Vamos puertoriqueños y puertoriqueñas! 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷 Firma esta carta en apoyo a un compatriota

Bárbara Zepeda@mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 4w ago

Needs signatures to support academic freedom ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿: Open Letter Concerning the Tenure Denial of Dr. Iván Chaar López at UT Austin - Action Network actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Needs signatures to support academic freedom ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿: Open Letter Concerning the Tenure Denial of Dr. Iván Chaar López at UT Austin - Action Network actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Open Letter Concerning the Tenure Denial of Dr. Iván Chaar López

The denial of tenure to Dr. Chaar López has become a national concern because it raises questions that extend far beyond one faculty member or one institution. Scholars across disciplines depend upon ...

actionnetwork.org

Marching in the rain

Rebecca Spang@rlspang.bsky.social · last mo.

Raining gently in Bangor but there are at least 150 people (most of them in their 20s-30s) at the start of this anti-ICE rally

This is a GoFundMe campaign organized by a historian of Venezuela with local NGO contacts in Caracas, therefore, it is a reliable form to support the victims of the double-earthquake: gofund.me/e17ba80b0

Donate to Support Venezuelan Earthquake Victims Now, organized by Kim Morse

Venezuela needs help now. As you know, on Wednesday evening, June 24, double earth… Kim Morse needs your support for Support Venezuelan Earthquake Victims Now

gofund.me

"This controversial study offers a challenging new perspective on our understanding of both history and contemporary politics." - my library promises to notify me upon its digitized arrival someday soon.

Bárbara Zepeda@mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

And the reading we should all be doing today is… 👇🏽

The Supreme Court rules on Birthright Citizenship this week, which could completely change American immigration.

Tomorrow in San Juan #PuertoRico I will be giving the talk: “La contribución de Puerto Rico a la guerra de independencia de Estados Unidos: una mirada desde los archivos españoles” — Part of the #America250 events. Organized by Spain’s consulate in PR.

Born (or at least baptized) on this day in 1599, in Seville, Diego Velazquez. I borrowed his equipment (and assistants) when I was working in Spain myself! And he learned a lot from me. Great painter.

En diez días participaremos en la Jornada “España y #PuertoRico en la independencia de EUA” en San Juan. Es un evento gratuito. Están invitados. Presentaré una charla sobre PR y sus contribuciones a la guerra de 1779-1783 según los archivos españoles. Organizada por el consulado español.

Algunas escenas del panel sobre poder y discurso médico en el siglo XVIII esta mañana en #LASA2026

Hoy en #LASA2026 a las 10:15 am: “El poder del discurso médico 🏥 en el mundo hispano en el siglo XVIII” — en él participo con mi colega Farren Yero, el organizador Jeonghwan Kim, con Ruth Hill y comenta Juan Carlos González Espitia. #lasaparis #latinamericanstudies #historyofmedicine

🎵 Old manuscripts on velvety pillows, Words in handwriting that reads like it billows, Brown paper bundles tied up with strings, These are a few of my favorite things 🎶 — in a happy zone at the Archives Nationales 🇫🇷

Great to be at #TheHuntington! For the USC EMSI conference Spain and the Birth of the United Stated: A California Conversation #America250 #AmericanRevolution

This weekend at #TheHuntington: Spain and the Birth of the United States: A California Conversation #America250 #AmericanRevolution The program is here: dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a...

This weekend at #TheHuntington: Spain and the Birth of the United States: A California Conversation #America250 #AmericanRevolution The program is here: dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a...

On my way to present a talk on José de Gálvez next week in 👉🏾 dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-and… Join us if you are in Southern California! #America2025 #AmericanRevolution

Incredibly proud of newly minted PhD, Dr. Tim Betz! My advisee’s dissertation, a tour de force in scholarly creativity, explores collecting as an empire-making practice through a history of things in the Spanish Empire from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Congrats!🎉

And the reading we should all be doing today is… 👇🏽

In two or so weeks 👇🏽

Bárbara Zepeda@mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Next April at the #HuntingtonLibrary, I will participate in "Spain and the Birth of the United States: A California Conversation," a contribution to the 250th anniversary of the #AmericanRevolution Find the program here 👉🏾 dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a... #Semiquincentennial #America250

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

Todays is #BadBunnyDay and a good moment to read my book review in the @historians.org’s AHR!!! It contrasts Bad 🐰’s #Dtmf album with a legal history of #PuertoRico book:

Bárbara Zepeda@mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 10mo ago

😃👉🏾My AHR review of Mónica A. Jiménez's "Never-Never Land: Race and Law on the Creation of Puerto Rico" 🇵🇷 is out!!! My essay offers a counterpoint to Bad Bunny's "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS 📸" album. [DM if you need access] academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Hoy 👇🏽 con transmisión por Facebook. Sobre militarismo en la historia de #PuertoRico 🇵🇷muy relevante en nuestros días

😃👉🏾Ya salió mi reseña de "Miradas coloniales" de Miguel Ángel Puig-Samper en el último número de la Revista de Hispanismo Filosófico (núm. 30, 2025) // My latest book review is out: on a book that explores the intersections of colonialism and photography 📸

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

"'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week: More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are 'actively infected.' The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states."

'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week

More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are "actively infected." The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states.

nbcnews.com

The crisis is real, and this is part of our effort at new approaches to supporting scholars and advancing scholarship in the (vast!) early Americas. Sharing again and would appreciate your sharing, too. More info in the thread. 🧵⬇️

Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

www.cchs.csic.es/es/article/n...

It was an amazing panel! With insightful comments from the audience. I learned so much! We crowned the experience with an arepas lunch!!! #aha2026 #VenezuelanHistory @clahistorians.bsky.social

Bárbara Zepeda@mbzepedacortes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Happening in 30 minutes at the #aha2026 in Chicago: our panel on Venezuelan independence hero, Francisco de Miranda 🇻🇪 @clahistorians.bsky.social