Amazing! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts!

At long last! The official publication date for my book is here. I can’t wait to hear back from readers and get these important histories out in the world.

On the left, a photo of the cover of SURVIVAL AT TREBLINKA. On the right, the words "AVAILABLE NOW" and two blurbs: “Innovative and revelatory. A superb example of first-rate scholarship that expertly blends theory with historical evidence to expose the wider context of Jewish agency, both male and female, by those who enabled and conducted this iconic act of Jewish resistance under the most extreme circumstances.” — Edward B. Westermann. “Through his exploration of the role that masculinity played in the resistance, Gibbs is able to uncover the hitherto almost completely ignored subject of women’s experiences at Treblinka. This is an extraordinary feat and one that is genuinely exciting.” — Zoë Waxman

Happy publication date to @chadgibbs101.bsky.social, whose new book, Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance, is out today!

Learn more: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/S/Surv...

Why now? The wave of regime attacks has moved beyond them. Trumpism looks weak at the moment and they’re trying to build some new long term compliance? I honestly don’t get it.

Maybe you’re on to something. I’m one of those people and I was born in Illinois.

New article this week in The Conversation that takes a brief look at my work to uncover women’s lives and acts in resistance at Treblinka.

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts coming this summer. Looking forward to talking with @chadgibbs101.bsky.social & Sarah Zarrow about their fantastic new books!

The president speaks genocide The words, the law, the future

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
These are the words of the president of the United States, today.
The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...

That must be a hell of a feeling. My own first book is just out, but the first book of a PhD advisee has got to be the only thing better.

Hey hey, I recognize one of those!

For #MosseWednesday, check out @chadgibbs101.bsky.social's recent lecture, "Survival at Treblinka."

🎥: youtube.com/watch?v=_0oC...

And if you like the lecture, his book is now available through @uwiscpress.bsky.social

📖: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/S/Surv...

#UWHistdept #EuropeanstudiesatUWMadison

Wilson?

This is terrible, but I don’t know whether he doesn’t know what DEI is or refuses to say. Later on though he seems pretty clearly uncomfortable trying to defend his actions.

It’s here! Finally holding the first copy of my first book. What a feeling.

It’s a stock photo from an old event

So much for those two Corinthians, huh?

I guess journalistic due diligence for them did not include looking up the old videos where he spoke normally before inventing this character to get ahead?

They’ll have him back on the chain by tomorrow

And zero record of this perfect conspiracy ever uncovered

Poster found on Facebook advertising the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University's seminar entitled "New Research on Treblinka: Landscapes, Evidence and Memory." Tuesday, January 27th at 2 pm Eastern time.

I stand to learn a lot from this seminar - coming Tuesday! - by Treblinka researchers doing really important work.
@jacobflaws.bsky.social @chadgibbs101.bsky.social and Caroline Sturdy Colls.

There’s also a tiny town named Chivington that comes up in CO. Never been there.

I remember it on the south end in like what’s technically Cherry Creek, but today it comes up in Longmont. Maybe they changed the southern one? I left Colorado in 2010.

Denver still has a major Chivington Street while there’s a Soule Street in Laramie, Wyoming. Not judging, but maybe I’m judging, Colorado…

Denver still has a major Chivington Street while there’s a Soule Street in Laramie, Wyoming. Not judging, but maybe I’m judging, Colorado…

On the nose

No book is going to turn kids into someone else. But books will regularly show kids other people like them and show those kids they're not alone. And they'll show kids other types of people who also exist. There is a large proportion of the population who are terrified of this.

It’s an incredibly important point. Police studies show that uniforms, manners of dress, and equipment affect the ways that both the officers and the public perceive each other.

We desperately need to get them all back to collared shirts, regular trousers, belts, and vests inside their shirts.

The first day of a great conference is behind us. Amazing how many familiar faces there are here thousands of miles from home.

I’m a tenure track professor and I never took the SAT because I was about to join the military after high school.

Could they not put in a port then in a place covered by his suit? It did make me think his upper arms must look like plain hell. I was in and out of the hospital for three years after I got wounded and usually if they were using my hand it meant my arms were a mess already.