After so many great works, is there more scholars of India can learn about the Green Revolution? The answer is YES.

For H-Environment, I reviewed Prakash Kumar's excellent book, A History of India's Green Revolution: Reign of Technocracy.

Read my review and read Kumar's book.

#ScholarSunday Thread 272 (4/19/26) – Black and White and Read All Over Live from New York, because #ScholarSunday travels, here’s my 272nd thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as wid...

Live from New York, because #ScholarSunday travels, here’s my 272nd thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +

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An unforgettable opossum is waiting on the other side of this link... #histsci #envhist

There has never been a better time to read the declassified history of the failed CIA-led invasion of Cuba in April 1961 at the Bay of Pigs.
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This is excellent

Cuba: The Bay of Pigs Invasion 65 Years Later Washington D.C., April 16, 2026 - In the wake of the failed CIA-led Bay of Pigs invasion, President John F. Kennedy considered reconfiguring and even dismantling the intelligence agency, according to ...

Great collection of documents here from @nsarchive.bsky.social for the 65th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs Invasion... important warnings for today, too! #History #Cuba 🗃️

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They Thought What? Unpacking the history (and present) of science

"Brushing off these practices as unscientific implies that 'true' science is, and always has been, unimpeachable. It denies us a chance to examine what flaws may fuel our own ways of thinking."

A new mailbag from @wbarlowrobles.bsky.social

thrilled to share that my article, "The Ghost of Comilla: Authoritarian Biopolitics and Global Development in Rural East Pakistan," is now out in print in the latest issue of @diplomatichistory.bsky.social.

black and white image of a mid twentieth century desktop computer running a program "project scheduling"

Postcolonial nations in the Global South staged a revolution to build their own domestic computer and IT industries. They were met with a counter revolution led by major Western tech firms and their institutional allies. Learn more on the latest #HagleyHistoryHangout!
www.hagley.org/research/his...

NYC friends - I’m giving a talk today at NYU at 4:30 PM. Hope to see some of you there.

They nailed it on album one.

Trump and his fans have to use AI because there’s never been an instance of him ever helping anyone.

Okay, sure, but there are five whole continents where Vance didn’t take an L this week.

#ScholarSunday Thread 271 (4/12/26) – Black and White and Read All Over Here it is, my 271st #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as you can, & enjoy,...

Here it is, my 271st #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as you can, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +

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Brings me no joy to report this is his “Desolation Row.”

We are doomed to “two weeks” until Jan 2029. This nonsense cannot last.

Lunar Flyby - NASA

I am begging you: take a couple minutes and look at the images from yesterday’s lunar flyby. They are absolutely incredible www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

#ScholarSunday Thread 270 (4/5/26) – Black and White and Read All Over Call me a bizarre anthropomorphic rabbit, because I’ve got so many Easter Eggs in my 270th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add ...

Call me a bizarre anthropomorphic rabbit, because I’ve got so many Easter Eggs in my 270th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy the hunt, all! 🗃️ +

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This Is The Night Performed once a year, the Exsultet features rich descriptions of sights, sounds, scents—and bees.

Working on this with Nathan was one of the only bright spots in the early days of Covid.

We lost him last year, far too early, and I’d love you to read and listen to this small portion of the great scholarship he left us.

This is a great program! A student of mine attended last year and loved it. Definitely apply, there is still time, applications due April 17.

A Nice Trip To The Forest With so many crop dusters, somebody’s bound to see a UFO.

"In the show, the Forest Service ranger reflects the broad-minded optimism of this political moment and his implied role as a mediator distinct from timber interests."

#ScholarSunday Thread 269 (3/29/26) – Black and White and Read All Over #NoKings, but lots of badass public scholars in my 269th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please ...

#NoKings, but lots of badass public scholars in my 269th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy! 🗃️ +

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A Postcard from Canada’s Military Museums Wars have many frontlines... some are drawn through memory.

"From a German perspective, it was a rare opportunity to experience Canadian war memory first-hand."

Instead of posting the actual photo of President Trump at Graceland, looking utterly bored, I have uploaded this photo of Krusty the Clown looking tired in a trading card photo. Thank you for reading the alt text.

From Flickr: President Donald J. Trump tours Graceland, Monday, March 23, 2026, in Memphis, Tennessee. (White House photo by Molly Riley)

#ScholarSunday Thread 268 (3/22/26) – Black and White and Read All Over Bracket busted? Join the club, & then check out all the winning picks in my 268th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the las...

Bracket busted? Join the club, & then check out all the winning picks in my 268th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy the March meaningfulness! 🗃️+

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So sorry to hear. My condolences to you and her family.

I’ve been out of the game for a while and lost track of people in the move to this place, so if you’re an adjunct/VAP/postdoc in history, can you reply and let me know what you work on? I am an editor at @contingent-mag.bsky.social and we are often looking for book reviewers etc.

signing books at a fancy desk

Cokie Roberts Fellowship from the National Archives Foundation application is still open till April 15! it’s more than a research fellowship- it’s a community that supported me on my book’s publication day by letting me sign copies at a fancy desk!!

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Thank you, @h-diplo.bsky.social. Our hopes exactly: "This article is, so far as I know, the first to seriously consider the question of what normalization means, not just in the specific context of US–China relations, but also in US foreign policy
more broadly."🗃️ issforum.org/reviews/PDF/...

The Shamrock and the Sham though in an idyllic setting, I was poised above a mass grave.

"I wrote 'duped' in my notebook and underlined it twice. Faithful pilgrim that I am, devoted Franciscan, I had collapsed in a cemetery with my head bowed for a lie."