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.
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
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!
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
Ok, book won’t be out until next fall, so plenty of time to design merch! Prototype Night Hawk coffee cup.
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
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
The demon Asmodeus was a popular character on the antebellum stage.
December 12, 2024 at 11:40 PM
The demon Asmodeus was a popular character on the antebellum stage.
The patron demon of our modern-day detective fiction, Asmodeus. Engraving by Tony Johanott, frontispiece in
Alain René Le Sage, Asmodeus, the Devil on Two Sticks (London: Willoughby and Company, 1842).
December 8, 2024 at 4:57 PM
The patron demon of our modern-day detective fiction, Asmodeus. Engraving by Tony Johanott, frontispiece in
Alain René Le Sage, Asmodeus, the Devil on Two Sticks (London: Willoughby and Company, 1842).
From The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851) by Henry Louis Stevens. The Night Hawk is from Alexander Wilson’s Ornithology, but why did Stevens choose to impose a woman’s face on it? Any suggestions are welcome.
November 30, 2024 at 10:02 PM
From The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851) by Henry Louis Stevens. The Night Hawk is from Alexander Wilson’s Ornithology, but why did Stevens choose to impose a woman’s face on it? Any suggestions are welcome.