Brooklyn in July 🌆

As an American history professor, I regularly read new books, articles, and dissertations, and also evaluate unpublished manuscripts for journals and book publishers. I would not categorize the recent and emerging historiography in the binary way that Ezra Klein does.

My book — “TROOP MOVEMENTS” — is due out in September. You can see the description & blurbs — on Bookshop, Am*zon, etc-etc. You can *PRE-ORDER* the book. If anyone may want to assign & teach it — or do a review, or an interview, or an event — please do be in touch! www.amazon.com/Troop-Moveme...

Every year around Pride, people mark 1960s events — which unleashed a new era of gender and sexual politics. In my book TROOP MOVEMENTS — I highlight 1940s origins of 1960s cross-issue movements. WW2 war-work encounters, and anti-fascist visions, set the stage… www.pennpress.org/978151282990...

Who will be at SHAFR this week? On Saturday — we'll be talking about WW2 — and, about movements. Use discount code SHAFR26 to get 40% off on Penn Press books — by Nagaraja & Levy & Parrott and more!: www.pennpress.org/conferences/...

🎧 — Just listened to a sharp interview about the rise of the U.S. right-wing. Author @ajbauer.bsky.social on the great Against The Grain radio/podcast — 📻

En route to the SHAFR American Foreign Relations conference…

En route to the SHAFR American Foreign Relations conference…

🎧 — Just listened to a sharp interview about the rise of the U.S. right-wing. Author @ajbauer.bsky.social on the great Against The Grain radio/podcast — 📻

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How did conservatives come to dominate so much of the media in the U.S.? A.J. Bauer discusses how the right borrowed from the left to sharpen its criticism of the media — ultimately giving rise to a rightwing media ecosystem. kpfa.org/episode/agai...

You can save $7 on the book by using the discount code CUP20 here: cup.columbia.edu/book/making-...

I talked about my new book MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA with the wonderful Sasha Lilley of Against the Grain. Check it out!

Now up on First View! "'We All Won That Fight': U.S. Empire and Military Labor in the Battle of Guadalcanal" by Holger Droessler, which looks at how Solomon Islanders assisted Allied soldiers during WWII as construction workers, local scouts, & messengers. Read: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's my pleasure to work with Center for Political Education — on workshops for labor-union members & organizers. As I write about the political & intellectual history of labor and working-class movements — it's cool to bridge that, across past & present. And to connect with friends, old and new.

Who will be at SHAFR this week? On Saturday — we'll be talking about WW2 — and, about movements. Use discount code SHAFR26 to get 40% off on Penn Press books — by Nagaraja & Levy & Parrott and more!: www.pennpress.org/conferences/...

Every year around Pride, people mark 1960s events — which unleashed a new era of gender and sexual politics. In my book TROOP MOVEMENTS — I highlight 1940s origins of 1960s cross-issue movements. WW2 war-work encounters, and anti-fascist visions, set the stage… www.pennpress.org/978151282990...

{ June 1943 — Chicago Defender — Charley Cherokee's "Grapevine" column } 'Juneteenth celebrations are bigger than ever... Doxey Wilkerson is leaving OPA and Howard, to do surveys for the Communists... Boys overseas will take Freddi Washington or Lena Horne, over visiting bishops...'

{ June 1943 — Chicago Defender — Charley Cherokee's "Grapevine" column } 'Juneteenth celebrations are bigger than ever... Doxey Wilkerson is leaving OPA and Howard, to do surveys for the Communists... Boys overseas will take Freddi Washington or Lena Horne, over visiting bishops...'

i’m reading the new @quinnslobodian.com on Musk and the book makes a very persuasive case that Musk’s upbringing in apartheid south africa are at the core of his ideology

150 students died in the strike on the girls’ school in southern Iran.

My colleague @azohra.bsky.social w great work breaking down all that’s super bad about Feds increasing use of terrorism / conspiracy charges to target political opponents. Here’s a nice one from @lpeblog.bsky.social. lpeproject.org/blog/guilty-...

going to channel @nikobowie.bsky.social and Daphna Renan here and note that this piece conflates the court's horizontal review of congressional statutes (highly controversial and politically contested throughout American history) with vertical review of state law and enforcement of federal law.

This from @jamellebouie.net is so good: “We need not wait for politicians and judges to build a new constitutional world. We can articulate our vision of the political community and work to make it a reality using whatever means are at our disposal.”

#1u —

📣 The Penn Press discount runs through this weekend, until Monday… 📕

So Gen. Doug MacArthur's dad helped cover-up the biggest atrocity of the Phil-Am War...even though it was legal, under international law at the time? See the JAH's latest issue! @oah.org @smh-historians.bsky.social @asilorg.bsky.social @aslegalhist.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jah/article-...

Thanks to Jack Werner for this fun interview on the New Books Network podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/the-work-of-... And if you enjoy listening, remember: The Work of Empire is available as an audio book!

And here it is, my belabored retrospective on Gordon Wood. Of course they changed the title, as magazines do. I preferred "How Gordon S. Wood Became the Rhetoric and Reality of the American Revolution" but knew it probably wouldn't fly. newrepublic.com/article/2115...

📣 The Penn Press discount runs through this weekend, until Monday… 📕

My new book is out by September. Robin DG Kelley says — "TROOP MOVEMENTS will profoundly change how we think about the 1940s." This week — PennPress has a 40%-off sale! [ Use code PENN-SUMMER26 ] If you may want to do an event, or a book review — do be in touch! www.pennpress.org/978151282990...

Check out the latest episode of The Caste Pod on the diaspric Hindu Right with members of Savera! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Some essential reading — a few notable books… 📕📙📗

Some essential reading for 2026 — a few notable books… 📕 📖 📕 📖

I feel like New York is experiencing how “knicks in four” is the “go birds” of their people, a shorthand greeting and the glue that binds people across every background to each other in moments like this, I am happy for you

In my new 2026 book — I write on the high rate of US Army death-penalty cases in 1940s. This was under Articles of War & Jim Crow. With UCMJ reform & desegregation — there were fewer Army executions in 1950s — and zero (0) during 1962-2025. Under Trump/Vance — the Army may resume its executions…

📣🎧 — Checkout the latest episode of the Caste Pod! Prachi and Ram talk about casteism and Hindutva in the US diaspora — and alternately, the pro-solidarity coalitions they are helping to build…

For a decade — much major media have misrepresented Trump’s militarism, in discursive rhetoric AND policy reality. We can already see media taking Vance’s bait (leaks & ‘vibes’) — as he manipulates his own foreign-policy posture. War+peace are important! Readers & voters deserve a clearer account.

Rory Fanning — on Memorial Day

Ross Caputi — on Memorial Day

📣🎧 — Checkout the latest episode of the Caste Pod! Prachi and Ram talk about casteism and Hindutva in the US diaspora — and alternately, the pro-solidarity coalitions they are helping to build…

In my new 2026 book — I write on the high rate of US Army death-penalty cases in 1940s. This was under Articles of War & Jim Crow. With UCMJ reform & desegregation — there were fewer Army executions in 1950s — and zero (0) during 1962-2025. Under Trump/Vance — the Army may resume its executions…

We couldn’t be in the legendary Prince’s hometown for the #AFLCIO26 Constitutional Convention and NOT celebrate or honor him. America’s unions wish Minneapolis legend and our @afm-union.bsky.social and @sagaftra.org#AFLCIO26union brother Prince a happy birthday ✊

My article on hukou reforms republished in Jacobin

American past — manufacturing future 🤔

This week is the American Political History Conference (APHC) — in Washington D.C. This Friday, June 5 at 10:45am — checkout our dynamic session on "The Political Legacies of the 1940s".

The American Political History Conference (APHC) begins tomorrow in DC. On Friday morning, I will be on a roundtable to discuss Archie Bunker for President with @oscarwinberg.bsky.social , @kevinmkruse.bsky.social, Sage Goodwin, and Kathryn McGarr.

My new book is out by September. Robin DG Kelley says — "TROOP MOVEMENTS will profoundly change how we think about the 1940s." This week — PennPress has a 40%-off sale! [ Use code PENN-SUMMER26 ] If you may want to do an event, or a book review — do be in touch! www.pennpress.org/978151282990...

Post a poster you used to have hanging on your wall.

Flyers for the Movies that Matter program that showed films for @uaw.org staff at their headquarters, Solidarity House. 1960s. Flicks included all timers like High Noon, the Peter Sellers satire The Mouse that Roared, and more. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.