Yanna Yannakakis' new book "Since Time Immemorial" studies how Native customs were formulated, changed, and made central to both law and politics during the colonial period. Read the introduction for free on our website now. #Twitterstorians dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMate…

My latest article is titled "Smugglers, Pirates, Diplomacy, and the Spanish Caribbean in the Late Seventeenth-century. If you are at a university and have free access to this article, you can find it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Unpopular but needed corrective: claims about Queen Charlotte’s “Black” ancestry are unsubstantiated by the historical record & based on dubious reading of 18thc-portraiture, a couple of cherry-picked primary sources, & inaccurate understandings of “moor” as a racial identity.

Undergraduate Research Initiative launchku.org/project/37301?…

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Excited to share my article on Juan Garrido published in Hispanic Review! Huge thanks to colleagues, friends, external reviewers, and journal editors for their valuable input and support🎊 muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

It's been a while but it nice to be back in the Palacio Lecumberri and the AGN!

Interesting archive find of the day. Manuel Carrillo complaining on behalf of the gov. of Angola (1607) that 'negros de la india' (mazambiques, malucos) we're being illegally imported via the Acapulco trade. Interesting evidence for East African and Indian Ocean routes to Mexico.

Stephanie Wood will be giving a talk June 21, 2023 at 4 PM Library of Congress about her project, the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs! 🤩 Click on the link to sign up for the Zoom. It will be available later on the YouTube channel of the LOC. loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/regist…

If SCOTUS was serious about their ludicrous “colorblindness” claims, they would have abolished legacy admissions, aka affirmative action for the privileged. 70% of Harvard’s legacy applicants are white. SCOTUS didn’t touch that - which would have impacted them and their patrons.

I was accepted to Stanford 100% bc of affirmative action. A 15 yo rez girl living w kids from royal families & trust funds. When I worked for Stanford Admissions, I had to answer does Stanford practice aff action? My response was always yes bc the playing field isn’t level! 1/

Justice Alito accepted tens of thousands of dollars in lavish vacation gifts from a billionaire who lobbied to cancel the student loan forgiveness. After the gifts, Alito voted to overturn. This SCOTUS’ corruption undercuts its own legitimacy by putting its rulings up for sale.

I find it amusing that such a simple recipe that’s a Spanish breakfast / merienda staple needs to be promoted by a top British chef. But I only discovered this in my mid20s.

Nancy E. van Deusen's article sheds light on the range of rationales, conditions, legal channels, and procedures used by Spaniards to authorize the enslavement of targeted Indigenous groups even after it was supposedly outlawed in 1542 bit.ly/448341e

Musho Beti.

This seems like a competition that Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott) from Parks and Rec would dominate! theguardian.com/australia-news…

Ethnohistory has had some great articles this year. Here are some of our top articles available for free thanks to Duke University Press! t.e2ma.net/message/1vjmul…