Bárbara Zepeda
@mbzepedacortes.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of History at Lehigh University on leave. John Carter Brown Library Fellow, 2024-25. IAS member 2023-24. Writing biography of José de Gálvez (1720-1787) for Yale UP. Eighteenth-century Studies. Book history too! Views and opinions are my own.
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How many shades of blue do you see in this painting? 💙
🖼️ Johannes Vermeer, Woman Reading a Letter, c. 1663
👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108372
🖼️ Johannes Vermeer, Woman Reading a Letter, c. 1663
👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108372
November 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
How many shades of blue do you see in this painting? 💙
🖼️ Johannes Vermeer, Woman Reading a Letter, c. 1663
👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108372
🖼️ Johannes Vermeer, Woman Reading a Letter, c. 1663
👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108372
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Today at Lehigh! Free and open to the public #eighteenthcenturystudies Amanda Herbert’s lecture has a wonderful title: “Stewing Alive”!
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Today at Lehigh! Free and open to the public #eighteenthcenturystudies Amanda Herbert’s lecture has a wonderful title: “Stewing Alive”!
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Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
Next April at the #HuntingtonLibrary, I will participate in "Spain and the Birth of the United States: A California Conversation," a contribution to the 250th anniversary of the #AmericanRevolution
Find the program here 👉🏾 dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a...
#Semiquincentennial #America250
Find the program here 👉🏾 dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a...
#Semiquincentennial #America250
Spain and the Birth of the United States - USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
Supporting advanced research of the early modern period.
dornsife.usc.edu
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Next April at the #HuntingtonLibrary, I will participate in "Spain and the Birth of the United States: A California Conversation," a contribution to the 250th anniversary of the #AmericanRevolution
Find the program here 👉🏾 dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a...
#Semiquincentennial #America250
Find the program here 👉🏾 dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a...
#Semiquincentennial #America250
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“This was a very very bad vote”
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“This was a very very bad vote”
It is funny how CNN doesn’t know how to handle Mamdani’s victory 🤣😂 He gave an excellent speech and they are trying very hard to find ways to criticize him…
November 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It is funny how CNN doesn’t know how to handle Mamdani’s victory 🤣😂 He gave an excellent speech and they are trying very hard to find ways to criticize him…
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I visited Grand Street Senior Housing on the Lower East Side today and tried a little Bomba y Plena…
October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I visited Grand Street Senior Housing on the Lower East Side today and tried a little Bomba y Plena…
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😃👉🏾My AHR review of Mónica A. Jiménez's "Never-Never Land: Race and Law on the Creation of Puerto Rico" 🇵🇷 is out!!! My essay offers a counterpoint to Bad Bunny's "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS 📸" album. [DM if you need access] academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
October 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
😃👉🏾My AHR review of Mónica A. Jiménez's "Never-Never Land: Race and Law on the Creation of Puerto Rico" 🇵🇷 is out!!! My essay offers a counterpoint to Bad Bunny's "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS 📸" album. [DM if you need access] academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
😃👉🏾My AHR review of Mónica A. Jiménez's "Never-Never Land: Race and Law on the Creation of Puerto Rico" 🇵🇷 is out!!! My essay offers a counterpoint to Bad Bunny's "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS 📸" album. [DM if you need access] academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
October 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
😃👉🏾My AHR review of Mónica A. Jiménez's "Never-Never Land: Race and Law on the Creation of Puerto Rico" 🇵🇷 is out!!! My essay offers a counterpoint to Bad Bunny's "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS 📸" album. [DM if you need access] academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
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As I’ve said before, there’s no better time to be running a Latin American studies program because you learn about the future from our region’s past
You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...
With a gift link because I think it is very important for people to understand this:
With a gift link because I think it is very important for people to understand this:
Opinion | You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
As I’ve said before, there’s no better time to be running a Latin American studies program because you learn about the future from our region’s past
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Can someone tell @npr.org they're not getting their funding back? This is not about a clash over the "drug trade." It's about the real possibility the US military murdered a civilian in Colombian waters.
October 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Can someone tell @npr.org they're not getting their funding back? This is not about a clash over the "drug trade." It's about the real possibility the US military murdered a civilian in Colombian waters.
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Generation Z leads the chant 💪🏾: The People United, Will Never Be Defeated! #elpueblounidojamásserávencido — yesterday at #NoKings protest in the little town of Bethlehem, PA #NoKingsDayOct18th
October 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Generation Z leads the chant 💪🏾: The People United, Will Never Be Defeated! #elpueblounidojamásserávencido — yesterday at #NoKings protest in the little town of Bethlehem, PA #NoKingsDayOct18th
October 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Generation Z leads the chant 💪🏾: The People United, Will Never Be Defeated! #elpueblounidojamásserávencido — yesterday at #NoKings protest in the little town of Bethlehem, PA #NoKingsDayOct18th
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📣 AOC speaks out about fired federal workers in the sciences. "People's lives are literally on the line."
FIGHT FOR SCIENCE ✊🌏 JOIN US TOMORROW! Stand in solidarity with our public servants!
WHEN: 10/17 @3pm
WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC
HOW: In person & Virtual! zurl.co/LayiM
FIGHT FOR SCIENCE ✊🌏 JOIN US TOMORROW! Stand in solidarity with our public servants!
WHEN: 10/17 @3pm
WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC
HOW: In person & Virtual! zurl.co/LayiM
October 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 AOC speaks out about fired federal workers in the sciences. "People's lives are literally on the line."
FIGHT FOR SCIENCE ✊🌏 JOIN US TOMORROW! Stand in solidarity with our public servants!
WHEN: 10/17 @3pm
WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC
HOW: In person & Virtual! zurl.co/LayiM
FIGHT FOR SCIENCE ✊🌏 JOIN US TOMORROW! Stand in solidarity with our public servants!
WHEN: 10/17 @3pm
WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC
HOW: In person & Virtual! zurl.co/LayiM
Tercera circular del congreso internacional“El Caribe, encrucijada del Mundo Atlántico” (Feb. 2026 en Puerto Rico 🇵🇷). Manden sus propuestas antes del 30 de octubre. 🌎 #CaribbeanStudies #estudioscaribeños
October 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Tercera circular del congreso internacional“El Caribe, encrucijada del Mundo Atlántico” (Feb. 2026 en Puerto Rico 🇵🇷). Manden sus propuestas antes del 30 de octubre. 🌎 #CaribbeanStudies #estudioscaribeños
#hispanicheritagemonth poetry reading gala at #LehighUniversity organized by the Center for Cultural Engagement #poetry #latinxpoetry
October 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
#hispanicheritagemonth poetry reading gala at #LehighUniversity organized by the Center for Cultural Engagement #poetry #latinxpoetry
#hispanicheritagemonth celebrations at Lehigh University! 🦋 organized by the Center for Cultural Engagement
October 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
#hispanicheritagemonth celebrations at Lehigh University! 🦋 organized by the Center for Cultural Engagement
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Some good advice SPOTTED over I-440 in Nashville…
October 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Some good advice SPOTTED over I-440 in Nashville…
I got interviewed last tonight at Carpenter’s Hall, birthplace of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and of the United States (the First Continental Congress met here in 1774) #publichistory #AmericanRevolution
September 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I got interviewed last tonight at Carpenter’s Hall, birthplace of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and of the United States (the First Continental Congress met here in 1774) #publichistory #AmericanRevolution
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another of the things I will keep saying is that we have an elite impunity problem and nothing will improve until and unless we change that
September 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
another of the things I will keep saying is that we have an elite impunity problem and nothing will improve until and unless we change that
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Hi all,
I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.
As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Nathan
I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.
As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Nathan
Hello!
I am Nathan Ellstrand, a historian of transnational politics and religion between the United States and Latin America during the twentieth century. I am passionate about social justice and education.
Learn more about me and my work here:
nathanellstrand.com
I am Nathan Ellstrand, a historian of transnational politics and religion between the United States and Latin America during the twentieth century. I am passionate about social justice and education.
Learn more about me and my work here:
nathanellstrand.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Hi all,
I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.
As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Nathan
I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.
As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Nathan