Matthew Warner Osborn
nighthawkog.bsky.social
Matthew Warner Osborn
@nighthawkog.bsky.social
Historian of early America. Author of Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic, and Night Hawk: A Nineteenth-Century Superhero and the Dawn of American Mass Culture, coming September 2026 from the University of Chicago Press.
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I am thrilled to announce that my book Night Hawk: A Nineteenth-Century Superhero and the Dawn of American Mass Culture is officially in production and scheduled for publication in September 2026 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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Planning to attend #AHA26 in Chicago in January? Applications are due November 15 for grants to support your travel as well as childcare costs. Check out the full list of available grants at the link. 🗃️
Annual Meeting Funding - AHA
The AHA offers several grants and fellowships to assist graduate students and early career historians with childcare and travel costs for the annual meeting.
www.historians.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I was thrilled to learn today that @uchicagopress.bsky.social is planning a new paperback edition of my first book, Rum Maniacs, to be published in the fall of 2026. So, I have two paperbacks coming out next fall!
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Ok, book won’t be out until next fall, so plenty of time to design merch! Prototype Night Hawk coffee cup.
October 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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I was going to add Le Guin b/c "The way one does research into nonexistent history is to tell the story and find out what happened. I believe this isn't very different from what historians of the so-called real world do. You look at what happens and try to see why it happens... 1/2
September 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I am thrilled to announce that my book Night Hawk: A Nineteenth-Century Superhero and the Dawn of American Mass Culture is officially in production and scheduled for publication in September 2026 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Puff, Puff? Pass!: The Anti-Tobacco Writings of Margaret Woods Lawrence commonplace.online/article/puff...
Puff, Puff? Pass!: The Anti-Tobacco Writings of Margaret Woods Lawrence - Commonplace
Reformers linked tobacco use to a deterioration of social and familial values, a habit that disrupted the sanctity of the home.
commonplace.online
September 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Today is PUBLICATION DAY for Canal Dreamers! A dream come true! 🥳📘📖🗃️

Seacoast folks, I will be talking at Exeter’s Water Street Bookstore on October 9 at 7 PM. Please come!

If you can't come, @uncpress.bsky.social has a sale (01NEWSITE50) or try 01SOCIAL30

uncpress.org/978146969055...
Canal Dreamers
In the 1820s, there was a little-known quest to unite the world by building a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. As Spanish American nations d...
uncpress.org
August 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
www.nytimes.com/athletic/643... FIFA has taken us for fools over its promise to fight racism
FIFA has taken us for fools over its promise to fight racism
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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www.oah.org/2025/03/12/r.... The OAH is collecting info about deleted or recently restricted historical sources-- please share
OAH | Records at Risk Data Collection InitiativeOAH | Records at Risk Data Collection Initiative
www.oah.org
March 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Congratulations to Edda Fields-Black on winning this year's Gilder-Lehrman Prize for her fantastic book, Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War. 🗃️ www.einnews.com/pr_news/7910...
March 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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I’m thrilled to share that Native Nations has won the Bancroft Prize www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/a...
Histories of Native America and the Port of Los Angeles Win Bancroft Prize
The award, one of the most prestigious among scholars of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.”
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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The History Department mourns the passing of our friend and colleague Professor Katie Harris. She will be deeply missed by her colleagues and students. #skystorians
history.ucdavis.edu/katie-harris
February 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Join Profs. Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor & Lisa Materson as they discuss their recent books with Prof. Corrie Decker of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Department @ucdavis.bsky.social Fri Feb 28, 6-7 PM at the Avid Reader, 617 2nd St. Davis. #skystorians #history #booksky
February 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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I'm sure the book's great too but I LOVE this cover. @uvapress.bsky.social knocking it out of the park!
February 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Thanks for the generous review
December 19, 2024 at 9:23 AM