Thank you @myhnn.bsky.social for featuring this except from Chapter 7, “Founders on Foundings” from my book _Lineage_ about the many forms of genealogy’s power in early America.

It begins! Have already enjoyed talking about _Lineage_ with a few groups in Philly (twice!) and here in RI, but this month I'm headed to several venues. Starting close to home, and in conversation w the wonderful Morgan Grefe, Exec Director of the Rhode Island Historical Society.

Happy Publication Day to Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social and congratulations on Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America! Wulf transforms “mostly-forgotten books into vibrant accounts of forgotten pasts,” says Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Learn more:
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The National Archives research facility in College Park, MD, is a national treasure, offering interested members of the general public an unparalleled direct look at the workings of the federal government.

This decision is deeply anti-democratic and anti-intellectual — in a word, fascistic.

History peeps: Is scholarly research legitimate?
Effective July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need. It will no longer be open to the general public.

Today is the day!

Kevin Hayes' new book "Undaunted Mind" takes you straight into the library and mind of America's favorite founding kite-flyer, Benjamin Franklin: https://oxford.ly/4dgAO2B

#Skystory

Missing seeing you all at #LASA2025. Check out our new titles, and be in touch about your new history projects.

Congratulations on your glittering teaching career and retirement, @Samuel Freedman! You have done so much to train @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
students and non-fiction authors and as an @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
author yourself. @nytimes.com

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Congratulations, Brown Band, on 100 years and to all the new graduates! What a blast it is to perform again with my fellow alumni piccolodeans (and Jon Batiste!) at Brown University Commencement. Ever true! #BrownU #Brown2025

Congratulations, @timothysnyder.bsky.social, Brown University ‘91 and @oxfordacademic.bsky.social author, on receiving an honorary doctorate of letters at Commencement! Ever true. #BrownU #Brown2025

I wholeheatedly stand behind the National Endowment for the Humanities and am proud of the historic role Brown University has played in ensuring that humanities have a central role in our national culture.

Absolutely thrilled that Ashley Brown, an @oxfordacademic.bsky.social author of Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson, has won the Huntington Library’s Shapiro Book Prize for best first book in American history. She follows R. Isabela Morales’s win for Happy Dreams of Liberty. Kudos!

A book talk at the Spy Museum was a dream come true! For those interested in American intelligence history, the talk will be on the museum’s YouTube page and the book is available now in hardcover or on Kindle!

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Delighted to see @theatlantic.com cover my book, The Spy and the State, and its central question. The book is out now! a.co/d/9DWUcpO

***New book about Jews and religious freedom in the founding of the United States***

A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom by Adam Jortner

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THIS is history. Kudos to Ada Palmer at the University of Chicago and her students! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

Congratulations again to @oxfordacademic.bsky.social author Edda Fields-Black, who this evening received her finalist prize for the Mark Lynton History Prize (Lukas Prize Project) of @columbiajournalism.bsky.social!

So thrilled about Oxford University Press’s 19th Pulitzer Prize! For publishing history nerds, this marks a century of OUP Pulitzers, beginning in 1926 with Harvey Cushing’s two-volume _The Life of William Osler_.

Hello,
Today seems like an auspicious day to take a baby step onto a new platform.

Congratulations to my colleagues at @oxfordacademic.bsky.social on the newest OUP history book to win the Pulitzer Prize: Edda Fields-Black's COMBEE!