Aaron Lecklider

Apr 27, 2023 | historynewsnetwork.org | Dan Royles |Silke-Maria Weineck |Aaron Lecklider |Annelise Orleck

; 4/28/2023 Roundup DeSantis's Real Campus Attack is on Labor by Dan Royles "I’m exhausted because I teach U.S. history, including African American and LGBTQ+ history, at a public university in Florida." This places the author at the intersection of DeSantis's public attacks on verboten ideas and his quieter steps to gut tenure protections for the state's faculty and union representation for all educators in Florida. Will the Battle of the Suburbs Play Out Differently This Time? by Lily...

Apr 24, 2023 | slate.com | Aaron Lecklider

This piece is part of Outward, Slate’s home for coverage of LGBTQ life, thought, and culture. Find more here. There is something lonely about working in archives—namely, everyone you’re working with has already died. You enter into a hushed room and perform funereal rituals. At Princeton University’s Special Collections, there’s a basin where you’re observed washing your hands before you are allowed to enter the room. A liturgical atmosphere blankets the whole affair.