This is a cool blog with a very interesting test. Relieved that my book passed!

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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/

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

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/

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

I have a question as a political historian: what did clown cars do to deserve such insulting comparisons?🤔

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).