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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · 1d

CFA: Peace in the Age of Forever Wars 🕊️

We invite submissions for an interdisciplinary symposium on all aspects of peace. More informatoon can be found at challengingwar.com/spring-2025/

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Diplomatic History @diplomatichistory.bsky.social · 21d

Check out the September issue of Diplomatic History! Featuring Elisabeth Leake's (@emleake.bsky.social) Bernath Lecture "The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World" in which she argues for a "new paradigm for understanding modern international history"
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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Jul 29

Library of the Society of Friends, London 📚

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Diplomatic History @diplomatichistory.bsky.social · Jun 21

Issue 49.3 is officially out online, and our subscribers should keep an eye out for the physical issue in the mail! academic.oup.com/dh/issue

Issues | Diplomatic History | Oxford Academic

The official journal of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Examines issues relating to U.S. diplomacy, foreign relations, and security issues from the colonial period to the present...

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Diplomatic History @diplomatichistory.bsky.social · May 28

Diplomatic History is now on Bluesky! Check out our April edition if you haven't already: academic.oup.com/dh/issue

Issues | Diplomatic History | Oxford Academic

The official journal of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Examines issues relating to U.S. diplomacy, foreign relations, and security issues from the colonial period to the present...

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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Mar 13

I love Dorothy Cobble's "For the Many" and Patricia Romney's "We Were There"! There's also some great recent work on feminism and US imperialism like "Christian Imperial Feminism" by Gale Kenny and "The Feminist Pacific" by Rumi Yasutake :)

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Historians of Catholic Mexico (HISTCATMEX) @histcatmex.bsky.social · Mar 6

A forum on "U.S.-Mexican Relations and Catholic Activism" was officially published in the Winter 2025 issue of Diplomatic History.

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Volume 49 Issue 1 | Diplomatic History | Oxford Academic

The official journal of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Examines issues relating to U.S. diplomacy, foreign relations, and security issues from the colonial period to the present...

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Marc Palen @mwpalen.bsky.social · Mar 4

“The push to make Canada part of the U.S. reached a fever pitch following passage of the highly protectionist McKinley Tariff in 1890.”

For @time.com I discuss the last time the GOP tried to use tariffs to annex Canada.

*spoiler: it didn’t go well

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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Feb 21

Clearly this guy forgot about the part where the men hold hands in the sperm 😢

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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Feb 20

1967, "We are still not the 51st state!"

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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Feb 10

Go birds?

Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Feb 2

The National Security Archive, Canada Declassified, and the CIA Electronic Reading Room! And maybe FRUS?

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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Feb 1

Thank you!!!

Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Feb 1

I read Moby-Dick last year expecting to be bored out of my mind and I think it might now be one of my favourite books and I legitimately think about it alot!

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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Jan 9

Slightly different but Mati Diop's film "Dahomey" is great and I think could spark conversation with students! The edited collection "Museum Activism" by Janes and Sandell has some good essays as well 😀

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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · Jan 9

We pulled an ad from the New York Times because they wouldn’t let us talk about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Here’s some great coverage from @msainato.bsky.social at @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Quaker group pulls NYT ad over paper’s refusal to let it call Israel’s Gaza bombing ‘genocide’

Organization said paper’s refusal ‘outrageous attempt to sidestep the truth’, choosing ‘silence over accountability’

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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Jan 9

2025 reading aspirations

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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Dec 8

CFP The deadline has been extended to January 5th! Please consider submitting to my collection on feminist/queer archival practice! 🗃️📜📚

The Institute for Research on Women Presents: Rejoinder A Call for Proposals "The Archival is Political" Guest Editor: Alexandra Southgate
This issue of Rejoinder addresses the power and politics of the archive as an object of fascination for #feminist/#queer #scholars and #activists. Visit https://irw.rutgers.edu/about-rejoinder for more info!

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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Nov 7

it's amazing that it's 2023 and women's papers are still listed as "miscellany" in their husband's archives

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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Oct 29

I had a great time at the Peace History Society Conference this weekend! Thrilled to have presented my research on Dorothy Day and Judith Malina's anti-civil defense actions in the 50s and 60s!

Photo of an essay title page "We do not with to be defiant" Anti-Civil Defense Protests 1955-1962 alongside the pamphlet for the conference "Peace History Society 2023 Conference: Peace & Protest Past & Present"

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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Oct 4

Re-sharing this because I now have a lovely graphic from IRW and they aren't on here yet! 🗃️

CFP: "The Archival is Political" a collection exploring the power and politics of feminist/queer archival practice. Deadline Dec. 15th. Please reach out with any questions!

irw.rutgers.edu/about-rejoin...

rejoinder presents: A Call for Proposals

The Archival is Political Guest Editor: Alexandra Southgate

This issue of Rejoinder addresses the power and politcs of the archive as an object of fascination for feminist/queer scholars and activists.

For more information, please see the full call.

Deadline: December 15th

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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Oct 4

Thank you!

Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Oct 2

Zombie Studies might be of interest? Off the top of my head: Zombie Talk ed. by David Castillo et al or "Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies" by Elizabeth McAlister. (Though not sure if they're all historians!)

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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Sep 21

Very important archival research happening at Swarthmore today 🗃️

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Alex Southgate @arsouthgate.bsky.social · Aug 26

I think this is the greatest book ever written?

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