Rob Parkinson
@rparkinson.bsky.social
Prof. of History, Binghamton University. Author, Thirteen Clocks & Heart of American Darkness. Go Vols, Go Steelers.
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Rob Parkinson
@rparkinson.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Bewildering horror in 18th century America. A dual biography of a Native and colonial family as they wind their way to tragedy along the Ohio River on the eve of the American Revolution. Yes, the Conradian title has a purpose…
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This is so exciting! Jonathan was a model student & this book is fab. Run- don’t walk - to get it!!!
Former advisee and Binghamton PhD @jonathansjones.bsky.social publishes his amazing book OPIUM SLAVERY on the opioid crisis after the Civil War. A must read for all students of US history.
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This is so exciting! Jonathan was a model student & this book is fab. Run- don’t walk - to get it!!!
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Just finished “Heart of American Darkness” from @rparkinson.bsky.social
It might take us another 100 years, but America is not going to fix what ails us until we dispense with myths and come to terms with our actual history. This riveting book is a big step forward.
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
It might take us another 100 years, but America is not going to fix what ails us until we dispense with myths and come to terms with our actual history. This riveting book is a big step forward.
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Heart of American Darkness
“A scarifying, blood-soaked portrait of savagery on the early frontier—much of it committed by European settlers . . . superb.”—<em>Kirkus Reviews</em> (starred)<br /><br /> An...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Just finished “Heart of American Darkness” from @rparkinson.bsky.social
It might take us another 100 years, but America is not going to fix what ails us until we dispense with myths and come to terms with our actual history. This riveting book is a big step forward.
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
It might take us another 100 years, but America is not going to fix what ails us until we dispense with myths and come to terms with our actual history. This riveting book is a big step forward.
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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We've got a cover. Coming your way next June!
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We've got a cover. Coming your way next June!
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Friends, I could not be more excited to let you know that my book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, is out today from Penguin. I’m super proud of it and super grateful to all the scholars whose work informs it. I hope you’ll take a peek and spread the word!
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The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
The American Revolution and the Fate of the World [Bell, Richard] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
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November 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Friends, I could not be more excited to let you know that my book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, is out today from Penguin. I’m super proud of it and super grateful to all the scholars whose work informs it. I hope you’ll take a peek and spread the word!
amzn.to/4nHkziG
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It’s officially pub day for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America‘s First Opioid Crisis! Available at a bookshop near you. Thanks to everyone who made it possible to bring this research to life! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968953...
October 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It’s officially pub day for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America‘s First Opioid Crisis! Available at a bookshop near you. Thanks to everyone who made it possible to bring this research to life! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968953...
Cover! June 9, 2026!
October 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Cover! June 9, 2026!
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A centennial edition of the classic work that instilled a liberal spirit into the study of #AmericanHistory.
The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement: 100th anniversary edition
by J. Franklin Jameson will be available November 4.
Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement: 100th anniversary edition
by J. Franklin Jameson will be available November 4.
Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
October 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A centennial edition of the classic work that instilled a liberal spirit into the study of #AmericanHistory.
The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement: 100th anniversary edition
by J. Franklin Jameson will be available November 4.
Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement: 100th anniversary edition
by J. Franklin Jameson will be available November 4.
Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
The pile of 2026 must-reads is going to be talllllllll.
Coming next spring, in time for what will surely be a lively but respectful debate about the 250th anniversary of the Declaration
October 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The pile of 2026 must-reads is going to be talllllllll.
This is so so so good. Congrats Jonathan!!!!!!
Look what came in the mail today, @uncpress.bsky.social @simpsonvos.bsky.social @profsommerville.bsky.social! 🗃️
October 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This is so so so good. Congrats Jonathan!!!!!!
Beauty! Happy to be a part of this project.
We've got a cover and a publication date (April 3, 2026).
October 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Beauty! Happy to be a part of this project.
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Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
September 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
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Coming April 15, 2026!
The nation’s founding document at the moment of its creation in 1776, before anyone knew what the legacy of the Declaration would be or if the United States would win the war against Great Britain.
Pre-order information (and discount code!) will be available in the new year.
The nation’s founding document at the moment of its creation in 1776, before anyone knew what the legacy of the Declaration would be or if the United States would win the war against Great Britain.
Pre-order information (and discount code!) will be available in the new year.
September 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Coming April 15, 2026!
The nation’s founding document at the moment of its creation in 1776, before anyone knew what the legacy of the Declaration would be or if the United States would win the war against Great Britain.
Pre-order information (and discount code!) will be available in the new year.
The nation’s founding document at the moment of its creation in 1776, before anyone knew what the legacy of the Declaration would be or if the United States would win the war against Great Britain.
Pre-order information (and discount code!) will be available in the new year.
This is a prize that is not given out all that often, but is reserved for truly exceptional books. Have read, is excellent.
Delighted to say that The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States has won the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for the best manuscript in eighteenth-century studies submitted to @uvapress.bsky.social
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/
The Course of Human Events
<b>How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning</b><br/><br/> Thomas Jefferson chose his words c
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September 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is a prize that is not given out all that often, but is reserved for truly exceptional books. Have read, is excellent.
What MW said
Cannot wait for this! What an accomplishment, what a gift to the field. #earlymodern #skystorians
Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
September 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
What MW said
How cool does this look?
New HLQ issue live on Project MUSE. Articles explore imagined art in antislavery lit, deception in Stuart politics, reader engagement with the first English Quran, geopolitics in More's Utopia, anthologizing Shakespeare, and a bad actor in a c17 domestic dispute. #earlymodern #skystorians
September 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
How cool does this look?
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Page proofs! That's my weekend sorted. Coming your way next spring.
September 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Page proofs! That's my weekend sorted. Coming your way next spring.
Goodbye, Sundance Kid. Sting, Cassidy, Condor, Natural, Candidate, Prez Men. You were great.
September 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Goodbye, Sundance Kid. Sting, Cassidy, Condor, Natural, Candidate, Prez Men. You were great.
This is spectacular, folks.
Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
September 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
This is spectacular, folks.
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A day late to bluesky, but yesterday was the official pub day for 'Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis' with @pennpress.bsky.social
Interested in infrastructure, war, revolution and the rise (and fall) of the British Empire in North America? Get your own copy from www.pennpress.org/978151282828...
Interested in infrastructure, war, revolution and the rise (and fall) of the British Empire in North America? Get your own copy from www.pennpress.org/978151282828...
August 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A day late to bluesky, but yesterday was the official pub day for 'Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis' with @pennpress.bsky.social
Interested in infrastructure, war, revolution and the rise (and fall) of the British Empire in North America? Get your own copy from www.pennpress.org/978151282828...
Interested in infrastructure, war, revolution and the rise (and fall) of the British Empire in North America? Get your own copy from www.pennpress.org/978151282828...
Book submitted! Look for _Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence_ out from Norton next June!
August 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Book submitted! Look for _Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence_ out from Norton next June!
You’re going to want to read this.
Now fully blurbed up. With thanks to @lmchervinsky.bsky.social, @rparkinson.bsky.social, and @kawulf.bsky.social :)
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/
The Course of Human Events
<b>How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning</b><br/><br/> Thomas Jefferson chose his words c
www.upress.virginia.edu
August 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
You’re going to want to read this.
Summer grades due in 4 days, book due in 6, fall semester starts in 10. So, yes, of course my yard & patio look the best they have looked all summer.
August 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Summer grades due in 4 days, book due in 6, fall semester starts in 10. So, yes, of course my yard & patio look the best they have looked all summer.
Another banger coming out!
My forthcoming book with @cornellupress.bsky.social has a COVER!!! 🔥🔥🔥
August 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Another banger coming out!
Big co-sign
This is going to be a great book!
Publication date is November 5--three months from today. Exciting :)
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/
August 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Big co-sign