How Capitalism Took Over the World
Beckert's new book on the history of capitalism is 1,325 pages! The good news is that capitalism will have ended by the time I finish reading it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/b...
01.12.2025 02:21 — 👍 44 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
That makes sense.
02.12.2025 04:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you @katecarp.bsky.social for the fabulous @draftingthepast.bsky.social swag! I totally approve of your color choice! It coordinates well with my ocean blue office. I had so much fun talking about history writing on your show and look forward to sipping my coffee along with future episodes. 🗃️
21.11.2025 17:53 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I have been assigning episodes of @bfworld.bsky.social for years. I can't believe I get to be part of the podcast! Thank you @lizcovart.bsky.social! 🗃️
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20.11.2025 21:39 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions
The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions
I’m working on a new episode with Jessica Lepler. She wrote a fascinating book called Canal Dreamers. It’s about the quest of early Americans to build a interoceanic canal across present-day Nicaragua.
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20.11.2025 14:21 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
I have never seen this image before, but it is striking! #historyofanimals
20.11.2025 14:52 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great suggestion! Thank you!
19.11.2025 12:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Really enjoyed this episode! The excerpt also made me wonder… is @jlepler.bsky.social a Lemony Snicket fan? 🤔
19.11.2025 02:52 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Renata! I am eager to read your new book. I have never read Lemony Snicket; now it’s on my list!
19.11.2025 03:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Episode 75: Jessica Lepler Knows That Criticism Is Praise – Drafting the Past
Spent part of my morning listening to one of my favorites talk about her writing process. Loved every minute! Listen to @jlepler.bsky.social and then go out and buy Canal Dreamers!
draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
18.11.2025 16:36 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
It was such a joy to talk with Kate about history writing, teaching, publishing, and so much more. As a long-time listener and first-time talker, it was a dream come true! Thank you @draftingthepast.bsky.social! 🗃️
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18.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
I second! I use it with Zotero all the time.
12.11.2025 03:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tonight’s aurora borealis in New Hampshire. Arctic temps are accompanying it. Brrrr
12.11.2025 02:26 — 👍 181 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0
The many faces of panic.
08.11.2025 03:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Laura, thank you for these very kind words! I have learned so much about teaching since way back then, but I like to think I've held on to the energy and enthusiasm. Thank you for being such an excellent and understanding student.
06.11.2025 14:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was so fortunate to share the evening’s celebration with my inspiring colleague Lucy Salyer who won the Graduate Faculty Mentor Award. I am very grateful to Kurk Dorsey who nominated me, and Molly Dorsey who is my encouraging and supportive department chair.
06.11.2025 14:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last night, I was awarded a College Teaching Excellence Award from UNH. I count it amongst the highest honors of my career, and am so grateful for the more than 1,000 UNH students who have made teaching a joy for me for my 17 years here.
06.11.2025 14:15 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
So grateful for this generous review of Canal Dreamers, which situates my “eloquent” and “expansive history” in recent context. 🗃️
@uncpress.bsky.social
05.11.2025 19:51 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Terrific review of @jlepler.bsky.social's "eloquent history of Nicaragua’s canal proposals during the 1820s."
05.11.2025 17:48 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It's not every day an author enjoys a phenomenal book review from a leading historian who also happens to be a descendant of one of the subjects of her book. Thank you for taking us on this walk with you @benjaminepark.bsky.social! 🗃️
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04.11.2025 13:43 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Move over for AI - DRB
Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...
We need a critique of AI in academic publishing. Following my decision not to sign an AI addendum to my contract with Cambridge University Press, I wrote this short essay which is now out in the Dublin Review of Books.
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drb.ie/move-over-fo...
30.10.2025 11:01 — 👍 129 🔁 55 💬 8 📌 19
I feel absolutely heartbroken over the demolition of the East Wing. This wasn’t even a full year ago 💔
22.10.2025 23:09 — 👍 155 🔁 74 💬 21 📌 17
O grr; drrm. Oops. I feel seen.
23.10.2025 13:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a doctored photo of the back of a $20 bill featuring the White House being demolished by an excavator
ok who did this? ☹️
22.10.2025 21:52 — 👍 4231 🔁 1340 💬 76 📌 48
The Author’s Corner with Jessica M. Lepler
Jessica M. Lepler is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. This interview is based on her new book, Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific i…
I was delighted to be invited by @johnfea1.bsky.social to answer some questions about "Canal Dreamers." The blog post went live today: thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/10/21/t...
It's great timing because the book is currently on sale on Amazon: www.amazon.com/Canal-Dreame...
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21.10.2025 17:43 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The awesome book in question is Caroline Winterer's "How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America." It cuts through the strata of subfields, reads beautifully, and is lushly illustrated! I can't wait to discuss it with my students. 🗃️ @princetonupress.bsky.social
21.10.2025 01:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cartoon of a photograph with a group of characters from the show Arthur in front of a tree.
The Canvas outage today made me think about that episode of "Arthur" when the internet goes out and, horror of horrors, the kids have to play with analog toys like Polaroid cameras. They end up having a blast. Here's hoping my students picked up the awesome book due next week. #academicsky
21.10.2025 01:34 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I know Amazon's "Best Seller's Rank" is a fraught measure, but teenage me, who dreamed of becoming a US historian, would be so tickled to learn that, for a moment, she had authored a number one best-selling book in Nicaraguan history.
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20.10.2025 13:50 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Historian of 19th-century France—juvenile incarceration, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia)
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Professor of History at Swarthmore College. Writes at timothyburke.substack.com, continuing from his old blog Easily Distracted. Remembers when there was no Internet, and stays up late because someone is wrong on it.
Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni. I research alcohol in 19th C. Co-dir. Drinking Studies Network; Co-I on NCN-funded women & alcohol project (http://www.womenandalcohol.net)
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