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It’s paperback day! and a good day to thank everyone who has help ed to spread word of The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley during the past year!

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D Waldstreicher

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I know there are more important things happening today than bound galleys in the autumnal breeze, BUT….

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They’re Here! And at any There in 19 days.

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My Jewish tweet today is that i have not experienced any uptick of antisemitism at all but this philozionism is beyond offensive and makes me feel unsafe

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I grew up around the corner from Herr Friedman and I am here to tell you that his father, a Conservative rabbi, made a career of denouncing other Jews — & placed a red white and blue kippah on Reagan’s head shortly after that prez laid a wreath on Nazi soldier graves at Bitburg.

David M Friedman

@DavidM_Friedman

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Any American Jew attending this rally is not a Jew — yes I said it!

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The best moments in scholarship are when someone runs with one of your buried underdeveloped notions. In 1999 I suggested that fugitive ads in newspapers were the first published slave narratives. @PatientlyZach has developed the pt & c18 will never look the same. brilliant book!

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There is no humor like bookstore workers' humor.

Kristin Merrilees

@kristnmerrilees

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I went to the Columbia bookstore today…

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D Waldstreicher

@DWaldstreicher

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If you ever thought academia is not the real world, consider the implications of City College students getting beaten by police on 137th st because the president of Columbia invited them to to clear out 116th. One thing i know: we at CUNY will disproportionately pay the price.

Jews for Racial & Economic Justice

@JFREJNYC

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CW: footage of police violence JFREJ members are outside CCNY supporting the student protestors. We've seen violence from the NYPD: -charging the crowd -kettling -throwing protestors to the ground -beating them with batons -indiscriminate arrests without warning

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D Waldstreicher

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I wrote a piece about where Ron DeSantis gets his history from.

The Forgotten Ron DeSantis Book

The Florida governor’s long-ignored 2011 work, "Dreams From Our Founding Fathers," reveals a distinct vision of American history and how it should influence the present.

www.theatlantic.com

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Independent State Legislature Theory utterly destroyed for the ersatz originalism it is. “It has no basis in historical fact.” Elections have to follow federal and state constitutional guidelines, not legislatures. Bravo @rzhist !

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""In my nearly forty years as a faculty member, I have never seen such brazen cruelty toward students and faculty, such cowardice before what amounts to a right-wing witch hunt, and such blatant dishonesty." --Robin D.G. Kelley, always a bright light.

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Am I missing something or are all the news services and pundits missing the fact that George Santos can’t serve in Congress if he hasn’t been a citizen for 7 years? (Article 1, Section 2, US Constitution.)

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@DWaldstreicher

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Page proofs for The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley… say the word and I’ll share Table of Contents, too!

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@DWaldstreicher

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Author Tries to Be Satisfied With Headline.

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@DWaldstreicher

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The 68th annual Francis Parkman Prize honoring literary merit in the writing of history is given to David Waldstreicher for The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys through American Slavery and Independence (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

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@DWaldstreicher

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Underrated Historians from the Past, #2 : Michael Paul Rogin. I know, he was in poli sci and has a pol theory following, but historians are still catching up to his insights into 19-20c political culture. astonishingly interdisciplinary, anticipated all the work on Jackson since.

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@DWaldstreicher

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Ok, the cover too!

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"'The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley' is at once historical biography at its best, literary analysis at its sharpest and a subversive indictment of current political discourse questioning the relevance of Black life in our country’s history."

The Subversive Art of Phillis Wheatley (Published 2023)

A biography by David Waldstreicher offers a radical new vision of the life and work of colonial America’s brilliant Black female poet.

www.nytimes.com

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@DWaldstreicher

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It's a thrill when the hometown paper notices.

A Fresh Look at a Pioneering Black Voice of Revolutionary America (Published 2023)

A new biography places the poet Phillis Wheatley in her own time — and in the middle of the current hot debate about the American Revolution and slavery.

www.nytimes.com

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@DWaldstreicher

1 year

Or rather it’s because some of said senior historians, being of a certain age, have longstanding intellectual agendas that were threatened by the project and the hype, and they went for the weakest factual and rhetorical links in it. Not to mention being in their own bubble.

John Fea

@JohnFea1

1 year

Why were the critics of the #1619Project nearly all senior historians, either w/ tenure or retired? Because few younger scholars or graduate students are willing to risk their careers to call out a problematic narrative on the history of race in America.

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@DWaldstreicher

7 months

Cue the “Paperback Writer”!

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@DWaldstreicher

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This. We should all know this. Too bad U.S. history departments sold off constitutional history to Poli Sci and Law schools.

Grace Mallon

@GraceMallon3

2 months

Have come to the sad conclusion that there were probably more constitutional constraints operating on George III in 1776 than now operate on the US president. Forget about undoing the American Revolution - this decision rolls back the Glorious Revolution.

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@DWaldstreicher

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My latest for Boston review, on Nick Witham's Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America, with riffs on Hofstadter, Boorstin, John Hope Franklin, Gerda Lerner, Howard Zinn, and, of course, Harvey Neptune, Staughton Lynd:

Who Is History For? - Boston Review

What happens when radical historians write for the public.

www.bostonreview.net

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@DWaldstreicher

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Underrated Historians from the Past (first of a series, if folks like it). Vincent Harding. (Perhaps only underrated because appreciated for the many other things he did.)

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@DWaldstreicher

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Thread (1) This is pretty good - especially Noam Chomsky's pithy summary (see next tweet) - but I wish it had more of Staughton's own words.

Staughton Lynd, Historian and Activist Turned Labor Lawyer, Dies at 92 (Published 2022)

After being blacklisted from academia for his antiwar activity, he became an organizer among steel workers in the industrial Midwest.

www.nytimes.com

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@DWaldstreicher

1 year

I still like seeing it in print. Hometown paper, paper of record, grey lady, my breakfast table…

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@DWaldstreicher

2 years

And did YOU know that they got an electoral college bump for 3/5 of the enslaved?

Presidential Wisdom

@PrezWisdom

2 years

DID YOU KNOW? The state of Virginia produced winners in SIX STRAIGHT Presidential Elections. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe won in 1800, 1804, 1808, 1812, 1816, and 1820 (respectively) NOW YOU KNOW! #POTUS 🇺🇸

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@DWaldstreicher

11 months

If folks still wonder why Trump and some evangelicals now think they can say what good jews’ politics should be — it’s because jews like his ambassador to Israel, this guy, said it is ok to play this game. THIS identity politics is the real threat.

David M Friedman

@DavidM_Friedman

11 months

Any American Jew attending this rally is not a Jew — yes I said it!

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@DWaldstreicher

3 years

Comaroff, Jasanoff, Jasanoff, Comaroff, Let's call the whole thing off.

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@DWaldstreicher

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Imagine what he’d say if an official said “Policing is a calling,” while cutting police budgets across the system.

Mayor Eric Adams

@NYCMayor

1 year

Teaching is a calling. You don't do it for the money, you do it because you believe in the kids that come into your classrooms. The largest school system in the country is only as strong as the teachers behind it. Happy #TeacherAppreciationWeek to all our amazing NYC teachers!

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@DWaldstreicher

4 months

Proud to have new article, "Racism, Black Voices, Emancipation, and Constitution-Making in Massachusetts, 1778" in the Journal of American Constitutional History 2:2 (2024), 325-55. It's a spin-off from my Wheatley research & open access here:

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@melnickjeffrey1 @yidzbop there needs to be a sequel joke about the mice who still donate

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@DWaldstreicher

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Hey Justice Alito, give me a call. I study Deeply Rooted history, even though I’m not Deeply Rooted myself (only 3-5 generations). How ‘bout you?

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@bencarp @drkellyallen you’ve outpaced yourself here!

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@DWaldstreicher

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Counterfactual questions like this are not “basic.” They are often rhetoric designed to distract. As Jim Oakes likes to say, if things had been different, they’d have been different.”

Daniel N. Gullotta ⚓️

@DanielGullotta

3 years

" @woodyholtonusc conclusion still begs a basic question, particularly concerning slavery: What might have happened had the British won the Revolutionary War, or had the Revolution never happened at all?" - @seanwilentz on 'Liberty is Sweet' for @nybooks

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@NormieUtah @Tyler_A_Harper No. It is saying, I work here, i have responsibilities here to the students, and it is my workplace more than yours. That used to be common sense.

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@DWaldstreicher

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Staughton Lynd: occam’s razor. “I think Wilentz seeks to push ‘freedom national’ as an interpretation of 1787 rather than understanding it as an anti-slavery strategy developed in response to 1787.”

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@DWaldstreicher

6 months

Working hard to get ready for this....

McNeil Center for Early American Studies

@mcneilcenter

6 months

The McNeil Center will debut the first endowed lecture series in the field of early American Studies: the Benjamin Franklin Distinguished Lectures. Please join us in Nov. 2024 for the inaugural lectures, to be given by @DWaldstreicher . More info here:

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If you're in NYC on March 7, come to a book launch at the Graduate Center! Skylight Rm, 630pm. Co-sponsored by the Leon Levy Center for Biography & The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean. So grateful to @elizmchenry for joining us!

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@DWaldstreicher

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@SamSacks DeSantis normalization seems to be failing so trot out more clever guy.

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@DWaldstreicher

3 years

Conservatives 1851: US colleges do abolitionist indoctrination. This didn’t happen in the 1810s. Conservatives 1811: US colleges do secular indoctrination. This didn’t happen before the flood.

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"Sometimes I wonder if all this coverage is because the media know how to cover a normal problem like a sub-par candidate; they don’t know how to cover something as abnormal and unprecedented as the end of the Republic. So for the most part, they don’t."

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnit

Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

www.theguardian.com

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@DWaldstreicher

3 years

As in, “Who are these men (and women!) wearing blue and heavily armed? Are they a standing army?”

Madison Cawthorn

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3 years

Our Founding Fathers wouldn't recognize the America we live in today. They would be horrified, and rightfully so.

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@DWaldstreicher

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When a historian starts saying “Of course,” and “To be sure,” the one thing you can be sure of is that straw men are being set up.

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@DWaldstreicher

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Starred review in Publishers Weekly: "...a magisterial biography....Tracing Wheatley’s trajectory from a promising student to a national celebrity, he explores her development as an artist and focuses on how Wheatley crafted “subversive” meanings..." 1/2

The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence by...

Waldstreicher (Slavery’s Constitution), a history professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, delivers a magis...

www.publishersweekly.com

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@DWaldstreicher

3 years

1st day on twitter: what are these buttons for? 2nd day: wait, she’s here too? 3rd day: gosh i’m clever 4th day: people like me! 5th day: haven’t seen him for 20 years! 6th day: i’m addicted 7th day: gotta stop (utter failure) 8th day: let me know….

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@DWaldstreicher

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Yes. In Revolution/early republic (ok founders if you must) history, the politeness has had two key causes imho: (1) trying to keep lines of communication open, (2) trying to keep lines of funding open. Founders chic was an attempt to evade the reckoning; it fed the monster.

Noah Shusterman 孫達文

@ncshusterman

2 years

I guess I wish the joint @AHAhistorians / @The_OAH statement said, "originalism is bullshit and always has been, it has nothing to do with history, and we've been wrong to be polite about it this whole time."

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"McCullough has to ignore several generations of progressive historiography to make Adams a champion of democracy." Interpretive differences indeed: I'm doing my job. "Founders Chic as Culture War," Radical History Review 84 (Fall 2002), 185-94. DM me for a pdf.

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@DWaldstreicher

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Here is Phillis, right between Barbra and Christina Sharpe: seems about right to me….

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Statues like this are neither good art nor good history. They're founder fetishism. Why are we celebrating their so-called cult of honor, i.e. violence? Please stop promoting it, @AmRevMuseum . Constitution Center too. The Revolution's iconoclasm is the more worthy tradition.

Museum of the American Revolution

@AmRevMuseum

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#OnThisDay in 1756, Continental Army officer, senator, and vice president Aaron Burr was born in Newark, N.J. This dueling statue of Burr, from @NYHistory , was featured in our past exhibit #HamiltonWasHere .

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One of them is Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773 edition). No marginalia, alas - I checked.

Tom McMillan

@TomMcMillan63

1 year

There are more than 12,000 books (in 13 languages!) in the AMAZING John Quincy Adams collection, displayed in the library at the family’s “Peace field” estate in Quincy, MA 📚 📖 🇺🇸

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Now up on C-Span website: at the Harvard Bookstore with @agordonreed . Yes, that's unmistakably Peter Onuf in the front row.... and later, my friend and onetime colleague from our Bennington College days, Steven Cramer, asking me to read a poem!

The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

Author David Waldstreicher talked about the life and work of Phillis Wheatley, who was enslaved as a child but learned to read and write and went on to become a published poet in colonial Am…

www.c-span.org

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My email inbox is so much fun today. This from a grad school classsmate: "My heartfelt congrats on the new book. I hope it brings you much joy, and of course also pisses off all the right people." Bonus points for anyone who can guess the author!

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John B. Hench: historian of print, major domo of AAS research programs, first scholar who bonded with me over old newspapers, set the mold for running a fellowship program: supportive in every sense, snobbish in none. The Worcester diaspora will miss him.

John B. Hench Obituary (2024) - Shrewsbury, MA - Chiampa Funeral Home

View John B. Hench's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

www.legacy.com

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Originalism and Founders Chic were always going to end here.

Richard Bell

@R_J_Bell

1 year

Why, yes, I did enjoy it when Vivek said that it was the greatness of the Constitution that helped the patriots win the American Revolution.

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3 years

I believe I showed it goes back to October 1787.

Michael Hattem

@MichaelHattem

3 years

It is important to understand that this debate about the Constitution is not new. It goes back to the 1840s when some abolitionists began to split over the question of whether the Constitution was a proslavery document.

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At a time when community and province studies were the rage, Axtell pushed envelopes with big themes, syntheses, critical public history, engaging classic essays on topics like “white indians” & scalping. he was deprovincializing early america (at w&m!) long before the vastness.

Marcus Rediker

@MarcusRediker

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RIP James Axtell, who taught at the College of William and Mary and was long a leading figure in Native American history. I did not know him personally, but I admired his talents as a scholar and a writer.

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My new article, "Racism, Black Voices, Emancipation, and Constitution-Making in Massachusetts, 1778," Journal of American Constitutional History (open access) - for those who may not have seen my earlier posting.

Racism, Black Voices, Emancipation, and Constitution-Making in Massachusetts, 1778

by David Waldstreicher Black voices—even disembodied, anonymous, speculative Black voices—were part of the constitutional conversation in Massachusetts in 1777-78. If that isn’t being present at the...

jach.law.wisc.edu

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@DWaldstreicher

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In case you haven’t heard: paperback is out!

Picador USA

@PicadorUSA

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David Waldstreicher’s THE ODYSSEY OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY is a paradigm-shattering biography of Phillis Wheatley, whose extraordinary poetry set African American literature at the heart of the American Revolution. In paperback today!

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@daniel_dsj2110 He has a point, but the same argument could be made about op eds and book reviews and this very interview. But of course he doesn’t mean his…

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It’s a big problem for grand narratives emphasizing revolutions and change, too.

Adam Rothman

@arothmanhistory

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The Civil War is a big analytical problem for any grand narrative of US history that emphasizes stability, cohesion, and continuity over time.

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"Waldstreicher writes with his pleasing long-windedness...." Have I died and gone to academic heaven?

The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley by David Waldstreicher — Open Letters Review

A new biography of the Revolutionary Era poet.

openlettersreview.com

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@DWaldstreicher

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It’s official (or rather, marketed): Gordon Wood is now a right wing cult.

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

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Wow. This is an actual ad in here. 👀👀👀

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Writing a paper that gets me to Jamaica & royal governors and deep into my Jack Greene shelf. Incomparable.

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Re reactions to Somerset v. Steuart: the best and latest analysis is Matthew Mason's “North American Calm, West Indian Storm: The Politics of the Somerset Decision in the British Atlantic,” Slavery and Abolition 41:4 (2020): 723-47.

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Biden should be immediately disqualified for referring to "presidential historians."

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Go Bette! Critique that historiography!

New York Times Books

@nytimesbooks

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Bette Midler wishes more authors would write about race and Reconstruction: "The villainy of the impeached Andrew Johnson should be common knowledge, but it is not."

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Her crackpot realism helped get us here. Israel is mimicking the US during the Gulf War: respond to terrorism with endless bombing and destruction, which of course proves the terrorists right in the eyes of the world and creates more terrorists. Didn't even need to read her book.

The Recount

@therecount

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Hillary Clinton criticizes pro-Palestinian protests and says many young people she’s spoken to “don't know very much at all about the history of the Middle East or, frankly, about history in many areas of the world.”

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Sam Tanenhaus gave me my start as a published writer many years ago. He has also modeled what it means to keep history and literature in dialogue. I can hardly say how excited I am to talk with him about my book!

Essex Library

@sxlibrary

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The Odyssey Of Phillis Wheatley Book Talk With David Waldstreicher Thursday, November 9, 7:00 p.m. David Waldstreicher will talk about his book The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley. The talk will feature the author in conversation with Sam Tanenhaus.

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Here is my tribute to Staughton, from 2010, a version of my intro to the 2009 Cambridge ed. of Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism, which includes some info on the reception of that book, now (I'm glad) more simply remembered as his best known.

The Return of Staughton Lynd

For the generation that came of age intellectually in the 1970s and 80s, Staughton Lynd’s Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism (1968) was one of those tattered Vintage paperback (num

www.historynewsnetwork.org

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Au contraire: avoid people who scan the room while not really listening to you; instead make friends and future readers by treating colleagues as you would like to be treated.Of all all times to judge people by their institutional affiliations! ivy types will ivy, born or bred.

Tim Gill

@timgill924

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Grad Students: Networking is critical for success in academia. But the real question is WHO to network with. I’ve known grad students who will spend time at conferences drinking beers in the bars with grad students from unranked programs. Is that 1/

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Eureka! I have finally found the 2009 letter in which David Brion Davis wrote that "Of course i have long supported the book's [Slavery's Constitution] and am delighted to learn so many new things that confirm and strengthen the crucial thesis." (1/2)

D Waldstreicher

@DWaldstreicher

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🙂At 1000 followers (i am still new here)I will reveal what Adam’s, Sean Wilentz’s and my teacher David Brion Davis said about this.🤭🤭

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Have always wanted to visit that legendary bookstore but this is even better!

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. @DWaldstreicher in the poetry section at Powell's Books in Portland!

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For those who don’t know: he co-wrote the book. And heads the Leon Levy Center for Biography at CUNY Grad Center.

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Emily Wilson is owning twitter on the eve of publication of her Iliad translation. It was a thrill to read her Odyssey and find she was reading it as i think phillis wheatley did - with women and the enslaved central.

Dr Emily Wilson

@EmilyRCWilson

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People sometimes talk about "feeling seen" as if it were definitely good. The Odyssey is, among 10,000 other things, a poem about the joys of being in hiding, or being in disguise, or being unseen, unrecognized, hidden, or being somebody else.

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So important, and so brilliant, by Francois Furstenberg: "By turning education into a content-free, artificial-intelligence-generated performance, “skills” can be detached from individual, embodied human beings and turned into pure commodities."

Opinion | Higher Ed’s Grim, Soulless, Ed-Techified Future

Temple’s Jason Wingard championed “skillification.” He’s out, but his vision lives on.

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D Waldstreicher

@DWaldstreicher

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Smith thinks it ok to translate my post into his honor-saturated FoundersChicSpeak, so let me clarify that Constitutional history is bigger and more important than studies that turn the American Revolution into a capital-f 'founding," or so-called statesmanship/leadership studies

Craig Bruce Smith

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When history depts surrender topics that they have traditional covered (such as the Founding, political hist., diplomacy, war, statesmanship) don’t be surprised when others pick them up. And you may not like it… Moral: historians should teach traditional topics (& new trends)

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D Waldstreicher

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Every cabinet secretary should have access to an education that prevents them from becoming a shill for corporate capitalism.

Secretary Miguel Cardona

@SecCardona

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Every student should have access to an education that aligns with industry demands and evolves to meet the demands of tomorrow’s global workforce.

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Nobody says this to scientists or innovative artists who teach to make a living. We do not know what niche knowledge will be useful to whom i the future. “A teacher affects eternity” applies here.

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The Cambridge Companion to Oxford Handbooks, edited by Guy Whose University Awards Merit Raises for Edited Essay Collections

Neil Renic

@NC_Renic

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The Oxford Handbook of People Who Completely Forgot They Had Agreed to Contribute.

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@MichaelHattem @varsha_venkat_ I would go even further: if you did it once, i.e. wrote a dissertation, you’re a historian the way a doctor or musician is still that even if not currently practicing composing or performing. b/c you can do it anytime. Current practice means something but it’s secondary.

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D Waldstreicher

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@davidhuyssen Only the NYT would unself-consciously write “as Wall Street types would put it” and in doing so push metaphor toward objective fact. The magic of journalistic objectivity. Doing Trump’s laundry every day.

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D Waldstreicher

@DWaldstreicher

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We’re going beyond the Beyond!

CUNY EARS

@cuny_ears

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We are pleased to announce our end of the year event for 2024: Beyond the Founders, 20 Years Later to be held Friday, 10 May from 2:00-5:30PM. The hybrid event will feature two roundtables on the collection's impact and legacy. Please see the event poster for RSVP information!

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Now this is what I call presidential!

Prem Thakker

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Kamala Harris has reportedly *declined* to preside over the Senate for Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress this week:

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It appears that Princeton UP thought Marx would sell better if he looked like Percival Everett's James?

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The Accumulation of Capital

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So looking forward to talking about my book with Scott Casper, who was not only a classmate and mentor (to everyone) in grad school but also an expert on biography, print culture, the memory on slavery….

American Antiquarian Society

@AmAntiquarian

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Join us virtually on Tuesday, 11/14 at 7pm EST, as David Waldstreicher discusses the life and works of Phillis Wheatley Peters and his new book, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence." Register here:

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Maybe Myth America would not seem so limited or one-sided if it had taken more seriously the classic and recent American Studies work on myths instead of equating myth with right wing propaganda? @AmericanStudier @JohannNeem @bencarp @JohnFea1 @markdboonie

Ben Railton

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Both the Commission & Hedgehog essay argue instead for forms of patriotism: Commission’s goal was “patriotic education”; essay suggests historians miss “Any story suggesting that we Americans are something better, or even that we have ideals that should inspire us to be better.”

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Let me rewrite this headline with a Bronx cheer: Former Republican Mayor of New York City gives it all to his rich Baltimore alma mater, nothing to CUNY.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Free tuition for majority of medical students at Johns Hopkins after $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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Excellent piece. via @nplusonemag

Florida in Philadelphia | Mathias Fuelling and Josh Stern

The strike at Temple, therefore, was not just about material benefits for graduate workers: it was also about the long-term structural nature of what the contemporary university will be. It was about...

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@DWaldstreicher

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I never imagined anyone could depict my interpretation and others like it as “new,” or “misconstrued critical debates” “slighted the antislavery impulses” or “missed the crucial subtlety” much less while claiming DBD as “intellectual hero” & “mentor” (No Property in Man, xv, 1)

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John Ganz on Vance: "his is the heart of entire paleocon ethos: Contrary to the notion that America is an idea, a creed, a set of self-evident propositions of the Declaration of Independence, first and foremost “that all men are created equal," we are a specific people..." 1/2

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Shamless self-promotion from Lit Hub's March list: "If anyone needed further proof that the incredible life of Phillis Wheatley deserves its own blockbuster prestige TV series they need look no further than David Waldstreicher’s 500-page biography."

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Excellent NYT letter to the editor by colleague @sarahechinn responding to latest ivy-oriented anti-woke/cancel/pc drivel on the op-ed page.

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NYT Says What My Field Has Been Saying For Fifty Years

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Let’s play Next president of Columbia University. I’ll start: —Andrew Cuomo —Alan Dershowitz —E. Gordon Gee (if he’s not actually a fictional character)

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@DWaldstreicher

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This is why we fall in love with Philly over and over again.

Harriett’s Bookshop

@harriettsbooks

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Delivering books on horseback. Amazon ain’t got nothing on us. 😎😎😎

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So honored by @GreenidgeKerri ’s review!

Farrar,Straus&Giroux

@fsgbooks

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David Waldstreicher's "thoroughly researched, beautifully rendered and cogently argued biography" THE ODYSSEY OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY is out today! @nytimesbooks reviews

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“I read a good deal of literary criticism, and a lot of the cues I’ve taken for my own writing come from it….”— Richard Hofstadter, 1960. Quoted in Nick Witham’s forthcoming book Popularizing the Past: Historians Publishers & Readers in Postwar America, p.21

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D Waldstreicher

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Good company.

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

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The fascinating life of Phillis Wheatley is revealed in a new biography that also shows the poet to be a more subversive writer than was previously thought, writes @TiyaMilesTAM .

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