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PhD candidate researching 20th-century European internationalisms at UCLA history.ucla.edu/person/alex-levine

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De Gruyter Brill History @dgb-history.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
85 years ago today, the #BabynYar massacre took place. We remember the victims and honor their memory. Explore the important work of the Babyn Yar #Holocaust #Memorial Center and access its journal in #OpenAccess. 👉🏼 www.degruyterbrill.com/de/journal/k...
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📣Out now on #firstview! Mika Hyman @mikahyman.bsky.social @hpscambridge.bsky.social and Sebestian Kroupa @sebkroupa.bsky.social @mcgill.ca on '(Up)rooted Consumptions: Can Plants Speak?' #Roundtable #Dialogue #Environment #Human #Global 🌵🌱🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In this dialogue, Mika Hyman and Sebestian Kroupa consider how plants operate as dynamic agents shaping historical and cultural processes. Plants offer especially productive sources for cross-contextualization precisely because they refuse confinement to a single context or form of evidence. Their traces range from living organisms and herbarium specimens to traded objects, entries, and images in scientific treatises and motifs in visual and material culture. This multiplicity enables historians to use plants to move across disparate geographies, chronologies, and epistemologies. The apparent rootedness of plants belies their extraordinary mobility: transported as seeds, dried samples, and cultivated crops, plants reveal both global connections and ruptures, moments of transfer as much as dislocation and loss. While plants may not speak to us in a literal sense, their movements, meanings, and material presences open histories that might otherwise remain silent – and that challenge imperial, anthropocentric, and accumulation-driven narratives.
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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Groundbreaking material-visual history and ethnography of GERMAN-RAPANUI ENTANGLEMENTS. This book traces #German-Rapanui entanglements from past to present through encounters between scholars, #missionaries, institutions and #Indigenous actors. Learn more here: ow.ly/3EeH50ZBpIz
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German–Rapanui Entanglements by edited by Cristián Moreno Pakarati, Diego Muñoz, and Philipp Schorch | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Groundbreaking material-visual history and ethnography of German–Rapanui entanglements.This book traces German-Rapanui entanglements from past to present through encounters between scholars, missionaries,...
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A huge congratulations to Joel Morley, whose book Joining up in the Second World War has been shortlisted for the Society for Army Historical Research's SAHR Chapple Prize. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157232/
Joel Morley’s book "Joining Up in the Second World War" is announced as shortlisted for the Sahr Chapple Prize, shown as the book cover centered on a blue confetti background with the word SHORTLISTED across the top.Endorsement from The Society for Army Historical Research: "An impressive study of how the cultural legacy of the Great War shaped the attitudes of wartime soldiers in the Second World War." Large white text set against a solid blue background.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 31/07/2026
"Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience." New today in the Society's journal 'Transactions': Joe Moran 'On Detail in Historical Writing': bit.ly/44UMi8C Now available OA @joemoransblog.bsky.social @massobsarchive.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2
Opening page of the Transactions article 'On Detail in Historical Writing' by Joe Moran. 

Full abstract: "This Comment considers the role of detail in historical writing, inflected through my own experience of writing ‘trade’ books for a general rather than specialist readership. I argue for the value of the detail that is slightly recalcitrant, that is more than just flesh on the bones of an argument or evidence marshalled to make a point. Detail is itself a kind of argument and thus, since beauty and elegance in writing derive from economy, a way of making a point without belabouring it. The gratuitous fact can be seductive, suggesting that the world has a randomness and overabundance that can't easily be rounded up into a dataset. Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience. They correct our tendency to fixate on one story, to focus on the eventful at the expense of the marginal, and to invent a false unity of experience that erases social differences. With their obdurate specificity, they can shatter our presumptions about the past. I explore these ideas with reference to modern literature (Flaubert, Chekhov), the Mass-Observation archive and examples from my own work in contemporary cultural history and family history."
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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social reviews 'Superpower Britain: The 1945 Vision and Why it Failed', by Ashley Jackson and Andrew Stewart academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @academic.oup.com
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Superpower Britain: The 1945 Vision and Why it Failed, by Ashley Jackson and Andrew Stewart (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025; pp. 480. £35).
At the start of this important and intriguing—if somewhat frustrating—book, Ashley Jackson and Andrew Stewart draw attention to a significant but often ove
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Rok Stergar @stergarr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
After a very long delay, caused largely by my inability to find the time needed to write it, my introduction has finally been published and the @nationalitiesp.bsky.social special issue on education and identifications in the Habsburg Empire has been completed.
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Compulsory Education and Identities in the Habsburg Empire | Nationalities Papers | Cambridge Core
Compulsory Education and Identities in the Habsburg Empire
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And there it is: the new book by my wonderful colleague Ellie Schainker. _Rites of Empire_ explores the religious reform impulse among Jews in the Russian Empire, home to the world’s largest Jewish population over the long 19th century. academic.oup.com/book/63018?l...
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Rites of Empire: Reforming Judaism in Imperial Russia
Abstract. Rites of Empire explores the religious reform impulse among Jews in the Russian Empire, home to the world’s largest Jewish population during the
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infoclio.ch @infoclio.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Les globetrotters et la Suisse (XIXe-XXe siècles) #infoclioevent
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Les globetrotters et la Suisse (XIXe-XXe siècles)
Les globetrotters et la Suisse (XIXe-XXe siècles) 1 15. August 2026 Une cordiale bienvenue au vernissage du numéro 18 de Géo-Regards! Rendez-vous à la Maison d’Ailleurs (Yverdon) le 17 septembre 2026 à 18h30. Inscription gratuite, détails plus bas.  LES TOURS DU MONDE: UNE PRATIQUE DU TOURISME SUISSE DEPUIS L'ÂGE DES EMPIRES Dans le sillage du Tour du monde en quatre‑vingts jours (roman de Jules Verne paru en 1872), matrice culturelle qui a fixé une manière de raconter le globe et d’ordonner les déplacements en séquences, le numéro 18 de Géo‑Regards, consacré aux globetrotters et à la Suisse, montre comment des voyageurs suisses ont inscrit le pays dans les circulations mondiales depuis le XIXᵉ siècle. En mobilisant enquêtes historiques, récits de voyage, analyses des mobilités touristiques et études contemporaines, le volume retrace des parcours à pied, à vélo, en train ou en avion de personnalités qui, en tant que touristes, ont accompli un tour du monde tout en laissant derrière elles un héritage matériel ou immatériel non négligeable. Il offre ainsi un regard renouvelé sur la place de la Suisse dans l’histoire du tourisme et des circulations globales, depuis l’époque des empires jusqu’à nos jours.  PROGRAMME DU VERNISSAGE  18h00 — Ouverture des portes  18h30 — Mot de bienvenue, par Frédéric Jaccaud (directeur de la Maison d’Ailleurs). Présentation du lieu et des partenariats relatifs à publication du numéro 18 de Géo‑Regards.  18h40 — Présentation du volume, par les coéditeurs scientifiques Raphaël Pieroni (Université de Genève, HEAD Genève) et Fabio Rossinelli (Université de Fribourg, Université de Lausanne). Présentation de la problématique, des principaux résultats et des enjeux corrélés.  18h50 — La Suisse comme étape des tours du monde touristiques à l’époque coloniale, par Laura Saysanavongphet (Université de Genève, Université Côte d’Azur).  19h00 — Discussion avec le public et échanges avec les intervenant·e·s. 19h15 — Apéritif convivial. Vente et dédicace d’exemplaires du numéro 18 de Géo‑Regards. Visite guidée informelle par Frédéric Jaccaud autour de quelques pièces emblématiques de la collection Jules Verne exposée, en lien avec Le Tour du monde en quatre‑vingts jours. ADRESSE & INSCRIPTION GRATUITE Vernissage du numéro 18 de la revue Géo‑Regards  «La Suisse et les globetrotters du XIXᵉ siècle à nos jours»  Jeudi 17 septembre 2026, 18h00  Maison d’Ailleurs (Espace Jules Verne) Place Pestalozzi 14, Yverdon-les-Bains  Inscription gratuite (mais obligatoire) par e-mail  xavier.veuthey@unine.ch  Organisiert von Société neuchâteloise de géographie Sprachen der Veranstaltung Französisch Anmeldung bei Kontaktperson Maison d'Ailleurs Place Pestalozzi 14 1400  Yverdon-les-Bains Vaud https://ailleurs.ch xavier.veuthey@unine.ch
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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Fresh and #OpenAccess, read '‘Our Smallest Ally’: Britain and the Failure of Assyrian Self-Determination, 1930–1932' by Mark L. M. Glubb: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
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‘Our Smallest Ally’: Britain and the Failure of Assyrian Self-Determination, 1930–1932
As with other minorities, Assyrians found themselves caught up in the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of modern Iraq. Rather than opposing colonial rule, they sought to gain recogni...
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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885–1935" - great (and sadly posthumous) book by our inspirational and much-missed colleague Philippa Hetherington @cornellupress.bsky.social cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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Circulating Subjects by Philippa Hetherington | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
Circulating Subjects investigates the migration of women abroad for sex work from the 1880s through the 1930s, which Russian feminists, liberal jurists, and imperial bureaucrats worked together to def...
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Emilija Tudzarovska @tudzarovska.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Now available in Open Access! 🔓 A special issue of "Geschichte und Gesellschaft" (@ggjournal.bsky.social) on "Gender Regimes", edited by Christina von Hodenberg (GHIL) and Sylvia Walby (Royal Holloway, UoL), which brings together historians, sociologists, & political scientists. 1/3
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
That's very sad. I only spoke to Juliet Gardiner once, when she was looking for this photo from my exhibition about the Liverpool Blitz for her book jacket. She generously said she was blown away by the exhibition. I was able to say how much I'd enjoyed an exhibition of hers at the Hayward Gallery.
Book cover Juliet Gardiner Wartime Britain 1939-45, photo of little girls on rubble of Anderson shelter.
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
newbooksnetwork.com/survival-at-... It was such a pleasure speaking with @chadgibbs101.bsky.social about his incredible work on Treblinka. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🗃️
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Chad S. A. Gibbs "Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance" (U Wisconsin Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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Geschichte und Gesellschaft @ggjournal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Im neuen #GG Heft setzen sich - neben dem Herausgeber Friedrich Lenger - Jürgen Osterhammel, Wolfgang Knöbl, Kaveh Yazdani, Samuël Coghe, Alexander Engel und unser Mitherausgeber Kiran Klaus Patel mit Immanuel Wallerstein und der Weltwirtschaft auseinander. www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/gege/cur...
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Happy to announce that my article 'Rethinking Commodity Frontiers: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Capitalist World Economy' was published in OA in Geschichte & Gesellschaft! @ggjournal.bsky.social @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social You can read it here for free: doi.org/10.13109/geg...
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Rethinking Commodity Frontiers: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Capitalist World Economy | Geschichte und Gesellschaft
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Casper Andersen and I are really excited that our special issue on history writing after independence has now been published. In the issue, we are looking at how institutional and epistemological factors impacted the process of history writing in the aftermath of independence. 🧵
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
📣 New article online! 'The Grey Escape: Britons Retiring Overseas, c. 1980–2010', by Helen McCarthy | @historianhelen.bsky.social Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Excited to share the cover of "Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany," a forthcoming book I co-edited with Lauren Stokes. A history of racism and antiracist activism in East, West, and unified Germany—and why it matters today. 30% off from Cornell UP with code 09BCARD: tinyurl.com/RADGcornell
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
We're launching a new journal and can finally share the news! Edited by Stephen Brain and Victor Pal, 'East of the Elbe: Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe' will open to submissions in Autumn this year, for a first issue in 2027. More information forthcoming soon! #envhist #envhum
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New book Can Eyüp Çekiç by titled "Constantinople and the Battle for the League of Nations, 1919–1920" link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Constantinople and the Battle for the League of Nations, 1919–1920
This book examines the forgotten proposal to make Constantinople the headquarters of the League of Nations after World War I
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L.I.S.A. @lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de · 13/05/2026
Ein vergessener Krieg des 20. Jahrhunderts: Interview mit Jannis Girgsdies (@humboldtuni.bsky.social) über den Rifkrieg, koloniale Gewalt in Nordafrika und deutsche Söldner. lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/interview_gi...
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„Deutsche kämpften auf allen Seiten“ | L.I.S.A. Wissenschaftsportal Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Vor 100 Jahren, am 27. Mai 1926, streckte Mohammed Abd el-Krim die Waffen. Fünf Jahre lang führte er die Rifkabylen im Aufstand gegen die spanische und französische Kolonialherrschaft in Marokko und w...
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Did you know that the League of Nation’s Palais Wilson made its staff sick because they couldn’t ventilate the building properly? Utterly fascinating article on the League of Nation’s microclimate in Geneva.
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We're sending HUGE congratulations to Astrid Rasch for winning the Wulf Kansteiner MSA First Book Award 2026. Her work explores how four centuries of imperial culture shaped the buildings, spaces and infrastructures of the British Isles. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526189172/
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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I've been so busy at work I haven't had the chance to share that my book is now in paperback!!
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Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Happy to announce the publication of my article on international volunteers in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social. Thanks to @sdanisimova.bsky.social & Robert Gerwarth for their support and to the reviewers for their advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Commissars for the ‘world civil war’: recruiting and educating internationalists in the Russian Civil War, 1918–1920
Nearly 18,000 people enlisted in international volunteers’ units in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. With many of them being former prisoners of war and foreign workers, the technical and...
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Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris @dhi-paris.fr · 28/04/2026
Enfin, c'est demain ! Notre #conférence "Du conflit à la coopération" sur l' #histoirefranco-allemande en #Sarre après la #SecondeGuerremondiale aura lieu demain à DHIP et en ligne sur Zoom ! Pour en savoir plus ⬇️
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Packed house last night at the @dornsife.usc.edu Max Kade Institute with authors @danielagerson.bsky.social & Judy Batalion in conversation with Aliza Luft (UCLA) about their brand new books. Fascinating and lively discussion.
authors Daniela Gerson and Judy Batalion in front of the USC Max Kade InstituteAudience and speakers at the USC Max Kade Institute
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Drew Flanagan Ph.D @drewflanaganphd.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
UPDATE: It's officially published as of today! If you're interested, I'm happy to answer questions and to speak to undergraduate and graduate courses as desired. lsupress.org/978080718678... #skystorians
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From Occupation to Integration
After the collapse of the National Socialist regime in May 1945, France became one of four principal occupying powers in a defeated Germany. Within their zon...
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Alex Levine @alexmaxlevine.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Since the UN’s Geneva offices held the League of Nations, peacocks have called its grounds home, a semi-mascot donated by various member states. In Nov 1937, Sec General Avenol was distraught when 8 died (the “Tragedy of the Peacocks” per Daily Mail). He ordered shelters be built for the birds.
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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Oh hello, the latest issue of @urbanhistory.bsky.social is out, containing my article 'An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia'. Check it out if interested in colonial uses of ceremonials, history of Jakarta etc: doi.org/10.1017/S096...
An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia

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Abstract: This article examines the development of colonial public culture in Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, over the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing on two moments of extended colonial ceremony: the city’s 250th anniversary in 1869 and the inauguration of Queen Wilhelmina in 1898. The analysis shows that over the course of the century, colonial ceremonial increasingly sought to assimilate facets of local cultural practices, while also expanding spatially into a more diverse set of neighbourhoods. Nevertheless, this new and superficially more representative order still maintained a strict internal hierarchy embedded in spatial and socio-cultural boundaries.
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Alex Levine @alexmaxlevine.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Very excited to publish my article “Geneva’s Environment and the League of Nations” in the new issue of Geschichte und Gesellschaft! www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.13109...
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 16/04/2026
NEW How did climate change affect life in pre-Columbian Amazonia? Modelling occupation and abandonment of settlements in the Ecuadorian Amazon over the past 4500 years shows how people overcame El Niño events by adapting to changing conditions. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Map of Ecuador, coloured based on its three physiographic regions (coastal, Andean & Amazon) and annotated with the locations of archaeological and palaeoecological sites mentioned in the article.
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German Historical Institute Washington @ghiwashington.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“Weimar Germany, 1918/19–1933,” the final volume of our relaunched “German History in Documents and Images” primary source project, is now published and available! You can find the expanded edition, edited and with a new introduction by Erik Jensen, here: germanhistorydocs.org/en/weimar-ge...
Detail from the painting “Abend über Potsdam” [“Evening over Potsdam”] by Lotte Laserstein, 1930
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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This second edition is essential reading - for everyone. If there’s one book I’d recommend in environmental history, it might be this. With an introduction by @brdemuth.bsky.social! #EnvHist
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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
In 1942, Italian soldiers in Libya were sending home coffee (both in grains and ground) in their letters to their family - because they got a coffee ration while at home in Italy it was running out! ☕️ (though some were just pinching it from the army stores...) Vital Second World War content 😂
Scan of a typed letter sent within the Ministry for Italian Africa in September 1942
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts coming this summer. Looking forward to talking with @chadgibbs101.bsky.social & Sarah Zarrow about their fantastic new books!
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De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Listen to co-author Jane Leung Larson discussing her successful book "A Chinese Reformer in Exile" at the Northwest China Council in Portland! Full presentation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=72th... Download the book for free: brill.com/display/titl... #openaccess @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Academics, is there an article or paper that you've published that you feel has slipped under the radar? Reply or quote this post with your overlooked piece! Here's mine... www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Creating the National/Border Security Nexus: Counter-Terrorist Operations and Monitoring Middle Eastern and North African Visitors to the UK in the 1970s–1980s
This article looks at an earlier episode in the history of the UK border security apparatus by examining how the immigration control system was used in the 1970s and 1980s to detect potential terro...
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
So excited for this upcoming event with authors @danielagerson.bsky.social and Judy Battalion at The Max Kade Institute @dornsife.usc.edu on the 26th. 🗃️
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
***Free e-book from @illinoispress.bsky.social *** Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States edited by Danielle Battisti and S. Deborah Kang www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
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Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
CfP: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500–2026 (Lucerne, Oct 8–10, 2026)🚨🗃️ We’re organizing an interdisciplinary conference on global histories, cultures, and legacies of hair. Researchers from all relevant fields and early-career scholars are encouraged to apply. All costs are covered. 📆 May 15, 2026
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CfP: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026
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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
FYI Team #MilitaryHistory! Praise for @susangrunewald.bsky.social's book: an "important contribution to our understanding of WWII, the Soviet postwar recovery, the penal system(s) of the Soviet Union, & the Cold War" AND "a noteworthy piece of scholarship." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
A book cover with diagonal text for the title, reading From Incarceration to Repatriation in black, with alternating red and yellow triangle shapes in the background.
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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New open access book comparing migrant labour in Namibia and Switzerland. I admit I was sceptical about this (are they really comparable?) until I read about Italian labour migrants in Switzerland and the restrictive laws that governed their lives: baslerafrika.ch/en-en/produc...
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Histories and Legacies of Migrant Labour in Namibia and Switzerland
This edited volume shows surprising similarities in labour history and its legacy in two different contexts: South African occupied Namibia and Switzerland in the second half of the 20th century. Both...
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Nina Kleinöder @nkleinoeder.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It's publication day! We have a complete issue now in "German History". With @aselmeyer.bsky.social I edited a volume on "Colonial Transactions in the German Empire". The contributions offer new insights into the construction of railways and colonial societies. academic.oup.com/gh/issue/43/4
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Volume 43 Issue 4 | German History | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the German History Society. Publishes original research on all periods of German history and all German-speaking areas. An essential resource for German historians and valuable...
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Twentieth Century Communism journal @20thccommunism.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Lastly, we have Anna McEwan's article, 'Always forwards, never backwards? The reinvention of the Democratic Women’s League of Germany during German reunification (1989-1990)' journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2026...
Always forwards, never backwards? The reinvention of the Democratic Women’s League of Germany during German reunification (1989-1990)

Anna McEwan

Abstract: Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the
Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands (DFD), the state women’s
organisation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), faced an
existential challenge as the state it belonged to crumbled, thereby
dismantling the organisational structures that had sustained it for forty years. Many East German women, ostensibly represented by the DFD, began to voice their dissatisfaction towards the women’s organisation through angry public protests. While this could have marked the end of the DFD, this article explores how the organisation’s magazines (Lernen und Handeln and Frauen-Initiative’90: Die Zeitung des DFD) reveal a strategic reinvention during the Wende (Turning Point) of 1990. The magazines illustrate the DFD’s adoption of second-wave feminist practices, though it avoided explicitly identifying itself as feminist. Concurrently, the DFD maintained the socialist anti-fascist rhetoric characteristic of the GDR, thereby appealing to a specifically East German subjectivity. The article ultimately argues that the ideological practices developed during the Wende served as a template for the DFD’s survival, enabling its continued existence in modern day Germany.

Keywords: GDR, DFD, anti-fascism, second-wave feminism, reunification, press
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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Great to get an ARC of this excellent forthcoming book www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... co-edited by my colleague @emilybaum.bsky.social & @albertmwu.bsky.social, heard stimulating early versions of some chapters at a UCI conference, includes a valuable epilogue by @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social
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Uncanny Beliefs — Harvard University Press
In the early twentieth century, scholars around the world believed that “superstition” belonged to a bygone era. Yet despite their confident predictions, superstitious beliefs have endured. Perhaps no...
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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This #MosseWednesday, we invite you to join us for Rebecca Carter-Chand's upcoming lecture, "Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army From Imperial Germany to Nazism." 🗓️ April 7th ⏰ 3:00 PM CST 📍 Zoom #UWHistdept #EuropeanstudiesatUWMadison go.wisc.edu/961fsw
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2026: Rebecca Carter-Chand, “Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism”
Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism Rebecca Carter-Chand (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) George L. Mosse First Book Prize Reci...
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
From our FirstView article: Storm from the Steppes: Warfare and Succession Institutions in Pre-Modern Eurasia, 1000–1799 CE by DANIEL STEVEN SMITH. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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