due to my negligence or the wrongful acts of others.
March 9, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I agree that the Social Security Administration is not responsible for the improper disclosure of any information that the Social Security Administration has provided to me or any information that is on or from my computer or other device, whether due to my negligence or the wrongful acts of others.
1) Those of you getting SS—did you get a message today from SS asking you to sign an updated security statement? And was this final item on the usual checklist on there before? I’m calling a senator’s office before I agree to this—seen next message for the quote.
March 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
1) Those of you getting SS—did you get a message today from SS asking you to sign an updated security statement? And was this final item on the usual checklist on there before? I’m calling a senator’s office before I agree to this—seen next message for the quote.
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This essay by Peter Coviello--on what it is that the humanities, public higher ed, unions, and people can do--is what's giving me life today www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
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March 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This essay by Peter Coviello--on what it is that the humanities, public higher ed, unions, and people can do--is what's giving me life today www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Seeing this happening in so many spaces, especially in higher ed.
March 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Seeing this happening in so many spaces, especially in higher ed.
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2 year Postdoc opportunity in Environmental Humanities (focus on Multispecies Politics) at William & Mary. "We seek an individual with expertise in Multispecies Politics or Animate Ecologies...the postdoc will have substantial amounts of time to focus on their own research agenda."
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
The Environment & Sustainability Program at William & Mary, a public university of the Commonwealth of Virginia, invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate position tha...
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February 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
2 year Postdoc opportunity in Environmental Humanities (focus on Multispecies Politics) at William & Mary. "We seek an individual with expertise in Multispecies Politics or Animate Ecologies...the postdoc will have substantial amounts of time to focus on their own research agenda."
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America is now seen as the nation that betrays other democracies around the world. I think that means we are no longer considered a democracy. It’s been one month.
Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany.
“BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”
“BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”
February 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
America is now seen as the nation that betrays other democracies around the world. I think that means we are no longer considered a democracy. It’s been one month.
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Freezing out the NIH's funding means freezing out American innovation.
Research into curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all delayed.
And ultimately it won't just cost us advancements in life-saving research, it will cost us lives.
Research into curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all delayed.
And ultimately it won't just cost us advancements in life-saving research, it will cost us lives.
NIH funding cuts could have ‘devastating impact’ on medical advancements, Chicago researchers say
The National Institutes of Health under President Donald Trump announced this month that it was cutting payments covering overhead costs for research institutions that receive its grants.
www.wbez.org
February 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Freezing out the NIH's funding means freezing out American innovation.
Research into curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all delayed.
And ultimately it won't just cost us advancements in life-saving research, it will cost us lives.
Research into curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all delayed.
And ultimately it won't just cost us advancements in life-saving research, it will cost us lives.