Christopher McKnight Nichols
Historian, Hayes Chair @OhioState Mershon Ctr Carnegie Fellow 6 Books: Ideology in US Foreign Relations, Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Promise & Peril. Isolationism, Internationalism, Globalization. ⚾️
- On Pope Leo's ancestry, grandfather born in Haiti, creoles of color family community in New Orleans, and more. It is such an "American" story - that's more like the US's real messy, complex, radicalized history of immigration and migration than many recognize, or want to promote and believe 🗃️
- Pope Leo XIV's grandfather, born in Haiti, belonged to a class known as Creoles of color in New Orleans. An expert in 19th-century Haiti explains how this group occupied a unique position in the city's three-level racial order: buff.ly/bvcYMdT @chelseastieber.bsky.social, Tulane University 🗃️
- Historic 🗃️
- NEW: North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs (D) has been sworn in after a six-month legal battle against Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin, who sought to overturn the 2024 election by disenfranchising over 65,000 voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- AMEN! 🗃️
- “To watch these changes unfold without naming them for what they are is to participate in a collective amnesia about how knowledge infrastructures shape power relations…. What then, is the responsible course of action?” Powerhouse *must* read fr @alondra.bsky.social time.com/7285045/resi...
