#CfP Moving People by Force - Comparing the Claims and Constraints of Deportation and Transportation in the Early Modern World 📌 #Conference in #Paris | May 12-14, 2027 | organised by @dhi-paris.fr | planned as an on-site event 📅 Deadline: July 12, 2026 🔗 shorturl.at/ckoUB

Die @dfg.de fördert den #SFB/TRR Historical and Transcultural Narratology der #UniversitätFreiburg. Forscher*innen untersuchen darin Erzählungen und Erzählpraktiken in verschiedenen historischen und kulturellen Kontexten.

Great PhD opportunity (fr/engl, ) on Cookbooks during the 1910s and 1920s with Emmanuelle Cronier at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne - Share and Apply! adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

Keep an eye out for the forthcoming volume Teaching US Military History, eds. @bethbailey.bsky.social & Andrew Preston via @universitypress.cambridge.org. Since US history is a history of ongoing war, the book is helpful for all teachers of American history. My blurb:

Of course I forgot this: 🗃

Advertising 2 more positions (doc/postdoc) as part of BLOCKADE. PhD cand to examine the heroization of blockade runners in the era of the world wars; postdoc to explore the transatlantic dimension of blockades. 4 year positions in beautiful Freiburg. Please SHARE! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

Did you present at #OAH2026 and receive good feedback on your research? Consider submitting an article to Modern American History! Email [email protected] with any questions.

You can now read my latest article, 'From Liberation to Occupation: Rethinking Allied Rule in Italy', co-written with Camilo Erlichman, which introduces our forthcoming special issue of Modern Italy on The Allied Occupation of Italy in History and Culture: A Reassessment:

New CFP: “The Violent 1950s: Towards a New History of the Global ‘Postwar’ Decade,”conference in Washington in Feb. 2027, deadline for proposals Friday, June 12 www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Do I want to know what 1946 Polish ersatz coffee made from barley (okay) and chicory (🤢) tastes like … probably not

„Jetzt blockiert er die Blockade.“

April 2, 1917, was one of the most important days in US and world history - Wilson asked Congress to declare war and the US joined #WWI 🗃️ www.cfr.org/articles/woo...

For nearly three months, the U.S. has largely blocked oil shipments from reaching Cuba, leaving an already struggling economy in a state of crisis. We spoke with Cubans how the fuel shortages and blockade have upended their lives. nyti.ms/4bVnLDo

Was able to grab a copy of @mkn.bsky.social’s new book today and dove right in. You should too. #booksky

📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

Im talking here this evening if you’re at a loose end. It’s Free! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Delighted to announce that I recently signed the contract with Cambridge University Press for my next book: Building Peace Through Education: Internationalism and the Origins of UNESCO, 1899-1945 should be published in mid-2028!

*breathing into a paper bag*

Hot off the press! I wrote an article that got published in the Journal of American History. It explores how abolitionists used runaway slave advertisements to ridicule slaveowners and slaveowners' northern allies. 🗃 academic.oup.com/jah/article/...

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

I sometimes wonder if we just named "soft power" something like "tall turgid thrusting power" would these guys have been more in favour of it and thereby less self undermining.

Rolf Löchel über Ruth Maiers Tagebücher. Die Autorin ist eine wichtige Zeugin der Shoah in Norwegen, mit einer dort teils problematischen Editionsgeschichte. literaturkritik.de/public/rezen...

We had a wonderful workshop on humanitarian biographies in Trondheim. 3 ERC projects (Madeleine Dungy's Internal Fortress; Silvia Salvatici's HumanEuroMed and my BLOCKADE) pooled their interests and resources to ponder how (group) biographies can help us understand the history of humanitarianism

We are advertising two more positions (economic history focus) in the Trondheim-based team of BLOCKADE - one doctoral and one postdoctoral position; great jobs in a fantastic city - please share!

So excited to see this out (soon) - @drmargottudor.bsky.social and @briandrohan.bsky.social did such an amazing job!!!

📢We are delighted to announce that Hardeep Dhillon (@migrantherstory.bsky.social) has been Highly Commended in The Historical Journal ECR Prize for her article 'Imperial Violence, Law, and Compensation in the Age of Empire, 1919–1922' 👉Read the article open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So...it finally arrived 🥳 A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry Edited with @capandgown.bsky.social and published with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social With contributions from @tomasirish.bsky.social, @stuartjones.bsky.social, @echomikeromeo.bsky.social and others #histed

Excited to see that my new article "The Democratization Paradox: Ordinary Germans, Allied Occupation, and the Built Democracy of Postwar Germany" has been published! DM me if you'd like a pdf. doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Today, in honour of WEB DuBois's birthday in 1868, the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social features the hand-drawn infographics DuBois made with his students to depict the conditions of African-American life in 1900. Arts-based pedagogy all those years ago! buff.ly/3kdWqRD

ATTN: advanced grad students, early career, and intl scholars

Steve Broadberry and I had a great time introducing our new book Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688 to friends and colleagues in London last night /1

Today is the official publication day of www.chbeck.de/goeschel-hed... @danielhedinger.bsky.social @uomhistdept.bsky.social

#blockade www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/w...

My co-editor Jennifer Keene and I are very excited for our volume to come out this summer! Click through the link to see the amazing roster of contributors.

Pontus Järvstad (University of Iceland) explores in this new essay the postwar evolution of antifascism in the Nordic countries: #Spain #Portugal #Greece helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/02/17/p...

#food, #blockade and #publicopinion - all my favourite things!

Copies arrived: special issue on "Violence and Social Inequalities" in "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" I've edited with Raphael Rössel @ghiwashington.bsky.social - with articles by Sophia Dafinger, Darius Muschiol and @christopherewing.bsky.social metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...

Our volume "Cultural History for a Changing World" has been published! Together with colleagues from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and from around the world, we tried to map the current state of the field and to speculate about where it might be headed: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...

New article, by Frances M Clarke, Joy Damousi, Philip Dwyer, Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social, Reto Hofmann and Hans-Lukas Kieser: 'Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

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Open for Applications till March 31, 2026: Moore Research Fellowship 2026-2027 The #Fellowship promotes research using the resources of the Friends Historical Library and/or the Swarthmore College #peace Collection @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social More here: www.swarthmore.edu/libraries/re...

How have economic warfare and sanctions been applied in modern history? 📅 On Thurs 19th Feb leading economic historians Stephen Broadberry and @mark4harrison.bsky.social will be launching their new book covering three centuries of global history at the British Academy. 👉 Register your place:

It is out, everyone! 🎉 My book "The Making of Modern Eating" is out with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social and the @ghiwashington.bsky.social! The digital versions are free—so download, share and enjoy! 📚 @thegsa.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social

Proofs! I’ve been working on this material for years. I’m thrilled that it’s seeing the light of day in Journal of Contemporary History. It asks what ordinary Germans made of the democratization imposed on them by the Allies, analyzing the paradox that democratization is fundamentally undemocratic.

Zwischen den Kriegstrümmern begann vor 80 Jahren die unerwartete Erfolgsgeschichte, die Deutschland lange geprägt hat. Entscheidend war damals das Wohlwollen der Amerikaner, die sich davon großen Nutzen versprachen.

"Perhaps most dispiriting for many Europeans was realising the French had been right all along." www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

8 Days left to apply for this Post-Doc Position here in Freiburg:

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We are advertising another two postdoctoral positions as part of our ERC Synergy Project BLOCKADE! The positions will be at Hamburg University, working with (the truly amazing) Alan Kramer - pls share! @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @conteurohistory.bsky.social