Drew Flanagan Ph.D
@drewflanaganphd.bsky.social
Historian of western European borderlands and European unity. Assistant Prof. at Pitt-Bradford. My book From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany 1945-55 is forthcoming in spring 2026 from LSU Press.
In a video the college I work for put out for Thanksgiving, they asked students what they were thankful for. One listed me among three "funky" professors he was thankful to be able to learn from. I'm certified funky! Never thought I'd see the day.
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
In a video the college I work for put out for Thanksgiving, they asked students what they were thankful for. One listed me among three "funky" professors he was thankful to be able to learn from. I'm certified funky! Never thought I'd see the day.
This is a great resource. I'm really enjoying seeing other faculty's ideas for AI-resistant or AI-proof writing assignments, and I hope to see the selection grow as we strategize together to promote real learning against the tide of technological bullshit.
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against-a-i.com/assignment-i...
Assignment Ideas - AGAINST AI
Image: The Shipwreck, J.M.W. Turner
against-a-i.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is a great resource. I'm really enjoying seeing other faculty's ideas for AI-resistant or AI-proof writing assignments, and I hope to see the selection grow as we strategize together to promote real learning against the tide of technological bullshit.
against-a-i.com/assignment-i...
against-a-i.com/assignment-i...
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Am 27. November 1945 starb Georg Scholz, den die französische Verwaltung kurz zuvor zum Bürgermeister von Waldkirch ernannt hatte.
1933 war er von den Nazis entlassen worden und nach Waldkirch gezogen. 1937 waren einige seiner Werke als "entartet" beschlagnahmt worden. 🧵
1933 war er von den Nazis entlassen worden und nach Waldkirch gezogen. 1937 waren einige seiner Werke als "entartet" beschlagnahmt worden. 🧵
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Am 27. November 1945 starb Georg Scholz, den die französische Verwaltung kurz zuvor zum Bürgermeister von Waldkirch ernannt hatte.
1933 war er von den Nazis entlassen worden und nach Waldkirch gezogen. 1937 waren einige seiner Werke als "entartet" beschlagnahmt worden. 🧵
1933 war er von den Nazis entlassen worden und nach Waldkirch gezogen. 1937 waren einige seiner Werke als "entartet" beschlagnahmt worden. 🧵
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
Ken Burns' American Revolution on @pbs.org is pretty ok but ALSO Joseph Ellis, one of the historians featured in the documentary, was suspended without pay from Mount Holyoke College from 2001 to 2005 for stealing valor. He falsely told students he'd fought in Vietnam. The more you know! #HATM
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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In Germany, historians are wrapping up a 20-year project to investigate the Nazi involvement of postwar West Germany government officials. Samuel Miner writes about what the project did and what future work could include in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️
The End of an Era? – AHA
A 20-year project delving into the postwar history of West German federal ministries and their Nazi pasts is wrapping up.
www.historians.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In Germany, historians are wrapping up a 20-year project to investigate the Nazi involvement of postwar West Germany government officials. Samuel Miner writes about what the project did and what future work could include in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️
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Anyhoo, here's a paper about "the centrality of housing concerns in facilitating the Holocaust and the complicity of individuals in the exclusion of Jews for economic, ideological, and geographic reasons."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Anyhoo, here's a paper about "the centrality of housing concerns in facilitating the Holocaust and the complicity of individuals in the exclusion of Jews for economic, ideological, and geographic reasons."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Our Spring 2026 catalog is live, and all books are now available for pre-order! Check out our upcoming offerings here: https://bit.ly/lsuspring26
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Our Spring 2026 catalog is live, and all books are now available for pre-order! Check out our upcoming offerings here: https://bit.ly/lsuspring26
My book has a webpage and a release date (April 20, 2026). And if you preorder now, it's 40 percent off. It's all happening!
@lsupress.bsky.social
lsupress.org/978080718678...
@lsupress.bsky.social
lsupress.org/978080718678...
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
My book has a webpage and a release date (April 20, 2026). And if you preorder now, it's 40 percent off. It's all happening!
@lsupress.bsky.social
lsupress.org/978080718678...
@lsupress.bsky.social
lsupress.org/978080718678...
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6 November 1939 | Sonderaktion Krakau, a German pacification action in Krakow targeting the Polish academic community. 183 people were arrested, mainly professors and lecturers of the Jagiellonian University. Most were imprisoned in KL Sachsenhausen. At least 20 of them perished.
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
6 November 1939 | Sonderaktion Krakau, a German pacification action in Krakow targeting the Polish academic community. 183 people were arrested, mainly professors and lecturers of the Jagiellonian University. Most were imprisoned in KL Sachsenhausen. At least 20 of them perished.
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What happens when nationalist history meets the horrors of empire? For @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I reviewed a new exhibition on British counterinsurgency at the Imperial War Museum jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum
An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.
jacobin.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
What happens when nationalist history meets the horrors of empire? For @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I reviewed a new exhibition on British counterinsurgency at the Imperial War Museum jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
My book, From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1955, is now available for preorder from LSU Press. A very exciting moment at the end of more than a decade of thinking, writing, and editing!
lsupress.org/978080718678...
lsupress.org/978080718678...
From Occupation to Integration
After the collapse of the National Socialist regime in May 1945, France became one of four principal occupying powers in a defeated Germany. Within their zon...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
My book, From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1955, is now available for preorder from LSU Press. A very exciting moment at the end of more than a decade of thinking, writing, and editing!
lsupress.org/978080718678...
lsupress.org/978080718678...
Another tenure-track history job in my neighborhood - this time at SUNY Alfred State College for a US history generalist.
History Assistant Professor - HigherEdJobs
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November 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Another tenure-track history job in my neighborhood - this time at SUNY Alfred State College for a US history generalist.
Tenure-track job in general European history down the street from me at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, NY. A beautiful location with great archival collections (esp. medieval manuscripts), great history colleagues, and a reasonable cost of living.
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
Assistant Professor of History - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
www.higheredjobs.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Tenure-track job in general European history down the street from me at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, NY. A beautiful location with great archival collections (esp. medieval manuscripts), great history colleagues, and a reasonable cost of living.
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Ok, so let's talk a little bit about how the Romans understand magic and why they think putting phallus-shaped objects (fascina, sing. fascinum) are witch-craft related and how that connects to our word 'fascinate.' 1/
Hmmm: Borrowed from Latin fascinātus (“to enchant, bewitch, fascinate”) [makes sense so far] from fascinum (“a phallus-shaped [lol wut] amulet [wait what] worn around the neck [WHAT THE TARPEIAN FUCK] in Ancient Rome; witchcraft”) ... itself of obscure origin.
October 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Ok, so let's talk a little bit about how the Romans understand magic and why they think putting phallus-shaped objects (fascina, sing. fascinum) are witch-craft related and how that connects to our word 'fascinate.' 1/
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"EdTech has been leading this charge since long before the AI craze...clawing shared governance back can help ensure that universities aren’t converted into profit centers for private equity firms."
every day is a good day to be burstingly proud of @jraden.bsky.social
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every day is a good day to be burstingly proud of @jraden.bsky.social
defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"EdTech has been leading this charge since long before the AI craze...clawing shared governance back can help ensure that universities aren’t converted into profit centers for private equity firms."
every day is a good day to be burstingly proud of @jraden.bsky.social
defector.com/higher-eds-r...
every day is a good day to be burstingly proud of @jraden.bsky.social
defector.com/higher-eds-r...
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sorting misc images on my laptop and
![meme screenshot from The Dark Knight with a guy in a bar saying "Let me get this straight, you think [rest of the text blacked out] ?", and below it a picture of descartes pasted in with the text "I do. And I'm [text also blacked out]."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6wb6fwqnssysmgnny4o4hymi/bafkreidjdnvmgiz6b2nddnsj47temz3243j45vewvzhugto2kjbcq6i75a@jpeg)
October 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
sorting misc images on my laptop and
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"We regret to inform you the leftie oyster farmer has a Totenkopf tattoo" is a truly perfectly executed milkshake duck, though. Textbook.
October 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"We regret to inform you the leftie oyster farmer has a Totenkopf tattoo" is a truly perfectly executed milkshake duck, though. Textbook.
The SS Totenkopf is not only a Nazi symbol, but symbolized the part of the SS directly responsible for the extermination of European Jewry in the camps. It is arguably, although arguing such a thing is pointless, a more potent symbol of evil than the Hakenkreuz itself.
October 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The SS Totenkopf is not only a Nazi symbol, but symbolized the part of the SS directly responsible for the extermination of European Jewry in the camps. It is arguably, although arguing such a thing is pointless, a more potent symbol of evil than the Hakenkreuz itself.
An important thing about Goonies is its full-throated advocacy for foreign language education, whether for reading Spanish treasure maps or for flipping off criminal goons in perfect Italian #HATM
October 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
An important thing about Goonies is its full-throated advocacy for foreign language education, whether for reading Spanish treasure maps or for flipping off criminal goons in perfect Italian #HATM
Are there still Inspector Gadget-style inventors in family movies now? Have they all been replaced by quirky AI prompt engineers or wacky venture capitalists? #HATM
October 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Are there still Inspector Gadget-style inventors in family movies now? Have they all been replaced by quirky AI prompt engineers or wacky venture capitalists? #HATM