Berkeley Historian. Author of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids & The U.S.-Mexican War. Interested in guns, borders, & the Age of Revolutions. Also birds.
Berkeley, CA
Joined March 2012
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Friends - I hope you’ll check out my new article in the AHR. It explains how the international arms trade empowered and connected the American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and the Spanish American Wars for Independence. (🧵1/7) academic.oup.com/ahr/article…
So, so happy to see Ariel Ron and Liz Ellis honored and empowered this way. (For the record, I knew they were geniuses before the MacArthur Foundation figured it out) macfound.org/programs/awards…
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My department at LSU is hiring a historian of Modern East Asia (t-t assistant professor). We are seeking historians of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. Those working on modern China are encouraged to apply, but we welcome candidates who specialize in any part of the region.
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I’m grateful to be able to share an article I wrote for the new America250 issue of Diplomatic History (@SHAFRhistorians) on the role of monarchy in early US diplomacy with Native Americans: academic.oup.com/dh/article/…. It’s free for all readers for the next 3 months.
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UTEP is hiring in Latin American and Mexican politics —come work with us!
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Berkeley History is hiring: The Mediterranean and its Hinterlands, 500-1500 CE. Our third search this year. Please help us spread the word!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
Berkeley is hiring in Modern European Intellectual History - please help us spread the word! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
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Probably the biggest tenure track job for Modern European Intellectual History to appear in years--presumably to replace Martin Jay's old position: UC Berkeley, Assistant Professor – Modern European Intellectual History - Department of History: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
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“I think without treaties on autonomous weapons, we’re going to see catastrophic outcomes.”
In 101 seconds, @Berkeley_EECS professor Stuart Russell — whose textbook has taught generations of AI experts — explains the risks and why he’s calling for a halt.
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My friend (&, believe it or not, former student) Garret Graff @vermontgmg has been an indispensable voice in this epoch of cruelty, stupidity, national humiliation, sabotage, & generational vandalism. Somehow he's also written a hopeful book about our past & (maybe) future 🙏
UC Berkeley is hiring in African History - please help us spread the word 😎
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
In an undergrad seminar a few years ago, my students wondered why anyone in the 19th c. wanted constitutional monarchy. I asked them whether anyone could possibly fill that role today in our divided country. Secret ballot. Three of us came up with the same name. RIP Queen Dolly.
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My latest in Boston Review: on the 250th and a bumper crop of good books about the Revolution and its afterlives. Oh yeah, Ken Burns too.
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A giant. Gordon Wood spent decades arguing productively & provoking productive argument in response. If you haven't read him yet, "Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality & Deceit in the Eighteenth Century" is a marvelous place to start nytimes.com/2026/06/08/books…
article link: jstor.org/stable/pdf/1919580…
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HISTORIANS, Please share widely.I'm hosting an exciting Juneteenth event at the Library Company of Phila,June 16. "From Ledger to Genome: Data & the History of Black Life," exploring how Black lives have been recorded & recovered across time. Register here. support.librarycompany.org/.…
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That money was enough to save the lives of more than 3 million children worldwide, with nutritional paste for malnutrition, bed nets against malaria, vaccination programs and community health workers. Instead we spent it blowing up people and things, and raising gas prices.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.
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(1/3) We're excited to announce the History PhD Pipeline Program is back for another year! HPPP is here to mentor and support prospective History PhD students from historically excluded and under-represented backgrounds. For more info, and to apply, visit history.berkeley.edu/pipelin…
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Coming in June 2025, Sarah Gold McBride's WHISKEROLOGY examines how hair became a powerful indicator of race, gender, and national belonging in 19th-century America. @sgoldmcbride @Harvard_Press
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Design: Gabriele Wilson; artwork: Pablo Delcan
Congratulations @KathleenADuVal 👏👏👏
The winner of the 2024 #CundillHistoryPrize is…
Kathleen DuVal (@KathleenADuVal) for ‘Native Nations: A Millennium in North America’, published by @randomhouse.
A ‘sweeping’ 1000-year history of North America from the rise of ancient cities to the present day.
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Hundreds of salmon are now spawning in Klamath River tributaries above the 4 recently dismantled dams for the first time 60 & 112 years. It is exciting and bodes well for the future. Still, it will take several years for fish runs to recover & there is still much more work to do.