Excited to share the cover of "Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany," a forthcoming book I co-edited with Lauren Stokes. A history of racism and antiracist activism in East, West, and unified Germany—and why it matters today. 30% off from Cornell UP with code 09BCARD: tinyurl.com/RADGcornell

Political Crisis in Central Europe in the Interwar Period and Today: Temporality, Semantics, and Logic of Crises in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania, edited by Martin Schulze Wessel has now been published! Find out more here: bit.ly/4fJpz4b #History

The #ERCCoG project PARISH is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to study #earlymodern parish politics in the Diocese of Vienna!

ERC PARISH@erc-parish.bsky.social · 3d ago

We're recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for our ERC #ERCCoG project PARISH to study #earlymodern parish communities, confraternities and poor relief in the Archdiocese of Vienna & the Viennese Officialate of Passau. Please share with your colleagues! www.abtk.hu/images/allas...

It's here! After so many years! I wasn't entirely sure this book would really happen, until I opened the box. Now, perhaps, it's time to let go of it and see what others think..? Thanks to @harvardpress.bsky.social and everyone else who followed me in this journey.

1-year visiting professorship at UAlberta/ @wirthinstitute.bsky.social for Croatian professors in the Humanities + Social Sciences. Join us for a year, with reduced teaching load so you can explore research connections with UAlberta faculty and staff! Deadline Oct 15. www.ualberta.ca/en/wirth-ins...

JOB! (and not a bad one, either) "The Department of History at Stanford University invites applications for a senior faculty appointment (with tenure) at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor in the history of political thought and institutions, broadly construed."

It's online! Maureen Healy, Howard Louthan, Katya Motyl, Robert Nemes, Jonathan Singerton, and Daniel Unowsky each share their impressions from last year's CEHC in Vienna on @ahy-history.bsky.social. Read it here! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's online! Don't miss Peter Haslinger's 2025 CEHC keynote "Austro-Hungarian Relations 1867-1914: The Perfect Example of a Community of Conflict?" from @ahy-history.bsky.social. www-cambridge-org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/core/journal...

It's online and open access! Don't miss Tara Zahra's 2025 CEHC keynote "What Good Is Habsburg History When the World Is On Fire?" from @ahy-history.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Apply for the Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe, organized by @acls1919.bsky.social and hosted in Blagoevgrad by the Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia. I was lucky to attend the inaugural institute in 2023, a productive and intellectually nourishing experience.

Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe

ACLS partners with the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia to convene the Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe.

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#CfA for our 2027 Augustin Hirschvogel #Fellowship. We invite #historians, #geographers, #cartographers, #arthistorians and scholars in related fields w/ focus on Eastern or #SoutheastEurope to apply. Research stay of up to 4 weeks. 🗓️ Deadline: September 30, 2026 ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...

Sixteen Writing Tips from Marcus Rediker Writing tips from the acclaimed writer and historian. pghrev.com/sixteen-writ... #skystorians 🗃️

📢 My new article, "Stranded Savings: Financial Vulnerability and State Legitimacy in the Polish-Czechoslovak Borderlands, 1918–38," is now out in Central European History via First View! And it's open access! Many thanks to everyone who made this piece better. You know who you are!

Stranded Savings: Financial Vulnerability and State Legitimacy in the Polish-Czechoslovak Borderlands, 1918–38 | Central European History | Cambridge Core

Stranded Savings: Financial Vulnerability and State Legitimacy in the Polish-Czechoslovak Borderlands, 1918–38

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📣 New article online! 'From Empire to Elsewhere: Eastern Galicia in the Viennese Press, 1918–20', by Hannah Riedler Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Me zanima, kdaj bo urednikom pri Delu potegnilo, da obstaja povezava med naivnim nasedanjem finančnim prevarantom in njihovo promocijo astrologije, šamanizma in ostalih prevar nekoliko drugačne vrste. Ali pa vsaj to, da se resnemu časopisu takšno parazitiranje na človeški naivnosti ne spodobi...

This is one of the top three deals with Iran Trump has achieved in the past three weeks.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last wk.

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.

You don’t say …

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3w ago

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

Great book, from my blurb: “At a time when historical research and teaching are under attack, Emile Chabal’s careful reconstruction of the life of one of the century’s greatest historians is both a scholarly and an ethical act.“

Harvard University Press@harvardpress.bsky.social · 2w ago

The first truly global biography of a revolutionary thinker. How well do you know Eric Hobsbawm? Discover our conversation with biographer and historian Emile Chabal: bit.ly/3RZrUjK Coming August 18.

You have until Friday to sign our letter in support of the nationalism studies masters at Edinburgh - head to asen.ac.uk/edinburghmsc to read the letter and to sign

842 years ago, on the 26th of July 1184, over sixty local nobles died after falling into a latrine cesspit. They were attending a Hofftag called by King Henry VI (pictured). The rot of wooden support beams and the weight of the nobles caused the floor above the cesspit to collapse. #otd #history 🗃️

Prebivalstvo Slovenije raste, kje je torej demografski izziv?

Janša: Ključni izziv je demografija. Domovina niso le lepote narave, pač pa ljudje.

S tradicionalnim srečanjem občinskih odborov, članov in podpornikov največje vladne stranke na bovškem letališču se je začel poletni tabor SDS-a in Gorniškega kluba dr. Henrika Tume. Vrhunec tabora bo...

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“…[H]istorical error is a crucial factor in the creation of a nation, which is why progress in historical studies often constitutes a danger to the [principle of] nationality.” —Ernest Renan www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Trump orders warning signs near Smithsonian, escalating fight over history

The president’s executive order calls for signage near the National Museum of American History cautioning visitors about “inaccurate information.”

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"At his impassive best, Pogačar resembles the shark in Jaws; there is an inevitability and brutality to his presence. As he climbed, he picked off the remnants of the breakaway; a devouring void." #LeTour

Tour de France stage 19: Tadej Pogacar shatters Alpe d’Huez climbing record to record historic victory

Analysis of stage 19 of the 2026 Tour de France, a 128km route from Gap to Alpe d'Huez

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This is an assault on humanity. "AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot Strip-mining the world of old books by Amy Castor and David Gerard" pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/23/a...

AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot

Every AI vendor trains their chatbots on the Common Crawl, a copy of the whole public internet. But that’s just the starting point. AI vendors are desperate for more data — in the hope of making th…

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TFW you realise that a Russian journal apparently translated and published an article by Václav Šmidrkal and me that was originally published in the @ahy-history.bsky.social, without ever contacting either of us.

Professorship! The European University Institute (my PhD alma mater) in Florence, Italy, is seeking a new Chair in Intellectual History, 1500–Present. Deadline: 10 September www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history

As we describe in our book, Musk’s model of state symbiosis assumes that, in the end, you need to be backed up by Uncle Sam.

A curiosity in military engineering: Poland 1915.

Vsem, ki znate nemško, res priporočam branje tega odličnega poročila o krščanskih fundamentalistih, njihovih povezavah s skrajno desnico in vlogi ameriškega denarja, ki vse to podpira. Tudi Slovenija ni izvzeta iz teh procesov.

Florian Aigner@florianaigner.at · 3w ago

Meine Recherche über rechtsradikale christliche Netzwerke in Europa - jetzt auch auf meiner Homepage, dort zusätzlich mit einem interaktiven Netzwerkgraphen mit Quellen und Zusatzinfo zum Durchclicken.