@mbzepedacortes
Assoc. Prof. of History at Lehigh University on leave. John Carter Brown Library Fellow, 2024-25. IAS member 2023-24. Writing biography of José de Gálvez (1720-1787) for Yale UP. Eighteenth-century Studies. Book history too! Views and opinions are my own.
Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."
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Todays is #BadBunnyDay and a good moment to read my book review in the @historians.org’s AHR!!! It contrasts Bad 🐰’s #Dtmf album with a legal history of #PuertoRico book:
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Hoy 👇🏽 con transmisión por Facebook. Sobre militarismo en la historia de #PuertoRico 🇵🇷muy relevante en nuestros días
😃👉🏾Ya salió mi reseña de "Miradas coloniales" de Miguel Ángel Puig-Samper en el último número de la Revista de Hispanismo Filosófico (núm. 30, 2025) // My latest book review is out: on a book that explores the intersections of colonialism and photography 📸
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
"'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week: More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are 'actively infected.' The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states."
The crisis is real, and this is part of our effort at new approaches to supporting scholars and advancing scholarship in the (vast!) early Americas.
Sharing again and would appreciate your sharing, too. More info in the thread. 🧵⬇️
It was an amazing panel! With insightful comments from the audience. I learned so much! We crowned the experience with an arepas lunch!!! #aha2026 #VenezuelanHistory @clahistorians.bsky.social
Happening in 30 minutes at the #aha2026 in Chicago: our panel on Venezuelan independence hero, Francisco de Miranda 🇻🇪 @clahistorians.bsky.social
Ufff so many I haven’t watched 😅
I called my representative and my two senators (including war-hawk Fetterman 😡) this morning! Have you 🫵🏽 done your job today? Stop the armed attacks on Venezuela! Stop the Epstein War!
Heartbreaking. Very shocking to see familiar places and think of people we value in the midst of the tragedy. Sending love and support to all the JCB community. Stay safe.
Thinking of all our friends and colleagues at Brown University. This craziness has to stop.
God! Bless! the people who attended the hearing and shared with her what everyday people with a heart think of this cruelty. Absolutely worth a watch, even if the heroes are off camera.
Agree: he is really the worst
How many shades of blue do you see in this painting? 💙
🖼️ Johannes Vermeer, Woman Reading a Letter, c. 1663
👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108372
Deadline approaching: (Nov. 15th) #CFP International Conference: "Mary's Grandsons: Marian devotion, colonial politics and native strategies against imperial pressure", that will be celebrated in Madrid in May, 2026.👇🏾👇🏾 #history
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Today at Lehigh! Free and open to the public #eighteenthcenturystudies Amanda Herbert’s lecture has a wonderful title: “Stewing Alive”!
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
Next April at the #HuntingtonLibrary, I will participate in "Spain and the Birth of the United States: A California Conversation," a contribution to the 250th anniversary of the #AmericanRevolution
Find the program here 👉🏾 dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a...
#Semiquincentennial #America250
“This was a very very bad vote”
