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This is the official Bluesky account for the Rutgers History Department (New Brunswick, NJ), designed to celebrate our students, faculty, and alums and to build intellectual networks and community.

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A chance to learn how Rutgers professors across the disciplines are teaching early modern history and culture. #Rutgers

02.10.2025 15:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Check out this Q&A with Rutgers History prof Jack Bouchard about his forthcoming book, โ€œTerra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic Worldโ€ (@yalepress, 2025) #Rutgers

history.rutgers.edu/news-events/...

02.10.2025 14:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Volume 48 Issue 3 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press

Congratulations to Suzanne Kaufmann (Rutgers History, Ph.D. 1996) on her new article in French Historical Studies:

"Incident at Sousse: West African Soldiers, Legionnaires, and the Racial Politics of Colonial Policing in 1930s French Tunisia"

read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

30.09.2025 15:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Douglass Ghosts: A Student's Look into Douglass' Past | Douglass Residential College

Congratulations to Lily Barker, second year Rutgers History major and artist at Douglass Residential College on her photobook, Douglass Ghosts. #Rutgers douglass.rutgers.edu/news/douglas...

30.09.2025 14:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Posting for our colleagues at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice and the Center for Cultural Analysis. #Rutgers

28.09.2025 22:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Welcome to Efsun Cazu, one of our new Ph.D. students in the Rutgers History Department. #Rutgers

23.09.2025 12:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Welcome to Florencia Bertinotti, one of our new Ph.D. students in the Rutgers History Department. #rutgers

22.09.2025 23:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Meet Leah Long, one of our newest students in the Rutgers History Ph.D. program. #Rutgers

22.09.2025 23:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Let's welcome Andrew Mathis to the PhD program in History at Rutgers University. #rutgers

21.09.2025 18:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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As always, the most fun to be had in Van Dyck Hall happens at the undergraduate History Club meetings on Monday night. All Rutgers students interested in history are welcome at the Monday evening club meetings. Sea Shanties on Monday, September 22, 2025. #rutgers

21.09.2025 15:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Enjoy meeting Koda Drake, one of our newest doctoral students in the Rutgers History Department. #Rutgers

21.09.2025 14:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Enjoy meeting Ben Jacob, one of the new cohort of doctoral students in the Rutgers History Department. #Rutgers

19.09.2025 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Welcome to Morgan Goode, one of our newest History Ph.D. students.#Rutgers

19.09.2025 19:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Welcome to Ian Scott, one of our newest History Ph.D. students! #Rutgers

19.09.2025 19:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Translating Faith โ€” Harvard University Press A revealing account of the lives and work of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome, examining how this African diasporic community navigated the challenges of religious pluralism in th...

Dr. Samantha Kelly has been awarded the Albert C. Outler Prize by the American Society of Church History for Translating Faith: Ethiopian Pilgrims in Renaissance Rome (2024). This prize honors the best book that illumines the diversity of global Christianity. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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The Rutgers History Department welcomes our newest Ph.D. students.

17.09.2025 23:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump's War on 'Vagrancy' Has a Dark History Using the antiquated language of "vagrancy," Trump Administration officials are tapping into a long history of policing.

Don't miss Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan's analysis of Trump's war on "vagrancy" in her recent article in Time magazine. #Rutgers time.com/7315567/vagr...

17.09.2025 00:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump's War on 'Vagrancy' Has a Dark History Using the antiquated language of "vagrancy," Trump Administration officials are tapping into a long history of policing.

my brilliant colleague Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan (@ruhistorydept.bsky.social) on the notable use of "vagrant," a throwback language of criminalization, by this administration in its assaults on communities.
time.com/7315567/vagr...

16.09.2025 16:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Meet our newest History Ph.D. students. #Rutgers

17.09.2025 00:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Poland, Then and Now: Through Jewish Eyes โ€“ Taube Jewish Heritage Tours

Best wishes to RU History prof Nancy Sinkoff and the lucky Rutgers students she is traveling with to Poland this September 2025. Professor Sinkoff's educational trips to Poland are legendary. Learn about them here: tours.taubecenter.org/tour/polandt... #Rutgers

09.09.2025 13:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Are you ready to study history? Are you willing? Welcome to the first day of the Fall 2025 semester. #Rutgers

02.09.2025 13:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Countdown: One day to the start of the Fall 2025 semester at Rutgers. Time to put on your "history hat"! (And Happy Labor Day from the Rutgers History Department.) #rutgers

01.09.2025 13:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How thrilling to open the New York Times "Design" section on this beautiful Labor Day weekend to see an article on our colleague James Delbourgo's newest book, A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now. # Rutgers www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/798395...

30.08.2025 13:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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There are many ways to answer the question "Why study history?" It is useful to hear what Eric Foner had to say way back in 2002. #Rutgers

28.08.2025 23:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The start of the fall semester is a good time to remind ourselves why we do what we do -- teach and study history. Here is some inspiration from the great historian Natalie Zemon Davis. #rutgers

27.08.2025 12:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Four Ways to Fix Government HR โ€œIf you make the civil service more stultified, you have to contract stuff outโ€

Enjoy this interview with Rutgers History PhD Judge Glock (now Director of Research at the Manhattan Institute) on reforming government hiring practices and HR. #Rutgers www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-fix...

24.08.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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