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Amílcar E. Challú

@amilcarchallu.bsky.social
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Historian: #econhist #envhist . Mexico, the midwest and North America in general, 18th to 21st centuries. Department of History at Bowling Green State University. orcid.org/0009-0000-2784-6506

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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I feel a lot of gratitude that I got to know and learn from the great Jeff Williamson. Unparalleled intellect and such a warm and generous mentor.
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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I’ll be giving a virtual talk on “The Midwestern Roots of Forestry: Industrialization, Indigenous Lands, and the Environment, 1867-1933” on April 22 from 12:00pm-1:15pm (eastern) for the Grey Towers Heritage Association. For more info and to register:
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Events & Programs – Grey Towers Heritage Association
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I wrote this blog post after spending the last couple of days with the staff of the Wyandotte Nation Cultural Division. History is a pursuit of knowledge, but history vibe when it helps rekindle the love for people, place and the world. blogs.bgsu.edu/achallu/2026...
Community gathering in the Nature Center of St John's Woods, Bowling Green, Ohio.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
#envhist and environmental humanities folk near Lake Erie, this event may be of interest to you! Wyandotte storytellers will narrate their stories inspired in their ancestral homelands in northern Ohio. Sat. Feb. 21st, 2–3pm in Wintergarden Woods Nature Preserve, Bowling Green, Ohio.
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Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Discovery of a shipwreck in Denmark 👇 arstechnica.com/science/2026... #MaritimeHistory #Shipwreck
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Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark
The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Give men5 games to get to know you: - UNO - Truco - Civilization saga - Space invaders - Risk
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Having a blast in this talk by Remington Schneider, Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy, about traditional ecological and economic knowledge. Part of our programming centered on Braiding Sweetgras at BGSU. www.bgsu.edu/the-arts/in-...
Tribal economic principles Remington Schneider
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Día de Muertos is coming and we have a beautiful tradition on campus to make altars in different buildings. Here’s Theater’s. We’ll make ours in history on Thursday.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We have some fantastic programming leading to Robin Kimmerer’s visit to campus in spring. My colleagues in the water center are leading the next seminar. Some #envhist coming down the road too.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Thanks!!!
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Question for #envhist and humanities peeps: I’m working on an outreach plan supporting a wetland restoration project. Does anybody have recommendations of authors or projects using history to increase public awareness on restoration projects?
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Guido Alfani @guidoalfani.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Next Monday (Oct 6) the two-days conference "Inequality & History" will begin, hosted by @dondenacentre.bsky.social at Bocconi University (Milan). Join us to explore & debate inequality across history, from Classical Antiquity until today! Remote attendance possible; QR code in the program below👇
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
My kids did it. I profoundly disagree.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Great loss in #Econhist. We were just talking about Temin with some colleagues in #wehc2025. He was a regular in the Boston-area Econ hist workshop and always insightful. news.mit.edu/2025/profess...
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Professor Emeritus Peter Temin, influential and prolific economic historian, dies at 87
MIT Professor Emeritus Peter Temin, a highly influential and prolific economic historian, has died at 87. The longtime MIT scholar and former department head used the tools of economics to shed new li...
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Great time in Lund for the #WEHC2025
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Do you have any recommendation about the Lorenz curve of the distribution of slave ownership in the US?
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The students and I learned a lot from the activities but also from interacting with cutting-age technology in @hf.co, nixtla.io and humy.ai
nixtla.io
Nixtla | State of the Art Forecasting
Nixtla democratizes access to state-of-the-art predictive insights. With Nixtla, you can implement cutting-edge forecasting and advanced anomaly detection, irrespective of your team's si...
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
So happy to be part of this initiative. I piloted the new History in the Age of AI course this past spring, focusing on text recognition models (and more broadly on AI literacy). It was a very rewarding experience. www.statenews.org/section/the-...
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Bowling Green plans to offer a new major next school year: AI + X
A new major at Bowling Green State is hoping to teach students how to make artificial intelligence – and how to use it responsibly.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Last year Matt Emberg developed a board game about the conquest of Tenochtitlan. Today we got to play the finalized version. I loved the process of helping Matt design the game and now seeing the outcome. Another reason why I love my job.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I bumped into the Lorax in our park’s native plants sale.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This sounds amazing. I look forward to reading it.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Impressive.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
So happy to share this byline with John Coatsworth. revista.drclas.harvard.edu/the-history-...
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The History of Inequality
For the last few decades, a strong consensus has held that Latin America is not only the most economically unequal region in the world, but also one where inequality has become structurally entrenched...
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This explains it all. theonion.com/trump-calmly...
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Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering
WASHINGTON—Seeking to reassure the public after his latest tariffs sent both U.S. and international markets into free fall, President Donald Trump calmly reminded the nation Thursday that desire is th...
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Love it. Congrats on the publication
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CEPH @cephie.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Last month, Prof. Jane Humphries (@ox.ac.uk) delivered the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture titled "Caring About Care: The Economic History of Caring Labour" The lecture is available here, but we'd like to highlight some of the research that supported it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BoY...
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"Caring About Care", Jane Humphries, 27.02.2025
YouTube video by CEPH
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Transkribus hasn’t worked that well for me. My students report good results for easy handwriting. But I haven’t been able to crack the nut for structured info.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
What tools do you use for transcribing?
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𝔾𝔯𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝕊𝔩𝔞𝕪𝔢𝔯𝔰 ^(;,;)^ @davesayers.eurosky.social · 29/03/2025
If you want to prevent use of AI in student assignments, try this method of mine. It works really nicely. In the process, it also gives students transparent tools to prove they did their own work (to me and to future employers). www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/simpl...
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A simple hack to ChatGPT-proof assignments using Google Drive
What if there was a way to maintain the essay in all its three constituent parts – reading, thinking, writing – in the age of ChatGPT? Dave Sayers thinks he has an answer
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Very clever
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Fascinating essay.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
ICYMI "This is the story of the Wyandot’s resilience—their ability to endure and adapt during an intense period of adversity and extreme weather events—in an unfamiliar land." - Mckelvey Kelly niche-canada.org/2025/03/27/s... #wyandot #indigenous #indigenoushistory #envhist
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Storms, Strength, and Survival: Wyandot Adaptations on the Kansas Prairies
The Wyandot endured forced removal, disease, and extreme weather in 1843, but demonstrated resilience, rebuilding their community in Kansas City.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This is super interesting. Congrats on a wonderful article.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
And on the other side of the spectrum, this great note about the commemoration of March 24 (the last military coup in Argentina) brings the focus to the deep damage of state-sponsored terrorism, transcending the discussion on the number of victims. lavanguardiadigital.com.ar/index.php/20...
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24 de marzo: en torno al número de víctimas de la dictadura y los desafíos actuales de la democracia - La Vanguardia
A casi medio siglo de distancia, la polémica en torno al número de víctimas de la dictadura se repite una vez más. El historiador Roy Hora propone trascender esta discusión para ponderar la gravedad d...
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Interesting forum about assessing forty years of democracy in Latin America. journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/ib...
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A 40 años de la Tercera Ola de Democratización: trayectorias democráticas en América Latina | IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
#WorldWaterDay Read @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social on the historical cooperation of the US and Canada on actions related to Great Lakes water quality. niche-canada.org/2023/08/21/n... #envhist #greatlakes #waterhistory
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Natural Allies: Great Lakes Water Quality
In response to Great Lakes pollution, Canada and the US created the Boundary Waters Treaty and International Joint Commission.
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Leticia Arroyo Abad @larroyoabad.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
New post on Broadstreet by yours truly! Check it out. #econhistory #peru #laborcoercion open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...
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The arm of history is long, but not always strong: The effects of labor coercion in colonial and postcolonial Peru
Our project on the effects of forced labor in colonial Peru began years ago, when I, Leticia, was still a graduate student.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
BGSU's Center for Archival Collections offers 3 short travel grants to use their collections. It's the repository of local government docs in NW #Ohio, and also has fascinating collections relevant to the #envhist and #econhist of the #GreatLakes region. More info: www.bgsu.edu/library/cac/...
QR code to the travel grant opportunity
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Very interesting. I’ll read. What’s your take on this historically and across societies?
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
@colinwoodard.bsky.social’s work on American regionalism has implications on the #econhist of persistence à la Acemoglu-Robinson. Woodard’s work has created very interesting questions about regional inequalities in public health.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
A luxury for our history majors to meet @colinwoodard.bsky.social. “Desperately we need people who can bring everything together. That’s the historian.”
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Colin Woodard (@colinwoodard.bsky.social)
Director, Nationhood Lab, @PellCenter.bsky.social - Salve Regina University. Author, American Nations, American Character, Union, Republic of Pirates, and others. www.colinwoodard.com and www.nationho...
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
For a pedagogical approach, check Nathan Hensley, hogreutbildning.se/index.php/hu...
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Re-storying the landscape: The humanities and higher education for sustainable development
In the midst of the planetary crisis represented by the Anthropocene – the geological epoch in which human activity has become the dominant influence on the environment – the humanities can advance th...
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
So much looking forward to reading Richard Salvucci’s new book!
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Congrats!!
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Johan Fourie @johanfourieza.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Econ history community! Please join us in South Africa in May to discuss disseminating economic history to a broad audience. Brad DeLong will deliver the keynote address. We'll also cover accommodation in Stellenbosch in autumn, the best time of year to visit.
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
It’s the vibe turn
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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
🆕 How colonial segregation policies impact land values in Mexico today Today's article by Luis Baldomero-Quintana @global-wm.bsky.social, Guillermo Woo-Mora @pse.bsky.social & @enriquedlrosa.bsky.social King's College London ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/instit...
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How colonial segregation policies impact land values in Mexico today
Colonial segregation policies in Mexico City entrenched divisions between Spaniards and indigenous communities, shaping modern economic inequalities because of weak property rights, unequal provision ...
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Amílcar E. Challú @amilcarchallu.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
And Columbian is also a good one. Especially in this age of autocorrect.
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Lex Heerma van Voss @lexhvv01.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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