A question for my US historian friends: What relatively short books are you assigning in your modern US classes now? They can be primary sources like Baldwin's The Fire Next Time or fiction like O'Brien's The Things They Carried. Im just curious as I am looking to revise my course. Please share!

"The only people who determine whether students use AI are the students." Smartest sentence I've ever read on AI in education.

The best way we know to spend 1776? On history books 📚 https://uncpress.org/250-2/

In excellent company with Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social at @uncpress.bsky.social 🥳

I'd probably head out west to try and figure out what happened to Colorado and New Mexico, and whatever is going on with the Dakotas, or why Iowa and Arkansas switched places, or where the second Rhode Island came from or

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This is a thread that ed policy people should read, and sit with.

Julia, Chris, and I will be at SHAFR next week! Reach out if you’d like to connect! @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

Does anyone on here have access to the International Journal of Military History and Historiography? I think there's a review of my book in the latest "advance articles" section!

Are we great again yet?

Agree re libraries, and will add that this is a devastating report in general. $10,000 a year average?? Also, I would argue anecdotally that classroom sales, traditionally a strong market for academic books, are way down in part b/c students are broke and downloading pirated books for free.

Sobering. At Nevada's two R1 doctoral universities, @unevadareno.bsky.social and @unlv.edu, nominal average salaries for all faculty ranks actual declined by 0.7% from 2024-25 to 2025-26. After inflation, salaries are down by over 4%. Falling behind again.

Huge thank you to Just Money for spotlighting my forthcoming piece. There's still time to alert me to any goofs in the article!

you're right, I really do

Many thanks to @lseblogs.bsky.social and @tanyaharmer.bsky.social for hosting me last night, and to all the lovely people who braved the rain and tube strike to come hear me hold forth about The Fate of the Americas!

This already happened for the NEH. I understand the outrage and shock about the impact on research, but it's crtiical to understand, as ever, that science was never going to get a pass. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

Thanks, David! I really appreciate your thorough and generous engagement with my book!! @uncpress.bsky.social #History

This breaks my heart. What a sudden loss for his friends, his colleagues, his students, and especially his family. Raul was a passionate, brilliant, dedicated, generous scholar and friend. Que fuerte.

www.lse.ac.uk/internationa... Looking forward to sharing The Fate of the Americas at LSE this Tuesday!

Hey #LASA2026! Come join us tomorrow for this 🔥panel about inequality and social history in 1980s Latin America!

Oh hells yeah

Pretty good piece on LLMs and the university, and quite scary, to be frank.

Peter Kornbluh: "It is a historical irony that the CIA director would be sent on a diplomatic mission to issue a do-or-die ultimatum to the Cuban government. In many ways, the CIA may end up accomplishing diplomatically what it has sought to do covertly." www.ksjd.org/2026-05-15/c...

This one means a lot. @rmclas-conference.bsky.social was the first academic conference I ever attended and I have always considered it an intellectual home. Feeling very grateful and honored. @uncpress.bsky.social

Horrific

Wow, looks like change is coming very soon... I hope whatever happens will benefit the Cuban people, but I'm not optimistic www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/w...

Exceptional historical insights on some of the most critical issues in the world today now at a new site. Made By History is live on the Philadelphia Inquirer - check it out out! And pitch! 🗃️ www.inquirer.com/business/wea...

Loved @resobscura.bsky.social's latest newsletter on what gets remembered in history and how. Would make a great short reading for undergraduate courses on historical methods! resobscura.substack.com/p/survivorsh... 🗃️

Exciting news! I'll be spending the 2026-2027 academic year in Finland and Mexico! My husband was named the Fulbright Finland Chair in North American Studies and will be teaching US history at the University of Helsinki, so we're moving the family to Helsinki for the year. Aaaannndd...

I'm reading this book right now too--it's super helpful!

The #LASA2026 program is out... and enormous. Can we start a thread here of our panels? There's no way I'm going to read 500 pages to find everyone I want to see. I'll start the thread with my panels. On Tuesday 5/26, I'll be chairing and commenting on a panel on Inequality and... (1/5)

Me walking out of my campus office when Canvas went down

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

I wonder if famine will exacerbate existing political and social conflicts

What a cool opportunity!! #History 🗃️

Of interest to many SHAFRites. Check out this panel on Interdisciplinary publishing, happening TODAY! #SHAFR

Some thoughts on this piece, which is - as @rumaan.bsky.social called it — claptrap. [a mini-🧵] — These days, the NYT publishes way more "best books" (chosen from the handful they actual review) and "let us help you find" listicles than actual book reviews. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...

Delighted to be part of this list! My paper "The World Bank and the Origins of Chinese State Capitalism," is forthcoming in the Berkeley Journal of International Law. Getting to the draft requires a lot of clicking around, so I thought I'd pull out my most widely relevant arguments here. 1/9

Appreciate this piece from the POV of book reviewers. As an author trying to get their book reviewed, it's tough times out there these days. Every review I get is so appreciated because it's real, human engagement with my ideas.

Some great tips here! I really need to step up my technology and organizational techniques 😅

Fascinating stuff from leading gun buff @katebirkbeck.bsky.social

Also... huge thanks to @sonyabonczek.bsky.social for making this happen ❤️

So excited to see this review of The Fate of the Americas in Foreign Affairs that praises my "engaging prose" and "extensive research in Latin American archives"!! www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/fate... @foreignaffairs.com @uncpress.bsky.social @shafrhistorians.bsky.social #History 🗃️

Amen to the retreat!

Hi friends: I'm assembling my file for promotion and want to include a list of classes where students read my work. Please let me know if you have assigned my books or articles! Thank you!! #History 🗃️ (Also, if you're assigning my work, THANK YOU and I'd love to Zoom with your class!)

So proud to share our two latest #InterConnections @uncpress.bsky.social books!! These are both important, exciting new looks at international and global history. Grounds for Exclusion, by Benjamin Bryce, sheds light on the timely topic of immigration policy... (1/x) #History🗃️

I'm (sadly) not at #OAH2026... but my book is! Big thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social for featuring The Fate of the Americas... and the latest book in our InterConnections series, A Proxy Africa: Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s! .... (1/2) #History🗃️

So much great writing advice in this thread! #History 🗃️