Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social
Historian of Queerness, Democracy, Dictatorship • Words in LARB, TNR, Baffler • represented by Inkwell Management • 🏳️🌈 • opinions my own
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Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social
· Oct 15
My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
Irrelevant detail given the grotesqueries they reveal, but it is sending me that every single one of these Epstein emails is marked high impotence
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Irrelevant detail given the grotesqueries they reveal, but it is sending me that every single one of these Epstein emails is marked high impotence
I’ve just officially signed to become one of the next co-editors of Journal of Social history!
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I’ve just officially signed to become one of the next co-editors of Journal of Social history!
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Contemporary European History is looking to hire a new managing editor — come work with us! 🌟 Deadline is November 30.
@conteurohistory.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@conteurohistory.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Managing Editor – Call for Applications
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Contemporary European History is looking to hire a new managing editor — come work with us! 🌟 Deadline is November 30.
@conteurohistory.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@conteurohistory.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I'm always delighted to hear from @schuneke.bsky.social whose research remains alarmingly pertinent. Thanks to him for writing about Weimar with nuance, political violence, and the portents to pay attention to these days.
time.com/7321664/poli...
time.com/7321664/poli...
Can Democracy Survive Political Violence?
Assassinations, coups, and street brawls may be symptoms of democratic decay—or an intentional strategy wielded by democracy’s enemies.
time.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I'm always delighted to hear from @schuneke.bsky.social whose research remains alarmingly pertinent. Thanks to him for writing about Weimar with nuance, political violence, and the portents to pay attention to these days.
time.com/7321664/poli...
time.com/7321664/poli...
I wrote about what the Weimar Republic tell us about political violence: time.com/7321664/poli...
Can Democracy Survive Political Violence?
Assassinations, coups, and street brawls may be symptoms of democratic decay—or an intentional strategy wielded by democracy’s enemies.
time.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I wrote about what the Weimar Republic tell us about political violence: time.com/7321664/poli...
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excellent placement 😬
October 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
excellent placement 😬
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The book is here! This morning the UPS delivered fresh off the press my second monograph, People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, published by @uoftpress.bsky.social translated by @williamrossjones.bsky.social and with a foreword by @jennifervevans.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The book is here! This morning the UPS delivered fresh off the press my second monograph, People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, published by @uoftpress.bsky.social translated by @williamrossjones.bsky.social and with a foreword by @jennifervevans.bsky.social
Come listen to @ankahajkova.bsky.social and me discuss her new book on queer people in the Holocaust!
I will discuss my new book with @schuneke.bsky.social on 9 December online in the IHR history of sexuality seminar (together with History of Germany seminar), online
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire and the Holocaust
www.history.ac.uk
October 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Come listen to @ankahajkova.bsky.social and me discuss her new book on queer people in the Holocaust!
My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books
bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...
bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...
October 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books
bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...
bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...
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Sex and the Church, by @schuneke.bsky.social
Sex and the Church
Review of Lower Than The Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity, by Diarmaid MacCulloch
www.foreignexchanges.news
October 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Sex and the Church, by @schuneke.bsky.social
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I had a great conversation with @schuneke.bsky.social yesterday about his recent article in The Baffler "The Fruits of Rank." It is baffling, but historical. AND, it leads to a huge opportunity for the Left. Give it a watch.
thebaffler.com/latest/the-f...
youtu.be/NPQIObgpYYs?...
thebaffler.com/latest/the-f...
youtu.be/NPQIObgpYYs?...
Dr. Samuel Clowes Huneke on "The Fruits of Rank"
YouTube video by The Gaily Show
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I had a great conversation with @schuneke.bsky.social yesterday about his recent article in The Baffler "The Fruits of Rank." It is baffling, but historical. AND, it leads to a huge opportunity for the Left. Give it a watch.
thebaffler.com/latest/the-f...
youtu.be/NPQIObgpYYs?...
thebaffler.com/latest/the-f...
youtu.be/NPQIObgpYYs?...
For @fxnewsletter.bsky.social I got to review Diarmaid MacCulloch’s monumental new history of sex and Christianity!
Sex and the Church
Review of Lower Than The Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity, by Diarmaid MacCulloch
www.foreignexchanges.news
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
For @fxnewsletter.bsky.social I got to review Diarmaid MacCulloch’s monumental new history of sex and Christianity!
The proofs have landed 🎉
October 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The proofs have landed 🎉
My review essay for Archiv für Sozialgeschichte is out!! 20k words taking stock of where queer German history is and where it is going. DM if you’d like the pdf (it will be available open access only after a year).
October 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My review essay for Archiv für Sozialgeschichte is out!! 20k words taking stock of where queer German history is and where it is going. DM if you’d like the pdf (it will be available open access only after a year).
If you rolled your eyes at the New York Times’s reporting on the GOP gays of Washington, DC, you’ll love my take in @thebaffler.com
thebaffler.com/latest/the-f...
thebaffler.com/latest/the-f...
The Fruits of Rank | Samuel Huneke
The A-Gays of Trump’s Washington are nothing the new—the past is littered with homosexual hypocrites.
thebaffler.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
If you rolled your eyes at the New York Times’s reporting on the GOP gays of Washington, DC, you’ll love my take in @thebaffler.com
thebaffler.com/latest/the-f...
thebaffler.com/latest/the-f...
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
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The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓
Reminder: Journal of the History of Sexuality seeks new editor(s) | H-Net
The Journal of the History of Sexuality is seeking new editors. The JHS, which was founded in 1990 and is published by the University of Texas Press, is the oldest journal devoted to the history of se...
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September 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓
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We took a DEEP dive into fascism yesterday on the show with @schuneke.bsky.social. How do we even describe MAGA? And given US LGBTQ history, is it accurate to describe MAGA as a *return* to a fascism? I could talk to Sam for days. podfollow.com/the-gaily-show
www.youtube.com/live/Qe_ffkv...
www.youtube.com/live/Qe_ffkv...
MAGA threatens Chicago invasion, plus conversation with Dr. Samuel Clowes Huneke
YouTube video by The Gaily Show
www.youtube.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
We took a DEEP dive into fascism yesterday on the show with @schuneke.bsky.social. How do we even describe MAGA? And given US LGBTQ history, is it accurate to describe MAGA as a *return* to a fascism? I could talk to Sam for days. podfollow.com/the-gaily-show
www.youtube.com/live/Qe_ffkv...
www.youtube.com/live/Qe_ffkv...
It’s worth pointing out that the (grand) jury system was enshrined in our constitution precisely so that citizens could serve as a check on prosecutorial overreach
Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It’s worth pointing out that the (grand) jury system was enshrined in our constitution precisely so that citizens could serve as a check on prosecutorial overreach
My university is shutting down our humanities center, but at least we hired a chief AI officer smdh
August 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
My university is shutting down our humanities center, but at least we hired a chief AI officer smdh
What is he talking about? Both WWI and WWII ended with unconditional surrenders. Germany’s government was presented with a peace treaty it had no hand in negotiating in 1919 and there wasn’t even a German government left with which to negotiate in 1945.
JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
August 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
What is he talking about? Both WWI and WWII ended with unconditional surrenders. Germany’s government was presented with a peace treaty it had no hand in negotiating in 1919 and there wasn’t even a German government left with which to negotiate in 1945.
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NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.
Please take care when watching.
Please take care when watching.
August 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.
Please take care when watching.
Please take care when watching.
Yes!!
exactly one page into Middlemarch and had to pause because this might be the best thing i ever read
August 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Yes!!