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Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Join us Dec. 15 for the next BHC Book Series event. 9:00 a.m. EST live on YouTube Philip Scranton discusses *Spare Parts: A Global History of a Modern Problem, 1940-1980* @hopkinspress.bsky.social with @profmarkwilson.bsky.social and Valentina Fava Send us your questions for Phil in advance #BizHis

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Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

PhD students in #BizHis: applications are open for the 2027 BHC Doctoral Colloquium in Mexico City, March 18. Work closely with BHC scholars on your dissertation, research strategy, and career development. DEADLINE is Dec. 11, 2026. thebhc.org/doctoral-col... #BHC2027 #Skystorians

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

From bad Grimes to war crimes... A take on Weinberger's new book on the 21st century tech biz and the DoD via @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/vall...

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War Bros | Los Angeles Review of Books

Sharon Weinberger’s new book exposes the extent to which the US government has bound itself to the ‘arsenal of the broligarchy.’

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/08/2026

Many Pentagon projects face delays, budget increases and performance issues. The causes of these problems are often opaque to the taxpayers who foot the bill. Help point us to the most important stories 👇

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Do You Know About U.S. Military Spending? Help ProPublica Understand Where the Money Goes.

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Cogs of War @cogs0fwar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New entrants promised to escape the politics that ossified traditional defense procurement. The subsidies aligning them with statehouses may unintentionally deliver those same politics. warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/...

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The Arsenal and the Statehouse: New Defense Firms, Venture Capital and State Industrial Policy

When Anduril announced a $910 million drone production facility in Ohio, it was not politics as usual. The main message came from Ohio’s governor, Mike

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

So proud of this forthcoming book! I spearheaded the project, but it was a labor of love for a whole team of talented scholars.

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Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Business History Conference #BHC2027 is now accepting proposals Deadline is Oct 16 2026 Use the session organizer thebhc.org/session-orga... Please share @entandsoc.bsky.social @historian-kparkin.bsky.social @umanitoba.bsky.social @hagleycenter.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #bizhis

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Andrew J. Huebner @andrewhuebner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... So our Cambridge History of War and Society is out and available! My co-editor Jennifer Keene and I are so appreciative of all our authors—see list in the image. We’re very proud of this volume and it’s because of all the incredible scholars who contributed.

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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

In a new @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social piece, I explain how this agenda from @repcasar.bsky.social & @usprogressives.bsky.social revives an American tradition of DIY progressivism that promotes affordability by using public factories to counter monopoly power washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/18/p...

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The Affordability Case for Public Factories

Public factories once helped America fight monopoly pricing. A new push would revive them to lower drug costs and ease supply bottlenecks.

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Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Business History Conference 2027 𖡼 Call for Papers 𖡼 thebhc.org/2027-bhc-cal... We encourage 𓂃✍︎ 𖡼Full panel proposals 𖡼Proposals en español 𖡼Interdisciplinary approaches Deadline for proposals: October 16, 2026 Location: Mexico City #bizhis #BHC2027

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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

In the supply-shock era, we should revisit a lost industrial policy tool: public factories. 🏭In a new paper, Ganesh Sitaraman & I explore the history & future of US public factories. ⚡️In another paper, I propose public factories for critical energy components www.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt-p... 🧵

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Public Factories

Our Work Public factories can be powerful means to support production of critical goods. Policymakers at all levels of government have deployed government-owned production facilities throughout Americ...

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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I appreciate @kschake.bsky.social's efforts to shed light on these vital issues, but I am less sanguine Politicization operates through multiple mechanisms not captured by analyzing the credentials or past partisan commentary of senior officers replacing those who have been fired. 1/

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Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Blurbs are in for my new book, Gangster of New York! Many thanks to Eric Rauchway (@rauchway.bsky.social), Rebecca Jo Plant, and Douglas Egerton.

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Public Ed Works @publicedworks.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

North Carolina’s budget stalemate froze raises, cutting average teacher pay ~1% to $60,984. The state ranks 43rd nationally, and about 10.1% of teachers—roughly 1 in 10—leave each year, worsening shortages. #NCed

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NC lawmakers didn’t pass a state budget. How it’s led to a drop in teacher pay

New state report shows the average pay for North Carolina teachers dropped 1% this school year amid no new raises from General Assembly

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profmarkwilson.bsky.social @profmarkwilson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Miller Center oral history interviews with Obama administration officials now available. (Apparently different from broader set of Obama presidency interviews also released recently from a Columbia University Incite Institute project.) millercenter.org/the-presiden...

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Barack Obama | Miller Center

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Microsoft, in a legal filing, is challenging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s action last week to shut Anthropic out of military work by labeling its AI products as posing a threat to national security.

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Microsoft and retired military chiefs back AI company Anthropic in court fight against Pentagon

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Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

👋 Say hello at #BHC2026 👉 Business History is sponsoring workshops and is an official sponsor of the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social in London. We look forward to connecting, hearing about your work, and continuing conversations around #bizhis #businesshistory.

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profmarkwilson.bsky.social @profmarkwilson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

A 21st century policymaker reflects on lessons from the WWII industrial mobilization, while offering a generous and astute discussion of my 2016 book on the subject. www.factorysettings.org/p/what-does-...

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What Does World War II Teach Us About Industrial Policy Today?

CHIPS and WWII have more in common than I thought

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Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Never has so much US combat power been assembled with so little explanation to the public, allies, or Congress regarding why or how it will be used. Never.

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Defense One @defenseone.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Got an idea for reforming defense acquisition? The Pentagon’s all ears. | “We need radically different ideas,” says assistant defense secretary. | by Jennifer Hlad, reporting from Honolulu:

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Got an idea for reforming defense acquisition? The Pentagon’s all ears.

“We need radically different ideas,” says assistant defense secretary.

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Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The program for the BHC 2026 Annual Meeting in London is now available‼️ You can view the full meeting program here: thebhc.org/meeting-prog... Note that there are visa requirements to enter the UK for most nationalities -- ETA application form: www.gov.uk/eta #BHC2026 #bizhis #BHCLondon

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

RIP to Nick Salvatore, author of Eugene V. Deb’s: Citizen and Socialist, one of the book’s that inspired me to pursue the study of history.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

“A 3rd (awful) NYT editorial on the future of war has dropped”

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Lisa Boone @lisaboone19.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life. How a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft, and, in the process, found his soul. Wonderful writing by the great Kurt Streeter.

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How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (Gift Article)

This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.

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profmarkwilson.bsky.social @profmarkwilson.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Good news: the US National Archives system is still making its way through researchers’ Mandatory Declassification Review requests. Not so good news: the update I received today concerned a request I filed in March 2015, nearly 11 years ago.

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations won’t be out officially until 2026 but is shipping now🗃️ edited by Frank Costigliola and Barbara Keys, exceptional contributors and graat chapters, also mine on #ideology @shafrhistorians.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/highereducat...

Cover of Cambridge UP Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

"Death by Lightning," Episode 3 reaction thread: • Praise for the series • Major players: What's right/wrong/missing • What was machine politics? How did the spoils system work? Why do they keep talking about the New York Custom House? Let's get wonky! 1/14

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profmarkwilson.bsky.social @profmarkwilson.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

In time for the holidays, now pre-orderable, the long awaited Oxford Handbook of American Military History, edited by Sam Watson. 32 chapters by top scholars in the field, including @bethbailey.bsky.social , @notabattlechick.bsky.social , @karadixonvuic.bsky.social, yours truly, and many more.

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profmarkwilson.bsky.social @profmarkwilson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Three points about the “Department of War” talk: 1. Hegseth called for the name change before he was nominated. 2. The term used historically, for the most part, was actually “War Department.” Its sister was the Navy Department. 3. Only Congress can change the name.

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profmarkwilson.bsky.social @profmarkwilson.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

From Ben Dooley on the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant: In the late 2000s, the Army “gave the operator two choices: maintain the equipment in a state of readiness or use the excess capacity to make rounds for the commercial market. The contractor chose the latter…” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

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AR-15 Ammunition at a Crime Scene? Good Odds This Army Plant Made It.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

My new book will be out in early December 2025 via @mitpress.bsky.social Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

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Kendra Boyd @kendradboyd.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Honored to receive a State History Award from the Historical Society of Michigan for my book Freedom Enterprise!

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Welcome to the resistance, director of the Eisenhower library in Kansas who would not let the president steal a historic sword

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 01/10/2025

@kschake.bsky.social reflects on yesterday's address by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Trump at a gathering of the country's top military officials. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/hegs...

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Hegseth’s Unusual, Partisan, and Dangerous Convening of Military Leaders

If the defense secretary’s event allayed concerns of DEI in the military for some, it aggravated concerns of a politicized military for all.

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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The ultimate aim here is that people will no longer expect the military to serve the public at large, but that its goal and purpose is to advance the interest of one faction or party in politics. 10/

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

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profmarkwilson.bsky.social @profmarkwilson.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Paul Starr @starrprospect.bsky.social reflects on the ways in which his new book differs from the history served up in the latest Robert Reich memoir. prospect.org/culture/book...

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How Today’s America Came About

Two different accounts from two of the Prospect’s co-founders

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profmarkwilson.bsky.social @profmarkwilson.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The “War Department” thing was one of Hegseth’s hobbyhorses well before his nomination.

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