Michael Hattem
@michaelhattem.bsky.social
Historian, American Revolution and popular memory | Author of "The Memory of '76" (E209 .H38 2024) and “Past & Prologue” (E210 .H38 2020) | Music: National Steel | @Arsenal
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this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.
Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’
The mother's family pleaded with federal officers for her release from custody to say her final goodbyes to her son, but their requests went unanswered.
www.wsaz.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:09 AM
this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
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Hi all,
I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.
As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Nathan
I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.
As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Nathan
Hello!
I am Nathan Ellstrand, a historian of transnational politics and religion between the United States and Latin America during the twentieth century. I am passionate about social justice and education.
Learn more about me and my work here:
nathanellstrand.com
I am Nathan Ellstrand, a historian of transnational politics and religion between the United States and Latin America during the twentieth century. I am passionate about social justice and education.
Learn more about me and my work here:
nathanellstrand.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Hi all,
I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.
As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Nathan
I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.
As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Nathan
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Ivano Dal Prete was awarded the 2023 ACHA Marraro prize for distinguished book in Italian history or history of Italo-American relations. If you're interested in the history of (mythmaking about) deep time, this is the book!
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December 19, 2023 at 9:46 PM
Ivano Dal Prete was awarded the 2023 ACHA Marraro prize for distinguished book in Italian history or history of Italo-American relations. If you're interested in the history of (mythmaking about) deep time, this is the book!
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
January 10, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
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If only we had some sort of historical precedent that could help us understand what might happen when a constellation of highly militarized far right governments, organized around an angry and resentful, blood and soil version of nationalism, emerges and tries to remake the world in their image.
January 8, 2026 at 4:10 PM
If only we had some sort of historical precedent that could help us understand what might happen when a constellation of highly militarized far right governments, organized around an angry and resentful, blood and soil version of nationalism, emerges and tries to remake the world in their image.
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Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...
January 7, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...
Looking forward to this talk at the Pequot Library later this month!!
📖✨ Jan. 24 at 2:00 p.m. - Meet Michael Hattem, award-winning historian and expert on the American Revolution and historical memory! He's the author of “The Memory of ’76” and “Past and Prologue”—finalist for the 2025 George Washington Prize.
January 8, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Looking forward to this talk at the Pequot Library later this month!!
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Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
January 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
Donnarumma is embarrassing.
January 1, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Donnarumma is embarrassing.
Looking forward to this talk in a few weeks!
📖✨ Jan. 24 at 2:00 p.m. - Meet Michael Hattem, award-winning historian and expert on the American Revolution and historical memory! He's the author of “The Memory of ’76” and “Past and Prologue”—finalist for the 2025 George Washington Prize.
December 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Looking forward to this talk in a few weeks!
I know there will be bigger priorities but the next Dem president, if there is one, needs to remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center. They also need to undo all the renovations to the White House and restore it exactly to how it was.
This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
December 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I know there will be bigger priorities but the next Dem president, if there is one, needs to remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center. They also need to undo all the renovations to the White House and restore it exactly to how it was.
A paragraph from the preface of Michael Kammen’s “People of Paradox.”
December 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A paragraph from the preface of Michael Kammen’s “People of Paradox.”
As a grad student my research & handwriting analysis solved a 240-year old mystery about the authorship of a 1775 Cont. Congress document. And during my diss, I identified the author of an anon. mss in the NYHS’s Jay Papers that turned out to be one of the first histories of the AmRev by D. Ramsay.
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
As a grad student my research & handwriting analysis solved a 240-year old mystery about the authorship of a 1775 Cont. Congress document. And during my diss, I identified the author of an anon. mss in the NYHS’s Jay Papers that turned out to be one of the first histories of the AmRev by D. Ramsay.
They’re trying to poison the entire intellectual structure and with it the very notions of expertise and authority. Some for the purpose of discrediting it entirely and others for the purpose of making it easily manipulated on both the micro and macro levels.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
They’re trying to poison the entire intellectual structure and with it the very notions of expertise and authority. Some for the purpose of discrediting it entirely and others for the purpose of making it easily manipulated on both the micro and macro levels.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Watching this segment I kept waiting for Washington to break out into an ad for a supplement promoting increased testosterone.
Oh good, Glenn Beck has created an AI George Washington. You will be shocked to learn that the AI George Washington created by Glenn Beck sounds exactly like what would happen if Glenn Beck built an AI George Washington to sound exactly like Glenn Beck.
December 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Watching this segment I kept waiting for Washington to break out into an ad for a supplement promoting increased testosterone.
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having heard talks from this project at field conferences for the past few years, this is a major new book from an inspired, indeed field defining scholar- many of us in early modern studies and beyond have been eagerly anticipating this book- and now- it’s here at last!
December 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
having heard talks from this project at field conferences for the past few years, this is a major new book from an inspired, indeed field defining scholar- many of us in early modern studies and beyond have been eagerly anticipating this book- and now- it’s here at last!
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#book new!!
American Revolution Scholarship
American Revolution Scholarship
My book on how Americans have remembered and fought over the narrative and legacy of the American Revolution for nearly 250 years.
The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History
The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History [Hattem, Michael D.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History
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December 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
#book new!!
American Revolution Scholarship
American Revolution Scholarship
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facing down all this AI shit, I want to tell everyone you really can do any creative thing you set your heart on.
It just takes time and you aren't going to be good at it right away! You do not have to be "gifted"
It just takes time and you aren't going to be good at it right away! You do not have to be "gifted"
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 AM
facing down all this AI shit, I want to tell everyone you really can do any creative thing you set your heart on.
It just takes time and you aren't going to be good at it right away! You do not have to be "gifted"
It just takes time and you aren't going to be good at it right away! You do not have to be "gifted"
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Are any public historians teaching 250th courses and would you like to share syllabi and/or put a panel together for ncph in providence?
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Are any public historians teaching 250th courses and would you like to share syllabi and/or put a panel together for ncph in providence?
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Surprise! We took last week's Historians At The Movies Watch Party on Ken Burns' The American Revolution and turned it into a podcast. So join me, @lizcovart.bsky.social, @michaelhattem.bsky.social @craigbrucesmith.bsky.social & the #HATM community right here.
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Episode 167: Ken Burns' The American Revolution (Historians' Commentary)
Podcast Episode · Reckoning with Jason Herbert · 11/23/2025 · 2h 13m
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November 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Surprise! We took last week's Historians At The Movies Watch Party on Ken Burns' The American Revolution and turned it into a podcast. So join me, @lizcovart.bsky.social, @michaelhattem.bsky.social @craigbrucesmith.bsky.social & the #HATM community right here.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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If you have any interest in the American Revolutionary War, listen to this @bfworld.bsky.social episode with @michaelhattem.bsky.social & then buy his book(s). Both will help you understand the US today. @psbdc.bsky.social @strategistjim.bsky.social
After the Revolution, Americans didn’t just celebrate independence—they shaped its story. 🧠📖
Join Michael Hattem and explore how memory, myth, and meaning made 1776 a cornerstone of national identity.
#MemoryStudies #VastEarlyAmerica #History #AmericanRevolution #Revolution250
Join Michael Hattem and explore how memory, myth, and meaning made 1776 a cornerstone of national identity.
#MemoryStudies #VastEarlyAmerica #History #AmericanRevolution #Revolution250
Episode 408: Michael Hattem, The Memory of 1776
Michael Hattem joins us to discuss the American Revolution and its memory, drawing on details from his book, The Memory of ‘76.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
If you have any interest in the American Revolutionary War, listen to this @bfworld.bsky.social episode with @michaelhattem.bsky.social & then buy his book(s). Both will help you understand the US today. @psbdc.bsky.social @strategistjim.bsky.social
19th century people… Is the a definitive (or preferred) unabridged edition of Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America?”
November 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
19th century people… Is the a definitive (or preferred) unabridged edition of Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America?”
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Bleh. The history of how we choose to portray and remember the revolution is extremely important so I see its inclusion as relevant, but that's just IMO.
Speaking of... everyone should read @michaelhattem.bsky.social 's book, Memory of 76. #HATM
Speaking of... everyone should read @michaelhattem.bsky.social 's book, Memory of 76. #HATM
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Bleh. The history of how we choose to portray and remember the revolution is extremely important so I see its inclusion as relevant, but that's just IMO.
Speaking of... everyone should read @michaelhattem.bsky.social 's book, Memory of 76. #HATM
Speaking of... everyone should read @michaelhattem.bsky.social 's book, Memory of 76. #HATM
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Its Thanksgiving so I want to say thank you to the wonderful editors and peer reviewers who make excellent scholarship possible. Now that I'm a real PhD, I want to pay it forward by writing minimum 1 book review a year & peer-reviewing at least one article a year. So hit me up! #editing #Skystorians
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Its Thanksgiving so I want to say thank you to the wonderful editors and peer reviewers who make excellent scholarship possible. Now that I'm a real PhD, I want to pay it forward by writing minimum 1 book review a year & peer-reviewing at least one article a year. So hit me up! #editing #Skystorians
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My colleague Lauren Duval has a new book coming out next month from @uncpress.bsky.social on military occupation and households in the Revolution. Lauren is real smart. Put it in your cart. #HATM
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
My colleague Lauren Duval has a new book coming out next month from @uncpress.bsky.social on military occupation and households in the Revolution. Lauren is real smart. Put it in your cart. #HATM