US cities & schools, historically. Works: Making the Unequal Metropolis; Educating Harlem; nyccivilrightshistory.org. Voted most likely to assign too much reading. Also I♥️NYC and 🌱 🪴 and 🏊‍♀️ 🏊‍♀️. Everything here is me, not my employer.https://bsky.app/profile/ansleyerickson.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ansleyerickson.bsky.social/post/3mvj2eye2oc2p#histed #edusky 🗃️ #nyc [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Sep 2026 21:26 +0000at://did:plc:5342xc45rxivhcekjpkuyhbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvj2eye2oc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/ansleyerickson.bsky.social/post/3mvj2ap6lrs2pStarting the 2026-27 speaker series strong! Raquel Otheguy on her book * Black Freedom and Education in 19th C Cuba* @teacherscollege.bsky.social14 Sep 2026 21:23 +0000at://did:plc:5342xc45rxivhcekjpkuyhbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvj2ap6lrs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/ansleyerickson.bsky.social/post/3muzl2ajhkc2bCertainly has to be part of class 1 in Historical Methods tonight: what are we doing as scholars who study the past, and why, in this present? https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/09/lonnie-bunch-will-leave-smithsonian/688544/08 Sep 2026 17:41 +0000at://did:plc:5342xc45rxivhcekjpkuyhbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzl2ajhkc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/ansleyerickson.bsky.social/post/3muwl4vf6xs24We’ve been here before: US highway construction destroyed livability & value for hundreds of thousands of (urban, many Black) Americans who lived not IN, but NEAR, the path of the road. Largely uncompensated. And, of course, highways > cars > pollution > climate crisis. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Sep 2026 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:5342xc45rxivhcekjpkuyhbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwl4vf6xs24https://bsky.app/profile/ansleyerickson.bsky.social/post/3muwl4vf6xs24We’ve been here before: US highway construction destroyed livability & value for hundreds of thousands of (urban, many Black) Americans who lived not IN, but NEAR, the path of the road. Largely uncompensated. And, of course, highways > cars > pollution > climate crisis. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Sep 2026 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:5342xc45rxivhcekjpkuyhbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwl4vf6xs24https://bsky.app/profile/ansleyerickson.bsky.social/post/3muwkshnmus24Like many fellow profs, I’m here at my laptop observing Laboring Day. Syllabus *almost* done. Canvas sites…. Ugh.07 Sep 2026 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:5342xc45rxivhcekjpkuyhbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwkshnmus24https://bsky.app/profile/ansleyerickson.bsky.social/post/3muh6qqi7522xWhew, September 1. Over a tough, good, interesting summer, a major highlight was READING. So many people doing brilliant work out there. What were your summer faves from the non-fiction shelves?01 Sep 2026 10:14 +0000at://did:plc:5342xc45rxivhcekjpkuyhbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3muh6qqi7522xhttps://bsky.app/profile/ansleyerickson.bsky.social/post/3muh6qqi7522xWhew, September 1. Over a tough, good, interesting summer, a major highlight was READING. So many people doing brilliant work out there. What were your summer faves from the non-fiction shelves?01 Sep 2026 10:14 +0000at://did:plc:5342xc45rxivhcekjpkuyhbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3muh6qqi7522xhttps://bsky.app/profile/ansleyerickson.bsky.social/post/3mucfzzqeu22aMy 18yo camp counselor kid heard from her campers that their school buses at home had cameras/mics trained on them to listen for the word “gun.” “Surveillance is not the same as safety, and a school where every student feels watched is not necessarily a school where every student feels safe.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Aug 2026 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:5342xc45rxivhcekjpkuyhbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mucfzzqeu22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/ansleyerickson.bsky.social/post/3muceru5sbs2aGreat read for getting ready for a new school year where we ask students and ourselves as teachers to “attend to one another, at length, on purpose,” and to do the same with ideas. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Aug 2026 12:18 +0000at://did:plc:5342xc45rxivhcekjpkuyhbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3muceru5sbs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/ansleyerickson.bsky.social/post/3mu2zo7gwck2fOr even a religious holiday calendar… 🤦🏼‍♂️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:5342xc45rxivhcekjpkuyhbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2zo7gwck2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/ansleyerickson.bsky.social/post/3mu2zndcvjk2fLooking forward to reading this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 14:10 +0000at://did:plc:5342xc45rxivhcekjpkuyhbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2zndcvjk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/ansleyerickson.bsky.social/post/3mu2zm3ght22fAnd the perpetual question of why our unis can’t send out a religious calendar holiday to make sure we are all attentive….???? [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:5342xc45rxivhcekjpkuyhbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2zm3ght22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/ansleyerickson.bsky.social/post/3mtwzixwwb22rLoved learning about Dolly Parton via this podcast series from a few years ago: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america25 Aug 2026 23:57 +0000at://did:plc:5342xc45rxivhcekjpkuyhbb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwzixwwb22r