#SHAFR welcomes requests to sponsor sessions! Email Executive Director @rimmerma.bsky.social for more info.

American Historical Association@historians.org · 7mo ago

The call for proposals for #AHA27 is open until February 15, 2026. Our 2027 annual meeting will take place on January 7–10, 2027, in New Orleans. The Program Committee welcomes and encourages all historians to submit proposals. 🗃️

Read Executive Director @rimmerma.bsky.social tribute to the late Bill Burr. mailchi.mp/shafr.org/20...

SHAFR Executive Director @rimmerma.bsky.social quoted in this piece about the recent disappearance of FRUS records.

FOIANate@foianate.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Free link: wapo.st/4hUdZUA

Please share: excellent history Postdoc opportunity at Wesleyan's Center for the Study of Guns & Society. Post involves archival research on 18th and 19th century firearms use & laws; work on databases, reports, and papers; & thinking and writing around wonderful people doing important work.

The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations endorses the proposed Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act of 2025. You can read more on the bill here: www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Warren, Moskowitz, Blumenthal, Raskin, Stansbury Introduce New Bill to Rein in Potential Corruption Through Presidential Library Donations | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts

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The #SHAFR2025 program is live on the website! tinyurl.com/yc2mchp7

Article in the @washingtonpost.com on the Historical Advisory Committee dismissals, incl. interviews w @melanimca.bsky.social @rimmerma.bsky.social and Sarah Snyder www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...

These historians oversee unbiased accounts of U.S. foreign policy. Trump fired them all.

An advisory committee of historians helps ensure the record of America’s history remains unbiased, transparent and thorough. Trump just fired the entire panel.

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Have you registered for #SHAFR2025? We've got some great speakers lined up--Maggie Blackhawk @emleake.bsky.social @melanimca.bsky.social; welcome reception at The Spy Museum; plenary on recent conflicts; multi-pathways career mentorship; grad mixer at Reagan Institute; and so much more!

Our April issue is here! Find it at www.shafr.org/passport-apr...

SHAFR sent a letter to Amb Brewer, the Acting Director of the Foreign Service Institute, on the dismissal of the HAC. FSI houses the State Department's Office of the Historian. tinyurl.com/43nfe5tp

Taking the plane isn’t just accepting a bribe, it’s creating a national security risk. Hostile intelligence agencies must be enjoying yet another opportunity Trump is giving them.

The @nsarchive.bsky.social today published the key documents from John Dinges' new book, Chile in Their Hearts, which challenges the premise of the 1982 Oscar-winning movie, Missing.

National Security Archive@nsarchive.bsky.social · last yr.

CHILE IN THEIR HEARTS: New Book Revisits Murder of Two U.S. Citizens After Chilean Military Coup (click below to read) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Amid its slash-&-burn campaign against our diplomatic tools & agencies, the WH fired nonpartisan members of the State Department's Historical Advisory Committee without cause. Congress established HAC & its composition is determined by statute. Those improperly terminated should be reinstated.

Lauren Harper@laurenleharper.bsky.social · last yr.

🆘 The White House terminated the entire staff of the State Dept.'s Historical Advisory Committee this evening. This threatens the integrity of the declassification of foreign policy records, the objectivity of our historical accounts, and undermines current and future policy makers.

Calling all @shafrhistorians.bsky.social I’m in need of replacement chair/comment for a few #SHAFR2025 sessions. I also have 3 spots open on lightning ⚡️ rounds. If you know someone eager to share their research, msg me!

SHAFR's response to the dismissal of representative Sarah Snyder from the State Department’s Historical Advisory Committee (HAC) tinyurl.com/y8s8yc5j

Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...

Free Mahmoud Khalil and protect students exercising their First Amendment rights!

Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the rig...

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President Mumblefuck and his rotten applesauce of a brain is going to blurt us into the dumbest war ever

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Trump on Greenland: "Denmark is very far away. A boat landed there 200 years ago or something and they say they have rights to it. I don't know if that's true. I don't think it is, actually ... we really need it for national security ... maybe you'll see more and more soldiers go there."

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was forced to close due to the “sudden dismissal of federal employees,” the library’s foundation said in a statement to CNN.

JFK Library forced to close due to ‘sudden dismissal of federal employees,’ foundation says | CNN Politics

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was forced to close Tuesday due to the “sudden dismissal of federal employees,” the library’s foundation said in a statement to CNN.

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Thank you to Furniss Book Award winner @carlygoodman.bsky.social @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social for her insightful and engaging conversation yesterday around her book "Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction." @uncpress.bsky.social

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum will reopen on Wednesday February 19.

NOOOOOOOOO Historians: the archives are under threat House on fire. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Acting archivist, inspector general for National Archives forced out

The agency, regarded as nonpolitical, has been the target of President Donald Trump’s ire since its attempts recover documents from Mar-a-Lago.

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