Nicholas T. Pruitt
@ntphistory.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History | University of Cambridge | Historian of 20c U.S. religion, politics, and culture | Book w/ NYU Press | Sucker for books and coffee | Views are simply my own.
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-nicholas-pruitt
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-nicholas-pruitt
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Hi all, eager to be part of this space and delighted to find so many former #twitterstorians! I study 20c U.S. culture, religion, and politics and currently writing on midcentury Christian nationalism. Anticipate posts on my research, reflections on the historical vocation, and used bookstore finds.
My end-of-the-term solution…
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
My end-of-the-term solution…
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Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England.
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...
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November 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Material religious history finds today at an antiques store in Ely:
November 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Material religious history finds today at an antiques store in Ely:
May have found the cover for my next book..."Nothing's Sacred" (1953)
August 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
May have found the cover for my next book..."Nothing's Sacred" (1953)
While going through security at Logan for an early morning flight, I turned around to see Nick Offerman behind me.
July 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
While going through security at Logan for an early morning flight, I turned around to see Nick Offerman behind me.
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Pleased to share my review of @galekenny.bsky.social’s latest book. If you study 20c gender, culture, religion, and/or Protestant missions, definitely give it a read. @nyupress.bsky.social
Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire. By Gale L. Kenny
The history of Protestant missionaries is a robust field. When it comes to missionaries from the United States, however, most historical attention is direc
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July 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Pleased to share my review of @galekenny.bsky.social’s latest book. If you study 20c gender, culture, religion, and/or Protestant missions, definitely give it a read. @nyupress.bsky.social
Pleased to share my review of @galekenny.bsky.social’s latest book. If you study 20c gender, culture, religion, and/or Protestant missions, definitely give it a read. @nyupress.bsky.social
Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire. By Gale L. Kenny
The history of Protestant missionaries is a robust field. When it comes to missionaries from the United States, however, most historical attention is direc
academic.oup.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Pleased to share my review of @galekenny.bsky.social’s latest book. If you study 20c gender, culture, religion, and/or Protestant missions, definitely give it a read. @nyupress.bsky.social
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***Graduate students studying migration and/or ethnic history***
Apply to the Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations.
More information is available here:
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Apply to the Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations.
More information is available here:
iehs.org/awards/georg...
George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award
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July 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
***Graduate students studying migration and/or ethnic history***
Apply to the Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations.
More information is available here:
iehs.org/awards/georg...
Apply to the Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations.
More information is available here:
iehs.org/awards/georg...
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PUB DATE today folks happy to have written the foreward to Sylvia Frey's classic on black resistance in the south during the American Revolution, one of my favorite books in grad school. @princetonupress.bsky.social did a great job with the new edition. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Water from the Rock
A multifaceted history of Black resistance during the War of Independence
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July 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
PUB DATE today folks happy to have written the foreward to Sylvia Frey's classic on black resistance in the south during the American Revolution, one of my favorite books in grad school. @princetonupress.bsky.social did a great job with the new edition. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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JOB!!!
Four-year full-time job in Modern European History (Social/Economic) at Cambridge. By today's standards, it's pretty good! Split between Trinity Hall College and History Faculty.
It's also widely defined so do apply, deadline July 27.
@camhistory.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR005/s...
Four-year full-time job in Modern European History (Social/Economic) at Cambridge. By today's standards, it's pretty good! Split between Trinity Hall College and History Faculty.
It's also widely defined so do apply, deadline July 27.
@camhistory.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR005/s...
Senior Teaching Associate [Temporary Cover] at University of Cambridge
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June 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
JOB!!!
Four-year full-time job in Modern European History (Social/Economic) at Cambridge. By today's standards, it's pretty good! Split between Trinity Hall College and History Faculty.
It's also widely defined so do apply, deadline July 27.
@camhistory.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR005/s...
Four-year full-time job in Modern European History (Social/Economic) at Cambridge. By today's standards, it's pretty good! Split between Trinity Hall College and History Faculty.
It's also widely defined so do apply, deadline July 27.
@camhistory.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR005/s...
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Wondering what it is like to study history at Cambridge, and what we are looking for in potential students? Watch this!
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More detail about the course here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/course/histo...
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More detail about the course here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/course/histo...
Cambridge History Faculty
Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
The Faculty of History is one of the largest history departments in the world. Over one hundred people pursue teaching and research within the History Facu...
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June 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Wondering what it is like to study history at Cambridge, and what we are looking for in potential students? Watch this!
www.youtube.com/channel/UC6T...
More detail about the course here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/course/histo...
www.youtube.com/channel/UC6T...
More detail about the course here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/course/histo...
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Book Reviewers for the JAEH Needed
If you are interested in reviewing books for the Journal of American Ethnic History, please complete the volunteer reviewer form (iehs.org/review-books...) or send your contact information and areas of expertise to Omar Valerio-Jiménez at jaehreviews@gmail.com.
If you are interested in reviewing books for the Journal of American Ethnic History, please complete the volunteer reviewer form (iehs.org/review-books...) or send your contact information and areas of expertise to Omar Valerio-Jiménez at jaehreviews@gmail.com.
Review Books for the JAEH
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June 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Book Reviewers for the JAEH Needed
If you are interested in reviewing books for the Journal of American Ethnic History, please complete the volunteer reviewer form (iehs.org/review-books...) or send your contact information and areas of expertise to Omar Valerio-Jiménez at jaehreviews@gmail.com.
If you are interested in reviewing books for the Journal of American Ethnic History, please complete the volunteer reviewer form (iehs.org/review-books...) or send your contact information and areas of expertise to Omar Valerio-Jiménez at jaehreviews@gmail.com.
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Get 30% off when you preorder my book directly from UNC Press using code: 01SOCIAL30
Damned Whiteness offers an unflinching history of white-led efforts at interracial organizing gone astray.
Damned Whiteness offers an unflinching history of white-led efforts at interracial organizing gone astray.
Damned Whiteness | David F. Evans | University of North Carolina Press
The memory of the long civil rights movement often celebrates white men and women who drew on their religious faith to support Black demands for racial justi...
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April 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Get 30% off when you preorder my book directly from UNC Press using code: 01SOCIAL30
Damned Whiteness offers an unflinching history of white-led efforts at interracial organizing gone astray.
Damned Whiteness offers an unflinching history of white-led efforts at interracial organizing gone astray.
Appreciated having the opportunity to present on my current project last week with @camhistory.bsky.social grad students. In short, the U.S. hasn’t moved on from the 1950s and it’s not the decade we collectively remember.
May 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Appreciated having the opportunity to present on my current project last week with @camhistory.bsky.social grad students. In short, the U.S. hasn’t moved on from the 1950s and it’s not the decade we collectively remember.
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You might not think cars and religion have much in common. "Assembling Religion," out now, explores how Henry Ford institutionalized a social gospel. Read about how he believed his work was prophetic and meant to remake the world, with research directly from Ford’s archive.
Assembling Religion
How Henry Ford institutionalized a social gospelHenry Ford did not just mass produce cars. As a member of the Episcopal Church, reader of New Thought texts, ...
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May 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
You might not think cars and religion have much in common. "Assembling Religion," out now, explores how Henry Ford institutionalized a social gospel. Read about how he believed his work was prophetic and meant to remake the world, with research directly from Ford’s archive.
Show us your writing process in a gif:
May 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Show us your writing process in a gif:
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📢AUTHOR EVENT: Join Andrew Preston, Professor of American History @camhistory.bsky.social, as he discusses his new book 'Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security.'
📆29 May 6-7pm
🏢Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge
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@harvardpress.bsky.social
📆29 May 6-7pm
🏢Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge
📲 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/total-defe...
@harvardpress.bsky.social
Total Defense - Andrew Preston, at Heffers Bookshop
Join us on the 29th of May as Andrew Preston discusses his new book 'Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security.'
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May 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
📢AUTHOR EVENT: Join Andrew Preston, Professor of American History @camhistory.bsky.social, as he discusses his new book 'Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security.'
📆29 May 6-7pm
🏢Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge
📲 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/total-defe...
@harvardpress.bsky.social
📆29 May 6-7pm
🏢Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge
📲 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/total-defe...
@harvardpress.bsky.social
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For those who happen to be in the Trento region. On the 26 May I will present my book on Quaker humanitarianism at the University of Trento. eventi.unitn.it/it/american-...
May 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
For those who happen to be in the Trento region. On the 26 May I will present my book on Quaker humanitarianism at the University of Trento. eventi.unitn.it/it/american-...
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Another major facet of the Young Scholars program is the different research or teaching interests that can be found in the cohort. Check out some of the diverse research interests in the 2024-2026 cohort!
Learn more and apply: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/you...
Learn more and apply: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/you...
May 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Another major facet of the Young Scholars program is the different research or teaching interests that can be found in the cohort. Check out some of the diverse research interests in the 2024-2026 cohort!
Learn more and apply: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/you...
Learn more and apply: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/you...
This is a double denial of the First Amendment: denying the free exercise of religion and favoring certain religious groups over others (e.g. conservative evangelicals have previously been allowed to use that same space).
BREAKING: Clergy and faith-based protesters challenging the GOP-led budget have now made it to Rotunda, where four are being arrested while praying.
Police have cleared the rotunda (but kept the arrests visible to press this time).
Police have cleared the rotunda (but kept the arrests visible to press this time).
May 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is a double denial of the First Amendment: denying the free exercise of religion and favoring certain religious groups over others (e.g. conservative evangelicals have previously been allowed to use that same space).
This is my happy place. While the poutine is great, Montreal can also serve up some great dumplings.
April 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This is my happy place. While the poutine is great, Montreal can also serve up some great dumplings.
I'll be attending this tonight with both curiosity and terror...
March 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I'll be attending this tonight with both curiosity and terror...
Lecturing today on 2008, Obama, the 2016 election, and the crisis of democracy…thoughts and prayers appreciated.
March 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Lecturing today on 2008, Obama, the 2016 election, and the crisis of democracy…thoughts and prayers appreciated.
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Finally got an advance reader copy. It is almost a book!
March 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Finally got an advance reader copy. It is almost a book!
For those studying religion and the Spanish Civil War, definitely take a look at this collection.
***#skystorians - online, open access resource***
University of California, San Diego Library Digital Collections
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University of California, San Diego Library Digital Collections
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Library Digital Collections | UC San Diego Library
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March 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
For those studying religion and the Spanish Civil War, definitely take a look at this collection.