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LadyGiada @ladygiada.bsky.social · 8h

Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 33m

It's not like they are any better in Portuguese. It's just that sometimes I find a dumb mistake after revising a draft 10-20 times...

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 1h

The two most infuriating things when writing in a foreign language (meaning English, in my case) are punctuation (particularly commas) and prepositions.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 7h

Yes, JAGM mentions that the original is in Portuguese. Thanks, that’s very helpful!

Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 7h

You are all always extremely generous!

Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 7h

First cited in the mid-1980s, and later in said book chapter/article. JAGM published a list of Pernambuco’s sugar mills from 1623, but what interests me is that Stuart cites it for a description of early seventeenth-century Bahia, when Peres da Cunha lived there. Hopefully it’s the same one you cite

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks, Joris, that’s extremely kind of you! It is the same person - brother of famous Uriel da Costa, and shows up in notarial records with his Portuguese name, Joao Peres da Cunha (see the SR abstracts). Gonçalves de Mello saw it in the 1950s, then shared it with Stuart, who…

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20h

The decline of reading among American teenagers is a grave indicator of the decline of literacy.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 1d

The full announcement is now up at this link. Deadline still 31 Oct.

Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Aug 15

Pre-announcement of a funding opportunity for "artificial intelligence humanities sandpits," supported by AHRC, EPSRC, and SSHRC. Expressions of interest by 31 Oct; up to four grants will be funded.

Pre-announcement: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US

AHRC and SSHRC plan to invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial int...

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, that’s what I meant.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 1d

Economists publish more papers than historians, I think. I only took issue with the idea is that it is specific of top econ papers - top history papers *also* require a huge amount of work. I recently submitted a R&R at the AHR. Five years of work! I think your gripe is with the sciences...

Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 1d

Fair enough, although I think @filipecampante.bsky.social's point was regarding effort, not value - and mine was just that economics is probably not special in that regard, with an aside on the different disciplinary understandings of what books are for.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, that’s what I found! I’ll probably order it then… The original is apparently in Portuguese, which always helps!

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 1d

Economic historians like @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social often write monographs, though - though that's probably more common for those who are historians by training instead of economists by training.

Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 1d

I'm mostly thinking about Acemoglu's books, to be frank. @drodrik.bsky.social's books feel closer to the humanities (or a return to old-style economic writing like Hirschmann), although I'm not sure they should be understood of monographs.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 1d

For economists, it feels like books are a distillation of previous work done on articles - less math, though. That’s definitely not how it works in the humanities, for which the monograph remains the highest form of intellectual work, going way beyond previously published articles.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 1d

I think that’s true of history as well, at the level of the American Historical Review and Past & Present. Probably every discipline has top 2-5 journals that require similar levels of work. I’d say, though, that the way the humanities think about book writing is vastly different from economists…

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

The way I try to explain it, to my non-economist colleagues, is that each economics paper at the top level is the equivalent of a book. It has a convenient paper-length summary, and lots of stuff shoved into appendices, but it's the same amount of work.

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, this is so exciting! Thank you @lizcovart.bsky.social for the invitation. And while I'm here, pleased to announce that @uchicagopress.bsky.social is bringing out a paperback in Spring 2026!!!

Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 1d

Today is @bfworld.bsky.social’s 11th Podversary. The first 4 episodes debuted 11 years ago.
So it’s fitting we have a great new episode to celebrate!

How did Northern manufacturers support Southern slavery?

Seth Rockman joins us to talk about “plantation goods” and slavery’s hidden supply chain.

Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy

Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 1d

@jorisvdt.bsky.social cites a petition by Israel da Costa in his book at 1.01.02, 12564.5. Joris, can you tell me anything else about it just to see if it's the same document cited by Schwartz and partially published by Gonsalves de Mello? I would order it if it's the case...

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 1d

@brfmiranda.bsky.social @jorisvdt.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social @ramonanegron.bsky.social @voetnoot.bsky.social

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 1d

Dear hivemind, can anyone help me locate a memorial by Joseph Israel da Costa (Joao Peres da Cunha), cited decades ago as HaNA, Loketkas 6, Staten General West Indische Co? I looked at openarchieven.nl and dekok.xyz/htrsearch/wic/ and did not get any hits. It has only been partially published, alas.

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 1d

If you're bored tonight around 7pm EST, join Jessica Chopin Roney and I for a conversation about The Predatory Sea! 🗃️

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Fireside Chat- The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations!

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 2d

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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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 5d

What a great opportunity! Seminar Native Peoples, American Colonialism and the Constitution with @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social & Ned Blackhawk for grad students & "junior" faculty. In person & virtual. Apply by 10/10.
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The New York Historical’s Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History is accepting applications for its fall 2025 seminar for advanced graduate students and junior faculty.
seminar | fall 2025

Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the US Constitution

Fridays, November 7 and 21, December 5 and 12, 2025 | 11 am–2 pm ET
Instructors: Maggie Blackhawk, Ned Blackhawk

As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this seminar invites a critical examination of a central paradox in American constitutional history: how can a nation celebrate a founding document and constitutional tradition built, in part, on the dispossession of Indigenous homelands? Indian affairs and westward expansion were foundational to the creation and evolution of the US Constitution, yet Native history remains marginalized within the fields of constitutional history and mainstream constitutional scholarship. This seminar explores emerging historical and legal literature that re-centers Native peoples and American colonialism in the narrative of US constitutional development.

Presented in person at The New York Historical and via Zoom

Apply by October 10, 2025

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