Holidays are over, and I'm motivating myself through the marking and emails by sharing the cover for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic with @pennpress.bsky.social. Please indulge me! www.pennpress.org/978151282925... #skystorians

Denmark is a NATO member state. Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela (and Cuba, formally) are OAS member states.

#WATCH | Columns of smoke rise from the site where occupation forces demolished residential buildings in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City. (Times of Gaza)

The fisherman Abdulrahman Abdulhadi Al-Qan, 32, was killed after Israeli naval gunboats opened fire in the southern Gaza Strip.

Really, a remarkable statement from Colombia’s President.

On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇

as we start to look towards the new year (!): abstracts for #ResDiff7 are due 12th Jan

In 2024, we founded a new open access, peer reviewed journal. I'll be at the #AIASCS in San Francisco with a stack of #ResDiffJournal postcards, and as submissions editor I'd be happy to chat with anyone looking to submit their work. resdifficiles.com #AIASCS26

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

stop trying to make "future historians" happen. you can just say you've passed any hope of meaningful justice in this world onto an imagined secular afterlife. that's fine.

Cville friends: come out tomorrow

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

Fun fact: the US has been at continual war since 1945 and *not a single one of these wars*, from the Korean War to Vietnam to Iraq to Iraq again, was ever declared war by Congress. The last time the US Congress declared war was 1942. 83 years ago.

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Just an absolutely pathetic response from absolutely pathetic people. I was not a fan of Pelosi but even she would be better than the current crew.

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Ah okay so this kind of thing is, historically speaking, a whole different thing.

the ultimate democratic party response: i LOVE the crazy illegal thing you just did, but could you perhaps come to my office to sign form 317b for it?

My latest law review article "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to the US nat'l security state both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against universities over the last 2 yrs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said there were civilian casualties in the attack and posted a video. Also from the NYT:

All. Please be aware - the US has attacked Venezuela.

Again there is no precedent for this. It's fucking crazy.

The more things change etc etc

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

For those who peaked in High School I guess

It’s @historianca.bsky.social’s birthday, so let her know that you’re thinking about her!

@bostonglobe.com I get what you’re trying to do here, but there really is a distinction between conservatives feeling their views weren’t as welcome as they’d like and faculty losing jobs for teaching about gender or ICE hauling someone in and detaining her for weeks for an op-ed.

Juan Cole, new book - Gaza Yet Stands - order through your local bookstore or www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DL...

When it looks like witchcraft but it is actually a German New Year's Tradition

Every new year, FB memories reminds me of the best writing I’ve ever done

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Fuck it I don’t care anymore

You should definitely read this thread, but I've bit my tongue almost to bleeding about that "...no one has anymore"

"It has a deep red binding with a simple floral medallion and is written in black and red ink. The script is plain and readable, suggesting it was created for everyday use rather than ceremonial display. 'The importance of this Quran lies not in luxury, but in accessibility.'"

Grateful to see the first review of _God, Slavery, and Early Christianity_ out in Oksident! I appreciate knowing that some Turkish colleagues are already engaging with this work dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/oksid...

New Past Lives: Crixus, the Spartacus Rebellion, and Resistance to Slavery. The Spartacus Rebellion of 73-71 BC is one of the most famous events in human history, but what can we know about the participants? And why would people risk everything for a shot at freedom? www.pod.link/1852618120/e...

One of my fav NYE fun facts: We celebrate the new year on Jan 1 in large part because the Roman senate needed to hastily appoint Q. Fulvius Nobilior as consul before the start of the year (then, the Ides of March), so that he could go fight the revolting Celtiberi in Hispania

Next cross-stitch project is starting

Begging, pleading for one news cycle where a Harvard professor reads the room before speaking

The reason this Harvard history professor decided he was done with one of the best and most privileged jobs in the world was, in his own words, because he was forced to lecture in a mask during peak Covid. I’m not making this up.

Humanities programs have ceded scholarship of the premodern to bad actors on the right. This is a serious problem, not only because it represents a loss of current and future knowledge, but also because it enables white supremacists and Christian nationalists to twist history to their own ends.

Grateful to, and saddened by, a neighbor in my apartment complex who put their unopened copy of Baldwin’s essays in the community library

In today’s depraved beyond belief news, Israel is banning MSF (Doctors Without Borders) from Gaza.

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