Mark R. Cheathem

Conspiracy theory chart from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Research/Technology question: Does anyone know of software I can use to create a digital version of this conspiracy chart? Ideally free or cheap software? #History 🗃️

Coming soon: Hogan's Heroes and Post War America An 8-episode documentary video pod about the making of the show, the actors' lives, American history, and learning to laugh at Nazis

Yes, I'll be flooding my feed with announcements. Sorry!

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Hi, folks. I’m looking for at least one more person to create a panel for AHA 2027. I have a working paper on the legacies of the Indian slave trade in the 20th and 21st centuries and I’m working with someone who is focusing on slave patrols and the Southern system. Anyone interested? #historians

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Friends, where do people post CFP these days? I've used H-Net. The fall of twitter history means it's much harder to reach people these days! I've had quite a few great abstracts for the below but I feel like I should be reaching more folks.

Certificates Whigs! Look to the matter of procuring certificates. Learn in season who is in want of them, and procure them at once. Certificates may be procured by application to Asahel H. Curtiss and Geo. W. Rogers.

Do any historians know what type of certificate would possibly be useful for a voter in a 1853 Connecticut election? It’s far too early for it to have been a birth certificate, and a naturalization certificate seems unlikely to be important for Whig voters after 1852.
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The Contagion of Liberty The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution

Today is the paperback release day for my book The Contagion of Liberty! It’s about how Americans demanded that their governments provide inoculations for smallpox to the public as their right and also to affirm that public health is a foremost duty of government. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Flyer with information about lecture, headshot of Dr. Andrew Wiley, and various sponsor logos

Two weeks from today, we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of our project!

No Common Ground, Second Edition: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

You can pre-order the 2nd edition. Now in paperback. 📘🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social #abolishice

welcome to zoom. as punishment for launching the app two (2) minutes before the meeting you're running, we are downloading ten (10) minutes of updates... now

Today is publication day! Wow. Thanks to everyone who preordered the book. I really appreciate it. If you have not preordered, then you can go to your local bookstore and pick up a copy.

Please send me a pic if you already have a copy or when you go pick it up! I'd love to see it!

I was in the 7th grade and had stayed home alone from school because I was sick. I had just turned off a movie and saw the launch and explosion by chance.

The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster took place on this day 40 years ago: Jan. 28, 1986. All seven astronauts aboard (photo) were killed.

I was in 7th grade and remember the school principal coming on the PA system and telling the entire school what had happened.

Image: NASA via AP.

I wondered if anyone can help with deciphering this signature please? It's on a confidential letter to the Metropolitan Police in 1876 regarding a murder suspect. I can't quite make out the name and all suggestions would be gratefully received!

Martin Van Buren | Miller Center Scholarly essays, speeches, photos, and other resources on Martin Van Buren, the 8th US president (1837-1841), including information about Democratic politics, his vice presidency, and the 1837 depres...

I recently had the privilege of writing updated essays on Martin Van Buren for the University of Virginia's Miller Center.

millercenter.org/president/va...

An Amazon sales ranking showing The Crown’s Silence as the top new release in English history!

Thank you thank you🙏 to everyone who has preordered my new book, THE CROWN’S SILENCE, and made it the TOP NEW RELEASE in English history!! I’m beyond grateful for your support! Out this Tuesday!! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years

An important new book by @brookenewman.bsky.social featured in @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Well this is humiliating.

Should be trivial yes but certified palaeogrpahic clown that I am, for the life of me I can't figure out the trailing word at the end of each line of this ledger. England ≈1550

Bonus: or this first name 🤡
Put me out of my misery?

#palaeography #earlymodern #skystorians

It's very difficult to wade through the Klan propaganda about its origins, but I agree with you. It seems pretty clear to me that whatever "social club" the original six organizers envisioned either started or very quickly pivoted to white supremacy and grievances from losing the war.

Evan P. Sullivan. Constructing Disability after the Great War: Blind Veterans in the Progressive Era The past quarter century has witnessed an outpouring of interest in the welfare of disabled military veterans. In the United States, this concern can be ch

Grateful for this thoughtful review by John Kinder in the American Historical Review.

“Evan Sullivan joins the top tier of historians working in the field of the history of disabled veterans…”

Morning Lanes. 8°C and a Southerly breeze. Hares

Morning Lanes. 8°C and a Southerly breeze. Hares.

Questioning AI Resource List wExcellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another ...

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White Power: Policing American Slavery Policing American Slavery

I am pleased to learn that my forthcoming book is now listed on bookshop dot org, and there’s a nice little discount! Nice if you want to avoid the evil empire (the website not Man United)

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Writing William Billings - Commonplace When historical details are nonexistent, make them up. Not usually considered sound advice to historians, granted, but possibly warranted under these circumstances.

How do historians tell a story of a fascinating person who left few personal papers? In a new Commonplace piece, David Stowe explains how/why his historical novel might be the right approach for the life of William Billings, the first significant US composer. 🗃️

commonplace.online/article/writ...

I had so much fun chatting with @londomomposino.bsky.social about Canal Dreamers. He was such a wonderful conversationalist! I am currently reading a new source he recommended for my research on the history of Nicaraguan Sharks! 🌎 🌊🦈 🗃️
@uncpress.bsky.social #envhist #histsci #oceanhist #skystorians

Three women on a raft move across a body of water in front of green, yellow, and brown mountains; white text announces the title of the book: THE WESTERNERS: MYTHMAKING AND BELONGING ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER; a narrow strip at left bears four images: Jim Beckwourth, Sacajawea, Ovando Hollister, and Polly Bemis.

Blueskis, studies have shown that when folks see or hear about a book more than five times, they are likely to check it out, and buy it.

So in the spirit of creating buzz, here is the gorgeous cover of THE WESTERNERS, which will be published on March 31!

Flyer with info on CVB Lecture

Flyer with info on afternoon celebration of project

On Presidents Day, Feb 16, we're celebrating the tenth anniversary of @vanburenpapers.bsky.social's launch, starting w/ an afternoon event looking at the history of the Van Buren Papers & providing updates on its progress. At 7 PM, PMVB editor Andrew Wiley will deliver the Cynthia Van Buren Lecture.

American Yawp is an option.

www.americanyawp.com

Flyer with info on CVB Lecture

Flyer with info on afternoon celebration of project

On Presidents Day, Feb 16, we're celebrating the tenth anniversary of @vanburenpapers.bsky.social's launch, starting w/ an afternoon event looking at the history of the Van Buren Papers & providing updates on its progress. At 7 PM, PMVB editor Andrew Wiley will deliver the Cynthia Van Buren Lecture.

I am so humbled and thrilled to say that my first book, Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis, is a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social www.gilderlehrman.org/book-prizes/...