Rob Parkinson
@rparkinson.bsky.social
Prof. of History, Binghamton University. Author, Thirteen Clocks & Heart of American Darkness. Go Vols, Go Steelers.
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Rob Parkinson
@rparkinson.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Bewildering horror in 18th century America. A dual biography of a Native and colonial family as they wind their way to tragedy along the Ohio River on the eve of the American Revolution. Yes, the Conradian title has a purpose…
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This is pretty wild ngl!
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is pretty wild ngl!
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🚨 JOB JOB JOB!!! 🚨
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
University of Colorado - Boulder - Assistant or Associate Professor of History | H-Net
The Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor specializing in Native American history with a focus on the North American West, broadly defined. The successful applicant will have access to funds associated with the Walter and Lucienne Driskill Professorship in Western American History. Specialization is open, but the department particularly encourages applications from scholars whose research focuses on the early American West (pre-1920s) and engages with legal history, the history of women and gender, environmental history, and/or the history of medicine and public health. Scholars with demonstrated commitments to engaging Native American communities and/or supporting Native and Indigenous students are especially encouraged to apply, as are those who bring relevant lived and individual experiences and achievements to this position.
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December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
🚨 JOB JOB JOB!!! 🚨
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
Wow! Great book! Congrats Justine!
I really enjoyed this book. Congratulations to Justene Hill Edwards. macmillan.yale.edu/stories/yale...
Yale Announces 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition has announced the winner of the twenty-seventh annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Wow! Great book! Congrats Justine!
I just asked my seminar how much they *thought about TJ. They needed this!
December 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I just asked my seminar how much they *thought about TJ. They needed this!
I still remember my high school daughters having to finish 1984 on their own, after the year ended. I couldn’t believe it. You didn’t finish it?!?!
You'll see this article posted a lot today. That's only because everyone should read it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I still remember my high school daughters having to finish 1984 on their own, after the year ended. I couldn’t believe it. You didn’t finish it?!?!
New from our sister series! Go UVa Press!
New book klaxon! Nick DiPucchio's _Before Manifest Destiny_ just arrived. Latest in the Revolutionary Age Series from @uvapress.bsky.social! I edit this series with Patrick Griffin, Lige Gould, & Christa Dierksheide with the peerless Nadine Zimmerli and it's one of the best parts of the job.
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
New from our sister series! Go UVa Press!
Recovering Garamond user. Ride or die Constantia now.
The question is not “Times New Roman” (boring) or “Calibri” (also boring). The real question goes like this: why are you all not using “Garamond”? #TeamGaramond
December 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Recovering Garamond user. Ride or die Constantia now.
Give a listen to this for the superb reading of Logan’s Lament.
I rarely find satisfaction in my own work, but I think we nailed the ending of Worlds Turned Upside Down: Episode 21: The Vengeance
Have a listen.
Have a listen.
December 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Give a listen to this for the superb reading of Logan’s Lament.
Uh oh. That’s 3 of the Declaration grievances right there.
Plans to abolish some jury trials represent a diversion with tradition—and in some specifics, with international norms
Britain’s plan to curb jury trials is a sharp break with tradition
It is a desperate response to a disastrous backlog in the courts
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December 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Uh oh. That’s 3 of the Declaration grievances right there.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Happy #pubday to "The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States" by @stevesarson.bsky.social !
How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/
How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Read it now!
Oh very good! It’s up! Some horror just in time for your Thanksgiving drives!
NOW PLAYING: Episode 21 "The Vengeance"
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Oh very good! It’s up! Some horror just in time for your Thanksgiving drives!
Very pleased to have been part of this. Look for it in May!
As the history wars heat up, we’re releasing a new book that brings together some of the nation’s leading voices—Nikole Hannah-Jones, Annette Gordon-Reed, and many others—for an urgent, energizing conversation about the origins of the United States. Preorder is now available.
November 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Very pleased to have been part of this. Look for it in May!
This is so exciting! Jonathan was a model student & this book is fab. Run- don’t walk - to get it!!!
Former advisee and Binghamton PhD @jonathansjones.bsky.social publishes his amazing book OPIUM SLAVERY on the opioid crisis after the Civil War. A must read for all students of US history.
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This is so exciting! Jonathan was a model student & this book is fab. Run- don’t walk - to get it!!!
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Just finished “Heart of American Darkness” from @rparkinson.bsky.social
It might take us another 100 years, but America is not going to fix what ails us until we dispense with myths and come to terms with our actual history. This riveting book is a big step forward.
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
It might take us another 100 years, but America is not going to fix what ails us until we dispense with myths and come to terms with our actual history. This riveting book is a big step forward.
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Heart of American Darkness
“A scarifying, blood-soaked portrait of savagery on the early frontier—much of it committed by European settlers . . . superb.”—<em>Kirkus Reviews</em> (starred)<br /><br /> An...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Just finished “Heart of American Darkness” from @rparkinson.bsky.social
It might take us another 100 years, but America is not going to fix what ails us until we dispense with myths and come to terms with our actual history. This riveting book is a big step forward.
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
It might take us another 100 years, but America is not going to fix what ails us until we dispense with myths and come to terms with our actual history. This riveting book is a big step forward.
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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We've got a cover. Coming your way next June!
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We've got a cover. Coming your way next June!
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Friends, I could not be more excited to let you know that my book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, is out today from Penguin. I’m super proud of it and super grateful to all the scholars whose work informs it. I hope you’ll take a peek and spread the word!
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The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
The American Revolution and the Fate of the World [Bell, Richard] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
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November 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Friends, I could not be more excited to let you know that my book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, is out today from Penguin. I’m super proud of it and super grateful to all the scholars whose work informs it. I hope you’ll take a peek and spread the word!
amzn.to/4nHkziG
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It’s officially pub day for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America‘s First Opioid Crisis! Available at a bookshop near you. Thanks to everyone who made it possible to bring this research to life! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968953...
October 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It’s officially pub day for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America‘s First Opioid Crisis! Available at a bookshop near you. Thanks to everyone who made it possible to bring this research to life! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968953...
Cover! June 9, 2026!
October 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Cover! June 9, 2026!
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A centennial edition of the classic work that instilled a liberal spirit into the study of #AmericanHistory.
The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement: 100th anniversary edition
by J. Franklin Jameson will be available November 4.
Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement: 100th anniversary edition
by J. Franklin Jameson will be available November 4.
Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
October 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A centennial edition of the classic work that instilled a liberal spirit into the study of #AmericanHistory.
The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement: 100th anniversary edition
by J. Franklin Jameson will be available November 4.
Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement: 100th anniversary edition
by J. Franklin Jameson will be available November 4.
Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
The pile of 2026 must-reads is going to be talllllllll.
Coming next spring, in time for what will surely be a lively but respectful debate about the 250th anniversary of the Declaration
October 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The pile of 2026 must-reads is going to be talllllllll.
This is so so so good. Congrats Jonathan!!!!!!
Look what came in the mail today, @uncpress.bsky.social @simpsonvos.bsky.social @profsommerville.bsky.social! 🗃️
October 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This is so so so good. Congrats Jonathan!!!!!!
Beauty! Happy to be a part of this project.
We've got a cover and a publication date (April 3, 2026).
October 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Beauty! Happy to be a part of this project.
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Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
September 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP
My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.
a.co/d/29c7EIP