Looks like an excellent panel!
27.06.2025 14:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@mattiecwebb.bsky.social
Incoming Assistant Professor of History at VMI | Yale Postdoc | UCSB History PhD | Rhodes University Affiliate | US in the World, Global Anti-Apartheid, Labor | Marathon runner
Looks like an excellent panel!
27.06.2025 14:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If you find yourself this afternoon at Day 2 of #SHAFR2025, come on by Studio D from 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm for an incredible lightning round of research from rising junior scholars @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
27.06.2025 12:42 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0On the way to DC for the annual SHAFR conference. Iโm looking forward to catching up with friends, attending some exciting panels, and suffering through the current DC heat wave. If youโre free, come to our Sat morning roundtable on The Global Cold War at 20! @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
26.06.2025 13:35 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โBy casting Afrikaners as victims, the U.S. continues to protect power disguised as persecution; it heeds the calls of the privileged, while ignoring those still living with apartheidโs scars.โ
time.com/7287684/hist...
Itโs like none of these people understood Legally Blonde at all
23.05.2025 12:50 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Could not agree more! My book, Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War, traces exactly this transatlantic connection between apartheid and the American right from 1980 to 1994. Out with Columbia University Press late 2025/early 2026!
10.05.2025 14:52 โ ๐ 2451 ๐ 471 ๐ฌ 36 ๐ 9Agreed! So glad I opted to hold one
07.05.2025 11:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Off to Santa Barbara for the International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, hosted by UCSBโs Center for Cold War Studies and International History. Looking forward to being back in California! Iโm very biased, but this is one of the best conferences out there, esp for grad students
07.05.2025 11:45 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It was so helpfulโI have a lot to think through/revise over the summer!
06.05.2025 02:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0So glad you could be a part of it! I canโt thank you enough for the thoughtful feedback!
27.04.2025 01:46 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thanks to @yale.edu, and especially @kaeteoc.bsky.social, for supporting my manuscript workshop. โShopfloor Statecraftโ (@columbiaup.bsky.social) is still in the early stages, but I think this was a great time to get substantial feedback on the full draft. So much to process moving forward!
26.04.2025 14:32 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Excited to dig into this one and host Gretchen Heefner on Wednesday for our last event of the semester! @shafrhistorians.bsky.social #milhist #envhist #GSYale
21.04.2025 12:52 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0historians who've taught grad readings courses: are there any writing assignments that worked particularly well, either throughout or at the end of the semester?
14.04.2025 13:43 โ ๐ 43 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 2A National History Day display: "Alice Paul: How She Rocked the Vote," from the 2020 contest.
A National History Day display: "D-Day: How the Allies Broke Hitler's Atlantic Barrier, from March 2020, SW Michigan regional competition.
I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.
03.04.2025 20:06 โ ๐ 1684 ๐ 833 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 247Earlier this month, Sheinbaum shared a letter addressed to Google with reporters, arguing that the U.S. had no authority to unilaterally rename the Gulf.
18.02.2025 13:55 โ ๐ 7705 ๐ 1025 ๐ฌ 219 ๐ 80Traveling this weekend, so Iโve just shared a Special Saturday #ScholarSunday threadโmy 212th of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Share widely & enjoy, all! ๐๏ธ
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...