Andrew Johnstone
@historyandrew.bsky.social
Now available on bluesky. Mostly history. Occasional Yacht Rock and sport. Author of Spinning the World: The Public Relations Industry and American Foreign Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and more
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Less than 2 weeks to apply for these awesome @shafrhistorians.bsky.social awards - including the Hogan Language Fellowship. I’m a previous Hogan winner & I have the honor of chairing the Hogan committee this year so apply or tell your PhD students to apply! #SHAFR #skystorians 🗃️
🚨 Reminder: SHAFR January awards deadline is Oct 15! Apply now for the Bernath Lecture Prize, Williams Emerging Scholar Grant, Hogan Language Fellowship & grad dissertation grants. Details: tinyurl.com/5n6e6h8z
#SHAFR #HistoryAwards #AcademicSky #skystorians
#SHAFR #HistoryAwards #AcademicSky #skystorians
October 15 Deadline - Apply for SHAFR Awards
www.shafr.org
October 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Less than 2 weeks to apply for these awesome @shafrhistorians.bsky.social awards - including the Hogan Language Fellowship. I’m a previous Hogan winner & I have the honor of chairing the Hogan committee this year so apply or tell your PhD students to apply! #SHAFR #skystorians 🗃️
Hardcover publication day in the US (after the books enoyed what I like to imagine was a leisurely transatlantic cruise)
September 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Hardcover publication day in the US (after the books enoyed what I like to imagine was a leisurely transatlantic cruise)
Available in at least one good bricks-and-mortar bookshop.
We've got some brand-new books from @universitypress.cambridge.org on our shelves! 🙌📚
Including 'Spinning the World' by @historyandrew.bsky.social which has been released today, examining the public relations industry's hidden hand of influence on American foreign relations. 🌎
Including 'Spinning the World' by @historyandrew.bsky.social which has been released today, examining the public relations industry's hidden hand of influence on American foreign relations. 🌎
July 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Available in at least one good bricks-and-mortar bookshop.
Official publication day!
July 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Official publication day!
New book. Unimpressed cat.
July 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
New book. Unimpressed cat.
Also excited
Excited about this one. @historyandrew.bsky.social 's very soon to be published book about the PR industry and US foreign relations. @universitypress.cambridge.org @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Also excited
Thank you @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social so much again for creating the paperback proof prototype! Can't wait to hold the real thing when it's out next month.
From a SHAFR conversation to a soon to be published book, Andrew Johnstone’s Spinning the World is an insightful examination of the PR industry and US foreign relations. @shafrhistorians.bsky.social #SHAFR2025 @universitypress.cambridge.org
June 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Thank you @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social so much again for creating the paperback proof prototype! Can't wait to hold the real thing when it's out next month.
Fantastic to see a pre-publication proofs copy of my forthcoming book here in the front row
All set up at #SHAFR2025. Stop by and say hello. @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
June 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Fantastic to see a pre-publication proofs copy of my forthcoming book here in the front row
See you there
June 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
See you there
My book has a cover! Out this summer 🗃
May 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
My book has a cover! Out this summer 🗃
Always nice to see a copy of my last book out in the wild, especially in Strand Bookstore, possibly my favourite book store in the world
April 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Always nice to see a copy of my last book out in the wild, especially in Strand Bookstore, possibly my favourite book store in the world
Publishers can get rid of blurbs if they want, but for now I'm very happy to have these for my forthcoming book 🗃
February 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Publishers can get rid of blurbs if they want, but for now I'm very happy to have these for my forthcoming book 🗃
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BAAS regrets to announce that the BAAS / US Embassy Small Grants Programme has been cancelled. 1/7
February 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
BAAS regrets to announce that the BAAS / US Embassy Small Grants Programme has been cancelled. 1/7
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Spinning the World has a web page! More details on there to follow, which I will use as an excuse to repost this at future intervals🗃️@cambridgeup.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
January 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Spinning the World has a web page! More details on there to follow, which I will use as an excuse to repost this at future intervals🗃️@cambridgeup.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Spinning the World has a web page! More details on there to follow, which I will use as an excuse to repost this at future intervals🗃️@cambridgeup.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
January 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Spinning the World has a web page! More details on there to follow, which I will use as an excuse to repost this at future intervals🗃️@cambridgeup.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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THE meme of 2025 for me.
January 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
THE meme of 2025 for me.
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I absolutely loved @juliairwin.bsky.social's recent book Catastrophic Diplomacy, and enjoyed contributing to this fantastic roundtable review of it for @h-diplo.bsky.social: networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
Check it out if you're interested in disaster relief, foreign aid, and US foreign policy!
Check it out if you're interested in disaster relief, foreign aid, and US foreign policy!
H-Diplo Roundtable XXVI-13 on Irwin, _Catastrophic Diplomacy_ | H-Net
H-Diplo Roundtable XXVI-13Julia Irwin. Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century. University of North Carolina Press, 2024. ISBN: 9781469677231
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December 9, 2024 at 6:49 PM
I absolutely loved @juliairwin.bsky.social's recent book Catastrophic Diplomacy, and enjoyed contributing to this fantastic roundtable review of it for @h-diplo.bsky.social: networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
Check it out if you're interested in disaster relief, foreign aid, and US foreign policy!
Check it out if you're interested in disaster relief, foreign aid, and US foreign policy!
My AHR review of Brooke Blower's Americans in a World at War is finally out. Nice to review a book I really liked for a change.
Brooke L. Blower. Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am’s Yankee Clipper.
Given the amount of literature on the subject, it is not easy to come up with a truly original history of the Second World War. But that is exactly what Br
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December 7, 2024 at 1:20 PM
My AHR review of Brooke Blower's Americans in a World at War is finally out. Nice to review a book I really liked for a change.
I wish
They who control the starter packs are the new masters of the discourse.
November 11, 2024 at 7:39 PM
I wish
Haven't seen one of these for SHAFR / US in the World people, so thought I'd make one given that I'm currently trapped under a cat. Happy to add people!
go.bsky.app/CFos3Xu
go.bsky.app/CFos3Xu
November 10, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Haven't seen one of these for SHAFR / US in the World people, so thought I'd make one given that I'm currently trapped under a cat. Happy to add people!
go.bsky.app/CFos3Xu
go.bsky.app/CFos3Xu
Look forward to finding time to read this, which also appears to be available as a free download on
Cornell's webpage. I never met LaFeber, sadly. Many great monographs but his textbook The American Age was my go-to as an undergrad and beyond (the cracked spine of my copy tells its own story).
Cornell's webpage. I never met LaFeber, sadly. Many great monographs but his textbook The American Age was my go-to as an undergrad and beyond (the cracked spine of my copy tells its own story).
October 16, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Look forward to finding time to read this, which also appears to be available as a free download on
Cornell's webpage. I never met LaFeber, sadly. Many great monographs but his textbook The American Age was my go-to as an undergrad and beyond (the cracked spine of my copy tells its own story).
Cornell's webpage. I never met LaFeber, sadly. Many great monographs but his textbook The American Age was my go-to as an undergrad and beyond (the cracked spine of my copy tells its own story).
Very happy to have signed a contract with CUP for Spinning the World: The Public Relations Industry and American Foreign Relations. Hopefully out Summer 2025. Watch this space for more shameless self promotion. 🗃️
March 28, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Very happy to have signed a contract with CUP for Spinning the World: The Public Relations Industry and American Foreign Relations. Hopefully out Summer 2025. Watch this space for more shameless self promotion. 🗃️
It's an interesting day to be teaching about the Cambodian incursion.
November 30, 2023 at 12:50 PM
It's an interesting day to be teaching about the Cambodian incursion.