Barbara Keys

History professor, Durham University. Kissingerology, diplomacy, human rights. Harvard PhD. Past president @SHAFRorg. FRHistS. 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧

[Barbara Keys @arakeys]

Henry Kissinger spent nearly 50 years shaping how the world remembered his 8 years in power. My book SUPER K shows how he did it, the institutions that helped him, and why it matters. Preorder: https://t.co/SSzVHUzu43

[Barbara Keys @arakeys]

Out in Oct.! When Kissinger left office in 1977, he pioneered a new model of political celebrity, sustaining for nearly 50 years a level of fame and influence that most officials never achieve even at the height of their careers. Super K (Simon & Schuster) tells how he did it.

[Barbara Keys @arakeys]

If anyone out there has a print copy of the New York Times Kissinger obituary (Dec. 1, 2023), would you be willing to describe it to me? Is it 5 print pages with photos?

[Joe Paul Kroll @JoePKroll]

Für diesen Band durfte ich einen Beitrag von @arakeys übersetzen, der wirklich sehr klug und geistreich war – da wurde die Arbeit zum Vergnügen.

[Barbara Keys @arakeys]

Contributors include @juliairwin @kroberiano @StephenMacekura and many others

[Barbara Keys @arakeys]

4th edition out soon! Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations https://t.co/DT9u4iSE3z

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4th edition out soon! Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations https://t.co/DT9u4iSE3z

[Barbara Keys @arakeys]

Niall Ferguson demolishes the notion that DT is fascist: he can't be, because he's funny. Who's the real threat to American democracy? It's the "blood-curdling" @samuelmoyn https://t.co/4JztGxSWtW

[CASBS @CASBSStanford]

BREAKING | Final totals: books checked-out by 2023-24 CASBS fellows

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🥈@fstflofscholars
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Same order as our mid-year reporting (see 🧵)

We note a gap-closing that, if successful, would've been documented in CASBS annals as "The RobleSurge"

But no.

[Barbara Keys @arakeys]

Can anyone shed any light on a Nixon administration FRUS document that someone cited and seems to have been re-classified and taken off the website?? https://t.co/cAPEwS0Nzm

[Barbara Keys @arakeys]

I have this category on my CV and I am keeping it

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And why is what everyone agrees to be immense labor by women so often written out of this story of the heroic male scholar?

[Barbara Keys @arakeys]

The story of Indian sociologist M. N. Srinivas’s 1978 book, The Remembered Village, is the subject of much lore. Sociologists will often say he wrote a better book *because* all his notes were burned in an arson event @CASBS in 1970 (probably Vietnam-related).

[CASBS @CASBSStanford]

IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY

24 April 1970: Firebombing at CASBS! A renowned scholar lost almost everything.

From the ashes he somehow wrote a book considered a classic. The fire played THE defining role in shaping it. It's the stuff of legend.

STORY HERE: https://t.co/nInDSUGyRJ

[Barbara Keys @arakeys]

But he also says he wrote “based entirely on my memory,” checking only some key facts against the original field notes that had been in India during the fire. If he needed only his memory, why was so much money and labor spent reconstructing his processed field notes?

[Barbara Keys @arakeys]

@NewYorker On the basis of this @NewYorker piece about #TartVinegar, I ordered a bottle for $38. It arrived in a box with no padding, crushed into a hundred pieces. When I asked for a refund, here’s how Chris Crawford responded:

[Barbara Keys @arakeys]

@NewYorker On the basis of this @NewYorker piece about #TartVinegar, I ordered a bottle for $38. It arrived in a box with no padding, crushed into a hundred pieces. When I asked for a refund, here’s how #TartVinegar responded:

[Barbara Keys @arakeys]

Historian friends, imagine publishing a peer-reviewed article in a scholarly journal that is based on two books and three online sources, one of which is Wikipedia.

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Thatcher

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It's not just Yes, Minister; private secretaries are funny irl! This is one commenting on a 1980s private conversation between Henry Kissinger and the PM:

“The Prime Minister took [his] catalogue of woe with equanimity - that, I suppose, being the only alternative to suicide.”