"detention feels like torture, and for me, it was only three days. Many women in those cells had been in the system for months, even a year."

Reupping in light of the news that SCOTUS will review birthright citizenship conferred by 14th Amendment 🗃️

www.culturalheritagepartners.com/eeob/ #eeob #historicpreservation

I've been pretty busy with getting ready for final exams and all so I haven't been to active this past week

Reminder - birthright citizenship is upheld by constitutional AND statutory law. Check out this amicus brief filed back in May. ⬇️ 🗃️ bsky.app/profile/rose...

Also found this Reacting to the Past game to be a pretty amazing game to run: reactingconsortium.org/games/argent... #reacting #latinamericanhistory #historicalmemory

Also we've been watching La Historia Oficial/The Official Story in the class as well www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IbH...

Also I just recently learned that there are number of photos of Allende and Pinochet in close proximity (which makes sense given Pinochet's senior military role prior to the coup) but still surprised me www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Very much enjoyed listening to this episode as well! #coldwarhistory #latinamericanhistory -- just gave my lecture on the 1970s in world history and told my students about the new research and Brazil's role in the 1973 Chile coup

The New Yugoslav Woman: Reproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia Branka Bogdan newbooksnetwork.com/the-new-yugo... #womenshistory

After Rumi: The Mevlevis and Their World by @eliasj.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/after-rumi - very interesting to hear about the family dynamics -- it was tough being Rumi's son!

a few more podcast episodes

nice to have some good news...

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Have you had a chance to watch Netflix's mini-series about President James A. Garfield? I've got some thoughts about one particular scene. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Activists are role-playing ICE raids in games like Fortnite & GTA to teach people what to do IRL situations. “Many people may not have seen an interaction with ICE yet, it’s a way to get folks to know or get used to what that might look like.” [wired.com]

Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian Angelos Chaniotis newbooksnetwork.com/angelos-chan... #ancienthistory #hellenisticworld

Courbet's Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting Paul Galvez newbooksnetwork.com/courbets-lan... #arthistory #courbet

Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: Revolution, Civil War, and New Ways of Life, 1917–1930, Volume 1 by @elissabemporad.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/jews-in-the-...

The Secret War: Spies, Lies and the Art of Deception in World War II by @tuckerjones1944.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-secret-war 🗃️ #booksky #espionage

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"Engaging with this history is not a side issue: it is the key to picking the lock of looming authoritarianism.” 🗃️ This report from the AfAm Policy Forum spells out why authoritarians need to erase histories of past wrongs. drive.google.com/file/d/1PGDX...

"You Have Arrived in Hell": New Evidence Confirms Torture of Deported Venezuelans in El Salvador. New report confirms my warnings in March: Venezuelans deported to El Salvador were tortured. Half had no criminal record. Many were asylum seekers. austinkocher.substack.com/p/you-have-a...

also mentioned in these: the Martin Luther insult generator. ergofabulous.org/luther/ #primarysources

Luther and the Peasants: Religion, Ritual, and the Revolt Of 1525 Kenneth G. Appold newbooksnetwork.com/luther-and-t... #revolts #rebellions #religioushistory #earlymodernhistory

The Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity by @davidmwhitford.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-making-o... #masculinity #skystorians #religioushistory #earlymodernhistory

two more closely related podcast epidodes

How does the public perceive and engage with the discipline of history and the past? Check out the results of a national survey that explored these issues, conducted by the AHA and Fairleigh Dickinson University with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 🗃️

“Everyone that I know who works or studies at UNC understands that we have to protect ourselves, because no one in the administration will help with that.” – Michael Palm, UNC Chapel Hill AAUP

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal

My chat with Sullivan Summer at @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book *Entangled Alliances* with @cornellupress.bsky.social is out. Big takeaway: Diplomatic history is cool! 😎 Take a listen to our lovely conversation & let me know your thoughts. newbooksnetwork.com/entangled-al...

Commentary Ohio GOP lawmakers claim deep concern about protecting kids, except from child labor apparently Ohio Senate Bill 50 is a sweet deal for companies looking to hire for less and work low-cost employees longer hours. by Marilou Johanek ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/21/o...

This is insane. www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...

Transgender Awareness Week with Jessica Kellgren-Fozard [TikTok @jessicaoutofthecloset ]

Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World by @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/holy-places #migration #religioushistory

Vikings in the East: From Vladimir the Great to Vladimir Putin – The Origins of a Contested Legacy in Russia and Ukraine Martyn Whittock newbooksnetwork.com/vikings-in-t... #vikings #varangians #ukrainianhistory #russianhistory #centralasianhistory

a few more migration-adjacent podcast episodes

My Native but Foreign book is 40% off right now. A few new course adoptions might finally trigger an even cheaper paperback edition! Please consider assigning it. Courses on the West, Borderlands, Indigenous Peoples, Immigration, etc. have used it & I love to zoom in. Please share! 🗃️ amzn.to/4plyzjg

Workers with the Columbus Metropolitan Library are establishing a labor union focused on improvements they say need to happen in areas such as wages and paid time off ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/18/w...

Ohio college students and faculty are feeling the effects of a new, wide-ranging higher education law that bans diversity efforts, prohibits faculty strikes, and regulates classroom discussion ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/18/o...

Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War by @selenadaly.bsky.social #italianhistory #diaspora #atlanticworld #skystorians #latinamericanhistory #immigrationhistory #wwi #militaryhistory newbooksnetwork.com/emigrant-sol...

The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles After 1945 by @beckynic7.bsky.social #skystorians #immigrationhistory newbooksnetwork.com/the-new-subu...

Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy: Caste, Class and Indenture Abroad, 1914-67 Kalathmika Natarajan newbooksnetwork.com/coolie-migra... discusses the Tamil origins and meaning of the term - #pacificworld #indianoceanworld #immigrationhistory #indianhistory #postcolonialism #diplomatichistory

okay, time for a few podcast episodes - with an immigration/migration history theme.

America is one of those places where instead having a Stasi, this is what we get.

Workers at The Met are trying to unionize, citing “long-term pay inequities, lack of job protection, and ever-increasing workloads.” If they succeed, their union would be one of the largest museum unions in the US.

A timeline of American immigration history from the handout accompanying the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on the history of deportation was offered as a suggested resource in a New York Times lesson plan on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. 🗃️

probably should have quoted the repost from Levin -- glad to see a strong discussion between Levin and Annette Gordon-Reed! Some big issues with history and documentaries #kenburns #americanrevolution #publichistory

I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”

If we acknowledge that Ken Burns has essentially produced a traditional consensus view of the American Revolution with marginalized voices added as window dressing, what would it mean to truly reinterpret this moment for the general public. Is a new consensus view even possible or desirable? 🗃️