The UNHCR archives in Geneva are at risk; reading room already closed - and there's a much broader 'humanitarian archive emergency' ongoing with aid budget cuts. www.aretenews.com/unhcr-refuge...

As aid funds shrink, archivists warn of risks to the humanitarian record

UNHCR's archives are a test case for humanitarians struggling to preserve institutional memory in an era of retrenchment.

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CFP: “The Violent 1950s: Towards a New History of the Global ‘Postwar’ Decade,” conference at GHI Washington in February 2027. Deadline for paper proposals: June 12th. For more details please visit: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Event – GHI Washington

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#CfP Moving People by Force - Comparing the Claims and Constraints of Deportation and Transportation in the Early Modern World 📌 #Conference in #Paris | May 12-14, 2027 | organised by @dhi-paris.fr | planned as an on-site event 📅 Deadline: July 12, 2026 🔗 shorturl.at/ckoUB

Die @dfg.de fördert den #SFB/TRR Historical and Transcultural Narratology der #UniversitätFreiburg. Forscher*innen untersuchen darin Erzählungen und Erzählpraktiken in verschiedenen historischen und kulturellen Kontexten.

Great PhD opportunity (fr/engl, ) on Cookbooks during the 1910s and 1920s with Emmanuelle Cronier at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne - Share and Apply! adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

Keep an eye out for the forthcoming volume Teaching US Military History, eds. @bethbailey.bsky.social & Andrew Preston via @universitypress.cambridge.org. Since US history is a history of ongoing war, the book is helpful for all teachers of American history. My blurb:

Of course I forgot this: 🗃

Mary Dudziak@marydudziak.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Blueskys: the American Society for Legal History has a Digital Legal History Prize! Deadline June 1. I am a little embarrassed to have such a prize named for me since my current work isn't digital. 🙄 But years ago, when blogs were new, I created the Legal History Blog. aslh.net/award/mary-l...

Advertising 2 more positions (doc/postdoc) as part of BLOCKADE. PhD cand to examine the heroization of blockade runners in the era of the world wars; postdoc to explore the transatlantic dimension of blockades. 4 year positions in beautiful Freiburg. Please SHARE! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

Did you present at #OAH2026 and receive good feedback on your research? Consider submitting an article to Modern American History! Email MAH@Cambridge.org with any questions.

You can now read my latest article, 'From Liberation to Occupation: Rethinking Allied Rule in Italy', co-written with Camilo Erlichman, which introduces our forthcoming special issue of Modern Italy on The Allied Occupation of Italy in History and Culture: A Reassessment:

New CFP: “The Violent 1950s: Towards a New History of the Global ‘Postwar’ Decade,”conference in Washington in Feb. 2027, deadline for proposals Friday, June 12 www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Event – GHI Washington

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Do I want to know what 1946 Polish ersatz coffee made from barley (okay) and chicory (🤢) tastes like … probably not

„Jetzt blockiert er die Blockade.“

April 2, 1917, was one of the most important days in US and world history - Wilson asked Congress to declare war and the US joined #WWI 🗃️ www.cfr.org/articles/woo...

Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress to Declare War on Germany | Council on Foreign Relations

Presidential campaign promises can be easier to make than to keep.

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For nearly three months, the U.S. has largely blocked oil shipments from reaching Cuba, leaving an already struggling economy in a state of crisis. We spoke with Cubans how the fuel shortages and blockade have upended their lives. nyti.ms/4bVnLDo

Was able to grab a copy of @mkn.bsky.social’s new book today and dove right in. You should too. #booksky

📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

How Fast Was the Mail?

Explore mail transit times via railway between major U.S. cities, 1882–1908.

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Im talking here this evening if you’re at a loose end. It’s Free! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Money in Modern War and the Blockade of Germany, 1914–18

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Delighted to announce that I recently signed the contract with Cambridge University Press for my next book: Building Peace Through Education: Internationalism and the Origins of UNESCO, 1899-1945 should be published in mid-2028!

*breathing into a paper bag*

Hot off the press! I wrote an article that got published in the Journal of American History. It explores how abolitionists used runaway slave advertisements to ridicule slaveowners and slaveowners' northern allies. 🗃 academic.oup.com/jah/article/...

Slip the Yoke and Change the Joke: How Abolitionists Used Runaway Slave Advertisements to Ridicule Slavery

Speaking to an abolitionist audience in New York City in May 1856, William Wells Brown read an advertisement sliced from the New Orleans Daily Picayune:

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Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

I sometimes wonder if we just named "soft power" something like "tall turgid thrusting power" would these guys have been more in favour of it and thereby less self undermining.

Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 5mo ago

oh just a thought if your plan for overthrowing the Iranian government depends on the Iranian public rising up, you likely shouldn't have defunded the American government run news agency that speaks in Farsi.

Rolf Löchel über Ruth Maiers Tagebücher. Die Autorin ist eine wichtige Zeugin der Shoah in Norwegen, mit einer dort teils problematischen Editionsgeschichte. literaturkritik.de/public/rezen...

Das deutsche Menschheitsverbrechen an den Juden und Jüdinnen - Die unter dem Titel „Es wartet doch so viel auf mich…“ erschienenen Tagebücher der in Auschwitz ermordeten Jüdin Ruth Maier sollten Pflic...

Das deutsche Menschheitsverbrechen an den Juden und JüdinnenDie unter dem Titel „Es wartet doch so viel auf mich…“ erschienenen Tagebücher der in Auschwitz ermordeten Jüdin Ruth Maier sollten Pflichtl...

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We had a wonderful workshop on humanitarian biographies in Trondheim. 3 ERC projects (Madeleine Dungy's Internal Fortress; Silvia Salvatici's HumanEuroMed and my BLOCKADE) pooled their interests and resources to ponder how (group) biographies can help us understand the history of humanitarianism

We are advertising two more positions (economic history focus) in the Trondheim-based team of BLOCKADE - one doctoral and one postdoctoral position; great jobs in a fantastic city - please share!

So excited to see this out (soon) - @drmargottudor.bsky.social and @briandrohan.bsky.social did such an amazing job!!!

Margot Tudor@drmargottudor.bsky.social · 5mo ago

After years of calls, events, and track changes, Brian Drohan and I are excited to announce the publication of our edited volume, Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations and Armed Forces, with @cornellupress.bsky.social in July 2026! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

📢We are delighted to announce that Hardeep Dhillon (@migrantherstory.bsky.social) has been Highly Commended in The Historical Journal ECR Prize for her article 'Imperial Violence, Law, and Compensation in the Age of Empire, 1919–1922' 👉Read the article open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So...it finally arrived 🥳 A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry Edited with @capandgown.bsky.social and published with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social With contributions from @tomasirish.bsky.social, @stuartjones.bsky.social, @echomikeromeo.bsky.social and others #histed

Excited to see that my new article "The Democratization Paradox: Ordinary Germans, Allied Occupation, and the Built Democracy of Postwar Germany" has been published! DM me if you'd like a pdf. doi.org/10.1177/0022...