Richard H. Immerman
@rimmerma.bsky.social
Retired from Temple University and a former Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence, I am currently the executive director of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
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Read Executive Director @rimmerma.bsky.social tribute to the late Bill Burr.
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In Memoriam: Bill Burr
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December 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Read Executive Director @rimmerma.bsky.social tribute to the late Bill Burr.
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SHAFR Executive Director @rimmerma.bsky.social quoted in this piece about the recent disappearance of FRUS records.
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
SHAFR Executive Director @rimmerma.bsky.social quoted in this piece about the recent disappearance of FRUS records.
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Please share: excellent history Postdoc opportunity at Wesleyan's Center for the Study of Guns & Society. Post involves archival research on 18th and 19th century firearms use & laws; work on databases, reports, and papers; & thinking and writing around wonderful people doing important work.
Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Researcher
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts university (founded in 1831) in Connecticut and home to the Center for the Study of Guns and Society, the first academic center in the United States dedic...
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July 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Please share: excellent history Postdoc opportunity at Wesleyan's Center for the Study of Guns & Society. Post involves archival research on 18th and 19th century firearms use & laws; work on databases, reports, and papers; & thinking and writing around wonderful people doing important work.
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The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations endorses the proposed Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act of 2025.
You can read more on the bill here: www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
You can read more on the bill here: www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Warren, Moskowitz, Blumenthal, Raskin, Stansbury Introduce New Bill to Rein in Potential Corruption Through Presidential Library Donations | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-moskowitz-blumenthal-raskin-stansbury-introduce-new-bill-to-rein-in-potential-corruption-through-presidential-library-donations#:~:text=“Senator%20Warren's%20Presidential%20Library%20Anti,donations%20from%20foreign%20nationals%2C%20lobbyists%2C
July 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations endorses the proposed Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act of 2025.
You can read more on the bill here: www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
You can read more on the bill here: www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
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June 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Article in the @washingtonpost.com on the Historical Advisory Committee dismissals, incl. interviews w @melanimca.bsky.social @rimmerma.bsky.social and Sarah Snyder
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These historians oversee unbiased accounts of U.S. foreign policy. Trump fired them all.
An advisory committee of historians helps ensure the record of America’s history remains unbiased, transparent and thorough. Trump just fired the entire panel.
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May 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Article in the @washingtonpost.com on the Historical Advisory Committee dismissals, incl. interviews w @melanimca.bsky.social @rimmerma.bsky.social and Sarah Snyder
www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...
www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...
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Have you registered for #SHAFR2025? We've got some great speakers lined up--Maggie Blackhawk @emleake.bsky.social @melanimca.bsky.social; welcome reception at The Spy Museum; plenary on recent conflicts; multi-pathways career mentorship; grad mixer at Reagan Institute; and so much more!
May 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Have you registered for #SHAFR2025? We've got some great speakers lined up--Maggie Blackhawk @emleake.bsky.social @melanimca.bsky.social; welcome reception at The Spy Museum; plenary on recent conflicts; multi-pathways career mentorship; grad mixer at Reagan Institute; and so much more!
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Our April issue is here! Find it at www.shafr.org/passport-apr...
Passport April 2025
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May 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Our April issue is here! Find it at www.shafr.org/passport-apr...
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SHAFR sent a letter to Amb Brewer, the Acting Director of the Foreign Service Institute, on the dismissal of the HAC. FSI houses the State Department's Office of the Historian.
tinyurl.com/43nfe5tp
tinyurl.com/43nfe5tp
SHAFR letter on Historical Advisory Committee representative dismissal
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May 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
SHAFR sent a letter to Amb Brewer, the Acting Director of the Foreign Service Institute, on the dismissal of the HAC. FSI houses the State Department's Office of the Historian.
tinyurl.com/43nfe5tp
tinyurl.com/43nfe5tp
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Taking the plane isn’t just accepting a bribe, it’s creating a national security risk. Hostile intelligence agencies must be enjoying yet another opportunity Trump is giving them.
May 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Taking the plane isn’t just accepting a bribe, it’s creating a national security risk. Hostile intelligence agencies must be enjoying yet another opportunity Trump is giving them.
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The @nsarchive.bsky.social today published the key documents from John Dinges' new book, Chile in Their Hearts, which challenges the premise of the 1982 Oscar-winning movie, Missing.
CHILE IN THEIR HEARTS: New Book Revisits Murder of Two U.S. Citizens After Chilean Military Coup (click below to read) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
CHILE IN THEIR HEARTS
Washington D.C. May 7, 2025 – On November 29, 2011, a Chilean judge stunned the world by indicting a retired U.S. Navy captain as an accomplice to the executions of two U.S. citizens in the days follo...
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May 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The @nsarchive.bsky.social today published the key documents from John Dinges' new book, Chile in Their Hearts, which challenges the premise of the 1982 Oscar-winning movie, Missing.
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Amid its slash-&-burn campaign against our diplomatic tools & agencies, the WH fired nonpartisan members of the State Department's Historical Advisory Committee without cause. Congress established HAC & its composition is determined by statute. Those improperly terminated should be reinstated.
🆘 The White House terminated the entire staff of the State Dept.'s Historical Advisory Committee this evening.
This threatens the integrity of the declassification of foreign policy records, the objectivity of our historical accounts, and undermines current and future policy makers.
This threatens the integrity of the declassification of foreign policy records, the objectivity of our historical accounts, and undermines current and future policy makers.
May 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Amid its slash-&-burn campaign against our diplomatic tools & agencies, the WH fired nonpartisan members of the State Department's Historical Advisory Committee without cause. Congress established HAC & its composition is determined by statute. Those improperly terminated should be reinstated.
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Calling all @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
I’m in need of replacement chair/comment for a few #SHAFR2025 sessions. I also have 3 spots open on lightning ⚡️ rounds. If you know someone eager to share their research, msg me!
I’m in need of replacement chair/comment for a few #SHAFR2025 sessions. I also have 3 spots open on lightning ⚡️ rounds. If you know someone eager to share their research, msg me!
May 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Calling all @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
I’m in need of replacement chair/comment for a few #SHAFR2025 sessions. I also have 3 spots open on lightning ⚡️ rounds. If you know someone eager to share their research, msg me!
I’m in need of replacement chair/comment for a few #SHAFR2025 sessions. I also have 3 spots open on lightning ⚡️ rounds. If you know someone eager to share their research, msg me!
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SHAFR's response to the dismissal of representative Sarah Snyder from the State Department’s Historical Advisory Committee (HAC) tinyurl.com/y8s8yc5j
SHAFR letter on Historical Advisory Committee representative dismissal
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May 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
SHAFR's response to the dismissal of representative Sarah Snyder from the State Department’s Historical Advisory Committee (HAC) tinyurl.com/y8s8yc5j
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...
Free Mahmoud Khalil and protect students exercising their First Amendment rights!
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the rig...
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March 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...
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President Mumblefuck and his rotten applesauce of a brain is going to blurt us into the dumbest war ever
Trump on Greenland: "Denmark is very far away. A boat landed there 200 years ago or something and they say they have rights to it. I don't know if that's true. I don't think it is, actually ... we really need it for national security ... maybe you'll see more and more soldiers go there."
March 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
President Mumblefuck and his rotten applesauce of a brain is going to blurt us into the dumbest war ever
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The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was forced to close due to the “sudden dismissal of federal employees,” the library’s foundation said in a statement to CNN.
JFK Library forced to close due to ‘sudden dismissal of federal employees,’ foundation says | CNN Politics
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was forced to close Tuesday due to the “sudden dismissal of federal employees,” the library’s foundation said in a statement to CNN.
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February 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was forced to close due to the “sudden dismissal of federal employees,” the library’s foundation said in a statement to CNN.
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Thank you to Furniss Book Award winner @carlygoodman.bsky.social @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social for her insightful and engaging conversation yesterday around her book "Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction." @uncpress.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Thank you to Furniss Book Award winner @carlygoodman.bsky.social @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social for her insightful and engaging conversation yesterday around her book "Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction." @uncpress.bsky.social
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The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum will reopen on Wednesday February 19.
February 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum will reopen on Wednesday February 19.
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NOOOOOOOOO
Historians: the archives are under threat
House on fire.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Historians: the archives are under threat
House on fire.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Acting archivist, inspector general for National Archives forced out
The agency, regarded as nonpolitical, has been the target of President Donald Trump’s ire since its attempts recover documents from Mar-a-Lago.
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February 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
NOOOOOOOOO
Historians: the archives are under threat
House on fire.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Historians: the archives are under threat
House on fire.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...