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Tim Bowman

@tbowmanhist.bsky.social

Historian of Texas, the Southwest, and modern America. Books: Blood Oranges (2016), and You Will Never be One of Us (2022). Currently working on a history of the Texas farmworkers movement. Opinions my own.

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Tim Bowman@tbowmanhist.bsky.social · last mo.

Excellent reporting on Larry Itliong’s son, Johnny Itliong, and his quest to pull his father’s legacy out from Cesar Chavez’s shadow. Much of this mirrors my interest in Antonio Orendain, the United Farm Workers and Texas Farm Workers Union in South Texas. (1/2) 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/u...

After the Cesar Chavez Scandal, Can Johnny Itliong Restore His Father’s Activist Legacy?

Johnny Itliong says Cesar Chavez stole credit from his father, the farmworker activist Larry Itliong. For years, he has been trying to correct the record.

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pgato.bsky.social@pgato.bsky.social · 8mo ago

History rhyming: Today's Minneapolis general strike is not a first for Minneapolis, as I'm sure I'm not the first to notice: www.leftvoice.org/revolutionar...

Revolutionary Teamsters: Remembering the 1934 Minneapolis General Strike - Left Voice

On January 23, working people in Minnesota will shut it all down to demand ICE out of our communities and justice for Renee Nicole Good. Unions must mobilize, as they did in 1934, to harness the power...

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Tim Bowman@tbowmanhist.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Super delighted and honored to have a new piece out in Modern American History, which I’ve coauthored with my friend and colleague Brent Campney. Best part—it’s open access! 🗃️

Modern American History@modamhist.bsky.social · 8mo ago

On First View, A research article from Brent Campney and @tbowmanhist.bsky.social that charts growers' vigilante violence in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas to suppress farmworker activism in the 70s & their shift in 1980 to nonviolent methods associated with neocon backlash. Linked below!

Farmworkers gather for a small rally during a 1966 march from San Juan, Texas, to the state capitol in Austin to protest their appalling working conditions. Courtesy Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Arlington, Texas.
Jan Machielsen@janmachielsen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Very pleased that we got to publish this Comment in the TRHS! And many thanks @chriscampbell1.bsky.social for pitching it. Further reflections on this and other subjects are certainly welcome. 😊 🗃️

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 9mo ago

What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft? 'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social. New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2

Front page of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' Comment article, title 'The Historian in the Age of AI', by Chris Campbell. Full abstract: "This comment interrogates the methods and conclusions of Working with AI, a recent report conducted under the auspices of Microsoft, which identified historians as the profession with the second-highest ‘AI applicability’. It finds that the authors’ conclusions are based on an erroneous simplification and misrepresentation of a historian’s typical professional tasks, which have been publicly amplified by extensive media coverage. This comment then offers a wider provocation about the report’s conception of a professional historian, and whether it is related to the public application of ‘historian’ to a number of different practitioners with varied training and qualifications. In particular, it seeks to highlight a paradox which the report exposes: that we cannot defend the specialist training and expertise of professional historians against the encroachment of AI without also separating the academic skills and qualifications of historians from those engaged in more popular forms of historical writing and communication. The comment questions how we might grapple with this paradox without reverting to academic elitism."