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Brian J Griffith

@brianjgriffith.bsky.social
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Modern European historian. Writing book on 🍷 in Fascist Italy. . . Projects: @NewFascismSyllabus.bsky.social @WMAB-2018-2019.bsky.social . . Websites: www.brianjgriffith.com www.newfascismsyllabus.com www.wheremonstersareborn.com

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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
To my History colleagues: If you have a messy Zotero collection (w/ double/triple copies of attachments, broken stored files links, etc.), you can download and install this Zotero plugin I just vibe coded (w/ Chat GPT) called StorScan. Here's the GitHub webpage: github.com/brian-j-grif...
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GitHub - brian-j-griffith/StorScan: Audit, organize, repair, rename, and manage linked attachments in Zotero.
Audit, organize, repair, rename, and manage linked attachments in Zotero. - brian-j-griffith/StorScan
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you're researching neo-fascism in Europe and/or if you're interested in incorporating visual primary sources into your classroom, consider exploring Where Monsters Are Born's "Classroom Lessons": www.wheremonstersareborn.com/classroom-le...
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Classroom Lessons | Where Monsters Are Born: Documenting a Fascist Revival in the Streets of Rome, 2018-2019
Where Monsters Are Born is an Omeka-based digital archive featuring over forty neo-fascist and anti-fascist posters, stickers, and various ephemera from the streets and alleyways of Rome, Italy.
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Arrivederci to Carlo Ginzburg -- a historian who fundamentally changed the way I see the historical discipline.
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you're researching neo-fascism in Europe and/or if you're interested in incorporating visual primary sources into your classroom, consider exploring Where Monsters Are Born's "Classroom Lessons": www.wheremonstersareborn.com/classroom-le...
wheremonstersareborn.com
Classroom Lessons | Where Monsters Are Born: Documenting a Fascist Revival in the Streets of Rome, 2018-2019
Where Monsters Are Born is an Omeka-based digital archive featuring over forty neo-fascist and anti-fascist posters, stickers, and various ephemera from the streets and alleyways of Rome, Italy.
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Fresno State History Department @fshistory.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Congratulations to this year's History Department graduates! 🎉🥳
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Where Monsters Are Born @wmab-2018-2019.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Collected on this day in 2019, this Youth Front poster, which features the silhouette of a Roman centurion, proclaims "Europe Is Renewed by the Youth." URL: www.wheremonstersareborn.com/items/show/32
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Where Monsters Are Born @wmab-2018-2019.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This poster, which features the slogan "Today Just as Yesterday, (East) Rome Is Anti-Fascist," appeared in the alleyways of Rome's Prenestino-Centocelle neighborhood to promote a celebratory public march to Piazza delle Camelie on April 25th, 2019. URL: www.wheremonstersareborn.com/items/show/26
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Where Monsters Are Born @wmab-2018-2019.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
While this CasaPound Italy poster was intended to promote a discussion on the "magical archeology” of Giacomo Boni at the group's headquarters, its appearance on April 25th, 2019 was intended to visually disrupt Rome's "Liberation Day" celebrations. URL: www.wheremonstersareborn.com/items/show/25
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Buona festa della liberazione amici!!! #25aprile To learn more about the significance of April 25th in Italy, see the following entries in Where Monsters Are Born: www.wheremonstersareborn.com/items/show/22 www.wheremonstersareborn.com/items/show/26 www.wheremonstersareborn.com/items/show/27
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Roma est antifascista - ((East) Rome Is Antifascist) | Where Monsters Are Born: Documenting a Fascist Revival in the Streets of Rome, 2018-2019
This "Liberation Day" handbill appeared in the alleyways of Rome's Prenestino-Centocelle neighborhood in the early weeks of April 2019. Intended to promote a celebratory public march and subsequent le...
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
theguardian.com
The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism?
Some of today’s far right is openly violent and undemocratic – and even in its less extreme forms, far-right populism is a profound threat. But that doesn’t mean it is just a re-run of history
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Robert O. Paxton's 9 qualities of fascist movements (summarized by Dan Tamir):
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Dr. @amycking.bsky.social and I wrote a teaching module on "Authoritarian Aesthetics and Youth Appeals" in Fascist Italy for the American Historical Review's "Authoritarianism 101" project. See below! And please share widely.
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Authoritarian Aesthetics and Youth Appeals – AHA
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Where Monsters Are Born @wmab-2018-2019.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Collected on this day in 2019, this poster highlights the way in which Georgia Meloni’s far-right political party, the Brothers of Italy, transformed its public image from a “post-fascist” to a “center-right” party via political branding. URL: www.wheremonstersareborn.com/items/show/20
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Check out my latest Book Talk with Dr. Masha Fedorova-Warden! 👇
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
March 23, 2026 marks the 106th anniversary of Benito Mussolini's founding of the Italian Fighting Squads movement. This poster, which I collected in Rome's EUR district, was put up around Italy by CasaPound Italy's youth group, Student Bloc, to celebrate the centennial of Fascism's founding.
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
One of my former UCLA mentees, Isabella Terrizzano, published this fantastic OpEd in Georgetown University's History Department student journal, The Footnote!
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Cultural Memory and Reimagining Irish Identity
Isabella Terrizzano Just before Saint Patrick’s Day 2025, twenty-seven years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, two Irish artists from opposing sides of Belfast performed on stag…
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Is the Trump administration using ChatGPT for our foreign policy? 🙃🫠
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New Fascism Syllabus @newfascismsyllabus.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
BOOK REVIEW: Rita Maricocchi and Brian Quinn on Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars: Contesting Memory and Identity Today (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025).
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Review: Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars - The New Fascism Syllabus
Zimmerer, Jürgen. Germany’s History Wars: Contesting Memory and Identity Today. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025. On November 12, 2025, the German parliament accepted a new [...]
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Comrade Farmer: "An example of the former—the eccentric—was the ingenuous farmer who named his pig after the duce in order to have the pleasure of going into the field every morning and shouting (with impunity, he thought) ‘Mussolini Pig’ at the top of his voice (he got five years of confino)."
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
If you're interested in learning about the history of American-Soviet agricultural exchange during the interwar decades, join Dr. Fedorova and I on March 24th from 11am to 12:30pm via Zoom. RSVP here: fresnostate.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New book chapter on its way! This one's on the (quasi-abandoned) field of Generic Fascism. I hope to make somewhat of a splash with a Digital History integration. More soon!
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I recently hosted Dr. Simone Cinotto at the @fresnostatelibrary.bsky.social for a book talk on his latest research monograph, Gastrofascism and Empire: Food in Italian East Africa, 1935-1941 (Bloomsbury, 2024). The following is a video recording of Dr. Cinotto's presentation.
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
In May 1924, Giacomo Matteotti -- the influential socialist MP under Benito Mussolini's pre-dictatorship government -- accused the Blackshirts of intimidating voters at the polls. In some cases, Matteotti contended, the Duce's fascists flashed daggers or pistols, ...
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Welcome to Hell.
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UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns
António Guterres says the international body could run out of money by July due to members' unpaid fees.
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
To my Fresno State colleagues and friends, please consider attending!
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New Fascism Syllabus @newfascismsyllabus.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
See the open letter co-signed by over 300 scholars on the state-sponsored attacks against historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe. We stand against intimidation and for academic freedom. #AcademicFreedom #History #Holocaust #Poland
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An Open Letter in Defense of Academic Freedom and the Historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe - The New Fascism Syllabus
We, the undersigned, protest against the state-sponsored defamatory attacks on the German-Polish Holocaust historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe and the ongoing campaign of intimidation against scholar...
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Fresno State History Department @fshistory.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Congratulations to Dr. Maritere Lopez on the launch of her podcast, "The Early Modern Monster Manual." ABOUT THE PODCAST: What made a monster in the early modern world? In The Early Modern Monster Manual, students at Fresno State explore how monsters were imagined ...
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S1 E6: Early Modern Monsters and Early Ideas of Race
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The panopticon perfected.
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
On Jan 7, 1978, five members of the MSI’s youth group were ambushed by militants in Rome’s Tuscolano neighborhood. Franco Bigonzetti was killed at the scene; Francesco Ciavatta died shortly after. This event, at the Via Acca Larenzia social center, remains a flashpoint in Italian history. 🧵
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Where Monsters Are Born was reviewed in this month's issue of The Public Historian! See below.
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Scientists: We must stop using fossil fuels and develop an alternative, renewable energy paradigm so that we can save human civilization from a rapidly approaching full-scale collapse due to an industrially-driven destabilization of Earth's climatic systems. Industrialists: Let's blot out the sun.
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I don't know how many of you out there are history buffs, but I can think of at least two reasons why Germany building up "Europe's strongest army" is a bad idea...
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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Headlines: Hitler had a micropenis. *iPhone > Power > Off*
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