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edwardmair.bsky.social
Historian of slavery in the Native South. Also interested in empires and anti-slavery. Assistant Professor in American History at Cambridge, and a Staff Fellow at Trinity Hall. He/Him.
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Great to see former colleague and current friend @samwetherell.bsky.social launch his timely book on Liverpool in the city itself. Also looking forward to selling a recording of his statement that ‘Militant were not radical enough’ to the tabloids.

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Better advertising to come, but I’m excited to announce that registration is now live for our very heavily subsidised Teaching Indigenous Histories & Perspectives Conference on 28 June! Bursaries for travel are available plus free follow-up support. Please do share with all your teacher networks!

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Having a fun scroll through jobs.ac.uk.

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We're thrilled to open the call for papers for the 2025 BrANCH Conference, to be held jointly with the British Group in Early American History (BGEAH). This year’s conference will be hosted in Cardiff, Wales on September 12-14, 2025! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇

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🚨 Calling all ECRs researching twentieth century US History! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW329/m...

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BAAS regrets to announce that the BAAS / US Embassy Small Grants Programme has been cancelled. 1/7

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Astounding that US media refuses to directly label this as 'ethnic cleansing'. It's all so immeasurably horrific.

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Very cool and progressive of Labour to gleefully repeat talking points from Pat Buchanan's 1992 culture war speech: "America’s great middle class has got to start standing up to these environmental extremists who put birds and rats and insects ahead of families, workers, and jobs."

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Back to the book today. Beginning the big edit on the chapter that begins with an analysis of this image from the First Seminole War. The figure on the left is a Black Seminole and among the first visual depictions of one in American print culture.

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Parish notice: am looking for a couple of people (ideally grad students with pol science or history background) to help me out with some research for a project I’m working on. Will pay for the time. DM if interested or send on to someone if you think would fit the bill.

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I wrote this 8 years (8!) ago now. I cringe a bit at my stab at hagiography, but I will always have a great amount of respect for President Carter. A thoroughly decent man, perhaps too decent for the office of the president. theconversation.com/jimmy-carter...

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Need a last minute xmas gift? Never fear! My book Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era is available to pre-order from @uncpress.bsky.social. Follow this link www.uncpress.org/book/9781469... and use the code 01SOCIAL30 for 30% off

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There goes my Christmas writing plans.

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Post the LAST Sentence of your last article: "The Black go-betweens, through their shrewd interactions with settler and Indigenous society, illuminate the complex decision-making and resilience of self-emancipated peoples who operated in the borderlands of Florida." doi.org/10.1215/0014...

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One that should be of interest to former @ljmuhistory.bsky.social colleagues! I will also be there (which may not be of interest).

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It’s that time of the year again! Please do get your students to apply for our exciting (and fully funded 😱) Kinder-BrANCH MA in Atlantic History and Politics! 👇

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When I was at LJMU my first few months were spent trying to figure out the room-numbering system of this place. A fool's errand, it turned out.

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16 month US history job going at UCL, with a great selection of modules to boot: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Cambridge people: come along to this event with @jamescrossland.bsky.social (aka The Raconteur of Merseyside)!

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#CFP for #Britain and the #World 2025 at @ljmumasff.bsky.social next year. Please share widely and consider attending!

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Another incentive: I'll briefly draw connections between settler colonialism and this chemical supply company, inexplicably named after a historic Seminole leader.

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Cambridge people - if on Thursday you find yourself longing to understand why Native Americans were a key component of abolitionist arguments, then may I humbly suggest this:

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A difficult week in my professional career. Completely misjudged the indignation I would generate from my class when I told them I hadn't seen Hamilton.

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Looking forward to giving a paper at University of York next Wednesday - please join us!

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Who says the neoliberal university has no answers?

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Oh look! It's me, talking at length to @newmadras.bsky.social about my current research project, the Cold War, nuclear fear, and games.

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A PSA, as some men seem not to have mastered this advanced skill: when in the audience of a public lecture, have you considered *not* shouting at a young woman for coughing?

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My first full day at Cambridge AND Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday. All too much to handle.

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FDR mastered the radio, Reagan mastered television. In 2024, we've found the new frontier of political communication.

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Got loads of teaching and research admin to get done, so naturally I'm in the Usenet archive looking at what constituted for 'fake news' in 1983.

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If anyone out there knows a graduate or undergraduate student in St Louis who would be interested in doing some paid research assistance at the Missouri Historical Society, please get in touch. I’d like to hire someone to visit and take some photos of documents…

submitted 178 days ago • 4 comments

Last day in my office at York. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my 2 years in the History department, and I’ll miss the important (and not so important) conversations with colleagues that took place here.

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