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Anti-Colonial Revolution and US Intervention: The Guerra de los Diez Años in Cuba and the Irish American Press, 1868–1878 In 1875, a brutal war had been raging for seven years in Cuba, between the forces of the Spanish regime and nationalist rebels seeking independence. About

Should the US intervene to promote ‘liberty’ in the Western hemisphere? My new article in @diplomatichistory.bsky.social considers Irish Americans as active participants in the debate over whether the US should intervene in the Ten Years War in Cuba (1868-1878)
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Trumped Again: 4.7 Propositions for a Time of Monsters “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Our first issue of 2026 is out now! Featuring Melani McAlister's presidential address "Trumped Again: 4.7 Propositions for a Time of Monsters" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d... @melanimca.bsky.social @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

Deadline is less than two weeks away!
DH at 50: European Perspectives on America's Global Rise and Crises
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🎉 Diplomatic History turns 50 in 2027!
RIAS is hosting a workshop for a special anniversary issue on European perspectives on the U.S.’s global interactions. Read the CFP here: tinyurl.com/mry26zx2
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And last but not least, Eric Lohr reviews Sheila Fitzpatrick's Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Andrew Muldoon (@arjm5184.bsky.social) reviews Paul M. McGarr's (@paulmcgarr.bsky.social) Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India’s Secret Cold War doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Sarah-Jane Corke reviews Hugh Wilford's The CIA: An Imperial History doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Brian Masaru Hayashi reviews Sarah B. Castro's Mission to Mao: US Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Benjamin Smith reviews Aaron Brown's The 1970s and the Making of the Modern US-Mexico Border: Fortifying a Frontier doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Maartje Abbenhuis (@maartjeabb.bsky.social) reviews Cormac Ó Gráda's The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Carly Goodman (@carlygoodman.bsky.social) reviews Brianna Nofil's (@briannanofil.bsky.social) The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Benjamin Coates (@benjamincoates.bsky.social) reviews Mary Bridges' Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Penny Bryden reviews Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson's (@asamckercher.bsky.social @mdstevenson.bsky.social) Building a Special Relationship: Canada-US Relations in the Eisenhower Era, 1953–61 doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Andrew Byers reviews Eva Payne's (@evapayne.bsky.social) Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Dirk Bonker reviews Katherine C. Epstein's Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

We also have an excellent slate of book reviews, starting with Stefan Aune reviewing Justin Jackson's (@justinfdjackson.bsky.social) The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

And from Fritz Bartel we have "In Search of a Superpower: The West’s Abortive Search for Leverage in Early Post-Soviet Russia" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

By Kevin E. Grimm we have "Workers Occupy the Most Vital Role: The ICFTU, NATO, and Western Rearmament in the 1950s" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

We have an article from Lewis Defrates "Neutrality by Absence: Overseas Americans at the Beginning of World War I" which is open access! doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Check out our November edition of DH if you haven't already! Or, save it for your reading for the rapidly approaching Thanksgiving Break. We have an exciting slate of articles and book reviews to share. academic.oup.com/dh/issue

Happening next Monday! Register here: bit.ly/SHAFR-Archives

CFA: Peace in the Age of Forever Wars 🕊️

We invite submissions for an interdisciplinary symposium on all aspects of peace. More informatoon can be found at challengingwar.com/spring-2025/

The September Passport issue is available! Including video games, the US in the Middle East, the Cold War International History Project, French resistance fighter, and 7 Questions about the United Nations: www.shafr.org/passport-sep...

Thank you to all of our reviewers!

and Lisa Kirschenbaum @lakirsch.bsky.social review's Alexis Peri's Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence between American and Soviet Women doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Andrew Preston reviews Sam Lebovic's State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

W. Taylor Fain reviews Kuan-Jen Chen's Charting America's Cold War Waters in East Asia doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Connie Shemo reviews Rumi Yasutake's The Feminist Pacific: International Women's Networks in Hawai'i, 1820–1940 doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Lillian Guerra reviews Mauricio Castro's @castrohistorian.bsky.social Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Jeremy Varon reviews Joseph Fronczak's Everything is Possible: Antifascism and the Left in the Age of Fascism doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...