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Alex E. Stern
@theotherdrstern.bsky.social
Historian of power⚡️Assistant Prof at CCNY 🦫 U.S.-Indigenous history in the Civil War and Reconstruction Era 🌎 Writing a book on Reconstruction in Indian Territory 📕 NativeReconstruction.com 💻 Stanford Ph.D. by way of UPenn 🌲 Kentuckian 🏇
🔥 Brand new Greater Reconstruction scholarship, hot off the press!🗃️

Situating her reader near Nevada’s Comstock Lode, Nicole Martin shows “how the idealized free-labor home at the heart of Reconstruction policy played out in rapidly industrializing economies struggling to reconcile old/new values.”
October 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
These folks did an absolutely tremendous job sharing their expertise and engaging with each other and our 40+ person audience for Insights from Indian Country: Rethinking Traditional American History Narratives. 🗃️ #SHEAR2025
July 21, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Planning your #2024SHA & #WHA2024 schedule? Save room on Saturday afternoon for Remembered and Forgotten: American Indian Collective Remembrances of the American Civil War & Reconstruction, featuring Malinda Maynor Lowery, @alainaroberts.bsky.social, Lindsey Peterson, myself, & Kevin Bruyneel. 🗃️
October 24, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Our #WHA2024 roundtable was designed around the idea that each panelist would start by highlighting one historical actor who traversed Reconstruction's spatial and temporal boundaries.

We took that idea one step further and created historical trading cards related to our featured characters. 🗃️
October 23, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Today at 1:30 PM, @jenandrella.bsky.social, Kevin Waite, @evalentin25.bsky.social, Noah Ramage, @danielsharfstein.bsky.social, and I are helping open the
#WHA2024 conference program with “A Nation at a Crossroads: Bridging Southern & Western Reconstruction Histories.” 🗃️
October 23, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Top five reads of 2023. Here's to discovering new books in the new year. 🍾
January 2, 2024 at 3:43 AM
Excited for my Spring 2024 course line up, especially to bring back Adrienne Petty's Controversies class (with my own twist). If you're a @ccnyhistory.bsky.social student, or just have an interest, enrollment is open. Sign up today!
November 20, 2023 at 3:01 PM
One week! It's early but it'll be worth it 🗃️ #WHA2023
October 20, 2023 at 8:33 PM
Hard to believe we're already a third of the way through the reading list for Histories of American Violence. This latest crop of excellent MA students are once again making it my favorite class to teach.
September 27, 2023 at 3:48 PM