Ben Houston

A Yank in the UK. Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University (civil rights mov't, modern US, oral history). New book: James Lawson's expulsion from Vanderbilt Univ.

[Martha S. Jones @marthasjones_]

Cambridge (UK) friends! I’ll be at the American History seminar on Monday May 18 talking from a new book project “Facing into the Wind: Hard Histories in Harder Times.” Jesus College at 16h with comment from Mia Bay.

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

Remembering the conversation I had on @LeftOfBlack back in 2019 with @kehinde_andrews, whose work and institution building in #BlackStudies in the UK is under assault. We discussed his book 'Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century'
https://t.co/LA0NhD12uq

[Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social) @rbthisted]

"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." https://t.co/d8KCCj9Lcz

[Ben Houston @BHoustonHistory]

https://t.co/JJSOQgAA4Z

[WPLN News - Nashville Public Radio @WPLN]

Metro's new Davidson County Historian is on a mission.

“If you have no knowledge of the past then something is fundamentally wrong ... The same is true for people, communities, neighborhoods, cities, and states.”
— Dr. Learotha Williams Jr.

https://t.co/pY1w03d3Bi

[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

https://t.co/GjqBnUKncO

[Ben Houston @BHoustonHistory]

@JMitchellNews If you’ll forgive the self-promotion: https://t.co/A8u0JOZhXy

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

Celebrating BHM by highlighting Black figures & next is Una Marson from Jamaica, the BBC’s 1st Black female full time broadcaster & producer for her show, Calling The West Indies in 1941. As a creative, her work made space to discuss the importance of Black women in society

[Nashville Ledger @nvilleledger]

Bobby Cain, a member of the Clinton 12 who helped integrate Tennessee high schools in 1956, has died https://t.co/Zd0SPOXUTP

[Ohio State Football @OhioStateFB]

Jeremiah Knows 💯

@BoJackson2025 | #GoBucks

[Tamorah Shareef Muhammad @ModestyQueen19]

Joseph McNeil was one of four students who staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960.

[Bodleian Libraries @bodleianlibs]

After weeks in the @BodleianLibraries archives last month @PeterBrathwaite visited the places in the papers—walking the land, meeting descendants, & confronting the living archive of his family's history.
For more of Peter's work, check out his website: https://t.co/4oTp1e8KKa.

[WPLN News - Nashville Public Radio @WPLN]

It's not every day — and not many podcasts — that get named to TIME's 100 Best Podcasts of All Time. But the honor includes WPLN's The Promise by @meribah!

A series that examines what happens in Nashville when "a great idea meets reality."

https://t.co/XOVv05cnGI

[Charles W McKinney, Jr. @CharlesWMcKinn2]

Honored to see this roundtable on our book go live at @BlkPerspectives.

[Nikhil Pal Singh @nikhil_palsingh]

Perry Anderson on the advantages enjoyed by the populisms of the right over those of the left on the immigration issue. But I think he omits that populisms of the right, unserious about economic inequality, are in bed with oligarchy. A vulnerability that needs to be hammered.

[Nashville Public Library @NowatNPL]

Nashville's iconic Music Row comes to life with our newly unveiled oral history collection. https://t.co/EJvPlRzSIj

[Ben Houston @BHoustonHistory]

https://t.co/KVBryiAteu

[Andy Clark @AndyClark22]

We need a MEF - Management Excellence Framework.

If it's a great way to evaluate research and teaching, surely it'd do the same job in improving university governance!?

[Baltimore magazine @Baltimoremag]

Today is Gloria Richardson Day, commemorating the civil rights hero who brought Maryland's fight for equality to the national stage. https://t.co/tclCVOmKWV