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Alex Southgate
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Philadelphia/Toronto

20th Cen. International History | Temple University PhD Candidate | Diplomatic History Assistant Editor

https://irw.rutgers.edu/rejoinder-webjournal/issue-9-the-archival-is-political
Happening next Monday! Register here: bit.ly/SHAFR-Archives
Join the Graduate Student Committee for a virtual session on Conducting Research in International Archives!
Monday, October 27 at 5:30pm PT/8:30pm ET
October 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
CFA: Peace in the Age of Forever Wars 🕊️

We invite submissions for an interdisciplinary symposium on all aspects of peace. More informatoon can be found at challengingwar.com/spring-2025/
October 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Check out the September issue of Diplomatic History! Featuring Elisabeth Leake's (@emleake.bsky.social) Bernath Lecture "The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World" in which she argues for a "new paradigm for understanding modern international history"
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September 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Library of the Society of Friends, London 📚
July 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Issue 49.3 is officially out online, and our subscribers should keep an eye out for the physical issue in the mail! academic.oup.com/dh/issue
Issues | Diplomatic History | Oxford Academic
The official journal of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Examines issues relating to U.S. diplomacy, foreign relations, and security issues from the colonial period to the present...
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June 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Diplomatic History is now on Bluesky! Check out our April edition if you haven't already: academic.oup.com/dh/issue
Issues | Diplomatic History | Oxford Academic
The official journal of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Examines issues relating to U.S. diplomacy, foreign relations, and security issues from the colonial period to the present...
academic.oup.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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A forum on "U.S.-Mexican Relations and Catholic Activism" was officially published in the Winter 2025 issue of Diplomatic History.

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Volume 49 Issue 1 | Diplomatic History | Oxford Academic
The official journal of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Examines issues relating to U.S. diplomacy, foreign relations, and security issues from the colonial period to the present...
academic.oup.com
March 6, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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“The push to make Canada part of the U.S. reached a fever pitch following passage of the highly protectionist McKinley Tariff in 1890.”

For @time.com I discuss the last time the GOP tried to use tariffs to annex Canada.

*spoiler: it didn’t go well

time.com/7212675/tari...
March 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
1967, "We are still not the 51st state!"
February 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Go birds?
February 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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We pulled an ad from the New York Times because they wouldn’t let us talk about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Here’s some great coverage from @msainato.bsky.social at @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Quaker group pulls NYT ad over paper’s refusal to let it call Israel’s Gaza bombing ‘genocide’
Organization said paper’s refusal ‘outrageous attempt to sidestep the truth’, choosing ‘silence over accountability’
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
2025 reading aspirations
January 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
CFP The deadline has been extended to January 5th! Please consider submitting to my collection on feminist/queer archival practice! 🗃️📜📚
December 8, 2023 at 6:48 PM
it's amazing that it's 2023 and women's papers are still listed as "miscellany" in their husband's archives
November 7, 2023 at 4:52 PM
I had a great time at the Peace History Society Conference this weekend! Thrilled to have presented my research on Dorothy Day and Judith Malina's anti-civil defense actions in the 50s and 60s!
October 29, 2023 at 5:02 PM
Re-sharing this because I now have a lovely graphic from IRW and they aren't on here yet! 🗃️

CFP: "The Archival is Political" a collection exploring the power and politics of feminist/queer archival practice. Deadline Dec. 15th. Please reach out with any questions!

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October 4, 2023 at 3:57 PM
Very important archival research happening at Swarthmore today 🗃️
September 21, 2023 at 3:16 PM
I think this is the greatest book ever written?
August 26, 2023 at 1:38 AM
CFP: What is the past, present, and future of feminist and queer archival practice?

I am thrilled to be editing "The Archival is Political" for @IRWRutgers -- deadline for submissions is December 15, 2023. Please be in touch with any questions!
August 9, 2023 at 12:15 AM