A West German and an Austrian drive their Mercedes cars to Bratislava to fill up on gas. What could possibly go wrong? At long last, my article "The 1970s Energy Crises and the Threat to Czechoslovak Consumer Socialism" is out in the world.

@natterjee @VBivar @acker_antoine & there are some interesting essays on nation vis-a-vis region in Katarzyna Iwińska and Xymena Bukowska, Gender and Energy Transition Case Studies from the Upper Silesia Coal-mining Region. Excited to have more of my own stuff to share before too long!

RT @Teamsters: Amazon drivers at DIL7 in Illinois marched on management this week to demand that Amazon recognize their #Teamsters union.…

RT @natterjee: Is there anything new to say about the 1973 oil shock or Indira Gandhi’s India? Here’s hoping so. At long last, my article…

RT @tessmegginson: I still need one more participant for an #ASEEES panel on local involvement/interest with border changes after WWI. If y…

The weather, at least in Chicago, will be appropriately frigid!

RT @sarahthestan: Join the @chstmorg Energy History Working Group THIS FRIDAY Jan 12, 1:30pm to discuss @JuliaKMead's paper that links #wea…

@gabrielwinant True, although there's also Vitkovice Steelworks on the Czech side of the Czech-Polish border, basically the Carnegie Steel of Czechoslovakia

RT @thenation: I am trying to be the strongest one in our household because my family expects it of me: since I am a journalist, they think…

@helengalvinross lol my jaw actually dropped

Was not expecting to find such delightful illustrations in a socialist-era book on divorce! (Ivo Plaňava, "Po rozvodu" 1986)

Speaking of utopia, I spotted this in the stairwell of the library stacks today. Nary a mention of collective living, leisure, economic rights, no work, which would all be in my utopia

@nerdjpg Oatmeal with avocado and canned tuna

@ankahajkova @zborrik The medical grifters are everywhere!