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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 1d

Hemispheric historian high-five!

a man in a blue shirt and tie sitting in front of a computer monitor

Alt: high five scene from The Office

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 1d

Huge thanks to the editors of the @oah.org Process blog for letting me contribute a post that shares a little bit about how I'm trying to broaden the history of the Cuban Missile Crisis in my new book! www.oah.org/process/kell... #History 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social

OAH | Latin America and the Cuban Missile CrisisOAH | Latin America and the Cuban Missile Crisis

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so sorry and ashamed of this country.

Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 3d

I just set up one and it was easy! Having friends who know what they're doing helps enormously, too. Mine's www.renata-keller.com, in case you need it @herberthistory.bsky.social

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 3d

This was a strategy for defeating authoritarians in Eastern Europe in the 1980s. Nothing delegitimizing the regime faster than the nightly news showing the gestapo arresting a bunch of people in Smurfs costumes

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 3d

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Portland never stops being Portland.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 4d

The @washingtonpost.com should be doing daily stories about the regular people in DC who are getting detained and deported. The impact on their families. The tears in the fabric of the local community.

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 6d

Tenure isn't "just" about academic freedom or free speech, it also about labor, and more - knowing the history helps understand the battles and challenges of the present🗃️ @TIME #madebyhistory time.com/7320703/acad...

The Real History of Tenure

If academics want to protect the idea of tenure, they need to understand how and why it became the norm.

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 6d

This morning’s sunrise was 💯

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 6d

I had a blast doing this! Huge thanks to Jason for hosting me!

Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 6d

Taping on the Cuban Missile Crisis with @renatakeller.bsky.social last night. Such an amazing episode and it'll be up on October 16. If this furlough becomes permanent we're gonna go full-time with the podcast.

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 8d

Virtually unprecedented: US military's most important leaders urgently, expensively gathered worldwide for a "briefing" mostly amounting to campaign-style speeches, "War" Dept heraldry, + a call to use US cities as "training grounds" & go after the "enemy within." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Trump and Hegseth Recount Familiar Partisan Complaints to Top Military Leaders

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 8d

From the excellent @pastpunditry.bsky.social

Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

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Kirsten Weld @kirstenweld.bsky.social · 8d

An enormous legal victory for @aaup.org, MESA, and the Rutgers, NYU, and Harvard chapters of AAUP, in a case that Judge Young describes as "perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court."

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you!!😊

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 9d

Wooooow!!

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 9d

I will say in their favor, though, it was very easy to use (especially with a pro guiding me through). After watching my friend for two hours, I was able to go home and finish it up myself.

Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks!! I used yours as one of my models ☺️

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 9d

Wix! But don't let them trick you with the "free" website claim. You have to get a "premium" plan if you don't want a crazy URL and all kinds of Wix advertising all over it...

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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 9d

Work with @nsarchive.bsky.social or other NGOS in Washington, DC, on international peace & security issues.

Apply to @scovillepf.bsky.social by Oct 20 for the spring 2026 semester.

Scoville Fellowship @scovillepf.bsky.social · 23d

Recent college & grad school alumni:

Work for 6 to 9 months with one of over 2 dozen NGOs in DC on international peace & security issues, including nuclear arms control, peacebuilding, & diplomacy. Apply by Oct. 20 to @scovillepf.bsky.social for the spring '26 semester. scoville.org

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you!! I really like it, too.

Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you!! She did such a great job 😍

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 9d

(Many thanks to @tracyslater.bsky.social for introducing me to the world of media kits and book promotion!)

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 9d

My bestie helped me set up a pretty new website this weekend! Please take a look and let me know what you think! 🗃️ #History www.renata-keller.com

Renata Keller | cold war history

Renata Keller, historian and author of The Fate of the Americas, explores the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cold War history, and U.S.–Latin American relations. Discover her books, research, and teaching on h...

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Yesenia Barragan, she/they @yeseniabarragan.bsky.social · 13d

Latin American historian here. This is (in part) following the playbook of DINA in Chile and the birth of the terror-izing military junta. And we all know how it ended there. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 13d

a man in a black shirt is making a funny face .

ALT: a man in a black shirt is making a funny face .

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