I had a great time speaking with Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about “The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction.” @academic.oup.com newbooksnetwork.com/the-iraq-wars

Looking for #skystorians rec’s on the Battle of the Bulge. What book offers the best & most accessible overview? Also looking for candid memoirs/diaries #history #WWII @smh-historians.bsky.social

Honored to be part of this list from #AHAPerspectives. Have a look and here's to a more peaceful new year.

New @ejir.bsky.social special issue on "History and Theory in International Relations" #HistIR 🔽 Congrats to all contributors and the editorial team! 🥳 journals.sagepub.com/toc/EJT/curr...

This is going to be an incredibly insightful conversation, through which we’ll explore and envision together how to do research in and with Diplomatic History. It’s an exciting opportunity and, once more, I couldn't be prouder of the RIAS team! Join us in Middelburg in August 2026. CfP just came out

My new book — Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction — is now available as an e-book (paperback in March 2026)! The book offers a concise history of humanitarianism in an international perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Historians - Apply now for the Peggy Renner Award for Teaching and Curricular Innovation which recognizes an historian who has developed a college or university course that engages students in exploring the links between contemporary issues and the past. 🗃️ wawh.org/renner-teach...

New job: Maritime and Naval Studies Program Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs Yale University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69668

The #AHR December 2025 issue is now online. The issue features articles on postcolonial Korea, transportation history, and revisiting the “Comfort Girls” of Report 49, as well as a diverse collection of History Lab works on Indigenous history, retrodiction, and museum exhibit curation. 🗃️

Woop! I've got a new article out with @modamhist.bsky.social! "Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust" - open access on First View www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My book Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games is still on sale (40% off!) with the code HOLIDAY until January 4 in case you still want to buy more books #skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory www.umasspress.com/978162534595...

👀 WATCH THIS SPACE! 🚨 Have plans right after the ball drops in Times Square? 🪩 Join us here! At 12:01am ET, we’ll start rolling out highlights for #PublicDomainDay2026 — iconic books, films & music newly free for reuse + where you can find them. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

SMH, Adams Center for Military History at VMI, & George C. Marshall Foundation are proud to announce that Pulitzer Prize winning author Rick Atkinson will present the George C. Marshall Lecture at the @historians.org conference on January 9th! To Register, go to www.historians.org/events/annua...

REMINDER: The deadline for #SHAFR2026 travel awards is January 1! The Kinder Institute is offering a special travel award in connection with the nation's semiquincentennial for intl participants. To learn more and apply visit www.shafr.org/shafr2026

It is always a delight to talk with @ronajohnson.bsky.social, and never more than when he’s talking about his research. Check out our discussion about ENTANGLED ALLIANCES

SHAFR's December Dispatch hits inboxes today! mailchi.mp/shafr.org/sh...

Putting together a possible special session at SHAFR 2026 in Columbus, OH @shafrhistorians.bsky.social to honor the work and legacy of Bill Burr of the @nsarchive.bsky.social. If you are interested in participating, please contact me. nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/2025-12...

Now available! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

If you’ll be at the AHA in Chicago and would like to chat about a potential project for InterConnections, my fellow Series Editor Renata Keller (@renatakeller.bsky.social) and I will be there and would be happy to chat!

Looking to finish, propose, or submit an international history (broadly defined) book in 2026? We'd love to see it at InterConnections: The Global 20th Century series at UNC @uncpress.bsky.social @juliairwin.bsky.social @drjsarkar.bsky.social @renatakeller.bsky.social 🗃️ uncpress.org/series/inter...

Today we mourn our beloved colleague Bill Burr, a giant in the field of nuclear history, who passed away last week. Click below to read tributes to Bill that have poured in from around the world. nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/2025-12...

We are launching a new open access journal series, Cambridge Materials, which will accelerate progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals by connecting materials science with policy, innovation, and societal impact. Read more 🌍🔗 https://cup.org/4anRANX #MaterialsScience

*Call for Applications* Would you be interested in editing an academic journal? MAH editors Sarah Snyder and Darren Dochuk will reach the end of their term in summer 2027, and Cambridge is looking for a new editorial team. More details below.

Read Executive Director @rimmerma.bsky.social tribute to the late Bill Burr. mailchi.mp/shafr.org/20...

A wonderful tribute to Bill Burr — an absolute legend in our field — from Richard Immerman and @shafrhistorians.bsky.social.

The historian and @shafrhistorians.bsky.social member Bill Burr died yesterday after a long fight with cancer. For 35 years he was a senior analyst at the @nsarchive.bsky.social, but this hardly begins to describe his importance to US Foreign Relations historians. nsarchive.gwu.edu/about/staff/...

We welcome suggestions for future Long Overdue pieces, both for subjects and authors. (These obituaries stem from our Racist Histories project, to honor historians of color whom the AHA did not recognize at the time of their deaths.)

Applications for the 2026 #SHAFR Summer Institute are due December 15! Read the full CFP here: tinyurl.com/md66j8eh

Come spend an academic year with us at UConn as a visiting Humanities Institute fellow! humanities.uconn.edu/fellowships/...

Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism is on sale at the @umasspress.bsky.social holiday sale! 40% discount when you use the code HOLIDAY for this & other books. www.umasspress.com/978162534568...

So, hey, my new book on Truman and the Bomb comes out NEXT WEEK! In this post on Doomsday Machines, I give a rundown of WHAT IT IS ABOUT, and other useful information, including the talk I am giving about it on December 16. doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-most-a...

🔔 We’re honored to open a new round in the @susih.bsky.social -IU Community Scholars Program, which unlocks onsite + remote library access for 3 years for contingent scholars + historians working beyond the academy. Please apply + share! CFP due 2/1. Onward! 🗃️ s-usih.org/2025/12/cfp-...

Friends, please share? Brown2026 is advertising for its 3rd year of fellowships. Would love to have you consider this opportunity to work with us as we face 2026. Link to position and application info in the thread: And more info about the initiative is here: brown2026democracy.brown.edu 1/

Things you can learn about using this list: orthonymity, florilegia, theriac, sissie houses, El Tajín, GRECE, the taṣvīr-i hümāyūn, Hospitallers, disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and Medieval Europe, and anti-Klan activists in interwar Missouri.

Congratulations to @mwpalen.bsky.social, whose book Pax Economica won the Peace History Society's Elise M. Boulding Prize! This award honors an outstanding English-language nonfiction book that has substantial bearing on the field of peace history. Explore this exceptional work: hubs.ly/Q03VZ0VV0

For anyone interested, Cornell’s Southeast Asia Program posted my recent Gatty Lecture on Indonesia and the politics of the new international economic order. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Applications for the 2026 #SHAFR Summer Institute are due December 15! Read the full CFP here: tinyurl.com/md66j8eh

Check it out, apply, ABD, postdocs, early career foreign relations scholars broadly defined--SHAFR Summer Institute "strategic culture" broadly defined @shafrhistorians.bsky.social June 2026-all expenses paid! Due: December 15, 2025. Not too onerous, worth a shot!🗃️ www.shafr.org/index.php?op...

Last few days to apply to be an @ijhs.bsky.social editor alongside me & a bunch of other great scholars! #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️

This year’s #SHAFR conference is in Columbus and, given the John Glenn connection, I’ll be sorely disappointed if there’s no panel on Space, esp since RL Stine’s work doesn’t translate to foreign relations and we can’t have a Goosebumps panel #SHAFR2026

Due Monday at 11:59pm EST!! #SHAFR2026

Proposals due tomorrow!

I joined the IMF podcast to discuss trade’s complex historical relationship to globalization, economic crisis, imperialism, and war. www.imf.org/en/news/podc... @princetonupress.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social @shgape.bsky.social

💼 Call for Applications: Up to 5 Postdoc Positions for Cluster of Excellence „Transforming Human Rights“ ↗️Apply now: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/11/17/s... @fau.de @dfg.de #exc #fau #humanrights #HumanRightsFAU

Excited to share that we’re hiring! We are now accepting applications for two full-time Research Fellow positions in modern/contemporary history in Washington, to begin in June 2026. More details available here: www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/tw...

How a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capital. Vested Interests by Emilie Connolly is now available (20 Jan UK pub). Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #History #AmericanHistory #USHistory #ReadUP

Thank you to @carloscorrochano.xyz for the great questions in this interview for @eldiario.es about Pax Economica @princetonupress.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social

Reminder: Proposals to host SHAFR 2028 are due December 15!

Attn: grad students The Journal of American-East Asia Relations invites graduate students to submit an essay for the Frank Gibney Award. The winning essay will be published in the journal in 2026. Deadline is January 6. networks.h-net.org/group/announ... #skystorians #diplomatichistory #JAEAR