John M. Kinder
@johnmkinder.bsky.social
Historian of #war, #disabilty, #veterans, #zoos. OKSTATE U. Writing book on murder in #WWII MS.
Profile: https://tinyurl.com/23xfwzmh.
World War Zoos: Humans & Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age
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Profile: https://tinyurl.com/23xfwzmh.
World War Zoos: Humans & Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age
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World War Zoos
A new and heartbreaking history of World War II as told through the shocking experiences of zoos across the globe. As Europe lurched into war in 1939, zookeepers started killing their animals. On S...
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I am excited to share the cover of my new book, #WORLDWARZOOS. If you are interested in #zoos, #worldwarii, #animals, #military #history, & the perils of #climatechange, please consider preordering. I would love to chat with folks about about the book.
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Post 15 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 15 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
1/15
#15booksin2025challenge
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No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
1/15
#15booksin2025challenge
💙📚 #Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge
January 1, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Post 15 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 15 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
1/15
#15booksin2025challenge
💙📚 #Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
1/15
#15booksin2025challenge
💙📚 #Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge
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Nice way to end the year. Thanks to Jennifer Murray and @johnmkinder.bsky.social for including me among such a fantastic line up of historians. God willing, this will be the last essay I ever write about the Black Confederate myth. 🗃️ www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
December 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Nice way to end the year. Thanks to Jennifer Murray and @johnmkinder.bsky.social for including me among such a fantastic line up of historians. God willing, this will be the last essay I ever write about the Black Confederate myth. 🗃️ www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
My new review of "Constructing Disability After the Great War" by @evanpsullivan.bsky.social in the AHR -- a terrific work of #disabilityhistory @illinoispress.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My new review of "Constructing Disability After the Great War" by @evanpsullivan.bsky.social in the AHR -- a terrific work of #disabilityhistory @illinoispress.bsky.social
Thanks to Samantha Muka for her generous review of #WorldWarZoos in her recent essay "On Loving and Leaving Zoos" in the Journal of the History of Biology
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also featured new editions of "Savages and Beasts" by Nigel Rothfels and Zoo & Aquarium History by Vernon Kisling, Jr.
doi.org/10.1007/s107...
also featured new editions of "Savages and Beasts" by Nigel Rothfels and Zoo & Aquarium History by Vernon Kisling, Jr.
On Loving and Leaving Zoos - Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of the History of Biology -
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December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Thanks to Samantha Muka for her generous review of #WorldWarZoos in her recent essay "On Loving and Leaving Zoos" in the Journal of the History of Biology
doi.org/10.1007/s107...
also featured new editions of "Savages and Beasts" by Nigel Rothfels and Zoo & Aquarium History by Vernon Kisling, Jr.
doi.org/10.1007/s107...
also featured new editions of "Savages and Beasts" by Nigel Rothfels and Zoo & Aquarium History by Vernon Kisling, Jr.
I was thrilled to get a chance to work with Vietnamese scholars and students on developing new approaches to American Studies!
#AmericanStudies #Vietnam
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#AmericanStudies #Vietnam
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Developing research and teaching on American Studies within the network of universities in Vietnam.
Over the past two days, December 5-6, 2025, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU-USSH) organized two intensive training courses on American Studies...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I was thrilled to get a chance to work with Vietnamese scholars and students on developing new approaches to American Studies!
#AmericanStudies #Vietnam
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#AmericanStudies #Vietnam
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Just had a great conversation with Claudia Hirtenfelder of @theanimalturn.bsky.social. We talked #zoos, #war, #elephants, hungry #animals, and much more.
Part of a new series from @theanimalturn.bsky.social on "Animals and War" coming in 2026!
Part of a new series from @theanimalturn.bsky.social on "Animals and War" coming in 2026!
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Just had a great conversation with Claudia Hirtenfelder of @theanimalturn.bsky.social. We talked #zoos, #war, #elephants, hungry #animals, and much more.
Part of a new series from @theanimalturn.bsky.social on "Animals and War" coming in 2026!
Part of a new series from @theanimalturn.bsky.social on "Animals and War" coming in 2026!
We're a month & 1/2 away from the publication of Jen Murray and my collection on #CivilWar memory in a polarized America.
Podcasts, Q&As, AMAs, op-eds, guest essays-- we'e up for anything. Just reach out!
@univnebpress.bsky.social
They Are Dead & Yet They Live share.google/mCCs2LlWyaio...
Podcasts, Q&As, AMAs, op-eds, guest essays-- we'e up for anything. Just reach out!
@univnebpress.bsky.social
They Are Dead & Yet They Live share.google/mCCs2LlWyaio...
They Are Dead and Yet They Live - Nebraska Press
The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers in 2020 reignited a passionate nationwide debate over Confederate memorials and flags a...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We're a month & 1/2 away from the publication of Jen Murray and my collection on #CivilWar memory in a polarized America.
Podcasts, Q&As, AMAs, op-eds, guest essays-- we'e up for anything. Just reach out!
@univnebpress.bsky.social
They Are Dead & Yet They Live share.google/mCCs2LlWyaio...
Podcasts, Q&As, AMAs, op-eds, guest essays-- we'e up for anything. Just reach out!
@univnebpress.bsky.social
They Are Dead & Yet They Live share.google/mCCs2LlWyaio...
Profound piece by @alecolaianni.bsky.social on animals in wartime. I am honorered that she drew upon my book #WorldWarZoos for this devastatingly powerful essay.
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#zoos #war #ukraine #gaza #ecocide #holocaust
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#zoos #war #ukraine #gaza #ecocide #holocaust
Gli animali sono spesso considerati vittime di serie B della guerra, che la società ci insegna a far passare in secondo piano rispetto al dramma umano.
Ne ho scritto in un mio approfondimento pubblicato su Il Tascabile 👇
#guerra #animali
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Ne ho scritto in un mio approfondimento pubblicato su Il Tascabile 👇
#guerra #animali
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Animali in guerra
I teatri di guerra rendono tangibile l’ambiguità del nostro rapporto con gli altri animali: vittime strutturali della violenza umana, giuridicamente invisibili e trattati come moralmente sacrificabili...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Profound piece by @alecolaianni.bsky.social on animals in wartime. I am honorered that she drew upon my book #WorldWarZoos for this devastatingly powerful essay.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
#zoos #war #ukraine #gaza #ecocide #holocaust
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
#zoos #war #ukraine #gaza #ecocide #holocaust
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Buy University Press Books This Holiday Season
Whatever success I can claim as a published author is the result of editors at academic publishers believing in and supporting my projects.
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December 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Cat: "If I could, I'd kill you."
December 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Cat: "If I could, I'd kill you."
In Hanoi for work. I so want to rent a scooter, but I don't think I can ride as aggressively as I'd need to.
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
In Hanoi for work. I so want to rent a scooter, but I don't think I can ride as aggressively as I'd need to.
If you are looking for a gift for that World War II-loving grandpa (or snarky grad student cousin) in your life, why not treat them to "World War Zoos" this holiday season?
It will be make great yuletide conversation.
30% off at the University of Chicago Press.
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It will be make great yuletide conversation.
30% off at the University of Chicago Press.
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World War Zoos
A new and heartbreaking history of World War II as told through the shocking experiences of zoos across the globe. As Europe lurched into war in 1939, zookeepers started killing their animals. On S...
press.uchicago.edu
December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If you are looking for a gift for that World War II-loving grandpa (or snarky grad student cousin) in your life, why not treat them to "World War Zoos" this holiday season?
It will be make great yuletide conversation.
30% off at the University of Chicago Press.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
It will be make great yuletide conversation.
30% off at the University of Chicago Press.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Excited to be at Seattle's Museum of Flight on Veterans Day.
Stop by the William M. Allen Theater at 2:00 pm, Sunday, November 9.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
Stop by the William M. Allen Theater at 2:00 pm, Sunday, November 9.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Excited to be at Seattle's Museum of Flight on Veterans Day.
Stop by the William M. Allen Theater at 2:00 pm, Sunday, November 9.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
Stop by the William M. Allen Theater at 2:00 pm, Sunday, November 9.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
Thrilled to find I am thanked in the acknowledgements of my friend and colleague Sarah Griswold's terrific new book "Resurrecting the Past."
If you want to know about the Louve's connections to early 20th century Syria, be sure to pick up a copy!
@cornellupress.bsky.social
If you want to know about the Louve's connections to early 20th century Syria, be sure to pick up a copy!
@cornellupress.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Thrilled to find I am thanked in the acknowledgements of my friend and colleague Sarah Griswold's terrific new book "Resurrecting the Past."
If you want to know about the Louve's connections to early 20th century Syria, be sure to pick up a copy!
@cornellupress.bsky.social
If you want to know about the Louve's connections to early 20th century Syria, be sure to pick up a copy!
@cornellupress.bsky.social
Jen Murray & I just signed off on the proofs for our new edited collection (out February 1) on Civil War memory. Who knows how much will change in the next 3 months? Still, I think we've done a pretty good of showing that memory battles are far from over.
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
October 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Jen Murray & I just signed off on the proofs for our new edited collection (out February 1) on Civil War memory. Who knows how much will change in the next 3 months? Still, I think we've done a pretty good of showing that memory battles are far from over.
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
Off to Albuquerque on Thursday for my first Western History Association meeting.
Chairing what looks to be a great roundtable on "The Wounded West."
Hopefully, I can go to the No Kings protest while in town.
Chairing what looks to be a great roundtable on "The Wounded West."
Hopefully, I can go to the No Kings protest while in town.
October 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Off to Albuquerque on Thursday for my first Western History Association meeting.
Chairing what looks to be a great roundtable on "The Wounded West."
Hopefully, I can go to the No Kings protest while in town.
Chairing what looks to be a great roundtable on "The Wounded West."
Hopefully, I can go to the No Kings protest while in town.
Thrilled to see this review of "World War Zoos" in Il Foglio.
#zoos #war @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Zoos under bombing: When animals suffer from war, too | Il Foglio share.google/5vxX4hrl6aMx...
#zoos #war @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Zoos under bombing: When animals suffer from war, too | Il Foglio share.google/5vxX4hrl6aMx...
Gli zoo sotto le bombe: quando anche gli animali subiscono la guerra
Quelli tedeschi erano il fiore all’occhiello del Terzo Reich, poi arrivò il conflitto. E molti diventarono rifugio per perseguitati in fuga. Buoni motivi per interessarsi al destino dei b...
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September 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Thrilled to see this review of "World War Zoos" in Il Foglio.
#zoos #war @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Zoos under bombing: When animals suffer from war, too | Il Foglio share.google/5vxX4hrl6aMx...
#zoos #war @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Zoos under bombing: When animals suffer from war, too | Il Foglio share.google/5vxX4hrl6aMx...
If you are in Seattle on November 9, I hope you come out to the Museum of Flight to talk about Veterans Day and the history of disabled vets in the US.
www.museumofflight.org/exhibits-and...
www.museumofflight.org/exhibits-and...
John Kinder presents Paying with Their Bodies | The Museum of Flight
On Sunday, November 9, John Kinder discusses his book, Paying With Their Bodies, detailing the lived experience of veterans injured on the front lines.
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September 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
If you are in Seattle on November 9, I hope you come out to the Museum of Flight to talk about Veterans Day and the history of disabled vets in the US.
www.museumofflight.org/exhibits-and...
www.museumofflight.org/exhibits-and...
Great visit to Blacksburg Books in Blacksburg, VA!
Can't wait to talk World War Zoos at the Lyric Theater on Monday (1:30 pm).
#zoos #worldwarii @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Can't wait to talk World War Zoos at the Lyric Theater on Monday (1:30 pm).
#zoos #worldwarii @uchicagopress.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Great visit to Blacksburg Books in Blacksburg, VA!
Can't wait to talk World War Zoos at the Lyric Theater on Monday (1:30 pm).
#zoos #worldwarii @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Can't wait to talk World War Zoos at the Lyric Theater on Monday (1:30 pm).
#zoos #worldwarii @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Looking forward to talking zoos, war, and writing as part of Virginia Tech's STS@VT Seminar Series.
Writing a "Sad Animal Book"
Friday, September 26 @ 1:30 PM ET
Blacksburg: Athenaeum Classroom, Newman Library 124
NoVA: Virginia Tech Research Center 5-024
Writing a "Sad Animal Book"
Friday, September 26 @ 1:30 PM ET
Blacksburg: Athenaeum Classroom, Newman Library 124
NoVA: Virginia Tech Research Center 5-024
September 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Looking forward to talking zoos, war, and writing as part of Virginia Tech's STS@VT Seminar Series.
Writing a "Sad Animal Book"
Friday, September 26 @ 1:30 PM ET
Blacksburg: Athenaeum Classroom, Newman Library 124
NoVA: Virginia Tech Research Center 5-024
Writing a "Sad Animal Book"
Friday, September 26 @ 1:30 PM ET
Blacksburg: Athenaeum Classroom, Newman Library 124
NoVA: Virginia Tech Research Center 5-024
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The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
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August 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
75% off sale on all e-books from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Pick up copies of Paying with Their Bodies, World War Zoos, and much more!
Pick up copies of Paying with Their Bodies, World War Zoos, and much more!
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August 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
75% off sale on all e-books from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Pick up copies of Paying with Their Bodies, World War Zoos, and much more!
Pick up copies of Paying with Their Bodies, World War Zoos, and much more!
My talk with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social is now online.
#worldwarzoos
Greenhouse book talk: John Kinder on Vimeo share.google/Wkv56HgAMKY9...
#worldwarzoos
Greenhouse book talk: John Kinder on Vimeo share.google/Wkv56HgAMKY9...
Greenhouse book talk: John Kinder
John Kinder, director of American Studies and professor of history at Oklahoma State University (USA), will discuss his book World War Zoos: Humans and Other…
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August 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My talk with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social is now online.
#worldwarzoos
Greenhouse book talk: John Kinder on Vimeo share.google/Wkv56HgAMKY9...
#worldwarzoos
Greenhouse book talk: John Kinder on Vimeo share.google/Wkv56HgAMKY9...
I can't wait to visit Blacksburg, VA in September to talk zoos and World War II. I also get to chat with the STS folks when I am there, which is always invigorating.
World War Zoos
Lecture and Book Signing
1:30 pm
September 29, 2025
Lyric Theater
World War Zoos
Lecture and Book Signing
1:30 pm
September 29, 2025
Lyric Theater
August 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I can't wait to visit Blacksburg, VA in September to talk zoos and World War II. I also get to chat with the STS folks when I am there, which is always invigorating.
World War Zoos
Lecture and Book Signing
1:30 pm
September 29, 2025
Lyric Theater
World War Zoos
Lecture and Book Signing
1:30 pm
September 29, 2025
Lyric Theater
It was a pleasure to review this terrific book.
Check out @johnmkinder.bsky.social's review of Andrea Ringer's "Circus World: Roustabouts, Animals, and the Work of Putting on the Big Show," published in 2024 by @illinoispress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #animalhist
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July 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It was a pleasure to review this terrific book.