Christopher Jones
@ccjones.bsky.social
Historian of religion, race, + society.
Editor, Journal of Mormon History.
Co-editor, Missionary Interests: Protestant + Mormon Missions in the 19th + 20th Centuries (Cornell UP, 2024).
Currently researching global history of religion + soccer.
Editor, Journal of Mormon History.
Co-editor, Missionary Interests: Protestant + Mormon Missions in the 19th + 20th Centuries (Cornell UP, 2024).
Currently researching global history of religion + soccer.
Huh. It’s *almost* like Pochettino knew what he was doing giving these MLS guys call ups for the last year. 🤷🏻♂️
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Huh. It’s *almost* like Pochettino knew what he was doing giving these MLS guys call ups for the last year. 🤷🏻♂️
Missed last night’s group watch of episode 1 of PBS’s The American Revolution but am now watching with my 14yo, who is geeking out as much as I am.
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Missed last night’s group watch of episode 1 of PBS’s The American Revolution but am now watching with my 14yo, who is geeking out as much as I am.
Coming January 2026: Reunion: A Podcast about Family Histories.
@jstuart.bsky.social and I have been hard at work reading books and recording and editing episodes for this, and we can't wait to share it with you!
Additional info, including a separate feed, subscription link, + guest lineup, TBA.
@jstuart.bsky.social and I have been hard at work reading books and recording and editing episodes for this, and we can't wait to share it with you!
Additional info, including a separate feed, subscription link, + guest lineup, TBA.
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Coming January 2026: Reunion: A Podcast about Family Histories.
@jstuart.bsky.social and I have been hard at work reading books and recording and editing episodes for this, and we can't wait to share it with you!
Additional info, including a separate feed, subscription link, + guest lineup, TBA.
@jstuart.bsky.social and I have been hard at work reading books and recording and editing episodes for this, and we can't wait to share it with you!
Additional info, including a separate feed, subscription link, + guest lineup, TBA.
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No lies detected.
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
No lies detected.
My 14yo just asked for my help creating a PowerPoint about the French + Indian War.
We went so far beyond the material provided to her to base it on and her (excellent) teacher is not going to know what hit him.
We went so far beyond the material provided to her to base it on and her (excellent) teacher is not going to know what hit him.
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 AM
My 14yo just asked for my help creating a PowerPoint about the French + Indian War.
We went so far beyond the material provided to her to base it on and her (excellent) teacher is not going to know what hit him.
We went so far beyond the material provided to her to base it on and her (excellent) teacher is not going to know what hit him.
This is a huge win for Utahns and means that at least one of the state’s 4 congressional districts will be in play for Democrats next year.
‘Extreme’ gerrymander: Utah judge rejects GOP lawmakers’ congressional map, picks districts favoring Democrats
A Utah judge rejected new congressional boundaries proposed by Republican lawmakers, instead choosing a map that will create a heavily Democratic-leaning district in Salt Lake County.
www.sltrib.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is a huge win for Utahns and means that at least one of the state’s 4 congressional districts will be in play for Democrats next year.
This won’t get the headlines NYC and Virginia and New Jersey are getting, but the local results of yesterday’s elections in Salt Lake County (which includes both blue SLC and purple and red suburbs) seem significant.
November 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This won’t get the headlines NYC and Virginia and New Jersey are getting, but the local results of yesterday’s elections in Salt Lake County (which includes both blue SLC and purple and red suburbs) seem significant.
Today in my Family + Law in American history class, we were scheduled to begin discussing immigration law. And then I learned BYU was hosting a naturalization ceremony at the exact time as our class, so we moved class here instead.
Few things remind me what I love about America as much as this.
Few things remind me what I love about America as much as this.
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Today in my Family + Law in American history class, we were scheduled to begin discussing immigration law. And then I learned BYU was hosting a naturalization ceremony at the exact time as our class, so we moved class here instead.
Few things remind me what I love about America as much as this.
Few things remind me what I love about America as much as this.
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i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.
Local elections matter.
November 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Local elections matter.
My general attitude toward baseball: 🤷🏻♂️
My attitude toward game 7 of the World Series:
My attitude toward game 7 of the World Series:
a man wearing a blue shirt with the number 1 on it stands in front of a crowd
ALT: a man wearing a blue shirt with the number 1 on it stands in front of a crowd
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
My general attitude toward baseball: 🤷🏻♂️
My attitude toward game 7 of the World Series:
My attitude toward game 7 of the World Series:
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
“Missionary Interests is an innovative volume that highlights potential futures for research on the history of Protestants + Mormons. Scholars of US religious history should read the book + consider using chapters to teach US religious history.”
@cornellupress.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
@cornellupress.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Edited by David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. 215 pp. $2...
Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Edited by David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. 215 pp. $2...
doi.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
“Missionary Interests is an innovative volume that highlights potential futures for research on the history of Protestants + Mormons. Scholars of US religious history should read the book + consider using chapters to teach US religious history.”
@cornellupress.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
@cornellupress.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Utah Valley University - Faculty - Assistant Professor - U.S. History | H-Net
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October 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
In this 2023 clip, Gordon Wood complains of “well-intentioned” historians’ “often crude efforts to make the past useable,” asserting that they “undermine the integrity and the pastness of the past.”
But Wood also seeks a useable past, but is unwilling to admit it. 1/
But Wood also seeks a useable past, but is unwilling to admit it. 1/
As Allen Guelzo says in this video, Wood was "loaded for bear." thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/10/28/g...
Gordon Wood on the state of American history
I recently came across a 2023 panel on American history hosted by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. It is worth watching the entire video, but I have cued-up Gordon Woo…
thewayofimprovement.blog
October 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
In this 2023 clip, Gordon Wood complains of “well-intentioned” historians’ “often crude efforts to make the past useable,” asserting that they “undermine the integrity and the pastness of the past.”
But Wood also seeks a useable past, but is unwilling to admit it. 1/
But Wood also seeks a useable past, but is unwilling to admit it. 1/
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Save the Date! 11/11 at 4PM: Join the Department of History for a conversation with @kawulf.bsky.social and Leslie M. Harris (Northwestern University) on Wulf’s latest publication, Lineage: Genealogy and the Politics of Connection in Early America. Free and open to the public! Learn more:
The Politics of Family History: Karin Wulf in Conversation With Leslie Harris (Northwestern University)
Join the Department of History for a conversation with Karin Wulf and Leslie M. Harris (Northwestern University) on Wulf’s latest publication, Li...
events.brown.edu
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Save the Date! 11/11 at 4PM: Join the Department of History for a conversation with @kawulf.bsky.social and Leslie M. Harris (Northwestern University) on Wulf’s latest publication, Lineage: Genealogy and the Politics of Connection in Early America. Free and open to the public! Learn more:
Are you even staying in a Williamsburg hotel if your room doesn’t have a framed photo of George Washington?
October 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Are you even staying in a Williamsburg hotel if your room doesn’t have a framed photo of George Washington?
Everyone involved here looks awful. Multimillionaire players and coaches money laundering, the NBA plagued by a betting scandal after spending a decade cozying up to sports betting companies, and an FBI so incompetent they identified the “Toronto Rangers” as a focus of their investigation.
Billups, Rozier arrested in gambling investigations
Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Heat guard Terry Rozier have been arrested as part of a pair of investigations related to illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the Mafia, au...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Everyone involved here looks awful. Multimillionaire players and coaches money laundering, the NBA plagued by a betting scandal after spending a decade cozying up to sports betting companies, and an FBI so incompetent they identified the “Toronto Rangers” as a focus of their investigation.
Partner and kids return tonight from a quick fall break getaway. I just finished installing new faucets in the kitchen and guest bathroom - a total surprise to them.
Please clap.
Please clap.
October 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Partner and kids return tonight from a quick fall break getaway. I just finished installing new faucets in the kitchen and guest bathroom - a total surprise to them.
Please clap.
Please clap.
Excited to announce I've been offered an advance contract for a new book, Parley P. Pratt: A Mormon Evangelist, which will be published as part of the University of Illinois Press's Introductions to Mormon Thought series, edited by Matt Bowman and Joseph Spencer.
October 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Excited to announce I've been offered an advance contract for a new book, Parley P. Pratt: A Mormon Evangelist, which will be published as part of the University of Illinois Press's Introductions to Mormon Thought series, edited by Matt Bowman and Joseph Spencer.
Give em hell, Brigham. Give em hell.
October 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Give em hell, Brigham. Give em hell.
Your periodic reminder that, well, you know.
October 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Your periodic reminder that, well, you know.
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Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.
October 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.
Parenting teens is just them “discovering” music you spent years trying to turn them onto without any acknowledgment or even memory of said efforts on repeat.
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Parenting teens is just them “discovering” music you spent years trying to turn them onto without any acknowledgment or even memory of said efforts on repeat.