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Will Hitchcock

@willhitch.bsky.social

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Historian | NYT best-selling author | UVa Prof. | Forthcoming: “A SHADOW OVER THE WORLD: FDR, the Rise of Fascism, and the Making of America’s WW2.” | American Academy in Berlin 2025

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I need a couple books on the origins of the New Deal. Is there much on tha…

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Still waiting

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Graduation speeches in the 1930s were 🔥

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I am fortunate to be part of this great group of colleagues and phd students in our (entirely voluntary and casual) seminar on 20th C international history. Great discussion on Berlin as a site of decolonization!

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Lovely convo with my grad students this week, riffing with them about how to plot a book on decolonization and the Cold War. Dreadful chalk scribbles but fun intellectual exercise.

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Sometimes old books can suddenly seem new again.

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Fortune mag, March 1940. 65% say government should care for needy even if it means more taxes or higher prices.

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Happy birthday FDR! Your New Deal state survived almost a century but some very bad people you would call “economic royalists” are going to destroy it from within.

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

History doesn’t repeat itself but sometimes it rhymes with Mussolini. Read up on Italy from 1922 to 1926 for a preview of coming attractions.

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Just saying, Denzel’s expression in his final scene in Galdiator 2 is me watching this movie

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

On Sept 1, 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland, Hitler gave a shrieking, grievance-filled speech to the Reichstag. The great columnist Dorothy Thompson heard it, and on NBC radio she reflected back to January 1933. Anyone from Charlottesville will know exactly what she is talking about here.

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Things are going to suck for a long time so taking pleasure in the occasional sunset seems like a good idea. Central Va.

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Anyway Morroco is amazing.

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

And to all a good night…

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Will Hitchcock @willhitch.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

A term of leave, in Oxford, feels like an extraordinary gift.

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