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Kate Birkbeck

@katebirkbeck.bsky.social

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Writing about militia, federal finance, the international arms trade. | Postdoc @Brown | Ernest May Fellow @Harvard

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Kate Birkbeck @katebirkbeck.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

1917 War Dept decimal classification index is good for specific sources and hyperspecific sauces

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Kate Birkbeck @katebirkbeck.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Brilliant roundtable revisiting the 1877 strike at 150 #SHGAPE2026 @shgape.bsky.social @frelaine.bsky.social

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Kate Birkbeck @katebirkbeck.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Excited to comment on @katebirkbeck.bsky.social's outstanding, "Reconstructing the Arms Race" for Boston University Project on Political Economy of Security Workshop today/noon ET. Fascinating study of white supremacists tapping into flow of federal weaponry to southern states during Reconstruction.

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Kate Birkbeck @katebirkbeck.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

So many more things to say about the British NRA but eternal thanks to the brilliant diplo team @diplomatichistory.bsky.social and reviewers for getting this in shape. doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

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“Defend his own hearth”: The Transatlantic Origins of the National Rifle Association

In September 1869, the founder of the National Rifle Association of Great Britain (NRA-GB) Francis Charteris, better known as Lord Elcho, wrote an open cal

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Kate Birkbeck @katebirkbeck.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

🚨🚨 I always learn a ton from @chloemayoux.bsky.social

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Kate Birkbeck @katebirkbeck.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Just started! www.youtube.com/live/6AQDMKL...

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Panel: The Costs of War for U.S. Democracy

YouTube video by Watson School of International and Public Affairs

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Kate Birkbeck @katebirkbeck.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Brilliant virtual event today and sign up is still live! events.yale.edu/event/in-our...

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"In Our Own Words": Highlights from the Indigenous Collections at Beinecke Library

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Kate Birkbeck @katebirkbeck.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

PhDone !!! Thank gawddd for friends, comrades, good people along the way

Screenshot of Bad Bunny saying "the historians can correct me later."

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Yasmina Martin @yasmartin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

New for @historywo.bsky.social - a piece on South African exiles in socialist Tanzania, the 1976 Soweto student movement, and the lasting resonance of self-reliance

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Kate Birkbeck @katebirkbeck.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Wrote about LaPierre’s departure and how marksmanship wasn’t neutral at the NRA’s founding time.com/6564789/nra-....

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What People Get Wrong About Wayne LaPierre's Time at the NRA

Common retellings of its history miss the continuity that dates back to the group's 1871 founding.

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