AMLO update: part 4
Image credit: Creative Commons 2.0 by Eneas de Troya Written this year with Humberto Beck, the fourth entry in my coverage of developments in AMLO’s Mexico is available in the […]
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Guide to prelims
Guide to Prelims Prof. Patrick Iber Spring 2022 Preparing for prelims is the second “season” of grad school, after coursework. It is much less structured, but it is an essential […]
Review of Jonathan Katz, “Gangsters of Capitalism”
I have a review in the January/February issue of The New Republic of Jonathan Katz’s biography/travelogue of Smedley Butler, a figure of long fascination to many and totally obscure to […]
Democratic divisions
For Nueva Sociedad, here is the latest in my effort to explain what is going on in the U.S. to an international audience. This piece takes on the efforts to […]
A review of Spencer Ackerman’s “Reign of Terror”
I have a new review of Ackerman’s Reign of Terror in the New Republic. Here’s the beginning: On September 5, 2016, two months before the Electoral College victory of Donald […]
Media roundup
I’ve been interviewed, quoted, or mentioned in a few places recently. Clavel Rangel in El Tiempo Latino, “Socialismo: la palabra [ya no tan] prohibida en Estados Unidos” Matt Mazewski’s review […]
The Immovable AMLO
For the third year, I have co-written another look at what is happening in Mexico under AMLO. With Carlos Bravo Regidor and Humberto Beck, I have tried to go beyond […]
Music for teaching Modern Latin American history
I’ve used music sporadically throughout my teaching, especially when a song proves to be a rich entry point into discussion of a social or political theme relevant to the discussion […]
Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and the Cold War
I talked to my friends Aaron Bady and Gerry Canavan for their podcast Grad School Vonnegut about Cat’s Cradle, the 1963 Vonnegut novel. Is it good? Is it cancelled? Are […]
Review in the AHR of two books on history education
In the December 2020 issue of the American Historical Review, I have a review of two books on history education (Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson’s The Case for Contention and […]
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