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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

About time. End it.

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Kirsten Weld @kirstenweld.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In response to their Cold War dictatorships’ widespread practice of forced disappearance, Latin Americans developed the legal remedy — the writ of habeas data — for precisely this kind of situation, e.g. to compel regimes to reveal info about people killed or secretly detained.

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Karen Racine @klracine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So very very much this. It's exhausting and I don't like feeling duped.

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Andrés Pertierra @andrespertierra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Super scoop from Nora Gámez at Miami Herald. We now have details of the deal Trump admin was trying to push on Cuba through back channel negotiations via Raulito (Raúl's bodyguard/grandson/GAESA fixer): -Diaz-Canel leaves gov -country's oil monopoly privatized www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

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Exclusive: How politics in Miami and Cuba killed secret negotiations, U.S. energy deal

The agreement would have given the United States significant sway over Cuba as its main oil provider.

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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm teaching Race, Law and US Society, which is on this list and has been deemed "too narrow." Some readings: US Constitution, Federalist Papers, Notes on the State of Virginia, Cherokee Nation Cases, Scott v. Stanford, Brown v Board... so US legal history... too narrow? Or just too about race?

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm old enough to remember people fleeing *to* the University of Texas to escape higher ed's dismantling elsewhere. There's no escape from this anymore. You have to confront it.

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SHAFR @shafrhistorians.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Did you know? The Williams Emerging Scholar Research grant is open to ALL historians within 6 years of the PhD. Independent scholars, adjuncts, and off-the-tenure-track historians, this means you! Up to $2,000. Deadline Oct. 15. For more info: www.shafr.org/junior-schol...

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What a great list! Honored to be included!

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Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If an AI "clone" can do what you do, you are not in a serious discipline, and you should not teach at a university. And if you are an institution passing word-guessing simulations off as "educators" because you value profit over authentic learning, then you are not a university at all.

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ban these in your syllabi, profs.

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I was extremely honored to receive two book prizes from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association! Huge thanks to the committees of the Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award for an outstanding book on US foreign relations, military history, or immigration history... (1/2)

Plaque from the PCB-AHA for the Tonous and Warda Johns Book Award for The Fate of the Americas

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

David chose my book as his “book to review and recommend” 🤩

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Vivek @vivekster.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hi, advice from someone who went through various PG&E Wildfires™ in the Bay Area, if you NEED to be outdoors: You want the 3M Rugged Comfort Quick Latch Half Facepiece Reusable Respirator 6501QL and a couple of 3M Performance P100 Particulate + Odor Filters. If you don't NEED to be outside, don't!

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Wooot! You can get all our awesome InterConnections books (including The Fate of the Americas 😘) for 35% off all month!

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

So excited to see my article on hemispheric responses to the Cuban Missile Crisis up on the Americas Quarterly website! americasquarterly.org/article/the-... #History 🗃️

americasquarterly.org

When the Cuban Missile Crisis Shook the Hemisphere

As nuclear war loomed, ordinary people throughout Latin America made their voices heard.

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A question for my US historian friends: What relatively short books are you assigning in your modern US classes now? They can be primary sources like Baldwin's The Fire Next Time or fiction like O'Brien's The Things They Carried. Im just curious as I am looking to revise my course. Please share!

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"The only people who determine whether students use AI are the students." Smartest sentence I've ever read on AI in education.

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The best way we know to spend 1776? On history books 📚 uncpress.org/250-2

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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In excellent company with Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social at @uncpress.bsky.social 🥳

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I'd probably head out west to try and figure out what happened to Colorado and New Mexico, and whatever is going on with the Dakotas, or why Iowa and Arkansas switched places, or where the second Rhode Island came from or

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The good folks at bookshop.org are celebrating anti-Prime Day by offering free shipping across the site. Now's a great time to support the podcast by shopping our storefront for books by our guests and craft book recommendations: bookshop.org/shop/draftin...

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Drafting the Past Bookshop

Drafting the Past is a podcast dedicated to the craft of writing history, hosted by Kate Carpenter. Shop books by our guests, their recommendations, and some of our favorite craft books and support th...

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Rob Taber @robtaber.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is a thread that ed policy people should read, and sit with.

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Julia, Chris, and I will be at SHAFR next week! Reach out if you’d like to connect! @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Does anyone on here have access to the International Journal of Military History and Historiography? I think there's a review of my book in the latest "advance articles" section!

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Agree re libraries, and will add that this is a devastating report in general. $10,000 a year average?? Also, I would argue anecdotally that classroom sales, traditionally a strong market for academic books, are way down in part b/c students are broke and downloading pirated books for free.

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Kent Ervin @ervinkentm.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Sobering. At Nevada's two R1 doctoral universities, @unevadareno.bsky.social and @unlv.edu, nominal average salaries for all faculty ranks actual declined by 0.7% from 2024-25 to 2025-26. After inflation, salaries are down by over 4%. Falling behind again.

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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Huge thank you to Just Money for spotlighting my forthcoming piece. There's still time to alert me to any goofs in the article!

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 05/06/2026

you're right, I really do

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Many thanks to @lseblogs.bsky.social and @tanyaharmer.bsky.social for hosting me last night, and to all the lovely people who braved the rain and tube strike to come hear me hold forth about The Fate of the Americas!

Renata Keller lecturing about the Fate of the Americas

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This already happened for the NEH. I understand the outrage and shock about the impact on research, but it's crtiical to understand, as ever, that science was never going to get a pass. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

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White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Thanks, David! I really appreciate your thorough and generous engagement with my book!! @uncpress.bsky.social #History

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This breaks my heart. What a sudden loss for his friends, his colleagues, his students, and especially his family. Raul was a passionate, brilliant, dedicated, generous scholar and friend. Que fuerte.

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Hey #LASA2026! Come join us tomorrow for this 🔥panel about inequality and social history in 1980s Latin America!

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Pretty good piece on LLMs and the university, and quite scary, to be frank.

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Will AI Break the University?

Field Notes from a Tough Year

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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Peter Kornbluh: "It is a historical irony that the CIA director would be sent on a diplomatic mission to issue a do-or-die ultimatum to the Cuban government. In many ways, the CIA may end up accomplishing diplomatically what it has sought to do covertly." www.ksjd.org/2026-05-15/c...

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CIA director's visit to Cuba echoes past memories of U.S. in Latin America

CIA Director John Ratcliffe makes a surprise visit to Cuba as the spy agency calls on the nation to make "fundamental changes." Cuba says it has run out of fuel and is suffering massive blackouts.

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This one means a lot. @rmclas-conference.bsky.social was the first academic conference I ever attended and I have always considered it an intellectual home. Feeling very grateful and honored. @uncpress.bsky.social

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Wow, looks like change is coming very soon... I hope whatever happens will benefit the Cuban people, but I'm not optimistic www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/w...

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Cuba Says It Has Run Out of Oil

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Exceptional historical insights on some of the most critical issues in the world today now at a new site. Made By History is live on the Philadelphia Inquirer - check it out out! And pitch! 🗃️ www.inquirer.com/business/wea...

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The real-world consequences of gambling on the weather

Making bets on the weather is a practice that goes back centuries. In an age of climate change and online betting markets, the stakes are much higher.

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Loved @resobscura.bsky.social's latest newsletter on what gets remembered in history and how. Would make a great short reading for undergraduate courses on historical methods! resobscura.substack.com/p/survivorsh... 🗃️

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Why they stopped building wooden stupas

On survivorship bias in history

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