Here’s the recording of my conversation yesterday with some super smart friends about the US intervention in Venezuela 🗃️ @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

A fantastic discussion, US actions in Venezuela, Latin American, regional and diasporic perspectives, lots of history and context, global implications, please check it out🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social

What does US intervention in Venezuela mean for Latin America and how did we get here? Authors unpack the history, policy, and implications in this must-watch discussion. Watch it here👇 youtu.be/VGlfGplYdm4

I just watched a whole-ass focus feature made entirely from police body-cam footage so no 'scene evidence' is wild. If ICE is out here killing citizens they need to be recorded. Civilian footage can't be used?!

This irrefutable evidence didn't come from professional journalists, but from citizens who showed up & recorded what our government would prefer remain unseen. From Gaza to Minneapolis, this is why video documentation is treated as a threat: it makes their lies and cover-ups far harder to sustain.

HuffPost has obtained a video of a physician trying to give medical care to the woman shot and killed by ICE goons today, and not being allowed to go near her. The ICE agents claim there are medics on site, but witnesses scream that there are no medics present

You can read the full account here. It’s heartbreaking. Abolish ICE. Dismantle DHS. Justice for Renee Good. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

One of my favorite things about my job is that I get to have smart conversations with brilliant people. Can't wait to share this all with you!

Our books earned incredible recognition in 2025—take a look at all the award winners 🏆🙌 uncpressblog.com/2023/10/13/u...

My new essay for Foreign Affairs. “On the brink…”, not of political change, but of citizens' tolerance and patience. That has not happened overnight. This crisis has been acute and sudden (especially since the pandemic), but also a slow moving train. www.foreignaffairs.com/cuba/cuba-br...

It is critical to go in depth and defeat superficiality. History, therefore, is essential. Such a great conversation with superb experts helping to contextualize the current moment in US-Venezuelan relations, across Latin America & the hemisphere, + globally🗃️ #UNCPress @uncpress.bsky.social

When the news moves fast, we turn to eminent scholars for context. @uncpress.bsky.social panel on Cuba, Venezuela, and US foreign policy happening now and will be shared soon. @renatakeller.bsky.social @cmcknichols.bsky.social @mateojarquin.bsky.social

My recent book, The Fate of the Americas, delves into the importance of security, sovereignty, and solidarity for people and governments across the Americas. uncpress.org/978146968943...

Definitely, UNC Press! The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines uncpress.org/978146966032...

We've published deeply on Cuba, Venezuela, and US policy toward Latin America, and as these issues return to the headlines, history matters more than ever. Authors: if you’ve written on this topic, drop your book title + link below and let's build a thread that helps make sense of this moment.

There are a million brilliant things one could read on the subject, of course. But this one functions as the textbook for my "Latin America and the United States" course at Harvard, and it's basically the civics education that few U.S. Americans ever receive. uncpress.org/978080787265...

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.

Maria Pinto @ravensgrace.bsky.social, author of FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS, is featured in this Science Friday article on how a new wave of foraging groups by and for people of color could also help close the “nature gap.” 🍄 https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/mushroom-foraging-nature-gap/

I had a great conversation with @thesullivansummer.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my book, Requiem for Reconstruction, which will be officially released tomorrow (1/6) through @uncpress.bsky.social. You can listen to that interview here newbooksnetwork.com/requiem-for-...

"This book is as inviting, unassuming and unconventional in form as it is illuminating." Alice Gerrard's CUSTOM MADE WOMAN listed as a best music book of 2025 from @rollingstone.com 🙌 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Love to see The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw by Sylvester Allen Jr. and @belleboggs.bsky.social on @thebookmaven.bsky.social’s list of 10 books to read in January for @latimes.com www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

This is such an important point. PhD students are essentially the cheap labor on which the entire edifice of higher research rests. These foreign students don’t tuition, but they forego several years of lucrative work they could get in the private sector. Many Americans don’t want to do that.

Reading a physical book >>> reading a Word doc on a computer @johngmarks.com

Wrote this. On what Hanukkah means to me and the shsmeful exploitation of the massacre at Bondi Beach www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Speaking of the W. Hodding Carter III imprint, we just got page proofs in for our inaugural title, @gauthamrao.bsky.social's WHITE POWER: POLICING AMERICAN SLAVERY. WHO. NEEDS. A. GALLEY?!

TOC for anyone interested:

Totally surreal that after 12 years of working on this thing, it’s out of my hands. Coming to you in the Hodding Carter III imprint at @uncpress.bsky.social next fall! Huge thanks to @simpsonvos.bsky.social & the many, many people who helped along the way.

Congratulations to Antwain K. Hunter, whose book A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865 was published by UNC Press last month! uncpress.org/978146968989...

#OOTD 226 years ago, George Washington died. Here’s a short 🧵 about his death, his will, and the emancipation of the people he enslaved, drawn from my forthcoming book: uncpress.org/978146969352... Washington freed 123 of the people he enslaved, only after his death and the death of his wife. /1

Podcast Alert! I had so much fun chatting with @lizcovart.bsky.social about the history of 1820s interoceanic Canal Dreamers. The @bfworld.bsky.social podcast episode went live today! What a great last day of classes treat. @uncpress.bsky.social 🗃️ benfranklinsworld.com/episode-428-...

I wrote something about my friend, DG Martin.

I always compile my list of books I am looking forward to in the new year around this time. Here are a few that I have on my list. 1. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ap...

5. uncpress.org/978146969484...

😤😤😤 (Just kidding, I love media that responds—even if it’s a pass 🫶)

Check out this interview on Louisville Public Media with Anne Marshall, discussing her new biography of Cassius Clay, one of the most complex and fascinating characters in 19th century American politics.

"These days, @katejewell.bsky.social said, the marketing budgets may have shrunk, but college radio is still deeply satisfying for the students and a source of great pleasure for its listeners." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...

"Anne E. Marshall has brought [Cassius Marcellus Clay] to vivid, swaggering life in her crisply written biography...His story is a reminder that history written without an appreciation for human contradictions is likely to be bad history." @wsj.com @simpsonvos.bsky.social www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

INTREPID GIRLS author @amyefarrell.bsky.social on CBS this morning, calling out the “bullying message” behind the Pentagon/Hegseth memo and reminding everyone that rolling back girls’ participation in Scouting drags us back a century. www.cbsnews.com/video/pentag...

I am obsessed with this bookseller Alex Howe (who is speaking on his personal behalf and not the bookstore’s!!!!!!) 😭😂

We're honored to have four titles selected as @choicereviews.bsky.social 2025 Outstanding Academic Titles 👏 🎉 www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

To celebrate get your own copy of the winner for 40% off with code 01READERSCHOICE40 this week only!

We're excited to announce the FIRST-EVER winner of the UNC Press Readers' Choice Award 🙌 Congratulations to WITH FAITH IN GOD AND HEART AND MIND by Maurice J. Hobson, Eddie R. Cole, Jim C. Harper and Derrick P. Alridge 🎉🏆 uncpress.org/readers-choi...

A top notch mail day!! uncpress.org/978146969352...

How did Colorado Springs become the epicenter of evangelical capitalism? What's the link between the Air Force and Christian Conservatism? And how did Donald Trump become the Prayer Warrior In Chief? That's what Will Schultz and I are reckoning with this morning. Links below.

Cyber Monday got you hunting for deals? Don’t forget to snag some books for 30% off + free shipping on eligible orders during our Holiday Sale 📚🙌 uncpress.org/holiday-sale/

My book about how Americans have remembered, forgotten, and manipulated the history of George Washington and slavery over the past 250 years comes out in April. And Titus Kaphar’s art makes it the one of the coolest covers you’ll see next year. uncpress.org/978146969352...

If you pre-order my book (out April 7!) and fill out this form, I’ll send you a signed book plate to stick inside! form.jotform.com/johngmarks/s...

Watching the Ken Burns doc and yelling out every historian whose book I’ve worked on before their name hits the screen 🤓

Two fantastic @uncpress.bsky.social authors with their new books! Couldn’t be happier for @forthepoor.bsky.social and @sdahl.bsky.social here in Boston @aarweb.bsky.social