At the airport and #2025SHA bound

My Office is ready for Halloween.

#NavigatingthePast Day 2 begins now aboard the USS New Jersey!

#NavigatingThePast Day 1 is wrapping up. Honored to have been part of such an innovative and inspiring conference in honor of #Homecoming250, #USMC250, and #USNavy250 .

Kicking off right now: #NavigatingThePast Conference

#NavigatingThePast kicked off tonight with an opening reception at the Libray Company of Philadelphia and a call for academics to be "ambassadors of historical context." Tomorrow begins 2 days of Navy/USMC history in honor of #Homecoming250 and the 2 branches 250th birthdays.

Traveling to a NPS site this summer? Help #SaveOurSigns . www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...

Congrats to the newly commissioned 2nd Lts of the Columbus State University Army ROTC Cougar Battalion! It was an honor and a privilege to be your history professor last fall.

History friends: if you know of any recently graduated PhDs or soon to be graduating PhDs looking for a job, we need a US historian for next year! www.higheredjobs.com/search/detai...

"In front of descendants of Sand Creek Massacre survivors, Colorado lawmakers unanimously greenlighted a memorial sculpture Monday to commemorate the 1864 atrocity at the State Capitol." 🗃️ www.cpr.org/2025/04/15/s...

I just registered for the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH) Triennial Conference at Bethune-Cookman University this June! Are you going?

Inspired by Revolutionary Songs & Michelle Orihel's piece on Toasting, I had students write toasts or song lyrics based on Patriots' or Loyalists' perspectives. They worked in groups & had 15 minutes but they were creative, referenced specific historical themes or events & had fun. #teachingwin

My favorite way to start a trip. :) Excited to see my fellow blue jacket historians in Annapolis soon.

www.science.org/content/arti... And once you do have children, it doesn't get any easier... #Acamama

Starting a new project: “A sailor wife sat out on the shore, & dreamed of a ship on the deep, But her sailorman she saw no more, For he slept in a sound, sound sleep... The winds were sad & the waves were mild, & the sea sang a story of life, A lullaby 2 the sailor-child, A wail 2 the sailor wife”

Celebrating a productive and successful SMH Conference Program Committee Meeting in NOLA with some beignet bites. We had a great group and the experience ended up being a lot of fun. Looking forward to Mobile in March!

Starting my whirlwind 36 hour trip to NOLA off right. There's nothing like conference planning and service work right in the middle of finals.

Today, I talked with the Columbus Scholars (a mentor program for mostly high school students from impoveroshed single parent households) about pirates, history, and tips for how to succeed in college. They were an impressive group!

It's the 160th anniversary of the start of Sherman's March to the Sea. So that makes it the 10th anniversary of my book Through the Heart of Dixie! (@uncpress.bsky.social) uncpress.org/book/9781469... Also if you want to retrace the March, check out shermansmarch.org 🔥🗃️

Welcome @sawh1970.bsky.social to Bluesky and the growing world of #skystorians !

2 years ago, my book ESCAPE TO THE CITY saw the light of the world. If you can, buy it anywhere except through extremely big & disproportionally powerful e-commerce companies. @uncpress.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Happy 249th Birthday #USMC

Good day at sea in the Civil War, November 9, 1863. Writing this gave me some hope. Check it out, support if you can. 🗃️ #MilitaryHistory #NavalHistory ko-fi.com/post/Just-An...

Woke up, hugged my boys, and burst into tears.

#HurricaneHelene shifted enough to the East that we fared better than anticipated. We got some rain and 1 tiny tree knocked over but overall, we are in good shape. No School today for anyone so I'm just chilling with my boys. Hoping that everyone in the path stays safe and dry!

Hunkering down 4 Helene. Lots of snacks and drinks for the kiddos✅ Lots of water ️✅️ Extra ice ✅️ All devices charging ✅️ Full tank of gas ✅️ Bathtub full of water ✅️ Lots of flashlights and candles ✅ Emergency chocolate for me ️✅️ The next 18 hours will be telling. Send positive vibes & prayers our way

Today, the AHA published a major report with findings from the most comprehensive study of secondary US history education undertaken in the 21st century. The AHA did not find indoctrination, politicization, or classroom malpractice. (1/10) www.historians.org/teaching-lea... 🗃️

"Historical thinking requires historical knowledge." "[I]f the “big story” is left out or left blurry in classrooms... students’ appetite for narrative might plausibly be filled later in life by well-produced stories whose accountability to historical evidence is less scrupulous." 👆👆👆 👇👇👇

Im reading students' Reflections on Quasi War, Barbary Wars, & War of 1812. Collectively, they <3ed learning abt John Paul Jones, noted that adding a naval perspective complicates our understanding of mil hist & foreign relations (n a good way), & learned about new wars #NavalHistoryMatters

Me: Reading an article about excavations and new DNA evidence of unknown graves at Jamestown that reveal a family scandal for one of the first governors and immediately updating today's lecture so I can share with my students. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/08/... #SpillTheTea

Current mood

"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. " - Abigail Adam's, 1776

Happening Right Now: #SCWH24 Panel #29: New Ways engaging with #CivilWar History with @davidsilkenat (Chair), Trae Welborn, Jeremy Nelson (giving his 1st conference paper), and Dani Wilcut

Happening Right now: #SCWH24 Session 26: Roundtable about Getting the Little Wars into the Books inspired by Daniel Sutherland's work, featuring Matt Stith, David Schieffler, Madeleine Forrest Ramsey, Barton My34s, and and Christopher Phillips

Happening Right Now: #SCWH24 Session #14: Race & Freedom in Wartime Bradley White does a great job on his very 1st conference paper, recounting the Haitian colonization scheme during the #CivilWar, highlighting questions of race, Citizenship, and abolition

Right Now: #SCWH24 Session #12: Looking at the 1868 touchstones of gun laws and ownership that inform present-day gun laws, especially post Bruen decision #HistoryMatters #ReconstructionHistory

Cheers to the start of the start of SCWH

Revisiting David Blight's essay as I do Every Memorial Day www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/o...

Check our new SHA writing group program! The program connects members at all stages of their writing projects connect with other writers in virtual writing groups. Our first deadline is June 1.  For more information: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thanks to everyone who tuned in for my chat about "NEW BIRTH OF THIS STRUGGLE: DOUGLAS FRENCH FORREST, REBEL DEFEAT & THE CONFEDERATE COLONY OF NEW VIRGINIA" tonight with the CWRT Congress 's Civil War Friday lecture series. Y'all were a great group to kick off Memorial Day weekend with!

I always find it a little weird/uncomfortable when my employer asks me to donate to their Annual Fundraising Campaign.

Hey friends: CSU is looking for 1-year visiting lecturer in history. Specialty is open, but needs to be able to teach World History. I am happy to answer questions about the department! tinyurl.com/ym97asnv

My students had a writing day 2day. They started by setting goals. At the end of class, they answered the following ?s: - describe how the writing process went? what did they accomplish? - what r their goals for next time? - what struggles r they facing? - what questions do they have 4 me?

Last night, award winning historian @mkn.bsky.social discussed The Three Cornered War, the Civil War in the West, the Indian Wars and how the Civil War was a continental conflict. Thanks for coming to Columbus State University and giving a great talk!

In 1807, the ship Anne Marie was captured by the British Navy while sailing from the Faroe Islands to Denmark. Five packages and two hundred letters were confiscated from the ship and survived, still sealed, in the Prize Papers. What’s inside? Read below to find out. /1 #earlymodern #history 🗃️

I survived middle school today...or, at least 2 periods of it for a #Blackhistorymonth2024 presentation.

I love this. Things are not fine and we know bc Elmo asked.

In debating whether or not the United States was still a "City on a Hill," my students overwhelming said No. But one did say I made America better. :) #teachingwin #historymatters