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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I recently had someone ask for a letter after zero interaction IRL or on social media 🤷‍♀️

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

About time. End it.

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

9 times out of every 10 I type 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

...and the Norris and Carol Hundley Award for an outstanding book on any historical subject! I’m incredibly grateful. (2/2) @pcb-aha.bsky.social @historians.org @uncpress.bsky.social

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

Awww, I’m honored!! (Also agree with many of the other books on your list!)

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My son and his friends at Boys and Girls Club have been pooling their money every time they go to the movies and buying group snacks ❤️

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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

Thanks, Eric!! They really did a great job with that narration!

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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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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I’ve done this with both Uber and Lyft. Worked every time!

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

Yeah, I eliminated the research paper from my advanced Global Cold War class last semester where most of the students weren’t history majors. Then I felt bad b/c it was mostly tests and short in-class writing assignments, which felt too basic. There’s no winning 😣

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

Agreed in classes with majority non-majors, but I think we’re doing a huge disservice to our history majors if we don’t even give them an opportunity to do original research and write longer, more extensive papers, especially in upper level methods classes

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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...

bookshop.org

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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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

🫸🫷 Wrote one tenure letter this morning, started another this afternoon, and tomorrow I'll write comments for next week's conference panel! #SummerBreak

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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

Yes, that would be fantastic! Thank you!

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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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