John M. Kinder
@johnmkinder.bsky.social
Historian of #war, #disabilty, #veterans, #zoos. OKSTATE U. Writing book on murder in #WWII MS.
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World War Zoos: Humans & Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age
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World War Zoos: Humans & Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age
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World War Zoos
A new and heartbreaking history of World War II as told through the shocking experiences of zoos across the globe. As Europe lurched into war in 1939, zookeepers started killing their animals. On S...
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Ah! I can’t day how thrilled I am that someone has read this chapter & engaged with it so meaningfully. I truly loved writing it. ❤️
New Publication, by @sarahbelle721.bsky.social (2026).”Love Is a Battlefield: Civil War Memory in Modern Romance Novels.” They Are Dead and Yet They Live: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America. Ed. John M. Kinder and Jennifer M. Murray. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 152-169.
January 18, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Ah! I can’t day how thrilled I am that someone has read this chapter & engaged with it so meaningfully. I truly loved writing it. ❤️
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January 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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January 13, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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January 12, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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January 11, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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January 11, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
"All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience."
Powerful piece by Michelle Goldberg
"All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience."
Powerful piece by Michelle Goldberg
Opinion | By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All
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January 9, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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"All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience."
Powerful piece by Michelle Goldberg
"All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience."
Powerful piece by Michelle Goldberg
In the early days of the Iraq War, several groups volunteered to donate animals to help restock the Baghdad Zoo--with mixed results. (See: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...) It's early still, but does anyone know of similar plans to do the same in Venezuela? If so, please reach out.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:58 AM
In the early days of the Iraq War, several groups volunteered to donate animals to help restock the Baghdad Zoo--with mixed results. (See: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...) It's early still, but does anyone know of similar plans to do the same in Venezuela? If so, please reach out.
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Current events & the Jan 6 anniversary have prompted people to say this is the "new" Lost Cause. As someone whose research on the LC is exhaustive, I can tell you this: it is a shape-shifting racist narrative--useful in the late 19thc., then again at mid-20thc., and again from Reagan to Trump.
January 6, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Current events & the Jan 6 anniversary have prompted people to say this is the "new" Lost Cause. As someone whose research on the LC is exhaustive, I can tell you this: it is a shape-shifting racist narrative--useful in the late 19thc., then again at mid-20thc., and again from Reagan to Trump.
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Of course, fighting the US "militarily" misses the point. An invasion (beyond its immorality and illlegality) would risk violent responses from non-state actors. You know...like in Iraq or Afghanistan...like we've been worrying about since 9/11.
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Of course, fighting the US "militarily" misses the point. An invasion (beyond its immorality and illlegality) would risk violent responses from non-state actors. You know...like in Iraq or Afghanistan...like we've been worrying about since 9/11.
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Thrilled to find a box of my new co-edited volume on my doorstep.
Many thanks to my co-editor Jen Murray, all the terrific contributors, and everyone at @univnebpress.bsky.social
@bridgetrbarry.bsky.social @civilwarmemory.bsky.social @timgalsworthy.bsky.social @sarahbelle721.bsky.social
Many thanks to my co-editor Jen Murray, all the terrific contributors, and everyone at @univnebpress.bsky.social
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January 5, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Thrilled to find a box of my new co-edited volume on my doorstep.
Many thanks to my co-editor Jen Murray, all the terrific contributors, and everyone at @univnebpress.bsky.social
@bridgetrbarry.bsky.social @civilwarmemory.bsky.social @timgalsworthy.bsky.social @sarahbelle721.bsky.social
Many thanks to my co-editor Jen Murray, all the terrific contributors, and everyone at @univnebpress.bsky.social
@bridgetrbarry.bsky.social @civilwarmemory.bsky.social @timgalsworthy.bsky.social @sarahbelle721.bsky.social
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Reposted by John M. Kinder
The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.
A Criminal Empire
The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream
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January 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.
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Nice way to end the year. Thanks to Jennifer Murray and @johnmkinder.bsky.social for including me among such a fantastic line up of historians. God willing, this will be the last essay I ever write about the Black Confederate myth. 🗃️ www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
December 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Nice way to end the year. Thanks to Jennifer Murray and @johnmkinder.bsky.social for including me among such a fantastic line up of historians. God willing, this will be the last essay I ever write about the Black Confederate myth. 🗃️ www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
My new review of "Constructing Disability After the Great War" by @evanpsullivan.bsky.social in the AHR -- a terrific work of #disabilityhistory @illinoispress.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My new review of "Constructing Disability After the Great War" by @evanpsullivan.bsky.social in the AHR -- a terrific work of #disabilityhistory @illinoispress.bsky.social
Thanks to Samantha Muka for her generous review of #WorldWarZoos in her recent essay "On Loving and Leaving Zoos" in the Journal of the History of Biology
doi.org/10.1007/s107...
also featured new editions of "Savages and Beasts" by Nigel Rothfels and Zoo & Aquarium History by Vernon Kisling, Jr.
doi.org/10.1007/s107...
also featured new editions of "Savages and Beasts" by Nigel Rothfels and Zoo & Aquarium History by Vernon Kisling, Jr.
On Loving and Leaving Zoos - Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of the History of Biology -
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December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Thanks to Samantha Muka for her generous review of #WorldWarZoos in her recent essay "On Loving and Leaving Zoos" in the Journal of the History of Biology
doi.org/10.1007/s107...
also featured new editions of "Savages and Beasts" by Nigel Rothfels and Zoo & Aquarium History by Vernon Kisling, Jr.
doi.org/10.1007/s107...
also featured new editions of "Savages and Beasts" by Nigel Rothfels and Zoo & Aquarium History by Vernon Kisling, Jr.