Karin Wulf
@kawulf.bsky.social
Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
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Karin Wulf
@kawulf.bsky.social
· Dec 28
It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️
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One last reminder that I’m doing a live watch along of the first episode of the documentary with @lizcovart.bsky.social and @herberthistory.bsky.social of #HATM TONIGHT! We go live at 7:45pm ET.
riverside.fm/studio/histo...
riverside.fm/studio/histo...
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
One last reminder that I’m doing a live watch along of the first episode of the documentary with @lizcovart.bsky.social and @herberthistory.bsky.social of #HATM TONIGHT! We go live at 7:45pm ET.
riverside.fm/studio/histo...
riverside.fm/studio/histo...
One of my points in this thread is that the Burns/ Botstein/ Schmidt (v impt not to forget this isn’t just KB!) documentary is helping get things moving on 2026 *now*. For reasons that had become harder. And it’ll let more happen fr now to July and beyond. Case in pt my local paper w much to add!
November 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
One of my points in this thread is that the Burns/ Botstein/ Schmidt (v impt not to forget this isn’t just KB!) documentary is helping get things moving on 2026 *now*. For reasons that had become harder. And it’ll let more happen fr now to July and beyond. Case in pt my local paper w much to add!
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As a historian of the 18th c and an American, I've always known 2026 would be a critical moment. This doc is worth watching, and thinking through. Begins and ends w Indigenous contexts, conveys the horrors of a civil war wrought w racism + the ideals of liberty and equality we keep reaching for. 1/
_The American Revolution_ offers a look at how complex and violent — and also inspiring— the American founding was. Getting huge coverage, it may give folks time to digest that complexity as 2026 commences. Premieres tonight + PBS has preview clips of all episodes. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
The American Revolution
Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.
www.pbs.org
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
As a historian of the 18th c and an American, I've always known 2026 would be a critical moment. This doc is worth watching, and thinking through. Begins and ends w Indigenous contexts, conveys the horrors of a civil war wrought w racism + the ideals of liberty and equality we keep reaching for. 1/
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My lovely colleague Serena Zabin is featured in Ken Burns's new documentary series, "The American Revolution," that premieres on PBS tonight. Here's more information and how to watch it for free 🗃️: www.pbs.org/kenburns/the...
The American Revolution | Premieres Nov. 16 | PBS
The American Revolution, a landmark documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt, premieres Nov. 16, 2025.
www.pbs.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
My lovely colleague Serena Zabin is featured in Ken Burns's new documentary series, "The American Revolution," that premieres on PBS tonight. Here's more information and how to watch it for free 🗃️: www.pbs.org/kenburns/the...
Am spending the weekend replying to emails from late October. This season, the pace but also being sick, increases my admiration for people who can stay on top of the volume.
November 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Am spending the weekend replying to emails from late October. This season, the pace but also being sick, increases my admiration for people who can stay on top of the volume.
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Exciting news for the new Ken Burns series on the American Revolution. @lizcovart.bsky.social @michaelhattem.bsky.social & Historians At The Movies are partnering to bring you a first of its kind watch party next Sunday. Detail below. Share widely. #HATM
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
The American Revolution on PBS
A Historians At The Movies/Ben Franklin’s World Watch Party
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Exciting news for the new Ken Burns series on the American Revolution. @lizcovart.bsky.social @michaelhattem.bsky.social & Historians At The Movies are partnering to bring you a first of its kind watch party next Sunday. Detail below. Share widely. #HATM
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
I have Deidre's _Mansfield Park_ and highly recommend! A great way for this non-specialist to read and think along. Have put two more (P&P and OFC Persuasion) on my wish list.
If you're doing your holiday shopping and/or thinking about best to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday, 1 month from today, I have some news: Harvard UP's annotated editions of Austen's fiction (my own edition of Mansfield Park included) are now 25% off.
www.hup.harvard.edu/features/hap...
www.hup.harvard.edu/features/hap...
Happy 250th Birthday, Jane Austen — Harvard University Press
Celebrate with six gorgeous annotated editions of Jane Austen’s classics. “A sumptuous reading experience…richly illustrated with paintings, museum-quality photographs, and colorful Regency prints. A ...
www.hup.harvard.edu
November 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I have Deidre's _Mansfield Park_ and highly recommend! A great way for this non-specialist to read and think along. Have put two more (P&P and OFC Persuasion) on my wish list.
As a historian of the 18th c and an American, I've always known 2026 would be a critical moment. This doc is worth watching, and thinking through. Begins and ends w Indigenous contexts, conveys the horrors of a civil war wrought w racism + the ideals of liberty and equality we keep reaching for. 1/
_The American Revolution_ offers a look at how complex and violent — and also inspiring— the American founding was. Getting huge coverage, it may give folks time to digest that complexity as 2026 commences. Premieres tonight + PBS has preview clips of all episodes. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
The American Revolution
Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.
www.pbs.org
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
As a historian of the 18th c and an American, I've always known 2026 would be a critical moment. This doc is worth watching, and thinking through. Begins and ends w Indigenous contexts, conveys the horrors of a civil war wrought w racism + the ideals of liberty and equality we keep reaching for. 1/
_The American Revolution_ offers a look at how complex and violent — and also inspiring— the American founding was. Getting huge coverage, it may give folks time to digest that complexity as 2026 commences. Premieres tonight + PBS has preview clips of all episodes. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
The American Revolution
Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.
www.pbs.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
_The American Revolution_ offers a look at how complex and violent — and also inspiring— the American founding was. Getting huge coverage, it may give folks time to digest that complexity as 2026 commences. Premieres tonight + PBS has preview clips of all episodes. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
I’d like government social media accounts and websites to share pertinent, expert information necessary for the public good.
Just going to keep speaking my reasonable expectations into the ether.
Just going to keep speaking my reasonable expectations into the ether.
Things that used to be baseline expectation of public behavior from leaders: courtesy, dignity, maturity, probity, professionalism, fundamental seriousness.
Polite performance can mask all sorts of violence. But the embrace of the sheer opposite is consequential, notable.
Polite performance can mask all sorts of violence. But the embrace of the sheer opposite is consequential, notable.
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I’d like government social media accounts and websites to share pertinent, expert information necessary for the public good.
Just going to keep speaking my reasonable expectations into the ether.
Just going to keep speaking my reasonable expectations into the ether.
"As a historian of drugs, I can tell you that this argument is wrong in almost every way. There is no wholesome, traditional drug-free America that we can return to." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
Opinion | I Am a Drug Historian. Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"As a historian of drugs, I can tell you that this argument is wrong in almost every way. There is no wholesome, traditional drug-free America that we can return to." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
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“The nation’s largest public funder of the humanities appears to be transforming into a vehicle narrowly tailored to the president’s agenda. “
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
“The nation’s largest public funder of the humanities appears to be transforming into a vehicle narrowly tailored to the president’s agenda. “
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
Oh the feeling of reading a good book and knowing you have several more queued up.
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Oh the feeling of reading a good book and knowing you have several more queued up.
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‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.
Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...
www.csmonitor.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
“The nation’s largest public funder of the humanities appears to be transforming into a vehicle narrowly tailored to the president’s agenda. “
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
“The nation’s largest public funder of the humanities appears to be transforming into a vehicle narrowly tailored to the president’s agenda. “
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
Burnside the first of two West Pointers to be R.I. Senator - the second is Jack Reed!
(I’m in my Rhode Island era.)
(I’m in my Rhode Island era.)
I see that Pete Hegseth is complaing again about soldiers with facial hair, so in response here is General Ambrose Burnside, shown on a bank note from Rhode Island where he served as governor from 1866-1869 and senator from 1875-1881. Blackstone Canal Bank, Providence, RI, $1, Jan 1, 1863. 🗃️
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Burnside the first of two West Pointers to be R.I. Senator - the second is Jack Reed!
(I’m in my Rhode Island era.)
(I’m in my Rhode Island era.)
“Desolate vacuity.”
Ishmael on point there.
Ishmael on point there.
then all this desolate vacuity of life went away
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
“Desolate vacuity.”
Ishmael on point there.
Ishmael on point there.
It was a good day to revisit a crazily rewarding 2025 experience: #readingthewhale, published in the US this day 1851. 🐋
November 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It was a good day to revisit a crazily rewarding 2025 experience: #readingthewhale, published in the US this day 1851. 🐋
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"But stubborn and
principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled." - Jim Ryan
principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled." - Jim Ryan
So much to be shocked about in this world, and I try to stay here on things I know something abt. Must read Jim Ryan letter (worth going back to summer coverage of the board reconfiguration) recounting actions of the Governor's office and UVA board truly shocking. www.chronicle.com/article/stun...
‘Stunned and Angry’: James Ryan Gives First Detailed Account of His Ouster at UVa
In an expansive letter, the former University of Virginia president told the story of his resignation, blasting board members and saying the government had pledged to “bleed UVA white.”
www.chronicle.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"But stubborn and
principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled." - Jim Ryan
principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled." - Jim Ryan
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@kawulf.bsky.social wrote this piece in April. But if you haven't read it yet, take some time to do so now: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...
The Humanities as Canary: Understanding this Crisis Now - The Scholarly Kitchen
The Humanities have always been the canary in the coal mine of the full knowledge industry. What information can help us understand this crisis and its implications?
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
@kawulf.bsky.social wrote this piece in April. But if you haven't read it yet, take some time to do so now: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...
So much to be shocked about in this world, and I try to stay here on things I know something abt. Must read Jim Ryan letter (worth going back to summer coverage of the board reconfiguration) recounting actions of the Governor's office and UVA board truly shocking. www.chronicle.com/article/stun...
‘Stunned and Angry’: James Ryan Gives First Detailed Account of His Ouster at UVa
In an expansive letter, the former University of Virginia president told the story of his resignation, blasting board members and saying the government had pledged to “bleed UVA white.”
www.chronicle.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
So much to be shocked about in this world, and I try to stay here on things I know something abt. Must read Jim Ryan letter (worth going back to summer coverage of the board reconfiguration) recounting actions of the Governor's office and UVA board truly shocking. www.chronicle.com/article/stun...
Hey this is today. 😊
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Hey this is today. 😊
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This is tremendous and I am grateful for this honor.
The James A. Rawley Award for the best book on secession and/or the sectional crisis published over the preceding two years is awarded to Seth Rockman for Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery #2025SHA
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This is tremendous and I am grateful for this honor.
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The Politics of Family/History. I've been so grateful for opportunities to talk abt the history of genealogy in early America & its implications. Tuesday lovely colleagues @brownhist.bsky.social are hosting my conversation w the great Leslie Harris. Join us! events.brown.edu/history/even...
The Politics of Family History: Karin Wulf in Conversation With Leslie Harris (Northwestern University)
Join the Department of History for a conversation with Karin Wulf and Leslie M. Harris (Northwestern University) on Wulf’s latest publication, Li...
events.brown.edu
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Politics of Family/History. I've been so grateful for opportunities to talk abt the history of genealogy in early America & its implications. Tuesday lovely colleagues @brownhist.bsky.social are hosting my conversation w the great Leslie Harris. Join us! events.brown.edu/history/even...
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This reminds me of one of my favorite @kawulf.bsky.social posts on the subjectivity of historical narratives scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/12/21/w...
November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This reminds me of one of my favorite @kawulf.bsky.social posts on the subjectivity of historical narratives scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/12/21/w...