Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We invite you to read an interview with Dr. Rahim Kurwa on the contemporary history of racial housing regimes in the Antelope Valley and local struggles against the regions pernicious forms of racial criminalization and housing segregation. Read more here abusablepast.org/struggling-f... 010 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Join Susana Morris, Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Alison Parker, & Ashley Farmer on the importance of writing Black women's lives & the role of Black women's biographies in creating spaces for liberation, new histories, and projects for imagining new futures. Read here abusablepast.org/black-women-... 000 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History stands as a documentary trove of people that have fought for women's reproductive rights. Come read an interview with the center's Collection Development Librarian, Kelly Wooten, on why such spaces are more important than ever. tinyurl.com/3xu8p3cd 000 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 19/08/2026In this timely conversation on racial terror and state-sanctioned violence, historian Seth Kotch explores how local racial designs in North Carolina scaled into sanitized state institutions and modern capital punishment across the 19th and 20th centuries. Read more abusablepast.org/lethal-state... 022 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 25/07/2026We invite you to read and listen to Stuart Schrader’s archival primer to Blue Power, his fascinating new history on the formation of police unions and their impact on national and local politics in the second half of the twentieth century. Read more here abusablepast.org/the-badge-me... 035 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 10/07/2026If you're an AHA member, please consider voting. The Abusable Past stands with these scholars & their commitment to ensuring the AHA is an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Learn more: tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk 010 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 10/07/2026If you're an AHA member, please consider voting. The Abusable Past stands with these scholars & their commitment to ensuring the AHA is an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Learn more: tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk 000 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 10/07/2026If you're an AHA member, please consider voting. The Abusable Past stands with these scholars & their commitment to ensuring the AHA is an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Learn more: tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk 011 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 10/07/2026If you're an AHA member, please consider voting. The Abusable Past stands with these scholars & their commitment to ensuring the AHA is an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Learn more: tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk 000 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 10/07/2026If you're an AHA member, please consider voting. The Abusable Past stands with these scholars & their commitment to ensuring the AHA is an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Learn more: tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk 000 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 09/07/2026We count on your vote for our Democracy Slate scholars & their commitment to an AHA as an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Meet the candidates! Learn more tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk 000 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 09/07/2026We count on your vote for our Democracy Slate scholars & their commitment to an AHA as an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Meet the candidates! Learn more tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk 000 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Join us to ensure that the AHA functions democratically. We count on your vote for our Democracy Slate scholars & their commitment to an AHA as an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Meet the Scholars! 002 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Join us to ensure that the AHA functions democratically. We count on your vote for our Democracy Slate scholars & their commitment to an AHA as an organization that represents all historians, including those who work on the Middle East & oppose scholasticide in Gaza. Learn more tinyurl.com/3ftthdhk 000 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Dr. Ravenscroft’s piece on W. E. B. Du Bois’s provides a fascinating history of a lesser-known part Du Bois’s work, following his visit to Japan. As Dr. Ravenscroft writes “Du Bois decried the imperial aggression of all states except one. Read her analysis here! abusablepast.org/w-e-b-du-boi... 030 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 19/07/2025From a digital or analog collage, photo, drawing, blackout poem, video, or anything else, select artworks will be incorporated into openly licensed teaching materials. See more info about Executive Dis/Order at abusablepast.org/call-for-sub.... More questions can be directed to thepedlab@gmail.com. 031 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 19/07/2025The Pedagogy Lab & Center for Feminist Futures at UC Santa Barbara is seeking submissions for The Executive Dis/Order Project: Refusing Compliance. This project is looking for original art on executive power and its effects on democracy to build a visual archive of resistance to US suppression. /1 131 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 19/07/2025It would be an understatement to say 2025 so far has been difficult in the midst of political uncertainty and mounting assaults against our most vulnerable. Throughout this time, the Digital Collective has remained steadfast in our commitment to publish critical work and offers these pieces… /1 293 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 30/10/2024It is difficult to capture how the world was utterly transformed since October 7, 2023…This past summer, the Digital Collective joined those who encouraged a serious reflection on the violent administrative response to a wide range of student activism ... /1 541 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 09/08/2024"Seventy years ago today, Vito Marcantonio, the most left-wing congressman in US history, suffered a fatal heart attack. He had by then left office disappointed by McCarthyism and the failure of pro-worker and anti-racist legislative efforts." /1 122 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 02/08/2024Looking for some reading material this weekend? Check out "Pushing Forward: 25 Years of Black AIDS Awareness," a microsyllabus by Aishah Scott. This piece focuses on how systemic marginalization intensified the AIDS crisis in Black communities. /1 211 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 17/07/2024The Abusable Past seeks contributions that speak to faculty and student experiences with teaching and learning during the Palestine solidarity protests of 2024. More information here: abusablepast.org/a-call-for-s... 211 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 16/07/2024Abusable Past is accepting submissions for a new forum exploring the essence and boundaries of radical history. We aim to understand the definition of radical history, who practices it, and the challenges they face. 212 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 12/07/2024The Abusable Past seeks contributions that speak to faculty and student experiences with teaching and learning during the Palestine solidarity protests of 2024. More information here: mtsacecachronicle.com/7839/world/u... 110 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 08/07/2024Check out "Detention Nation: US Empire and Immigrant Prisons – Tina Shull and Elliott Young in Conversation." Dr. Elliott Young is a Professor in the History Department at Lewis and Clark College. Dr. Tina Shull (she/her) is an Associate Professor and Director of Public History at UNC Charlotte. 100 0
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 29/06/2024In "Immigration and Mental Health Collide, Again," Jeremy Peschard analyzes how U.S. policies tend to conflate asylum-seekers with having mental illnesses, harkening back to eugenics logic of the late 19th c. 320 0