While I didn’t interact much with Gordon Wood during my time at Brown, he was a towering presence in the History Department & an inspiration to several of my friends. RIP

Here's @qjurecic.bsky.social on protecting the free speech rights of non-citizens. knightcolumbia.org/blog/free-ex...

Here's @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social arguing--in a piece about the "infrastructure of free expression"--that addressing the current democratic crisis will require "reckoning with laws and practices that have been accepted by both parties for the last 20-plus years" knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-inf...

We @knightcolumbia.org have started to post short essays from some of the scholars and advocates participating in our "Reconstructing Free Expression" project. I'm going to post the essays in this thread, as we publish them. They're really good! knightcolumbia.org/research/rec...

I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is. People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

Again, leaders of other countries don’t talk this way. The glee with which our current leaders talk about killing people is not normal, and nor is their lack of concern for who exactly we’re killing. American bombs incinerated 100 kids in Minab. Were those the “right people”?

The Coalition for Independent Technology Research has filed a lawsuit with the @knightcolumbia.org and @protectdemocracy.org challenging a US State Department policy to revoke or deny visas of non-citizen researchers because of their work studying the societal impacts of technology. (1/4)

I would add: even if you don’t call yourself a legal historian but study history involving law-ish stuff, you’ll find a welcoming, friendly and brilliant group of scholars at ASLH!

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends. It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

Between Two Rivers Will make you want to learn Cuneiform, to be a Brewer-Queen! Fabulous read in paperback now.

Wow www.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/profess...

The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us. Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Deux postes de doctorant·e·s à pourvoir au Centre Walras Pareto pour la rentrée 2026 un·e Assistant diplômé·e en Histoire de la pensée et philosophie économiques un·e Assistant diplômé·e en Histoire des idées politiques Délai de postulation : 2 mai 2026!

Last chance to register: major conference celebrating 250 years of 'The Wealth of Nations': the most famous text in the history of political economy and economics. Leading historians and economists will assess its legacy & ask what it means for the next century. Free, open to public, link below ⬇️⬇️

Full book jacket just dropped, and we're pretty happy with it. Huge thanks to @cecilefromont.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, Alice, and Andrés for your generous words! #earlymodern #BeyondTheOcean global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Le père de Marc Bloch donnant un cours d’histoire romaine à la Sorbonne vers 1910. On remarque les trois jeunes femmes dans l’assistance fort studieuse pré-ordis portables. (On adore l’idée qu’un éditeur de cartes postales se dise que c’est un bon sujet, à quand un revival)

American friends! Come listen to our Director, Nicholas Cronk, discussing Voltaire and Slavery on March 26th @amphilsociety.bsky.social: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ce...

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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.

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.