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“disappointing” -National Review | RESISTANCE FROM THE RIGHT: CONSERVATIVES AND THE CAMPUS WARS @UNC_Press , 2023 | @llassabe everywhere else

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

10 months

It’s pub day!!!… and I just got a message that RESISTANCE FROM THE RIGHT is already SOLD OUT ON AMAZON! You can still order from UNC Press, B&N, Target, Bookshop, and a few other places online This is just.. 😭🫶

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Resistance from the Right | Lauren Lassabe Shepherd | University of North Carolina Press

Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe ...

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

2 years

Dear alma mater: I would love to give you more money. I really would. But you won’t even give me remote library access. Please consider throwing that in with the alumni perks. I do not care about the special tent at baseball games.

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A truly incredible picture from the protests at Ole Miss

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Y’all my tweets usually get 0-4 likes. If you’re reading this and want to help out a NOLA k12 teacher who needs a safe classroom more than we need remote access to JSTOR (which we do!), please consider:

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One day I will stop collecting things to read and start reading things I've collected

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So excited to dive into this

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2 years

Not beating up on libraries. This tweet is about how much I LOVE the library

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7 months

Please help! I don’t have a PhD in history & I’ve accidentally published an academic history text in what’s generally regarded as a top university press in the discipline (that’s on them). Do I need to go get a second PhD in a collapsing field for Twitter? LMK!!

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So excited to share that RESISTANCE FROM THE RIGHT now has a cover! Huge thanks to Lindsay Starr and the @UNC_Press design team for this artwork that I’m so proud to share: 1/

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7 months

The most pretentious (and insecure) thing you can do as an academic is drop your advisor genealogy when it isn’t relevant to the conversation

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5 months

Cheeeeeeeese!!! (I am exhausted) The best part about seeing my book on display today was finding the “sold” slip inside. Reader, I left you a note! #AHA2024

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2 years

@NordSteve That is exactly the type of program I wish we had! I’ve looked into our “friends of the library” program, turns out it’s just a fun title you get for being a donor. Anyone can use the library in person, I would just like remote access since I don’t live there anymore

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@jduffyrice Lol

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Hear me out. A college, but for experiences! No academics. Strong football and men’s basketball programs with famous head coaches. A robust white Greek life system. Transform the library into newest residence hall operated by private partnership & a Chik fil a on every floor

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Amelia Knisely

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New: More WVU campus program changes and job cuts could be announced as early as today — this time in academic support programs. Program reviewed include the library, Honors College, LGBTQ+ Center and more.

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

1 year

Doing a final pass through my footnotes. This book would easily be 600 pages if my editor did not (gently, thoughtfully) rein me in. So there are two really great stories I’m leaving on the cutting room floor. Both about Newt Gingrich ⬇️ 1/

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

2 years

Good morning, historians. Check your footnotes. Keep your coffee topped off. Let’s do our best work today

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Only 3300 words into this 700 word piece

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8 months

The university has never been an inherently leftist space (though leftists are supposed to be protected there) and it isn’t one now. This is a right-wing trope.

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6 months

I’m quoted in @Tyler_A_Harper ’s Atlantic piece today. Just want to make clear that 1) he and I completely disagree about the humanities being responsible for their own demise! 2) we’ve had respectful & productive conversations about it, which is exceedingly unusual given

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2 years

@meredith_ancret @promises2sweet Yes! I pay for my own annual JSTOR subscription with an OAH discount now. I think people would happily pay the library if it meant we got JSTOR, other databases, ebooks, all things we (anyone, really) technically have access to if we can get to campus

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2 years

So excited to share that my book officially has a home! Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars is now in the hands of the wonderful people at @UNC_Press . Huge thanks to @AndrewJWinters , @lportwoodstacer , and so many others for helping bring the book to life!

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Brandon Friedman

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First photo by Maria Ramirez and Antonella Rescigno of The Daily Mississippian ( @thedm_news ) Second photo by Will Counts for the Arkansas Democrat

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My first book (dissertation) was motivated by genuine curiosity. Research for the second book is fueled almost entirely by rage at what’s happened to the academy

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6 months

I’ve read it. It’s pretty good.

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Kevin Gannon

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6 months

I've been looking forward to digging into this new book by @llassabe

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1 year

I thought about calculating my hourly rate as an instructor this semester, then decided—better not. Let’s just go with, I make $725 a month playing college professor. I make $27 an hour teaching Pilates.

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

6 months

Lots of discussion On Here about the right’s obsession with academia, permissive administers, and disruptive student protestors. I’ve got a book rec for you

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@GaribaldoValdez Jackson state also doesn’t get its due respect when we lump it in with Kent state as if the two atrocities were related by anything more than state violence

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You can read more very soon (!!) in Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America from @UNC_Press /9

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Half of all US colleges closed in May 1970 following the Kent state massacre. Some colleges postponed and even cancelled commencement (BU). Right-wingers used the closures as a pretext to sue their schools for tuition reimbursements and to force them back open

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When academia and I inevitably break up you will still find me on the conference beat, institutionally homeless but still so eager to be there

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1 month

Extremely proud to be quoted in this @TeenVogue article. Their writers have turned out some of the most compelling journalism of the last few years. Pulitzer for Teen Vogue when?

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Allegra Kirkland

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Students covering the campus protests are pulling all-nighters, watching their peers get arrested and tear-gassed, and even getting assaulted on the job.

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I was just on NPR’s All Things Considered? Gotta tell my mom and @SonyaBonczek

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7 months

Two things I didn’t realize when I preordered this are that I already preordered it and that it’s 600+ pages

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@jacasiegel Just spent way too much time on this guy’s timeline. Says he’s at 5% body fat and does “no non-essential eating” 😵‍💫 like sir do you have any actual concern for your health

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@varsha_venkat_ @kathleen_belew In my own DMs!

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My baby in the wild #AHA2024 @katisjewell , this you?

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2 years

2022 me is very upset at 2018 me for saving Very Important Documents to my One Drive on an old institutional email I no longer have access to. This is a PSA: save your things everywhere. Save them in 10 different places.

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1 year

Friends, we have page proofs! @UNC_Press

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The right: hates king (for decades) The right: actually no he was useful and we love him (for decades) The right: actually no we were right the first time

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William Turton

5 months

SCOOP: How Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA Plans to Discredit Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Act

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

6 months

Friends! A small slice of “the work of 1,000 adjuncts” whose exploited labor makes our instituons *and fields* go round. Please ask your libraries to purchase access to each book on this list:

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Contingent Magazine

@contingent_mag

7 months

🎉It's our 2023 book list, featuring historians working off the tenure track around the world 🎉

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1 year

We often think of Gingrich and other firebrands of his New Right cohort as getting their starts in the 70s, or the 90s when they took over Congress. But we really need to back that timeline up. I’ve got 300 (not 600 😇) pages about them cutting their political teeth in college 8/

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*cracks knuckles* time to update my history of higher ed syllabus

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If you’ll be at #OAH24 come check us out on Thursday at 2:45! Promise to include mention of all your favorite libertarians and anarchists c 1970 I may even throw in a Bryan Adams lyric idk

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After years of studying the right it’s weird to finally experience how liberals are

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Remember the other day when I was like, don’t send me your spring catalog, don’t give me your holiday discount code

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3 years

Every time I leave the house I’m accused of betrayal

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6 months

On the topic of student evals, I get a notification every time one is completed and I never see them and it doesn’t matter and they’re notoriously bad for women profs and I have no dossier to worry about or put them in anyway because I’m not TT 🩵

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

6 months

To add to #1 , the right has an academic version of the better known Federalist Society that functions the same way. It’s call the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (founded 30 years earlier than fedsoc!) and its entire mission is to seek out conservative students, pay for their

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

7 months

So enjoyed our #USIH2023 panel on the intellectual context of the postwar radical right. Did not realize we had a panel pic! Cheers to @HerbertHistory who always comes through with coffee and photos when it counts(1 min before we started) @kathleen_belew @pmkoleh @Ideas_History

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@AsheeshKSi Indeed. I’ve worked in Title IX offices at two campuses and both places bent over backwards to keep young men out of the headlines and protect them from arrest *in the name of keeping assault victims safe through internal procedures*

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

6 months

Thank you for this profile, @contingent_mag ! So enjoyed answering these questions a few weeks ago (pre-Maddowgate). Reading my responses back, I’d emphasize my comments about public history even more. Thankful for @Ideas_History ’s Community Scholars Program as ever

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“It’s always fascinating as a historian to identify where some past phenomenon has intersected your own life.” For our latest How I Do History profile, historian, writer, and teacher, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe tells us how she does history.

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“But” applicants turn their noses up at jobs in deeply red states governed by vindictive, surveillance obsessed legislators who believe DEI is under the bed and thus keep proposing laws to abolish tenure

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Erik Loomis

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This is an important point to the current academic job debate. People complaining about the market have plenty of legit points, but I've known a lot of people who refused to apply to the job in Arkansas or North Dakota or Wyoming or South Carolina or turned down the t-t job there

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This was a common criticism of the 60s student antiwar movement: they’re nihilists, the strikes are about skipping class Which the right used as pretense for punishment: expel them, arrest them, draft them

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David Frum

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I sometimes wonder what protesters imagine they achieve by anti-social behavior like blockading roads. I suppose such protesters would answer that what matters to them is not winning the game, but playing outside and having fun.

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@hayleyalex [overwhelmed Ben Affleck smoking a cigarette]

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The right didn’t “find out they’re not a majority” in 2016. The hardline trads, conspiracists, *and right intellectuals* have known this for 70 or more years. It’s fundamental to their politics

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Tom Nichols

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After 2016, Trump voters thought they'd really made their point, pushed back change in America, and gained respect by electing a POTUS. All that blew up in their faces: They found out they're not a majority, and worse, the disdain of their fellow citizens only intensified. /2

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the topic and the nature of academic disagreements when they’re played out publicly over Twitter. Nothing but appreciation for good faith engagement here

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

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So excited to see a return of MBH at @TIME ! I wrote this in response to New College specifically, but NCF isn’t a one off. The right has been pretty explicit about that. They’re loving it in the comments

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TIME

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From @madebyhistory : The history behind the right's effort to take over universities

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

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There are three or maybe four guys I follow on here and I get them all confused and they all do German philosophy and there’s one who I really can’t stand but I forget which he is

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

10 months

Dear Nelnet: I have moved on and I urge you to drop the student loans in my name

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WDW News Today

10 months

BREAKING: Ron DeSantis Says He Has ‘Moved On’ and Urges Disney to Drop Lawsuit Against Him

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

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We need an academic monograph about the history of this

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Keith Orejel

2 months

It’s adorable that they think this is up for them to decide.

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2 years

The spoils of #AHA2022 (with thanks to co-conspirator @TheOtherRBG for the Douglass bio)

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Lawmakers 60 years ago: No draft deferments for protesting students who disrupt other students’ educational activities

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1 year

Which one is the side hustle

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3 months

Humbling to think you’ve discovered something in an archive and then to realize there’s an entire body of secondary literature on it going back decades

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

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At universities like Tulane (video below) and Southern California, MCs recruited athletes to guard the flag pole to prevent it from being lowered in honor of the slain Kent State students. The flagpole standoffs were insane. They got physical: 7/

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

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“When I was at X studying under X, who was a student of X…” and maybe this was his way of modeling for us rubes a class practice we wouldn’t have been familiar with, maybe he wanted us to namedrop him* for eternity, idk

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

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@varsha_venkat_ @kathleen_belew Didn’t realize the critical comments and QTs were almost all men but I just checked and… 🫠

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If I learned anything in grad school it’s that coffee is no substitute for the brain break that is sleep but I’m still gonna choose coffee every time

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Wondering how many people on hiring committees have looked at my socials and said, nope My tweets aren’t event controversial. They are mostly just stream of consciousness yapping

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

2 years

@dnbrgr Disingenuous and dangerous are unusual descriptions of @SamAdlerBell ’s ideas. Strongly encourage you to read his other writings and listen to his podcast @KnowYrEnemyPod (with @MatthewSitman ), which is entirely devoted to understanding and pushing back against rightwing politics

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

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ATTN intellectual historians! ⁦⁦ @Ideas_History ⁩ is now accepting sponsored panel and roundtable proposals for #AHA2025 Send me your proposals by Tuesday, May 28! Details here ⬇️⬇️

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USIH at #AHA25: Call for Proposals | Society for US Intellectual History

Greetings, intellectual historians! We are now accepting proposals for S-USIH sponsored sessions at next year’s American Historical Association meeting. The upcoming conference will be held in New...

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

2 years

New book, new headshot 🤍 big thank you to my best friend, former PhD classmate (who is killing it alt-ac), and photographer extraordinaire at Shea Gibson Photography for the author (!!!) photo

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I’m grading, baby’s snoring

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And the rest of us rabble authors of works of less acclaim, we would like jobs too

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

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@rickperlstein @nbashaw Student protesters in the 60s were much more rhetorically radical than what we've seen so far, but your average SDS student wasn't building bombs, either. The national guard occupation at Kent State had gone on for days before the actual shooting, which itself was unprovoked

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

2 years

My new football season Sunday pastime is bringing my book to the bar and having a drink while my husband watches the game

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

8 months

A good mail day! @drewmckevitt @UNC_Press

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

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@MatthewSitman He probably should be ignored generally, but the “read a book” reference is about his relentless trolling *of a grad student* so idk, that’s pretty deserving of shame

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

1 year

Daily reminder that adjunct faculty lose our institutional resources (library access, university email, digital storage, our own LMS content, etc) between semesters. Students are already enrolled in my fall and spring courses, but for now, I’m not affiliated with UNO at all

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

9 months

Wild consequence of my conservative dad getting all of his political news from his Fb algorithm is he can name every fact and conspiracy surrounding hntr Biden but doesn’t know who Laurn Boeb is

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

6 months

Someone in authority place a book ban on me. No more books. Don't send me your spring catalog. Miss me with your holiday discount codes. Put me in a room with my TBR stack and don't let me out until I've finished the job.

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

2 years

A parliament of owls in a boston eataly #usih2022 @Ideas_History @katisjewell @HartmanAndrew @Ben_Alpers @RayHaberski @sarageorgini @t_lacy @CMcKNichols

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

1 year

Here he is (foreground) on May 5, 1970, one day after the Kent State massacre. Antiwar demonstrators are hanging a Nixon effigy in protest of the Cambodia invasion and the 13 students shot (4 killed). Gingrich is just observing, shortly after he would lead a counter rally in 4/

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

2 months

Just cleaned out my camera roll. Got it down to 2,000 dog pics

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support of Nixon, the war, and tough admin cracking down on the antiwar crowd. He did this as part of a “majority coalition.” MCs were a national YAF project designed to get students on campus to protest the protests. They asked admin to expel their classmates so they would be 5/

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

7 months

The burning effigy on the left simply screams Holiday!✨ A perfect read before for the annual thanksgiving table chat with your uncle

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Maxwell

7 months

The perfect holiday reading has finally arrived! @llassabe

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

2 years

@JFTitone For sure! Those restrictions make it really hard for public institutions to stay true to their missions. Sorry y’all are caught in a rock and a hard place!

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

10 months

Really proud of this extremely thorough review of RESISTANCE FROM THE RIGHT in @jacobin . The book will be out in less than a week! (psst, @DavidAstinWalsh , @johnshuntington , y'all are in here, too)

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Scott W. Stern

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It was a real privilege to review @llassabe 's new book, "Resistance from the Right" (forthcoming soon from @UNC_Press ) for @jacobin ! Come for George Wallace getting shouted down; stay for young Bill Barr harassing civil rights activists.

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

2 years

What if I took this 12k word chapter and made it two 7k* word chapters. How’s that for cutting

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

11 months

The call for leftist historians to be more naval gazing when our entire discipline is currently in flames is a curious choice

@JohannNeem

Johann Neem

11 months

A plea for historians to look in the mirror and take seriously our obligation to be honest brokers- in response to #MythAmerica & the @AmHistReview ’s forum on #The1619Project .

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

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@drewmckevitt if your ears are burning it’s because GUN COUNTRY got a little round of applause in this bar tonight! @kathleen_belew plugged it and everyone in Denver clicked order #USIH2023 #HATM @HerbertHistory @Ideas_History @UNC_Press

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

2 years

And the adult* New Right of the 70s first developed those skills as college students in the 60s, creating “alternative” campus newspapers (mimicking the New Left’s underground rags), with funding from wealthy conservative benefactors

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A.J. Bauer

2 years

Also, 30 years is how long we've had talk radio. If you count direct mail advertising, think tanks, mass-circulation magazines that goes back to the New Right in the 1970s. Conservatives have often been early adopters of new media/tech, and when they aren't they always catch up!

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

7 months

Jefferson Davis’s house

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Kristen Mulrooney

7 months

People who didn’t grow up in a colonial New England state, where did you even go for your 3rd grade field trip? How did you even learn to churn butter?

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

10 months

My best writing tip is take a walk

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

1 year

My baby, out in the wild! 🥹

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Sonya Bonczek

1 year

Another day, another galley photoshoot. ⁦⁦ @llassabe ⁩’s RESISTANCE FROM THE RIGHT looks the formation of conservative student coalition building against the New Left on college campuses in the 60s-70s and its continued impact on 21st c US politics and education. Word!

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

1 year

Futurology! 3/

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

7 months

The first time I ever encountered this was as an undergrad when my own advisor did it almost every single lecture

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

1 year

In 1969 he had just started his PhD at Tulane and was teaching history courses. What was he teaching, you ask? 2/

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

1 year

*abandons all other reading obligations*

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