Holy. Shit. OUP tells me the delay in paperback order today is because the first run already sold out! 🙏 to everyone who bought, I am so grateful. 🥹
The paper will be back in stock mid-April, ebook availability is being fixed. I spent 16 years writing this thing hoping someone, anyone would read.
Here's @qjurecic.bsky.social on protecting the free speech rights of non-citizens. knightcolumbia.org/blog/free-ex...
Here's @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social arguing--in a piece about the "infrastructure of free expression"--that addressing the current democratic crisis will require "reckoning with laws and practices that have been accepted by both parties for the last 20-plus years" knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-inf...
We @knightcolumbia.org have started to post short essays from some of the scholars and advocates participating in our "Reconstructing Free Expression" project. I'm going to post the essays in this thread, as we publish them. They're really good! knightcolumbia.org/research/rec...
I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is.
People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)
Again, leaders of other countries don’t talk this way. The glee with which our current leaders talk about killing people is not normal, and nor is their lack of concern for who exactly we’re killing. American bombs incinerated 100 kids in Minab. Were those the “right people”?
The Coalition for Independent Technology Research has filed a lawsuit with the @knightcolumbia.org and @protectdemocracy.org challenging a US State Department policy to revoke or deny visas of non-citizen researchers because of their work studying the societal impacts of technology. (1/4)
I would add: even if you don’t call yourself a legal historian but study history involving law-ish stuff, you’ll find a welcoming, friendly and brilliant group of scholars at ASLH!
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
Between Two Rivers
Will make you want to learn Cuneiform, to be a Brewer-Queen!
Fabulous read in paperback now.
The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us.
Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Deux postes de doctorant·e·s à pourvoir au Centre Walras Pareto pour la rentrée 2026
un·e Assistant diplômé·e en Histoire de la pensée et philosophie économiques
un·e Assistant diplômé·e en Histoire des idées politiques
Délai de postulation : 2 mai 2026!
Last chance to register: landmark conference to mark 250 years since publication of The Wealth of Nations. ‘Modern Enquiries into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations’ 5-6 March 2026 Keynes Hall, King’s College, Cambridge: Thursday, 9.15am – 5pm, and Friday, 9.00 – 12.45. Free, registration required. Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Law Faculty, Sidgwick Site: concluding public forum, Friday, 2-4 pm. No booking required, arrive early to secure a seat. All free and open to the public, students especially welcome.
Last chance to register: major conference celebrating 250 years of 'The Wealth of Nations': the most famous text in the history of political economy and economics.
Leading historians and economists will assess its legacy & ask what it means for the next century.
Free, open to public, link below ⬇️⬇️
Image of a book jacket for Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth.
Full book jacket just dropped, and we're pretty happy with it. Huge thanks to @cecilefromont.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, Alice, and Andrés for your generous words! #earlymodern #BeyondTheOcean global.oup.com/academic/pro...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/La_Sorbonne._Conf%C3%A9rence_de_M._le_professeur_Bloch._RBA_3%3D_163-1._Pi%C3%A8ce_79.jpg Carte postale / Gustave Bloch (wikipedia)
Le père de Marc Bloch donnant un cours d’histoire romaine à la Sorbonne vers 1910. On remarque les trois jeunes femmes dans l’assistance fort studieuse pré-ordis portables.
(On adore l’idée qu’un éditeur de cartes postales se dise que c’est un bon sujet, à quand un revival)
American friends! Come listen to our Director, Nicholas Cronk, discussing Voltaire and Slavery on March 26th
@amphilsociety.bsky.social: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ce...
❤️🩹 ❤️🔥
Times review of The Crown’s Silence full of egregious claims
Another review of imperial history by the same reviewer in the Washington Examiner
Times review dismisses my book as crass & labels me an American “sucker”—but it’s by the same conservative reviewer who hates books focused on the legacies of empire & slavery, & who wildly misrepresented the excellent collection edited by @alanlester.bsky.social Haters gonna hate! So it begins!
Bravo, Wall Street Journal
Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents
"See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation Saturday"
Gift link:
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
There is far more outrage from tech leaders over a wealth tax than masked ICE agents terrorizing communities and executing civilians in the streets. Tells you what you need to know about the values of our industry.
OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice
i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
🎉 Are you in AHA 2026 American Historical Association @historians.org or hanging around Chicago, IL? 🏙️
My colleagues and I will give a presentation tomorrow in a panel titled "Asian American Racial Formations and the Production of Scientific Knowledge in the Pacific and the American West, 1900–77"!
Starting in 30 min (5:30 PM): AHA President Ben Vinson III, will deliver his presidential address "Reflections on Our Times" at #AHA26.
'In their ambitious histories of slave resistance, Gibson and Hazareesingh are working in the tradition of Aponte, offering a new intellectual and political perspective on the emergence of freedom in the modern world.' Delighted by this generous review from @soccerpolitics.bsky.social ❤️
spoken with an agonizing clarity that breaks asunder the very foundation upon which I at least erected and maintained a certain minimal confidence in the future
