Megan Maruschke

Stripping Naturalized Americans of Citizenship Faces High Legal Hurdles The Trump administration may want to aggressively denaturalize citizens, but the Supreme Court has forbidden doing so when a person’s political beliefs are a focus.

Excellent Expert Brief on Denaturalization including the relevant legal precedent from @brennancenter.org by @faizapatel.bsky.social & @margyoh.bsky.social. 🗃️

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic By Kathleen Telling In 1785, Robert Pleasants, a wealthy tobacco planter, abolitionist, and prominent member of Henrico County’s Quaker community, penned a letter to Virginia’s most famous son, Geo…

When people tell you that founders as enslavers was something we should see "in the context of their time." Great piece fr @katytelling.bsky.social abt a wealthy 18hc Virginian (and there were others) who thought Washington and co. risked their honor and more. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...

illustration intitulée "distinguished colored men" : plusieurs cartouches ovales sont assemblés avec les portraits de leaders politiques africains-américains du XIXe siècle". Au centre, un cartouche avec le portrait de Frederick Douglass.

📻 La nouvelle saison des Voies de l'Histoire commence sur @euradio.bsky.social et avec le @crhia.bsky.social : nous démarrons l'année avec Claire Bourhis-Mariotti qui nous parle des liens politiques entre les États-Unis et Haïti au XIXe siècle :
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Super excited and proud to announce the start of the De Gruyter Brill/GSA Dissertation Prize!!

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Cannot WAIT to check out everything people have worked on - please spread the word and/or submit, prize is a 1000EUR and a free OA publication :)

@thegsa.bsky.social

@zeitgeschul.bsky.social @recentglobe.bsky.social @transimperial.bsky.social

Leipzig town centre in the 1980s

Out now! @joseaguilar1992.bsky.social (@czechacademy.bsky.social) analyses "The Anticolonial Moment and the Global Influence of the Leipzig School: A Sociology of Cold War Intellectual History" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are seeking a PhD candidate with an interest in East–West European relations (1970s–1990s) to work with me and Aline Sierp. The deadline for submitting proposals is 28 September.

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Job Opportunity!

University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography

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Exclusive: Trump administration weighing refugee cap of 40,000 with focus on white South Africans U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is discussing a refugee admissions cap of around 40,000 for the coming year with a majority allocated to white South Africans, according to two U.S. officials briefed on the matter and an internal refugee program email, reflecting a major shift in the U.S. approach to refugees.

Beyond Orwellian to complete undermining

www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Screenshot of the website header for slavesinparis.org comprising a drawing of the Place des Victoires in 18th-century Paris

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

BUT I would recommend it for students. University in European countries, incl. Germany, is often free or with minimal enrollment fees of a few hundred Euro. Many programs in English, too.

Europe at EU and national levels are putting together funding, but indeed the dream is "Spitzenforscher," and not only Americans but people from elsewhere who don't go to the US.
What they offer won't probably be more than temporary positions so not that attractive: bsky.app/profile/humb...

It breaks my heart how few news articles there are on this recent EO on forced removal and institutionalization of the unhoused (and others).
Did @nytimes.com even publish one? If so, it wasn't visible on my app.

Global Minds Initiative Germany - BMBF Our Global Minds Initiative Germany offers international research talent career prospects in the German science system. We will thereby lastingly strengthen the German and European Research Area.

Global Minds Initiative Germany: Federal Ministry of Research launches new programme to strengthen Germany as a science location together with the Humboldt Foundation, @dfg.de and @daadworldwide.bsky.social.
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Uncover stories of restriction and resilience. In a new collection from Past & Present.

Uncover stories of restriction and resilience.

In a new collection from Past & Present, scholars highlight how immobility shapes both lives and legacies: oxford.ly/45ptK0b

@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social

I assume this EO will impact veterans. Part of my book Asylum at the Almshouse, will look at the intersections between refugees and military veterans discarded from imperial projects (US, France, Britain) in prison or the almshouse of Philadelphia (1790s/early 1800s). Lit suggestions welcome...

The Ugly Laws The murky history behind municipal laws criminalizing disabilityIn the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipal laws targeting "unsightly beg...

Chapter 7 here, especially: nyupress.org/978081478361...

Cover of book, with photograph of a group of men with surveying equipment standing in front of a mountain range

Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality - Cambridge University Press, August 2025
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Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain | Samantha Seeley | University of North Carolina Press Who had the right to live within the newly united states of America?In the country's founding decades, federal and state politicians debated which categories...

uncpress.org/book/9781469...

@unlawfulentries.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Vagrants and Vagabonds The riveting story of control over the mobility of poor migrants, and how their movements shaped current perceptions of class and status in the United States...

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The incarceration of the mobile poor, homeless and mentally ill has long been connected to the policing of "foreigners", broadly conceived incl. Black and Indigenous people. Below are some reading suggestions for 19th century.

Dying Before Germ Theory As RFK questions germ theory, and measles ravages unvaccinated children, Americans need to know what is at risk. Americans died at higher rates and younger ages before the introduction of germ theo…

While I would prefer that my historical research have less relevance, please read and consider what it was like to fall ill and die before germ theory. #histmed 🗃️ nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...

Canal Dreamers | Jessica M. Lepler | University of North Carolina Press In the 1820s, there was a little-known quest to unite the world by building a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. As Spanish American nations d...

If you want to enjoy opening your own package containing Canal Dreamers, you can get it here: uncpress.org/book/9781469.... Before the August 26 publication date, you can save 30% with this code: 01SOCIAL30.

@uncpress.bsky.social

Which year? My Ausländerbehörde @stadtleipzig.bsky.social is processing requests to apply for citizenship from June 2022. Not actually applications, just a waiting list to start the application process.

This is just sick.

via @ktla.com: Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America? If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.

An astonishing figure in this piece:

Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing.

This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers.

That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.

Happy to see this article out!!!

Estates and inheritances as objects of international cooperation and international conflicts between 1840 and 1980, #ColdWar #Migration #Property

Many thanks to @gauthamrao.bsky.social and @lawandhistrev.bsky.social

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Chiswell’s Lead Mines in the American Revolution - Encyclopedia Virginia Origins Chiswell discovered lead deposits on Cherokee land near the west of the sometime in the 1750s. After William Byrd III, who served as a colonel with British forces during the , constructed F...

My entry for Encyclopedia Virginia, focusing on how the U.S. war effort depended on enslaved miners during the Amrrican Revolution, and how patriots used public labor to *terrorize* Black Virginians, is published.
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