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Alec Zuercher Reichardt

@aleczreichardt.bsky.social
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Historian of Early North America & the Atlantic World. University of Missouri. War, Diplomacy, Empire, & Infrastructure. "Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis" (Penn Press‬, 2025) tinyurl.com/RTPRTC & "Inlands" (Columbia, 2024) tinyurl.com/bdhyubjb

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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The Organization of American Historians @oah.org · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to OAH members Elizabeth Ellis and Ariel Ron on being named MacArthur Fellows! To learn more about Dr. Ellis and Dr. Ron, plus the other 2026 Fellows, please go to www.macfound.org/programs/awards/fe….
Portraits of Elizabeth Ellis and Ariel Ron, congratulating them for being named MacArthur Fellows.
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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Democrats: Mike made an ad for you.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
watching democrats capitulate to the satanic panic playbook is so embarrassing, not because i'm a democrat but because they're also supposedly part of the same species as me, and these people are like a species-wide embarrassment
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Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Officially official. library.yale.edu/news/yale-li...
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Yale Library names Abigail Swingen executive director of Lewis Walpole Library
In October, Abigail Swingen joins Yale Library as the W. S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director of Lewis Walpole Library.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/08/2026
Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident?
“Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”
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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
Conference poster for the Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds featuring an image of birds and an image of a nest in a tree as well as the JCB logo and text.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What a(nother) great event! One slide 3 minutes. 😀 Ten (More) Things to Know about the American Revolution @ #SHEAR2026, following Ten Things in Providence in 2025. Co-sponsored by HSP, ITPS, & @jcblibrary.bsky.social (logo not appearing!) w super thanks to presenters & @noraslonimsky.bsky.social!
Speaker list!  Imagine the JCB Library logo there too...Group of ten historians standing in front of slide for Ten (More) Things to Know about the American Revolution.
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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It’s July 1st, which means that THE CENTRAL FIRE OF THE IROQUOIS, is available for preorder from Yale University Press. Publication date is September 29.
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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I'm obsessed with this 18th Century signature. Look at it. Ridiculous. (I'm still not 100% sure, but I think it says Sam Wilding)
18th Century signature
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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Running an independent podcast like @bfworld.bsky.social with @lizcovart.bsky.social is always intellectually stimulating but also undeniably challenging. Yes, that's a preface to asking for money as we begin our annual campaign with a goal of 50 new donors and $5,000. #podcasts #VastEarlyAmerica
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2026 Annual Campaign
Help support Ben Franklin's World  & Clio Digital Media in their 50 for 250 Campaign. It's 2026 and the 250th anniversary of the United States' birth as an independent nation.As a podcast about early ...
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Excited to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (which I am co-editing w/Scott Berthelette) Feel free to reach out via DM/email if you have any questions CFP here: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
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Submission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
Submission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press Submission Guidelines  CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue of French Historical Studies on European-Indigenous ...
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
In future, I shall just point my phone at a box of eighteenth-century manuscripts, and... oh, wait... absolutely nothing will happen.
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Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I do not begrudge my colleagues who leave. But I don't need judgment from folks outside of Texas if I have to stay: "We do not need to be lectured. We do not need to be rescued. What we need is support. Many of us see staying not as an ethical failure, but as the very fulfillment of our values."
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SMH Historians @smh-historians.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Congratulations to Lauren Duval, winner of the First Book Award for The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture & University of North Carolina Press, 2025)
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below
Picture of DOGE guy Nate CavanaughScreenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek
Dear NEH Grantee,
This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement.
Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant
Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340.
For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,
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Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Here's an Interestingly perverse quote from the NYT article linked below: Even an effort to catalog and digitize the papers of Thomas Gage, a British general in the American Revolution, was guilty of “promoting inclusivity and diversity in historical research.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities
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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Happy #pubday to "The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to Today," edited @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social! Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/ @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social #skystorians
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 21/01/2026
In the December 2025 #AHR: “Methodologies in Indigenous History” includes six historians whose works draw from both history and Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS) as they discuss the methodological turn in Indigenous history and progress to be made in incorporating NAIS in history. 🗃️
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Methodologies in Indigenous History
With the emergence of Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS) as a discipline in the early 2000s, growing numbers of historians who research and writ
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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Holidays are over, and I'm motivating myself through the marking and emails by sharing the cover for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic with @pennpress.bsky.social. Please indulge me! www.pennpress.org/978151282925... #skystorians
Book cover depicting a map cartouche of four Indigenous people--two on land, two in a canoe--and a snippet from the map of yellow, pink, and green watercolor borders drawn by John Povey, clerk to William Blathwayt, on Robert Morden and William Berry’s A Map of New England New Yorke New Iersey Mary-Land & Virginia (ca. 1676).
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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🚨 JOB JOB JOB!!! 🚨 Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
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University of Colorado - Boulder - Assistant or Associate Professor of History | H-Net
The Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor specializing in Native American history with a focus on the North American West, broadly defined. The successful applicant will have access to funds associated with the Walter and Lucienne Driskill Professorship in Western American History. Specialization is open, but the department particularly encourages applications from scholars whose research focuses on the early American West (pre-1920s) and engages with legal history, the history of women and gender, environmental history, and/or the history of medicine and public health.  Scholars with demonstrated commitments to engaging Native American communities and/or supporting Native and Indigenous students are especially encouraged to apply, as are those who bring relevant lived and individual experiences and achievements to this position.
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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It’s Giving Tuesday! From now through Dec 25 (or until we reach $3,700), every $1 you give is matched twice—your gift becomes $3. 👉 www.benfranklinsworld.com/givingtuesday Here’s the story of how we got here and why your support matters…
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Giving Tuesday 2025
This Giving Tuesday, every dollar you give—up to $3,700—will be matched twice, tripling your impact. Your generosity fuels Clio Digital Media’s mission to make trustworthy, engaging early American his...
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
How a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capital. Vested Interests by Emilie Connolly is now available (20 Jan UK pub). Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #History #AmericanHistory #USHistory #ReadUP
Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States by Emilie Connolly
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Alec Zuercher Reichardt @aleczreichardt.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A day late to bluesky, but yesterday was the official pub day for 'Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis' with @pennpress.bsky.social Interested in infrastructure, war, revolution and the rise (and fall) of the British Empire in North America? Get your own copy from www.pennpress.org/978151282828...
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Alec Zuercher Reichardt @aleczreichardt.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
It's been a long year, but a lot came of it: - Inlands was published in December: tinyurl.com/bdhyubjb - Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis comes out this summer: tinyurl.com/RTPRTC - I'm off to UVA on fellowship to work on the next book - And last but not least... tenured!
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Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis – Penn Press
Infrastructure was key to British victory in the Seven Years’ War yet was its undoing on the roads to revolutionRoads to Power, Roads to Crisis maps the Se...
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