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Times review dismisses my book as crass & labels me an American “sucker”—but it’s by the same conservative reviewer who hates books focused on the legacies of empire & slavery, & who wildly misrepresented the excellent collection edited by @alanlester.bsky.social Haters gonna hate! So it begins!

Bravo, Wall Street Journal Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents "See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation Saturday" Gift link: www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices

🎉 Are you in AHA 2026 American Historical Association @historians.org or hanging around Chicago, IL? 🏙️ My colleagues and I will give a presentation tomorrow in a panel titled "Asian American Racial Formations and the Production of Scientific Knowledge in the Pacific and the American West, 1900–77"!

Starting in 30 min (5:30 PM): AHA President Ben Vinson III, will deliver his presidential address "Reflections on Our Times" at #AHA26.

'In their ambitious histories of slave resistance, Gibson and Hazareesingh are working in the tradition of Aponte, offering a new intellectual and political perspective on the emergence of freedom in the modern world.' Delighted by this generous review from @soccerpolitics.bsky.social ❤️

spoken with an agonizing clarity that breaks asunder the very foundation upon which I at least erected and maintained a certain minimal confidence in the future

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Chilling.

For anyone looking to read up on the long history of U.S. unilateralism in Latin America -- and how it is inseparable from the history of the United States itself -- one of the books I use in the classroom is Brian Loveman's NO HIGHER LAW. It's dense & encyclopedic, but exhaustive & judicious.

Venezuela more evidence of continuity as much as change www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

9/ Domitille de Gavriloff présente sa thèse qui porte sur la façon dont l’église traitait les personnes réduite en esclavage dans les colonies françaises des Antilles, montrant que ce traitement était teinté de racialisation dès le 17e siècle. bsky.app/profile/fond...

16/ L’historienne Olivette Otele souligne les liens très forts qui existent entre la recherche sur les esclavages au RU, la société civile et la question des réparations, mais aussi les difficultés d’avancer sur ces sujets, qui suscitent des résistances ds les institutions.

The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year. This is not normal and we don't have to live this way. bradyunited.org @bradyunited.org

Thrilled that HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is one of @brdemuth.bsky.social's best books of 2025 in @historytoday.com! 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #politics 1/

An interview about my new book with the great historian Gerald Horne for the "Freedom Now" program. malickghachem.mit.edu/2025/11/23/t...

Please join us for the next session of the Joint Center for History & Economics seminar (in person and on Zoom) on Fri 21 Nov at 12pm EST. @malickghachem.bsky.social (MIT) will discuss 'Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue & the Debt of France. Click for further information and Zoom link.

The Joint Center is pleased to announce its Online Seminar Series. On 21 Nov at 12 EST @malickghachem.bsky.social will be speaking at the Harvard Center on "Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue and the Debt of France." Click for abstract, room details & Zoom link.

Exactly

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Graphic by Ben Nathan of UPenn History

Solidarity and collective action is always the answer.

A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession. They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.

🚨🚨30 years after coming out in English, Michel-Rolph Trouillot's SILENCING THE PAST est paru *enfin* en français!!! Veuillez partager ces bonnes nouvelles avec vos meilleurs amis et collègues francophones! 🗃️🇭🇹 www.amitiefm.ht/post/michel-...

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale docs.google.com/document/d/1...

@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.

if you haven't seen @artgoldhammer.bsky.social's new Substack, definitely worth a read! arthurgoldhammer356783.substack.com

Coming up next month at Harvard Law School - “The Jewish Problem, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Liberalism” Details in the link, and zoom option to follow pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-je...

Now available!

as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

Seems a good day to remind that etymology of privilege is “private law”—the monarch makes one law for some people, another for others. Nothing is “universal” or “common” (and “public” = monarch’s self display to court). The democratic revolutions of 18C challenged all that. The work continues

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

Phew!

If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next? This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.

Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence 16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world" 17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent" 18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial" 19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"

Even if you think Paul Weiss and Columbia made the only choice available to them in the circumstances (and that's not what I think, to be clear), you have to recognize that there's no future for our democracy if every powerful institution approaches official extortion in this way.

Catholic Charities of San Diego is now also closing its shelter services. Jewish Family Services of SD already had to do layoffs because of *no* migrants; CCSD has gone from about 3000 asylee clients a week-->"a handful" per week! www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/c...

THIS

It’s not officially fascist until one could be shot for saying that it is.

We're ringing in the new year with JCB Reads, a hybrid event opportunity for former fellows to share their recent books with the JCB community. Join us for the series or one event- in person or via Zoom! This semester's authors are Tara Bynum, Surekha Davies, Chloe Ireton, and Joyce Chaplin.

be sure to join us if you’re within driving distance of boston

what's truly fascinating about the Christian right in America right now is that they have managed the unlikely feat of marrying a Scripture-based Christian worldview with Nietzschean contempt for Christianity

Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws (1748) identifies fear as the "spirit" of despotism/tyranny--it's the emotional driver that makes it work. Without fear, no tyranny. Spirit of monarchy is "honor" (rivalry for glory and approval), of a republic "virtue" (love of laws and fellow citizens).