Attn: grad students Looking for accountability and community? Join our Graduate Student Summer Write-In meeting for two hours each Wednesday

Walking around NYC, from Brooklyn to the Village to Harlem — I see glimpses of people and events that I write about. One thing I’m excited about in my new book, TROOP MOVEMENTS (Sep 2026) — is to tell a new story of Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis, from 1940s to 1960s to 2000s, from NYC to Africa and back…

Congratulations to all of our graduates this week who endured the warmth of DeMontfort Hall for their degree ceremonies. Always nice to get a picture afterwards with some of my FDR special subject students, even if it is interrupted by a rogue sunbeam.

So excited to see my article on hemispheric responses to the Cuban Missile Crisis up on the Americas Quarterly website! americasquarterly.org/article/the-... #History 🗃️

Wooot! You can get all our awesome InterConnections books (including The Fate of the Americas 😘) for 35% off all month!

Didn't we just leave Columbus? 👀 The CFP for #SHAFR2027 in Arlington, VA is live — and it's a big one: our 60th anniversary! Co-chairs Lauren Turek & Steve Tuffnell want your panels, papers, and roundtables. Details on our website. www.shafr.org/shafr2027

The July Dispatch is out now! Celebrate our 2026 award winners and get a sneak peek of #SHAFR2027 mailchi.mp/shafr.org/sh...

Did you present at #SHAFR2026 and recieve good feedback on your project? Consider submitting an article to Modern American History. Email [email protected] if you have questions.

My new article in @modamhist.bsky.social is out now in first view and open access and is a preview of chapter 6 of the 'The World Awheel' (@columbiaup.bsky.social). It's a story of American mobility, femininity, and power in the spaces of European empires. doi.org/10.1017/mah....

There's so few peer reviewers left out there it seems. While so many of us are aware of this, we don't mention it nearly enough ... reviewing is hard, basically uncompensated & utterly essential, yet another of the so many signs of the fractures in the modern academy, across virtually all fields.

I enjoyed discussing these and other NATO issues today with @mcfaulmike.bsky.social on Substack live: michaelmcfaul.substack.com/p/live-with-...

Looking forward to delivering the @oieahc.bsky.social keynote lecture “DIPLOMATIC DISAGREEMENT: REVOLUTIONARY FOUNDATIONS FOR DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES IN US FOREIGN POLICY” next week at the Transatlantic Studies Association conference in Williamsburg, VA.

In my new piece for @lawfaremedia.org, I trace the longer history of the Trump administration's controversial Afrikaner refugee policy and examine South Africa's response to it: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/afri...

Registration is now open for my "Bookworm" webinar with @clementslibrary.bsky.social on September 18, 10-11:30 AM. I can't wait to discuss "Canal Dreamers" with the good folks at the University of Michigan! Registration is free: events.umich.edu/event/149188 @uncpress.bsky.social #skystorians 🗃️

Excited to share I've been awarded a Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellowship with @ushmm.bsky.social Mandel Center supporting research for my new book on 1948. As an independent scholar, opportunities like this are rare, and I hope more institutions follow Mandel Center's lead!

I'm giving a talk at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford on Friday: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/the-in...

Re: AI & fall teaching: What are you doing re: seminar research papers? They're a graduation requirement. My current plan: Early deadline. 1-on-1 oral paper defense during exam period.

Check out my newest piece for Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org

Working at the Eisenhower Presidential library this week.

Finally unpacking from #SHAFR2026 and looking forward to some non-fiction poolside reading. @columbiaup.bsky.social @academic.oup.com @uchicagopress.bsky.social

The United States is marking the 250th anniversary of its founding. CFR expert James M. Lindsay asked hundreds of historians what they considered to be the 10 best and worst foreign policy decisions in U.S. history. Here is what they said:

Some thoughts on our current wars and the "credibility chasm" created to sustain them.

*Entangled Alliances* spotted hanging out at the Monticello bookstore, just in time for the 4th of July. 📚🇺🇸🎆

Celebrate America's 250th with history books! This weekend only, shop a selection of books for just $17.76 📚⏳ https://uncpress.org/250-2/

A huge thanks to Mathias Häußler for inviting me to participate in the European history research seminar at the University of Regensburg yesterday! Enjoyed presenting my research & the doscussion. Thought I’d post a prettier church than the brutalist campus architecture #skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory

Made by history has a landing page, where you can find so many great pieces: www.inquirer.com/topic/made-b...

This essay covers some of the same (literal) terrain as Jay Sexton's terrific presidential address at #SHAFR2026 foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/23/a...

My book, Expelling the Poor (@academic.oup.com), was cited by SCOTUS in the birthright citizenship case. ls.berkeley.edu/news/supreme...

For the 4th, @foreignpolicy.com has 7 fantastic essays from 7 fantastic historians. Here is US history retold from the perspective of prostitutes and prairie animals, not to mention mafiosos and Missourians. All free to read, complete with sex, crime and bison: foreignpolicy.com/projects/ame...

Thank You SHAFR and Ohio State University And thank you to the organizers, attendees, and fellow speakers. #SHAFR2026 #OSU #LibyanStudents #MuammarGaddafi #history @shafrhistorians.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DaQvePV...

Hey, who is that in the middle on the bottom row? Why, it's me! I am delighted to announce that I will be a @stanfordcisac.bsky.social Fellow next year! I will be one of the India-US Security Studies Fellows. I am excited to meet my cohort and continue my research on Indian foreign policy.

We're delighted that Emilie Connolly's Vested Interests is the winner of @shafrhistorians.bsky.social's Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize! Read a sample of this work, which the committee calls "innovative, exhaustive, and revelatory," here: buff.ly/IBSDFpT

#SHAFR2026 may be coming to an end, but the conversation continues. #StayInformed. Listen to our History Playlist on your commute home. buff.ly/rOj4KkV #ListenUP @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

In honor of the US World Cup team, I chaired my conference panel today with strict time limits: at 12 minutes, each speaker got a yellow card warning, and if they hit 15, they got a red card expulsion.

Thank you @shafrhistorians.bsky.social for three intense, stimulating, and rewarding days in Columbus. This was a great conference! #SHAFR #History #USFR

What a @shafrhistorians.bsky.social conference! Last panels going now and a final reception in an hour or so🗃️

Attn: grad students We’ve heard from Cambridge, Chicago, Cornell, and Notre Dame Press that they would be delighted if you give their books good homes #SHAFR2026

Opening plenary for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social the U.S. in the world at 250: global perspectives introduced by SHAFR President Jay Sexton🗃️ #America250

Happy to see #ChasingBandits out in the wild among impressive company at the @uncpress.bsky.social table at the @shafrhistorians.bsky.social conference being held at Ohio State University. For those at SHAFR, I’ll be talking about the book at 3:35 today.

Greetings from the Annual Meeting of @shafrhistorians.bsky.social at The Ohio State University. Today I was part of a great panel on the US in a world of colonial empires, where I talked about the Samoan Crisis of the 1880 and the role of masculinity in US-German interimperial diplomacy. #SHAFR

Have you entered the raffle?? Drawing is tomorrow afternoon! Thanks to @cornellupress.bsky.social and @uncpress.bsky.social for our prizes!

I still cannot believe I was fortunate to participate in this year's @shafrhistorians.bsky.social summer institute @mershoncenter.bsky.social. Thanks to @cmcknichols.bsky.social, Andrew Preston, OSU history, and Mershon staff for organizing and putting on such an amazing event. #SHAFR2026

Packed house for the plenary!! The United States in the World at 250: Global Perspectives #SHAFR2026

Fill your shelves with award-winning research. On this first day of #SHAFR2026, visit our booth to check out these award-winning books and more, and to take advantage of our conference discount. Not at the meeting? Visit us online. buff.ly/rOj4KkV @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

Congratulations to OSU Prof Joe Parrott! @pennpress.bsky.social @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

At SHAFR? Can’t make it? Check out this new research on US expansionism and the Wars of 1898, from junior historians and doctoral candidates!

In celebration of SHAFR, @cornellupress.bsky.social is having a 40 percent off sale + free shipping on many international history books, including my own. Lots of great options! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/our-shafr-20...

It has been such a great joy to attend the @shafrhistorians.bsky.social summer institute. I have learned a lot from amazing colleagues who have become great friends. Big thanks to @cmcknichols.bsky.social, Andrew Preston, the SHAFR council, and @mershoncenter.bsky.social for making it all possible.

Looking forward to seeing so many more friends, old and new, at the @shafrhistorians.bsky.social annual meeting this weekend!

@shafrhistorians.bsky.social do yourselves favors and speak to these incredible series editors about INTERCONNECTIONS. Leaving it and them behind remains one of the hardest things about leaving UNCP and is one of my proudest legacies to the press and especially the field.