Beth Withey

Historian in training @UArkansas exploring the southern Cultural Front: musician, lover of all things feathered, furred, scaled, or otherwise.

[Beth Withey @BethWithey]

@JohnFea1 Wow. I made it halfway through and couldn't take it anymore.

[Beth Withey @BethWithey]

@igallupd Alec Guinness was perfection.

[Beth Withey @BethWithey]

The Pryor Center and Department of History @UArkansas present a symposium on the Elaine race massacre. https://t.co/13rJeBfcP5

[Beth Withey @BethWithey]

Interesting interview on @kuaf with Clint Schnekloth on the Labor-based origins of Labor Sunday and the Social Gospel in Chicago referencing @heathwcarter's Union Made.

A Labor Day History Lesson https://t.co/srGja63AjU

[Dust-to-Digital @dusttodigital]

Remembering Big Bill Broonzy, born on this day in 1903 in Jefferson County, Arkansas. Here he is playing "Hey, Hey" in 1957.

[Beth Withey @BethWithey]

I'm saving this till the second espresso. This is going to be good.

[Dr. Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755 on lots o’ platforms) @jbf1755]

Just heard a TV commentator actually say:
Maybe the president will have a leadership moment.

We are SO unwilling or unable to confront things as they are...

And SO convinced that the USA is exceptional, so all will be OK in the end...

Don't assume that.
Please.

[Angie Maxwell @angiemaxwell.bsky.social @AngieMaxwell1]

Check out my piece in the Washington Post today! Thank you, @brianros1! Here’s the key argument of The Long Southern Strategy @KevinMKruse @Dahlialithwick @BillPressPod https://t.co/dGUTGTWdpJ

[Beth Withey @BethWithey]

The Pride parade in Fayetteville yesterday had the largest crowds on record, by some accounts 30,000. Serendipitously, I got to March with I an IWW sign. Thanks Workers of the World! And thanks to Tavi Ellis in the foreground for this great photo.

[Julie Hardwick/[email protected] @DrJulieHardwick]

1700 A West African teenager enslaved in London runs away: British Black history, urban hist, Atlantic hist, children's hist & many other hist threads encapsulated in a 78 word ad whose backstories are wonderfully explored by Simon Newman in this blog 1/ https://t.co/XRm36oVpx4

[Alex Sayf Cummings 🌹 @akbarjenkins]

I grew up in a millhouse two blocks away from this mill — and I didn’t know a single thing about its history until my first semester of grad school, in Barbara Fields’s class. It still blows my mind

[LaborStartUSA @LaborStartUSA]

Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and the women who fought for labor reform - https://t.co/wIQDHQzb6s

[Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson]

Great thread.

[Greg Leding @GregLeding]

Fayetteville (42) and Little Rock (90) make the list. https://t.co/7Wk904W0nn

[Society for U.S. Intellectual History @Ideas_History]

Check out a NEW #USIH post by ⁦@LDBurnett⁩ on history, historians, and the public sphere! #twitterstorians

Getting the Right History vs. Getting the History Right | Society for US Intellectual History https://t.co/4xpoBp2ABO

[Beth Withey @BethWithey]

"The future is really disclosed by finding what people will sing about about." Thinking about this in terms of Kenneth Burke's ideas of revolutionary symbolism and symbolic enrollment. https://t.co/mg2LmsIhW1 via @pastemagazine

[LAWCHA @lawcha_org]

Jobs and Medicare for All
Jack Metzgar

https://t.co/PXxOCjIJye

[Ben Franklin's World @BFWorldPodcast]

What happened on King Street in Boston exactly 249 years ago? Eric Hinderaker has the details in this NEW episode of #BFWorld, the first of a 3-episode series on the Boston Massacre

https://t.co/KVrTd54ZOJ #Boston #EarlyAmHist #OnThisDay #Podcast

[BackStory @BackStoryRadio]

Ida B. Wells wrote better stories, not just because they were objective or emotional, but because they were accurate. https://t.co/stIDsNe4xh