Adam A. Blackler
@adamblackler.bsky.social
Historian of Germany, colonialism, genocide studies, and the Weimar Republic. Associate Professor and proud cat dad.
https://www.uwyo.edu/history/people/faculty/blackler.html
https://www.uwyo.edu/history/people/faculty/blackler.html
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Hi everyone - I am a historian of German colonialism, genocide studies, and the Weimar Republic. I am currently writing a book on Germany's imperial afterlife in the wake of WWI. My first book explores how Africans confronted colonial rule in Namibia (1842-1919). I also love Berlin and my cats.
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First she came for the puppy dogs, and I did not speak out, because I was not a puppy dog.
February 10, 2026 at 9:51 PM
First she came for the puppy dogs, and I did not speak out, because I was not a puppy dog.
"If there be nothing new ..."
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 4:32 PM
"If there be nothing new ..."
**Thrilled** to learn that the most corrupt administration in U.S. history now has all of my information. What could go wrong?!
Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray complied with a Justice Department request for the driver's license numbers and partial Social Security numbers of registered Wyoming voters.
That's drawn criticism from the nonpartisan League of Women Voters of Wyoming.
That's drawn criticism from the nonpartisan League of Women Voters of Wyoming.
Gray defends decision to share sensitive Wyoming voter data with feds as voter group, Dems criticize move - WyoFile
The Secretary of State’s office gave the Justice Department the driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers of every registered Wyoming voter in August.
wyofile.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:20 PM
**Thrilled** to learn that the most corrupt administration in U.S. history now has all of my information. What could go wrong?!
No better way to spend a Friday.
January 30, 2026 at 6:17 PM
No better way to spend a Friday.
The scholar at work.
January 28, 2026 at 5:58 AM
The scholar at work.
An exceptional piece by my good friend
@benjamincarterhett.bsky.social
"The failure of Western leaders to recognize and address sources of humiliation a century ago led to global cataclysm. Without a plan to address the grievances festering today, the world could be headed down a similar path."
@benjamincarterhett.bsky.social
"The failure of Western leaders to recognize and address sources of humiliation a century ago led to global cataclysm. Without a plan to address the grievances festering today, the world could be headed down a similar path."
The Power of Grievance
What history reveals about authoritarianism’s animating force.
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:44 PM
An exceptional piece by my good friend
@benjamincarterhett.bsky.social
"The failure of Western leaders to recognize and address sources of humiliation a century ago led to global cataclysm. Without a plan to address the grievances festering today, the world could be headed down a similar path."
@benjamincarterhett.bsky.social
"The failure of Western leaders to recognize and address sources of humiliation a century ago led to global cataclysm. Without a plan to address the grievances festering today, the world could be headed down a similar path."
Proud of Minnesota!
January 27, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Proud of Minnesota!
"Nothing is more dishonorable for a civilized people than to let itself be 'governed' without resistance by an irresponsible clique of rulers devoted to dark instincts...."
January 24, 2026 at 5:55 PM
"Nothing is more dishonorable for a civilized people than to let itself be 'governed' without resistance by an irresponsible clique of rulers devoted to dark instincts...."
My editors patiently await my pending draft.
January 24, 2026 at 3:22 AM
My editors patiently await my pending draft.
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Now: With double digit windchill, thousands marching in Downtown Minneapolis during a general strike. Marching and protest against the actions of ICE. Prince dance party outside First Avenue and the Prince mural - where there’s been many Prince dance parties before.
Minneapolis January 23, 2026
Minneapolis January 23, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Now: With double digit windchill, thousands marching in Downtown Minneapolis during a general strike. Marching and protest against the actions of ICE. Prince dance party outside First Avenue and the Prince mural - where there’s been many Prince dance parties before.
Minneapolis January 23, 2026
Minneapolis January 23, 2026
Historian Thomas Nipperdey on Kaiser Wilhelm II:
"... superficial, hasty, restless, unable to relax, without any deeper level of seriousness, without any desire for hard work or drive to see things through to the end, ..."
"... superficial, hasty, restless, unable to relax, without any deeper level of seriousness, without any desire for hard work or drive to see things through to the end, ..."
January 22, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Historian Thomas Nipperdey on Kaiser Wilhelm II:
"... superficial, hasty, restless, unable to relax, without any deeper level of seriousness, without any desire for hard work or drive to see things through to the end, ..."
"... superficial, hasty, restless, unable to relax, without any deeper level of seriousness, without any desire for hard work or drive to see things through to the end, ..."
"Weimar cautions us to be wary of those people as well. What comes next can be very bad, even worse than imaginable."
I Shall Bear Witness – Victor Klemperer in His Time, and Ours - The New Fascism Syllabus
Victor Klemperer’s diary is a remarkable testimony on life in Nazi Germany told from the perspective of someone whom the state sought to eradicate from the population—and it makes for chilling reading...
newfascismsyllabus.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:48 PM
"Weimar cautions us to be wary of those people as well. What comes next can be very bad, even worse than imaginable."
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"Hass auf Juden, Linke, Homosexuelle – Stolz auf Volk, Nation und Tradition. Nationalsozialistische Ideologie wird bei jungen Männern populärer. Wieso radikalisieren sie sich, und wie reagiert der Staat?"
Sehenswert & eindrücklich:
www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...
Sehenswert & eindrücklich:
www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...
Jung, männlich, rechtsextrem – Nachwuchs-Nazis im Osten
Hass auf Juden, Linke, Homosexuelle – Stolz auf Volk, Nation und Tradition. Nationalsozialistische Ideologie wird bei jungen Männern populärer. Wieso radikalisieren sie sich, und wie reagiert der Staa...
www.tagesschau.de
January 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM
"Hass auf Juden, Linke, Homosexuelle – Stolz auf Volk, Nation und Tradition. Nationalsozialistische Ideologie wird bei jungen Männern populärer. Wieso radikalisieren sie sich, und wie reagiert der Staat?"
Sehenswert & eindrücklich:
www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...
Sehenswert & eindrücklich:
www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...
""Fascist violence was neither random nor indiscriminate."
January 17, 2026 at 4:08 PM
""Fascist violence was neither random nor indiscriminate."
Angry, disgusted, and embarrassed. #FCKFASCISTS
January 14, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Angry, disgusted, and embarrassed. #FCKFASCISTS
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Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.
January 9, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.
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10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder
at the site of her murder
January 8, 2026 at 3:09 AM
10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder
at the site of her murder
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
January 7, 2026 at 10:01 PM
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
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Walz: "It's beyond me that apparently from the federal government, the Homeland Security director herself, has already determined who this person who, what their motive was, and they hadn't even been taken out of the vehicle. We're not living in a normal world."
January 7, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Walz: "It's beyond me that apparently from the federal government, the Homeland Security director herself, has already determined who this person who, what their motive was, and they hadn't even been taken out of the vehicle. We're not living in a normal world."
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A decade long transatlantic panic about the civilizational threat of left-wing cancel culture and we now have an "anti-woke" censorship campaign taking out Plato at a major American university. Absolutely pathetic.
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 6, 2026 at 9:30 PM
A decade long transatlantic panic about the civilizational threat of left-wing cancel culture and we now have an "anti-woke" censorship campaign taking out Plato at a major American university. Absolutely pathetic.
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Just launched: @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social's new blog featuring the projects of recipients of its annual research & travel grants. Check it out: tinyurl.com/2afay4ct . PS: Applications for the 2026 grants are still being accepted until January 15 (tinyurl.com/695jr4cm). Apply now!
Research & travel grant blog – Central European History Society
tinyurl.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Just launched: @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social's new blog featuring the projects of recipients of its annual research & travel grants. Check it out: tinyurl.com/2afay4ct . PS: Applications for the 2026 grants are still being accepted until January 15 (tinyurl.com/695jr4cm). Apply now!
A beautiful escape from the world.
January 5, 2026 at 12:21 AM
A beautiful escape from the world.
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Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
“We can have conversations about what made the Holocaust a possibility, and what made the Nazis a possibility, and how they rose to power. But you cannot have a legitimate conversation about whether or not it happened. That’s just unacceptable, and that has no place at a university.”
UW grapples with the hate in its midst
In classrooms, lecture halls and beyond, the UW community is denouncing hate, studying the mechanics of fascism and educating peers about antisemitism — even as state leaders preach neutrality.
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:34 AM
“We can have conversations about what made the Holocaust a possibility, and what made the Nazis a possibility, and how they rose to power. But you cannot have a legitimate conversation about whether or not it happened. That’s just unacceptable, and that has no place at a university.”