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Laura Mammina, PhD

@lauramammina.bsky.social
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Historian of 19th c. U.S. race and gender at the University of Southern Mississippi. Faculty Fellow at the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society. Preoder Hard Women, Hard War here: www.ugapress.org/9780820380605/hard…

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Laura Mammina, PhD @lauramammina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Highlight of this year’s Mississippi Book Festival were the posters advertising Hard Women, Hard War, out November 1 with @ugapress.bsky.social
Photograph of the user in front of Dale Center for the Study of War & Society banner holding posters advertising the book Hard Women, Hard War
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/09/2026
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Hegseth and Co. Are Trying to Steal Other Agencies’ Funds, Dems Say
House Democrats say the Pentagon is attempting to siphon crucial NIH funds.
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
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Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook
Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Grateful to Zeteo UK, which launches properly next month, for lifting the paywall on this piece at my request. Please do consider subscribing! In this piece, I suggest that the Cambridge Genome Campus is too WOKE. 😅😅😅 zeteo.uk/p/the-jason-...
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The Jason Arday Affair and the 'Oprahfication' of Antiracism
Culture warriors blame 'woke' Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policies for the scandal surrounding the Cambridge professor. The real problem is that EDI has been rendered symbolic and superficial.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/08/2026
if the moderate wing of the Dem party would spend even half of the energy they are spending fighting the DSA on fighting Trump they wouldn't be losing so many primaries to the DSA
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Laura Mammina, PhD @lauramammina.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Twenty percent of the new company to run FIFA would be given to Joshua Kushner, Jared’s brother, which explains Trump and Infantino’s coziness: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Fifa’s sales pitch revealed: more tournaments, more debt … but little mention of women’s game
Fifa’s pitch to persuade members to approve sale of World Cup’s commercial rights includes more tournaments, higher ticket prices and debt financing
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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Read my July 18 story for the original reporting that the New York Times didn’t link to... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
We should make it a thing to burn Confederate flags on July 4
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Laura Mammina, PhD @lauramammina.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Absolutely horrific disregard for human life by MDPS
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Laura Mammina, PhD @lauramammina.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Literally me!!
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🚨BREAKING: 3-judge panel finds that congressional map that Alabama wants to use for this year's midterms is intentionally discriminatory and issues a preliminary injunction. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Zf...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026
just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026
this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Community matters, even in "red" South Mississippi. This is why we don't write off any part of the country, or define whole swaths of the country with "red" and "blue" labels. People are people, everywhere. And people like this, being in community with one another, is how we defeat fascism.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.
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Max and Israel Makoka Were Waiting for a Hancock High School Bus. ICE Took Them Instead.
ICE detained Max and Israel Makoka, two Hancock County high school students who were waiting for a bus when agents arrested them.
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Laura Mammina, PhD @lauramammina.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Snuffles thinks he’s a stuffie
Black cat on a windowsill amongst stuffed animals
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Laura Mammina, PhD @lauramammina.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Happening tomorrow! My brilliant friend, Dr. Lindsay Rae Smith Privette, talks about her recent book with @uncpress.bsky.social “The Surgeon’s Battle,” a medical and environmental history of the Vicksburg Campaign.
Book talk information for Lindsay Rae Smith Privette’s The Surgeon’s Battle, happening at the University of Southern Mississippi at 6pm April 16th
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Lead story this morning at the campus paper at UGA
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Protesters rally against TPUSA tour featuring JD Vance
Protesters gathered in front of the Classic Center Tuesday in response to Turning Point USA’s (TPUSA) “This is the Turning Point” tour featuring Vice President JD Vance. The protest was
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Laura Mammina, PhD @lauramammina.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“Do you realize how much water and power it’d take to replicate the average writer’s narcissism, self-loathing and despair?” This piece from Colton Whitehead is the shit www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
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Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...
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Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books
Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...
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Laura Mammina, PhD @lauramammina.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
So it’s a really ugly version of the Arc de Triomphe?
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meg @ladyinabox.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“We Interviewed Two Hundred Childless Women, and Every Single One Was Doing Something Fun”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/04/2026
Melania Trump wants these photos and emails to be scrubbed from the Internet. Please stop liking and sharing them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Laura Mammina, PhD @lauramammina.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Talked to a student journalist at Southern Miss about the gender and racial pay gap! sm2media.com/37883/news/g...
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Gender pay gap remains stark in Mississippi
Mississippi currently ranks seventh in the United States for income inequality. For every dollar a man makes, a woman working full-time makes 75 cents. According to the National Women’s Law Center, th...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/04/2026
I want folks to understand that Trump's argument in the birthright citizenship case is that he has the power to reimpose a pre-Civil War legal order, recreating an inheritable racialized underclass and denying citizenship to newborns with disfavored ancestry ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...
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For Once, the Supreme Court Seems to Think the Fourteenth Amendment Means What It Says
Several conservative justices sounded skeptical of Trump’s attempt to unilaterally end birthright citizenship.
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Laura Mammina, PhD @lauramammina.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Excited to share the cover of Hard Women, Hard War: How Southern Women Shaped U.S. Policy During the Civil War! It's bold and colorful, perfect for a volume advancing a new interpretation of white and Black southern women's engagement with the U.S. Army. Forthcoming with @ugapress.bsky.social !
Cover image of Hard Women, Hard War: How Southern Women Shaped U.S. Policy During the Civil War by Laura Mammina, using an image from Harper’s Weekly of the 55th Mass marching into Charleston after the war.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 30/03/2026
Lawmakers agreed to fund a $2,000 pay raise for teachers, down from the House's proposed $5,000 and the Senate's proposed $6,000. Raises for assistant teachers, special education teachers and school attendance officers are also being included. buff.ly/1tv9wON
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Mississippi Slashes Teacher Pay Raise to Offset Medicaid Cuts in Trump's 'Beautiful Bill'
Mississippi K-12 teachers are set to receive a smaller pay raise than initially expected due to Medicaid funding cuts in Trump’s “Beautiful Bill.”
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12/02/2026
Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12/02/2026
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
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Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2026
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
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Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 11/01/2026
Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…
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Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 11/01/2026
Fire ripped through Jackson's only synagogue on Saturday, heavily damaging the historic house of worship in what authorities say was an act of arson. Beth Israel synagogue, the largest in Mississippi, has long been a target of antisemites. It was the site of a Ku Klux Klan bombing in 1967.
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Arson Suspect Arrested After Fire at Jackson Synagogue, the Site of a 1967 KKK Bombing
Authorities arrested a man after a blaze erupted early Saturday at the Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson.
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The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 05/11/2025
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election. DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg. His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority. www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
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Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County
Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 31/10/2025
"A barely articulated sense of dread follows you wherever you go. Others cannot see it, and it may exist only as a curse, but it often manifests as the presence of an old white person."
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Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program?
1. You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledg...
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Ruth keady @ruviewer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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Laura Mammina, PhD @lauramammina.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This part.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit
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Laura Mammina, PhD @lauramammina.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Meetings that could have been an email: “Mr. Hegseth “will use this engagement to provide D.O.D. most senior service members his intent for the department,” including guidance on new “military fitness standards and several other areas of interest.’”
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 25/09/2025
Lindsey Burke, author of the Project 2025 plan to overhaul the American education system, is pushing Mississippi leaders to adopt the Trump administration’s education plans to use public funds to support “school choice” initiatives like vouchers for attending private schools. buff.ly/JiJ4XJP
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Project 2025 Author Pushes Private School Vouchers in Mississippi
Lindsey Burke, a Project 2025 author, promoted a federal school voucher program to pay for students to attend private schools while speaking to Mississippi lawmakers.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 11/09/2025
The letter bearing Trump’s name and what appears to be his signature includes text framed by a hand-drawn outline of a curvaceous woman. “A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday—and may every day be another wonderful secret,” the letter says.
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‘A Wonderful Secret’: Trump Birthday Letter to Epstein Released
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein purportedly signed by President Donald Trump.
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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 05/08/2025
Seems like every year there’s a major gaffe by the AHA or someone high up in leadership there. It’s distressing given how much we need a unified opposition to the anti-historical forces on the right.
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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
AHA is fucking failing us with this absolute garbage.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 01/08/2025
are you in fact ... Bringing anything to the institution of masculinity other than the need to be acknowledged as "man"
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a woman is sitting at a table with the word discuss written on her face
ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with the word discuss written on her face
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 25/07/2025
"Suppressing constitutional speech through vague prohibitions and the specter of financial retribution does not serve the public good—it undermines it," U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate wrote as he blocked Mississippi's ban on diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Judge Blocks Mississippi Ban on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
A Mississippi law that bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs from public schools and universities is paused after a judge blocked it.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
1. Release the Epstein files! 2. The Epstein files are sitting on my desk and I will release them very soon 3. There are no Epstein files and the case is closed 4. There are Epstein files but they are forgeries created by Obama and Hillary so if you like me you will never talk about them again
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/07/2025
The truth is that higher education in the United States should be free and accessible, and people like Andreessen are the reason it isn't. The truth is that people like Andreessen are advocating for segregation and discrimination for ideological reasons, not because it's fair for any students.
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