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Jeremy Best
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Historian of modern Germany. Colonialism. Religion. Games. Holocaust educator. Determined to save history. He/him/his. All views my own.
First ever! Lets goooooo!
September 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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✨ We're kicking off #theGSA2025 with our 11th annual Arts Night!

🗓 Thurs, Sept 25 | 6:30–10:10pm
📍 Grand Salon B + National Landing 1–4

🎲 Game Night (7–9)
🎬 Screenings (DEFA + BDSN)
📚 Reading: Novelist Franz Friedrich

Free + open to the public. Full details in the GSA 2025 App!
September 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Me: I'm at risk of burnout because I can't keep up with everything, including the reading.
Random Higher Ed Industry Person: I can help! Here's my 250-page book about how to avoid burnout!
August 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
What we are seeing here is one country that has tried to learn the lessons of the Weimar Republic. “Militant democracy” means acting to defend the democratic constitution.

I can recommend a brief reading list to the Secretary of State, if he’d like.
May 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Me and my boy @besthistories.bsky.social at the Capitol Jewish Museum in DC.
April 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Heading with my man @historybrian.bsky.social to DC with our great students in HIST 4690x: History of Racial Violence!
@iowastatehistory.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I am going to be Director of Undergraduate Studies for my department next year. Any fresh ideas on what that job might include?
March 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Pitches to Disney:

Muppet Pride and Prejudice
Muppet Sorrows of Young Werther
Muppet Frankenstein, or The Modern Muppet Prometheus
Muppet Les Miserables
November 30, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Pitches to Disney:

Muppet Pride and Prejudice
Muppet Sorrows of Young Werther
Muppet Frankenstein, or The Modern Muppet Prometheus
Muppet Les Miserables
November 30, 2024 at 1:28 AM
I don’t know if anyone else is having this experience, but lots of people seem to want to talk to a German historian as a sort of therapy right now.
November 12, 2024 at 7:24 PM
I'll be part of a panel on the postcolonial history and responsibilities of missionaries at this important event hosted by the Heinrich Boell Stiftung. If you're in Berlin in May, I'm just one part of a great program.

calendar.boell.de/en/event/din...
April 21, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Based on the auto-formatting competencies of Word, I have little fear that AI will take over our world.

Capture our world in a frustrating, recursive cycle of modifications, corrections, "corrections", and resignation; yes.
March 27, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Germany bound. Research leaving.
March 3, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Iowa State's College of Design is hiring a game design professor. Please share widely and consider applying if it looks right for you!

isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...
February 26, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Maybe this Ackman guy has a good point…
February 12, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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PLEASE REPOST IF YOU ARE A HISTORY ACCOUNT ❤️

I NEED TO FIND MY PEOPLE 📚
February 6, 2024 at 4:41 PM
New book, “Dice and Vice”?

(from Origins 1978 Program)
January 11, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Heading to the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester for a few weeks of research. Probably will include a day (or so) in Buffalo. Any recommendations from folks on things to do, foods to eat, etc.?
January 4, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Just getting set up here. Glad to meet everyone. Follow me for occasional thoughts on history and higher education. Sometimes politics.
January 2, 2024 at 7:37 PM