New on First View! Diego Luis (@diegojavierluis.bsky.social) argues that the novelty of transpacific empire affected Mexico’s Indigenous peoples. #PacificOean #Spain #empire #Mexio #colonialism #repartimiento #indigenous #labour #earlymodern #Dutch Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

It should terrify everyone that a green card holder was black bagged and disappeared to Louisiana simply for having opinions this administration dislikes. They're building the prisons and camps to do it to citizens. The time to stand up to this is now.

@diegojavierluis.bsky.social was there, too! Here he is with his book, The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History. Read more: tinyurl.com/5d5tw9n4

It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️

Will you attend the AHA conference in NYC? If so, and you are interested in mobility, political negotiation, and resistance in the early modern Iberian world, please attend my panel, “Global Mobilities,” with Jane Landers, Diego Luis, and Juanma Ramirez on January 3 at 1:30 pm! @historians.org

✍️Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic 💭 An intellectual history exploring how free & enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized & contested ideas about slavery & freedom 🕰️Out on Dec 5th '24 🤫 already available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Ever wondered how a historian’s life experiences influence why and how they study the past? The FULL first season of The Historian’s Table is out and available everywhere you get your podcasts! #skystorians

A great time to preorder The Trouble of Color - at 30% off! Thanks for your support! bit.ly/3UWjzvq

Book haul from Ann Arbor 📚 Ready for winter. #booksky

30% off The First Asians in the Americas!—and other delights from HUP

Next up on the reading list 🤓

First post! I am a historian of colonial Latin America and the Pacific World. My book uncovers the stories of free and enslaved Asians who crossed the Pacific and arrived in the Americas from 1565 to 1815. #skyhistorians #booksky