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

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Heartbroken.

It is limiting and maybe TMI for social media in this era of surveillance but here is a selection of ten bands I have seen live (from waaaay back): RATM Cypress Hill RHCP Korn Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Café Tacuba Bad Brains Suicidal Tendencies Agnostic Front Madball

On fascist legalities. In a few days I will participate of this event at @nyulaw ... www.iilj.org/events/globa...

Having solved its most pressing issues, Mexico prepares 6,800-kilo guacamole. wp.me/p30bS-5Wf

I'm not very active on social media anymore so any help spreading the word would be appreciated!

My book, Dangerous Migration: Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights, will be out in less than a month! You can pre-order now and save 30% with promo code S26UIP here: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

On @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, you're in for an enjoyable listen #skystorians! Tune into my chat with @sholleykline.bsky.social on his new book 📕 In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico @univnebpress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/in-the-shado...

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

Considering they decided not to give me the MacArthur Genius Prize, I no longer feel an obligation to be a pure genius

Desde el Seminario Nacional de Historia del Tiempo Presente nos sumamos a las exigencias por la aparición con vida de Leonardo Escobar, profesor colombiano de la IBERO-Puebla.

El profesor Leonardo Escobar, colombiano, desaparecido presuntamente por autoridades mexicanas en Nuevo León: fabricadeperiodismo.com/noticias/pro...

Historian Joseph Fronczak has described the political culture of fascism as “participatory anti-democracy.”

*French Historical Studies* open access special collection on the French Right from Dreyfus to the present read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago? Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city. You can access and read it for free, below. www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...

La canallesca campaña de acoso laboral y violencia de género encabezada por el director general del Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) de la CDMX, José Antonio Romero Tellaeche, contra las profesoras Celine González Schont y Catherine Andrews. youtu.be/AMOnZZpJcwM?...

Stitch her name: the women honoring Mexico femicide victims in embroidery www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

Job Opportunity! Occidental College - Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professorship in U.S. History/the Americas networks.h-net.org/jobs/68944/o...

Este fragmento con el que se inicia una de los más importantes estudios históricos sobre el fascismo debería recordarse sin cesar. "El fascismo, antes de convertirse en fuerza política, fue un fenómeno cultural...". Sigue

🚨TENURE TRACK POLI SCI JOBS🚨 Yes, "jobs" plural. TCU is hiring two assistant professors, to begin in Fall of 2026. 1) American Politics, with a preference for Gender and Politics. jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assista... 2) Public Law and/or Judicial Politics. jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assista...

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

Attention scholars of Latin American and Caribbean history

Check out the handout from the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on the history of deportation. Panelists @hidehirota.bsky.social, Ana Raquel Minian Andjel, and @yaelschacher.bsky.social shared policies concerning immigration and deportation throughout US history. 🗃️

The Universidad Iberoamericana examines militarization in Mexico in the last two decades. The poor results of a militarized approach underscore a rethink of the concept of public security and take lessons from successful alternatives of civilian leadership. seguridadviacivil.ibero.mx/wp-content/u...

Mexico's Chamber of Deputies honored the passing of Ozzy Osbourne with a one minute applause. 🤘 www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/congr...

Very happy to announce that my latest article on «Transnational women’s networks and solidarity between Tricontinental, OSPAAAL, and Socialist Bloc (1966–90)» has just been published! Available in The Global Sixties Journal (Routledge)( @GlobalSixties ). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

La importante conexión histórica entre fascismo y violencia según Paxton. (Sigue)

The Riverview RV Park in Riudoso, New Mexico was ground zero of the destruction caused by Tuesday’s flash flood. All three victims were staying here. The site’s owner recounted to me the horror of the flooding, which almost carried his own children away. My story for the El Paso Times.

Adiós querida maestra, gracias por tanto 🖤

Habemus convocatoria a III congreso de historia global del maoísmo. Atenti que viene con aniversarios. Guarden la fecha! Agradecemos difusión

Environmental defenders in Mexico face increasingly lethal attacks as organized crime deepens its role in land conflicts, with the backing of public and private actors. Criminal groups in Mexico have become central players in disputes over land and natural resources. insightcrime.org/news/environ...

In the 1970s there was a Christian Nationalist org in Oregon called the Posse Comitatus whose members impersonated police officers. They menaced judges and other public officials who they thought had committed "treason" against the Constitution. A close associate became chair of the OR GOP in 1978.

The Base, the neo-Nazi White Supremacist terrorist network, is reportedly 'continuing to build in the US and planning a new paramilitary training event without fear of local authorities or the FBI.'

Standing up for immigrants means not freaking out when an immigrant celebrates their country of origin

Se podría decir que mientras que la fantasía redentora de la izquierda se suele identificar con la revolución, la de la derecha, como no se cansan de recordar y amenazar, es a menudo la del golpe de Estado. Y cada una su filosofía implícita de la historia y de la política. Sigue

99% of media coverage is focused on elite schools, entirely missing the story of public universities and community colleges where almost all American undergraduates go.

In the newest HAHR from @dukepress.bsky.social, Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta examines the relationship between the traditional press and the military dictatorships of Brazil and Argentina. doi.org/10.1215/0018...

For #LASA2025, we are fortunate to share original content from our authors. "The depth of impunity in Mexico allowed for unimaginable forms of terror that implicated vast swaths of the population." THE LAST DOOR author Gladys McCormick on the use of torture in 1970s Mexico:

Check out this new interview with Dr. Julia Young, "The Cristero War and the Mexican Martyrs," on the Catholicism and Culture podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

We're being forced into a cultural revolution, the kind of action the Right has always pretended to fear from liberalism and actually projected their own desires onto the culture. It's happening and it's coupling state violence, economic terrorism, and seizure of education. And it's happening fast.