Historian of the Caribbeanhttps://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3mll7mdi72227Anti-AI historian concurs. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 May 2026 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mll7mdi72227https://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3mlgxy3gwis2yLast day of student research presentations, focused on promise and failures of Sandinistas in 1980s Nicaragua and the first Aristide presidency in 1991 Haiti. My youth has become their history. Terrific human-generated spoken and written analysis.09 May 2026 19:26 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlgxy3gwis2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3mlc3mwr2vc25Third day of student research presentations yesterday. Very moving work drawing on the testimonies of both torturers and the detained in Argentina 1976-83. And one on Radio Venceremos, the guerrilla radio station in 1980s El Salvador.07 May 2026 20:48 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlc3mwr2vc25https://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3ml4jkp5oe22lIt's no coincidence that US overseas empire expanded and was blessed by SCOTUS in the same period that the Reconstruction Amendments were defanged and Jim Crow terrorized Southern African Americans. A new Reconstruction must reckon with US formal empire. Multiracial democracy depends on it.05 May 2026 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4jkp5oe22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3ml2lpwb4m222More research methods presentations today drawing variously on TikTok videos made by Venezuelans coming through the Darien Gap on foot and on personal narratives by Mayan men who survived the peak violence of early 1980s Guatemala. Students bore witness to past and present atrocities.04 May 2026 21:14 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2lpwb4m222https://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3mky246ubo22kThe Last Days of Butter Ridge https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/us/dairy-farm-butter-ridge-pennsylvania.html?smid=bs-share03 May 2026 20:54 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mky246ubo22khttps://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3mkxnryzzvs24👍🏻 Rep Morelle. And Medicare for all while you're at it @morelle.house.gov 🙂 [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 May 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxnryzzvs24https://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3mkv3xcan2s2iwww.andreaformaine.com It's not Platner or Mills. LaFlamme has an impressive progressive feminist pro- union message. https://www.andreaformaine.com/02 May 2026 16:49 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkv3xcan2s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3mktms6sfmc2vFour terrific student research presentations today. Juniors who used Cold War era Latin American testimonios and historical scholarship to support arguments about racism in Cuba, and liberation-theology-driven peasant organizing in Honduras and women's pro-democracy organizing in El Salvador.02 May 2026 02:45 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mktms6sfmc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3mkdz5by4qc2khttps://www.jstor.org/stable/48548964 Journal article previewing some main arguments of my book manuscript.25 Apr 2026 21:43 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdz5by4qc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3mkdvkxlhhs2iI also teach Modern World History with the development of the world food system since 1500 as our theme. My students are working on a diversity of final paper topics: their own family farm, over-consumption of protein energy drinks, food allergies, fertilizer shortages due to the war in Iran.25 Apr 2026 20:39 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdvkxlhhs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3mk6mlnqdcs2oStudents in my 200-level history of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans course frequently express frustration that the history of US formal empire has been left out of their public school education. There are resources out there: centropr.hunter.cuny.edu23 Apr 2026 18:15 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6mlnqdcs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3mk6mffmras2oBut in Gonzalez v Williams SCOTUS punted on the question of whether Puerto Ricans were US citizens. Congress made them so by statute in 1917, but with no promise of statehood.23 Apr 2026 18:12 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6mffmras2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3mk6mbccni22oIn 1902 Isabel Gonzalez, a young Puerto Rican woman, sailed from San Juan to NYC but was excluded at Ellis Island. She took her case to SCOTUS, which ruled that Puerto Ricans were not "aliens" so could not be excluded. https://ufndnp.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/the-case-of-isabel-gonzalez-ufndnp/23 Apr 2026 18:10 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6mbccni22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3mk6lxaduys2oA key Insular case was Gonzalez v Williams as described by law prof Sam Erman: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/almost-citizens/D89DFE54DFC9850610BEC13FC22B0C7623 Apr 2026 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6lxaduys2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/drmac67.bsky.social/post/3mj5pka4yqs2sDownes v Bidwell said it was constitutional for the US to acquire but not "incorporate" overseas territories. The Constitution did not have to fully apply in such territories. Non-incorporated territories were not on a path to statehood. Not a single one of these US colonies has ever become a state.10 Apr 2026 16:10 +0000at://did:plc:dexslhkaxlowc2tpk3vi2j5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5pka4yqs2s