You will still certainly not regret assigning my book

Terrence Peterson@tgpeterson.bsky.social · 2y ago

I will even zoom into your course

The Rhine is so low at the moment – the land you see here would never be visible in any normal year (this photo is from Saturday), and the implications for river freight are easy to draw

acemaxx analytics@acemaxx.bsky.social · 3d ago

Low water levels on the #Rhine could pressure #German #industry later this year. While the river carries only a limited share of #Germany ’s total freight, it’s far more critical for the raw materials that feed the country’s industrial engine, chart #JPMorganAM

A couple of months ago someone asked me “What do you think of the DJT administration’s policy on Africa?” To which I replied “what policy?” I stand by that answer. USG Africa map mislaabels every single country on a slide deck at a conference. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...

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Fuming that the Kremlin doesn't consider me influential enough to hack my account

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 7d ago

"The compromised Bluesky accounts included those of people who are influential in their fields, though perhaps not famous. They were journalists and professors, a pollster in Texas, an anime artist and a filmmaker in Hollywood..."

The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/o...

Opinion | If You’re Over 40, You’re Ready to Use A.I. (Gift Article)

A.I. should work like this mystical Jewish practice.

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Ready to suffer emotionally with the Historians at the Movies crew tonight! We're watching Hamnet. 1) Slightly stretching the question here, but Dorothea Brooke and Will Ladislaw 2) A Midsummer Night's Dream 3) Mostly those little mandarin oranges that come in a mesh bag #HATM

Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️@phdrachel.bsky.social · last wk.

Tonight’s #HATM questions: 1 Fav couple forbidden to date (by their parents)? 2 What’s your favorite play by Shakespeare? 3 What’s on the menu at your place tonight? #HATM

You have my permission to get my book, From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany 1945-1955 (LSU Press, 2026) from the library 😉

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2w ago

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Anticommunist movements see communism as more than a political movement - in many cases they see it as literally demonic, at once the expression of and equivalent to all forms of societal decadence and immorality. Hence, for example, the Lavender Scare equating gayness with Communism and treason.

Nathan Ellstrand@nellstra.bsky.social · 2w ago

As a political historian of the 20th Century, I can tell you that "anti-communism" is a deep-rooted catch-all not only for anti-left-wing politics, but more often than not, anti-liberalism altogether. Anti-communism as a movement doesn't simply attack people, it subverts democratic institutions.

Haven't yet read this book (big disclaimer) but I've read reviews from various ideological perspectives (including a screed from History Reclaimed). It prompted thoughts about "procolonial" and "anticolonial" scholarship, and the meaning of refuting someone like Nigel Biggar

Hurst Publishers@hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 2w ago

PB edition of the critically acclaimed ‘The Truth About Empire’ edited by @alanlester.bsky.social w/foreword by @sathnam.bsky.social out now! ‘Book of the Year’ @historyextra.bsky.social Extracted in @theguardian.com Sample 👉 tinyurl.com/38u2ndw3 & use code TRUTH20 for a 20% off in buy link.

Going down a rabbit hole about the notion of North Africa as "white Africa" (Afrique blanche) as opposed to sub-Saharan "black Africa" (Afrique noire). Seems tied to the idea of Eurafrica in the mid-20th c., though ambiguously. "White Africa" is a great article title free to a good home, for sure.

The reason why it is essential to read IN BULK when studying history is not simply to amass empirical knowledge—though that is important, too, of course—but because *interpretation* requires thick contextual awareness, and there is NO SHORTCUT for building that up that awareness.

Gallup-Lumina poll on college confirms that Americans are upset about the personal politics of professors--that is, 11% are concerned. Three-quarters are upset about lack of affordability. Colleges should ignore the Twitter / Atlantic debates and lower costs while heading to debt-free for all

🎯 “An elite consensus that AI-assisted learning might be fine for hoi polloi but not for future leaders at the most selective institutions cannot be far-off now“ The coming class divide on AI: tech-free learning at elite institutions, AI-centered learning everywhere else.

Dennis Hogan@dennismhogan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Many faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...

We (faculty at USC) took on an institutional behemoth with all the money and clout on earth, and we WON. We won our union. We're the biggest private-university faculty union in US history. Trying to make people care about this, challenge level IMPOSSIBLE

Newsreel of Maréchal Lyautey and his troops during the "pacification" of Morocco, 1922

French Moroccan Campaign 1922 (1922)

YouTube video by British Pathé

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“The Bible in one hand, a bottle of Coca-Cola in the other, the Americans believe they are making the world’s happiness, and it happens that they plunge countries where they intervene into anarchy and disorder.” French General and ex-colonial official Pierre Boyer de Latour du Moulin, 1956

Weird to be told by politicians that gender studies has no place in higher education when our politics are ALL GENDER ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm going to become the Joker

It is to ideas which are not, properly speaking, ideas at all, to ideas which, founded upon nothing, can find no support, no kindred spirit among the ideas of the adversary, that he, grappling with something which is not there, can find no word to say in answer. [...]

The three cardinal elements of Prussian ideology are authoritarianism, militarism, & statism. None of that is contrary to Soviet ideology [...] Detestable German unity, cause of all Europe's misfortunes, will seek its safeguard in communism and socialism." - French diplomat Wladimir d'Ormesson, 1945

Just now realizing France-Spain is on the Quatorze #AuxArmesCitoyens 🇫🇷🇫🇷⚽️⚽️🇫🇷🇫🇷

Take up the ancestral halberd! Defend that goal like a mountain pass! #ARGSUI #hoppschwiiz

Hitler [...] is the evildoing genius of [his] people. He represents what is confused in it, uncivilized, if we understand by the word “civilization” the art of policing brutal instincts. He came from the depths of an insufficiently Christianized race. -French diplomat Wladimir d'Ormesson, 1945

Hey, French historians!! Need more books? Check out our series, Studies in Modern French and Francophone History, at the MUP summer sale! 🇫🇷🇫🇷 🗃️🗃️ #skystorians #skystoriens manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/studi...

Studies in Modern French and Francophone History - Manchester University Press

This series is published in collaboration with the Society for the Study of French History (UK) and the French Colonial Historical Society. It aims to showcase innovative monographs and edited collect...

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Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sale ends TOMORROW, pick up a bargain today on our website. #booksky

Pope Alexander VI would've loved this image

::reads the Declaration of Independence:: Wow this shit goes hard. I want to live in that country.

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

William Lloyd Garrison on the Declaration (shortly before burning the Constitution)

This is extremely cool - telling the story of the Statue of Liberty in a way that shows its entanglement with the wider world, including French ambitions in far-away Egypt. Check it out!

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · last mo.

“The formula for democracy is a thing of multiple parts. At its core is nothing solid, just a framework, on which pieces brought across oceans can be conjoined. From many, one.” Fascinating interactive exploration of the powerful metaphor of the creation of the Statue of Liberty (I learned a lot):