InterConnections: The Global 20th Century InterConnections: The Global 20th Century is home to innovative global, international, and transregional histories of the long twentieth century. We also publish cutting-edge histories of the US and t...

Looking to finish, propose, or submit an international history (broadly defined) book in 2026? We'd love to see it at InterConnections: The Global 20th Century series at UNC @uncpress.bsky.social @juliairwin.bsky.social @drjsarkar.bsky.social @renatakeller.bsky.social 🗃️ uncpress.org/series/inter...

If you are an advanced PhD student working on US foreign relations or early career scholar in the area, check this out and consider applying to the #SHAFR Summer Institute being hosted by the @mershoncenter.bsky.social at The Ohio State University in June 2026🗃️: mershoncenter.osu.edu/events/socie...

Call for submissions on Nuclear History for @oah.org blog Process. This is for you @shafrhistorians.bsky.social & others.
www.oah.org/process/call...

Why America Got a Warfare State, Not a Welfare State How FDR invented national security, and why Democrats need to move on from it

Out from paywall (and super-relevant imho) - my latest newrepublic.com/article/1961...

Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues at #SHAFR2025 this week! Join us on Saturday morning for our roundtable on The Global Cold War ✨

Why Donald Trump Is Obsessed with a President from the Gilded Age William McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. There’s a reason Trump is so drawn to his legacy—and so determined to bring the liberal international order to an end.

Daniel Immerwahr with a timely @newyorker.com piece on "Tariff Man" Trump's William McKinley infatuation. Especially one for all you historians of the Gilded Age.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How FDR Invented National Security A presidential speech in 1937 marked an unexpected turn in U.S. strategic thought.

An excerpt in @foreignpolicy.com from Andrew Preston's superb new book, Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/30/f...

H-Diplo Roundtable on Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

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I *think* i have a cover for my book. The art is from a painting “Journey into Freedom” by an old friend Shakti Kroopkin. www.shaktikroopkin.com

We're excited to announce the line-up of speakers for our upcoming GHIL Summer Lecture Series! 📣

We're kicking off our summer programme on 6 May with a lecture by David Milne (@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social) on 'Sigrid Schultz, the Chicago Tribune, and the Third Reich'! 📅
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China Doesn’t Want to Lead an Axis Beijing’s deep doubts about Russia and North Korea.

Or does it? If not, it’s up to Beijing to walk the walk, not just talk the talk. Cold War lessons for our current predicament. Latest from me for Foreign Affairs. www.foreignaffairs.com/china/china-...

I'm happy to see this generous roundtable review of Days of Opportunity in H-Diplo.

Thanks to @susiecolbourn.bsky.social, Jayita Sarkar, Umberto Tulli, Carter Malkasian, and Terry Anderson for their thoughtful contributions.
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Debunking US exceptionalism is featured in this morning’s Chartbook Top Link. For more insight, sign up here: tinyurl.com/39wmtk4c

Please share with any postdocs in the History of the Americas who would like to join the brilliant and eclectic bunch of historians at Edinburgh University - 3 years, mainly research.

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Durham and Cardiff universities to cut hundreds of jobs The Russell Group universities, which also plan to cut courses such as nursing and music, are struggling with a funding shortfall

History of UK HE in the last 30 years follows the repeated sequence (1) politicians demand universities act in a certain way (2) uni managements comply against academic misgivings (3) effects are uncongenial for politicians (4) pundits denounce universities for acting that way, echoed by politicians

Start Making Sense: Strategy and Grand Strategy in the Trump Administration - War on the Rocks As he has told us many times, Donald Trump knows a lot about winning. But for all we know about the man and his methods, we still don’t know how he thinks

warontherocks.com/2025/01/star...

The Misery of Trump’s Second State Department If Trump’s first term is any indication, Foggy Bottom won’t have it easy in the years ahead.

Over the past 40 years, State has been fighting a losing battle for influence in the executive branch, David Milne writes.

The Misery of Trump’s Second State Department If Trump’s first term is any indication, Foggy Bottom won’t have it easy in the years ahead.

My latest piece in @foreignpolicy.com, on another four years of pain for the State Department.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/21/t...

America Is Locked in a New Class War Money and education no longer explain voting patterns.

You can’t understand the politics of the United States right now unless you acknowledge that there’s a third social class, the Professional-Managerial Class, which exercises control over working-class Americans, columnist Adam Tooze writes.

Delighted to see that my article with Amanda Demmer in Modern American History is officially+completely out Open Access: Normalizing Relations from the Cold War to the Present: Continuing War, Pursuing Peace, & Building Empire | 🗃️ #SHAFR #diplomacy #normalization www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"... rhino-involved goring."

The Strange Triumph of a Broken America Power abroad comes with dysfunction at home.

“The paradox of American power: the United States is a divided country, perpetually perceived as in decline, yet it consistently remains the wealthiest and most powerful state in the world—leaving competitors behind.” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Delighted that @foreignpolicy.com selected my piece on Trump and his foreign policy picks as one of its top five articles on US foreign policy in 2024!

Wargaming Nuclear Deterrence and Its Failures in a U.S.–China Conflict over Taiwan A new report informed by 15 wargame simulations examines nuclear dynamics in a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, assessing what creates the greatest pressure for nuclear weapons use in such a conflict, what...

“The United States must therefore be prepared to successfully prosecute a high-end conventional war while at the same time providing face saving off-ramps to the adversary. To do otherwise risks a nuclear holocaust, as indeed occurred in three game iterations.” www.csis.org/analysis/con...

Total Defense — Harvard University Press The story of how FDR and fellow New Dealers created the idea of national security, transforming the meaning of defense and vastly expanding the US government’s responsibilities.National security may s...

Protip: keep an eye out for Andrew Preston's new book!
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

You're a classy dude.

UK HE shrinking This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…

We are now up to 84 universities making staff redundant. A key part of our society is retreating at a staggering pace that would never be allowed if the decisions were all seen and weighed up together. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Hey look what Nelson Lichtenstein says about my book.

Trump Is His Own Secretary of State The next U.S. president’s foreign-policy appointees ultimately won’t matter much.

Been wondering what nominations such Rubio, Gabbard, Waltz, & others, likely mean for their roles in shaping the US's foreign policies? @davidjmilne.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com draws on recent past to suggest that at the end of the day it will be Trump's FP 🗃️ foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/21/t...