The Prussian city of Konigsberg is a microcosm for the twentieth century. This week, explore the it's storied legacy as we deep dive with @nicoleeaton.bsky.social into her book, "German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad." patreon.com/posts/how-konigsberg-141130456

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Boston College is hiring 1-2 VAPs to teach World History. Well paid, 3-yr, benefits + research fund, 1-1 teaching load. You need not specialize in world history so long as you can demonstrate ability to teach it. Email me at my work email if interested to know more! www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

Please share! Job alert!

Boston College is hiring 1-2 VAPs to teach World History. Well paid, 3-yr, benefits + research fund, 1-1 teaching load. You need not specialize in world history so long as you can demonstrate ability to teach it. Email me at my work email if interested to know more! www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

Tomorrow March 3rd 4-5:30pm EST, @georgetown-sfs.bsky.social Professor Michael David-Fox discusses his new book "Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist & Nazi Rule" with Stephen Kotkin & @nicoleeaton.bsky.social. @wilsoncenter.org @historians.org www.wilsoncenter.org/event/crucib...

ICYMI: A wonderful H-War review of @nicoleeaton.bsky.social's "German Blood, Slavic Soil," wonderfully noted as "supremely well-written and masterful" by @susangrunewald.bsky.social: networks.h-net.org/group/review... ICYMI2: @cornellupress.bsky.social: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Starter Pack of Starter Packs

As this site is coming alive, I tried to help my own orientation by creating a starter pack for global urban history. Suggestions welcome go.bsky.app/3FUgYoE

Wow! Our German History starter pack is full with 150 members. So, I made another one: German History #2. DM me if you want to be added or have suggestions! go.bsky.app/LQSQQaP

Want to get informed about German history? Follow all in this great starter pack: go.bsky.app/QMHzmog

Starter Pack of Starter Packs

I created a thing! It is definitely missing people - if you are a person who should be on it, pls let me know! go.bsky.app/8HazBeR

So honored to have won the Reginald Zelnik book prize and to have received honorable mention for the Bruce Lincoln book prize. I only wish Reggie could have been there to see it.

Thanks to all of you who came for the panel on my book at ASEEES. It was great engaging with the panelists’ ideas and all your thoughtful questions! A reminder that the book—along with other great books from Cornell—is 40% off through the weekend with code 09EXP40 (on Cornell’s website).

🥳 Congratulations to Nicole Eaton, honorable mention recipient for the 2024 DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Book in History and Social Sciences, for German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad (Cornell University Press, 2023) 🎉 tinyurl.com/ykkn3rrz

Omer Bartov in conversation with Mehdi Hasan

Here's a starter pack for all things nationalism-related. Let me know if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/RdXe4y3

Afternoon all. Thanks to @tobyvogel.bsky.social, I have added to the Balkans Bluesky starter pack. So if you want to follow some people tweeting from or about the Western Balkans, point yourselves in this direction: go.bsky.app/SYesLE9

so here's the bsky starter pack that you didn't know you needed. wondering what grift kushner & ivanka tr*mp are pulling buying up property in the balkans? sarajevo on your mind? or just want some wholesome stories about an ottoman-era donkey? we have you covered! go.bsky.app/AcUhygT

Just a few so far. Let me know who to add!

I hadn’t seen anyone else do it, so I’m working on a starter pack of Russia/USSR/Eurasia historians. Check it out! go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ

Hello! Planning to be just as underactive here as I was on X.