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Caroline Grego @carolineegrego.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Updated my website for the first time in like, three years. Apparently it still gets traffic? Anyway my new book project is up there now, so take a look! carolinegrego.wordpress.com

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Caroline Grego

An environmentally minded historian of the South

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Caroline Grego @carolineegrego.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

My husband @gpente.bsky.social has an article out! Read on for more on Fourieriest ideas in nineteenth century Mexico! muse.jhu.edu/pub/26/artic...

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Project MUSE -- Verification required!

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Caroline Grego @carolineegrego.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The memorial/the mill — I visited Honea Path yesterday, to see the marker to the strikers killed at Chiquola Mill in 1934 and the mill’s ruins.

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Don't panic, but the clock is ticking on our flash sale ⏳ Don't miss your chance to get all the books you've been eyeing for 50% off! 👉 uncpress.org/new-web...

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Caroline Grego @carolineegrego.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

What kind of time-traveling shit poster went back to 1920s South Carolina to name a bull “Sarcastic Hero Lad”?

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 19/08/2025

‘Higher Ed Alone Cannot Save Democracy’ More than a year into his presidency of the @aaup.org—including nearly seven months of Trump’s targeting of universities—Todd Wolfson is calling for a “multisector” fight that’s not just reactive. bit.ly/3JkyDQJ #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Du Bois on what these assholes were really like

The Southern planter suffered, not simply for his eco- nomic mistakess-the psychological effect of slavery upon him was fatal. The mere fact that a man could be, under the law, the actual master of the mind and body of human beings had to have disastrous effects. It tended to inflate the ego of most planters beyond all reason; they became arrogant, strutting, quarrelsome kinglets; they issued commands; they made laws; they shouted their orders; they expected deference and self-abasement; they were choleric and easily insulted. Their "honor" be- came a vast and awful thing, requiring wide and insist- ent deference. Such of them as were inherently weak and inefficient were all the more easily angered, jealous and resentful; while the few who were superior, physically or mentally, conceived no bounds to their power and per- sonal prestige. As the world had long learned, nothing is so calculated to ruin human nature as absolute power
over human beings.

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Caroline Grego @carolineegrego.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

South Carolina summer (blazing heat and humidity not pictured)

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Cory James Young @coryjamesyoung.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Here's a companion piece I wrote explicating the archive undergirding my research. It centers a remarkable woman, Priscilla, and her ill-fated effort to manifest a fairer world for her daughter. Most enslaved people never had their day in court, but that does not mean they lacked legal knowledge.

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Active Silence, Archival Presence, and an Enslaved Mother’s Legal Knowledge

Cory James Young, in a companion piece to his JER article on hereditary term slavery in Pennsylvania, considers the significance of some silences in slavery’s archive.

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Caroline Grego @carolineegrego.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Was not expecting this 1934 report from FDR’s National Resources Board to go quite so hard

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Iconic anti-war poster, originally by US printmaker Lorraine Schneider, 1966 #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Yellow poster featuring a stylised sun flower to the left and black text tobthe right

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

They say in Harlan County There are no neutrals there You'll either be a union man Or a thug for J. H. Blair Which side are you on?

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Caroline Grego @carolineegrego.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The best part of summer in the South

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Caroline Grego @carolineegrego.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I’ll be giving a book talk tomorrow at USC-Lancaster — and there’s a link if you want to attend virtually: bit.ly/4hUpnPr?fbcl...

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Caroline Grego @carolineegrego.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

A request! I'm assembling my tenure portfolio this summer, and if you've ever assigned any of my work to a class, could you DM me?

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Mary Newsom @marynewsom.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

One of the most astute historians of Charlotte, Tom Hanchett (aka @historysouth.org), has a new book, looking at affordable housing (or lack thereof) in Charlotte. UNCC prof and champion for local writers, Mark West, writes about it: pages.charlotte.edu/mark-west/bl...

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Storied Charlotte – Storied Charlotte

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Though they don't seem to be talking about it publicly, it's worth screaming from the rooftops that university presses have also lost NEH grants. NEH has a program to fund creating OA editions of books born of NEH funded research. Publishers apply directly for those grants, not scholars.

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Caroline Grego @carolineegrego.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

"Solidarity is the only answer." -- Robin D. G. Kelley on the lessons of Hammer and Hoe, in a 2013 interview from the American Quarterly. jstor.org/stable/41809...

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

To celebrate Mayday, Haymarket Books is having a huge sale on books about class war. Check it out, can’t recommend Haymarket enough!

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Caroline Grego @carolineegrego.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

From the August 30, 1930 edition of the Southern Worker (digitized here www.marxists.org/history/usa/...). Happy May Day!

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Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It's here! The new Labor is a special issue assessing the 'Golden Age' of Social Democracy. We redesigned the journal for the first time in 20 years, and we explore rediscovered labor painter Phillip Tipperman, whose work graces our cover. @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Spotted in the wild (Drayton Hall, SC): @carolineegrego.bsky.social Hurricane Jim Crow

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 07/04/2025

Students at UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, Harvard, Univ. of Michigan, UCLA, Arizona State, Cornell, Univ. of Oregon, Univ. of Texas, North Carolina State, Univ. of Colorado, Univ. of Minnesota, Minnesota State and more have all had visas revoked with NO DUE PROCESS (links below)

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Caroline Grego @carolineegrego.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I promise I did actually attend the OAH itself. But I also walked around Chicago a lot.

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Caroline Grego @carolineegrego.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Got to pilgrimage to the Haymarket memorial during the OAH — the statue isn’t the most inspiring in its design, but the plaques on it are.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/04/2025

DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Keep in mind: the NEH’s budget is 0.01% of the entire federal budget. This is not about savings - it is about the destruction of the Humanities and the critical thinking abilities that they teach. 🗃️

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Sheila A Brennan @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

And overnight your friends at @nehgov.bsky.social staff have been placed on Admin Leave.

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Today, approx. 135 of the 185 total NEH staffers woke up to the news that their positions were being RIFed. Then, almost all current grantees received emails cancelling their grants. I posted this on Fb, mostly for non-academics, but here's a bit about the impact of the 3 grants the NEH gave me: 1/

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.

A National History Day display: "Alice Paul: How She Rocked the Vote," from the 2020 contest.

A National History Day display: "D-Day: How the Allies Broke Hitler's Atlantic Barrier, from March 2020, SW Michigan regional competition.

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Chris Cantwell @cdc29.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The National Humanities Alliance is collecting information on canceled NEH grants to share with congressional leaders. This is legit fact finding in support of competent lobbying. If you've had your grant canceled, do let them know. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Notify NHA about grant terminations!

We are collecting information about current grants that have been canceled since March 31st, 2025. If you are looking to share a story about the impact of NEH funding on your work please use this for...

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 04/04/2025

If you’ve ever sat on an NEH review panel (as many of us have), you know how difficult it is to win a grant. It’s an incredibly exacting process, with way too many excellent projects competing for funding. Awardees are scrutinized from every direction, with more rigor than DOGE can even imagine.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I just wrote to all of my congressional representatives to plead them to support the NEH, for everyone, for public history, for scholarship, for teaching, for all of it. I used this widget: very easy, it has a template, and automatically looks up the emails of your representatives. p2a.co/DdtlGIT

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URGENT: Save the NEH

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.

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Werewave @werewave.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I've said it before but it bears repeating: people need to figure out right now what they're willing to do to protect anyone targeted by ICE, CBP, etc in this situation and prepare accordingly. their strategies absolutely break down if people won't look the other way, avoid confrontation, etc

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Justin Gage @justingage.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

🗃️Exciting New Book News: Alessandra La Rocca Link's 'The Iron Horse in Indian Country Native Americans and Railroads in the US West' is out in a few weeks. Preorder: global.oup.com/academic/pro... and preview: books.google.com/books?id=1lh...

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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/03/2025

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/03/2025

the more they attack health care providers who can safely provide abortions, the more people will die

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

New research confirming what was anticipated: abortion bans have been more likely to force Black, Hispanic, and poor people to give birth www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

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The Women Most Affected by Abortion Bans

After the Dobbs decision, births rose in states with bans, but more for some women than others.

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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This is a pathetically small number. The Democratic Party can’t even oppose the most blatant show of authoritarianism yet.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/03/2025

UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)

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Amy E. Greer, attorney for Mahmoud Khalil provided the following update this evening:

First, importantly, today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament. He also greatly appreciates, and, typically for him, is moved by the extraordinarily broad and steadfast support he has received from a variety of communities that understand what is at stake. He is in ICE custody in Louisiana, and arrangements have been made for local attorneys to visit him today and tomorrow.

The remarks by government officials, including the President, on social media only confirm the purpose – and illegality – of Mahmoud's detention. He was chosen as an example to stifle entirely lawful dissent in violation of the First Amendment. While tomorrow or thereafter the government may cite the law or process, that toothpaste is out of the tube and irreversibly so. The government’s objective is as transparent as it is unlawful, and our role as Mahmoud’s lawyers is to ensure it does not prevail.

Today Mahmoud's legal team, which includes Kyle Barron, CLEAR, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amy Greer filed a motion to compel in federal court in the Southern District of New York, as part of the habeas corpus petition filed on his behalf over the weekend, seeking an order requiring the government to return to New York for any immigration proceedings.

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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This is what criminalization does - the scope has simply expanded - and why we all need to be putting refusal and resistance to criminalization at the center of our anti authoritarian/antifascist struggles.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is it. Nobody should be deported

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

they’re disappearing dissidents, i do not want to see one fucking sentence in your little op ed about “the illiberal left” or “the techniques of wokeness being worryingly exercised by the state” i swear to god

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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Columbia student and New Yorker, Mahmoud Khalil - who was targeted and detained for constitutionally protected speech - should be home with his 8 months pregnant wife today. Not missing in ICE detention, unreachable by his lawyers. 1/15

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