Thank you to Manuel Grajales for this wonderful review of RADICAL SOLIDARITY for H-Net Reviews @mannygrajales2.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/hnet...

I am grateful to Mónica Jiménez for this beautiful review of RADICAL SOLIDARITY in _The Americas_ @monijimenez.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New episode of Early American Conversations! A conversation between Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, author of America Under the Hammer, and Melena Laudig, our 2024-2025 Richard S. Dunn Fellow: open.spotify.com/episode/34zL...

Professor Lisa Materson’s new book RADICAL SOLIDARITY receives an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians! Congratulations, Professor Materson! #skystorians

Yay!!!! Outstanding book by an outstanding historian. Congratulations @lmaterson.bsky.social

Excited to share that RADICAL SOLIDARITY received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians. I'm grateful to the ACH for this recognition! @uncpress.bsky.social

Paperback is now available for pre-order and will be out this summer (use code PPIB2025 for a 20% discount). Looking forward to sharing the work more broadly. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Join us tomorrow, Monday, May 19 for a Symposium on Puerto Rico and the Diaspora organized by the Davis-Puerto Rico Initiative. 9:00-3:00, Sproul 912. History Professors Lisa Materson and José Juan Pérez Meléndez are among the speakers. #puertorico #skystorians

Don Romesburg, Historian and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies @ Sonoma State University, will discuss his new book, Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School (Rutgers UP, 2025), Wed, 5/21, 4pm, 3201 Hart Hall!

New #UnsungHistory podcast 🤓 with @feministkelly.bsky.social. #MSWMedia Listen: www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/RuthReynolds/

For your podcast listening enjoyment!

📚 Today & tomorrow you can preorder my book for 50% off as a part of the flash sale at @dukepress.bsky.social ! Use Coupon Code FLASH25 ⭐️ So excited the book is out in less than a month. 🎉

Happy to share my new article, "A Tropical Vienna," which offers a new take on how Brazil became independent. Open access in The Americas! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Had a great time speaking with @feministkelly.bsky.social of #UnsungHistory about Ruth Reynolds, solidarity activism, and the struggle for Puerto Rico's independence! 🎙️Check out the episode below👇👇—and explore the additional sources list! www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/RuthReynolds/

Professor Lisa G. Materson discusses her new book _Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence_ with @feministkelly.bsky.social on the Unsung History Podcast: www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/RuthReynolds/

This week on Unsung History, @marthasjones.bsky.social joins me to discuss her fabulous new book, The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir. You don't want to miss this episode.

Thank you to @scatterall.bsky.social for joining me this week on Unsung History to talk all about the amazing Amelia Bloomer, who never waited around for someone else to take action when change was needed.

New #UnsungHistory podcast 🤓 with @feministkelly.bsky.social. #MSWMedia Listen: www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/WFH/

Professor Lisa Materson’s new book, 📚Radical Solidarity📚 tells the story of an unlikely ally in Puerto Rico’s independence movement." #skystorians lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/self-society...

UC Irvine Professor Adria L. Imada will join us on Thursday, March 6 at noon to give the annual WGH Nathalie Esteban Collin Memorial Lecture. All are welcome.

📚Radical Solidarity📚 "New book tells the story of an unlikely ally in Puerto Rico’s independence movement." Grateful to Alex Russell and the Letters & Science Magazine for showcasing my work! lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/self-society...

Tomorrow!! Join us for the launch of the Vieques Microsyllabus and Study Guide, a collaboration with the Archivo Histórico de Vieques. Register: tinyurl.com/viequessyllabus

Join Profs. Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor & Lisa Materson as they discuss their recent books with Prof. Corrie Decker of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Department @ucdavis.bsky.social Fri Feb 28, 6-7 PM at the Avid Reader, 617 2nd St. Davis. #skystorians #history #booksky

Book paints the Camden 28 as 'Spiritual Criminals.' But were their actions effective? www.ncronline.org/culture/book...

New book review for @micnick.bsky.social's book, Spiritual Criminals:

Exciting news! Forthcoming in May! The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theatre and Performance, an anthology edited by Camilla Stevens and Jon Rossini! link.springer.com/book/9783031...

This Friday, February 21, Professor Lisa Materson will be offering a talk on her new book _Radical Solidarity_ in an event organized by the Hemispheric Institute. hia.ucdavis.edu/events/hia-b...

Professor Kathy Stuart wins "Excellence in Teaching for Global Learning Award" for her UC Davis Summer Abroad Program "Vienna: Crossroads of Central Europe." Congratulations, Professor Stuart! globalaffairs.ucdavis.edu/news/10th-an... #ucdavisabroad #studyabroad #vienna #ucdavis

New book from @uncpress.bsky.social: Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence by Lisa G. Materson uncpress.org/book/9781469...

New from @uncpress.bsky.social: Blacks against Brown: The Intra-racial Struggle over Segregated Schools in Topeka, Kansas by Charise L. Cheney uncpress.org/book/9781469...

New book from @uncpress.bsky.social: Money Isn't Everything: Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina by Patricio Simonetto and translated by Sarah Booker uncpress.org/book/9781469...

✨I am thrilled to share the cover of my book —The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice— which will be published by @dukepress.bsky.social on April 25, 2025. (Link below)✨🧵

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Learn the histories of US immigration, citizenship, & birthright through the following selection of UNC Press titles written by the following noted scholars: Susan Pearson, @carlygoodman.bsky.social, Deirdre M. Moloney, Kristina Shull, Felicia Arriaga, Anna Pegler-Gordon, and @elmunc.bsky.social.

one of the most consequential but little-known efforts to hold police accountable for egregious and illegal violence, including a massacre of 15.

Headed to Knoxville next week to work w/UT's Appalachian Justice Research Center students, who are all reading Making Our Future! I'll also be doing a public talk on Friday, 2/14. Feels like a good time to discuss the role of grassroots culture in the fight for justice in Appalachian communities.

✊🏼 Thank you for the shout-out, @msmagazine.com!!!!

Looking forward to speaking at the UCD Hemispheric Institute on the Americas this month. Check out all of the great talks that are part of the HIA Book Talk Series here and join: hia.ucdavis.edu @history-ucdavis.bsky.social

I'm looking forward to these upcoming book talks, including a joint event with UCD colleague Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor at the Avid Reader Bookstore. Please join if you can!

It’s my top 100 Most Anticipated Feminist Books for 2025 @msmagazine.com! Feat #newbooks by @mjerkins.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social @silviapark.bsky.social @ambikamath.bsky.social @kweingarten.bsky.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social @biidaasamose.bsky.social msmagazine.com/2025/01/21/a...

"Choice" names "Spiritual Criminals" as an editors' pick for this month. "It is a tale told brilliantly and thoroughly, placing it among the best in the literature on 1960s radicalism. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers" #History @susih.bsky.social www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...

RADICAL SOLIDARITY was selected for the best feminist books list for Ms. Magazine! It’s an amazing story about “radical solidarity” and a must read for feminists of all ages! msmagazine.com/2024/12/03/b...

Prof. Kyu Kim recently spoke @ he Korea Institute, Harvard University on "Wartime Mobilization in Late Colonial Korea: Enforcing Everyday Usage of 'National Language,' 1937-45," a preview of his forthcoming book.

New book by Prof. Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor: AMERICA UNDER THE HAMMER: AUCTIONS AND THE EMERGENCE OF MARKET VALUES, University of Pennsylvania Press, November 2024). Congratulations, Prof. Hartigan-O'Connor! www.pennpress.org/978151282651...

Reading tonight: The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha, by my inimitable colleague A. Katie Harris 📚

"Alexandria Russell illuminates the process of memorialization while placing African American women at the center of memorials they brought into being and others constructed in their honor." -- @illinoispress.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Revolutionary anarchist feminist Louise Michel died 120 years ago today in Marseille. Exhausted by an anti-imperialist propaganda tour of Algeria, she spent her final days in simple rooms near the train station, accompanied by partner Charlotte Vauvelle. A legend in life, she became mythic in death.

The LA Times did a profile of my collaboration w Bad Bunny. 🫣🇵🇷🙏🏼 www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

@beaconpress.bsky.social 📕 Alert: "Tell Her Story Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" Summer 2025 #EleanorBumpurs #BXHistory #NYCHistory #1980s Preorder: www.beacon.org/Tell-Her-Sto...