To celebrate next year’s publication of NIGHT HAWK, I have launched a new Substack in which I will share readings and transcriptions of his adventures, which were published in an obscure Philadelphia newspaper some 200 years ago. open.substack.com/pub/mattheww...

Planning to attend #AHA26 in Chicago in January? Applications are due November 15 for grants to support your travel as well as childcare costs. Check out the full list of available grants at the link. 🗃️

I was thrilled to learn today that @uchicagopress.bsky.social is planning a new paperback edition of my first book, Rum Maniacs, to be published in the fall of 2026. So, I have two paperbacks coming out next fall!

Ok, book won’t be out until next fall, so plenty of time to design merch! Prototype Night Hawk coffee cup.

I was going to add Le Guin b/c "The way one does research into nonexistent history is to tell the story and find out what happened. I believe this isn't very different from what historians of the so-called real world do. You look at what happens and try to see why it happens... 1/2

I am thrilled to announce that my book Night Hawk: A Nineteenth-Century Superhero and the Dawn of American Mass Culture is officially in production and scheduled for publication in September 2026 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Puff, Puff? Pass!: The Anti-Tobacco Writings of Margaret Woods Lawrence commonplace.online/article/puff...

Today is PUBLICATION DAY for Canal Dreamers! A dream come true! 🥳📘📖🗃️ Seacoast folks, I will be talking at Exeter’s Water Street Bookstore on October 9 at 7 PM. Please come! If you can't come, @uncpress.bsky.social has a sale (01NEWSITE50) or try 01SOCIAL30 uncpress.org/978146969055...

www.nytimes.com/athletic/643... FIFA has taken us for fools over its promise to fight racism

Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker theonion.com/revised...

www.oah.org/2025/03/12/r.... The OAH is collecting info about deleted or recently restricted historical sources-- please share

Congratulations to Edda Fields-Black on winning this year's Gilder-Lehrman Prize for her fantastic book, Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War. 🗃️ www.einnews.com/pr_news/7910...

I’m thrilled to share that Native Nations has won the Bancroft Prize www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/a...

The History Department mourns the passing of our friend and colleague Professor Katie Harris. She will be deeply missed by her colleagues and students. #skystorians history.ucdavis.edu/katie-harris

Join Profs. Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor & Lisa Materson as they discuss their recent books with Prof. Corrie Decker of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Department @ucdavis.bsky.social Fri Feb 28, 6-7 PM at the Avid Reader, 617 2nd St. Davis. #skystorians #history #booksky

I'm sure the book's great too but I LOVE this cover. @uvapress.bsky.social knocking it out of the park!

Thanks for the generous review

We are celebrating EAS's most-read articles of 2024 by offering #FreeAccess to them through January 2025. For links, go to: web.sas.upenn.edu/earlyamerica... @pennpress.bsky.social @mcneilcenter.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social

Writing tip no. 13: Cultivate the gift of storytelling. Read Walter Benjamin’s brilliant essay, “The Storyteller,” to understand the social origins and functions of the art. All storytelling traditions have magical powers. Learn to use them! arl.human.cornell.edu/linked%20doc...

It's here: #Slaveryarchive Most anticipated books of 2025. Pre-order. Repost. Spread the word. Schedule book talks. Assign. Read. www.slaveryarchive.com/most-anticip...

Know a historian who’s interested in a public history job? @scihistoryorg.bsky.social is hiring a Curatorial Fellow at our museum in Philly! 24-month term limited staff position, starts Sept ‘25, pays $55k/year with benefits + reloc asst. US work auth req. Apps (no letters) due Jan 15 More info:

I’m old enough to remember when episode 1 of Ben Franklin’s World was released. Now the incomparable @lizcovart.bsky.social & her team are celebrating EPISODE 400! Congratulations, Liz!

🚨 BOOK LAUNCH SPECIAL🚨 Discover the hidden history of women in medicine! Karen Bloom Gevirtz debunks myths about 17th-century healers and dives into bizarre remedies (viper wine, anyone?). Check out the book The Apothecary's Wife Buy the Book: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10120/9781803286990

New book alert 🚨—And a great holiday gift: Humans: A Monstrous History by @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social “A history of how humans have created monsters out of one another—from our deepest fears—and what these monsters tell us about humanity's present and future.” www.ucpress.edu/books/humans...

I was really happy to attend Seth Rockman’s fantastic talk at the Library Company.

The demon Asmodeus was a popular character on the antebellum stage.

If you're interested in the history of mental health and psychiatry, this series is the place to start. Many of the books and edited volumes are open access. If you can't afford one that isn't ask your library to order it. link.springer.com/series/14806

Here are a few more depictions of Muslim men drinking alcohol - in the company of European men! - in #ColonialAdverts from the late 19th and early 20th century! These adverts are for "Absinthe Rivoire" (2x), "Byrrh" and "Ricqlès". #DrinkingStudies #Orientalism 🗃️🍸

From research essays to object studies to book and film reviews to scholarly conversations, there's something for everyone to engage with and explore. Interested in submitting a piece for consideration? We accept submissions on a rolling basis! commonplace.online/about/

The patron demon of our modern-day detective fiction, Asmodeus. Engraving by Tony Johanott, frontispiece in Alain René Le Sage, Asmodeus, the Devil on Two Sticks (London: Willoughby and Company, 1842).

Disability Historians starter pack. The more the merrier: go.bsky.app/4MB7iob

New episode (and the last interview of 2024)! I talked with @sethrockman.bsky.social about his new book PLANTATION GOODS (@uchicagopress.bsky.social), the ongoing struggle of the writing process, the joy of archives (and necessity of deadlines), and more. Listen: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

#Histmed, are you out there?! AAHM is now on Bluesky 💙 We will no longer use our Twitter account, so follow along here for announcements, updates on our centennial meeting, and an ✨occasional✨ plea for donations.

"As a local historian in Maryland, I worry that I will never be good enough, because I did not grow up here, and lack valuable insider connections and tacit knowledge." 🗃️

From The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851) by Henry Louis Stevens. The Night Hawk is from Alexander Wilson’s Ornithology, but why did Stevens choose to impose a woman’s face on it? Any suggestions are welcome.

Happy #Thanksgiving, everyone! As always, I'm thankful for the scholars who conduct research at the Linda Hall Library & the LHL staff members who support their work. Learn about our 2025-26 residential & virtual fellowships: lindahall.org/fellowships/ #histSTM #histsci #STS #histmed #scicomm 🗃️ 📜

the mastodon in Charles Willson Peal's museum; from The Child's First Book of History, by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, 1831 #bookhistory

If you're enjoying the #History feed, please make sure to give it a ❤️️—it helps other history fans find it. This feed pulls in (almost) all posts using #history as well as feeds from several historians. Want to get added to the feed automatically? Let me know! The feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

“In my experience, children will look at Venetian art as long as you want them to if there’s a dead saint’s body involved and the promise of unlimited gelato.” www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...