Yes both are very good books. You were great in the Thoreau documentary. I am building a bit here on my arguments in #theslavescause and #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

Happy to have done this great podacst on #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic with Dr. Chelsea Gibson of #SHGAPE pod.link/1584947419

Historian of the Civil War and I approve of this message. #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

Historian here very much looking forward to this talk at Eastern Michigan today. Join us if you can Michigan folks! #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

I know that’s why I wrote the book! #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

Really glad that more people are realizing this! #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic www.nybooks.com/online/2021/...

Yeah I write about it in #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

Historian here, very happy to contribute to this special issue on abolition in Social Research (2 2025). Also alerting everyone to Chris Grasso’s superb review of #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic Reviews in American History (Sept 2024), a historiographical tour de force on Reconstruction!

Historian here Ugh @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social perpetrating the Dunning school of Reconstruction by making its clue “scalawag” for southern unionists and calling northerners “carpetbaggers” Hope you change that @kenjennings.bsky.social #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

They won the peace and destroyed the republic #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic but ultimately were defeated as well

A sliver of good news in these dismal times. #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic has won the President’s book prize from the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. I got the news on my father’s birthday, a wonderful present. Daddy is still looking out for me.

Happy New Year Civics and Coffee named #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic one of the best books of 2025 “Sinha does an exquisite job of arguing that Reconstruction is a much broader period in history than we think and expertly covers its impact on various populations & regions” Pub date 2024

I am not into throwing the baby out with the bath water. I make a slightly different argument in #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

All three Reconstruction amendments in our opinion and I begin with the election of Lincoln and the process of emancipation during the Civil War. #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

Very grateful to American Nineteenth Century History’s David Cox for putting together this wonderful symposium on #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic which grew out of the panel on the book at the United States Intellectual History conference organized by Benjamin Park.

Massachusetts Historical Society: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic with Manisha Sinha

Folks if you would like to listen in, I did a podcast on the new book with the wonderful @mkn.bsky.social for the Massachusetts Historical Society. #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic audio book is selling at a promotional discount, link in the comments! www.masshist.org/podcast/hath...

Historian of Reconstruction here where were the federal troops when we needed them #TheRiseandFalloftheSecondAmericanRepublic

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Historian here yes #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

When you return from Europe jet lagged and attend an AAS council meeting on your way home from Logan and on Saturday morning join the Lincoln Group of DC to talk about your book and then a teachers seminar at a CW museum and SHEAR EC meeting on Monday! #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

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Well they wrote it in the 18th century, we need to amend and bolster it through federal law as we did during Reconstruction. I argued this in #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

Good Sunday morning! Woke up to @jamellebouie.net reading Adam
Hochschild’s review of #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic in @nybooks.com

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Grades submitted, semester is over! Thanks to my wonderful undergraduate students who nominated me for the Provost’s teaching and mentorship award. And to top it this relatively nice review of #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

when you used it I gasped because we had chosen it for the Draper poster a while ago! It illustrates my point about the connection between the fall of Reconstruction and the rise of a formal overseas empire well. I write about the Anti Imperialist league in #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

Self promotion but I am teaching my new book #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic this year and loving it! But my favorites are Battle Cry of Freedom by McPherson, embattled freedom by Amy Murrell Taylor, they were her property by Stephanie Jones Rogers and Oakes Freedom National.

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I did a lot! I carry forward this argument in my recent book #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic you do it much further to current day politics.

The overthrow of Reconstruction still haunts American democracy. #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

The Civil War was a just war but the Colonial wars of conquest he led against native nations really tarnished his reputation among abolitionists #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic