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Ben Wright

4 years

It's book release day! Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired & Limited Am Abolitionism is officially out! Drawing winners for a book & donation: @ChanceBonar , @AmazingSymetri , @KeriLeighMerrit , @BaltimireNoMore , & @cmMcConnaughy Congrats, and thanks for the support!

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Ben Wright

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4 years

This is so true. On my list of things that all historians know that would surprise many non-historians, the fact that originalism is intellectually untenable is second to only the fact that all history is revisionist history. (Seriously, originalism is anti-history)

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Ben Wright

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Given this new wave of @KevinMKruse -referred followers, maybe it's time for me to change my Twitter strategy. Is this how you do it? How Gouverneur Morris's peg-leg explains why Dinesh D'souza is a moron... 1/342

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Ben Wright

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8 years

Refugees detained at DFW airport. Resistance is here. After 8 hours, two elderly women released.

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Ben Wright

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December 2020.

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Ben Wright

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I've learned a lot from @CivilWarMonitor , but it's disappointing that the five (all men) historians named 14 male authors and no women in their best of 2019 review. So, here's a (too) short thread of some of my favorite Civil War histories by women. Add to this #twitterstorians

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Ben Wright

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4 years

Fun with grading: I just learned about the Sugar Daddy Act of 1764

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Ben Wright

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I and 20 others were arrested at UT-Dallas on Wed. I wrote a short reflection w student and colleague input tentatively titled, "What my students and I learned in jail." In past experience, submitting to op-ed portals is a black hole. If any editors want a look, pls reach out

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

4 years

Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism is out in 15 weeks! Starting tomorrow, every Wed I'm tweeting an excerpt. RTs earn entries to win one of 5 free books and a $50 donation to a racial justice org of your choice.

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Ben Wright

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4 years

Just so we are all clear, today Texas Gov Abbot announced a mass human sacrifice to boost his shot for the GOP nomination. The GOP has become a death cult.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

6 years

Teaching United States History is excited to announce "Teach My Book." Distinguished authors will discuss how instructors might teach their work. Stay tuned for insights from Richard Blackett, @Historiann , @marthasjones_ , @DiehardRebels , @econroykrutz , @AndrewFLang , & more

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Ben Wright

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6 months

What my students and I learned in jail

What My Students and I Learned in Jail After Protesting on the UTD Campus

Ben Wright, a history professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, reflects on the arrests following an on-campus demonstration against the war in Gaza.

www.dmagazine.com

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

4 years

quickly: to any non-historians to whom this is surprising or controversial. I’m not trying to slam or shame anyone. There has been a decades-long dangerous disinformation campaign by bad-faith actors that has, regrettably, ensnared more than a few good-faith folx. Let’s fix it

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Ben Wright

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5 years

#GoPackGo

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

6 years

The description I give my students of office hours: "It's 3 hrs every week where I stare at my open door hoping desperately that someone wants to talk to me about class or history more broadly, so I don't feel bad for not writing. Please, please come see me."

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Ben Wright

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6 years

I'm a historian who edits an American history textbook (American Yawp). I closely monitor syllabi from other historians to see what gets assigned. I've never once seen Zinn used as a textbook. This claim is a lie.

Jonathan Chait

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6 years

I've heard many students say Howard Zinn's People's History is the central/sole textbook in their history course. That's a very bad practice.

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Ben Wright

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4 months

Big mail day! A must read for historians of slavery, legal history, or New Orleans

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Ben Wright

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3 years

Dallas doesn't always feel like Texas, but today a student could not complete their reading because they were "charged by a bull in the family pasture" (they will make a full recovery)

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

We historians are so lucky to have the fantastic resource . It's the first place I go to find panelists, contributing authors, or send targeted job invitations. #aha20 #nomoremanels @womnknowhistory #womenalsoknowhistory

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

3 months

My colleague tries to answer the question that has plagued me all summer: How do I teach at a university that wants me in jail? Read and share her powerful words about the fallout from our arrest:

My university wants me in jail: Now what? (opinion)

Rosemary Admiral writes that her sense of belonging at her institution has been shattered.

www.insidehighered.com

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

4 years

Beyond humbling to have my book out in the world. And even more so to have scholars who I really admire say such kind things! Many thanks!

Gerardo Martí • Threads Insta ⁦• bsky gerardomarti

@praxishabitus

4 years

Excellent approach to “Why did US Christians fail to fight vs slavery?”—Close attention to theology—Conversion & idea of imminent Second Coming—Consensus broke in 1830s, then denominational splits—Gives so much for understanding Christian controversies about racial justice today

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Ben Wright

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1 year

This fall I am experimenting with assigning ChatGPT in my 240-student U.S. History survey class. Here's how it's going:

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

I aggregated my favorite Teaching United States History posts about online teaching: Also threaded individually below. Smart ideas from #twitterstorians @TheTattooedProf , @cassiel_clark , @katisjewell , @AndersonHagler , @cerenz , @erin_bartram & more.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

4 years

God bless Texas librarians

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Ben Wright

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4 years

Tenure file submitted. Results April 1. What's the record for the world's longest panic attack?

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

4 years

It’s a truth universally acknowledged by all #twitterstorians that @NoraSlonimsky is wildly generous and lovely. I was the beneficiary today. You might be tomorrow. Thanks so much Nora.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

3 years

New Yawp dropped

American Yawp

@AmericanYawp

3 years

Our 2021-2022 edition is now live! Read details about our exciting updates here: But here's a brief thread outlining the improvements

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Ben Wright

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3 years

I think I just typed the most American question into Google: “Can you buy liquor at Wal-Mart in Missouri?” I feel very patriotic.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

The best Civil War book I read in 2019 was @amurrelltaylor 's Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps. If you don't believe me, it won damn near every prize possible:

Embattled Freedom | Amy Murrell Taylor | University of North Carolina Press

The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union...

uncpress.org

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

6 years

Teaching United States History returns next week with a wonderful new slate of contributors. Here's a look at our new voices. Follow these smart #twitterstorians as we discuss what we teach, how we do it, and why.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

4 years

Honored to have Bonds of Salvation included in the @ASChurchHistory "Books of the Month" list. I just ordered a half dozen others from this great roster. .

Recent Books in Church History - March 2021 - American Society of Church History

Church History Books of the Month: March 2021 Monthly Updates on Recent Books in the History of Christianity To raise awareness of recent books in the history of Christianity, the editorial staff of...

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

1 year

This is exceptional scholarship

Dr Isabella Rosner

@IsabellaRosner

1 year

I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found (in alphabetical order):

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

3 years

My colleague @annegrayfischer 's important new book connects the most important themes in 20th century US history: racism, sexism, segregation, the police state, gentrification. It's a game-changer and very deserving of this great review in the Atlantic:

The Deep Roots of Sexual Policing in America

A new book explores the way anti-loitering laws targeted Black women.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

6 years

All history is revisionist history.

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@Mantia

6 years

What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?

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Ben Wright

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2 years

I can't imagine being a historian and believing in the possibility of apoliticism.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

Two score and seven years ago, our forefathers and foremothers brought forth on this continent the Title IX law, conceived in equality, and dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal. Now we witnessed a great World Cup... and it ruled. #uswnt #TitleIX

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Ben Wright

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5 years

This is a deeply absurd and dangerous idea--that the history of slavery can be divorced from the history of racism. You will never understand slavery--its origins, evils, and afterlives--without critical race theory. Another myth to foreground and expose with our students.

Andrew Sullivan

@sullydish

5 years

That’s all I’m saying. We need more teaching about slavery and less critical race theory. You can have one without the other.

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Ben Wright

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4 years

Twitter, meet Frankie. Frankie made his first visit to majestic Lambeau Field today. Frankie wants to watch the #Packers this year. Please wear a mask. #GoPackGo

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Ben Wright

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5 years

My new favorite synthesis of the war is Elizabeth Varon's Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War. A masterful blending of narrative verve and insightful analysis:

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

1 year

Tell me you don’t know many 18-22 yos without telling me you don’t know many 18-22yos

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

1 year

I feel like history departments would attract more students to their classes if they taught more “old fashioned” military and political history like you hear on podcasts or see among popular press books. Maybe nobody cares but…

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Ben Wright

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5 years

Hey guys, remember bars. They were great, right?

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Ben Wright

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1 year

Big mail day! @whitney_nell 's research has transformed how I teach the history of slavery. It's the best way to get students to understand and remember the balance of oppression and agency--see esp chap 2's material culture analysis of a walking stick and cowrie shells

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

4 years

Apparently I type a lot of F-words...

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Ben Wright

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2 years

Ben before every flight: Ah, I'll download these articles, catch up on reading, and save money by avoiding Wi-Fi Ben on every flight: has drinks, gets misty listening to sad songs, buys Wi-Fi to read your bad tweets.

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Ben Wright

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4 years

I had a great time putting together my video for #historysummit2021 Check it out here And then take a look at the outstanding lineup of other authors. This is such a fun way to get a sense of recent scholarship!

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

6 years

When your friend is a lifelong-Texan but lands a job outside the republic, you can't let her leave without getting cowboy hats.... and when her job is this good, you make her pay for them. Congrats Emory on hiring a superstar.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

Stephanie McCurry's 2019's Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War will be a pillar on readings lists for at least a generation: . And, of course, Confederate Reckoning is a must-read:

Confederate Reckoning — Harvard University Press

Pulitzer Prize FinalistWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti Award“McCurry strips the Confederacy of myth and romance to reveal its doomed essence. Dedicated to the...

www.hup.harvard.edu

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

6 years

@wcaleb @tony_jack At the end of every 1st class, I walk everyone to my office (so they know where it is--my university has an absurd, impossible to understand 1970s office numbering system). I collect their information/bio sheet and ask them to visit me again w/in the next month. I also give candy

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

6 months

If you would like to support those arrested at UTD, please fill out this very brief form:

UTD Pressure Campaign

Note: This is not a petition. It is a sign-up to receive instructions and updates on the campaign to protect those arrested on May 1. As a reminder UTD alums and faculty may also want to sign these...

docs.google.com

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What my students and I learned in jail

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Ben Wright

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5 years

Much of @sejr_historian 's They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South takes place before the war, but the seventh chapter is so strong, this is worth buying for even the most narrowly focused Civil War specialists:

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

. @JGiesberg 's Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality has convinced me that the war was a turning point in the history of American sexuality:

Sex and the Civil War | Judith Giesberg | University of North Carolina Press

Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playing cards, a...

uncpress.org

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Ben Wright

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5 years

For anyone who is inclined to hand-wringing over historians alleged lack of public engagement, remember that we have to deal with these troglodytes who see public engagement as a distraction from “the real work”

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Ben Wright

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6 years

As an instructor who has never gotten through an entire semester of teaching without emotionally cracking at least once, I appreciate @robgreeneII 's thoughts on emotion in the classroom:

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Ben Wright

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6 years

As historians of the early republic well know, revolutionary rhetoric can advance equality or inequality. Thomas Paine’s ideological inconsistencies offer enduring lessons as we think about our digital world... I had fun writing this one.

The Junto

@thejuntoblog

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Ben Wright: Thomas Paine and the Conflicting Ideologies of the Digital Revolution

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

Consider this my advance apology. Having a partner who is doing live online teaching means I will almost definitely "star" in a video like this very soon...

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

It's been a busy summer at The American Yawp. Check out our 60 new sources from under-represented voices, suggested teaching materials, and downloadable PDFs. And don't forget about low price print editions from @stanfordpress Read what's new at

American Yawp

@AmericanYawp

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2019-2020 updates are now live! We have added 60 new sources to our primary source reader, all from under-represented voices, posted a suite of teaching materials, and now have downloadable PDFs. Read more here:

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Ben Wright

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3 years

The tragedy of a historian: I’m having a lovely time with childhood friends but my 🔥 Elbridge Gerry jokes are going under-appreciated.

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Ben Wright

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5 years

Update: instead of inquiring about electronics or sharp objects, TSA asked if I had “sausage, cheese, or fudge” in my carry-on.

Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

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Green Bay has the world’s finest airport. Exhibit A: The cheese shop is given the same importance as the baggage claim. #lovemyhometown

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

I just absorbed New Orleans airport delivering three insults to its treasure of a city: Bad airport jambalaya, Air Force One landing, and the ubiquitous selling of David McCullough's shameful celebration of settler colonialism. Gonna need a drink on this flight.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

7 years

I'm particularly excited to share the new, discreet note-taking feature. Instructors can create groups for their classes to share notes, etc

American Yawp

@AmericanYawp

7 years

The 2017-2018 edition is now live at . Thanks to the over 300 scholars who collaborated on this open text!

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

Dear Blackboard: Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to move a class online is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

6 years

This historian is generally opposed to discussions of what the "Founding Fathers" would think about contemporary life, but, I'm increasingly convinced that among their first thoughts would be an abhorrence about how our culture embraces public displays of militarism.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

2 years

Wow, this JER Critical Engagements "What's in a Name" feature is a must-read, not just for early Americanists but really for all historians. I'll be assigning the hell out of this.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

3 years

The new edition of the AHR includes the article I co-wrote with @josephllocke "History Can Be Open Source: Democratic Dreams and the Rise of Digital History." Thx to Alex Lichtenstein, @lara_putnam , and the 26 historians who wrote 110 comments on our open review.

American Historical Review

@AmHistReview

3 years

The AHR’s December 2021 issue is now available! This issue takes readers from transnational Black agrarianism to sensory histories of wildlife conservation, and to the journal’s first experiment in open peer review. #twitterstorians

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Ben Wright

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8 years

Saul Cornell's axiom: adherence to Constitutional originalism is inversely related to historical understanding #usih2016

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

I am a millennial. My brother, also a millennial, served two combat tours in Iraq, two more in Afghanistan. And I organized protests against both. This last week opened and what will come after is not new for my generation. It's salt on still raw wounds.

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@ddayen

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So excited for millennials who didn't get to experience firsthand what 2002-2003 was like

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Ben Wright

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5 years

I’ve learned a lot from @roopikarisam and I have grad students who have built research agendas around her work. Anyone interested in postcoloniality and/or dh, needs to read her stuff. New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy is essential.

Roopika Risam

@roopikarisam

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I have never felt as badge-shamed for my non-elite affiliation before as at #MLA20 and I totally thought I was being paranoid until a friend with a very elite affiliation remarked that it was completely weird and mindblowing to see it happen over and over. Don’t change, academia.

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Ben Wright

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5 years

And of course environmental histories of the war must connect environmental change with lived experience and no one does that better than @megankatenelson in Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War

Ruin Nation

During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers’ bodies were transformed into “dead heaps of ruins,” novel sights in the southern landscape...

ugapress.org

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

Next year's list must do better. I, for one, can't wait to read Thavolia Glymph's The Women's Fight, LeAnna Keith's When It Was Grand, @HC_Richardson 's How the South Won the Civil War, and @megankatenelson The Three-Cornered War. 2020 will be a boon for CW scholarship.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

3 years

I'm really looking forward to discussing Bonds of Salvation tomorrow at noon ET. The great people @RUSlaveryFree have thrown open their doors. Sign up here and join the conversation on how Christianity inspired and limited the fight against slavery:

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

4 years

Wild Friday night

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Ben Wright

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5 years

We are excited to begin the year at Teaching United States History. Follow along at starting Monday for thoughtful reflections on college-level pedagogy in American history classrooms. Meet our new contributors:

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

Just had a challenging and invigorating call with @lindstorian about how @AmericanYawp can better integrate Native American history. Synthetic histories (including ours) have a real challenge in decolonizing our narratives. We're excited by the challenge. Stay tuned...

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

6 years

I was interviewed for the "Channeling Hamilton" documentary about Alexander Hamilton that is now available on Amazon Prime. Watch @noraslonimsky steal the show with brilliant baseball and Star Wars analogies.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

6 years

Any #twitterstorians teaching history of early America, religion, or foreign relations will want to read @econroykrutz on how you might use her fantastic book _Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic_ from @cornellpress

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Ben Wright

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5 years

Green Bay has the world’s finest airport. Exhibit A: The cheese shop is given the same importance as the baggage claim. #lovemyhometown

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2 years

Doin my creepy historian thing, reading dead people's mail. 19th-cent negative self-talk was next level. “As you allow me the privilege of occasionally writing, I take my piteous thoughts with trembling and ask you to admit a few lines from one so worthless & useless"

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Ben Wright

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3 years

When giving feedback to graduate students, I find it helpful to remind them that their learned advisor is, in fact, a moronic child.

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Ben Wright

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3 years

Great opportunity for grad students! @KeCarte and I will hang with grad students and discuss religion in the early republic. Come join! (or join the other convos on Science and Medicine, Women and Gender, Transnational History, Slavery, and Indigenous History)

SHEAR

@SHEARites

3 years

6th annual Graduate Student Research Workshops application deadline: June 1

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Ben Wright

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4 years

Today! 3pmE/2pmC on Facebook Live - Join me and Rich Newman as we discuss my book Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism.

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Ben Wright

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5 years

2 problems with this Perspectives piece on jargon 1 He ignores how these conversations are entwined w race and gender as lived constructs and objects of inquiry. See @LDBurnett : 2. Dragging your own grad student is not a good look

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Ben Wright

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8 years

I'm really impressed with #standingrocksyllabus . Check it out: #twitterstorians #StandingRock

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9 years

Impressive FREE Underground Railroad teaching tool from @HenryLouisGates and @OUPAcademic #twitterstorians

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Ben Wright

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5 years

Thanks to the AHR for interviewing Joe and I as we discussed @AmericanYawp . Worth a listen for #twitterstorians and others interested in American history, #digitalhumanities , #oer , and more.

Daniel Story, PhD 🚴🏼🎙🌴

@danieljstory

5 years

New episode of AHR Interview now streaming: a conversation with @benjamingwright and @josephllocke about @AmericanYawp , #openaccess , and collaboration by historians. @AHAhistorians @ahr_editor #dh #dighist #twitterstorians

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Ben Wright

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6 years

Them: Please consider joining this new university committee. Me:

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Ben Wright

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4 years

Damn @lmchervinsky , newly of the @TheITPS , knows how to make a quote count! From the Times, “The White House is the people’s house... The fencing and barriers show that Trump is rejecting his predecessors’ example and instead concealing himself from the American people.”

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

2 years

I’m flying to Philly for #aha23 and #asch23 , but I’ll Zoom into #mla23 at 4:45et to discuss my (fantastic) experience as an American Trust for the British Library Transatlantic Fellow. Is the MLA sending this historian coded messages via American Airlines?

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Ben Wright

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7 years

. @TheTattooedProf 's excellent post on creating classroom discussions is now featured on @facultyfocus . Bookmark both sites for great pedagogy reflections.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

6 years

The academic job market is rough... This UChicago gig requires relocation to the SOUTH POLE, but at least it's only part time, so you'll have a lot of leisure time to enjoy frozen death. (that said, "Dark Sector Laboratory" would look pretty great on a business card)

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Ben Wright

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6 years

Does your pedagogy create highly empathetic bigots? @jnthnwwlsn offers sharp, dare I say empathetic, reflections on historical empathy and racism: #twitterstorians #teaching #History

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

4 years

I will be doing a book talk via Facebook Live next Tuesday afternoon, Dec 1, 3e/2c. Bring your questions and hear me and the inimitable Richard S. Newman talk about Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism.

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Ben Wright

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4 years

#twitterstorians and #historyteacher can read how @william_sturkey recommends teaching Hattiesburg, his epic, biracial history of Jim Crow.

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Ben Wright

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5 years

I have to highlight two great studies of the Civil War and environmental history. Erin Stewart Mauldin's Unredeemed Land and Kathryn Shively Meier's Nature's Civil War Virginia

Nature's Civil War | Kathryn J. Shively | University of North Carolina Press

In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions--strange terrain...

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

Attn students: It can be tempting to use these kinds of services, especially when life is stressful. But this is cheating, your instructor will know, and the consequences really suck. Save your money, ask your prof for help. Or if you're using the American Yawp, ask me.

Write My Essay

@myacademicessay

5 years

We can work on American YAWP Chapter 28

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

@ML_Cooper @AmericanYawp Fyi, the American Yawp will be adding 60 new primary sources August 1, all from under-represented voices.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

6 years

I just discovered that Writers Tears whiskey exists... so begins the beginning of the end.

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

4 years

Thanks for the invite!

John Fea

@JohnFea1

4 years

Author's corner with Ben Wright: *The Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism*: @lsupress #twitterstorians

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

10 years

The American Yawp won the 2014 DH Award for Public Engagement. Explore the other great nominees here- http://t.co/5Da58U1P0I #twitterstorians

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

2 years

When Tim Weah scored in the World Cup, I lept in the air, spilled my drink, hugged a stranger. Then I texted @Metzgurdlin "Liberian history is American history," the argument of our @madebyhistory piece about soccer and the ties binding the US and Liberia:

Perspective | Why is Liberia’s president’s son playing for the U.S. in the World Cup?

Liberian history is closely tied to American history.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ben Wright

@benjamingwright

5 years

I have a smart graduate student who wrote a historiography of Civil War memory, and I think she was right to give primary emphasis in her essay to Caroline Janney's Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation.

Remembering the Civil War | Caroline E. Janney | University of North Carolina Press

As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would b...

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