@norbertobarreto.bsky.social
Puerto Rican historian and blogger working on American history, US-Latin American relations, and US-Peruvian relations. norbertobarreto.wordpress.com
My super-smart brother just joined Bluesky! Check out his work and give him a follow! #history 🗃️ @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
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Gracias por un libro tan bueno y necesario. Te comento que coordino en Perú un grupo de investigación y que uno de nuestros objetivos es fomentar el estudio de la Guerra Fría por estas tierras. Estamos esperando que nos confirmen un financiamiento para una investigación sobre la CM.
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Comparto mi reseña del libro de Renata Keller, The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War. @renatakeller.bsky.social
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Found in the Densho Digital Repository
A photograph of the Kanzaki family and the Thompson family. Location unknown, the photograph was taken on February 9, 1941. Captions in album: "Taken at Miyaki's Home February 2, 1941" and "Mr. Thompson - Hede - Mrs. Thompson - Howard - Eva - Harry - Sumi - Mem - Miya"
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
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I am speechless.
"The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
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Lillian Fishburne in dress uniform, in front of the US flag. She is a Black woman with a heap of medals.
#OnThisDay, 1 Feb 1998, Lillian Fishburne becomes the first African-American woman to be a rear Admiral in the US Navy.
#WomenInHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
In a recent episode of #HistoryInFocus, @danieljstory.bsky.social revisits historian Elizabeth Hinton’s exploration of W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1935 magnum opus Black Reconstruction. We also hear from Eric Foner, Chad Williams, Sue Mobley, and Kendra Field. 🗃️
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Perfect timing. Taking a break from writing to check out what looks to be a fascinating new book by @gauthamrao.bsky.social. Thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social for the advance reader copy. 🗃️
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Did american writers who popularized the idea of “culture wars” in the late 20th c remember something we have now forgotten? 🗃️
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"At Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana, exhibit text that described the United States being “hungry for gold and land” and breaking promises to Native Americans was ordered changed or removed." #NationalParks 🗃️ www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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