Bárbara Zepeda
@mbzepedacortes.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of History at Lehigh University on leave. John Carter Brown Library Fellow, 2024-25. IAS member 2023-24. Writing biography of José de Gálvez (1720-1787) for Yale UP. Eighteenth-century Studies. Book history too! Views and opinions are my own.
Todays is #BadBunnyDay and a good moment to read my book review in the @historians.org’s AHR!!! It contrasts Bad 🐰’s #Dtmf album with a legal history of #PuertoRico book:
😃👉🏾My AHR review of Mónica A. Jiménez's "Never-Never Land: Race and Law on the Creation of Puerto Rico" 🇵🇷 is out!!! My essay offers a counterpoint to Bad Bunny's "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS 📸" album. [DM if you need access] academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
February 8, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Todays is #BadBunnyDay and a good moment to read my book review in the @historians.org’s AHR!!! It contrasts Bad 🐰’s #Dtmf album with a legal history of #PuertoRico book:
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
February 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Hoy 👇🏽 con transmisión por Facebook. Sobre militarismo en la historia de #PuertoRico 🇵🇷muy relevante en nuestros días
January 30, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Hoy 👇🏽 con transmisión por Facebook. Sobre militarismo en la historia de #PuertoRico 🇵🇷muy relevante en nuestros días
😃👉🏾Ya salió mi reseña de "Miradas coloniales" de Miguel Ángel Puig-Samper en el último número de la Revista de Hispanismo Filosófico (núm. 30, 2025) // My latest book review is out: on a book that explores the intersections of colonialism and photography 📸
January 28, 2026 at 12:49 AM
😃👉🏾Ya salió mi reseña de "Miradas coloniales" de Miguel Ángel Puig-Samper en el último número de la Revista de Hispanismo Filosófico (núm. 30, 2025) // My latest book review is out: on a book that explores the intersections of colonialism and photography 📸
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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"'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week: More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are 'actively infected.' The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states."
'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week
More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are "actively infected." The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states.
www.nbcnews.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:22 PM
"'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week: More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are 'actively infected.' The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states."
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The crisis is real, and this is part of our effort at new approaches to supporting scholars and advancing scholarship in the (vast!) early Americas.
Sharing again and would appreciate your sharing, too. More info in the thread. 🧵⬇️
Sharing again and would appreciate your sharing, too. More info in the thread. 🧵⬇️
Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...
January 15, 2026 at 12:08 PM
The crisis is real, and this is part of our effort at new approaches to supporting scholars and advancing scholarship in the (vast!) early Americas.
Sharing again and would appreciate your sharing, too. More info in the thread. 🧵⬇️
Sharing again and would appreciate your sharing, too. More info in the thread. 🧵⬇️
It was an amazing panel! With insightful comments from the audience. I learned so much! We crowned the experience with an arepas lunch!!! #aha2026 #VenezuelanHistory @clahistorians.bsky.social
January 11, 2026 at 7:11 PM
It was an amazing panel! With insightful comments from the audience. I learned so much! We crowned the experience with an arepas lunch!!! #aha2026 #VenezuelanHistory @clahistorians.bsky.social
Happening in 30 minutes at the #aha2026 in Chicago: our panel on Venezuelan independence hero, Francisco de Miranda 🇻🇪 @clahistorians.bsky.social
January 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Happening in 30 minutes at the #aha2026 in Chicago: our panel on Venezuelan independence hero, Francisco de Miranda 🇻🇪 @clahistorians.bsky.social
I called my representative and my two senators (including war-hawk Fetterman 😡) this morning! Have you 🫵🏽 done your job today? Stop the armed attacks on Venezuela! Stop the Epstein War!
January 3, 2026 at 3:07 PM
I called my representative and my two senators (including war-hawk Fetterman 😡) this morning! Have you 🫵🏽 done your job today? Stop the armed attacks on Venezuela! Stop the Epstein War!
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Thinking of all our friends and colleagues at Brown University. This craziness has to stop.
December 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Thinking of all our friends and colleagues at Brown University. This craziness has to stop.
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God! Bless! the people who attended the hearing and shared with her what everyday people with a heart think of this cruelty. Absolutely worth a watch, even if the heroes are off camera.
December 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
God! Bless! the people who attended the hearing and shared with her what everyday people with a heart think of this cruelty. Absolutely worth a watch, even if the heroes are off camera.
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How many shades of blue do you see in this painting? 💙
🖼️ Johannes Vermeer, Woman Reading a Letter, c. 1663
👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108372
🖼️ Johannes Vermeer, Woman Reading a Letter, c. 1663
👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108372
November 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
How many shades of blue do you see in this painting? 💙
🖼️ Johannes Vermeer, Woman Reading a Letter, c. 1663
👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108372
🖼️ Johannes Vermeer, Woman Reading a Letter, c. 1663
👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108372
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Today at Lehigh! Free and open to the public #eighteenthcenturystudies Amanda Herbert’s lecture has a wonderful title: “Stewing Alive”!
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Today at Lehigh! Free and open to the public #eighteenthcenturystudies Amanda Herbert’s lecture has a wonderful title: “Stewing Alive”!
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Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
Next April at the #HuntingtonLibrary, I will participate in "Spain and the Birth of the United States: A California Conversation," a contribution to the 250th anniversary of the #AmericanRevolution
Find the program here 👉🏾 dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a...
#Semiquincentennial #America250
Find the program here 👉🏾 dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a...
#Semiquincentennial #America250
Spain and the Birth of the United States - USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
Supporting advanced research of the early modern period.
dornsife.usc.edu
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Next April at the #HuntingtonLibrary, I will participate in "Spain and the Birth of the United States: A California Conversation," a contribution to the 250th anniversary of the #AmericanRevolution
Find the program here 👉🏾 dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a...
#Semiquincentennial #America250
Find the program here 👉🏾 dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/spain-a...
#Semiquincentennial #America250
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“This was a very very bad vote”
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“This was a very very bad vote”
It is funny how CNN doesn’t know how to handle Mamdani’s victory 🤣😂 He gave an excellent speech and they are trying very hard to find ways to criticize him…
November 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It is funny how CNN doesn’t know how to handle Mamdani’s victory 🤣😂 He gave an excellent speech and they are trying very hard to find ways to criticize him…