Heute findet wieder der Vasalauf statt. Eine Kleinstadt, 15000 Langläufer*innen, wird sich auf Skiern 90 km von Sälen nach Mora begeben. Unterwegs werden sie mit warmer Blaubeersuppe versorgt.
Der Lauf erinnert seit 1922 an die Flucht Gustav Vasas, des ersten frühneuzeitlichen Königs Schwedens, der 1521 auf dieser Strecke vor seinen dänischen Verfolgern geflohen sein soll.
Neue #Quickshot-Videos! In meinem Dreiteiler auf Youtube zu "Hell Is Us" (Rogue Factor, Nacon) 2025 geht es um Historisches Erinnern und Deutungskonflikte in einem Bürgerkrieg, der sich stark an den Bosnienkonflikt anlehnt.
Playlist der Quickshot-Reihe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRfYaJEI7JY&list=PLczT7w2lN8shIXXTSyp85uQVf-Ai3lIj0
#Heute möchten wir alle @histodons @historikerinnen auf das Lehrangebot der #PublicHistory an der @unibremen im Sommersemester 2026 aufmerksam machen. Es geht bei uns um #DoingPublicHistory #Stadtgeschichte #Bremen #Itzehoe #Erinnern #Gedenken Besonders gespannt sind wir auf das Seminar mit den Kolleg*innen des Kreismuseums Prinzesshof!
Mehr Infos gibt’s auf unserer Website: https://www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fuer-geschichtswissenschaft/epochen-und-bereiche/public-history/lehre
Herzlichen Dank an @MaxWeberStiftung für die Unterstützung!
Feuer und Flamme für das
#histocamp26 – gemeinsam sind wir stark mit Partner*innen für Geschichte!
Danke für das Vertrauen, das Engagement für Geschichte und den Austausch.
I'm considering launching a Tottenville History publication on Medium, a space for personal stories, family histories, and memories that bring our neighborhood's past to life. This wouldn't just be my voice telling our story; it would be all of us contributing to a richer, more complete historical record. If you have a Tottenville story to tell, I want to hear about it.
#TottenvilleHistory #StatenIsland #LocalHistory #CommunityVoices #PublicHistory
#HBO #Chernobyl draws heavily on Svetlana Alexievich's #oralhistory book Voices from Chernobyl.
That's exactly why oral #history matters: it preserves how events are experienced, not just how they're later reduced to "what happened". #Testimony keeps the human truth in the record.
#Publichistory #MemoryStudies #Historiography #SvetlanaAlexievich #Storytelling #Voicesfromchernobyl @histodons #histodons
I'm considering launching a Tottenville History publication on Medium—a collaborative space for residents, genealogists, teachers, history enthusiasts, and writers to contribute their stories. Personal memories, family histories, genealogical discoveries, historical research, teaching resources. If you have a Tottenville connection and a story to share, I'd love to hear from you.
#TottenvilleHistory #StatenIsland #LocalHistory #Genealogy #PublicHistory
Ebenfalls Feuer und Flamme für das #histocamp26: De Gruyter Brill! Wir freuen uns, dass der Verlag das histocamp 26 unterstützt und bedanken uns für das Vertrauen und das Engagement für Geschichte und für den Austausch darüber
Esta tarde, na Biblioteca Nacional, Arthur Chapman dinamiza uma sessão sobre o ensino da história e a história pública. Apropriado, no Dia Internacional em Memória das Vítimas do Holocausto.
#Histodons #PublicHistory #HistóriaPública #NuncaEsquecer #HolocaustRemembranceDay #EnsinoDaHistória
Immer mehr sind Feuer und Flamme für das #histocamp26 – gemeinsam stark mit Partner*innen für Geschichte!
Wir freuen uns, dass Nomos
@nomosverlag das histocamp 2026 unterstützt. Danke für das Vertrauen, das Engagement für Geschichte und Austausch.
#geschichte #barcamp #publichistory #verlag #histodons
Na tarde de 27 de Janeiro, na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, vamos promover uma sessão pública com Arthur Chapman, da University College London, em torno da #HistóriaPública e do #EnsinoDaHistória.
ENTRADA LIVRE
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/school-public-history/
#Histodons #PublicHistory #History #HistoryTeaching #História
Jetzt ebenfalls Feuer und Flamme für das #histocamp26 – gemeinsam stark mit Partnern!
Wir freuen uns, dass der #Verlag C.H. BECK das histocamp 2026 unterstützt. Vielen Dank für das Vertrauen und für das Engagement für Geschichte und Austausch.
#geschichte #barcamp #publichistory #histodons
Neuer Unterstützer! Feuer und Flamme für das #histocamp26 – gemeinsam mit starken Partnern!
Wir freuen uns, dass
transcript das histocamp 2026 unterstützt. Vielen Dank für das Vertrauen, das Engagement für Geschichte und Austausch.
From the linked video intro, which is a partial transcript:
"Stephen Miller told ICE agents that no law but Trump's applies to them. No city official, no state official, no other justice but their own.
JD Vance turned a dead American into a loyalty test—called her a "deranged leftist." She had just dropped her 6-year-old off at school.
One authority. Theirs. No other law. No other morality. Just theirs.
But we have a history for this.
AMERICA IN THE 1850s. For 80 years, the federal government told Black America exactly what Miller and Vance are saying now. No power protects you. There is only our power to oppress you. You can never be free, never have rights. Your very presence threatens real Americans.
That was the (white) consensus.
George Washington believed freed Black people couldn't coexist with whites. Told Lafayette that emancipation was impossible until someone figured out what to do with them afterward. Thomas Jefferson, in his Notes on Virginia, wrote that freed slaves had to be "removed beyond the reach of mixture." He used the word deportation. And he warned that if they weren't removed, the result would be "convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race."
Lincoln said it to Black leaders' faces. In the White House. August 1862. Four months before the Emancipation Proclamation: "Your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence... it is better for us both, therefore, to be separated."
This was the consensus. For 80 years.
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1850. How did they enforce it? In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act. It made it a federal crime to help anyone escaping slavery. Food, shelter, any assistance—$1,000 fine and six months in prison. Federal marshals could deputize any citizen to help catch people. Whether you liked it or not. You could be conscripted into a slave-catching posse against your will. If a marshal refused to act, he was fined $1,000. No jury trial. The accused—the person being dragged back into slavery—couldn't testify in their own defense. The federal commissioners who decided these cases were paid $10 if they ruled the person should be returned to slavery. $5 if they let them go.
Ten dollars to send someone to slavery. Five to free them.
Federal agents overriding local authority, no due process, financial incentives baked into enforcement.
DRED SCOTT. In 1857, Chief Justice Roger Taney, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, wrote that Black people "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."
So by 1857, every avenue was closed. Congress had passed the laws. The courts upheld them. The president enforced them. Petitions went nowhere. Protests changed nothing.
WHAT ACTUALLY WORKED? Action. Community action. Direct action.
Community networks. The Vigilance Committees were organized. They had communication systems, safe houses, legal support, and people ready to act at a moment's notice. When someone was seized, the response was immediate.
Legal obstruction. They used the courts against the catchers. Arrests, bonds, delays. They made enforcement expensive and exhausting.
Physical confrontation. They put bodies between federal power and the people it wanted. They stormed courthouses. They surrounded agents. They made it dangerous to operate.
Jury nullification. Even when abolitionists were prosecuted, juries wouldn't convict. One person with a conscience could stop the whole machine.
Credible deterrence. Lewis Hayden with his gunpowder. The message was clear: the cost of enforcement might be your life.
They didn't do one of these things. They did all of them. Together. Relentlessly.
Not words. Action.
Authoritarian power is never persuaded to surrender. Never. You don't change it with arguments. You don't change it with appeals to its conscience. It doesn't have one.
You make it unable to function.
You let them claim immunity from the power of the people.
You don't let them use it.
RESOURCES
If you want to go deeper:
Steve Kantrowitz, More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889. Covers the Boston abolitionists in detail, including Lewis Hayden and the Vigilance Committees.
Kellie Carter Jackson—her book Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence is essential. Her newer book We Refuse expands on Black resistance strategies across centuries. Follow her work. She's been saying this.
Black public historians have been doing this work for years. I'm just building on what they've built.
Feuer und Flamme für das #histocamp26 – gemeinsam mit starken Partnern!
Wir freuen uns, dass die Hamburger Edition das histocamp 2026 unterstützt. Vielen Dank für das Vertrauen und das Engagement für Geschichte und Austausch.
#geschichte #barcamp #publichistory #verlage #histodons
Neu in „Medaon – Magazin für jüdisches Leben und Bildung“: Gemeinsam mit Markus Bassermann stelle ich das Digital Remembrance Game „Erinnern. Die Kinder vom Bullenhuser Damm“ vor und zeige, wie wir es im Gamelab für einen reflektierten Einsatz im Geschichtsunterricht zu NS-Verbrechen und Formen des Erinnerns nutzen.
Zum Spiel: https://bullenhuser-damm.gedenkstaetten-hamburg.de/de/#c5330
#geschichte #erinnerungskultur #politischebildung #gedenkstätte #PublicHistory #GameStudies #JüdischeGeschichte #Hamburg #digitalespiele #seriousgames #campus #remembrance #games
My second day as a Museum Director and I’ve already gotten a slice of homemade pie and pitched an exhibit. This is fun! #publichistory
#Heute gehen die Studierenden des Seminars #HistoryMarketing zum letzten Mal im laufenden Wintersemester auf #Exkursion Sie besuchen die Gleistein GmbH in Bremen-Blumenthal, um dort mehr über #Jubiläumskommunikation zu erfahren. Wir freuen aus auf den Austausch über Theorie und Praxis von Jubiläen in der Unternehmensgeschichtsschreibung.
https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-jan-6-anniversary-police-plaque-f6fd39b437c339fa9ff477318a7d36e2 “For months, they’ve mounted poster board-style replicas of the Jan. 6 plaque outside their office doors, resulting in a Capitol complex awash with makeshift remembrances.” #USPolitics #PublicHistory #USHistory #secrecy #January6
#PublicHistory im Jahre 2026. *seufz
