Felix A. Jiménez Botta

Thanks a lot @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social, really glad the article is useful! I am eagerly awaiting your book which is in the mail.

I read some of the most exciting work in human rights history from the past five years, summarized, and analyzed it in a 14-page historiographical review. It’s available open access and it’s among the most downloaded articles at CEH. Please share widely!
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100 Notable Books of 2025

Today is a big day for me: After years of work in dusty archives around the world and unending hours on the computer, Capitalism: A Global History is out. And the book just received the best possible birthday gift:It became one of the NYT's 100 notable books of 2025.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...

Congratulations!!

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

A great article against AI slop and higher ed’s complicity: “History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost ... Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Great article. Finally a sane push back against AI slop and the constant demand to teach AI literacy in the classroom. Glad to see a fellow historian fight back.

Join me in Berlin on Wednesday November 5 at 6PM for a book talk on Capitalism: A Global History at Freie Universität Berlin | Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut (Raum A 127)

I suspect it is the obvious elite entitlement displayed by Ms. Harris, which is one of the main reasons why we are in this mess.

Congratulations! Cant’ wait to read it.

Congratulations! This is such an illuminating work.

Inteligencia artificial e historia: lo que no puede una máquina | Nueva Sociedad Un reciente estudio de Microsoft Research incluyó a los historiadores entre los profesionales más reemplazables por la inteligencia artificial. Pero esa proyección desconoce lo esencial: la historia n...

“The idea that a machine, an artificial intelligence, non-human, can do history is truly absurd.” Excellent short essay by Andrés Gattinoni exposing the fallacies in claims by the AI hype-cycle (looking at you Microsoft!) that we are to be replaced by their shoddy products. nuso.org/articulo/his...

The Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation This cutting-edge collection of essays analyses the pivotal year of 1989 and the transformation processes that resulted from a historical perspective. It takes the events of that momentous year as a p...

Excited to see The Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation hit the web www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... It should be out at the end of 2025.

Never Forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Picture credit: NARA, College Park MD.

If you want to use this document for your classes, here it is: international-review.icrc.org/sites/defaul...

“The Police Authorities also mention that parents could not recognize their youngsters as all victims of the school looked completely alike. On [29 August] still carloads of dead bodies were being carried away to the cremation place and the city was filled with the stench of corpses.”

Tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima: From the ICRC’s confidential report on the effects of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, pp. 6–7: “Those victims who were in the immediate vicinity of the centre in the streets were completely burnt and unrecognizable...”

I would like to announce the account of the journal I edit:

@journalgenocide.bsky.social

Please follow it for updates on our articles.

Thank you.

The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State. Available now as an Ebook! (print copies will start shipping in a month)

I keep hearing about the “total disregard for international law” (e.g. Volker Türk) which the situation in Gaza is supposed to showcase. But @dirkmoses.bsky.social shows that international law protects the right of states to wage war, even if they actively target civilians.

Psst, I have a new discount code to save 30% on my new book "A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa." Or maybe ask your library to order a copy if it's still a stretch. fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

Setting the record straight about the GDR by @historyned.bsky.social

Great idea Tiffany, count me in!

I should add a special thanks to @brandonbloch.bsky.social and @dsharnak.bsky.social for their support and comments!

Official release day for my newie 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa'. And I have copies!! Would love to see this in a few libraries. You can order it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Can't wait to hear your thoughts about it! See you at AHA/GSA next year?

Thanks so much Tiffany :)

Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990 Cambridge Core - European Studies - Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990

My book, Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990, is out this September!
Thanks to Devin Pendas, Quinn Slobodian, Lora Wildenthal, @historyned.bsky.social, @laurenstokes.bsky.social, and @willgray.bsky.social for their support!
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The question remains whether we’ll be able to tell. Now we can, but in 5 years? Who knows.

A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.

This is some bleak shit. Historians literally outsourcing the creative and research process to a thieving algorithm ripping off the IP of their own fellow-historians.

Says everything that they’re doing it from a Google office.

Hacks. They should be ashamed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...