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Mark Hlavacik

@schoolfuss.bsky.social
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A communication professor who studies arguments about schools. www.hlavacik.net tinyurl.com/WillingWarriors

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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have never been more disgusted.
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Pentagon says firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Transparency and candor are good things for all public institutions.
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Let’s Call a Truce With the Trump Administration (opinion)
We’ll tell you what: We’ll publish information about our planned reforms if the Trump administration does the same.
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This Q&A reads like Keller's comms team wrote the Qs.
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‘Don’t budget off your hopes’: UNT president on institutional planning in a shifting world
College leaders must "confront the brutal facts" of their finances if they want to build resilience, warns University of North Texas President Harrison Keller.
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A big, all-caps THANK YOU to @llassabe.bsky.social for sending my Glasscock Undergraduate Scholars each a signed copy of Resistance from the Right after zooming into our class earlier this May!
Three copies of Resistance from the Right on a seminar-room table.
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A&M checking in.
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The show hit 50k downloads last night (🥹) dropping an episode on the Closing of the American Mind today feels like a fitting way to celebrate
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Had a great conversation about Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind with @llassabe.bsky.social for the American Campus Podcast. Have a listen!
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Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind with Mark Hlavacik - American Campus Podcast
Explaining the show's new art and how Mick Jagger "failed democracy and impoverished the souls" of students before 1987.References and suggested readings:God and Man at Yale episode with Sam Tanenhaus...
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
might does not make right
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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
How have the culture wars reshaped higher education? Here's our full Future Trends Forum conversation with professor @schoolfuss.bsky.social : youtu.be/jaK4TdUwAbQ?...
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I had the opportunity to talk with @llassabe.bsky.social about one of the best/wildest stories from my new book about the education culture war. Check it out!
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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Tomorrow we're talking with professor Mark Hlavacik about his research into academia's role in America's culture wars. Please join us from 2-3 pm ET, and you can register here: georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @schoolfuss.bsky.social
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I am doing an AMA about the education culture wars with @askhistorians.bsky.social today. So, if you have questions about the historical origins of the political turmoil in our schools and on our campuses, you can, ya know, ask me anything. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: AMA: The Education Culture Wars, 1970 to the Present
Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I took the Page 99 test with The Campaign for the American Reader. I'm not sure Willing Warriors passed, but it was a great excuse to talk about a few of the best stories from my book.
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Mark Hlavacik's "Willing Warriors"
Mark Hlavacik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism and Texas A&M University. He studies controvers...
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Check out Jonathan Zimmerman's review of Willing Warriors for @theatlantic.com.
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America’s Schools Are Less Divided Than You Think
Teachers are generally much more concerned about doing right by their students than they are about angering parents and community members.
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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Huge congrats to @schoolfuss.bsky.social on his new book, WILLING WARRIORS! Honored to have blurbed it - it’s a very smart take on the school culture wars, a difficult topic to chronicle in a sensible and nuanced way Another banger from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I wrote a piece for @chronicle.com about the problem of public cynicism toward higher education. It recounts a very special episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. You can read more about it in Willing Warriors, out December 2nd with @uchicagopress.bsky.social. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
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Opinion | The Roots of the Public’s Cynicism About Higher Ed
In the ’80s, Allan Bloom taught America to be suspicious of academe.
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The good folks @uchicagopress.bsky.social sent me an advanced copy of Willing Warriors, my new book about the education culture wars. I'm thrilled to hold it and you can too this December! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Mark Hlavacik holding a copy of Willing Warriors: A New History of the Culture Wars. Photo credit: @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social
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Rachel Louise Moran @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Historians, please share these two exciting new positions in the Texas A&M History Department: careers.historians.org/jobs/2167991... careers.historians.org/jobs/2168299...
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Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor of Environmental History in College Station, TX for Texas A&M University, Department of History
Exciting opportunity in College Station, TX for Texas A&M University, Department of History as a ...
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Look what I got in the mail yesterday! @msteudeman.bsky.social’s excellent new book from @upmississippi.bsky.social about the role of feeling in Reconstruction Era education reforms. If you’re feeling jealous, you can get your own copy here: lnkd.in/gJxWTA8h
A picture of my hand holding Absence of National Feeling by Michael Steudeman.
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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you have ever wondered why people so regularly destroy American schools, the answer just got a little more affordable! Use code 095000 to take 50% off all books in print now through Friday, June 27th. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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A Is for Arson by Campbell F. Scribner | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
In A Is for Arson, Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of debris to uncover the conditions that have prompted school vandalism and to explain why attempts at prevention have inevitably...
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Joshua Guitar, PhD @guitarjoshuaphd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Pre-Order at SUNY Press now available for "From a Whisper to a Movement Investigating the Shared Rhetorical Spaces of Whistleblowing and Social Protest" sunypress.edu/Books/F/From... For inquiries direct message me here, email at jguitar@kean.edu, or email my coeditor, Alan Chu alanchu83@gmail.com
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@OmnibusTeachall.bsky.social @dankrutka.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
New pub in @trseeditor.bsky.social with @schoolfuss.bsky.social. We analyzed 311 IDM lessons and identified 3 types—civic, personal, and seminar-style. Only civic inquiry fully aligns with the C3 Framework’s civic aims. Limited free copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4ZEAA... 1/5
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I was thrilled to see Willing Warriors listed right in the middle of the @uchicagopress.bsky.social forthcoming list at #AERA2025. If you’ve been thinking about that email asking conference attendees to refrain from recording each other without permission, Chapter 3 has a story for you!
A placard listing the University of Chicago Press’s forthcoming books on education.
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Gbenga Ajilore @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Happy Friday! (Trying to bring positivity to the end of week) "Redbone" - Childish Gambino #QuarantineHobby
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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration” My NEH grant has been terminated Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars You can’t say history isn’t relevant
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Some personal news--After 10 years at UNT working with the kindest colleagues and coolest students on the planet, I have accepted a new position a little ways down the road at Texas A&M. It is hard to leave Denton, but I am excited to start a new a chapter in College Station.
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The University of Chicago Press put up a webpage for Willing Warriors, my new book about the education culture wars! It comes out December 2nd, but pre-orders are available now if you want to get a head start on your holiday shopping. ;-)
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Willing Warriors
How the rise of the culture wars afflicts the politics of education.   On August 9, 2022, the Denton Independent School District held a meeting to address complaints about its libraries. Like so many...
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Rachel Louise Moran @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
So my book was "briefly noted" in The New Yorker. feeling totally normal about this, not jumping up and down at all. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Short reviews of recent releases.
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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Have "the culture wars" (re sex, religion, patriotism, testing, etc) come to YOUR public K-12 school? I am eager to talk to students, teachers, parents, administrators, politicians, as well as others such as bus drivers, nurses, aides, paraprofessionals, cafeteria workers, etc. DM/comment if you!
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Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The latest issue of History of Education Quarterly is out. This thread has (open access or un-paywalled) links to all of the articles in it.
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
@rachellouisemoran.bsky.social got me this for my birthday. As if I, or anyone else who has ever finished The Power Broker, needs help working that fact into conversation.
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
@msteudeman.bsky.social's new book about the emergence of federal education policy after the Civil War comes out this summer! If there is a rhetoric or education scholar you have not checked off your holiday shopping list, it appears that @upmississippi.bsky.social is accepting preorders.
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Absence of National Feeling
Before the start of the Civil War, the US Congress seldom took up the question of education, deferring regularly to a tradition of local control. In the period after the war, however, education became...
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Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
What will a second Trump term mean for public education? In the latest @haveyouheard.bsky.social, @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social and I talk with Sophia Rodriguez, Jon Valant, Mimi Arnold Lyon, Derek Black, and Ben Justice.
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#188 What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for Public Education?
Donald Trump’s return to office is likely to have profound implications for the nation’s public schools. In this episode we start to grapple with five major policy areas that are likely to be impacted
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
When plural, it is "Reviewers 2," like attorneys general, right?
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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
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Rachel Louise Moran @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Eeeek there is an official release date for the audiobook version of Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America! February! I am a pretty obsessive audiobook fan myself, and am excited for the book to reach people this way. @uchicagopress.bsky.social rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...
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RBmedia | Blue
RBmedia is the largest audiobook publisher in the world. With more than 60,000 titles, our catalog is the largest collection of audiobooks in the industry.
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Andrea Terry, PhD (she/her) @andreajune.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hey friends! Come see me at the Religious Communication Association conference tomorrow! I’ll be talking about rhetorics of exclusion in the last 8 years of National Prayer Breakfasts & the role of religion in the presidential election. #rca24 #nca24 #teamrhetoric
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Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The August issue of *History of Education Quarterly* is finally out (after some delays from Cambridge University Press). Our focus in this issue is higher education. In this thread, I'll provide free access to all articles. 1/n
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
Smooshing Pumpkins
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 20/04/2024
My department is hiring a lecturer position for a scholar who can teach interpersonal, digital, and organizational communication. Most of the teaching will happen at our campus in Frisco. If you’d like to know more, I’m happy to share details and answer questions.
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
Working on the book and today I have to cite Diane Ravitch’s blog, which is entitled “Diane Ravitch’s Blog.” I look forward to explaining this to a copy editor one day.
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
Taken during 49.9 seconds of totality in my backyard.
Eclipse pic.
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Mark Hlavacik @schoolfuss.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
From an interview about political discussions: “A coffee shop conversation in Frisco is not going to decide an election, but it might decide the relationship with the person you’re talking to. And the person you’re talking to is probably more important to your life than Joe Biden or Donald Trump.”
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‘You don’t have to participate in a dialogue you don’t want to have’
Tyra Damm: UNT communications professor ​​Mark Hlavacik has good advice about how to have political conversations respectfully.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
Big news for people who like to listen to other people read books to them! GUN COUNTRY launches on audiobook tomorrow! a.co/d/aRyzghc
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Amazon.com: Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America (Audible Audio Edi...
Amazon.com: Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America (Audible Audio Edition): Andrew C. McKevitt, Bob Johnson, Tantor Audio: Books
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Rachel Louise Moran @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
We're hiring! University of North Texas job for a TT assistant professor in Texas or Texas/Southwestern Borderlands history. jobs.untsystem.edu/postings/78073 Please share with anyone who might be a good fit!
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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 21/11/2023
23 Myths about the History of American Schools: You can ask your library to pre-order! (Royalties go to U.S. History of Ed Society) www.tcpress.com/23-myths-abo... Expected publication date: April 2024 ISBN 978-0-8077-6926-3 (paper) ISBN 978-0-8077-6927-0 (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-8077-8217-0 (ebook)
Preview cover image of Dorn & Gamson, eds., "23 Myths about the History of American Schools"
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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
What if universities are having civil, nuanced discussions of events in Israel and Gaza, but they are happening in classrooms, office hours, and dorms, not out in the public view of lazy reporters and not in a way that fits the narrative people want to tell?
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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
New @haveyouheard.bsky.social heads to Houston investigate the politics of a state takeover. Spoiler: what may seem like two completely contradictory directions in TX education policy really aren't on.soundcloud.com/QfHJU
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#165 The Politics of State Takeovers
Have You Heard heads to Houston, where the state now controls Texas’ largest school district. We’ll meet teachers and parents who say the takeover of the schools in this Democratic city is fundame...
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Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Oklahoma is moving forward with its unconstitutional religious public charter school. Kudos to the school board chairman for refusing to sign off on this illegal and unconstitutional move. kfor.com/news/local/s...
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State virtual school board chairman won’t sign contract for first religious charter school
The chairman of the Statewide Virtual Charter School board said he would not sign the contract allowing the nation’s first religious online charter school because it was “unconstitutional.” Dr. ...
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