I'm volunteering with Jalabil Textiles, a Tseltal Maya women's collective of weaving artists based in Chiapas. They have some stunning pieces to ship in the US next week! Scarves&blouses&wraps. We made a catalog. DM me if there is something you're interested in! photos.app.goo.gl/bejKaGSGFXMj...

📣¡Ya está abierto el Call for Papers para LASA2027 México! Te invitamos a enviar tu propuesta para el congreso “Navegar el colapso: reinventar la política, cuidar lo común”. ✔️Fecha límite de envío: 9 de septiembre Toda la información: https://loom.ly/VoTUeOQ #LASA #LASA2027

If you open a book to a random page, say page 99, is this a good indication of what the book's content & quality are like throughout? Blogger Marshal Zeringue asked me to apply this test to my book, and my reply is featured today on the blog! page99test.blogspot.com/2026/07/rach...

Excited to listen!

***Register for the Next IEHS Online Book Event*** Join us at 3:00 PM EST on Thursday, August 13 for our next online book event with Eladio Bobadilla and Nicole Greer Golda. Juan Ignacio Mora will moderate the discussion. Please register here: iehs.org/event/online...

My Gen Alpha kids (8 and 5) are OBSESSED with Mr. Brightside, so maybe it's speaking to a new generation now!

This article reminds us that we must be thinking about intl students as more than avatars of cultural diplomacy or members of a classroom. What they do on campus, and what drives their educational trajectories, is shaped by personal career aspirations.

OK wow I really want to read this.

I'm doing an AMA today, if anyone's into that sort of thing www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

If you're a historian working on global, international, or transregional topics in the (long) twentieth century, the series editors for INTERCONNECTIONS: THE GLOBAL 20TH CENTURY would be delighted to chat with you about your book project. uncpress.org/series/inter...

Yes!!! I'm having way too much fun answering questions...so throw a few more in the mix, or upvote the ones you want to see answered!

This morning I am on @askhistorians.bsky.social on Reddit! I'm here to do an AMA or Ask Me Anything relating to my new book or other topics! Thanks @dhowlett1692.bsky.social for getting me set up here! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Congrats Pollyanna! Looking forward to reading this

Thank you for the feature, @colgate.edu!

🤩Thank you David! So exciting to see it out in the world--and being read!

Can't wait for this!

Thanks for featuring this, Nathan!

If you will be at @lasabluesky.bsky.social please attend our panel! Mexican Migrant Economies Beyond Labor: The Social and Cultural Histories of Remitting, Displacement, and Entrepreneurship in the Long Twentieth Century 27 May at noon! @lasa-migraciones.bsky.social

I just finished reading @lollardfish.bsky.social's The Public Scholar. Folks, if you're an academic who is curious about writing for non-acs, but you don't know where to start, or how to do things like pitch, read this! It was really clear and practical. Thanks, David, for holding the door open.

📘Book launch! The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite is out TODAY with @ucpress.bsky.social! Get all the info: www.ucpress.edu/books/the-fu... It is open access: read for free! www.luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...

Congratulations! So well deserved...and um wow this is the coolest and best-looking award EVER!

This list surprised me--you definitely don't need to be hot off the press to be an indie best seller.

Thanks so much to @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social of Manuscript Works for featuring my book out w/ @ucpress.bsky.social in today's newsletter! I'm a newsletter fan & it's a thrill to be in it! Grateful for the advice that helped me navigate production, & excited to keep consulting Manuscript Works!

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social and I about our book 'In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism' 🗃️🏺

Thank you for featuring! This book with @ucpress.bsky.social officially launches in less than one week on 19 May! When it does, you can read for free thanks to Luminos Open Access!

Felicidades Renata! Great news for the whole family, & your timing for CDMX--well played!

Señorita Telefonista: Sexual Harassment, Gender Discrimination, and Class Identities in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico City mexicanists.org/2026/05/11/s...

Thank you Renata 😊

AHHH still in disbelief... I'm on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social as GUEST talking about my BOOK from @ucpress.bsky.social! Take a listen to my conversation with the venerable Dr. Miranda Melcher for a sneak preview before official publication day next week! newbooksnetwork.com/the-future-i...

This is so cool!!!

Really excited to read Carolina's article!

Not seeing it in the English language press yet, so here's some news from Mexico: -National education authorities just shortened the school year, announced yesterday -It was going to end July 15, now it's June 5 -The reason given is the World Cup and extreme heat. elpais.com/mexico/2026-...

Oh I just did this for 1997 this morning with Bittersweet Symphony

María Aguayo ...will return to Mexico to work, write, paint... interests are mainly poetry and music... went to school in Canada, travelled extensively through Mexico... enjoys seeing new places, conversations with the intelligentsia... her final goal is a home, filled with lots of children...

Working on the history of higher ed over the past decade has been interesting...studying all that was problematic about the 20th century when there was funding for research, student exchange, & mainstream enthusiasm about universities. Now we're mourning the loss of all that stuff we critiqued.

El Seminario Izquierdas latinoamericanas en debate invita a la discusión del libro "The Cuban Revolution and the New Left. Transnational Histories of Gender, Sexuality, and Family" 📅14 de mayo a las 16:00 (CDMX) 🎥https://www.youtube.com/live/0xkwBfLzCtw?si=L3C8eDk083WiuLeM

Mañana a las 11am voy a hablar sobre José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, la literatura y el lenguaje de la política en la era de la Independencia, en el Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas UNAM. Es presencial y también lo van a pasar en youtube.

I'm pretty sure the best Mother's Day gift for mom-writers is a solo writing retreat, but I would gladly accept the Wishbone sweatshirt and wear it with millennial pride

This is a REALLY great book, folks! Give it a read! Or a podcast listen! newbooksnetwork.com/leave-if-you... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

@jackiantonovich.bsky.social looping back to your Q from yesterday...here is a GREAT cover! I love everything about this. Congrats on your book-versary, Pollyanna!

Oh tough one! I think it depends so much on the book... Even when my book was a dissertation, I was thinking about the cover. I wanted a specific shade of pink (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican...). That didn't happen, but I did get the image I wanted! & I like the cream/aqua the designer chose.

Looking forward to reading this! Might be of interest @migrationcollab.bsky.social @lasa-migraciones.bsky.social

The great times never stop #Skystorians! Tomorrow, Tuesday April 21st, we've got an #AMA with Dr. Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani, author of Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran! Get your questions ready!

We welcome new authors! Send us your pitch about historically significant anniversaries or forgotten events that deserve more attention. 🗃️#academicsky clioandthecontemporary.com/call-for-con...

🤩Ignacio, what an honor! Thank you!

YES! I would go so far as to say that the very idea of "catching up" is absurd & one of modernity's damaging abstractions that make everyday life miserable. I also reject the phrase "I'm not at 100%"--how could we possibly quantify the state of our bodies like that? I'm not a phone battery...

Menos élites, más elotes... My book isn't about elotes, but it is about elites, where they come from, how & why the study abroad, & how they shape ed policy in Mexico. It's 1 month till my book comes out w @ucpress.bsky.social😀So I bought this postcard at my local librería rebelde to celebrate...

Demand for the chance to study abroad, with state support, persists around the world. States find scholarships hard to take away even as states are shrinking and dismantling other kinds of social benefits.

ICYMI: @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social publishes a great piece by Irvin Ibargüen that shows off his sharp analysis & equally sharp prose--two things I loved about his recent book! www.zocalopublicsquare.org/could-mexico...

Oooo!!!