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Rob Rakove
@robrakove.bsky.social
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Historian at Stanford University, author of "Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World" and "Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion." It's good to have options.
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · Jan 20
Some days you wrestle with big interpretive questions. Others, you try to determine when and how a few hundred tons of lambskin hides left Karachi.
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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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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 2d
Big delivery in the mail @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 2d
Rambo, however, was captured. Multiple times!
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 2d
Sneakers?
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 3d
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 3d
Sandino erasure!
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 3d
Augusto here would like a word
Augusto Sandino scowls at anyone claiming that the United States defeated him.
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 3d
Several of them read like Fozzie Bear bits
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 3d
And perhaps Ralph Nader's most prominent backer, unless you're a big fan of Tim and Susan.
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 3d
Who exactly did that amid the general march toward the center?
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 4d
Dreamcatcher is *very* skippable
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 4d
Too late
a group of sesame street characters are sitting at a table with cups and salt and pepper shakers
ALT: a group of sesame street characters are sitting at a table with cups and salt and pepper shakers
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 4d
do I want to know?
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 4d
Also relevant with Donnie Darko
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 4d
Serious question: Elvis died the preceding year. Did they jump on that train as well?
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 5d
The Scranton branch survives the recession!
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 5d
Extensive practice.
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 5d
Is there a Taskrabbit for writing deranged op-eds? It would make a lot of sense at this point.
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 5d
a man with a beard and white hair is standing in front of a green wall .
ALT: a man with a beard and white hair is standing in front of a green wall .
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Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · 8d
Great to see the new FRUS volume on START 1 1989-91 out today www.state.gov/releases/off...
Office of the Historian, Shared Knowledge Services, Bureau of Administration Releases Foreign Relations of the United States, 1989–1992, Volume XXXI, START I, 1989–1991 - United States Department of S...
The Department of State released today Foreign Relations of the United States, 1989–1992, Volume XXXI, START I, 1989–1991. This is the second of two volumes in the Foreign Relations series devoted to ...
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Samuel Helfont @samuelhelfont.bsky.social · 9d
Coming from @stanfordpress.bsky.social in the summer of 2026! @lisablaydes.bsky.social and I edited a book "Ba'thist Iraq through Archives" with a star studded list of contributors!
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 9d
I was honored to have the opportunity to review McNamara at War, the new biography by Philip and William Taubman, for Alta Journal @altajournal.bsky.social. Thanks go to @anitafelicelli.bsky.social
The Price of Loyalty
McNamara at War, a new biography of Robert McNamara, reexamines his culpability in Vietnam.
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 10d
Rand plays a libertarian on TV, but without the charm and nuance of Nick Offerman.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d
Rand Paul: "Chicago is a nightmare. It is literally a war zone."
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 10d
A lot of people are saying that monkeys are the new flamingos
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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 13d
We've been battling futons for generations
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