Blueskis, studies have shown that when folks see or hear about a book more than five times, they are likely to check it out, and buy it. So in the spirit of creating buzz, here is the gorgeous cover of THE WESTERNERS, which will be published on March 31!

I am so humbled and thrilled to say that my first book, Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis, is a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social www.gilderlehrman.org/book-prizes/...

RIP Dan Howe, a great historian of the antebellum United States 🗃️

The life and legacy of historian and author Dr. John Hope Franklin www.kut.org/life-arts/20...

Currently reading MOVING TOWARD FREEDOM by Susan Eva O'Donovan, a fascinating NF read about the many ways in which some enslaved people were mobile--whether working as teamsters, on steamboats, or traveling with their enslavers--and how that may have helped them acquire crucial knowledge. #ewgc 📚 💙

Today is the full reveal of the Wingspan Americas Expansion! The description, component list, and rulebooks are now on our website, and I'll be on YouTube at 10:00 am CST today with special guest @elizhargrave.bsky.social to share the details and answer questions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSyn...

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

If legitimacy or facts mattered anymore, FIFA would be asking for that peace prize back.

Wow! Looks like some folks got Scars on the Land for Christmas.

#OnThisDay in 1875, state senator Charles Caldwell was assassinated by a mob of white men in Clinton, Mississippi. He participated in writing the 1868 Constitutional Convention, which gave the vote, integrated public schools & legalized interracial marriages. mississippitoday.org/2024/12/30/o...

Very frustrated when delivery companies give you a huge window for deliveries, fail to deliever during that window, and then say that they tried to deliver it when they clearly didn't.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

The Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law. It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says.

Really want to see the plaques for James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and both Harrisons.

In Boston, we like our protests with a whole lot of history. #teaparty #dumpICE #Dec16

If you are buying books this Holiday Season, make sure to support university presses. Lots of great deals. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

The South: where mac & cheese is a vegetable

New editorial era for Journal of Southern History | Rice News | News and Media Relations | Rice University news.rice.edu/news/2025/ne...

I wrote something about my friend, DG Martin.

David Grier “D.G.” Martin, Jr. – a lawyer, UNC System administrator and veteran turned longtime author, book reviewer and show host with both UNC-TV and WCHL – died on Tuesday, Dec. 9 at his home in Chapel Hill. He was 85 years old.

Maine rock stars stick together

Ben Sasse joins the American Enterprise Institute Here is the press release: Washington, DC (December 5, 2025)—American Enterprise Institute (AEI) President Robert Doar and Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies Yuval Levin announced today that Ben Sasse has joined AEI as a…

BIG NEWS, FRIENDS! It is a quirk of the writing life that while you are finishing the current book, you are pitching the next one. I am delighted that I will be working once again with Kathy Belden at Scribner, and returning to Civil War studies (and Texas!) for this exciting new project.

Overjoyed to note the publication of Lauren Duval's much anticipated, The Home Front Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence (@uncpress.bsky.social @oieahc.bsky.social 2025)! And just in time for spring syllabuses! uncpress.org/978146969005...

Whichard was the only man in North Carolina’s history to serve in the state House, Senate, Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court.

Cyber Monday got you hunting for deals? Don’t forget to snag some books for 30% off + free shipping on eligible orders during our Holiday Sale 📚🙌 uncpress.org/holiday-sale/

"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable Asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong." ~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788. Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.

Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”

What a life & legacy. “Former North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Willis P. Whichard — the only man in North Carolina’s history to serve in the state House of Representatives, state Senate, Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court — died Tuesday in Chapel Hill.” www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...

📣 Our new @uncpress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalog is HERE ✨ This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Whichard was the only man in North Carolina’s history to serve in the state House, Senate, Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court.

Whichard was the only man in North Carolina’s history to serve in the state House, Senate, Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court.

For those of you looking to follow up Ken Burn's documentary about the American Revolution with a good read, check out Richard Bell's new book. It's fantastic. 🗃️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752265...

Want to learn more about Scots in the British Army in North America? #HATM Matthew P. Dziennik Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America Nicola Martin, The British Army in Scotland and North America 1745-1775: militarisation on the fringes of the empire,

Our annual conference is on March 7, 2026 in Inverness at the University of the Highlands and Islands! Click the link below for details on our CFP (due December 5, 2025) and this year's essay prize (due December 5, 2025)! Hope to see you there! www.scotamstudies.org/sasa-2023-re...

Anna and I send our condolences to the family of former NC Supreme Court Justice Willis Whichard. Willis served our state effectively and with humility in so many ways — the State Senate, the Court of Appeals, and the NC Supreme Court. He will be missed. May his memory be a blessing.

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors transgender lives cut short. For more on trans history, read Abram J. Lewis’s piece “’Free Our Siblings, Free Ourselves:’ Historicizing Trans Activism in the U.S., 1952–1992.” https://www.oah.org/process/historicizing-trans-activism/

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

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 📚🐘🗃️ @uscpress.bsky.social

Wasn’t too impressed by the first episode of Ken Burns, but episodes 2 and especially 3 are much better.

Writing a book review always ends up being more work than I anticipated.

Barnes & Noble has managed to put together a list of 23 "best" history books of 2025, 4.5 of which are authored by women. www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/the-bes... #womenalsoknowhistory <-- sometimes I think we don't need this hashtag anymore, and then I realize I'm very wrong.