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Tim Bowman
@tbowmanhist.bsky.social
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Historian of Texas, the Southwest, and modern America. Books: Blood Oranges (2016), and You Will Never be One of Us (2022). Currently working on a history of the Texas farmworkers movement. Opinions my own.
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tbowmanhist.bsky.social
Checking in from a Bluesky hiatus to remind everyone that I have the cutest dog n the world (though if you wanted to post pics of your pups in the comments, I wouldn’t be against it).

#Dogs #DogsofBluesky
February 19, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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History rhyming: Today's Minneapolis general strike is not a first for Minneapolis, as I'm sure I'm not the first to notice: www.leftvoice.org/revolutionar...
Revolutionary Teamsters: Remembering the 1934 Minneapolis General Strike - Left Voice
On January 23, working people in Minnesota will shut it all down to demand ICE out of our communities and justice for Renee Nicole Good. Unions must mobilize, as they did in 1934, to harness the power...
www.leftvoice.org
January 23, 2026 at 7:42 PM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
Super delighted and honored to have a new piece out in Modern American History, which I’ve coauthored with my friend and colleague Brent Campney. Best part—it’s open access! 🗃️
modamhist.bsky.social Modern American History @modamhist.bsky.social · Jan 20
On First View, A research article from Brent Campney and @tbowmanhist.bsky.social that charts growers' vigilante violence in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas to suppress farmworker activism in the 70s & their shift in 1980 to nonviolent methods associated with neocon backlash.

Linked below!
Farmworkers gather for a small rally during a 1966 march from San Juan, Texas, to the state capitol in Austin to protest their appalling working conditions. Courtesy Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Arlington, Texas.
January 20, 2026 at 7:50 PM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
Prepping for my online Texas history class and wanted to share “Old Texas,” a silent film from 1916 that features famed rancher Charles Goodnight and his relationship with the Kiowa and the founding of the JA Ranch in Palo Duro Canyon, in the Texas Panhandle. Amazing. 🗃️

texasarchive.org/2010_01598
Old Texas (1916)
Film that presents a narrative of cattleman Colonel Charles Goodnight's relationship with the Kiowa tribe
texasarchive.org
January 13, 2026 at 5:59 PM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
Best piece I’ve ever read in the parallels between the Gilded Age and our time. 🗃️

There Is a Way Out of This Mess www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
Opinion | There Is a Way Out of This Mess
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
One of the best debuts albums in rock and roll history.

#nowspinning #vinylcommunity
December 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
Morning jams with this absolute classic. Merry Christmas!

#nowspinning #VinylCommunity
December 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
#nowspinning All them Witches, “Lightning at the Door.” My dad got this for me for Christmas. Really creative/avant-garde blues rock. Good stuff.

#vinylcommunity
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
Super proud of the piece I have in this excellent journal! 🗃️
laborlawchajournal.bsky.social LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · Dec 23
Next, in “The Voice of the Farmworker,” @tbowmanhist.bsky.social traces how Antonio Orendain’s radio show La Voz del Campesino radicalized farmworkers across the Mexico-Texas border, forging a distinct transnational movement beyond the UFW and California.
doi.org/10.1215/1547...
“The Voice of the Farmworker”: Antonio Orendain, AM Radio, and the Radicalization of the Farmworkers Movement in the Mexico-Texas Borderlands, 1969–1975 | Labor | Duke University Press
doi.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
Are there any other metal vinyl collectors out there on Bluesky?Anyway, here’s today’s haul…

#nowspinning #vinylcommunity #metal
December 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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drmendozan.bsky.social
🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
​Assistant or Associate Professor of History
jobs.colorado.edu
December 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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janmachielsen.bsky.social
Very pleased that we got to publish this Comment in the TRHS! And many thanks @chriscampbell1.bsky.social for pitching it.

Further reflections on this and other subjects are certainly welcome. 😊

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royalhistsoc.org Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Dec 11
What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?

'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.

New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
Front page of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' Comment article, title 'The Historian in the Age of AI', by Chris Campbell. Full abstract: "This comment interrogates the methods and conclusions of Working with AI, a recent report conducted under the auspices of Microsoft, which identified historians as the profession with the second-highest ‘AI applicability’. It finds that the authors’ conclusions are based on an erroneous simplification and misrepresentation of a historian’s typical professional tasks, which have been publicly amplified by extensive media coverage. This comment then offers a wider provocation about the report’s conception of a professional historian, and whether it is related to the public application of ‘historian’ to a number of different practitioners with varied training and qualifications. In particular, it seeks to highlight a paradox which the report exposes: that we cannot defend the specialist training and expertise of professional historians against the encroachment of AI without also separating the academic skills and qualifications of historians from those engaged in more popular forms of historical writing and communication. The comment questions how we might grapple with this paradox without reverting to academic elitism."
December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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profgidlow.bsky.social
Reupping in light of the news that SCOTUS will review birthright citizenship conferred by 14th Amendment
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profgidlow.bsky.social Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · Jun 27
"The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were the target of repeated efforts at repeal in the 1900s and 1910s." 🗃️

I explore how in a scholarly article published in the J GildedAge/ProgressiveEra.
December 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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civilwarmemory.bsky.social
Here is a great list of some of the best books about Black history published in 2025. 🗃️ www.aaihs.org/the-best-bla...
The Best Black History Books of 2025 - AAIHS
We are pleased to release this year’s AAIHS list of the best books published in 2025! Check out this extraordinary list of great books from 2025 that offer varied historical perspectives on the Black ...
www.aaihs.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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arielron.bsky.social
The Clements Center for Southwest Studies invites fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year.

For more info and to apply:
www.smu.edu/dedman/resea...

If you're interested of have questions, feel free to contact me directly.
December 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
It’s a Miracle That Mexico Exists at All www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/b... 🗃️
It’s a Miracle That Mexico Exists at All
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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joshrgreenberg.bsky.social
Good mail day. Emilie Connolly’s new book that I am excited to read. 🗃️
December 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
Bought this one primarily for Breadfan, but the whole rest of the album is fantastic, as well.

#nowspinning #vinylcommunity #metalsky
November 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
A little grading/work catch-up music on good Sunday morning. One of my favorite albums of all time… #nowspinning #vinylcommunity
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
Weekend vinyl hall. #nowspinning #vinylcommunity
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
A little Sunday morning grading music. #vinylcommunity #nowspinning
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
More people need to be talking about this. The US government needs to put all possible pressure on the UAE to stop the absolute barbarism going on in Sudan.

Sudan Is in Free Fall www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Sudan Is in Free Fall
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
Thrilled to have a piece out in the new issue of Labor. This gives me the opportunity to say that @greeneland.bsky.social and her team at the journal were truly top notch—the best experience I’ve had with journal publishing. Let me know if you happen to read it!

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greeneland.bsky.social Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · Oct 21
The new issue of LABOR is here, and it’s hot!
October 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
tbowmanhist.bsky.social
My favorite record in AC/DC’s entire catalog (not that there’s any bad ones).

#nowspinning #vinylcommunity
October 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM