Matthew Mason
@matthewmason.bsky.social
Historian of the politics of slavery
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Matthew Mason's "Seeking the High Ground"
Matthew Mason is Professor of History at Brigham Young University and the author of Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic . ...
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This is a cool blog with a very interesting test. Relieved that my book passed!
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Matthew Mason
@matthewmason.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Seeking the High Ground
<b>How American slavery engendered a new political vocabulary used on both sides of the Atlantic</b><br/><br/> How is it, Samuel Johnson famously aske
www.upress.virginia.edu
This is the day we all (ok, really I) have been anticipating - the publication of this book. If you assign it in courses on, say, the American Revolution, slavery and abolition, etc., and invite me to zoom in to talk with your students, I’d find that great fun
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10097/
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10097/
Matthew Mason
@matthewmason.bsky.social
· Jun 28
Among the highlights of the conference on 19th-century conservatism at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford was getting 2/3 of our writing group together. In keeping with the theme of the conference, we arranged for ourselves on a spectrum of dress from reactionary to radical
Seeking the High Ground
<b>How American slavery engendered a new political vocabulary used on both sides of the Atlantic</b><br/><br/> How is it, Samuel Johnson famously aske
www.upress.virginia.edu
I just learned that the site for my forthcoming book is live, and obviously the world needs to know
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10097/
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10097/
Matthew Mason
@matthewmason.bsky.social
· Apr 24
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
Happy to see the University of Maryland represented here. I wish my undergraduate alma mater the University of Utah or my employer BYU were, although supremely unsurprised even given how measured this statement is. Fear the Turtle though
Comparing Trump to Andrew Jackson has long been the done thing - heck, I’ve done it in essay form myself. But all this talk of annexing Canada and Greenland to the empire is giving me strong James K Polk vibes
Matthew Mason
@matthewmason.bsky.social
· Nov 22
I’m here
Matthew Mason
@matthewmason.bsky.social
· Nov 15
I have a question as a political historian: what did clown cars do to deserve such insulting comparisons?🤔
Matthew Mason
@matthewmason.bsky.social
· Nov 12
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Matthew Mason
@matthewmason.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Wasn’t the Articles of Confederation the federalism starter pack? Sign me up!
Matthew Mason
@matthewmason.bsky.social
· Oct 28
Bluesky is now complete with my first post.
What a joy and honor it was to join other Ira Berlin PhD students on a special tribute session at the SHA.
And good fun to connect with friends (I’m seen here contemplating their brilliance).
What a joy and honor it was to join other Ira Berlin PhD students on a special tribute session at the SHA.
And good fun to connect with friends (I’m seen here contemplating their brilliance).