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Ansley Quiros

@ansleyquiros.bsky.social
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Historian, Author, Teacher, Alabama resident. Writing "Committed: The Lives, Work, and Love of Charles and Shirley Sherrod." More thank you notes than posts. www.ansleyquiros.com

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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Beautiful. Wright Thompson somehow uses Lane Kiffin as an excuse to think about grief, history, and memory. www.espn.com/college-foot...
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Thompson: LSU-Ole Miss, Lane Kiffin and an old fight made new
The LSU-Ole Miss rivalry is long, with two fanbases deeply intertwined. The line between love and hate is thin, and Lane Kiffin's return brings those memories to the surface.
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.espn.com/watch/catalo...
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Stream TrueSouth Videos on Watch ESPN - ESPN
Stream the latest TrueSouth videos on Watch ESPN. TrueSouth follows writer and host John. T Edge as he travels around the region, introducing viewers to Southern tastemakers, food, culture and history as they intertwine in the beautiful yet complex South.
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
To know me is to know how much I love sports. So you can imagine how delighted I am that @espn.com, @secsports.bsky.social, and @johntedge.bsky.social came to the Shoals. I always hoped my debut on ESPN would be shooting threes or scoring goals but actually being a historian is cool too. Tues night!
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
GO BLUE FOREVER
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
To know me is to know how much I love sports. So you can imagine how delighted I am that @espn.com, @secsports.bsky.social, and @johntedge.bsky.social came to the Shoals. I always hoped my debut on ESPN would be shooting threes or scoring goals but actually being a historian is cool too. Tues night!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/09/2026
Wendell Berry, a lyrical Kentucky farmer who wrote award-winning poems, novels and essays, has died at 92.
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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William Sturkey @william-sturkey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"When we reduce college to metrics like short-term return on investment, we are ignoring so much human potential it is staggering" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/o...
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Opinion | Even Elite Colleges Have Become Trade Schools
Short-term return on investment is an impoverished view of a college education.
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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Teaching about religion in America, or just interested in the topic? Check out this great new open-access resource, edited by Joseph L. Locke and Ben Wright.
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The Palace of Thundering Gods – An Open History of Religion in the United States
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I am going to join the Women's Christian Temperance Union bsky.app/profile/catg...
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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This is your annual reminder that #LouisvilleInstitute grants are a great opportunity for both support and networking. You or someone you know should apply: louisville-institute.org/programs-gra...
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Programs | Grants and Fellowships - Louisville Institute
Through its programs, Louisville Institute acts as a catalyst. Its fundamental mission is to enrich the religious lives of Americans.
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Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture @csraac.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"By sacred, I do not mean exclusively religious or sectarian. Rather,... those activities through which communities transmit meaning, ...and form persons capable of participating responsibly in civic, democratic, and communal life." - Jonathan Lee Walton, President of Princeton Theological Seminary.
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Civil rights veteran the Rev. Ed King, who helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, has died mississippitoday.org/2026/07/05/c...
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Mississippi civil rights veteran Ed King has died - Mississippi Today
The Rev. Ed King, former longtime chaplain at Tougaloo College and one of the last living founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, died in Jackson on Saturday.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
well that was quick
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Good News! I'm grateful to the Louisville Institute for this chance to tell the Sherrod's important and inspiring story. www.una.edu/pressroom/20...
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UNA Professor Receives Louisville Institute Grant
Dr. Ansley Quiros, a Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Alabama, has received a grant from the Louisville Institute through its Grants for Researchers program for the 20...
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is what they've done.
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I keep thinking, now that this Court has completely diminished the Voting Rights Act and the generational Movement for freedom that pressed for it, that at least John Lewis and Charles Sherrod and Bernard Lafayette and Fannie Lou Hamer and John Perkins don't have to see it. It's our work now.
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
GO BLUE BABY 〽️
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
How was that not Cluff's 5th? Such uneven officiating here in the Big Ten title game. Go BLUE
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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
JOB: TT Assistant/Associate Professor, Apparel & Textile History, Auburn University www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
Desired Qualifications:
Demonstrated expertise for instruction and scholarship in historic costume and textiles, as well as dress and culture.
Knowledge and experience in basic textile conservation, museum practices, and exhibition installation.
Curatorial experience in a professional or academic setting.
Demonstrated potential for grantsmanship to support scholarship and/or curatorial work.
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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"Too many of our religious leaders have clearly failed to oppose violence..Some of America’s most popular religious leaders have twisted the teachings of Jesus Christ beyond all recognition to justify an even more massive investment in the weapons of death & military destruction"-Coretta Scott King
Photo of Coretta Scott King by Diane Arbus in front of their house looking up at the sky in a white eyelet dress.
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
How about a little good news on an otherwise wild spring Friday? Found out that the good people at the @louisvilleinstitute have agreed to fund work on my new book, "Committed: The Lives, Work and Love of Charles and Shirley Sherrod." So very honored to learn from and share their beautiful story
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Rest well.
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
EEK the Conference on Faith and History deadline is approaching! (Apr 1). Anyone want to put together a panel with me?? @faithandhistory.bsky.social Need to hear my friends Karen Johnson and Otis Pickett give their addresses!
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Delighted that my article on Charles Sherrod and others' 1968 trip to Israel and the BIG religious/political imagination of the late 1960s is finally in print! Thank you to everyone at the Journal of Southern Religion and the archivists at @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. jsreligion.org/vol24/quiros/
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quiros – JSR Volume 24 (2025)
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Rest, Rev. 🖤
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Apply for this great program! Let me know if you have any questions. Covid cohort 4 life! @profsamperry.bsky.social @maxperrymueller.bsky.social @tazeenmali.bsky.social @emilyjohnson.bsky.social, Darrius Hills, Leslie Ribovich, Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Courtney Irby, Phillip Gollner
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Any religious historians done good work on Bethany World Prayer Center? @aschurchhistory.bsky.social @csraac.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I am speechless. "The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
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Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America." Beautiful, @adamserwer.bsky.social
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Religious Historians: Anyone done/know of work on the rise of nondenominational evangelical churches, especially Association of Related Churches (ARC) affiliated ones? Articles, books, chapters, etc. Thank you! @aschurchhistory.bsky.social @profsamperry.bsky.social @drleahpayne.bsky.social
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Well look at that. The inimitable @ansleyquiros.bsky.social gets a cite in Doug Wilson’s new apologia for Christian nationalism. And of course, he misrepresents (or didn’t read) her argument. @prri.org
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Oh that's a bad call. Should have been Michigan ball. Go BLUE
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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
CFP: Special issue of *Southern Cultures* on religion, edited by Shari Rabin. Deadline December 15, 2025.
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Call for Papers: Religion
Southern Cultures encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, Religion, to be published Fall 2026. We will accept submissions for this issue through December 15…
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
A reflection on history and freedom. "Histories can be revised; rights revoked." time.com/7325167/supr... Please read and share! Thanks to Allie Lopez and Made By History for working with me on this.
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The Perils of the Supreme Court Forgetting the Past
Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to erase a critical chapter of the past and to weaken the Voting Rights Act.
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
📣 JOB 📣: The University of North Alabama is hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Medieval History, subfield in science, technology, or medicine preferred. Great department in a growing public regional university and beautiful town. Come be my colleague! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor of History - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
📣 JOB 📣: The University of North Alabama is hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor of 19th/20th Century Britain, subfield in African or Asian history. Great department in a stable, growing public regional university. Come be my colleague! www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
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Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor; History - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
A reminder for all, again, now: Freedoms and rights can be gotten and taken away again. Be aware, keep going, hold hope in the long struggle. time.com/7314300/voti...
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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
New job: Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor; History University of North Alabama jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69183
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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
New job: Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor of History University of North Alabama jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69184
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
📣 JOB 📣: The University of North Alabama is hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Medieval History, subfield in science, technology, or medicine preferred. Great department in a growing public regional university and beautiful town. Come be my colleague! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor of History - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
📣 JOB 📣: The University of North Alabama is hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor of 19th/20th Century Britain, subfield in African or Asian history. Great department in a stable, growing public regional university. Come be my colleague! www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
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Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor; History - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
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dkthompson @dkt-1.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
even though NCCU picks up the credit via Getty here, that photo was shot by Alexander Rivera, one of the few black news photographers working in the south at that time. NCCU holds his archive. Worked for the Pittsburgh Courier
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
In case you missed it yesterday, Allie Roberts Lopez and I wrote a hopeful story of democracy in action for @madebyhistory. Read if it you need to hear a little good news. Protect the VRA. time.com/7314300/voti... @splcenter.org @baylorhistory.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social
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The Voting Rights Act Is a Lesson in Overcoming Setbacks
While the Voting Rights Act was undoubtedly a singular achievement, it represented the culmination of a long struggle.
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It's bad. And it's been bad before. If you'd like to read about how some Americans believed in and pursued democracy over the long haul, despite legal and extralegal opposition, here you go: time.com/7314300/voti....
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The Voting Rights Act Is a Lesson in Overcoming Setbacks
While the Voting Rights Act was undoubtedly a singular achievement, it represented the culmination of a long struggle.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
… did Bryce block?
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NPR @npr.org · 28/08/2025
It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was lynched by a mob of white men.
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70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him
It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was killed by white men because he whistled at a white woman. Now the gun used in his death is in a museum.
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Written two years ago and tragically timely again. A reflection on America's antichrist gun worship and nonviolence as the only moral choice to make us whole. www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
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Christ Or Moloch?: A Reflection On Nonviolence And The Civil Rights Movement
During the month of April at the Anxious Bench, a number of our columnists are participating in a joint collaboration with the AACC (Asian American
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
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As PBS Stations Confront Cuts, American History Takes a Hit
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Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
"I am an American who believes that the only way to understand this country—the only way to love this country—is to tell the truth about it. Part of that truth is that chattel slavery, which lasted...for nearly 250 years, was indeed quite bad." Clearly said, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social.
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PRRI @prri.org · 06/08/2025
PRRI data finds that 47% of Americans believe that eligible voters being denied the right to vote is one of the most significant issues facing our elections. On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act's signing into law, the future of the private right of action under the act is uncertain.
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60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats
Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the Supreme Court could curtail its remaining protections for minority voters.
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