Patrick De Oliveira
@MustHistoricize
| Historian | Teacher | e/ludd |
Hi all! Today @mitpress releases "Ascending Republic: The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France." Order it from your favorite retailer here: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549806/… Or, even better, ask your library to add it to its collections. Any questions, let me know!
Incrível como bolsonarista é incapaz de imaginar a famiglia trabalhando.
Bloquearam as contas da mulher do Eduardo Bolsonaro, como os pais vão cuidar de duas crianças sem conta bancária.
Every year, some inbred American goes on holiday "to Europe", stays in an AirBnB without AC and issues a fatwa against the entire continent. Then they go home, get the flu, spend $1500 to see a doctor and have to set up a kickstarter to avoid dying on the street
*corrigindo* "que cresci como neto de DITADOR"
Quero deixar claro aqui que reprovo a postagem de fotos dos filhos do Barroso que moram nos EUA - ou na verdade, de qualquer familiar de ministros, a não ser que tenham vínculos de lavagem de dinheiro com os próprios. Uma das meninas é uma estudante de Yale, pelo amor de Deus!…
Mano... O que é esse inglês? kkkkk Contrataram o Rodrigo Constantino para escrever essa carta?
New media post from Donald J. Trump (TS: 09 Jul 20:17 UTC)
Lol. GOP 2025:The racists receive support from crypto hucksters. dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/0…
Nader sticking his neck out for me It’s not easy This man was dragged to hell and back and I was willing to travel with him Thank you @nadertheory
For years I’ve looked forward to being featured in @NewBooksNetwork, and it has finally happened with my recent book with @mitpress! Give a listen to if you want a fun intro to the rich culture of ballooning in 19th-century France. newbooksnetwork.com/ascending-repu… #history
Minimum annual leave by country: United Kingdom: 28 USA: 0
I'm sure the men and women who orchestrated Operation Overlord (including the 20,000 United States troops who died during it) appreciate the @SecDef's comments.
Secretary Hegseth set the record straight about what happened with the successful strikes in Iran: "President Trump directed the most COMPLEX and SECRETIVE military operation in HISTORY, and it was a resounding success, resulting in a ceasefire agreement and the end of the…
you honestly don’t appear to know what you are talking about. you can’t repeat multiple passages of Harry Potter verbatim without some massive autocomplete abilities and auto completion is literally the training objective. you are embarassing yourself.
Great to see that racist right wingers are drawing inspiration from Stalinists.
By the way in Zohran’s particular case he is clearly not defined by being from Uganda or India but from being essentially from nowhere, a floating elite class global citizen with no loyalty to a place or its people, which is why he didn’t bother to get American citizenship until…
Friends and colleagues, the book is coming out next month, so I wanted to put my name out there in case you're looking for anyone to give a book/research talk at your institution this upcoming academic year. Happy to do so anywhere in the world, so please reach out :)
The book has a page! Check it out if you want to learn about how for a century balloons were deemed useless/obsolete technology only to then be reinvented in the late 1800s as quintessential artifacts of modernity. Oh, and if you're into French history. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549806/…
Always interesting to see someone who was offered a legacy spot at an Ivy League school rhapsodise about meritocracy.
This isn't FOX.... it is News Nation -- but that point aside... here is some commentary on what is happening at Harvard.
Going to move most of my interactions to CielBlue. This space has just gotten too weird the last year, and not getting as much out of it as I did in the early days. You can find me at plso.bsky.social
The book has a page! Check it out if you want to learn about how for a century balloons were deemed useless/obsolete technology only to then be reinvented in the late 1800s as quintessential artifacts of modernity. Oh, and if you're into French history. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549806/…
While ostensibly a book about ballooning, this is probably one of my favourite images (there are close to 100!)