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Historian, Civil War Era United States. Chasing paper, getting nowhere. Fan of Liverpool FC #lfc #ynwa https://history.wvu.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty/brian-luskey
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Coming soon from UNC Press: The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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It has a cover! I am so excited to have The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean coming out September 2025 with @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

submitted 10 days ago • 34 comments

Every Liverpool fan RN 😱

submitted 41 days ago • 19 comments

Opportunity: 2-yr postdoc in Civil War Era (emphasis on era) with the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies and Virginia Tech History Department. I'm happy to answer questions. 🗃️https://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/532059/postdoctoral-associate

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It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️

submitted 62 days ago • 95 comments

indeed. employers also want workers to know spreadsheets but that doesn’t mean we have to use spreadsheets to learn about Emily Dickinson

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

A short thread about the surprising truth of 19th century train robberies—specifically, those of Jesse James. Let's ask a question about "social bandits": Did they target the big corporations—in this case, railroads? The answer shows how well historians must know the world they write about. 1/

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

My wife just asked our kids, “is the bacon to your liking?” We are ruled by tyrants….

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A beautiful, moving memorial illumination at Antietam National Battlefield Park last night 🗃️

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

New authors: if no one ever told you, YOU are your biggest advocate when it comes to promotion. I’ve had to personally contact booksellers to get mine into their store. Just today I got a response from a bookstore that they’d love to carry Slavery on the Periphery. You’ve got this! #skystorians

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You spend years researching and writing, but after passing the manuscript off to the press you almost stop thinking about the project that dominated your working days. Yet one day, many months later, a book shows up on your doorstep. Welcome to the world, A Union Tested. ugapress.org/book/9780820...

submitted 95 days ago • 7 comments

Today is official pub day for my new book _Dread Danger_! Available from Cambridge University Press via this link: www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

submitted 99 days ago • 5 comments

Thrilled to be able to share the cover for @juliagaffield.bsky.social's I HAVE AVENGED AMERICA, coming next summer from Yale University Press. An absolutely captivating and essential read whether you know a little or a lot about the history of Haiti. 🗃️ yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Did you know that you could share Commonplace articles directly to Bluesky? On the top of each page next to Share Article, click on the little butterfly 🦋. Want to give it a try? Check out our latest by Patricia Cline Cohen on an 1830s abortion trial in Maine: 🗃️ commonplace.online/article/the-...

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The 2025 Spring/Summer UNC Press frontlist catalog is here! —featuring new 📚, all available now for preorder from your favorite book retailer.

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There it is: my new book, A Union Tested, is out in the world. I hadn’t expected it for a few more weeks, but now that it’s arrived, here’s a quick intro and plug for anyone who’s teaching about loyalty, gender, marriage, illness, and the border West during the Civil War. #booksky #skystorians 🧵

submitted 102 days ago • 3 comments

weird to me that people go on special writing retreats, i retreat from writing all the time

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Kentucky passed its first Nullification Resolution on this day in 1798, so it’s a great time to read this thought-provoking piece in Commonplace by Christian Fritz on interposition and how it might be used to balance state and national authority. 🗃️ https://commonplace.online/article/interposition/

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As so many people arrive here, let me just say, “Hello & welcome” & ask that you submit nominations of Digital History projects to the JAH. Projects can be of all sizes and shapes but be related to American History. We are also looking for book-equivalent DH projects. www.oah.org/publications...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a billion horrors so why is AI plagiarism the thing that will send me over the edge, a future envisioned that has no use for humans, no space for what makes us human, just computers sending garbage to each other forever

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

#skystorians, any interest in forming a panel focused on convict labor or railroad labor during Reconstruction for #SHA2025? I'm hoping to present on the use of convict labor on Texas railroads during the 1870s. #laborhistory

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

Blueskis, if you use MS Word - they are using every word you write to train AI. 😡 See instructions for turning if off (for Mac and Windows), below.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

commonplace.online/article/how-...

submitted 108 days ago • 6 comments

Reviewing how much (Vast) early American content I posted on Twitter back in the day and reviving that practice. Michelle McKinley’s brilliant new article in the Oct 24 WMQ, putting Mediterranean and Atlantic slaveries in conversation, focuses on “contingent liberty.” 1/ #VastEarlyAmericas

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