Logan Barrett
@LBarrettHistory
Auburn PhD Candidate and Public Historian. MA and BS in History. Studying working-class Black resistance in the 20th C South, labor, and social movements.
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I hope faculty who are removing race, gender, and other targeted topics off their syllabi understand that: 1) cowardice will not save you, and 2) you are increasing the scrutiny on your colleagues who cannot or will not abandon these research areas. Have some damn solidarity.
Is there any writing on the problematic framing of "unskilled labor" that even many labor historians continue to use? The best suggestion I have seen is using "deskilled" instead to foreground the process of violence perpetratored by scientific management.
The left wing impulse to read books and think
i've noticed a weird aversion to using AI on the left. not sure if it's a climate or an IP thing or what, but it seems like a massive self-own to deduct yourself 30+ points of IQ because you don't like the tech
Very proud to announce my wife Laura successfully defended her history dissertation on Birmingham's Avondale neighborhood today. She is now Dr. Laura King.
I'd like to see a major history conference have a keynote address delivered by a non-tenured or tenure track scholar. That's who we need to be hearing from right now.
I really dislike the use of "foot soldier" as a term applied to Black freedom participants. It militarizes social movements, reinforces an undemocratic hierarchy, and creates a false dichotomy that only leaders perform mind work while the masses are the laboring "backbone."
Academic conferences showing blantant disregard and disrepect to graduate students, contingent faculty, noninstutional scholars, public historians, and activists that they claim they are in solidarity with shows how much rot is in the profession.
We mourn the loss of Holly B. Wait, Executive Director of The National Civil War Naval Museum. Her leadership will be deeply missed. We extend our sympathies to her husband, children, and all those close to her. Details regarding funeral arrangements will be forthcoming.
Fitting reading tonight in James Green's Taking History to Heart. Seems that those who want to say AHA does not have a history of political involvement are just kidding themselves. #AHA25
It is absolutely ridiculous and embarassing for a R1 university to turn off access cards of faculty and grad students so they cannot enter their buildings during home sporting event weekends.
I observed a history lecturer tell a class of 220 freshmen that talking about anything that happened after 1970 is journalism, not history. Seems like a quick way of ensuring history as a field is seen as useless and unrelated to their lives.
Conferences requiring complete panel proposals rather than accepting individual papers are not serious about platforming graduate students, contingent faculty, community college faculty, public historians, and independent scholars who do not have the same networking access.
If you ever want to find out the truth about a faculty member, ask the department's graduate students instead of their fellow faculty.
So thankful for all the visitors to the National Civil War Naval Museum who came to my talk on the Black experience during the Civil War for the Juneteenth celebration.
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