Gotham Scholar

A.K. Pertilla, historian of Wall Street, migration & gender | PhD @NYUGradHistory, digital editor @GHIWashington | Thoughts are my own | he/him

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My New Year’s resolution is moving to a new social media platform… Find me there under the same handle!

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Just a reminder that you can keep up with @DCH_DC on Bluesky now (no underscore—DCHDC), but we have an awesome Meetup on digitizing DC field trip data and crowdsourcing research on DC real estate discrimination happening on Tuesday Nov. 12: https://t.co/gydY2P0gyJ

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We’re reprising the Know Nothings’ greatest hits now? 🥴

[Jacqueline Sweet @JSweetLI]

JD Vance in 2021, while discussing earlier waves of immigration to the US:

"You had this massive wave of Italian, Irish and German immigration and that had its problems, its consequences. You had higher crime rates, you had these ethnic enclaves, you had inter-ethnic conflict in the country where you really hadn't had that before."

[GHI Washington @GHIWashington]

📣 The CFP for“Real-Time History: Engaging with Living Archives and Temporal Multiplicities,” our March 2025 Digital Humanities/Digital History conference, is still open! Send in your proposals— more details here: https://t.co/UFJzejUlEv

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@corinneblalock Each post adding a new bale of straw men…

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Some slides for my 4th of July talk today at the Obama Institute in Mainz about money and American identity

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I knew there was an Audre-Lorde-Straße in Berlin but didn’t realize I’d come across it while visiting a colleague

[NY Public Library @nypl]

Please, we are 129 years old #NoCutsToLibraries

[Gotham Scholar @gothamscholar]

Love this story so much, as someone who uses Excel for a whole range of things… https://t.co/qTDG4Ehkv9

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Always feel a bit like that guy in “The Usual Suspects”—not Keyser Söze, the other one—when, a few days after the fact, I figure out who was the Main Character on Twitter that caused a few vague subtweets to pop up in my timeline.

[GHI Washington @GHIWashington]

The CFP for our 2025 digital history conference is out now! The conference theme is “Real-Time History: Engaging with Living Archives and Temporal Multiplicities” and we can’t wait to see the proposals this idea elicits. Learn more: https://t.co/UFJzejUlEv #dh #digitalhumanities

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@zeithistoriker @jnlamstudies Financial journalists/editorialists are really fascinating ideological figures — if I had had more space and time in this piece I would have talked more about the WSJ but only gesture at its importance a little https://t.co/7ZAhsGbudL

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@ParisNoire I really like George Robb’s book “White-Collar Crime in Modern England” [1840s-1920s], which isn’t long and would probably break apart well for teaching a chapter or two if not the whole thing.

[Zolberg Institute @ZolbergInst]

and Visiting Scholar, Nina Glick-Schiller, makes a call for organizing against "zero migration" policies, exploitative labor practices, and political apathy at the heart of immigration policies in the United States. https://t.co/WflYAsrRhE

[Zolberg Institute @ZolbergInst]

Director of Cities and Human Mobility Project, Achilles Kallergis, examines New York City's historical relationship to immigration as the force that shaped it and which now poses an "existential" problem:
https://t.co/HWNRHj23RF

[Zolberg Institute @ZolbergInst]

Check out recent interviews and essays by Zolberg faculty, fellows, and researchers on @PublicSeminar! @palomagriffin's interview with Zolberg Director, Alex Aleinikoff and NSSR Prof. @ale_delano...

[The Business History Conference @TheBHCNews]

New #episode on the @theBHCNews s channel
𓂃⊹ Narratives of Business History: Fact, #Fiction, and the Archive ⊹ 𓂃
[onsite recording of the workshop] #bizhis
w/ @profmoskowitz @andrewpopp6 and the audience
https://t.co/vSSlLaB7xc

[Gotham Scholar @gothamscholar]

@dlondonwortel Not a like but a “wow”…

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@alexia_yates Congratulations!

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What a great #BHC2024 — great to reconnect with folks and learn so much from our community.