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Connor Kenaston

@cskenaston.bsky.social
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Historian of the modern US | Writing a book about religion and radio in the American century | Assistant History Prof at Randolph College | PhD @UVA | BA @Yale | WV roots | he/him/his

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Connor Kenaston @cskenaston.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
My newest article is out! It argues that racial and religious outsiders, such as Black Protestants and white Latter-day Saints, used sacred music to break into powerful networks' exclusive programming lineups during the height of radio's national influence 🗃️ #amrel #radio
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Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Fascinating 👇 Black Protestants & white Latter-day Saints infiltrated networks’ programming lineups, producing sounds that challenged & reinforced assumed whiteness of network radio and the nation, forming racial and religious identities, including the emerging category of “American religion.”
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Coloring Sound: Religion, Race, and Music in Radio’s Network Era | Religion and American Culture | Cambridge Core
Coloring Sound: Religion, Race, and Music in Radio’s Network Era - Volume 34 Issue 3
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million." Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Earlier this year, @wendylrouse.bsky.social was one of the first to sound the alarm about federal censorship of historical work. Today at #AHAPerspectives, she writes about what happened with her own article on the NPS website and the longer history of LGBTQ+ erasure. 🗃️
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Confronting the Rainbow Panic
The erasure of LGBTQ+ stories from the National Park Service and other government websites has a long history.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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Connor Kenaston @cskenaston.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
#Facebook appears to have kicked this education professor off its platforms bc she quoted Harvey Milk. #meta apparently considers calling for “a safe and supportive environment” for all young people a form of child exploitation. Happy Pride Month from our corporate overlords! 🌈 #pride #pride2025
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“We are in danger of not being able to help this next generation of American citizens understand the nation’s past,” said Cathy Gorn, the exec. dir. of National History Day. “There’s a lot to lose here.” Canceled remaining National History Day funding: $825,000 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/a...
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Groups Are Told That Federal Humanities Grants Are Canceled (Gift Article)
Letters informed grant recipients that funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities would be redirected to furthering “the president’s agenda.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025
"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)
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Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
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Allison Raine Chapman @alli.gay · 13/02/2025
UPDATE: The National Park Service have now removed “queer” and the “Q+” from the web page for stonewall, along with any mentions of transgender people.
Stonewall page on the National Park Service website:

"By the time of Stonewall... we had 50 to 60 gay groups in the country. A year later... 1500."
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement.
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Allison Raine Chapman @alli.gay · 13/02/2025
‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+". The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history. This pride, we riot.
A national park service webpage about Stonewall.

"Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer (LGBQ+) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in
the quest for LGBQ+ civil rights and provided momentum for a movement."
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NPR @npr.org · 13/02/2025
A public State Department procurement document for fiscal year 2025 listed the purchase for $400 million. It comes as ethics experts raise conflict of interest questions about Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is a top White House official.
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Trump administration set to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas
That's according to a public State Department procurement document. It comes as ethics experts raise conflict of interest questions about the chief executive of Tesla, Elon Musk, who is a top White Ho...
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Connor Kenaston @cskenaston.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Checks and balances are apparently as outdated as balancing a checkbook #civics #ConstitutionalCrisis
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Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Every professor should join the AAUP right now if you haven't. www.aaup.org Also join your local campus workers union, or any other union relevant to your work (they do different things!). If the government won't protect us, and our administrations won't protect us, we need to protect each other.
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AAUP
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Connor Kenaston @cskenaston.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Each executive order is terrible on its own, but the cumulative effect is the impression that POTUS is the government and everything else—Congress, courts, local gov, etc — doesn’t matter.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Terribly weak and embarrassing move. He should be a man, like William Henry Harrison.
Trump's inauguration may be moved indoors because of cold weather.
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Cecilia Márquez @profceciliam.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Hi friends! At the end of this semester, I'm going up for tenure 😬😅Could you please🙏let me know if you have assigned my work in your classes?✨Please share so I can find any/all folks and I'll love you forever. Book avail here 30% off: 01UNCP30 t.co/ho6d1T9bQu
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https://uncpress.org/book/9781469676050/making-the-latino-south/
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Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication @annenbergcargc.bsky.social at @asc.upenn.edu invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship. We are esp. interested in candidates whose work connects media industries, popular culture, and citizenship. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
For crying out loud Not only is this a fake Jefferson quote, but it's out of character. Over 20,000 Jefferson documents are online. He wrote "Jesus Christ" in only 13. One is a list of books He created his OWN version of the Bible. He also supported the separation of church & state. So...stop.
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Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Since I couldn't get to #ASCH because of pneumonia, I'll still revel in the joy that @rns.org gave me today in their archival photo section of the newsletter. This photo shows Rev. Elizabeth J. Canham as she celebrated her ordination on December 5, 1981, in the Episcopal Church.
After her ordination as an Episcopal priest on Dec. 5, 1981, the Rev. Elizabeth J. Canham is applauded by fellow clergy at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Newark, N.J. Canham sought ordination in the United States because the Church of England in her native United Kingdom did not accept women as priests. (RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Fellow #academicsky profs working on syllabi & looking for assignments that AI can't complete--check out my book hunt assignment. Students have to search for & check out a book from the library. It was a hit with my survey course this fall! /1 cassandragoodhistorian.com/2024/11/12/t... 🗃️
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The Book Hunt Assignment
This semester, I knew I wanted to swap out the short primary source analysis papers I’d been using in my US History to 1877 survey class. First, it was challenging to prevent AI cheating (whi…
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 27/12/2024
AHA members: The AHA is accepting applications for the 2025-26 research grants until February 15, 2025. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs. 🗃️
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Grants & Fellowships - AHA
AHA Research Grants Grants may be used for travel to a library or archive; microfilming, photography, or photocopying; borrowing or access fees; and similar research expenses-a list of purposes that i...
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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
On Christmas Eve 1855 enslaved teenagers from Loudon County, Virginia fended off slave patrollers as they made their escape to freedom in Philadelphia. This image, “A Bold Stroke for Freedom,” is housed in the Library of Congress.
Etching of young African American women and men in 19th century dress, three in a wagon, two outside on the ground, pointing pistols at white slave patrollers with rifles.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
A right wing car maker who bought a media outlet in order to amplify antisemitic conspiracy theories is advocating for a far right German party that promises to expel a disfavored minority? You don’t say.
Henry Ford receiving the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Nazi officials, 1938. (Photo by AP).
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Just in case any of you don’t know about the amazing resources PH have been putting out, including how to implement your own handwriting transcription program (for free for <5000 images/month) programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/t... 🗃️
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Transcribing Handwritten Text with Python and Microsoft Azure Computer Vision
Tools for machine transcription of handwriting are practical and labour-saving if you need to analyse or present text in digital form. This lesson will explain how to write a Python program to t...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Jeffries: In our nation's history, 25% of our nation's debt was accumulated during the four years of the former president, 25%. How dare you lecture America about fiscal responsibility ever.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
And if you see anyone using student evals negatively in a tenure process … stop them.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 19/12/2024
The call for proposals for #AHA26 is open until February 15, 2025. Our 2026 annual meeting will take place on January 8–11, 2026, in Chicago. The Program Committee welcomes and encourages all historians to submit proposals. 🗃️
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Call for Proposals - AHA
The AHA's annual meeting is the largest yearly gathering of historians in the United States. All historians are welcome and encouraged to submit proposals. The AHA also invites historically focused pr...
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Josh Kluever @joshkluever.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Any labor #skystorians who want to write a piece for @cliocontemporary.bsky.social about the teamsters Amazon strike that’s set to launch soon? Reach out and let me know! Or suggest someone who may be interested and I can reach out
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Connor Kenaston @cskenaston.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Very cool!
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Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
So I’ve had my 1st Black History Month event cancellation because of “DEI concerns,” citing a fear of frivolous suits. Funny thing is, I don’t do DEI, I’m a historian of the Black American experience. A reminder that DEI is just a dog whistle about suppressing history, if you need a reminder.
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Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Yes, you read that right! @uncpress.bsky.social is hiring for the Acquisitions Assistant position. This person works closely with editors and it can be a great early career position for people interested in publishing. More details on the UNCP website or at the @aupresses.bsky.social job board!
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Acquisitions Assistant – AUPresses Jobs
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Connor Kenaston @cskenaston.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
That’s my sis! Buy her stuff: rachelkenaston.com/shop
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Dr. Natalie Mendoza @drmendozan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
🗃️ CFP for 2026 Textbooks and Teaching Section of The Journal of American History. Deadline June 1, 2025. We invite submissions for the March 2026 Textbooks and Teaching section of the Journal of American History. We are particularly interested in
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
For history teachers (and teachers overall): I will reiterate that requiring students to critique A.I., using quoted and properly cited evidence from the document A.I. is attempting to talk about, appears to be an effective approach in the classroom. Happy to share details. 🗃️
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Connor Kenaston @cskenaston.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
My review of Dixie Heretic by the late Tennant Williams is in the Dec issue of the JAH! It’s a fine-grained biography of white Southern minister Renick Kennedy and his (often unsuccessful) efforts to change his fellow white Christians’ attitudes about race and poverty #amrel #southernhistory 🗃️
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Dixie Heretic: The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy
In Dixie Heretic, Tennant McWilliams provides readers with a fine-grained biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy. This exhaustive
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
So much of "AI can help you learn!" makes me think of when I'd let students each bring a sheet of notes into the final examp and there'd be one group of students who would divide the work up and make one sheet. They'd always do poorly because making the sheet itself was the studying that mattered.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11/12/2024
This is huge. An entire faith-based movement, the Sanctuary Movement and, more recently, the New Sanctuary Movement, was built around this policy, where houses of worship allow undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation to live in their facilities until their deportation order is dropped.
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Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Want to learn more about the history of sanctuary activism and what might lie ahead for faith-informed migrant justice? Tune into SANCTUARY: On the Border Between Church and State, a limited podcast series from me and Lloyd Barba! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Sanctuary: On the Border Between Church and State
History Podcast · 11 Episodes · Series
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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
How about some glorious historical drag queens to start your day? A thread 🧵 (1/7) Left image: John Lindstrom, c. 1890-1910 Right image: Julian Elting, c. 1916 #LGBTQhistory #queerhistory #pride #LGBTQ #19thC #20thC #skystorians #drag 🗃️
Image of drag performer John Lindstrom (c. 1900) in a glorious beaded dress with feathered ruffle.

Image Attribution: Wellcome Collection
Reference: 2064299iImage of drag performer Julian Elting seated in a slim cut dress with a plunging neckline. Also wearing a feathered headband for extra drama. 

Image Attribution: Wellcome Collection
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Gonna try this here: #skystorians: What articles do you like to use to teach historical methods to undergrads? I'm aware of the classic books, but I would like some shorter & accessible pieces. Thanks! And please reshare!
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Connor Kenaston @cskenaston.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Come work with me! This is a pretty great three-year visiting gig for scholars of American culture. I really enjoyed leading the travel-oriented American Culture Program the last two years! App deadline Dec 15. #academicjobs #amst 🗃️
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Ainsworth Visiting Scholar of American Culture - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Have you got a screenshot of an encounter with AI which is unsettling, strange, surprising, laughable or troubling? Still time to submit to our call for screenshots! A selection will be featured in an online publication and workshop. Deadline end of 10th Dec (any time zone): troubling-ai.glitch.me
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troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸
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Connor Kenaston @cskenaston.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
James Taylor was my most listened to artist this year… which basically means I took a lot of naps 😴
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Connor Kenaston @cskenaston.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I screened No Más Bebés in class two years ago and was deeply moved by Madrigal’s testimony, as were my students. Thankful for her courage!
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
#OTD, 5 Dec 1935, Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women – a US council to bring together other national organisations working towards women’s equality. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
Mary McLeod Bethune sat at her desk. She is a Black woman with greying hair.
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Connor Kenaston @cskenaston.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Really enjoyed this excerpt from @dsuisman.bsky.social ‘s new book. Fascinating read abt how the soundtrack for most GIs in Vietnam wasn’t the rock and roll we often imagine but the more mainstream, curated tunes of the American Forces Vietnam Network 📻
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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I took a shot at getting a Radio Studies starter pack going - I've definitely most certainly missed people so please sound off below if you want to be added (or removed) go.bsky.app/7NpY1kR
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