SHAFR is now accepting nominations for the 2026 election! Click here for more information: tinyurl.com/3ewsc89u

In Leicester next Wednesday between 4.30 and 6pm? Come to a joint three-book launch for my Spinning the World, James Campbell's Reluctant Abolitionists: Britain and the End of the Colonial Death Penalty, and George Lewis's Un-Americanism: A History of the Battle to Control an Idea

So happy to see this out and to celebrate its publication tonight! (PS thanks for not writing in my copy)

My co-editor Jennifer Keene and I are very excited for our volume to come out this summer! Click through the link to see the amazing roster of contributors.

I'm very much looking forward to going to SHAFR by train

I look like I'm arguing with Sean Fear, when I'm actually telling him how much I liked his paper and how I can't wait for his book.

Less than 2 weeks to apply for these awesome @shafrhistorians.bsky.social awards - including the Hogan Language Fellowship. I’m a previous Hogan winner & I have the honor of chairing the Hogan committee this year so apply or tell your PhD students to apply! #SHAFR #skystorians 🗃️

SHAFR Election results are here! Congratulations to the newest members of our leadership team. #SHAFR

Hardcover publication day in the US (after the books enoyed what I like to imagine was a leisurely transatlantic cruise)

Available in at least one good bricks-and-mortar bookshop.

Official publication day!

New book. Unimpressed cat.

Also excited

Thank you @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social so much again for creating the paperback proof prototype! Can't wait to hold the real thing when it's out next month.

Fantastic to see a pre-publication proofs copy of my forthcoming book here in the front row

See you there

My book has a cover! Out this summer 🗃

Always nice to see a copy of my last book out in the wild, especially in Strand Bookstore, possibly my favourite book store in the world

Proofs proofed

Publishers can get rid of blurbs if they want, but for now I'm very happy to have these for my forthcoming book 🗃

BAAS regrets to announce that the BAAS / US Embassy Small Grants Programme has been cancelled. 1/7

Spinning the World has a web page! More details on there to follow, which I will use as an excuse to repost this at future intervals🗃️@cambridgeup.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Spinning the World has a web page! More details on there to follow, which I will use as an excuse to repost this at future intervals🗃️@cambridgeup.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

THE meme of 2025 for me.

I absolutely loved @juliairwin.bsky.social's recent book Catastrophic Diplomacy, and enjoyed contributing to this fantastic roundtable review of it for @h-diplo.bsky.social: networks.h-net.org/group/discus... Check it out if you're interested in disaster relief, foreign aid, and US foreign policy!

My AHR review of Brooke Blower's Americans in a World at War is finally out. Nice to review a book I really liked for a change.

I wish

Haven't seen one of these for SHAFR / US in the World people, so thought I'd make one given that I'm currently trapped under a cat. Happy to add people! go.bsky.app/CFos3Xu

Look forward to finding time to read this, which also appears to be available as a free download on Cornell's webpage. I never met LaFeber, sadly. Many great monographs but his textbook The American Age was my go-to as an undergrad and beyond (the cracked spine of my copy tells its own story).

Very happy to have signed a contract with CUP for Spinning the World: The Public Relations Industry and American Foreign Relations. Hopefully out Summer 2025. Watch this space for more shameless self promotion. 🗃️

It's an interesting day to be teaching about the Cambodian incursion.

An interesting review of a book I have recently bought and very much look forward to reading, though I concede it was bumped off the top of the pile this week by Geddy Lee's autobiography.

Interested in public debates over war and peace in US history? One of the growing number of UK-based historians on here? Then this may be of interest... Pro and Anti-War Voices Conference, University of Worcester, Saturday 11 November. For more details see: worcester.ac.uk/about/academ... 🗃️

Bluesky... because I don't already spend enough time doomscrolling