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Leah LaGrone

@leahlao.bsky.social
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Public historian. Assistant professor/ public history director - PhD -history of sex work, women,labor, 20th century

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Leah LaGrone @leahlao.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Check out my new blog
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
But if you can’t wait for this weekend, listen to @leahlao.bsky.social @lmacthompson1.bsky.social @llassabe.bsky.social and me talk about the movie over much wine. Make sure to subscribe- new episodes coming October 9th! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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Episode 47: Dirty Dancing with Leah Lagrone, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, and Lauren MacIvor Thompson
Podcast Episode · Reckoning with Jason Herbert · 10/18/2023 · 1h 19m
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 09/09/2025
Video of clash over gender-identity content in Texas A&M children’s lit class leads to firings
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Video of clash over gender-identity content in Texas A&M children’s lit class leads to firings
After the video fueled outrage, two college leaders were removed from their administrative roles for approving plans to teach content inconsistent with the course’s published description.
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Leah LaGrone @leahlao.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I need to do more on here. Trying to get it all together- book, classes, housework, oh my!
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a girl in a blue dress says " oh my "
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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
In the summer of 1888, Texas Rangers Ira Aten and Jim King went undercover to try to identify and arrest so-called “fence cutters.” They were unsuccessful. In frustration, Aten developed a plan to hide mines in the fences, blowing them up when cutters approach. /1
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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Our new issue, Vol. 22, No. 2, is now available online! read.dukeupress.edu/labor/issue/...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Phenomenal piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social here. (Gift link)
If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he's engendered. Musk's sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character - a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he's seen for the rest of his public life
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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Refusing to Forget members are @ccarmona.bsky.social, Juan Carmona, John Morán González, Sonia Hernández, @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social @leahlao.bsky.social, Monica Muñoz Martínez and @alacranita.bsky.social, another co-founder is @gonzalest956.bsky.social. /10
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else. Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
H. M. Talburt on the GOP's ill-fated 1930 tariff and "public confidence," Cincinnati Post, 6/19/1930.
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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Join us on March 24th for a virtual book talk with Refusing to Forget co-founder @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social. Johnson's will discuss his latest book, Texas: An American History. This event is exclusive for our Patreon subscribers! Join us on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/RefusingtoFo...
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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#OTD on March 19, 1840, Texas Rangers and militiamen killed thirty-five and imprisoned thirty Penateka Comanche people during a Council House meeting in San Antonio, TX while negotiating captives with commissioners of the Texas government. /1
“San Antonio’s Importance In Texas history, ” Mural by Howard Norton Cook installed June 12, 1939 at the at the U.S. Main Post Office Building, now the Hipolito F. Garcia Federal Building, in downtown San Antonio.  The mural depicts Penateka leaders dressed in shawls and have long dark hair on the right side and White men on the left side with nice coats one. One of the white men is holding a gun, another is pointing at the Penateka leaders, and another is holding a blonde child in a buckskin dress.
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Leah LaGrone @leahlao.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Remember folks- it’s about being able to shoot what you don’t like
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/02/2025
Hegseth at NATO summit: "We can talk all we want about values. Values are important. But you can't shoot values."
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Leah LaGrone @leahlao.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Just dropping this here- Netflix has a pretty interesting series on Hitler and the unqualified sycophants he surrounded himself with to create his 1000 year “reich” www.netflix.com/title/80138915
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Watch Hitler's Circle of Evil | Netflix
Surviving power struggles, betrayals and plots, Hitler's inner circle of Nazi leaders seizes control of Germany and designs its disastrous future.
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Leah LaGrone @leahlao.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Join us!!!
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Leah LaGrone @leahlao.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
At the same time Utah legislature is “protecting” women with anti trans dorm and bathroom bills, they are also supporting measures to protect predators. Cruelty is the point. www.ksl.com/article/5125...
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House approves bill allowing parents to limit conversation topics for kids, school therapists
The majority of Utah representatives voted to pass a bill Tuesday that allows parents to make certain subjects off-limits in meetings between their children and school therapists.
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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
📣Upcoming Event! Join us for a virtual book talk with @ccarmona.bsky.social, in a discussion facilitated by RTF member @leahlao.bsky.social. This event is exclusive for Patreon subscribers! Please consider subscribing, your support helps us to continue this work! www.patreon.com/c/Refusingto...
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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Refusing to Forget members are @ccarmona.bsky.social, Juan Carmona, John Morán González, Sonia Hernández, @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social, @leahlao.bsky.social, Monica Muñoz Martínez and @alacranita.bsky.social, another co-founder is @gonzalest956.bsky.social. /23
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
With so much changing so rapidly, one thing that hasn’t changed is how much we need public scholarship. So here’s my 209th #ScholarSunday thread of great writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share widely & enjoy all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
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#ScholarSunday Thread 209
Published on January 26, 2025
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
+ @adamserwer.bsky.social @mpgphd.bsky.social @joeonhere.bsky.social @timothypmurphy.bsky.social @sarahebond.bsky.social @nawalarjini.bsky.social @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social @feministkelly.bsky.social feat @greeneland.bsky.social @leekluckhistorian.bsky.social feat @leahlao.bsky.social +
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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Refusing to Forget members are @ccarmona.bsky.social, Juan Carmona, John Morán González, Sonia Hernández, @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social, @leahlao.bsky.social, Monica Muñoz Martínez and @alacranita.bsky.social, another co-founder is @gonzalest956.bsky.social. /18
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Leah LaGrone @leahlao.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Leah LaGrone @leahlao.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
We need a fight plan! An organized, think tank style, information pushing fight plan against this.
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Lee Kluck, Public Historan @leekluckhistorian.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🗃️As promised, here is my talk with @leahlao.bsky.social on the Refusing to Forget Project and their role in attempting to reshape the historical narrative of US-Mexican racial violence on the Border between 1910-20. You can also find The Primary Source on Spotify! open.substack.com/pub/history4...
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Lee Kluck, Public Historan @leekluckhistorian.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
My interview with @leahlao.bsky.social for The Primary Source Podcast will be up later today. We talk about the work of the Refusing to Forget Project, which aims to highlight the stories of Mexican Americans victimized by government-sponsored violence in the borderlands of the U.S., 1910-20🗃️
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Leah LaGrone @leahlao.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Was I put on a starter pack list? My followers exploded! Welcome 🤗 I’ll try to post more. Lol
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
At @insidehighered.com I wrote about my concerns about this kind of technology as a threat to human instructional labor, but there's also potential pedagogical issues with introducing a 24/7 assistant that may actually hamper student learning and development.🧵 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
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Great ready for faculty bot-ification
If we want there to be such a thing as college faculty, that is.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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Leah LaGrone @leahlao.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Hey UT legislators, I have an idea. Maybe instead of focusing on made up “problems” in higher ed, work on improving the real problem of air quality.
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Refusing to Forget @refusing2forget.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
#OTD on December 2, 1945, Houston Mayor Oscar Holcombe disbanded the Latin American Squad after receiving criticism from the Mexican American community about the head of the Squad, Officer George Bell, since he had served in the Texas Rangers. /1 www.tshaonline.org/handbook/ent...
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Holcombe, Oscar Fitzallen
The Handbook of Texas is your number one authoritative source for Texas history. Read this entry and thousands more like it on our site.
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Leah LaGrone @leahlao.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Join us tomorrow evening!
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Leah LaGrone @leahlao.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Not me finishing those tasks I put off for over a week in less than an hour 🤦🏻‍♀️
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a woman says " my mind has been elsewhere " in front of a #schitts creek logo
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
This week, Historians At The Movies talks chess, class, and the 1990s. Join us on Amazon Prime this Sunday, November 17 at 8pm eastern for SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER. Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we will see you soon!
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Leah LaGrone @leahlao.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My manuscripts “Sex Wages” is due at the end of the month! I’ll post info about my research to keep the motivation up. 😊
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