El 6 de agosto. Virtual.

Por Dra. Lorena Perez Hernandez:

***Online Books Series, Summer 2026*** Join Eladio Bobadilla and Nicole Greer Golda for a discussion of their recent publications! The panel will be moderated by Juan Ignacio Mora. August 13, 3-4:15 PM ET Register here: iehs.org/event/online...

***Letter-Writing Campaign Against National Archives and Records Administration Closures in San Francisco (San Bruno) and Chicago*** Save Our National Archives has launched an immediate letter writing campaign and is asking writers to CC their Congressional representatives. Thread - 1/3

Mañana/jueves en Abasolo, GTO.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan.

Highly recommended! Jewish radicalism shaped by life on the borderlands of empire in Europe and North America

Nathan Ellstrand@nellstra.bsky.social · yesterday

Forthcoming book from @nyupress.bsky.social: Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race, Labor, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles by @lucecaroline.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147983835...

Forthcoming book from @nyupress.bsky.social: Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race, Labor, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles by @lucecaroline.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147983835...

IEHS member and committee member, Dr. Julia Rose Kraut, is offering her expertise this coming academic term:

Julia Rose Kraut@juliarosekraut.bsky.social · yesterday

‼️ Colleagues: If you're teaching this semester, please let me know if I can assist you. Happy to recommend reading, talk w/ students about immigration, free speech, Cold War/McCarthyism, ideological exclusion/deportation, "Threat of Dissent." 🗃️ @iehs.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

In Journal of American Ethnic History 45.4, @colincrawford.bsky.social reviews "Catholics across Borders: Canadian Immigrants in the North Country, Plattsburgh, New York, 1850–1950" by Mark Paul Richard (@sunypress.bsky.social). cc: @iehs.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/art...

‼️ Colleagues: If you're teaching this semester, please let me know if I can assist you. Happy to recommend reading, talk w/ students about immigration, free speech, Cold War/McCarthyism, ideological exclusion/deportation, "Threat of Dissent." 🗃️ @iehs.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Threat of Dissent — Harvard University Press

“Suspicion of foreigners goes back to the earliest days of the republic…Kraut traces how different ideologies would be considered intolerably dangerous according to the dominant fears of a given era. ...

hup.harvard.edu

***Call for Papers*** Stanford University’s Department of African and African American Studies will be hosting a conference entitled ‘The Archival Gap in the Global Imagination’ on February 18, 2027. Send your 300-word proposal and brief bio to daaasevents@stanford.edu by September 1, 2026.

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

GOP Rep. Tom Barrett voted for the third time to limit President Trump’s Iran war powers in late July. But just four days later, Barrett stood at Trump’s side during a rally, basking in the president’s endorsement and sending back kind words of his own. https://cnn.it/4wCBAQj

El 13 de agosto:

Chutoro Don (medium fatty bluefin tuna with green onions and ikura).

Mini uni don (sea urchin over rice) with my favorite ikura (cured salmon eggs).

One of my favorite desserts...turon (caramel-coated banana-filled lumpia).

***Historians: Call for Proposals***

BREAKING: President Trump claims Mideast allies have reached parameters of a deal to end the Iran war and says U.S. will hold off on new strikes.

Trump says Mideast allies have reached outlines of deal to end Iran war, says US to stop new strikes

President Donald Trump is claiming that Mideast allies have reached the parameters of a deal to end the Iran war and said that he would hold off on ordering new strikes in the five-month old conflict for now.

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A un siglo de la Cristiada, “persiste la idea de instalar un proyecto de origen colonial”: historiador www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2026...

A un siglo de la Cristiada, “persiste la idea de instalar un proyecto de origen colonial”: historiador

Católicos conservadores y el Estado laico aún son “enemigos históricos”, afirma el historiador Felipe Ávila. Coordina una serie de charlas virtuales en el Inehrm.

jornada.com.mx

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping

Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday are expected to charge an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.

latimes.com

Read her excellent book: uncpress.org/978146966932... and remember that you have a role in shaping the present.

The Young Lords

Against the backdrop of America’s escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla...

uncpress.org

I am stunned to hear of the passing of the fierce, brilliant and principled scholar activist Johanna Fernandez. Johanna's scholarship will endure. She was a gem and the world is worse for her no longer being here. Rest in power, comrade.

BOOK GIVEAWAY! The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite This book is available for free download as an Ebook, but I've got a couple extra hard copies that I can mail within the US. DM me if you want one! Book published by @ucpress.bsky.social, written by me!

***Historians - Faculty Job Opportunity*** History of Global Catholicism (open rank), University of Notre Dame apply.interfolio.com/190407?fbcli...

What an absolute loss. Her work was incredible.

Bobby Rivera@bobbyrivera21.bsky.social · 5d ago

Johanna Fernandez, RIP! 😭💔

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***Online Books Series, Summer 2026*** Join Eladio Bobadilla and Nicole Greer Golda for a discussion of their recent publications! The panel will be moderated by Juan Ignacio Mora. August 13, 3-4:15 PM ET Register here: iehs.org/event/online...

As someone who spends a lot of time in San Francisco... You can call San Francisco, "SF," "The City," or "Frisco," but never "San Fran." It's like calling California, "Cali." Locals don't use those terms.