Renata Keller

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The article also points to the corruption of the selection process for new NEH grants.

Massachusetts residents, famously super chill about the government messing with their favorite beverages.

What a cool activity!!

“Is it allergies or a cold” is my least favorite game

"Chad" 😂

I hate it when my research is timely

The struggle is real and it's WORTH IT

They are now deporting Dreamers.

That is some tragic history-making from a self-proclaimed ‘peace’ president🗃️

So excited for this!!

165 years ago today the Nevada Territory was established by President Lincoln, in no small part to prevent the Mormons from declaring the entire Great Basin their economic and theocratic kingdom.

flyer for book talk at Chapman University

Hey LA area, I'm headed your way tomorrow! So excited to chat about The Fate of the Americas with students and colleagues including @mateojarquin.bsky.social at Chapman!

Gorgeous!!

Opinion | Trump says Iranians should rise up. Regime change isn't that simple. Kelly J. Shannon: The administration's message for regime change was undercut by its own actions.

@thegingerprof.bsky.social has a great article at MS Now on the war with Iran.
www.ms.now/opinion/iran...

This is how you do it.

Hey you can’t assassinate or kidnap leaders of sovereign nations just because they are bad.

Feel like this needs to be said

As many are noting, historically in the recent past and overall in world military and diplomatic history, external attacks and assassinations have a bad track record in toppling regimes, particularly without sustained commitment to military occupation. Instead they tend to strengthen the state. 🗃️

The multinational Iran Nuclear Deal, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was working by almost every account and the US withdrew in May 2018, it has all been getting worse in US-Iran relations since then. Though there is a longer history at work... Accurate on the recent history for sure🗃️ 👇

A war no one asked for, started in an attempt to improve a president’s poll numbers, and now children we allegedly want to free are dead.

Lecture notes from Spring 2020

Just opened up my mid-March lecture notes from my Cold War class, which I last taught in Spring 2020. I'll be over here taking some deep, calming breaths to get me through that bit about discussing moving class online...

Episode 88: Sonya Bonczek Gives Us the Scoop on Book Publicity Kate Carpenter interviews Sonya Bonczek, director of publicity at UNC Press, about how book publicity works and what authors can do to promote their books.

What a delightful surprise to open up the latest episode of @draftingthepast.bsky.social and hear @sonyabonczek.bsky.social's voice! Such an important and interesting conversation about the world of book publicity!
draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

Great publishing advice thread!

My god no! It was mass slaughter! In 1915, the US government counted the largest ever horse population in the US at > 21 million, which started to drop in the 1920s until the population hit 3 million in 1960 when the count ended. Horses live for 25, 30 years. This was not natural decline.

Tonkin Gulf in the Caribbean?
www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Just 2 percent of all college students—including 3 percent of Republicans—say they feel they don’t belong on campus due to their political views."

Child’s homemade do not disturb sign

Tempted to steal my daughter’s sign for my office door…

Cover of the Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

Book 5 of 2026! A fun, easy historical fiction read— perfect for travel and a cozy, snowy Sunday afternoon.