Steve Forman
@safnyc.bsky.social
History editor, WW Norton
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Lansanity at the Garden!
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Lansanity at the Garden!
Reposted by Steve Forman
condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
September 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
Excellent:
Five Words From the Declaration of Independence National Conservatives Don’t Like www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
Five Words From the Declaration of Independence National Conservatives Don’t Like www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
Opinion | Five Words From the Declaration of Independence National Conservatives Don’t Like
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Excellent:
Five Words From the Declaration of Independence National Conservatives Don’t Like www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
Five Words From the Declaration of Independence National Conservatives Don’t Like www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
Reposted by Steve Forman
It's important to remember that much of the public history the Trump administration is attempting to roll back has increasingly become mainstream. It's not going anywhere as long as we stand up and defend it. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Assessing Slavery at Historic Sites and in Public Memory Over the Past Twenty-Five Years
I recently picked up a copy of Eric Foner’s new book, Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays, which brings together many of his book reviews and op-eds published over the past decades.
open.substack.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It's important to remember that much of the public history the Trump administration is attempting to roll back has increasingly become mainstream. It's not going anywhere as long as we stand up and defend it. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
On Eric Foner’s OUR FRAGILE FREEDOMS:
“Engrossing and informative…. To Foner, Reconstruction is the pivotal point of American history — what he calls America’s “second founding,” a rupture both with 1619 and with 1776.” Zaakir Tameez, NYTBR
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
“Engrossing and informative…. To Foner, Reconstruction is the pivotal point of American history — what he calls America’s “second founding,” a rupture both with 1619 and with 1776.” Zaakir Tameez, NYTBR
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
A Foremost Scholar of Slavery Wonders if America Can Ever Atone
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
On Eric Foner’s OUR FRAGILE FREEDOMS:
“Engrossing and informative…. To Foner, Reconstruction is the pivotal point of American history — what he calls America’s “second founding,” a rupture both with 1619 and with 1776.” Zaakir Tameez, NYTBR
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
“Engrossing and informative…. To Foner, Reconstruction is the pivotal point of American history — what he calls America’s “second founding,” a rupture both with 1619 and with 1776.” Zaakir Tameez, NYTBR
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
“Probing and incisive” — PW
Eric Foner’s OUR FRAGILE FREEDOMS, publishing in September.
#what’shistory
Eric Foner’s OUR FRAGILE FREEDOMS, publishing in September.
#what’shistory
July 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
“Probing and incisive” — PW
Eric Foner’s OUR FRAGILE FREEDOMS, publishing in September.
#what’shistory
Eric Foner’s OUR FRAGILE FREEDOMS, publishing in September.
#what’shistory
“A free people-when pressed by no common danger-naturally divide into parties. At such times, the man who is of neither party, is not, cannot be, of any consequence.”
—Abraham Lincoln, July 6, 1852
From BOSS LINCOLN: THE PARTISAN LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN by Matt Pinsker (Norton 2026)
#What’sHistory
—Abraham Lincoln, July 6, 1852
From BOSS LINCOLN: THE PARTISAN LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN by Matt Pinsker (Norton 2026)
#What’sHistory
July 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“A free people-when pressed by no common danger-naturally divide into parties. At such times, the man who is of neither party, is not, cannot be, of any consequence.”
—Abraham Lincoln, July 6, 1852
From BOSS LINCOLN: THE PARTISAN LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN by Matt Pinsker (Norton 2026)
#What’sHistory
—Abraham Lincoln, July 6, 1852
From BOSS LINCOLN: THE PARTISAN LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN by Matt Pinsker (Norton 2026)
#What’sHistory
@jamellebouie.net I’m a big fan of your work, especially as it draws on Lincoln/Civil War history. Want to alert you to a book publishing from Norton in February, BOSS LINCOLN: THE PARTISAN LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN by Matthew Pinsker. A game changer - can send a galley if you’d like.
July 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
@jamellebouie.net I’m a big fan of your work, especially as it draws on Lincoln/Civil War history. Want to alert you to a book publishing from Norton in February, BOSS LINCOLN: THE PARTISAN LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN by Matthew Pinsker. A game changer - can send a galley if you’d like.
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just want to share this Lincoln line from his "electric cords" speech.
"So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can. If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature."
"So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can. If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature."
July 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
just want to share this Lincoln line from his "electric cords" speech.
"So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can. If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature."
"So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can. If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature."