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Frederico Freitas

@fredericofreitas.org

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Historian NC State. DH, Environment, LatAm. PhD: Stanford. BA: USP. Book www.cambridge.org/9781108844833. Brasileiro e Paulista. New project on Brasília (PT and EN)

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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 31/03/2026

Dorothea Dix, Raleigh.

A picture underneath a circular brick structure with a blue sky on the background.

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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 19/03/2026

Santa Cruz, CA

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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 15/10/2025

Berlin this afternoon.

A black and white picture of the St. Mary's Church’s tower perfectly aligned in front of the TV Tower in Berlin in an overcast day.

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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 28/01/2025

Just got a copy of the book I edited with @jacobblanc.bsky.social #skystorians #envhist @utexaspress.bsky.social

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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 28/12/2024

Looking forward to presenting on the use of aerial imagery and US technical expertise in the selection of the site for Brazil's new capital, Brasília, in the early 1950s. The panel also has presentations on Guatemala and the Amazon. #AHA2025 #skystorians aha.confex.com/aha/2025/web...

Bird's eye view black and white photograph of Brasília, Brazil's new capital, in 1964. It shows the main mall flanked by long, identical modernist buildings, with the Brazilian Congress building at the end.

Black and white aerial image and contour overlay of central Brazil, 1954.

Black and white aerial image of Brasília, as it was being constructed in 1958.

Bird's eye view color photograph of Brasília, Brazil's new capital, as it was being constructed in 1958.

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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 28/12/2024

Marking the release of a new volume on the history of the Brazilian Interior, @jacobblanc.bsky.social and I organized a panel at #AHA2025 with some of the book's contributors. Friday, January 3, at 1:30 pm. aha.confex.com/aha/2025/web... @utexaspress.bsky.social @historians.org #skystorians

Cover of the book "The Interior: Recentering Brazilian History," edited by Frederico Freitas and Jacob Blanc. The cover features a map of Brazil encasing a 19th-century black-and-white illustration of a man and a horse in central Brazil. The illustration is originally from "Flora Brasiliensis" by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.

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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 19/12/2024

cat sitting

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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 12/12/2024

Undergrad students in my Digital History class analyzed the loss of commuter rail stations in Chicago between 1928 and 2019. They found that areas gaining stations were more white, while those losing stations became increasingly African American. #skystorians #history @ncstatehistory.bsky.social

Map of the Chicago commuter rail network in 1928, with all the stations.

Map of the Chicago commuter rail network in 2019, with all the stations.

Map of changes in the Chicago commuter rail network between 1928 and 2019, overlayed on census tracts with white population.

Map of changes in the Chicago commuter rail network between 1928 and 2019, overlayed on census tracts with African American population.

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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 18/11/2024

Got this book on my mailbox today. It is a study of the production of historical knowledge in Wikipedia by @petrosapostol.bsky.social, one of our PhD graduates in Public History. @ncstatehistory.bsky.social

Book pages with graphs representing networks of Wikipedia authors.

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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 14/07/2023

Claudia Leal, Emily Wakild, and I will give another workshop on incorporating Latin America into teaching environmental history at the ASEH Meeting in Denver, CO, Apr 2024. RECSLAC is offering fellowships to attend the workshop. Apply at the link in the thread.

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