Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

This should be required reading for anyone wavering: “Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Milei Halts Key Tool for Identifying Children Lost During Argentina’s Dictatorship The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo recalled that around 300 people continue to live under false identities. On Wednesday, Argentine President Javier Milei suspended the shipment of DNA identification k...

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No good reason to do this except to try to stop the search for truth

Chile’s far-right government rips up plan for memorial at Pinochet torture site New administration reverses expropriation of property founded by ex-Nazi Paul Schäfer, leaving victims in limbo

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... more impunity by new far right governments in Latin America

Mural Arts will remove Cesar Chavez’s image from North Fifth Street mural The Philadelphia arts nonprofit said it will replace Chavez's image with that of his most prominent female ally, Dolores Huerta. "We believe the women who came forward,” a representative said.

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How did people imagine UNAM's Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City before it was built?

I took a dive into the archive of unbuilt plans for CU and wrote about them in the Journal of Urban History. Check out "Imagining University City" (open access!): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Uruguay faces dilemma from the deep: what to do with a salvaged Nazi eagle? Sculpture was retrieved from German battleship sunk in 1939 Battle of the River Plate but its future is controversial

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"Kast’s appointment of 30-year-old evangelical Judith Marín as women and gender equality minister underscores his hardline stance. Marín disrupted a senate session on abortion decriminalisation in 2017, shouting “return to the lord” while being forcibly ejected by police."

From the article: "Chile allowed abortion for medical reasons from the 1930s until Gen Augusto Pinochet issued a total ban in 1989 as one of his final decrees. An unapologetic supporter of Pinochet, Kast upholds much of the regime’s antiquated values on society and patriarchal family order."

Fears for women’s rights in Chile as anti-abortion president set to take office José Antonio Kast, who voted against legalising divorce in 2004, has pushed for return to total abortion ban

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Happy Women's History Month... www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

First female Sec Gen finally??

The NPR and Colorado stations that took Trump to court. “It isn’t just an affront to localism. It’s an attempt to reengineer thought.”

I gave a second interview with the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) about why the right is attempting to shut down NPR and PBS, and how rural station closures will affect democratic discourse. Thanks to the excellent Lucy Schiller.

Chile’s Kast names Quiroz finance minister, taps Pinochet defenders for cabinet Chilean President-elect Jose Antonio Kast on Tuesday named economist Jorge Quiroz as finance minister, part of a cabinet that includes two lawyers who defended dictator Augusto Pinochet, a move that h...

Kast names worrisome cabinet members in Chile.. "Fernando Rabat, who defended Pinochet in an illicit funds case, will lead the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, which is still overseeing cases linked to the dictatorship." www.reuters.com/world/americ...

CFP: Venezuelan Revolutions Series editor: Amanda C. Waterhouse, University of Notre Dame   Recent events in and around Venezuela demand more scholarly and public attention to the country’s history and relevant related t…

CFP on Venezuelan Revolutions: ageofrevolutions.com/2026/01/06/c...

"But the attendant rehabilitation of one of the continent’s most infamous autocrats is a particularly agonizing setback in a country where many considered the long struggle for democracy to have been won."

"Some might call his rise just one more alarming case of a worldwide trend toward nativist authoritarianism — and it is..."

Opinion | Pinochet Is Smiling in His Grave

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Our Phi Alpha Theta chapter made the main page of the national website. This is what “unlocking your historical potential” looks like…

Flyer for Renata Keller's talk about The Fate of the Americas at Rowan University on Oct 30 at 2pm

Today at @rowanuniversity.bsky.social, come (lots of) rain or shine! @dsharnak.bsky.social just sent me some advance questions from her students and they are 💯. So excited!!

The first chapter deals with McNamara and the success of this project in overseas arenas. I think you’ll love it!

It was a pleasure to review Karen Robert's book, Driving Terror: Labor, Violence, and Justice in Cold War Argentina. It's a deep history of the Ford Falcon before, during, and after the nation's dictatorship. I highly recommend getting a copy! www.h-net.org/reviews/show... @h-diplo.bsky.social

Take a read for yourself! (🧵/11) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Ultimately, the Friends’ innovation and legacy in human rights work are its protection-based advocacy and its coalitional politics that make it worth studying from the perspective of scholarship on transnational social movements."(🧵/10)

As I write, "In the context of the explosion of grassroots human rights activity and work in the 1970s and 1980s, the Friends brief tenure and limited impact was not unusual. The more famous and long-lasting groups, such as Amnesty and eventually @hrw.org are the anomalies."(🧵/9)

It's a hard searched for story of one of the many, smaller human rights groups that arose in response to the massive violations taking place during the period of Argentine state terror, albeit with a short lifespan. (🧵/8)

Protection-based advocacy: assessing the United States Friends of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo The article analyzes the formation and impact of the United States Friends of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a little-known but well-connected group of prominent Americans that operated during A...

What came out of this journey is finally in published form and I'm thrilled to see this in print. "Protection-based advocacy: assessing the United States Friends of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo." (🧵/7) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And we called archives we couldn't visit from all over the country and many were generous enough in the immediately post-Covid/archives reopening phase to send us scanned files as well. (🧵/6) {Shout out to amazing archivists--truly the best people!}

we visited archives all over the northeast looking for needles in the haystacks. We researched any member of the group's personal papers, public documents, memoirs. We tried to interview any surviving members of the Friends- sometimes successful, sometimes in vain. (🧵/5)

And after that, well, I knew I had to do more research on this group and see if anything was there. I invited that student to accompany me on the journey and learn about archival research. Over the next year and a half...(🧵/4)

That summer, I was in the Ford Foundation archives at the Rockefeller Archive Center, doing research for an unrelated project, and found a series of documents about the group's founding! (🧵/3)