Jeremy Best

First ever! Lets goooooo!

✨ We're kicking off #theGSA2025 with our 11th annual Arts Night!

🗓 Thurs, Sept 25 | 6:30–10:10pm
📍 Grand Salon B + National Landing 1–4

🎲 Game Night (7–9)
🎬 Screenings (DEFA + BDSN)
📚 Reading: Novelist Franz Friedrich

Free + open to the public. Full details in the GSA 2025 App!

Me: I'm at risk of burnout because I can't keep up with everything, including the reading.
Random Higher Ed Industry Person: I can help! Here's my 250-page book about how to avoid burnout!

What we are seeing here is one country that has tried to learn the lessons of the Weimar Republic. “Militant democracy” means acting to defend the democratic constitution.

I can recommend a brief reading list to the Secretary of State, if he’d like.

Definitely saving that money and waiting for it to go on sale. Plenty of fun to be had with other games while I wait.

Photo of Profs. Best and Behnken standing in front of descriptive blocks at the CJM.

Me and my boy @besthistories.bsky.social at the Capitol Jewish Museum in DC.

Heading with my man @historybrian.bsky.social to DC with our great students in HIST 4690x: History of Racial Violence!
@iowastatehistory.bsky.social

I am going to be Director of Undergraduate Studies for my department next year. Any fresh ideas on what that job might include?

I did! I can’t go, though. So disappointed.

Pitches to Disney:

Muppet Pride and Prejudice
Muppet Sorrows of Young Werther
Muppet Frankenstein, or The Modern Muppet Prometheus
Muppet Les Miserables

Pitches to Disney:

Muppet Pride and Prejudice
Muppet Sorrows of Young Werther
Muppet Frankenstein, or The Modern Muppet Prometheus
Muppet Les Miserables

I don’t know if anyone else is having this experience, but lots of people seem to want to talk to a German historian as a sort of therapy right now.

I'll be part of a panel on the postcolonial history and responsibilities of missionaries at this important event hosted by the Heinrich Boell Stiftung. If you're in Berlin in May, I'm just one part of a great program.

calendar.boell.de/en/event/din...

Based on the auto-formatting competencies of Word, I have little fear that AI will take over our world.

Capture our world in a frustrating, recursive cycle of modifications, corrections, "corrections", and resignation; yes.

Germany bound. Research leaving.

Iowa State's College of Design is hiring a game design professor. Please share widely and consider applying if it looks right for you!

isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Maybe this Ackman guy has a good point…

PLEASE REPOST IF YOU ARE A HISTORY ACCOUNT ❤️

I NEED TO FIND MY PEOPLE 📚

New book, “Dice and Vice”?

(from Origins 1978 Program)

Heading to the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester for a few weeks of research. Probably will include a day (or so) in Buffalo. Any recommendations from folks on things to do, foods to eat, etc.?

Just getting set up here. Glad to meet everyone. Follow me for occasional thoughts on history and higher education. Sometimes politics.