Delighted to see Canal Dreamers featured on UNH Today, um, today. @uncpress.bsky.social 🗃️ www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...

We've got a cover and a publication date (April 3, 2026).

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)? Hoover FDR Truman Eisenhower JFK LBJ Ford Carter And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

Today I am sending the final draft of *A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw to @uncpress.bsky.social. It's been an incredibly difficult year on a number of fronts, but today is certainly a day to celebrate and thank everyone who helped me to reach it. 🗃️

Coming April 15, 2026! The nation’s founding document at the moment of its creation in 1776, before anyone knew what the legacy of the Declaration would be or if the United States would win the war against Great Britain. Pre-order information (and discount code!) will be available in the new year.

Delighted to say that The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States has won the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for the best manuscript in eighteenth-century studies submitted to @uvapress.bsky.social www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/

We are happy to announce the three finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024! The winner will be announced at the end of September. To know more about the three finalists, visit our website www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...

Dr. Quintard Taylor, historian and founder of BlackPast.org, has died at 77. From "The Forging of a Black Community" to building a global archive, he made Black history accessible to all. Read Lola E. Peters' reflection here: soseaem.org/4mEIrTv #Seattle

Microsoft Word has been acting up a lot for me recently, so I need a new place to write my dissertation. Has anyone used Scrivener? What are your thoughts? What writing software would you recommend? #skyhistorians #writingcommunity

With a lot of gratitude to NHC for the safe space to incubate this lecture, CITAP for supporting my Fellowship application, and the Thomas Wolfe Prize committee and UNC English & Creative Writing Department for the honor.

My book exploring how generations of Americans have fought over how to understand George Washington and slavery officially has a pre-order page up! a.co/d/j5sBjLH

#palaeography #skystorians can you help with this c18th Scottish headscratcher that's got me stumped? "…to come of ? ? that…" Eany = any? Needless to say, the meaning of the whole folio which is almost all bureaucratic boilerplate turns on these, the only two indecipherable words! 🗃️

Going to post this because…I’m proud. Now—coffee. news.yale.edu/2025/09/17/f...

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

Teaching request: I'm having students listen to and annotate oral histories from the Vietnam War. I need some kind of form that they can complete as part of their active listening and that can let them document their key takeaways. Does anyone have a form you'd be willing to share? 🗃️

Is there a piece of writing on college's "hidden curriculum" (all the unspoken rules of college) that your students have appreciated? Can be short, long, whatever.

I am looking to find out the names of the women in this 1980 photo with Jimmy Carter. They helped contribute to the creation of women's history week. Can anyone help me identify these women? 🗃️

A good overview of a significant documentary edition: The Joseph Smith Papers Project. youtu.be/RVeAp7zUU5s?...

Does anyone know of a good recent article about digital history (ideally with some consideration of AI) focused on the ‘doing’ of it which I could set alongside of a (still excellent but obviously now a bit dated) piece from 2008 for MA students? (‘The Promise of Digital History’, FYI.) 🗃️ Thanks!

Some thoughts about the loss of my cousin and the broader question of 9-11 memory. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

A quarter century ago, I had an amazing year as a visiting student at Mansfield College of Oxford University. I am so honored that Canal Dreamers is featured on the alumni book review page of @ox.ac.uk. @uncpress.bsky.social 🗃️ www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/article/off-...

Thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social for sending along a copy of Anne Marshall's new biography of Cassius Clay. Really looking forward to reading this one. 🗃️ uncpress.org/978146969099...

Huh, what? Iran-Contra figures Oliver North and Fawn Hall secretly marry 40 years after scandal: report. nypost.com/2025/09/09/u...

Thanks to @harvardpress.bsky.social for sending along an advance copy of their new annotated edition of The Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman. It's still a classic and a must read for any serious student of the Civil War era. 🗃️ www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

I am honoured to share this news!

Anyone talk about how MTV was a generational miscalculation? They stopped airing videos to dedicate themselves to making stars out of Snookie and Johnny Bananas, but people didn’t stop wanting videos. the thirst for videos is so insatiable YouTube music videos get billions of views

I’m teaching modern US history survey in-person in the spring for the first time in six years. What are the new cool supplemental books to assign students? 🗃️

🗃️ Let's say I have the name of a Union soldier who writes funny letters to friends in January of 1862. Historians - is there a place to go to see if he was a casualty of the Civil War? A depository of service records? This soldier served in the 11th Ohio.

Why are we drinking bourbon? Well, I just submitted my book manuscript to my editor at Rutgers. Cheers, friends!

RIP to a great historian. I regularly recommend Horsman’s Race and Manifest Destiny to students and Expansion and American Indian Policy was one of the few books I brought with me when I left town for an extended period this past year 🗃️

Let us be clear: we will not be bullied by log cabin and hard cider humbuggery. Not now. Not ever. To our loyal users: With your faith in us and with your steadfast support, we will be OK.

2. Some critics (many of them funded by Whig PACs, to be clear) have demanded that our project be renamed the Papers of Martin Van Ruin and that our logo incorporate a gold spoon. We categorically reject that demand.

1. Despite public outcry, we are going to continue to transcribe Van Buren's handwriting into text that can be easily read. Some members of the public have called for us to only publish documents in his original cursive, but we are standing firm on our commitment to accessibility. vanburenpapers.org

For that reason, we have made two decisions that reaffirm our commitment to our core principles:

There's been a lot of talk of rebranding, logo changes, etc., to make sure companies are aligned with the needs of 21st-c. consumers. We understand that perspective here at the Papers of Martin Van Buren, and we always want to be responsive to the needs of our users.

Watch this space for a new project announcement soon! (Hint: The Papers of Martin Van Buren are located in Lebanon, TN, home of the original Cracker Barrel and Cracker Barrel corporate headquarters.)

As some of us at the project celebrate the engagement of Taylor and Travis, it's worth remembering that Martin Van Buren also married the love of his life, Hannah Hoes.

I am thrilled to share that the Board of Governors @uncpress.bsky.social granted its unanimous approval for the publication of my biography of Robert Gould Shaw: "A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw." l couldn't be more pleased. Shaw appears pleased as well.

Jonathan Myrick Daniels was murdered in 1965 in Alabama after shielding Ruby Sales from a deputy sheriff’s gun. He came to fight for voting rights. His courage still inspires us today. #TheMarchContinues

As of today it's a Real Object.

Our thanks to Rebecca Shulman and the Center for Digital Editing for leading this initiative to assist high school teachers and their students! www.cumberland.edu/van-buren-pa...

Book submitted! Look for _Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence_ out from Norton next June!

The advance copies of _Gilded Age Entrepreneur_ have reached me! The book looks fantastic, thanks to @cornellupress.bsky.social Official release date is September 15; order your copy today: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

DESTINATION CASABLANCA came out almost eight years ago and I still get emails from readers. Write the author of a book you loved and make their day!

The USPS "turns 250 on July 26, 2025 📫🎂. Since its founding, architecture, transportation, and technology have been integral to how the USPS operates. Trace the history of the post office’s built forms, and a narrative of an evolving nation unfolds with it."

You can read more about Van Buren's purported last words here: vanburenpapers.org/content/mvb-... Image credit: harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...

At his funeral, Rev. Benjamin R. Berry reported that one of MVB’s last statements was, “There is but one reliance.” Later accounts gave Van Buren's last words as “The atonement of Jesus Christ is the only remedy and rest for my soul,” but there is no extant evidence for this supposed "confession."