Scott Reynolds Nelson
@nelsonhist.bsky.social
Dad, historian, tireless layabout, often incompetent in meatspace. wrote: Steel Drivin' Man, Nation of Deadbeats, Iron Confederacies, & OCEANS OF GRAIN @basicbooks he/him
Just a reminder as Netanyahu bombs Tehran to the Stone Age, that most of "western civilization" (including writing, higher math, brass, wheat) actually came to us from North Africa via Persia
June 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Just a reminder as Netanyahu bombs Tehran to the Stone Age, that most of "western civilization" (including writing, higher math, brass, wheat) actually came to us from North Africa via Persia
Look at the cover of the Ukrainian translation of my book! #booksky #WhatsHistory www.instagram.com/p/DI1ok8gN4Y...
June 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Look at the cover of the Ukrainian translation of my book! #booksky #WhatsHistory www.instagram.com/p/DI1ok8gN4Y...
Radical changes in US tariffs have led to 4 US depressions, but carry on believing a rich guy who ought to know financial history, but apparently doesn't foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/11/t...
April 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Radical changes in US tariffs have led to 4 US depressions, but carry on believing a rich guy who ought to know financial history, but apparently doesn't foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/11/t...
Dear spineless House Republicans:
Sep. 1833-6: Andrew Jackson messes w/ intl. trade, esp. hurts 2nd Bank of the US & the 7 sisters (Brit Banking houses)
July 1836: Bank of England raises the Bank rate & cuts off the 7 sisters
1837: Depression of 1837
see: Nation of Deadbeats, ch 11
Sep. 1833-6: Andrew Jackson messes w/ intl. trade, esp. hurts 2nd Bank of the US & the 7 sisters (Brit Banking houses)
July 1836: Bank of England raises the Bank rate & cuts off the 7 sisters
1837: Depression of 1837
see: Nation of Deadbeats, ch 11
April 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Dear spineless House Republicans:
Sep. 1833-6: Andrew Jackson messes w/ intl. trade, esp. hurts 2nd Bank of the US & the 7 sisters (Brit Banking houses)
July 1836: Bank of England raises the Bank rate & cuts off the 7 sisters
1837: Depression of 1837
see: Nation of Deadbeats, ch 11
Sep. 1833-6: Andrew Jackson messes w/ intl. trade, esp. hurts 2nd Bank of the US & the 7 sisters (Brit Banking houses)
July 1836: Bank of England raises the Bank rate & cuts off the 7 sisters
1837: Depression of 1837
see: Nation of Deadbeats, ch 11
Dear spineless House Republicans:
Mar. 1817: Congress passes *huge* tariffs
May 1817: Britain makes counter-tariffs
Dec 1818: US wheat loses Caribbean mkt, prices drop 50%
Mar 1819: Depression of 1819
#wakeup #history #tariff
See, Nation of Deadbeats, ch. 4 or www.jstor.org/stable/27105...
Mar. 1817: Congress passes *huge* tariffs
May 1817: Britain makes counter-tariffs
Dec 1818: US wheat loses Caribbean mkt, prices drop 50%
Mar 1819: Depression of 1819
#wakeup #history #tariff
See, Nation of Deadbeats, ch. 4 or www.jstor.org/stable/27105...
April 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Dear spineless House Republicans:
Mar. 1817: Congress passes *huge* tariffs
May 1817: Britain makes counter-tariffs
Dec 1818: US wheat loses Caribbean mkt, prices drop 50%
Mar 1819: Depression of 1819
#wakeup #history #tariff
See, Nation of Deadbeats, ch. 4 or www.jstor.org/stable/27105...
Mar. 1817: Congress passes *huge* tariffs
May 1817: Britain makes counter-tariffs
Dec 1818: US wheat loses Caribbean mkt, prices drop 50%
Mar 1819: Depression of 1819
#wakeup #history #tariff
See, Nation of Deadbeats, ch. 4 or www.jstor.org/stable/27105...
Next week 11 UGA honors students are coming to my house to chew over my book Oceans of Grain. I just read over some of the themes the students picked out to talk about next week. Can't wait! #academicsky #skystorians
January 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Next week 11 UGA honors students are coming to my house to chew over my book Oceans of Grain. I just read over some of the themes the students picked out to talk about next week. Can't wait! #academicsky #skystorians
A COVID-19 shield in 2020, provided by UGA
November 30, 2024 at 7:53 PM
A COVID-19 shield in 2020, provided by UGA
I flew home and voted early today. An easy choice between Kamala Harris and a twice-convicted felon who aims to destroy the US constitution. Vote early, especially if you are in Georgia or NC!
October 16, 2024 at 3:55 PM
I flew home and voted early today. An easy choice between Kamala Harris and a twice-convicted felon who aims to destroy the US constitution. Vote early, especially if you are in Georgia or NC!
My first full week foraging in the 5 million volumes of Harvard's Widener library. I cannot fully contain my joy. Luckily few people can hear me singing in the Pusey basement
September 18, 2024 at 12:01 PM
My first full week foraging in the 5 million volumes of Harvard's Widener library. I cannot fully contain my joy. Luckily few people can hear me singing in the Pusey basement
Do folks have suggestions about theory on how transportation (like railroads) shaped the development of cities? Perhaps economics and logistics but also city planning, urbanization, etc.
August 20, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Do folks have suggestions about theory on how transportation (like railroads) shaped the development of cities? Perhaps economics and logistics but also city planning, urbanization, etc.
I've never before liked the idea of a yearly subscription fee for a computer game, but after I heard that @BethesdaStudios had a wall-to-wall union I thought: Bethesda game? A wall-to-wall @CWAUnion? I'm in! (Not a screenshot)
November 9, 2024 at 7:08 PM
I've never before liked the idea of a yearly subscription fee for a computer game, but after I heard that @BethesdaStudios had a wall-to-wall union I thought: Bethesda game? A wall-to-wall @CWAUnion? I'm in! (Not a screenshot)
OMG. When a 30-something Chinese journalist understands your book's arguments better than you do yourself. This was a fantastic interview.
m.guancha.cn/ScottReynold...
m.guancha.cn/ScottReynold...
June 11, 2024 at 7:51 AM
OMG. When a 30-something Chinese journalist understands your book's arguments better than you do yourself. This was a fantastic interview.
m.guancha.cn/ScottReynold...
m.guancha.cn/ScottReynold...
Toulouse in late May with Cindy
June 10, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Toulouse in late May with Cindy
In NYC last night I, my partner Cindy Hahamovitch, & this naked man were inducted into the Society of American Historians "in recognition of the literary merit in their writing or presentation of American history." Actually the naked man didn't get in
May 15, 2024 at 1:28 AM
In NYC last night I, my partner Cindy Hahamovitch, & this naked man were inducted into the Society of American Historians "in recognition of the literary merit in their writing or presentation of American history." Actually the naked man didn't get in
Wow. In 1983 I smuggled a UNC divest now banner (in ANC colors) under my blue graduation robe & 4 of us unfurled it as we marched across the field for graduation. We got boos & cheers both. My dad stormed out; nobody arrested me
May 13, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Wow. In 1983 I smuggled a UNC divest now banner (in ANC colors) under my blue graduation robe & 4 of us unfurled it as we marched across the field for graduation. We got boos & cheers both. My dad stormed out; nobody arrested me
Happy to announce that my first UGA PhD, Matt O'Neal, is now on the tenure track in history & southern studies @ U of Mississippi. He's an amazing scholar finishing a book on racial violence in 1919 Appalachia. He also knows how to wear a doctoral gown and which shoes to wear to a graduation
March 28, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Happy to announce that my first UGA PhD, Matt O'Neal, is now on the tenure track in history & southern studies @ U of Mississippi. He's an amazing scholar finishing a book on racial violence in 1919 Appalachia. He also knows how to wear a doctoral gown and which shoes to wear to a graduation
Psyched: I'll be here Aug 2024-May 2025 at Harvard University working on an environmental justice project on the Deep South's Black bottoms. Because the bottoms were formed 66 million years ago (in the K-T extinction event that killed the dinosaurs) I'm actually embarrassingly late to this project
March 8, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Psyched: I'll be here Aug 2024-May 2025 at Harvard University working on an environmental justice project on the Deep South's Black bottoms. Because the bottoms were formed 66 million years ago (in the K-T extinction event that killed the dinosaurs) I'm actually embarrassingly late to this project
Today's blue-check fact-check
November 9, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Today's blue-check fact-check
There's no more strange, beautiful, haunting feeling than seeing a place that you've read about in manuscripts & memoirs and then to actually wander around there & see connections that made no sense before. Here's me, gobsmacked in Istanbul in Feb. 2020 before I finished Oceans of Grain
November 16, 2023 at 12:43 AM
There's no more strange, beautiful, haunting feeling than seeing a place that you've read about in manuscripts & memoirs and then to actually wander around there & see connections that made no sense before. Here's me, gobsmacked in Istanbul in Feb. 2020 before I finished Oceans of Grain
Introducing myself to #AcademicSky with a word cloud on my latest book, Oceans of Grain, now in 8 languages including Ukrainian. Started to do this with shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc... but google scholar still doesn't parse books properly (sighs in historian) so I used wordclouds.com instead.
September 26, 2023 at 12:39 PM
Introducing myself to #AcademicSky with a word cloud on my latest book, Oceans of Grain, now in 8 languages including Ukrainian. Started to do this with shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc... but google scholar still doesn't parse books properly (sighs in historian) so I used wordclouds.com instead.
In 1871, tiny bits of crystalline rock killed Steel-Drivin' Man John Henry. In 2023, they are killing young Latino immigrants who cut and polish stone for countertops, though protections for workers (water on saws & drills) are now obvious but unused.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
September 24, 2023 at 9:57 PM
In 1871, tiny bits of crystalline rock killed Steel-Drivin' Man John Henry. In 2023, they are killing young Latino immigrants who cut and polish stone for countertops, though protections for workers (water on saws & drills) are now obvious but unused.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
My summer classroom in Rome got moved. This is the view
November 9, 2024 at 7:08 PM
My summer classroom in Rome got moved. This is the view