Check out my essay about my great-grandfather, Confederate surgeon Hunter Holmes McGuire. His monument in Richmond is slated to come down. I’m Ok with it. #CivilWar #monuments #Virginia #medicalhistory open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
Wrote a referee's report for a tier-one journal. No acknowledgement, let alone a thank you. Unpaid labor keeps peer-review afloat. Don't ask me again.
Alexa repeatedly gets my wife’s name wrong, referring to her as a state famous for potatoes rather than her charming 19th century name. We’ve corrected Alexa many times and she promises never to do it again.
This thread!
THE WESTERNERS is out in 3 1/2 weeks, and I will be posting about it quite a lot between now and then.
Vigorous self-promotion is expected now, and is pretty much a part-time job for all nonfiction authors closing in on pub day.
So please like and repost, and help spread the word! 🐝
Except the surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse, Bennett Place, etc weren’t unconditional. Unconditional surrender was rare in the Civil War uncpress.org/978146967251...
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I’m not sure UF hr would sign off on that!
We're hiring a VAP in US Legal History. Please share widely: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69845/u...
Runaway advertisement from and eighteenth century newspaper. Background image is a painting of the River Thames in London along the docks, filled with large sailing ships.
James Teernon escaped from his enslaver in November 1760 and joined the crew of the Dragon. But the Dragon was a slave ship. The runaway was finding freedom for himself aboard a ship bound for Africa.
Read Simon Newman’s incredible recovery of James’ story: freedom-seekers.org/story/james-...
For #WomensHistoryMonth, check out Lorri Glover's #2025SHA presidential address in the February 2026 JSH:
"Reimagining the American Revolution: Southern Women's Wars for Independence"
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I spent hours looking through hundreds of files of materials that have been flagged for review by National Park Service sites around the country. Here is just a small sample of what I found. #NationalParks 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
What a pleasure to talk to @rickbell.bsky.social about THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE FATE OF THE WORLD (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social). Hear how he thought about structure and character in a book of such scope--and how it all started in bars and nursing homes. tinyurl.com/rickbell #writinghistory 🗃️
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Not a good sign when the Boy Scouts discontinue the Citizenship badge www.scouting.org/program-upda...
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The Boston Massacre began with bystanders throwing snowballs at British soldiers.
“What Is To Be Done: Historians of Crisis in a Moment of Crisis” is available online now here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56406 Thanks to UNC press, the full issue will be available for a short time without paywall.
a great listen @sonyabonczek.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social @katecarp.bsky.social @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
Teaching and learning are based on trust. I trust that my students want to learn and are doing their best. They trust that I want them to succeed and will do what I can to help them. Everything about AI undermines that trust.
Jessica Chopin Roney will take over after the Library Company of Philadelphia merges with Temple University. She has existing ties to both institutions.
Americans have forgotten that winning is probably not in the top ten benefits of youth sports. I’d rank learning how to lose much higher than winning.
Quite proud of my @boapublishing.bsky.social Document of the Week - one of many pamphlets debating tensions with America pre-independence in 1776. This one has the jazzy title “Shall I Go To War With My American Brethren?” Great for the 250th anniversary britishonlinearchives.com/posts/catego...
Now available for free! Please check out this important special issue. Now more than ever, the Civil War era provides us with important lessons for our harrowing current moment
What Is To Be Done? Historians of Crisis in a Moment of Crisis a special Issue of @jcwe.bsky.social is available to READ FOR FREE now on @projectmuse.bsky.social.
18 Civil War–era historians reflect on scholarship, teaching & today’s political crisis. Read it now👇
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I'm pretty sure there are more than 3,000 historians.
'I Felt All This' has a cover, and CUP have done such a wonderful job! Keep an eye out - it's being published in June.
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
Join us for the 2026 Fennell Lecture by Prof. Greg Grandin from Yale, discussing 'Zombie Monroe: How America First's nationalism shifts towards Latin America.' Secure your free tickets at edin.ac/4qyeI0t.
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Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist
