Mark Thomas-Patterson

I hope my queries guided you to this path.

From my own experience (also only with civilian ed), upper-level seminars can work a lot better online than lecture-based courses (largely due to self-selection among students).

Moreover, if you expand the field to war and society, there are lots of people who do military-adjacent history (especially war and society) in academia. I think one of the significant issues is that public libraries often lack a substantial collection of academic press books.

100% agree. The argument seemed to imply that without sanctions, Saddam would be content not to conduct trade.

I am quite befuddled by his claim that the Iraq invasion was a conscious effort to bring Iraq into the global economy. Like, how did Saddam finance arms purchases in the 1980s?

The best part of being editor in chief for @warroomeds.bsky.social is advance copies of books. I met @the-irish-texan.bsky.social several years ago in College Station and seeing this develop into an award-winning book has been great fun. Podcast to air this summer! @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

Yeah, I think showing a map of the 1992/1996 elections can be very helpful for illustrating dynamics (WV/KY voting for Clinton). Moreover, people's knowledge of the recent past is often inconsistent.

Not surprising given the overall nature of the series, but I found Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction to be very helpful in this regard.

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Great piece. I think one thing you hone in on here that is important is the visual language element. Catholicism provides an aesthetic (counter) narrative that large sections of American Protestantism lack.

It seems, from what I've heard, somewhat smoother (not necessarily easier to get a job) in "credential-based fields" (ed/med).

“Oriental Christians” in France and in Syria The wars in Iraq and Syria have revived the persecution of Christians of the Middle East as an issue in Europe. An in-depth research on its political use.

The following is more present in Europe than in the US, but has also played a role in this reappraisal.
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Also, so many of those roles are important in academia. Lunches are not magically organized, and chairs aren't spontaneously endowed.

Relatedly, a movie looking at a border community between French West Africa and a British colony (Gold Coast, Gambia) following the establishment of the Vichy government would be great.

Moreover, social media and the fact that everything one writes is (relatively) public and easily shared make this much more visible, and in my opinion, worse.

We all forget the Quebec Act.

Remembering Joseph S. Nye

Sad news: Joe Nye has passed away. www.belfercenter.org/collection/r...

UNC-Chapel Hill historian Kathleen DuVal wins Pulitzer Prize - College of Arts and Sciences Kathleen DuVal, a historian in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill, has received a Pulitzer Prize for her book "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America."

Huge congratulations to @kathleenduval.bsky.social, former member of the UNC Press Board of Governors, on winning a Pulitzer Prize for her book NATIVE NATIONS 🎉👏

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Do you know of any work that focuses on moderate Republicans after Reagan? I know the last chapter in the aforementioned work touches on it, but I was curious if there was a more in-depth examination.

On a semi-related note, this may provide some interesting context.

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Someone can argue the contrary, but if I ran a major paper, I would spin off my op-eds into a separate publication that would maintain some distinction from straight news coverage.