Adina Popescu
@adinapopescu.com
History editor at Yale University Press
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How a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capital.
Vested Interests by Emilie Connolly is now available (20 Jan UK pub).
Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #AmericanHistory #USHistory #ReadUP
Vested Interests by Emilie Connolly is now available (20 Jan UK pub).
Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #AmericanHistory #USHistory #ReadUP
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
How a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capital.
Vested Interests by Emilie Connolly is now available (20 Jan UK pub).
Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #AmericanHistory #USHistory #ReadUP
Vested Interests by Emilie Connolly is now available (20 Jan UK pub).
Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #AmericanHistory #USHistory #ReadUP
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In disbelief. The NYT named Born in Flames one of 100 Notable Books of 2025
November 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In disbelief. The NYT named Born in Flames one of 100 Notable Books of 2025
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Tbilisi Mural Fest’s Dynamic #Murals Brighten the Sides of Buildings Throughout the City #art #TbilisiGeorgia #Georgia
Link for #photos of more of these amazing mural: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/tbil...
Link for #photos of more of these amazing mural: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/tbil...
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Tbilisi Mural Fest’s Dynamic #Murals Brighten the Sides of Buildings Throughout the City #art #TbilisiGeorgia #Georgia
Link for #photos of more of these amazing mural: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/tbil...
Link for #photos of more of these amazing mural: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/tbil...
And check out @bencarp.bsky.social's The Great New York Fire of 1776.
Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War?
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War?
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
And check out @bencarp.bsky.social's The Great New York Fire of 1776.
Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War?
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War?
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Hello historians 🗃️! Planning on attending #AHA26 and have book ideas in mind?
Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇
Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Hello historians 🗃️! Planning on attending #AHA26 and have book ideas in mind?
Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇
Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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New post!
I discuss how Marlene Daut’s new book on Henry Christophe and Julia Gaffield’s book on Jean-Jacques Dessalines are helpful to world history courses.
🗺️🗃️
www.liberatingnarratives.com/astonish-the-world/
I discuss how Marlene Daut’s new book on Henry Christophe and Julia Gaffield’s book on Jean-Jacques Dessalines are helpful to world history courses.
🗺️🗃️
www.liberatingnarratives.com/astonish-the-world/
“Astonish the World”: Teaching Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe
Discussion of teaching Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe
www.liberatingnarratives.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
New post!
I discuss how Marlene Daut’s new book on Henry Christophe and Julia Gaffield’s book on Jean-Jacques Dessalines are helpful to world history courses.
🗺️🗃️
www.liberatingnarratives.com/astonish-the-world/
I discuss how Marlene Daut’s new book on Henry Christophe and Julia Gaffield’s book on Jean-Jacques Dessalines are helpful to world history courses.
🗺️🗃️
www.liberatingnarratives.com/astonish-the-world/
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Our book, Race and the Scottish Enlightenment, now published, @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I were challenged to the ‘Page 99 Test’.
The challenge, as defined by Ford Madox Ford, is whether the whole book can be seen in a single page.
Here’s our response.
page99test.blogspot.com/2025/09/lind...
The challenge, as defined by Ford Madox Ford, is whether the whole book can be seen in a single page.
Here’s our response.
page99test.blogspot.com/2025/09/lind...
Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan's "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment"
Linda Andersson Burnett is a senior lecturer in the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden. Bruce Buchan ...
page99test.blogspot.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Our book, Race and the Scottish Enlightenment, now published, @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I were challenged to the ‘Page 99 Test’.
The challenge, as defined by Ford Madox Ford, is whether the whole book can be seen in a single page.
Here’s our response.
page99test.blogspot.com/2025/09/lind...
The challenge, as defined by Ford Madox Ford, is whether the whole book can be seen in a single page.
Here’s our response.
page99test.blogspot.com/2025/09/lind...
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A new book by John Turner is always an event, and this book is an especially big event! So glad to see this, @yalepress.bsky.social! The vitality of Mormon history as a subfield has been nothing short of remarkable.
September 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A new book by John Turner is always an event, and this book is an especially big event! So glad to see this, @yalepress.bsky.social! The vitality of Mormon history as a subfield has been nothing short of remarkable.
Up and at 'em on Monday morning!
September 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Up and at 'em on Monday morning!
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“I fooled myself. I had to. Everybody has to.” — An ex-Nazi.
A chilling reminder that ordinary people often choose comfort over conscience. Complicity isn’t always active—it’s the everyday refusal to truly see evil.
A chilling reminder that ordinary people often choose comfort over conscience. Complicity isn’t always active—it’s the everyday refusal to truly see evil.
September 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
“I fooled myself. I had to. Everybody has to.” — An ex-Nazi.
A chilling reminder that ordinary people often choose comfort over conscience. Complicity isn’t always active—it’s the everyday refusal to truly see evil.
A chilling reminder that ordinary people often choose comfort over conscience. Complicity isn’t always active—it’s the everyday refusal to truly see evil.
Some days I find it hard to go on.
"Even if it doesn’t turn you into the alien if you eat this stuff, I guarantee you’ll grow an extra ear."
Senator Says Radioactive Shrimp Will Turn You Into the Alien From 'Alien'
gizmodo.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Some days I find it hard to go on.
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No film gets historians right, but that's only because no audience wants to watch someone quietly work their way through a cardboard box of old papers, in total silence, for eight straight hours.
an interesting subtopic! which shows/movies are beloved by the profession for Getting It Right! Lawyers famously love MY COUSIN VINNIE, doctors I believe love SCRUBS, apparently Aussie barristers are surprisingly fond of RAKE's depiction of some aspects of the law.
Oh god I remember watching HOUSE with some doctors, it was a the usual mix of “you would get fired instantly and never practice medicine again no matter how good u are” and “that case actually isn’t hard to solve at all”
August 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
No film gets historians right, but that's only because no audience wants to watch someone quietly work their way through a cardboard box of old papers, in total silence, for eight straight hours.
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See new essays in New Republic. I have gathered and edited eleven essays by historians on teaching and writing history in the time of Trump. We are fighting back! I'll be on MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell tonight at 10 to talk about the special issue of TNR.
newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...
newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...
Trump Against History
How is Trump changing our sense of who we are? We asked eminent Yale historian David W. Blight to round up some colleagues to consider the question. Here’s what they had to say.
newrepublic.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
See new essays in New Republic. I have gathered and edited eleven essays by historians on teaching and writing history in the time of Trump. We are fighting back! I'll be on MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell tonight at 10 to talk about the special issue of TNR.
newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...
newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...
Drop an old person that you're going to turn into in the future.
August 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Drop an old person that you're going to turn into in the future.
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Historians need to be represented by an organization committed to the position that historical sources, interpretation, argument, and, above all, understanding matter more and demand more than producing grammatical sentences incorporating suggested keywords in response to prompts.
August 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Historians need to be represented by an organization committed to the position that historical sources, interpretation, argument, and, above all, understanding matter more and demand more than producing grammatical sentences incorporating suggested keywords in response to prompts.
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We're at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Conference! Enjoy 30% off American history titles through October 18!
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/SHEAR25/
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/SHEAR25/
July 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We're at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Conference! Enjoy 30% off American history titles through October 18!
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/SHEAR25/
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/SHEAR25/
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[destroys civil liberties, trade, education and health care] I have been speaking to Kellogg’s about using REAL froot in Froot Loops in the United States
July 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
[destroys civil liberties, trade, education and health care] I have been speaking to Kellogg’s about using REAL froot in Froot Loops in the United States
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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
New kitchen rug is a hit!
July 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
New kitchen rug is a hit!
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I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1
July 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1
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This by Barbara Fields is wonderful: "You must like to read, furthermore, not just to retrieve information, but for love of language and for admiration of people who know how to use it elegantly and effectively. All kinds of reading may teach you to be a better historian." (h/t Deborah McDowell)
SO YOU WANT TO BE A HISTORIAN
www.washingtonpost.com
August 14, 2023 at 3:58 PM
This by Barbara Fields is wonderful: "You must like to read, furthermore, not just to retrieve information, but for love of language and for admiration of people who know how to use it elegantly and effectively. All kinds of reading may teach you to be a better historian." (h/t Deborah McDowell)