Tim Bowman
@tbowmanhist.bsky.social
Historian of Texas, the Southwest, and modern America. Books: Blood Oranges (2016), and You Will Never be One of Us (2022). Currently working on a history of the Texas farmworkers movement. Opinions my own.
It was a huge honor to be able to include this volume in the “New Directions in Tejano History” series, which I co-edit for @oupress.bsky.social. Out now!
“Unflinching and insightful."—Carolina Monsivais
"Looking for Justice in Texas: A Century of Reckoning," edited by @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social is book #6 in the thriving "New Directions in Tejano Studies" series, edited by Alberto Rodriguez and @tbowmanhist.bsky.social from @oupress.bsky.social
"Looking for Justice in Texas: A Century of Reckoning," edited by @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social is book #6 in the thriving "New Directions in Tejano Studies" series, edited by Alberto Rodriguez and @tbowmanhist.bsky.social from @oupress.bsky.social
September 23, 2026 at 6:01 PM
It was a huge honor to be able to include this volume in the “New Directions in Tejano History” series, which I co-edit for @oupress.bsky.social. Out now!
Excellent reporting on Larry Itliong’s son, Johnny Itliong, and his quest to pull his father’s legacy out from Cesar Chavez’s shadow. Much of this mirrors my interest in Antonio Orendain, the United Farm Workers and Texas Farm Workers Union in South Texas. (1/2) 🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/u...
After the Cesar Chavez Scandal, Can Johnny Itliong Restore His Father’s Activist Legacy?
Johnny Itliong says Cesar Chavez stole credit from his father, the farmworker activist Larry Itliong. For years, he has been trying to correct the record.
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Excellent reporting on Larry Itliong’s son, Johnny Itliong, and his quest to pull his father’s legacy out from Cesar Chavez’s shadow. Much of this mirrors my interest in Antonio Orendain, the United Farm Workers and Texas Farm Workers Union in South Texas. (1/2) 🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/u...
Great thread here:
This Day in Labor History: June 18, 1954. The CIA overthrew the democratically elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz, to defend the interests of United Fruit. The American Federation of Labor happily helped! Let's talk about this horrible incident of American labor's imperialism!
June 18, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Great thread here:
June 14, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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extremely proud to have published this article on the first Juneteenth celebration, in the great city of Houston, by the Pulitzer-prize winning historian Caleb McDaniel.
www.alliancefortexashistory.org/juneteenth?f...
www.alliancefortexashistory.org/juneteenth?f...
June 6, 2026 at 7:17 PM
extremely proud to have published this article on the first Juneteenth celebration, in the great city of Houston, by the Pulitzer-prize winning historian Caleb McDaniel.
www.alliancefortexashistory.org/juneteenth?f...
www.alliancefortexashistory.org/juneteenth?f...
Checking in from a bit of a hiatus to say that this book is utterly brilliant; strong recommendation for anyone interested in Native history and the nineteenth century West. 🗃️ #books
May 10, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Checking in from a bit of a hiatus to say that this book is utterly brilliant; strong recommendation for anyone interested in Native history and the nineteenth century West. 🗃️ #books
My online Texas history students are once again blown away by the history that @refusing2forget.bsky.social highlights. If you’re unaware of the horrific violence and ethnic cleansing that Mexicans faced in South Texas from 1848 through WWI, please have a look at RTF and their important work. 🗃️
April 3, 2026 at 8:10 PM
My online Texas history students are once again blown away by the history that @refusing2forget.bsky.social highlights. If you’re unaware of the horrific violence and ethnic cleansing that Mexicans faced in South Texas from 1848 through WWI, please have a look at RTF and their important work. 🗃️
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers say they'll change name of César Chavez Day to Farmworkers Day following sexual abuse allegations.
March 19, 2026 at 4:41 PM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers say they'll change name of César Chavez Day to Farmworkers Day following sexual abuse allegations.
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Here’s a gift link:
Late civil rights icon Cesar Chavez accused of sexually abusing young girls in the movement for years
Dolores Huerta also discloses for first time that that Chavez raped her.
Gift link:
Dolores Huerta also discloses for first time that that Chavez raped her.
Gift link:
Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Here’s a gift link:
March 17, 2026 at 11:58 PM
My current pleasure read is Ron Chernow’s excellent recent biography of Mark Twain, and I’ll never not be amazed that this little silent film of him (with his daughters Jean and Clara) still exists. Shot by none other than Thomas Edison, too.
#books #booksky 🗃️
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#books #booksky 🗃️
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March 7, 2026 at 2:59 PM
My current pleasure read is Ron Chernow’s excellent recent biography of Mark Twain, and I’ll never not be amazed that this little silent film of him (with his daughters Jean and Clara) still exists. Shot by none other than Thomas Edison, too.
#books #booksky 🗃️
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mqaS...
#books #booksky 🗃️
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mqaS...
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Tim Bowman and Brent M. S. Campney show how growers in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas changed tactics in the 1980s from violence to a legal strategy of challenging unions' political power.
Link below!
Link below!
February 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Tim Bowman and Brent M. S. Campney show how growers in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas changed tactics in the 1980s from violence to a legal strategy of challenging unions' political power.
Link below!
Link below!
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Now released: Issue 8.3 of Modern American History
This issue has three research articles and four exciting features.
See the full issue here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This issue has three research articles and four exciting features.
See the full issue here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 19, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Now released: Issue 8.3 of Modern American History
This issue has three research articles and four exciting features.
See the full issue here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This issue has three research articles and four exciting features.
See the full issue here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Checking in from a Bluesky hiatus to remind everyone that I have the cutest dog n the world (though if you wanted to post pics of your pups in the comments, I wouldn’t be against it).
#Dogs #DogsofBluesky
#Dogs #DogsofBluesky
February 19, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Checking in from a Bluesky hiatus to remind everyone that I have the cutest dog n the world (though if you wanted to post pics of your pups in the comments, I wouldn’t be against it).
#Dogs #DogsofBluesky
#Dogs #DogsofBluesky
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History rhyming: Today's Minneapolis general strike is not a first for Minneapolis, as I'm sure I'm not the first to notice: www.leftvoice.org/revolutionar...
Revolutionary Teamsters: Remembering the 1934 Minneapolis General Strike - Left Voice
On January 23, working people in Minnesota will shut it all down to demand ICE out of our communities and justice for Renee Nicole Good. Unions must mobilize, as they did in 1934, to harness the power...
www.leftvoice.org
January 23, 2026 at 7:42 PM
History rhyming: Today's Minneapolis general strike is not a first for Minneapolis, as I'm sure I'm not the first to notice: www.leftvoice.org/revolutionar...
Super delighted and honored to have a new piece out in Modern American History, which I’ve coauthored with my friend and colleague Brent Campney. Best part—it’s open access! 🗃️
On First View, A research article from Brent Campney and @tbowmanhist.bsky.social that charts growers' vigilante violence in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas to suppress farmworker activism in the 70s & their shift in 1980 to nonviolent methods associated with neocon backlash.
Linked below!
Linked below!
January 20, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Super delighted and honored to have a new piece out in Modern American History, which I’ve coauthored with my friend and colleague Brent Campney. Best part—it’s open access! 🗃️
Prepping for my online Texas history class and wanted to share “Old Texas,” a silent film from 1916 that features famed rancher Charles Goodnight and his relationship with the Kiowa and the founding of the JA Ranch in Palo Duro Canyon, in the Texas Panhandle. Amazing. 🗃️
texasarchive.org/2010_01598
texasarchive.org/2010_01598
Old Texas (1916)
Film that presents a narrative of cattleman Colonel Charles Goodnight's relationship with the Kiowa tribe
texasarchive.org
January 13, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Prepping for my online Texas history class and wanted to share “Old Texas,” a silent film from 1916 that features famed rancher Charles Goodnight and his relationship with the Kiowa and the founding of the JA Ranch in Palo Duro Canyon, in the Texas Panhandle. Amazing. 🗃️
texasarchive.org/2010_01598
texasarchive.org/2010_01598
Best piece I’ve ever read in the parallels between the Gilded Age and our time. 🗃️
There Is a Way Out of This Mess www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
There Is a Way Out of This Mess www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
Opinion | There Is a Way Out of This Mess
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Best piece I’ve ever read in the parallels between the Gilded Age and our time. 🗃️
There Is a Way Out of This Mess www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
There Is a Way Out of This Mess www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
December 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
December 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#nowspinning All them Witches, “Lightning at the Door.” My dad got this for me for Christmas. Really creative/avant-garde blues rock. Good stuff.
#vinylcommunity
#vinylcommunity
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
#nowspinning All them Witches, “Lightning at the Door.” My dad got this for me for Christmas. Really creative/avant-garde blues rock. Good stuff.
#vinylcommunity
#vinylcommunity
Super proud of the piece I have in this excellent journal! 🗃️
Next, in “The Voice of the Farmworker,” @tbowmanhist.bsky.social traces how Antonio Orendain’s radio show La Voz del Campesino radicalized farmworkers across the Mexico-Texas border, forging a distinct transnational movement beyond the UFW and California.
doi.org/10.1215/1547...
doi.org/10.1215/1547...
“The Voice of the Farmworker”: Antonio Orendain, AM Radio, and the Radicalization of the Farmworkers Movement in the Mexico-Texas Borderlands, 1969–1975 | Labor | Duke University Press
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December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Super proud of the piece I have in this excellent journal! 🗃️
Are there any other metal vinyl collectors out there on Bluesky?Anyway, here’s today’s haul…
#nowspinning #vinylcommunity #metal
#nowspinning #vinylcommunity #metal
December 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Are there any other metal vinyl collectors out there on Bluesky?Anyway, here’s today’s haul…
#nowspinning #vinylcommunity #metal
#nowspinning #vinylcommunity #metal
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If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...