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Tim Bowman

@tbowmanhist.bsky.social
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Historian of Texas, the Southwest, and modern America. Books: Blood Oranges (2016), and You Will Never be One of Us (2022). Currently working on a history of the Texas farmworkers movement. Opinions my own.

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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It was a huge honor to be able to include this volume in the “New Directions in Tejano History” series, which I co-edit for @oupress.bsky.social. Out now!
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I have a book coming out with @utexaspress.bsky.social next spring on the farmworkers movement in Texas, and will share more about it here the closer we get to the publication date.
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Excellent reporting on Larry Itliong’s son, Johnny Itliong, and his quest to pull his father’s legacy out from Cesar Chavez’s shadow. Much of this mirrors my interest in Antonio Orendain, the United Farm Workers and Texas Farm Workers Union in South Texas. (1/2) 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/u...
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After the Cesar Chavez Scandal, Can Johnny Itliong Restore His Father’s Activist Legacy?
Johnny Itliong says Cesar Chavez stole credit from his father, the farmworker activist Larry Itliong. For years, he has been trying to correct the record.
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Great thread here:
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Brilliant record… #vinylcommunity #nowspinning
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I’ll add that it’s obviously horrifying, but also fascinating.
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Ben Johnson @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
extremely proud to have published this article on the first Juneteenth celebration, in the great city of Houston, by the Pulitzer-prize winning historian Caleb McDaniel. www.alliancefortexashistory.org/juneteenth?f...
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
She Sheila McManus’s “Both Sides Now” for an overview of borderlands in North America.
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Checking in from a bit of a hiatus to say that this book is utterly brilliant; strong recommendation for anyone interested in Native history and the nineteenth century West. 🗃️ #books
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Nice to see another metalhead who also likes Lily Allen! Her new record is great.
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It’s a great museum! Enjoy.
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
My online Texas history students are once again blown away by the history that @refusing2forget.bsky.social highlights. If you’re unaware of the horrific violence and ethnic cleansing that Mexicans faced in South Texas from 1848 through WWI, please have a look at RTF and their important work. 🗃️
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Out this fall with OU Press! 🗃️ www.oupress.com/978080619723...
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Looking for Justice in Texas - University of Oklahoma Press
Communities of color have long been subject to extreme policing and surveillance in Texas.  Despite such formidable challenges, these communities have launc...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers say they'll change name of César Chavez Day to Farmworkers Day following sexual abuse allegations.
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I’m sure members of the UFW who were in the know did their absolute best to keep it under wraps. But that’s only part of it—fear, intimidation, blow back for any writer who might’ve investigated probably also had a hand in this.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Here’s a gift link:
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
It’s just awful
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Strongly recommend this impressive and timely new book for those interested. 🗃️ #books #booksky
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
My current pleasure read is Ron Chernow’s excellent recent biography of Mark Twain, and I’ll never not be amazed that this little silent film of him (with his daughters Jean and Clara) still exists. Shot by none other than Thomas Edison, too. #books #booksky 🗃️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=mqaS...
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Modern American History @modamhist.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Tim Bowman and Brent M. S. Campney show how growers in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas changed tactics in the 1980s from violence to a legal strategy of challenging unions' political power. Link below!
Farmworkers gather for a small rally during a 1966 march from San Juan, Texas, to the state capitol in Austin to protest their appalling working conditions. Courtesy Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Arlington, Texas.
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Modern American History @modamhist.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Now released: Issue 8.3 of Modern American History This issue has three research articles and four exciting features. See the full issue here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Cover of Modern American History 8.3: Cover image: Voz Fronteriza newspaper, Rodolfo F. Acuña Collection, California State University, Northridge University Library, Special Collections and Archives, Northridge, CA. Image in public domain.
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Checking in from a Bluesky hiatus to remind everyone that I have the cutest dog n the world (though if you wanted to post pics of your pups in the comments, I wouldn’t be against it). #Dogs #DogsofBluesky
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pgato.bsky.social @pgato.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
History rhyming: Today's Minneapolis general strike is not a first for Minneapolis, as I'm sure I'm not the first to notice: www.leftvoice.org/revolutionar...
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Revolutionary Teamsters: Remembering the 1934 Minneapolis General Strike - Left Voice
On January 23, working people in Minnesota will shut it all down to demand ICE out of our communities and justice for Renee Nicole Good. Unions must mobilize, as they did in 1934, to harness the power...
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Super delighted and honored to have a new piece out in Modern American History, which I’ve coauthored with my friend and colleague Brent Campney. Best part—it’s open access! 🗃️
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Oops, looks like this came out in 2020. Time flies when you’re getting old
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Prepping for my online Texas history class and wanted to share “Old Texas,” a silent film from 1916 that features famed rancher Charles Goodnight and his relationship with the Kiowa and the founding of the JA Ranch in Palo Duro Canyon, in the Texas Panhandle. Amazing. 🗃️ texasarchive.org/2010_01598
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Old Texas (1916)
Film that presents a narrative of cattleman Colonel Charles Goodnight's relationship with the Kiowa tribe
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Best piece I’ve ever read in the parallels between the Gilded Age and our time. 🗃️ There Is a Way Out of This Mess www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
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Opinion | There Is a Way Out of This Mess
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
One of the best debuts albums in rock and roll history. #nowspinning #vinylcommunity
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I’m always struck by how much I love this record as soon as “Jailbreak” kicks in. Melodic, hard rocking and uptempo…easily one of the best albums of the seventies
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Guano Apes! Loved them. Saw ‘em live in Dallas back in the day.
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Morning jams with this absolute classic. Merry Christmas! #nowspinning #VinylCommunity
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This is my first time listening to them! Great band.
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
#nowspinning All them Witches, “Lightning at the Door.” My dad got this for me for Christmas. Really creative/avant-garde blues rock. Good stuff. #vinylcommunity
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Super proud of the piece I have in this excellent journal! 🗃️
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Are there any other metal vinyl collectors out there on Bluesky?Anyway, here’s today’s haul… #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #metal
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
“The Living New Deal” is an incredible classroom resource! livingnewdeal.org
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Living New Deal
Discover the New Deal legacy of public works, artworks, social programs, conservation, race relations, and more. Explore the New Deal through maps, writings, lectures, videos, films, and social media.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
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Dr. Natalie Mendoza @drmendozan.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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​Assistant or Associate Professor of History
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
😂
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
18 for me. No AOL address or waterbed. Lots of people over 45 might have avoided An AOL address.
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Very pleased that we got to publish this Comment in the TRHS! And many thanks @chriscampbell1.bsky.social for pitching it. Further reflections on this and other subjects are certainly welcome. 😊 🗃️
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This looks great!
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Seconded. Great book, but useful in that its overall argument about the decline of labor in the 70s can definitely be argued against.
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Zelizer and Kruse’s Fault Lines is a survey-style political history from Watergate to the present. Probably useful here!
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Sure! Really a great book.
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Jefferson “Cowie’s Stayin’ Alive” is essential for the 70s
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Reupping in light of the news that SCOTUS will review birthright citizenship conferred by 14th Amendment 🗃️
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Here is a great list of some of the best books about Black history published in 2025. 🗃️ www.aaihs.org/the-best-bla...
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The Best Black History Books of 2025 - AAIHS
We are pleased to release this year’s AAIHS list of the best books published in 2025! Check out this extraordinary list of great books from 2025 that offer varied historical perspectives on the Black ...
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Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The Clements Center for Southwest Studies invites fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year. For more info and to apply: www.smu.edu/dedman/resea... If you're interested of have questions, feel free to contact me directly.
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Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
And at a fraction of the cost! As an economist, I bet he’d love that…
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