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Well then, said Aesop, may we be judged by the company we keep. (Tibaldi, The Companions of Odysseus Steal the Cattle of Helios, 1556)
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@DominiqueReill is signing off from manning the Twitter feed this week and gives the wheel to @steven_seegel. All my best to all from beautiful Athens! And keep posting + tagging us, faculty, to share info on your great students’ work this term!
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John Merriman has left us. An excellent historian; a man who LOVED France; the best textbook writer out there for 19th c Western Europe. Share how he helped your work? Your career? What book of his you liked the most? history.yale.edu/people/john…
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Just got off plane and see that no profs are promoting students and tagging us. Profs! Tell us about your amazing students’ projects, who cares if they are MAing or PHDing. To start things off: Theofora! Tell me about 1 (or many) of your students! @theodora_dragos
I think we should spend this week celebrating all our new MAs and PhDs. Advisors! Post a little blurb of your students with a pic and tag us @ModEuroHistColl ! It’s time to celebrate all the new work being done. Castor-the-domineering-cat DEMANDS it.
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It’s @DominiqueReill + I’m handling the @ModEuroHistColl Twitter account this week. On my way to Athens today to attend @ContEuroHistory’s board meeting and participate in all sorts of great conferencing. So: send me stuff you want promoted! Castor and Klytemnestra demand it!
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Friends, it's time for me to hand over the reins to @AmCaglioti. Thanks for all the cookie inspiration, I'm off to dig into this:
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@DominiqueReill is handing over the Modern European History Collective Twitter feed to friend + colleague @steven_seegel. This was tough to do in the middle of a European war. Please let’s all support Steven by tagging what you would like shared. He’s already doing too much.
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It’s @DominiqueReill’s week to man the Modern European History Collective feed. Doing Twitter on European history during a European war + refugee crisis is heavy stuff. My cat has doubts. I’ll limit tweets to making + teaching history, but know my home fears for our present.
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Seeing the Canadian anti-trucker counter-protest spring up on Sunday out of neighbourhood FB dog park groups, it is time for "favourite protest movements of yore."
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Hello fellow historians, it is @JenniferVEvans at the keyboard this week, stealing a page from @irgarner to kick things off. What are you reading this weekend followers? For me, it is the english translation of Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum: transit.berkeley.edu/
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Three weeks from today! Join our conversation with @kira_thurman about her fantastic new book - transnational history, the Black Atlantic, musicology! See flyer for discount code through @cornellpress.
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Dear friends: please RT, share, and attend! Our new event with @kira_thurman will take place on February 16 — do join us!
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@DominiqueReill gives over @ModEuroHistColl Twitter to @steven_seegel. It’s been a tough week. Began with deceased Peter Reill’s birthday. Then went straight into Tyler Stovall’s death, then bell hooks. I end thinking positively: Gaby Faundez got her PhD today. That felt good
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Colleagues who work on the History of East Central or Southeastern Europe (or both) since 1880:
@EUI_History is advertizing a new joint chair in this field (with the Robert Schuman Center). The deadline for applications is relatively soon.
eui.eu/Documents/ServicesAdm…
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@MichaelEDyson I know you care about the history of freedom + the importance of race in that story. Yesterday former @AHAhistorians president + 1 of the best historians to deal with these issues died. 3pm NYC time colleagues will talk. Come? register here: eventbrite.co.uk/x/216393959…
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@MichaelEDyson I know you care about the history of freedom + the importance of race in that story. Yesterday former @AHAhistorians president + 1 of the best historians to deal with these issues died. 3pm NYC time colleagues will talk. Come? register here: eventbrite.co.uk/x/216393959…
@AHAhistorians @ucsc @UCBerkeley @OhioState @FordhamNYC @uwisconsin @EUI_History if you can come, come today to hear Tyler Stovall’s colleagues talk about his influence in the field. Register here: eventbrite.com/e/frenchpress… @UCBerkeleyIES @UCSCHistory @FordhamHistory
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Just registered for today’s discussion about Tyler Stovall’s importance in the field. Join us! 3pm EST. Free registration. Go here: eventbrite.com/e/frenchpress…
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Tyler Stovall wrote books that changed what Europe is and what race means. He also taught, mentored, supported, administrated to create opportunities. @AHAhistorians president, Dean @FordhamNYC + @ucsantacruz, prof so many places. Former students: share your stories here!
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1st thing Modern European History Collective did was ask Tyler Stovall to talk with us about his new book, “White Freedom.” He graciously agreed, juggling talking with a group of bleeding hearts with NPR, NYTimes, etc. Stovall made time for people. We are devastated by his loss
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@DominiqueReill is on MEHC Twitter this week. Today in 1938 my father, Peter Reill, was born. My dad died 2 years ago. To honor him, today I’m off social media (which he hated). But I hope you can share remembering this great historian with me. His obit: 4926a784-5268-412f-b7ac-dea9…
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With season 2 of The Great premiering Friday, it must be asked: favorite pop cultural depictions of history?
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Busy week! @steven_seegel at the Infoministry of Eurosomewhere till Friday. Please don't hesitate to tag us @ModEuroHistColl if you see jobs, CfPs, conferences, events, catalogs, news, publications, &c. We're almost at 2,500 followers. Upcoming event on Nov. 3rd, Zoom link below!
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It’s @DominiqueReill. So, a fellow team mate needed some one to step in, so you are stuck with m and my kitties until @NisrineR123 takes over Saturday! So, Modern Europeanists… send in things we should know about so I can help spread the word!
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UNC Chapel Hill hosts a wonderful line up in their speaker series this fall, with @SmithHelmut @walchster @RichterHedwig and Kevin J. Hoeper.
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On September 22nd, Pieter Judson will give the Marcus Bierich Distinguished Visitorship in the Humanities Lecture at the @AmericanAcademy Sign up here:
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One week from today! Join us for a discussion of journal and book publishing in European history with @Monica_Black_ and Emily Andrew. Please share with graduate students, the non-tweeting, your neighbor's dog - all are welcome!
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Next week! Learn tips and tricks to get your manuscript/proposal into the Liz Lemon zone! Register now!
Please join us for our next event! Publishing in Modern European History, a conversation between @Monica_Black_ and Emily Andrew.
Thursday, September 9, 1:00 PM Eastern/10:00 AM Pacific
Zoom registration link: kansas.zoom.us/meeting/regis…
@AndyDenningHist on the account this week so, with all apologies to @DominiqueReill and @PFLerner and their lovely cats, it’s a week for dog fandom.
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It’s time for @DominiqueReill to sign off from manning the MEHC Twitter feed. Klytemnestra and Castor hope @AndyDenningHist is as lucky as Dominique to have 4-pawed companions while spreading history news. They keep it real.
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MEHC comrade-in-arms needs someone to fill in the rest of the week, so you’re stuck with @DominiqueReill manning the feed. As always, I’ll try to make this my only kitty pic.
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Please join us for our next event! Publishing in Modern European History, a conversation between @Monica_Black_ and Emily Andrew.
Thursday, September 9, 1:00 PM Eastern/10:00 AM Pacific
Zoom registration link: kansas.zoom.us/meeting/regis…
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@DominiqueReill is signing off from manning this week’s @ModEuroHistColl feed. I leave with a kitty pic (can’t help myself). I’m sure my comrade-in-history-loving-arms, @Ellen_Boucher1, will have more self-control + will alert us to tons more cool European history things. Yippee!
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Read Ania Aizman’s review of “Utopia’s Discontents” by Faith Hillis in @LAReviewofBooks! lareviewofbooks.org/article/… bringing intricate histories into the purview of readers who might be interested but hadn’t heard yet: this stuff is FASCINATING
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Emerging scholars: Don’t forget to apply for the “Contemporary European History Prize” for articles submitted before Sept. 10. Info: cambridge.org/core/journals/… @ContEuroHistory Please share! Not just the winner will get published! All submissions will be considered for publication.
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Congrats to Darcy Benson who today successfully defended her dissertation: “Living on the Margins, Fighting in the Shadows: Communist Immigrant Communities and Resistance in France, 1930-1944” at Ohio State. history.osu.edu/people/benso… #european_history_dissertations
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This fall @DominiqueReill is teaching an undergrad survey course @UMiamiHistory on "Europe after Hitler," with 3 books assigned + 9 movies. Her favorite to teach? Gender, state, and consumerism in De Sica's "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow." What/where are you teaching this fall?
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It’s Dominique Reill and I will be taking over the Modern European History Collective Feed this week. Hopefully this will be my only cat pic. In light of the semester that is about to start: I’d love to share info this week about what new colleagues are teaching + where. Share?
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I believe in you @steven_seegel. You are even more passionate than I (and Micky… Micky is VERY Dalmatian about work when it’s over 40 degrees).
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Tomorrow @steven_seegel takes over. This Dalmatian kitty (named Micky) and I are looking forward to what the great Steven does. But I also hope my colleagues keep posting about all the exciting work their emerging colleagues do and add the hashtag #European_history_dissertations
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Profs of modern European history!Terrible internet connection here, but I want to post about what graduate students in history are working on. Can you help me out + post info of students’ projects (perhaps with photo + url link) + add @ModEuroHistColl ?
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In Hungarian Historical Review, Karel Černý reviews "Earthly Delights, Economies and Cultures of Food in Ottoman and Danubian Europe, c. 1500–1900", edited by Angela Jianu and Violeta Barbu (part of our 'Balkan Studies Library' book series) hunghist.org/images/Cerny_do…
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Congrats to Tara Zahra for winning a JS Guggenheim fellowship for her next project on deglobalization efforts, from above and below, in the interwar period. To learn more about Zahra, see: history.uchicago.edu/directo…; To see the list of this year's winners: gf.org/announcement-2021/
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Congrats to Todd Sheppard for winning at JS Guggenheim fellowship for his forthcoming work on "Affirmative Action and the End of Empires: ‘Integration’ in France (1956-1962)” and the Race Question in the Cold War World.” For more on @ToddShepard75, see: history.jhu.edu/directory/to…
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Congrats to Emily Greble for winning a JS Guggenheim fellowship for her next book project on legal frontiers in the 19th c. Balkans. For more on her work, see: as.vanderbilt.edu/history/bi… To see this year's award winners, see: gf.org/announcement-2021/
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Congrats to Sarah Miles for winning the Institut Français d’Amérique Fellowship for her dissertation project ‘Un Seul et Même Combat’: Francophone Intellectuals, Global Solidarity, and Third Worldist Publishing from Paris to Algeria and Quebec, 1962-1981.” history.unc.edu/graduate-stu…
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Congrats to Glauco Schettini for winning the Farrar prize for his dissertation “The Catholic Counter-Revolution: A Global History, 1780s-1840s.” For more on @GlaucoSchettini: fordham.edu/info/24231/curre…; For more on the prize: societyforfrenchhistoricalst…
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Congrats to Ethan Katz for getting Honorable Mention from the William Koren, Jr. Prize for his article “Jewish Citizens of an Imperial Nation-State: Toward a French-Algerian Frame for French Jewish History.” read.dukeupress.edu/french-h… For more on the prize: societyforfrenchhistoricalst…
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Congrats to Nimisha Barton for getting an honorable mention from the Pinkney Prize for her book "Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880–1945." @NimishaBarton cornellpress.cornell.edu/boo… For more on the award: societyforfrenchhistoricalst…
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Congrats to Benjamin Goosen for winning the 2021–22 AHA Fellowship in the History of Space Technology. His project is titled “The Year of the Earth (1957–1958): Cold War Science and the Making of Planetary Consciousness.” To learn more: bengoossen.com @BenjaminGoosen
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These review articles are really amazing. Marco Bresciani's recent piece on Italian historiography and fascism cambridge.org/core/journals/… and Christian Nielsen's piece on Serbian historiography after 1991 cambridge.org/core/journals/… are INCREDIBLE teaching tools and research stimulators
We publish longish (ca 10 page) thematic review articles rather than individual book reviews and are always looking for new ones. If you've got an idea for a review essay, pitch us! Contact details here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Join "The Mediterranean Seminar," filled with useful information about conferences, events, monthly article prizes, first book prizes... a really useful place to connect European, Middle Eastern, and African history together (and learn about new work!). mediterraneanseminar.org/
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Article prize in Contemporary European History: deadline Sept 10! Any geography connected to Europe from 1914 to today. Only PhDs or within 5 yrs of degree eligible. Authors other than the winner may be invited to publish in @ContEuroHistory. Share! cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Congrats to SA Smythe for winning a 2021-2022 Rome Prize in Modern Italian studies, for a monograph provisionally titled "Where Blackness Meets the Sea: On Crisis, Culture, and the Black Mediterranean." To learn more: afam.ucla.edu/sa-smythe/
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Congrats to PhD candidate Patrick Walsh for winning a 2021-2022 NEH fellowship for his project, "Raised from the Living, Making Therapy from Biology, 1880s-1940s." To learn more, see here: chstm.org/profile/patrick-wa…
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Congrats to Colleen Anderson for winning a 2021-2022 NEH postdoctoral fellowship for her project on "Socialist Healthcare in Germany". To learn more, see here: fpi.sais-jhu.edu/colleen-and…
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Congrats to Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110 for starting at Wesleyan University in History/College of Social Sciences this fall. His forthcoming book is titled "Impossible Peace, Improbable War: Raymond Aron and World Order." Learn more, here: danieljenkins.me/
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Congrats to Emily Lord Fransee for getting a job at U Mississippi, where she specializes on colonialism, gender, and race in modern European history. Her book manuscript: "Without Distinction: Gender and Suffrage in the Postwar French Empire 1944-1974." history.olemiss.edu/emily-lo…
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Congrats to Bathsheba Demuth for winning the Bernath article prize for her article "The Walrus and the Bureaucrat: Energy, Ecology, and Making the State in the Russian and American Arctic, 1870–1950.” academic.oup.com/ahr/article… For more on the prize, see: shafr.memberclicks.net/berna…
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Congrats to Elisa Camiscioli for winning the Berkshire Article Prize for her piece “Coercion and Choice: The ‘Traffic in Women’ between France and Argentina in the Early Twentieth Century,” French Historical Studies, Vol. 42, No. 3 (August 2019): 483-507. read.dukeupress.edu/french-h…
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Congrats to @JamesChappel for winning the Chester Penn Higby Prize for his JMH article “Old Volk: Aging in 1950s Germany, East and West” journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu… For more info on the prize, see: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
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Check out the @ContEuroHistory's special issue on European Cultural Diplomacy edited by @BenGMartinHist and @elisabmpiller, featuring articles on themes in Germany, Spain, Poland, Hungary, France, US, UK, and Sweden. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Omer Bartov remembers his friend, Eric Weitz. Together they published a book that helped open up cross-specialty discussions about what “end of empire” meant in Europe. To learn more about their book: iupress.org/9780253006356/sh… @bartov_omer: can you share a pic of the 2 of you?
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Scholars like Eric Weitz helped people even when that wasn’t their job. Prof Eli Rubin from Western Michigan University remembers Weitz for that. The book he keeps coming back to is Weimar Germany press.princeton.edu/books/pa…. To learn more about Rudin’s work: wmich.edu/history/directory/…
He want my advisor, but Eric Weitz was incredibly supportive and kind when I was in grad school at UW and he was at Minnesota. Also I’m relying on his Weimar book right now for a part of my own work!
Colleagues can help make great work better, in ways we often can’t “see.” Weitz and Greble was one of those moments. Here’s the link to Eric Weitz’s influential AHR article: academic.oup.com/ahr/article… and the link to @emily_greble’s forthcoming book: global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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Another PhD who worked with Eric Weitz is Edward Snyder, currently chair of the History Dept at Chowan University, whose research interests have focused on how Protestantism and social policies in late 19th-early 20th c Germany. To learn more: chowan.edu/staff/edward-snyd…
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Another PhD who worked with Eric Weitz is Wendy Jo Gertjejanssen, who has written on sexual violence on the Eastern Front during WWII and now is a professional essayist. To learn more about her, see: wendygphd.com
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Another PhD who worked with Eric Weitz is Prof. Sarah Danielsson, prolific author and institution builder at Queensborough Community College and in the wider field. She’s published broadly on the intersection of violence, intellectual history, and gender. qcc.cuny.edu/history/faculty…
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One of Eric Weitz’s recent PhD students is @adam_blacklerWY, now an Asst Prof at U of Wyoming. He has a book forthcoming titled “Heathens, ‘Hottentots,’ and Heimat” on German colonialism in Namibia. To learn more about his work, see here: uwyo.academia.edu/AdamBlackl…
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In honor of Eric Weitz’s recent passing, we would like to highlight the work of his graduate students. If you ever worked with Eric, please post something about what you’re up to and add @ModEuroHistColl so we can spread the word. In the meantime we will post info that we know.
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Several AWSS award deadlines are just a month away! Don't forget to apply if you are eligible or encourage your colleagues and students to do the same. All opportunities can be found on our website: awsshome.org/awards/
Please share widely with your networks!
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Eric D. Weitz: Passionate, prolific, engaged, quick witted, ever curious. Our profession is at a loss; we know how much more you had to give. Thank you for what you did give us. We send support to family, friends, students, collaborators, and colleagues. gc.cuny.edu/page-elements/ac…
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@DominiqueReill is taking over the Modern European History Collective feed this week. Will try to post about exciting historical initiatives. Want to get our group’s attention? Just remember to add @ModEuroHistColl to your tweets). (Hopefully) my only cat pic this week.
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It's oral history day here at the Modern European History Collective! Tweet us your projects, articles, books, calls for interviews for RT. Recommend something great that incorporates oral history. @Oral_History @OralHistorySoc @oralhistreview @OHAnetwork
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If you missed the webinar on White Supremacy in Modern Europe May 4th with @tnflorvil @NimishaBarton @jean23bean and Susanna Lim, you can watch the video now on our #MEHC YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=MPUcOuDZ… #twitterstorians
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It's happening! @ModEuroHistColl presents "White Supremacy in Europe in Historical Perspective" next Tuesday, May 4th, at 11am PST/2pm EST. Join us for a roundtable featuring @tnflorvil @jean23bean and Susanna Lim! Moderated by @NimishaBarton
Zoom link below :) #twitterstorians
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