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Amílcar E. Challú

@amilcarchallu.bsky.social

Historian: #econhist #envhist . Mexico, the midwest and North America in general, 18th to 21st centuries. Department of History at Bowling Green State University. https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2784-6506

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Tribal economic principles

Tribal economic principles

Remington Schneider

Remington Schneider

Having a blast in this talk by Remington Schneider, Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy, about traditional ecological and economic knowledge. Part of our programming centered on Braiding Sweetgras at BGSU. www.bgsu.edu/the-arts/in-...

02.11.2025 18:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Día de Muertos is coming and we have a beautiful tradition on campus to make altars in different buildings. Here’s Theater’s. We’ll make ours in history on Thursday.

28.10.2025 20:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We have some fantastic programming leading to Robin Kimmerer’s visit to campus in spring. My colleagues in the water center are leading the next seminar. Some #envhist coming down the road too.

15.10.2025 14:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks!!!

13.10.2025 18:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Question for #envhist and humanities peeps: I’m working on an outreach plan supporting a wetland restoration project. Does anybody have recommendations of authors or projects using history to increase public awareness on restoration projects?

13.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 6    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 0
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Next Monday (Oct 6) the two-days conference "Inequality & History" will begin, hosted by @dondenacentre.bsky.social at Bocconi University (Milan). Join us to explore & debate inequality across history, from Classical Antiquity until today! Remote attendance possible; QR code in the program below👇

03.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 16    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

My kids did it. I profoundly disagree.

04.10.2025 01:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response: Introduction

With the publication of our introduction, the special issue that Tommy Bengtsson and I edited for Explorations in Economic History "Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response" is now complete! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4

14.08.2025 00:10 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Professor Emeritus Peter Temin, influential and prolific economic historian, dies at 87 MIT Professor Emeritus Peter Temin, a highly influential and prolific economic historian, has died at 87. The longtime MIT scholar and former department head used the tools of economics to shed new li...

Great loss in #Econhist. We were just talking about Temin with some colleagues in
#wehc2025. He was a regular in the Boston-area Econ hist workshop and always insightful. news.mit.edu/2025/profess...

07.08.2025 00:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Great time in Lund for the #WEHC2025

28.07.2025 19:40 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Do you have any recommendation about the Lorenz curve of the distribution of slave ownership in the US?

01.07.2025 09:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nixtla | State of the Art Forecasting Nixtla democratizes access to state-of-the-art predictive insights. With Nixtla, you can implement cutting-edge forecasting and advanced anomaly detection, irrespective of your team's si...

The students and I learned a lot from the activities but also from interacting with cutting-age technology in @hf.co, nixtla.io and humy.ai

15.05.2025 21:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bowling Green plans to offer a new major next school year: AI + X A new major at Bowling Green State is hoping to teach students how to make artificial intelligence – and how to use it responsibly.

So happy to be part of this initiative. I piloted the new History in the Age of AI course this past spring, focusing on text recognition models (and more broadly on AI literacy). It was a very rewarding experience.

www.statenews.org/section/the-...

15.05.2025 21:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Last year Matt Emberg developed a board game about the conquest of Tenochtitlan. Today we got to play the finalized version. I loved the process of helping Matt design the game and now seeing the outcome. Another reason why I love my job.

15.05.2025 02:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I bumped into the Lorax in our park’s native plants sale.

03.05.2025 17:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This sounds amazing. I look forward to reading it.

30.04.2025 13:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Impressive.

24.04.2025 03:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The History of Inequality For the last few decades, a strong consensus has held that Latin America is not only the most economically unequal region in the world, but also one where inequality has become structurally entrenched...

So happy to share this byline with John Coatsworth. revista.drclas.harvard.edu/the-history-...

24.04.2025 03:18 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering WASHINGTON—Seeking to reassure the public after his latest tariffs sent both U.S. and international markets into free fall, President Donald Trump calmly reminded the nation Thursday that desire is th...

This explains it all. theonion.com/trump-calmly...

06.04.2025 02:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love it. Congrats on the publication

04.04.2025 20:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
"Caring About Care", Jane Humphries, 27.02.2025
YouTube video by CEPH "Caring About Care", Jane Humphries, 27.02.2025

Last month, Prof. Jane Humphries (@ox.ac.uk) delivered the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture titled "Caring About Care: The Economic History of Caring Labour"
The lecture is available here, but we'd like to highlight some of the research that supported it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BoY...

31.03.2025 11:42 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Transkribus hasn’t worked that well for me. My students report good results for easy handwriting. But I haven’t been able to crack the nut for structured info.

31.03.2025 02:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What tools do you use for transcribing?

30.03.2025 18:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A simple hack to ChatGPT-proof assignments using Google Drive What if there was a way to maintain the essay in all its three constituent parts – reading, thinking, writing – in the age of ChatGPT? Dave Sayers thinks he has an answer

If you want to prevent use of AI in student assignments, try this method of mine. It works really nicely. In the process, it also gives students transparent tools to prove they did their own work (to me and to future employers).
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/simpl...

29.03.2025 08:56 — 👍 20    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 6

Very clever

29.03.2025 17:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fascinating essay.

29.03.2025 16:50 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Storms, Strength, and Survival: Wyandot Adaptations on the Kansas Prairies The Wyandot endured forced removal, disease, and extreme weather in 1843, but demonstrated resilience, rebuilding their community in Kansas City.

ICYMI

"This is the story of the Wyandot’s resilience—their ability to endure and adapt during an intense period of adversity and extreme weather events—in an unfamiliar land." - Mckelvey Kelly

niche-canada.org/2025/03/27/s...

#wyandot #indigenous #indigenoushistory #envhist

29.03.2025 15:34 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

This is super interesting. Congrats on a wonderful article.

25.03.2025 14:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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24 de marzo: en torno al número de víctimas de la dictadura y los desafíos actuales de la democracia - La Vanguardia A casi medio siglo de distancia, la polémica en torno al número de víctimas de la dictadura se repite una vez más. El historiador Roy Hora propone trascender esta discusión para ponderar la gravedad d...

And on the other side of the spectrum, this great note about the commemoration of March 24 (the last military coup in Argentina) brings the focus to the deep damage of state-sponsored terrorism, transcending the discussion on the number of victims. lavanguardiadigital.com.ar/index.php/20...

24.03.2025 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A 40 años de la Tercera Ola de Democratización: trayectorias democráticas en América Latina | IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal

Interesting forum about assessing forty years of democracy in Latin America.
journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/ib...

24.03.2025 16:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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