Bwahaha! They included my line about Boston: "“It was a place of violence,” said Carp, author of “Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution” (2007). “It was a rough-and-tumble place full of xenophobic Sabbatarians.”
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Read a remembrance of Vicente Rafel by John T. Sidel in @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2026/04...
76 days until Independence Day—book an OAH Lecturer and bring historical context on the Revolution, the founding era, and the many meanings of July 4 to your campus or community. #OAHLecturer
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Here's just one example of the kind of accessible scholarship you can find there, a terrific forum on the timely matter of birthright citizenship with contributions by @migrantherstory.bsky.social, @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, @irpinaingiro.bsky.social, Heather Ruth Lee, and Anna Pegler-Gordon
I elaborate this argument about Jefferson's embargo in chapter 5 of my book, National Duties: Custom Houses and the Making of the American State (though nothing there about a president claiming to be Jesus)
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We have the first review of our new documentary film, *Becoming Benjamin Lay*, written by Jordan Snowden for the *Pittsburgh Review of Books*, and it’s a good one! Join us tomorrow (Saturday, April 11) for the premiere at the Carnegie Library in Braddock, 4:00 pm.
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Thrilled to share a fascinating panel on American empire and counterinsurgency with Drs. Zaynab Quadri (Yale) and Kate Birkbeck (Harvard and Brown) at the BAAS 2026 conference @glasgow.ac.uk - look for their publications!
To any and all who write on 19c America and want to improve the quality of their writing, a simple piece of advice: quote Frederick Douglass as much as you can and bask in the glow of his eloquence.
Congratulations to former #SHAFR President Andrew Preston (UVA) whose book, Total Defense, won the @smh-historians.bsky.social 2026 Distinguished Book Award!!
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cc: @harvardpress.bsky.social
Thanks so much to @brianbunk.bsky.social for his great talk to start our spring lecture series on soccer!
True!
What's that? UNC Press content delivered straight to your inbox? Yep! We're officially on Substack 😎
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Sorry I missed that! I argue for the affirmative.
Privileged, and honored, to be joining the Du Bois Freedom Center board!
Please consider helping preserve the history of the African American community in the Berskhires that gave us civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois!
www.duboisfreedomcenter.org
It’s that time of year-for the UNC Press 30% off American History sale!!!
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Teasing the upcoming publication of Jennifer Keene's and Andrew Huebner's Cambridge History of War and Society. I contributed an essay on how historians can approach the history of American soldiers. Here are the first two pages (in proof) that lay out my proposal, & incls a personal anecdote!
Our workshop “Listening to the Past: Digital Approaches to the History of Sound and Language” starts today, bringing together scholars from history, linguistics, media studies and other disciplines with the support of @volkswagenstiftung.de.
Program: ghiworkshops.hypotheses.org/listening-to...
Come visit the University of Florida and use their #LatinAmerican and #Caribbean collections. Application Deadline: April 12, 2026. www.latam.ufl.edu/outreach/lib...
My joint review (in the March 2026 issue of Reviews in American History) of Preston’s and Roady’s excellent books on the origins of US national-security policy. I conclude that we are transitioning to “racial security” as the rationale for Trump’s new disorder. 🗃️
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What a malaproprism "warfighter" is! Someone who fights...against war? Otherwise it's just a Frankenstein-like amalgamation of verb and noun. To the dustbin with it.
The odds are getting better every day.
Sad but true. A people forever in the present, looking forever to the future.
Great technique! I was urged to read Coetzee, "Waiting for the Barbarians," while dissertating! Contemporary music doesn't hurt, either!
Thrilled that this joint special forum with @oieahc.bsky.social's William and Mary Quarterly will be out soon! An all-star lineup of scholars offering new interpretations of themes such as religious liberty, citizenship and belonging, sovereignty, and the rule of law during the Revolution
New book review published advance access.
Ryan Hall reviews 'Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States' by Emilie Connolly (Princeton University Press, 2025): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Top three (non-historian) prose stylists?
The empire of rational-choice theory.
