Journal of the Western Society for French History (JWSFH)
@jwsfh.bsky.social
JWSFH is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal featuring scholarship n France & the francophone world. The journal is published once annually in an open-access, online format.
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/
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Wherein I make the case that Mon Mothma is the Chuck Schumer of the Star Wars Universe
Seriously, though, this was the most fun I've had in a while. Big thanks to @jwsfh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social and @rpanchasi.bsky.social !
🗃
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Seriously, though, this was the most fun I've had in a while. Big thanks to @jwsfh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social and @rpanchasi.bsky.social !
🗃
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<em>Andor </em>(Season 2), or the French Resistance in Space
In August 2025, JWSFH Co-editor Meghan Roberts had the chance to speak with Terrence (Terry) Peterson, the author of Revolutionary Warfare; How the Algerian War made Modern Counterinsurgency (Cornell ...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Wherein I make the case that Mon Mothma is the Chuck Schumer of the Star Wars Universe
Seriously, though, this was the most fun I've had in a while. Big thanks to @jwsfh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social and @rpanchasi.bsky.social !
🗃
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...
Seriously, though, this was the most fun I've had in a while. Big thanks to @jwsfh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social and @rpanchasi.bsky.social !
🗃
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...
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Remember when I said I wished some French historian would write something smart about Andor? @rpanchasi.bsky.social and I made it happen, and the smart French historian is none other than @tgpeterson.bsky.social! Check out our chat to find out why Mon Mothma is the Chuck Schumer of Star Wars 😂
6. INTERVENTIONS: "Andor (Season 2), or the French Resistance in Space," a so-smart & also funny dialog between @tgpeterson.bsky.social & editor @meghankroberts.bsky.social about ANDOR!
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<em>Andor </em>(Season 2), or the French Resistance in Space
In August 2025, JWSFH Co-editor Meghan Roberts had the chance to speak with Terrence (Terry) Peterson, the author of Revolutionary Warfare; How the Algerian War made Modern Counterinsurgency (Cornell ...
journals.publishing.umich.edu
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Remember when I said I wished some French historian would write something smart about Andor? @rpanchasi.bsky.social and I made it happen, and the smart French historian is none other than @tgpeterson.bsky.social! Check out our chat to find out why Mon Mothma is the Chuck Schumer of Star Wars 😂
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A fabulous selection of recent work in French and Francophone history/studies 🗃️
9. The 2025 edition of the JWSFH MIXTAPE, featuring selections of rad work from 2024-25 by @jean23bean.bsky.social @vlvde.bsky.social & @thewsfh.bsky.social Past President Emily Marker (with amazing original art by @tgpeterson.bsky.social)
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<em>JWSFH</em> Mixtape: 2025 Edition
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December 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
A fabulous selection of recent work in French and Francophone history/studies 🗃️
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It was very fun to grapple with a source that I've found challenging to interpret (Thanks for all your help with this, @rpanchasi.bsky.social)!
7. NOTES ON SOURCES: "The Vice Squad and the Fortune Teller," by @hannahfrydman.bsky.social, on the perception of mediums & fortune-tellers as agents of vice in a 1931 French police report examining classified advertisements in the Parisian press.
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The Vice Squad and the Fortune Teller
This note on sources considers how to write a history of fortune telling by examining a 1931 vice squad report on immoral advertising in illustrated weeklies. The vice squad policed prostitution but, ...
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December 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It was very fun to grapple with a source that I've found challenging to interpret (Thanks for all your help with this, @rpanchasi.bsky.social)!
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was going to try to pull just one or two of these to highlight but this is clearly a full run of bangers! check it out!
We're delighted to announce that vol. 51 (2025) of the Journal of the Western Society for French History is now live!
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
was going to try to pull just one or two of these to highlight but this is clearly a full run of bangers! check it out!
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what is esp nice abt this is that I got a chance to shout-out some amazing work, incl a SI in @pomeps.bsky.social on Race Politics and Colonial Legacies: France, Africa, and the Middle East; Respectable Muslims by Margot Dazey, and 2 amazing films: Dahomey and The Ballad of Suzanne Cesaire
9. The 2025 edition of the JWSFH MIXTAPE, featuring selections of rad work from 2024-25 by @jean23bean.bsky.social @vlvde.bsky.social & @thewsfh.bsky.social Past President Emily Marker (with amazing original art by @tgpeterson.bsky.social)
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...
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<em>JWSFH</em> Mixtape: 2025 Edition
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December 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
what is esp nice abt this is that I got a chance to shout-out some amazing work, incl a SI in @pomeps.bsky.social on Race Politics and Colonial Legacies: France, Africa, and the Middle East; Respectable Muslims by Margot Dazey, and 2 amazing films: Dahomey and The Ballad of Suzanne Cesaire
Reposting to make sure all the fab authors in this latest issue catch your attention!
We're delighted to announce that vol. 51 (2025) of the Journal of the Western Society for French History is now live!
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
December 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Reposting to make sure all the fab authors in this latest issue catch your attention!
we love you terry!
and everyone else: you gotta read this...
and everyone else: you gotta read this...
Wherein I make the case that Mon Mothma is the Chuck Schumer of the Star Wars Universe
Seriously, though, this was the most fun I've had in a while. Big thanks to @jwsfh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social and @rpanchasi.bsky.social !
🗃
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...
Seriously, though, this was the most fun I've had in a while. Big thanks to @jwsfh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social and @rpanchasi.bsky.social !
🗃
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...
<em>Andor </em>(Season 2), or the French Resistance in Space
In August 2025, JWSFH Co-editor Meghan Roberts had the chance to speak with Terrence (Terry) Peterson, the author of Revolutionary Warfare; How the Algerian War made Modern Counterinsurgency (Cornell ...
journals.publishing.umich.edu
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
we love you terry!
and everyone else: you gotta read this...
and everyone else: you gotta read this...
We're delighted to announce that vol. 51 (2025) of the Journal of the Western Society for French History is now live!
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
We're delighted to announce that vol. 51 (2025) of the Journal of the Western Society for French History is now live!
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
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Hey Bluesky:
We're prepping vol. 51 for publication & it is looking fabulous w/articles on artists in Vichy & the actor/author Claudius Roussarie, a roundtable on Karen Offen's "The Woman Question," Interventions, Notes on Sources & the 2025 JWSFH Mixtape!
We're prepping vol. 51 for publication & it is looking fabulous w/articles on artists in Vichy & the actor/author Claudius Roussarie, a roundtable on Karen Offen's "The Woman Question," Interventions, Notes on Sources & the 2025 JWSFH Mixtape!
October 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Hey Bluesky:
We're prepping vol. 51 for publication & it is looking fabulous w/articles on artists in Vichy & the actor/author Claudius Roussarie, a roundtable on Karen Offen's "The Woman Question," Interventions, Notes on Sources & the 2025 JWSFH Mixtape!
We're prepping vol. 51 for publication & it is looking fabulous w/articles on artists in Vichy & the actor/author Claudius Roussarie, a roundtable on Karen Offen's "The Woman Question," Interventions, Notes on Sources & the 2025 JWSFH Mixtape!
Hey Bluesky:
We're prepping vol. 51 for publication & it is looking fabulous w/articles on artists in Vichy & the actor/author Claudius Roussarie, a roundtable on Karen Offen's "The Woman Question," Interventions, Notes on Sources & the 2025 JWSFH Mixtape!
We're prepping vol. 51 for publication & it is looking fabulous w/articles on artists in Vichy & the actor/author Claudius Roussarie, a roundtable on Karen Offen's "The Woman Question," Interventions, Notes on Sources & the 2025 JWSFH Mixtape!
October 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Hey Bluesky:
We're prepping vol. 51 for publication & it is looking fabulous w/articles on artists in Vichy & the actor/author Claudius Roussarie, a roundtable on Karen Offen's "The Woman Question," Interventions, Notes on Sources & the 2025 JWSFH Mixtape!
We're prepping vol. 51 for publication & it is looking fabulous w/articles on artists in Vichy & the actor/author Claudius Roussarie, a roundtable on Karen Offen's "The Woman Question," Interventions, Notes on Sources & the 2025 JWSFH Mixtape!
With apologies to the authors-this post didn't go through with the original thread somehow, but this roundtable is FABULOUS!
"Interventions" features a dialog w/Jaqueline Couti, @tgpeterson.bsky.social @corinnegressang.bsky.social gressang.bsky.social & @kringelberg.bsky.social re: The Politics of French History in Times of Crisis, a @thewsfh.bsky.social Engagé.e.s event hosted by @sarahehorowitz.bsky.social last fall.
December 12, 2024 at 7:23 PM
With apologies to the authors-this post didn't go through with the original thread somehow, but this roundtable is FABULOUS!
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Vol. 50 (2024) of JWSFH, the official journal of @thewsfh.bsky.social is now online!
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/2...
We're delighted to share this issue with readers who can access it online &/or download PDFs of each article/essay.
Check out the table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/2...
We're delighted to share this issue with readers who can access it online &/or download PDFs of each article/essay.
Check out the table of contents:
December 10, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Vol. 50 (2024) of JWSFH, the official journal of @thewsfh.bsky.social is now online!
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/2...
We're delighted to share this issue with readers who can access it online &/or download PDFs of each article/essay.
Check out the table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/2...
We're delighted to share this issue with readers who can access it online &/or download PDFs of each article/essay.
Check out the table of contents:
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Congrats to the @thewsfh.bsky.social for 50 years in the game! Check out the latest journal for the "WSFH Mixtape", providing a look back on five decades of French Historical Studies. Thanks @rpanchasi.bsky.social for making it possible! 🗃️https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article/id/7117/.
JWSFH Mixtape: 50th Anniversary Edition
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December 10, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Congrats to the @thewsfh.bsky.social for 50 years in the game! Check out the latest journal for the "WSFH Mixtape", providing a look back on five decades of French Historical Studies. Thanks @rpanchasi.bsky.social for making it possible! 🗃️https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article/id/7117/.
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In the "Notes on Sources" column of the newest issue of the @jwsfh.bsky.social, I reflect upon the challenges of researching #polio in France & finding primary sources about disability history on Ebay & Delcampe. journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...
The Journée Nationale des Paralysés and the French Poster Child (or Why I Started Doing Research on Ebay)
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December 10, 2024 at 8:04 PM
In the "Notes on Sources" column of the newest issue of the @jwsfh.bsky.social, I reflect upon the challenges of researching #polio in France & finding primary sources about disability history on Ebay & Delcampe. journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...
Vol. 50 (2024) of JWSFH, the official journal of @thewsfh.bsky.social is now online!
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/2...
We're delighted to share this issue with readers who can access it online &/or download PDFs of each article/essay.
Check out the table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/2...
We're delighted to share this issue with readers who can access it online &/or download PDFs of each article/essay.
Check out the table of contents:
December 10, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Vol. 50 (2024) of JWSFH, the official journal of @thewsfh.bsky.social is now online!
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/2...
We're delighted to share this issue with readers who can access it online &/or download PDFs of each article/essay.
Check out the table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/2...
We're delighted to share this issue with readers who can access it online &/or download PDFs of each article/essay.
Check out the table of contents: