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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Dr Caroline Johnston writes for the Observer on Donald Trump’s attempts to foment a new ‘red scare’ when attacking Democrats. Caroline is Mellon Research Fellow in American History and a Fellow of @christscollegecam.bsky.social. ⬇️⬇️

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

And so ends my tenure as pod host - what an episode to end on! Thanks @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social and Christa for the wonderful discussion 🥲

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Could not be more proud and impressed by my bestie. @sheahendry.bsky.social is a multi-talented genius, of course, but her passion and writing truly shines when discussing decapitated revolution-era art.

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Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast @camericanist.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New Episode: "What did the American Revolution actually achieve? What did it inspire on a global basis?" Dr. Patrick Griffin discusses Charles Cornwallis and the subtle ways "imperfect people in the past try to do what they can to manage unstable contexts." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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Dr. Patrick Griffin, 'The American Revolution and Global Empire'

Podcast Episode · Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast · May 13 · 40m

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Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast @camericanist.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

From the archives: On this episode, Dr. Tara Bynum discusses personal letters as spaces of grief, memory, and imagination in her new book "Obour Tanner Makes an Archive: Or, How to Remember Your Famous (and Deceased) 18th-Century Friend, Phillis Wheatley." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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Dr. Tara Bynum, ‘Obour Tanner Makes an Archive: Or, How to Remember Your Famous (and Deceased) 18th-Century Friend, Phillis Wheatley’

Podcast Episode · Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast · August 8, 2025 · 43m

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 05/05/2026

JCK is wrong & this article is ridiculous, but universities need to emphasize what makes higher education different than AI / tech companies, and the answer to that question is that which they have marginalized for decades: curiosity-driven, rather than market-driven knowledge.

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Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast @camericanist.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

New Episode: “...No matter how significant institutions and structures are, individuals can and do make a difference.” Annual Pitt Professor Beth Bailey joins us to discuss military, war, and society in the modern United States. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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Annual Pitt Professor Beth Bailey, 'Making Change: Why the US Army Matters'

Podcast Episode · Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast · April 30 · 35m

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Within academia alone, AI is deskilling our youth under the guise of 'free tools' (aka unpaid labour for AI training), forging dependence, stealing scholars' work, putting us out of jobs, and profiting from all of it. We are losing so much more than could ever be gained.

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The episode in which @sheahendry.bsky.social and I convince Eliga Gould to promote our nonexistent 6-part podcast series on the Jay Treaty 😶‍🌫️🙌

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Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast @camericanist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

From the archives: Elizabeth Ellis, Associate Professor of History at Princeton University, joined us in 2025 to talk about her book ‘The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South.’ Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

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Prof. Elizabeth N. Ellis, ‘The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South’

Podcast Episode · Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast · May 2, 2025 · 35m

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This was a great conversation--first podcast interview about my new book! Thanks @meganrenoir.bsky.social and Hugh Wood and Mia Bay!

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

In last week's podcast, my good friend Dr. Hugh Wood and I chat with @kathleenbelew.bsky.social about how fear, religious nationalism, and suburban isolation have normalised gun violence, and why children have come to occupy a tragic central place in America’s culture of mass shootings.

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I use the CDNC *literally* daily for research that supports tribal sovereignty/rights claims. This is such a vital resource with outsized impact for U.S. researchers, communities, history, etc etc etc. Please, please, pleaseeee reshare and submit a comment!

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Christopher Dean @princessquatris.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I'd also like to say a huge thanks to @tim-bird.bsky.social for producing a stunning piece of art to accompany the research. I've been a fan of Tim's graphic novels for many years now, so it was amazing to collaborate with him on this illustration! I love it so much.

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

So proud of @princessquatris.bsky.social and his crew for this amazing publication, complete with artwork from graphic novelist @tim-bird.bsky.social!!

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Bluesky community - I’m raising rapid-release funds to help Congolese friends with emergency evacuation and subsistence support in Bukavu and Goma. Many have lost work and access to aid, not least b/c of USAID gutting. Please give what you can & re-share this post! www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...

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Donate to Emergency Evacuation Fund: DRC Peacebuilders, organized by Zarinah Agnew

On Friday February 14th, M23 rebels captured and occupied Bukavu, the secon… Zarinah Agnew needs your support for Emergency Evacuation Fund: DRC Peacebuilders

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Very excited to see our @historians.org article featured in the @ssrc.org monthly series, Frontiers in Social & Behavioral Science. Doing research that bridges humanities and social science is both incredibly fun and (imo) the best way to test & refine theory and policy 🙌 www.ssrc.org/frontiers/

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Frontiers in Social and Behavioral Sciences

At the 100th anniversary of the Council’s founding, we honor its founders and celebrate the breadth and depth of modern social and behavioral science. Every month we will feature an article from the m...

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Social Science Research Council @ssrc.org · 17/01/2025

In @historians.org American Historical Review, @meganrenoir.bsky.social and Shelly Covert explore how the experiences of the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe, a federally unrecognized nation, highlight the importance of broadening conceptions of resilience. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

Resilience has been conceptualized within international development as the ability to “return to a state of equilibrium” after exogenous shocks. For many Indigenous communities, however, there is no equilibrium to which to return. This article explores how the federally unrecognized Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe (NCRNT) has developed a creative strategy of resilience beyond a return to “equilibrium” in the face of their almost complete erasure by genocide and the illegal termination of their sovereign rights by US state and federal government agencies. The NCRNT’s experience reveals how activities underlying Indigenous resilience include a need for historical redress and reconciliation, thereby creating a “new normal” that is reflective of Native history as well as the ongoing social, political, and economic realities of existing within a settler state. This article bridges history and development studies, revealing how both disciplines must learn from Indigenous groups seeking restorative justice. It further employs oral histories, artwork, and documentation from the newly created NCRN Tribal archive, and so is presented as an interactive digital article.

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

In 1850, California banned Indigenous burning practices. 74 years later, CA is suffering from the consequences. Climate resilience is possible when we reckon with history. See our 2023 report on #CAwildfires + #climateresilience + #Indigenousrights 👇 www.cdacollaborative.org/indigenous-r...

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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Read this online for the audio and video oral history components

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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

It is finally here! Eighty years ago, Felix Cohen crafted the first "bible" of Federal Indian Law. I long dreamed of contributing to a rare revision. Today that dream is realized: 100 pages marrying constitutional law with Indian law (mostly structural, also rights), clarifying both.

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 16/12/2024

In “History on the Lost Coast,” Kathleen C. Whiteley shows how historians can use a resilience framework to highlight Indigenous agency, spotlighting the Wiyot Nation’s reclamation in 2019 of over 200 acres on Northern California’s Tuluwat Island, the site of an 1860 catastrophic massacre. 🗃️

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History on the Lost Coast: Locating Wiyot Stories of Resilience in Nancy and Matilda Spear

Abstract. This essay is a response to an AHR call for works on resilience: “how to revive,” as it’s framed, “after things fall apart.” It would be hard to

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 17/12/2024

@meganrenoir.bsky.social & Shelly Covert’s “Recognition as Resilience” features the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe (NCRNT), a nation not federally recognized, and how their resilience creates a “new normal” that reflects tribal self-determination. 🗃️

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Recognition as Resilience: How an Unrecognized Indigenous Nation is Using Visibility as a Pathway Toward Restorative Justice

Abstract. Resilience has been conceptualized within international development as the ability to “return to a state of equilibrium” after exogenous shocks.

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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Read and share this 👇 #skystorians #academicsky Megan Renoir (my first PhD advisee!!!) and Shelly Covert in the American Historical Review on what int’l development studies can learn from one Native nation’s pursuit of restorative justice after the California genocide

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 06/12/2024

The AHR’s December 2024 issue is now available. This issue inaugurates the annual publication of a special issue of the journal. Inside the issue authors explore how historical context and contingency shape and inflect resilience. 🗃️

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Volume 129 Issue 4 | The American Historical Review | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the American Historical Association. Publishes research that brings together scholarship from every major field of historical study. Articles include original interpretation an...

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I’m proud to share the news that my article, “Recognition as Resilience,” was recently published in the inaugural special issue of the American Historical Review. It’s now available to read here: t.co/mb0OhFUoCF @camhistory.bsky.social @historians.org

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Syrus Solo Jin, PhD @syrussolojin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Resilience was the buzzword of 2024. But what does it mean? How do historians think about it? How can the concept, employed with specificity, expand our understandings of the past? Very excited to share the latest issue of the AHR--two years in the making. Check it out. 👇

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