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Alec Zuercher Reichardt

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Historian of Early North America, Empire, & Infrastructure. Department of History & Kinder Institute, University of Missouri "Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis" (Penn Press‬, 2025) tinyurl.com/RTPRTC & "Inlands" (Columbia, 2024) tinyurl.com/bdhyubjb

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Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

04.03.2026 17:14 👍 8525 🔁 1545 💬 149 📌 52

For The New York Times to choose to publish Jesse Singal today, of all times, is a choice to attack trans people, to make them even more vulnerable while they are already under attack. It is an appalling abdication of the Times’s journalistic duties.

24.02.2026 14:52 👍 1132 🔁 249 💬 14 📌 14
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Happy #pubday to "The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to Today," edited @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social!

Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/

@ageofrevolutions.bsky.social #skystorians

17.02.2026 14:31 👍 39 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 6

Thank you!

10.02.2026 20:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Methodologies in Indigenous History With the emergence of Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS) as a discipline in the early 2000s, growing numbers of historians who research and writ

In the December 2025 #AHR: “Methodologies in Indigenous History” includes six historians whose works draw from both history and Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS) as they discuss the methodological turn in Indigenous history and progress to be made in incorporating NAIS in history. 🗃️

21.01.2026 16:27 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

Haha that’s hilarious, I need to see this guide

05.01.2026 14:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book cover depicting a map cartouche of four Indigenous people--two on land, two in a canoe--and a snippet from the map of yellow, pink, and green watercolor borders drawn by John Povey, clerk to William Blathwayt, on Robert Morden and William Berry’s A Map of New England New Yorke New Iersey Mary-Land & Virginia (ca. 1676).

Book cover depicting a map cartouche of four Indigenous people--two on land, two in a canoe--and a snippet from the map of yellow, pink, and green watercolor borders drawn by John Povey, clerk to William Blathwayt, on Robert Morden and William Berry’s A Map of New England New Yorke New Iersey Mary-Land & Virginia (ca. 1676).

Holidays are over, and I'm motivating myself through the marking and emails by sharing the cover for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic with @pennpress.bsky.social. Please indulge me! www.pennpress.org/978151282925... #skystorians

05.01.2026 12:20 👍 106 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 0
University of Colorado - Boulder - Assistant or Associate Professor of History | H-Net The Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor specializing in Native American history with a focus on the North American West, broadly defined. The successful applicant will have access to funds associated with the Walter and Lucienne Driskill Professorship in Western American History. Specialization is open, but the department particularly encourages applications from scholars whose research focuses on the early American West (pre-1920s) and engages with legal history, the history of women and gender, environmental history, and/or the history of medicine and public health.  Scholars with demonstrated commitments to engaging Native American communities and/or supporting Native and Indigenous students are especially encouraged to apply, as are those who bring relevant lived and individual experiences and achievements to this position.

🚨 JOB JOB JOB!!! 🚨
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...

16.12.2025 22:14 👍 203 🔁 131 💬 2 📌 3
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Giving Tuesday 2025 This Giving Tuesday, every dollar you give—up to $3,700—will be matched twice, tripling your impact. Your generosity fuels Clio Digital Media’s mission to make trustworthy, engaging early American his...

It’s Giving Tuesday! From now through Dec 25 (or until we reach $3,700), every $1 you give is matched twice—your gift becomes $3.
👉 www.benfranklinsworld.com/givingtuesday

Here’s the story of how we got here and why your support matters…

02.12.2025 14:00 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States by Emilie Connolly

Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States by Emilie Connolly

How a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capital.

Vested Interests by Emilie Connolly is now available (20 Jan UK pub).

Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#History #AmericanHistory #USHistory #ReadUP

25.11.2025 19:53 👍 21 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0

Wonderful news, Holly!!!

14.10.2025 03:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A day late to bluesky, but yesterday was the official pub day for 'Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis' with @pennpress.bsky.social

Interested in infrastructure, war, revolution and the rise (and fall) of the British Empire in North America? Get your own copy from www.pennpress.org/978151282828...

28.08.2025 01:47 👍 34 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 1
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Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis – Penn Press Infrastructure was key to British victory in the Seven Years’ War yet was its undoing on the roads to revolutionRoads to Power, Roads to Crisis maps the Se...

It's been a long year, but a lot came of it:

- Inlands was published in December: tinyurl.com/bdhyubjb

- Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis comes out this summer: tinyurl.com/RTPRTC

- I'm off to UVA on fellowship to work on the next book

- And last but not least... tenured!

27.05.2025 16:02 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0