Historian here, calling all friends, followers, and UConn alum. If you are in Philly this weekend, join me on this historic 250th tour. Registration closes on May 14th, if you can't get in DM me! www.events.foundation.uconn.edu/website/94934/

Historian here so #OAH26 is a wrap! Wonderful to hear brilliant scholars and hang out with great friends. Our panel was packed and the highlight for me was receiving the Presidents Book prize from @shgape.bsky.social for #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

Maybe a good time to mention that one of our amazing @uconnhistory.bsky.social graduate students @graceeasterly.bsky.social is currently writing a field defining dissertation on the centrality of freedom of the seas to US foreign policy, commercial, and strategic thinking in the 20th century.

Happy to see my @shearites.bsky.social Presidential Address "The First American Republic: An Alternative Genealogy" (expanded version) out in print in the Journal of the Early Republic Spring issue. Get your copies folks! muse.jhu.edu/issue/56474?...

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

FYI for anyone in NYC!

Attention, Michigan area followers! Check out our own Manisha Sinha this afternoon:

Historian here join us today for this documentary featuring the research of my colleague @uconnhistory.bsky.social Nina Dayton who unearthed the later life of Phillis Wheatley and John Peters. www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-events/search-phillis-wheatley-peters-short-historical-documentary

Our own @lincolnhirn.bsky.social will be speaking tomorrow evening at the @stowecenter.org in Hartford! Details below: stowecenter.org/event/stowe-...

At a Feb. 26 Common Hour talk, historian @profmsinha.bsky.social will discuss the ideas about American progress explored in her latest book, “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920.” Read our Q&A with the author: pulse.ly/uajbxmcluh

Historian here join us today for this free zoom webinar open to all: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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!

Also a @uconnhistory.bsky.social graduate

Hey Jorrell Melendez Badillo one of our star graduates from @uconnhistory.bsky.social doing us proud!

Happy Black History month! To commemorate I am doing talks at a private New England prep school today and at an independent black book store in Alabama next week. It's like the old abolitionist alliance that gave us emancipation and the Reconstruction Constitution. May we revive that again!

A new year, but the same concerns for democracy dating back to the Civil War (and before). To better understand the connections and to take lessons for today, I spoke with an expert on Reconstruction: @profmsinha.bsky.social . We covered a lot so I broke it up into two episodes. Here’s part 1.

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

Our own Manisha Sinha recently featured in The NY Times! Check it out here:

Folks if you want to take a break from the end of semester and holiday preparations, come join me for this free virtual program at 7 pm EST part of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History's online programs via zoom. gilderlehrman.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/dec250-rise-...

So this is what I did over the weekend, an interview on the Trump regime’s idiotic plan to make the national parks free on his birthday but cancel it for MLK Day with ABC News. The Pastor was far more eloquent than me but I could not help myself with the Nobel dig. abcnews.go.com/US/video/jun...

Tonight at 7, featuring @profmsinha.bsky.social !

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.

Check out @profmsinha.bsky.social on Dec. 2 if you’re around Cambridge!

Reminder that our next Wednesday Workshop will be TOMORROW (11/19) at 12:15. Info below: history.uconn.edu/news/wednesd...

For any of our London followers!

Today's read: former UCHI fellow Fiona Vernal and UCHI graduate assistant Timothy Brown (@uconnhistory.bsky.social) premiered an exhibit titled: “Bloomfield Mosaic: Stories from our Jewish, African American, and West Indian Communities.” This exhibit features over 40 oral histories.

Huge shout out to our own Timothy Brown! Check it out:

For any of our followers at the SHA conference today!

This historian flew around the world for the Chinese book launch of #theslavescause and is happy to be back home!

Historian in China here, some photographs from my talk at Peking University, a beautiful campus.

Very much enjoyed doing these lectures at Shanghai Normal and East China Normal University today!

Pics from the second lecture at Wuhan University and we are now in the amazing city of Shanghai, which seems like the center of capitalism in the world.

First leg of the China lecture trip is over. The Americanists from all over the country who came for my talks were impressive. Many had spent time in the U.S. and were taken by American higher education now under severe attack.

Read the first chapter of The First Right: Self-determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000 here: www.google.com/.../The_Firs.... On Kindle here read.amazon.com/sample/B0FR5... ! Order from OUP: global.oup.com/.../the-firs.... and use promotion code AUFLY30 to save 30%

Our own @profmsinha.bsky.social is heading to China for a series of lectures! Info below: history.uconn.edu/2025/10/20/m...

Happening TOMORROW with @profmsinha.bsky.social history.uconn.edu/2025/10/14/m...

Check out this wonderful article from The Daily Campus about last week’s Wednesday Workshop with Jan Stievermann! dailycampus.com/2025/10/09/t...

Enjoyed this episode and I second @jamellebouie.net's recommendation at the end of Andy Horowitz's Katrina: A History, 1915-2015

The history of abolition is so important in these dark days of the republic. They succeeded when enslavers controlled the entire federal government, the Supreme Court, the Electoral College and Congress through the three fifths clause. Join me tonight! www.gilderlehrman.org/itv-registra...

@profmsinha.bsky.social will deliver the 2025 Richard T. Greener Lecture, “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic.” Wednesday, October 15, 5:00 p.m. in the South Caroliniana Library at the @sc.edu Sponsored by the Museum of Education and the History Center

Our second Wednesday Workshop of the semester, "Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist" with Jan Stievermann, is this Wednesday!

Check out @profmsinha.bsky.social ‬⁩ on the CBC this week! Link here: history.uconn.edu/2025/10/06/p...

Hey undergrads! Experience China in the summer with a program which will immerse you in the history, arts, culture, and social life of China. You will visit world famous heritage sites such as The Great Wall of China, Terracotta warriors, and Forbidden City. Info session Oct 28th!