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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

#Historians: if the first "Constitutional relations" box on this C19 census form is checked for men, did that mean person could vote? Talking 1870 census here. The next to this one is about disfranchisement bc of rebellion, so no voting

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

@jfallows.bsky.social classic still holds up after nearly 30 years

James Fallows classic 1990s book titled “breaking the news”

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

☀️Read my @coloradosun.com piece about the solution to speeding that one Colorado Springs community wants for their street. They point to an example just a few blocks away. coloradosun.com/2025/12/29/s...

yellow sign on Colorado Springs street North Nevada Avenue that says "slow down, this is our neighborhood not a race track"

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

For @coloradosun.com I wrote about the ways Coloradans confront traffic fatalities by memorializing the lost and advocating for safer streets. ✍️&📸 coloradosun.com/2025/12/29/s...

White ghost bike in Colorado Springs honoring Michael Pompa

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

👀The conclusion of a 2001 article from Journalism & Mass Communcation. #journalism #civiced

Article on civic duty and news form 2001 ac journal

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

From Mark Cuban Interview in @axios.com Pittsburgh newsletter this morning. What notion of “the best professors” underlies this statement?

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

New stack for project on journalism as civic education in democracy. Please get in touch if you have a story to share or direction to suggest!

Stack of books on a desk featuring titles about democracy, citizenship, and journalism

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Great conversation about citizen journalism with SPJ Co tonight at Denver Press Club. Was taken by way panelists and audience showed that “citizen” and “journalist“ each need examination as terms in their own right

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

What a beautiful passage from Lincoln in the Bardo, necessary to take in given today’s news

Page from
Saunders novel Lincoln in bardo wherein Lincoln channeled

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Really sitting with this line from @colsonwhitehead.com THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD 💡

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Read this gorgeous essay @colsonwhitehead.com every year — and this time, for the first time, while teaching The Underground Railroad

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Thanks to early American literature for this engaged review of “Democracies in America” global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Excerpt from my review of my co edited book from the journal early American literature; reviewed by William Horne

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The Civil War in Contemporary American Literature stack

Stack of books featuring writing about the Civil War by 21st-century authors

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

My story on the civics of higher ed is out in the summer issue of Pittsburgh Quarterly, with online publication set for later this month. In the meantime if any Pittsburgh people have the magazine in hand would you be willing to photograph the pages? I've not yet been able to get my hands on a copy.

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Diving in to @kidadaewilliams.com bk as I contemplate how #Reconstruction historiography, and contemporary fiction about the era might interact

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

really enjoying this @biblioracle.bsky.social book, especially the suggestion that we call AI “automation” not “intelligence.” Because it’s not. But also think about the connotation of “automation”: that’s what took away my parents’ jobs, ruined cities, ruined lives!

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

fearing I have to cut this line from my story so sharing here

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

When Peter Elbow, the late UMass English professor wrote about the aim of English studies in 1990, he put it this way: "Good work in English needs democracy and democracy needs good work in English" #civiced #ela #edchat

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Happy to see my grad school colleague’s debut novel DEVIL THREE TIMES on prominent display at the airport! @littlebrown.bsky.social #rickeyfayne

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

From the 1983 report A NATION AT RISK

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

American Memory, a 1987 report issued by the National Endowment for the Humanities, then chaired by Lynne Cheney, called for more interaction between humanities faculty in higher ed and K-12 teachers. My sense is that historians tend to do this kind of thing. Do lit profs?

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