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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

** Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction ** is officially published today! Happy to have this new little book out in the world. For more info: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 27/01/2026

Our work on higher ed by @lookheron.bsky.social explores the foundation of many of today’s higher education challenges: from funding and governance to the conditions that make free speech possible on campus. 🧵

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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Former @nsarchive.bsky.social FOIA coordinator Nate Jones discovered that the State Department deleted already declassfied records from one of its "FRUS" historical volumes. Today, the Archive published the censored documents.

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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Digital edition of IDS (IU Bloomington student paper, now in its 158th year) does continue to publish real news, including this shocking story: www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

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Jewish Studies director replacement ‘unprecedented,’ students and faculty say

Dean Rick Van Kooten later held a nomination process one faculty member called “symbolic.”

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Brent Cebul @brentcebul.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Mike Glass and I argue for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social that we’ve tried the #abundance incentive-based approach to housing crises before. But lack of oversight + incentives produced fraud, profiteering, and inflated rents -- and the Trump family fortune. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...

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Adding Value | Phenomenal World

Mortgage insurance has traditionally been the method the federal government has used to induce investment in owner-occupied housing. But for multifamily rentals, the history of mortgage-insurance prog...

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Will Deringer @calculatedvalues.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Part of a great special issue on "History of Economics in the Extended Field" ed. Joel Isaac & Philippe Fontaine. Alongside articles by @abenanav.bsky.social, @smacekura.bsky.social, @simontorracinta.bsky.social, Eli Cook, Erik Baker, and Jonny Bunning read.dukeupress.edu/hope/advance...

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Advance Publication | History of Political Economy | Duke University Press

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Serious, long piece via @apnews.com about the concerted attack on public education in Indiana, Ohio, Florida, Iowa, and elsewhere. Features many nice photos of the lovely Bloomington campus! apnews.com/article/harv...

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Far beyond Harvard, conservative efforts to reshape higher education are gaining steam

Far beyond Harvard University and its standoff with the Trump administration, Republican officials in several states have been pushing for changes at public universities.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Utterly disgraceful and an open assault on the historical profession. These are utterly professional, non-partisan advisors, overseeing and giving advice to the State department on the declassification of US government documents.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The office is a true jewel and the historians that produce FRUS are phenomenal. This is a resource everyone who studies foreign policy and national security should care about protecting, and anyone who believes in government transparency should care too. 3/3 history.state.gov/historicaldo...

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Historical Documents - Office of the Historian

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It was a true honor to serve on the HAC which was chaired by @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social. I was an at-large member; several others were official representatives of scholarly orgs like @apsa.bsky.social, AHA, OAH, SHAFR, ASIL. 2/

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

Tim Naftali's tweet on the termination of the HAC members without cause.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The Kennan quote is from this excellent essay by @smacekura.bsky.social on the tensions between the emerging "planetary consciousness" of the 1970s and the Global South's demands for rapid economic development & a widespread commitment to absolute sovereignty rights. academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...

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The Growth Debate, North-South Politics, and the Fate of Environmental Internationalism in the 1970s

On April 10, 1974, Algerian President Houari Boumédiène addressed a special session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. His purpose was ambitious:

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Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Our introduction, w/ @smueller.bsky.social, about the planetary age in environmental and international history is online! Check out the Forum articles by Perrin Selcer, Andrea Westermann, Liesbeth van de Grift & @smacekura.bsky.social Let's begin the debate about the visions of the one planet 🌍

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Visions of the One Planet: The Planetary Age in International and Environmental History

“We know that you don’t have the power to stop a transaction, but for goodness’ sake, we are all on the same planet.”- Congressional Representative John Co

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Stephen Macekura @smacekura.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

ICYMI, I wrote about for-profit contractors (like Musk himself) and the United States' byzantine contracting system: the real source of waste and fraud

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

"In 1946, the government employed about 2.5 million workers and ran a budget of $628 billion; in 2023, it had only half a million more workers, but its budget stood at $4.6 trillion. How does the government disburse this colossal budget? Through contracting." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The Government Waste DOGE Should Be Cutting

The problem that really needs fixing is not the public employees but the private contractors—and Elon Musk is one of them.

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Brent Cebul @brentcebul.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

@smacekura.bsky.social's great chapter on US foreign policy contracting informs his piece @theatlantic.com: Clinton's "reinventing government" program cut 400k direct federal hires "as it expanded the shadow government of contractor workers by nearly 300,000." 🗃️ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The Government Waste DOGE Should Be Cutting

The problem that really needs fixing is not the public employees but the private contractors—and Elon Musk is one of them.

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Stephen Macekura @smacekura.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I wrote about another problem with DOGE: real fraud lies more with for-profit contractors than government agencies. We need a more robust civil service, not more privatization of public affairs: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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DOGE Won’t Deliver Government Efficiency

The problem of waste that really needs fixing is not the public employees but the private contractors—and Elon Musk is one of them.

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Brent Cebul @brentcebul.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

@lilygeismer.bsky.social and I are thrilled that our new project, Mastery and Drift: Professional Class Liberals since the 1960s, is published today. When we began this work a few years ago, we had no idea how sadly relevant exploring the evolution . . . (1/10) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Mastery and Drift

A revelatory look at modern liberalism’s historical evolution and enduring impact on contemporary politics and society. Since the 1960s, American liberalism and the Democratic Party have been rema...

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Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Liberalism's crisis has been long in the making. Read what some smart historians and I have to say about it. You can get a 30% discount with code UCPNEW if you avoid the big bad site and order directly from UChicago Press. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Mastery and Drift

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