Renata Keller

Wow, it’s refreshing to wake up to good electoral news for once 🇧🇷

Really proud to work with a press that's dedicated to pursuing and demystifying Open Access. I recommend that all authors interested in publishing with our InterConnections series (or interested in Open Access in general) read this post! 🗃️

it took four hours and emails across three agencies to determine if a simple, polite email invitation was legitimate, in case you're wondering whether AI has improved efficiency in my field

Fascinating piece about a scam most academic authors in now face on the regular

Loved this Q&A on the new @draftingthepast.bsky.social website! Now I want to be besties with Marcia Chatelain (and read her new book, obv) www.draftingthepast.com/q-a-with-pul... 🗃️

Good idea! Anyone know of a list? I’ve gotten both genuine and fake requests myself and almost dismissed real invitations out of fear of being tricked.

I am floored and delighted and so, so honored to announce that The Fate of the Americas won the Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean History from @historians.org! This is definitely a career highlight. Huge thanks to the committee and the AHA. www.historians.org/perspectives...

Heartbreaking

About time. End it.

Some great advice in the replies!

Super scoop from Nora Gámez at Miami Herald. We now have details of the deal Trump admin was trying to push on Cuba through back channel negotiations via Raulito (Raúl's bodyguard/grandson/GAESA fixer): -Diaz-Canel leaves gov -country's oil monopoly privatized www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

I'm teaching Race, Law and US Society, which is on this list and has been deemed "too narrow." Some readings: US Constitution, Federalist Papers, Notes on the State of Virginia, Cherokee Nation Cases, Scott v. Stanford, Brown v Board... so US legal history... too narrow? Or just too about race?

Brilliant

Did you know? The Williams Emerging Scholar Research grant is open to ALL historians within 6 years of the PhD. Independent scholars, adjuncts, and off-the-tenure-track historians, this means you! Up to $2,000. Deadline Oct. 15. For more info: www.shafr.org/junior-schol...

What a great list! Honored to be included!

Ban these in your syllabi, profs.

Excellent, heart-wrenching article on the situation in Cuba from @mjbusta.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/o...

Very excited for this!!

David chose my book as his “book to review and recommend” 🤩

Wooot! You can get all our awesome InterConnections books (including The Fate of the Americas 😘) for 35% off all month!

So excited to see my article on hemispheric responses to the Cuban Missile Crisis up on the Americas Quarterly website! americasquarterly.org/article/the-... #History 🗃️

A question for my US historian friends: What relatively short books are you assigning in your modern US classes now? They can be primary sources like Baldwin's The Fire Next Time or fiction like O'Brien's The Things They Carried. Im just curious as I am looking to revise my course. Please share!

"The only people who determine whether students use AI are the students." Smartest sentence I've ever read on AI in education.

The best way we know to spend 1776? On history books 📚 https://uncpress.org/250-2/

In excellent company with Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social at @uncpress.bsky.social 🥳

I'd probably head out west to try and figure out what happened to Colorado and New Mexico, and whatever is going on with the Dakotas, or why Iowa and Arkansas switched places, or where the second Rhode Island came from or

The good folks at bookshop.org are celebrating anti-Prime Day by offering free shipping across the site. Now's a great time to support the podcast by shopping our storefront for books by our guests and craft book recommendations: bookshop.org/shop/draftin...

Julia, Chris, and I will be at SHAFR next week! Reach out if you’d like to connect! @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

Does anyone on here have access to the International Journal of Military History and Historiography? I think there's a review of my book in the latest "advance articles" section!

Are we great again yet?

Agree re libraries, and will add that this is a devastating report in general. $10,000 a year average?? Also, I would argue anecdotally that classroom sales, traditionally a strong market for academic books, are way down in part b/c students are broke and downloading pirated books for free.

Sobering. At Nevada's two R1 doctoral universities, @unevadareno.bsky.social and @unlv.edu, nominal average salaries for all faculty ranks actual declined by 0.7% from 2024-25 to 2025-26. After inflation, salaries are down by over 4%. Falling behind again.

Huge thank you to Just Money for spotlighting my forthcoming piece. There's still time to alert me to any goofs in the article!

you're right, I really do

Many thanks to @lseblogs.bsky.social and @tanyaharmer.bsky.social for hosting me last night, and to all the lovely people who braved the rain and tube strike to come hear me hold forth about The Fate of the Americas!

This already happened for the NEH. I understand the outrage and shock about the impact on research, but it's crtiical to understand, as ever, that science was never going to get a pass. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

Thanks, David! I really appreciate your thorough and generous engagement with my book!! @uncpress.bsky.social #History

This breaks my heart. What a sudden loss for his friends, his colleagues, his students, and especially his family. Raul was a passionate, brilliant, dedicated, generous scholar and friend. Que fuerte.