Dr. John R. Legg
Historian and college professor.
www.johnlegg.org
- Reposted by Dr. John R. LeggI just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
- Reposted by Dr. John R. Leggin case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
- Reposted by Dr. John R. LeggPleased to share the news that the latest issue of our journal "Civil War History"—edited by @jimdowns.bsky.social, and featuring articles by @legg.bsky.social, @nielseichhorn.bsky.social, and others—is now available at @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56267
- Reposted by Dr. John R. LeggTwo days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
- Still getting used to my commute from Hattiesburg to New Orleans three days a week for classes. Today’s digital history class was so fulfilling. My students just amazed me and I left class with such a teaching high. That two hour drive back, however, wrecked me. Worth it.
- Reposted by Dr. John R. LeggThis. It’s why they’re grabbing at power more desperately and violently. They can feel it slipping away. It’s a moment for us to stand up and speak out.
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- Great news today: I’ve been accepted to write a chapter for the Handbook on Digital Activism (ed. Paromita Pain). I’ll explore the ethics of digitizing sensitive Indigenous histories through case studies at Dickson Mounds, the American Civil War Museum, and the Minnesota Historical Society.
- Great news! @llassabe.bsky.social and I signed a contract for our edited volume, Degrees of Liberation: Public History, Campus Activism, and the Fight for Educational Justice. The book shows how campus activism drives change and advances public history work with communities. @sunypress.bsky.social
- Student evals came in: Do you have any suggested improvements for the instructor (John Legg)? Student: "stay exactly the way you are" Me:
- I’m thrilled to share that Board of Governors of the UNL Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has appointed me Affiliate Fellow for the 2026-2031 term. I’m very thankful for Melissa Anne Amateis's nomination and excited to serve the Center for the next several years.
- Look what came in the mail! You can read “Cracks in the Granite: Contested Civil War Memories in the American West” in this year’s December issue of Civil War History. @nielseichhorn.bsky.social. W/great company: @jjacobcalhoun.bsky.social & William S. Kiser. Thanks @jimdowns.bsky.social & staff
- Reposted by Dr. John R. LeggJob: Digital Humanities Librarian employment.ku.edu/jobs/faculty...
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- Reposted by Dr. John R. Leggfrom chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
- Reposted by Dr. John R. LeggLast week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
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- Received page proofs for an article co-authored with @nielseichhorn.bsky.social in Civil War History (with excellent company)! Very excited to have this work out in the world this December! 🎉
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- Fish gutters in New Orleans! Taken yesterday.
- Are the issues only because people are “overwhelmed, distracted, or frustrated with the technologies”? What about the environmental factors? What about data scraping issues? Why don’t you have an environmental historian on the committee?
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- To my academic friends! I’m looking for online adjunct opportunities for this fall and spring semester. If your department is looking for online/asynchronous support in history, please check out my academic website to learn more about my work. www.johnlegg.org
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- Does anyone have any contacts with the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma or anyone who has cultural ties to Dickson Mounds in Illinois? Thanks in advance!
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- Reposted by Dr. John R. LeggHonestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
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- Reposted by Dr. John R. LeggPadilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
- Christopher Capozzola: we’re gonna need a new forward to your book…
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- Any recs to overcome this? I've been working on a journal article since '22. I've revised a few times after great feedback from other folks. I feel stuck. I've lost steam finishing it. I found new material that slightly changes the argument + just don't know if I have the capacity to revise again.
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- Excited about next week’s talk at the Galesburg (IL) Public Library, almost 80 years to the date of my grandpa sustaining wounds on Okinawa (May 16, 1945).
- Editor: You have room to add a few hundred words to meet the maximum word count of 8,000 words for this chapter. Me: revising and finishing the chapter with 8800 words. Crap.
- A history friend from Georgia has been battling cancer and has a long road ahead. Consider donating a few bucks to her Go Fund Me campaign to help out. @historypro1.bsky.social www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...
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- Thanks for the book, @william-sturkey.bsky.social! We can’t wait to dive in before our move to Hattiesburg and USM! @jenandrella.bsky.social
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- 80 years ago, my Grandpa + his fellow Marines in Co. L of the 22nd Marines/6th Marine Division landed on Okinawa for the last major battle of WW2. Willard Legg survived a month + a half on Okinawa, sustaining wounds on May 16 fighting up Sugar Loaf Hill. www.sixthmarinedivision.com/21StoryLegg....
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- We're headed south to Hattiesburg, Mississippi! Very excited for this new adventure with @jenandrella.bsky.social!
- We're moving backward. While Canada and South Korea embrace Truth and Reconciliation, the U.S. under Trump pushes "Truth and Sanity"—a return to whitewashing and erasure instead of reckoning with the hard truths that shape our nation.
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- I'm very proud of a super conservative cousin in West Virginia who posted on Facebook urging his friends to not trust Elon Musk with their social security numbers. Sometimes you go so far right, you end up left.
- I guess this is 34? I sat down wrong on the couch and now my knee throbs, clicks, and I can’t get it to pop. Fun stuff!
- It’s Douglass Day! Happy Birthday, Frederick Douglass!@jenandrella.bsky.social, the Abolition Lab at Knox College, and Seymour Library is connecting Knox students to the annual transcribathon for materials at the Library of Congress! More here (if you’d like to connect at home): www.douglassday.org
- The hardest part of being an adjunct is switching between universities--dealing with different procedures, policies, expectations, LMS platforms, etc. Hopeful for something more permanent so I can finally learn one system and stick with it!
