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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dear historians: do you have any reading recommendations on the concept of “Histoire totale” of the French Annales School?

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dear historians: do you have any reading recommendations on the concept of “Histoire totale” of the French Annales School?

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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Vamos puertoriqueños y puertoriqueñas! 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷 Firma esta carta en apoyo a un compatriota

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Marching in the rain

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This is a GoFundMe campaign organized by a historian of Venezuela with local NGO contacts in Caracas, therefore, it is a reliable form to support the victims of the double-earthquake: gofund.me/e17ba80b0

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Donate to Support Venezuelan Earthquake Victims Now, organized by Kim Morse

Venezuela needs help now. As you know, on Wednesday evening, June 24, double earth… Kim Morse needs your support for Support Venezuelan Earthquake Victims Now

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Mark Bowman @bowdog.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"This controversial study offers a challenging new perspective on our understanding of both history and contemporary politics." - my library promises to notify me upon its digitized arrival someday soon.

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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The Supreme Court rules on Birthright Citizenship this week, which could completely change American immigration.

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Tomorrow in San Juan #PuertoRico I will be giving the talk: “La contribución de Puerto Rico a la guerra de independencia de Estados Unidos: una mirada desde los archivos españoles” — Part of the #America250 events. Organized by Spain’s consulate in PR.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Born (or at least baptized) on this day in 1599, in Seville, Diego Velazquez. I borrowed his equipment (and assistants) when I was working in Spain myself! And he learned a lot from me. Great painter.

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

En diez días participaremos en la Jornada “España y #PuertoRico en la independencia de EUA” en San Juan. Es un evento gratuito. Están invitados. Presentaré una charla sobre PR y sus contribuciones a la guerra de 1779-1783 según los archivos españoles. Organizada por el consulado español.

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Algunas escenas del panel sobre poder y discurso médico en el siglo XVIII esta mañana en #LASA2026

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Hoy en #LASA2026 a las 10:15 am: “El poder del discurso médico 🏥 en el mundo hispano en el siglo XVIII” — en él participo con mi colega Farren Yero, el organizador Jeonghwan Kim, con Ruth Hill y comenta Juan Carlos González Espitia. #lasaparis #latinamericanstudies #historyofmedicine

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🎵 Old manuscripts on velvety pillows, Words in handwriting that reads like it billows, Brown paper bundles tied up with strings, These are a few of my favorite things 🎶 — in a happy zone at the Archives Nationales 🇫🇷

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Great to be at #TheHuntington! For the USC EMSI conference Spain and the Birth of the United Stated: A California Conversation #America250 #AmericanRevolution

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This weekend at #TheHuntington: Spain and the Birth of the United States: A California Conversation #America250 #AmericanRevolution The program is here: dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a...

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This weekend at #TheHuntington: Spain and the Birth of the United States: A California Conversation #America250 #AmericanRevolution The program is here: dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a...

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

On my way to present a talk on José de Gálvez next week in 👉🏾 dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-and… Join us if you are in Southern California! #America2025 #AmericanRevolution

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Incredibly proud of newly minted PhD, Dr. Tim Betz! My advisee’s dissertation, a tour de force in scholarly creativity, explores collecting as an empire-making practice through a history of things in the Spanish Empire from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Congrats!🎉

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

And the reading we should all be doing today is… 👇🏽

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/02/2026

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Todays is #BadBunnyDay and a good moment to read my book review in the @historians.org’s AHR!!! It contrasts Bad 🐰’s #Dtmf album with a legal history of #PuertoRico book:

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Hoy 👇🏽 con transmisión por Facebook. Sobre militarismo en la historia de #PuertoRico 🇵🇷muy relevante en nuestros días

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

😃👉🏾Ya salió mi reseña de "Miradas coloniales" de Miguel Ángel Puig-Samper en el último número de la Revista de Hispanismo Filosófico (núm. 30, 2025) // My latest book review is out: on a book that explores the intersections of colonialism and photography 📸

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

"'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week: More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are 'actively infected.' The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states."

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'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week

More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are "actively infected." The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The crisis is real, and this is part of our effort at new approaches to supporting scholars and advancing scholarship in the (vast!) early Americas. Sharing again and would appreciate your sharing, too. More info in the thread. 🧵⬇️

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

It was an amazing panel! With insightful comments from the audience. I learned so much! We crowned the experience with an arepas lunch!!! #aha2026 #VenezuelanHistory @clahistorians.bsky.social

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Happening in 30 minutes at the #aha2026 in Chicago: our panel on Venezuelan independence hero, Francisco de Miranda 🇻🇪 @clahistorians.bsky.social

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I called my representative and my two senators (including war-hawk Fetterman 😡) this morning! Have you 🫵🏽 done your job today? Stop the armed attacks on Venezuela! Stop the Epstein War!

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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Thinking of all our friends and colleagues at Brown University. This craziness has to stop.

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

God! Bless! the people who attended the hearing and shared with her what everyday people with a heart think of this cruelty. Absolutely worth a watch, even if the heroes are off camera.

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

How many shades of blue do you see in this painting? 💙 🖼️ Johannes Vermeer, Woman Reading a Letter, c. 1663 👁️ id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108372

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Deadline approaching: (Nov. 15th) #CFP International Conference: "Mary's Grandsons: Marian devotion, colonial politics and native strategies against imperial pressure", that will be celebrated in Madrid in May, 2026.👇🏾👇🏾 #history

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Today at Lehigh! Free and open to the public #eighteenthcenturystudies Amanda Herbert’s lecture has a wonderful title: “Stewing Alive”!

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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Next April at the #HuntingtonLibrary, I will participate in "Spain and the Birth of the United States: A California Conversation," a contribution to the 250th anniversary of the #AmericanRevolution Find the program here 👉🏾 dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a... #Semiquincentennial #America250

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Spain and the Birth of the United States - USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute

Supporting advanced research of the early modern period.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

“This was a very very bad vote”

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It is funny how CNN doesn’t know how to handle Mamdani’s victory 🤣😂 He gave an excellent speech and they are trying very hard to find ways to criticize him…

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I visited Grand Street Senior Housing on the Lower East Side today and tried a little Bomba y Plena…

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

😃👉🏾My AHR review of Mónica A. Jiménez's "Never-Never Land: Race and Law on the Creation of Puerto Rico" 🇵🇷 is out!!! My essay offers a counterpoint to Bad Bunny's "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS 📸" album. [DM if you need access] academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

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Bárbara Zepeda @mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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