Brian DeLay

@BrianDeLay

Berkeley Historian. Author of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids & The U.S.-Mexican War. Interested in guns, borders, & the Age of Revolutions. Also birds.

Berkeley, CA history.berkeley.edu/brian-delay Joined March 2012

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Brian DeLay @BrianDeLay Oct 2, 2023

Friends - I hope you’ll check out my new article in the AHR. It explains how the international arms trade empowered and connected the American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and the Spanish American Wars for Independence. (🧵1/7) academic.oup.com/ahr/article-ab…

academic.oup.com The Arms Trade and American Revolutions Abstract. This essay argues that the international arms trade bound the revolutions in British North America, Saint-Domingue, and Spanish America in depend

Brian DeLay @BrianDeLay Sep 30

So, so happy to see Ariel Ron and Liz Ellis honored and empowered this way. (For the record, I knew they were geniuses before the MacArthur Foundation figured it out) macfound.org/programs/award…

Brian DeLay @BrianDeLay Sep 16

Berkeley History is hiring: The Mediterranean and its Hinterlands, 500-1500 CE. Our third search this year. Please help us spread the word!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05501

Brian DeLay @BrianDeLay Sep 11

Berkeley is hiring in Modern European Intellectual History - please help us spread the word! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05550?appli…

Brian DeLay @BrianDeLay Sep 10

My friend (&, believe it or not, former student) Garret Graff @vermontgmg has been an indispensable voice in this epoch of cruelty, stupidity, national humiliation, sabotage, & generational vandalism. Somehow he's also written a hopeful book about our past & (maybe) future 🙏