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It’s difficult to express without expletives how much the vast majority of people in Ireland are utterly disgusted by this … total f**king disgrace www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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Broadbent Career Development Fellow in American History Since 1600 University of Oxford #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DME724/b...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

My books finally arrived! Very grateful to the team at @cambridgeup.bsky.social for the superb production and supporting the project. Thinking today of the late David Fitzpatrick who began this project and to whom it is dedicated, and also of my mother who would have loved to see it in print.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

🧵 🗃️ It saddens me to have to bring you news of yet another casualty of the Trump administration's war on any history that does not conform to a white-centered narrative. For the past few summers I've worked with teachers at Arlington National Cemetery. The historians and educational staff...

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

I think people are missing the reality of the growing US-Russian alliance under Putin and Trump. Its not going to force a ceasefire on Ukraine, it will be to help Russia try to win the war. The US is now an active enemy of freedom.

submitted 25 days ago • 27 comments

Recent PhD in 20th century US history, or planning to defend before Sept 2025? We are looking for the next Mellon Research Fellow, a three-year postdoc with our large and thriving American history group. Deadline 9 March so don't delay! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50345/

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

NYU's History Department is accepting applications for the Elihu Rose Scholar in Modern Military History! The committee welcomes applications from historians of war and the military, broadly defined, in any geographical area. Learn more and apply: apply.interfolio.com/161728

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

BAAS regrets to announce that the BAAS / US Embassy Small Grants Programme has been cancelled. 1/7

submitted 37 days ago • 12 comments

It’s so easy to not be horrible like this

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...

submitted 38 days ago • 37 comments

An oddly specific new focus!

submitted 39 days ago • 49 comments

We are in the midst of an administrative coup the like of which we have never seen - or even imagined - in our lifetimes. Every day brings new abuses, new scandals, which can’t just be undone or fixed. We are in a very dark place as a country and as a constitutional republic right now.

submitted 40 days ago • 283 comments

CFP: 'Ireland and the American Revolution'. The organisers invite submissions for papers to be presented at a conference held in the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin on the 9-10 October 2025. If you are interested submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief bio by the 1 May 2025.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

My school @ucdpolitics.bsky.social has 2 positions (deadline Feb 21) one in Global Governance, one in Environmental Politics. They're called "Ad Astra Fellows" but between you & me they're basically tenure-track posts. It's a good deal. You get a PhD line & annual €5000 research budget for 5 years.

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

If there’s anything we learn from the history of authoritarianism, it’s that once the authoritarian achieves small goals like purging the civil service & installing loyalists, they always just stop there and don’t go any further. Wait, hang on, I may not have read that book the whole way to the end.

submitted 42 days ago • 12 comments

"In a concise and brilliant study of three years (1967-1970) in the 1960s, @llassabe.bsky.social traced the emergence of many right-wing tactics and arguments that have proved deeply influential in the years since in shaping both American higher education and the contemporary Republican Party."

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

submitted 58 days ago • 4 comments

Happy MLK Day❤️

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Russell Vought had his Senate hearing yesterday. If confirmed, he’ll be a key figure in the regime, as competent as he is radical. He is one of the architects of Project 2025, an avowed Christian nationalist, and an ideologue of the “post-constitutional” Right – at war with pluralistic democracy.

submitted 62 days ago • 66 comments

shawsociety.net/2025-confere... Last chance to submit proposals for the Society for the History of Women in the Americas conference. Co-hosts: @universityofleeds.bsky.social and @leedsbeckett.bsky.social @branchuk.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social @baasusso.bsky.social @raioxford.bsky.social

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

The spring series of CHOMI seminars begins with Dr Shelby Zimmerman on 6 Feb who will speak about: 'Who Cares for the Chronically Sick and Dying Poor?: The Role of the Dublin Workhouse as a ‘proto-hospice’ 1872-1920'

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

From an IR perspective, I suppose it'll be interesting to see if Nixon's 'madman theory' is any more effective when practiced by an actual madman.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve always been fascinated by how conservatives turned to South Africa in the late 1960s and 1970s to project racist attitudes and fantasies that had become less welcome in polite white society.

submitted 79 days ago • 12 comments

As an Indian, my contempt for (rich white) anti-vaxxers in the west is so deep I often cannot quite find the words to express my contempt. I grew up seeing polio-disabled children and adults crawling over rubble and roads in India. My father worked for the Pulse Polio program. What is happening?

submitted 96 days ago • 174 comments

Re-upping our episode on the rollout of the polio vaccine in 1954. We recorded it in 2021, when it seemed timely as a historical analogy to the Covid vaccine rollout. But now it’s important for entirely different, somehow worse reasons. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 96 days ago • 3 comments

Some stories will stay with you a long, long time www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/w...

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

We’re excited to announce two Assistant Professor (5-year tenure track) openings in Political Science: 1️⃣ International Relations www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX664/a... 2️⃣ Comparative Politics www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX659/a... 🗓️ Applications close 12 Noon (IST), 8th January 2025. Details: jobs.tcd.ie

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Pleased to announce an online workshop for early career researchers on the History of War and the Military, 14 March 2025, a joint event of the Society for the History of War and our German counterpart the AKM. CFP deadline 10 Jan.

submitted 118 days ago • 2 comments

These are great scholarships - please spread the word. I'm very happy to chat to students about potential projects in histories of sustainability, global justice, human rights, and humanitarianism.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Feeling something very unusual this election night🥰 It’s been a long time since my preferred candidate won a seat in my constituency. And on days like these … thank goodness (common sense, fairness, justice …) for PR-STV!!! www.rte.ie/news/electio...

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

CFP: Ireland and the American Revolution 250. The organisers invite submissions for papers to be presented at a symposium held at Trinity College Dublin in October 2025. If you are interested submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief bio by the 1 May 2025. Please share widely.

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

The Irish election is another subject that Elon Musk believes he is an expert on and therefore must weigh in. Here he is quoting a far-right bigot who was instrumental in instigating the Dublin Riots a year ago...

submitted 110 days ago • 7 comments

It was a pleasure to have such a wide-ranging conversation on political violence in Belfast in the 1920s / my book Ghosts of a Family with @JasonBurke87 podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/h...

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Join us in Zadar in June 2025. Open to all graduate students and the early career academics.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

This looks good. Via Adam Weinstein from that other site: "Join @QuincyInst for an excellent in-person event, featuring Marines who served in the battles of Fallujah 20 years ago, along with journalists and academics who have studied this period and its aftermath." quincyinst.org/events/20-ye...

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Permanent job in nineteenth-century US history at the University of Edinburgh. Closing date for applications: Nov. 29! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

submitted 131 days ago • 2 comments

"Border militias" have been preparing for this for decades-the Klan ran border patrols in the 1970s, mercenaries in the 1980s, Minutemen in the 200s. They have been violent, extralegal actors and illegal private armies most of that time www.wired.com/story/border...

submitted 118 days ago • 96 comments

It’s live!

submitted 117 days ago • 4 comments

I wrote about the drumbeat of accommodation and acquiescence from ostensibly anti-MAGA elites that normalizes and legitimizes the incoming Trump regime. We need better.

submitted 117 days ago • 8 comments

It's been out for a few months now.. but I'm new to Bluesky

submitted 426 days ago • 0 comments

Not an exhaustive list, but we're all likely exhausted.

submitted 118 days ago • 41 comments

With Jamie Belich retiring, Oxford is looking for a new professor of global and imperial history. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS577/b...

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

To mark the launch of my own website here is an article/excerpt on Brigadier Louis Wyatt, the man who picked the body of the Unknown Warrior for burial in Westminster Abbey and 2 years later led the only military invasion of the Irish state in its history. edward-burke.com/the-link-bet...

submitted 124 days ago • 2 comments

I will be presenting at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia on Wednesday November 27. Any Society of History of War conference attendees who are at a loose end are more than welcome to attend! I'll be discussing how Algerian nationalists understood and reimagined the Irish Revolution.

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday a large portion of the day was working w activists to save a historical civil rights site from destruction by a university. Then tried to help a colleague who’s getting death threats. The real struggle is only “coming” for the most privileged. For everyone else it’s always been here.

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

🚨The 21st International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War will be taking place at University of California, Santa Barbara, from May 8–10, 2025. The best paper could get published in _Cold War History_! 🚨 Proposals due Feb 3, 2025. Full details here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

In light of the new influx to Bluesky, here's an early starter pack for UK-based historians of the US, partly cribbed off attendees at HOTCUS. I will update as more people arrive. Let me know if you'd like to be added... go.bsky.app/QbiCdd1

submitted 126 days ago • 10 comments