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Oooh, ohh, I have a new one for you! Laura did amazing ethnographic field work with drug traffickers in Central America. Her chapter on her methodology is fascinating (and I say that as a historian!)

Yay!! Thank you so much for listening and recommending it-- it has been a passion project for YEARS!

Michelle Paranzino, Carlos Alzugaray, James Hershberg, Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Peter Kornbluh, William LeoGrande, Michelle Chase, Aaron Coy Moulton, and @mjbusta.bsky.social. Thanks to everyone who made this possible, esp @carmensoliz.bsky.social Edward Brudney @historians.org @nehgov.bsky.social

The final episode of our SECOLAS audiodocumentary on the Cuban Missile Crisis is out!! 🎉 In Episode VI: Resolution, Dustin Walcher and I discuss how the crisis came to an end and examine its consequences. We speak with scholars including... (1/2)
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They're lucky to have you ❤️

I'd also add we should be paying attention to the exorbitant fees to send detainees $$ for commissary or to fund their tablets used to communicate w/family & friends.

Access Corrections makes the highest profits from families sending the smallest amounts.

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Yay!!!! Love this so much!!

Yes. And also where's your sense of professional identity and integrity? Have some pride in the fact that you (well, maybe not *you*, but real academics) create new knowledge, something no robot will ever do.

The author line-up is AMAZING!!

on Sunday at 11:30 on a panel about International Security in Latin America and the Middle East (totally irrelevant these days) with Daniel Zoughbie! In my free time, I'll be fan-girling @mkn.bsky.social @exlarson.bsky.social @alixeharrow.bsky.social TJ Klune, RL Stine... and Salman Rushdie! 😱 (2/2)

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Getting so excited for the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend! I'll be presenting Saturday at 11:30 on a panel discussing History, Conflict, and the Americas with @carriegibson.bsky.social (yay for hemispheric histories of the Americas!) and ... (1/2)

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Can’t wait to hear my colleague Laura Blume talk about her amazing book tomorrow (Tuesday) at UNR. Her research on drug trafficking is just mind-blowing!

Ack, I mean Philip Chrimes! Whoops...😬

Huge thanks to Philip Crimes for his generous review of The Fate of the Americas in @iajournal.bsky.social! Love to see my book called "outstanding" and a "milestone" with "crystalline prose" ☺️

THIS PART.

When I graduated from high school my counselor (who was great) told me it was good I wanted to be a physicist because I'd never be a great writer. I was also the worst writer in my frosh expos course.

I am now an award-winning writer. BECAUSE I PRACTICED!!!!!!

This thread!

THE WESTERNERS is out in 3 1/2 weeks, and I will be posting about it quite a lot between now and then.

Vigorous self-promotion is expected now, and is pretty much a part-time job for all nonfiction authors closing in on pub day.

So please like and repost, and help spread the word! 🐝

Awww, honored!!

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So cool to see The Fate of the Americas on sale at my favorite local bookstore! Reno friends, swing by anytime to get a copy for 20% off... or come to my signing event on April 1 with Mark Twain! 😜
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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!!