Mark R. Cheathem
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Historian, documentary editor, and writer. Views are my own.
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Joshua R Greenberg
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It is Martin Van Buren's birthday. The Little Magician aka Martin Van Ruin aka Old Kinderhook aka Little Van aka the Red Fox of Kinderhook aka Mistletoe Politician appears on this tow boat company note that also has a lovely whaling vignette. Hudson Tow Boat Co., Hudson Print Works, NY, $2, 18--.🗃️
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On this date in 1782, Martin Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, New York. He would serve as the 8th president of the United States. You can learn more about his life at
vanburenpapers.org
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Jonathan S. Jones
4 days ago
It was a real treat to talk about my new book— Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis—with Miranda Melcher at
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. Thanks for having me on the show! 🗃️https://newbooksnetwork.com/opium-slavery
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Jonathan S. Jones, "Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis" (UNC Press, 2025) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/opium-slavery
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Papers of Martin Van Buren
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Interested in learning how to incorporate Martin Van Buren's documents into your high school classroom? Join us on May 19, 2026, to learn how!
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MAY WORKSHOP: MARTIN VAN BUREN IN THE HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM - Center for Digital Editing
Join us on May 19th from 7:30-9pm Eastern time for a workshop that introduces high school teachers to the Papers of Martin Van Buren. Why should your students learn about Martin Van Buren? What releva...
https://centerfordigitalediting.org/events/may-workshop-martin-van-buren-in-the-high-school-classroom/
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John Garrison Marks
5 days ago
A top notch mail day!!
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Jaya Saxena
5 days ago
You ever think the guy with the Tiny Desk just wants to get back to work?
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Kevin M. Kruse
5 days ago
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct
5 days ago
I named my fists Adam and Smith cause these hands are invisible, baby, you’ll NEVER see them coming.
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Amalia S. Levi
6 days ago
Some great books and articles on archives and libraries that came out in 2025. In no specific order. 🧵
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Kelly Gray
8 days ago
My book is about drug addiction in the U.S. from 1776 to 1914, when it was (generally) legal to sell addictive drugs. Addiction increased rapidly, but people didn't associate drug addiction with crime.
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Judith DeGroat
8 days ago
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Leon Jackson
10 days ago
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
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Kevin M. Levin
13 days ago
Looking for a good book about President James Garfield? The James A. Garfield National Historic Site has you covered. 🗃️#NationalParks
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Michael Hattem
14 days ago
19th century people… Is the a definitive (or preferred) unabridged edition of Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America?”
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The Guardian
14 days ago
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
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Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/22/ai-workers-tell-family-stay-away?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1763826588
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Yvonne Lam
15 days ago
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
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Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
https://www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-complicity-seth-rockman-on-plantations-textiles-and-the-art-of-weaving/
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Anyone know of research on the 50-year commemoration of the U.S. Constitution in 1837? All I have found so far is Milton Klein's 1995 article “Mythologizing the U.S. Constitution.” I am working with a high school teacher who wants to use Van Buren's inaugural address to analyze the commemoration.
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James K. Polk did it better.
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Brooke Newman
15 days ago
“The University of Georgia Press is delighted to welcome a new editorial team to our Race in the Atlantic World series: Ana Lucia Araujo, Toby Green, and Brooke Newman.”
ugapress.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/t...
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The University of Georgia Press Welcomes New Editorial Team to Race in the Atlantic World Series
The University of Georgia Press is delighted to welcome a new editorial team to our Race in the Atlantic World series: Ana Lucia Araujo, Toby Green, and Brooke Newman.
https://ugapress.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/the-university-of-georgia-press-welcomes-new-editorial-team-to-race-in-the-atlantic-world-series/
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Gautham Rao
16 days ago
The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30
uncpress.org/978146969484...
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White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
https://uncpress.org/9781469694849/white-power/
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James M. Bradley
3 months ago
7/ He was a fascinating man who led a fascinating life full of sweep and drama and, of course, many startling turns. I'm calling the book THE GREAT APOSTATE. If all goes as planned, it will be published in the fall of 2027.
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James M. Bradley
3 months ago
6/ He advocated nullification after the 1828 tariff law. He wrote prolifically on trade and tariffs, economic theory, politics, and history. He pushed for a militant South. In many ways he was the intellectual godfather of secession.
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James M. Bradley
3 months ago
5/ In 1820 he joined the faculty at South Carolina College. There he entered the most fateful period of his life. The former abolitionist was now an enslaver himself and unabashed defender of the institution.
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James M. Bradley
3 months ago
4/ Jefferson, who thought he was "the greatest man in America," wanted him president of his new institution, the University of Virginia. Once again the state's religious leaders objected, dooming his dream job
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James M. Bradley
3 months ago
3/ He settled in Pennsylvania and became a land commissioner and judge before his battles with organized religion led to his removal. He then entered academia, teaching chemistry at Dickinson College
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James M. Bradley
3 months ago
2/ who, fearing arrest in UK, fled to the US in 1794. But this bitter critic of John Adams was arrested and tried for sedition here and imprisoned in 1800, making him a martyr and hero to Jeffersonians, including Jefferson himself
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James M. Bradley
3 months ago
1/ an English-born radical, supporter of the French Revolution, and fervent opponent of slavery; a brilliant Oxford-educated polymath ...
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James M. Bradley
3 months ago
I'm thrilled to announce that my next book, a biography of Thomas Cooper (1759-1839), has been accepted by LSU Press as part of its distinguished Southern Biography Series. Cooper was ...
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Monica H Green
18 days ago
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
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Liz Covart
16 days ago
I’m working on a new episode with Jessica Lepler. She wrote a fascinating book called Canal Dreamers. It’s about the quest of early Americans to build a interoceanic canal across present-day Nicaragua. * This is an affiliate link. If you purchase you support local bookstores &
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Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions
The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions
https://bookshop.org/a/113555/9781469690551
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Dr Tim Galsworthy 🗃️
16 days ago
I am absolutely over the moon that my book “The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP” is officially published TODAY! After years of hard work, I am incredibly proud. Thank you to everyone who has made this possible 📚🐘🗃️
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Brenden W. Rensink 📚🏃♂️⛰
17 days ago
I need to build a list of online primary source databases and digitized archival collections for post-1877 Native American History. Please post your favorites in the comments. Or, if you already have a list I can build from, please send me a message! 🗃️
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David Harper
18 days ago
Happy birthday to the GOAT, Calvin & Hobbes! I thought it'd be a good time to reshare this piece I wrote during the first year of SKTCHD all the way back in ye olden days of 2015, that time for the 30th anniversary of Bill Watterson's creations debuting. It's a fun one.
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Emily Conroy-Krutz
18 days ago
Spent part of my morning listening to one of my favorites talk about her writing process. Loved every minute! Listen to
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and then go out and buy Canal Dreamers!
draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
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Episode 75: Jessica Lepler Knows That Criticism Is Praise – Drafting the Past
https://draftingthepast.com/podcast-episodes/episode-75-jessica-lepler-knows-that-criticism-is-praise/
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Gautham Rao
21 days ago
Extraordinarily honored to receive the American Society for Legal History’s Craig Joyce Medal for service to the Society for my work as editor of
@lawandhistrev.bsky.social
. Also this replica premier league trophy with Law and History Review regalia!
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Ben Gross
21 days ago
The 2025 Margaret Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize goest o Alison M. Downham Moore for her book, The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Aging.
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KEW
21 days ago
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers.
www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...
Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
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‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.
Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2025/1113/howard-university-black-press-frederick-douglass
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Pat Sobkowski
21 days ago
For no particular reason, a thread of books on presidential power that I recommend. 🧵📚
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If you're interested in ordering Who Is James K. Polk? or other fine
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books, UPKansas is running a 40% off sale with free shipping over $75.
kansaspress.ku.edu
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Seth Cotlar
24 days ago
IOW, the US government has stopped making cents.
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Papers of Martin Van Buren
24 days ago
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Balcerski presents on partisan history at Cumberland University
History Professor Thomas Balcerski presented a guest lecture on partisan history at a conference hosted by Cumberland University in Lebanon, TN, on Oct 28. Balcerski discussed the "Papers of Martin Va...
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Leon Jackson
24 days ago
I will never not be irritated by academic books that use short form endnotes tied to bibliographies that divide listings into primary, secondary, unpublished, online, government reports, or whatever. I want to read efficiently, not play the world's worst game of scholarly Where's Waldo 🗃️
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will pooley
24 days ago
update: what do we think this (early 17th century) marriage ban reads? best guesses on the names and the text to the right v. welcome!
www.archivesdepartementales76.net/ark:/50278/b...
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Benjamin Park
27 days ago
To celebrate my YouTube channel hitting 10k subs(!), & to corral my various videos, essays, interviews, & etc in one place, I: 1) started a newsletter on Kit that will compile things into a semi-frequent email, and 2) will send a signed copy of AMERICAN ZION to one subscriber in the 1st week.
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History Has Never Been More Relevant
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
28 days ago
Anyway, AI doesn’t have any value for me in anything I do. I understand this says something about *what* I do. But also? It’s only practically existed for maybe 18 months. I loved and worked almost 45 years without it so yeah, I’m cool.
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Austin Kocher, PhD
29 days ago
If you haven't seen this incredible historical data project yet, make it a priority! Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement.
mappingdeportations.com
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Mapping Deportations – U.S. Immigration Control since 1790
Mapping deportations invites you to see the history of U.S. immigration enforcement not as a series of disconnected events, but as a pattern. For more than two centuries, U.S. immigration enforcement…
https://mappingdeportations.com
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Kevin M. Levin
29 days ago
Congratulations to historian Doug Egerton on winning this year's John Andrew Book Prize, which is awarded annually by the Union Club of Boston. I am looking forward to interviewing him tonight during the awards dinner. 🗃️
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Journal of Southern History
30 days ago
Congratulations to Edda L. Fields-Black, winner of the Tom Watson Brown Book Award for COMBEE.
#2025SHA
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TheSouthernSHA
30 days ago
#2025SHA
Awards presentation is beginning now!
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