Christina Ramos

A photograph of books displayed on a table. The blue cover of De Less Harm is in the center.

Super exciting to see Do Less Harm in the wild! #HSS2025

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Hello again from Napoleon C, where a large crowd has gathered for the #HSS2025 distinguished lecture! Our speaker is Conevery Valencius, whose research draws connections b/w #histSTM, #EarthScience & #envhist.

Her talk tonight is entitled "Boom: What History of Science Needs to know About Shale."

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OK--the coffee break is over, and it's time for the second Saturday morning #HSS2025 panel. I'm in the Edgewood room for an authors roundtable featuring new books in the global history of science.

Looking forward to hearing about John Herschel, Soviet computing & the Buenos Aires Zoo! #histSTM

Our program chairs, @chrheaney.bsky.social & @xtinaramos.bsky.social, remind us that last year HSS celebrated its centennial in Merida.

Tonight, we're kicking off our 2nd century by thinking about the public stories we tell about #histSTM when scientific institutions are under threat. #HSS2025

Congrats to @eobrien.bsky.social!

How am I just seen this?! Congrats, Elizabeth, that’s huge! You’re such a superstar!

Very proud to be part of these two great collections with so many great colleagues. Do what @cethompson.bsky.social says. Spice up your class.

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With more amazing #histmed authors than I can list here, these two books offer a wide range of accessible scholarship. Pre-order now! 2/2

Do Less Harm:
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The Nursing Clio Reader: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...

Fantastic (long-overdue, imho) interview on history of psychiatry and "mental health" industrial complex, etc etc etc with brilliant and effervescent @daniellecarr.bsky.social on @thedigradio.bsky.social - thank you @danieldenvir.bsky.social

FEBRUARY 27, 5:00-8:30 PM All Welcome! | Free Evening Hours | Free Parking: 52 Oxford Street Garage Entrance at 1 Oxford Street, Harvard Science Center, Cambridge HYBRID CONVERSATION to be held in Harvard Science Center Lecture Hall A HARVARD COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS ArtsThursdays The Power and Bias of Measurements HYBRID CONVERSATION: 6:00-7:00 PM ET OPEN CHI GALLERIES: 5:00-6:00 / 7:00-8:30 PM Gabriela Soto Laveaga | Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez | Pablo Gómez READ MORE ITHOESOAYS DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER Colicction of Historical Scientific Instruments MARVARD UNIVERSITY HMSC SCIENCE & СИСТИЖЕ

Harvard Museums lecture "The Power & Bias of Measurements" with Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, Pablo F. Gómez, & Gabriela Soto Laveaga Thursday, February 27th at 6 p.m. for exhibition Measuring Difference. Lecture is free & open to public, in person & online. #HPS
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I have a book cover!! So grateful to the brilliant cover art designers who reworked the original Kennedy briefing map for me. Coming October 2025! 🗃️

Sooo excited for this! Thanks @amandajsummers.bsky.social!

The End of Resistance History As the Biden administration is swept into the dustbin, Charlotte Rosen wonders: what was the liberal Hashtag-Resistance "Twitterstorian"? And, as a product of the first Trump term, what did commentato...

As Biden is swept into the dustbin, Charlotte E. Rosen wonders: what was the Resistance “Twitterstorian”?

Well-paid liberal “attack dogs” of democracy like Heather Cox Richardson proved to be all too willing to turn to Democratic Party apologia—especially on Gaza.

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Vetoing is the last resort of those who have lost the argument already

I truly do not know what learned societies are for any more.

I LOVE this cover - and the fact that I’ve been able to collaborate with such an amazing scholarly collective!

Business Meeting Resolution Update - AHA Update as of January 17, 2025: The AHA Council deplores any intentional destruction of Palestinian educational institutions, libraries, universities, and archives in Gaza. The Council considers the “R...

Stunning cowardice by the AHA Council. For shame. "The Council considers the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza ... to contravene the Association’s Constitution and Bylaws because it lies outside the scope of the Association’s mission and purpose." 🗃️
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could’ve sent this to the full membership for a vote, but the council outright vetoed it instead. if you’re not interested in your members’ views, i’m not sure why your members should remain part of the organization.

Fighting the plague in the Crown of Aragon (mid-fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries) This article seeks to identify possible drivers explaining the evolution of the measures adopted by the municipal governments of the late medieval Crown of Aragon to fight the plague, from the Blac...

Newest item on the "Mother of All Pandemics" (2nd Plague Pandemic) bibliography: Reixach Sala, A. (2025). Fighting the plague in the Crown of Aragon (mid-fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries). Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, 1–21. doi.org/10.1080/1754... #MedievalSky #PublicHealth

Forgotten Paintings Rediscovered in Mexican Church Restoration A new restoration of a church in Mexico has revealed a host of resplendent 16th-century religious paintings that once spanned its ceiling.

16th-century paintings rediscovered in the church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in the tiny Mexican town of Santa María Huiramangaro, Michoacán news.artnet.com/art-world/la... #earlymodern

Congratulations to the membership of the American Historical Association for finding the voice, moral clarity, professional integrity to vote YES on the Resolution Against Scholasticide in Gaza! The work is just beginning. There will be more votes, chances to stand up. Take every opportunity. #AHA25

Historians hold each other's new books at the AHA.

Our books are out!

You can get them at a discount at @uncpress.bsky.social booth at the #AHA25 🗃️

#AHA25 resolution against scholasticide in Gaza passes 428 to 88!!

The Coming of the Kingdom Cambridge Core - Latin American Studies - The Coming of the Kingdom

I’m delighted to announce that my new book, The Coming of the Kingdom: the Muisca, Catholic Reform, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada has just come out in open access digital form (hardcover to follow shortly). It is free to download and read at the link below. 1/5

The image is the cover of the book, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic by Cambridge University Press.

✍️Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic
💭 An intellectual history exploring how free & enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized & contested ideas about slavery & freedom
🕰️Out on Dec 5th '24
🤫 already available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Controlling Contagion How human institutions—markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families—have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.

New book on how human institutions have both exacerbated and try to control epidemics. I haven't seen it yet. But seems like it's one to keep an eye out for when it's released in a couple of months: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #EpiSky

The Lancashire Plague Petitions: Life after the Plague in Early Modern England Abstract. Historians typically explore the resilience of past societies in terms of large-scale outcomes like population levels. In contrast, this paper ex

My very first article has been published in the American Historical Review! ✨

In it I've transcribed a handful of petitions that help us to understand how people began to piece their lives back together following an outbreak of plague 👇

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My latest acquisition. Chapter 6 deals with black mariners as transatlantic healers.