Dr. Jessica Lepler

Follow-up: we had a great discussion. The students expressed genuine relief to learn from your book that history wars have happened before and the nation has survived.

This is a great coinage.

I am happy to let the author reply, but my read of the book is that it is a history of the history of the revolution. It is not really about “ought” as much as it is about “how” the current views on the revolution fit within a long trajectory of change over time.

Thank you! It's really a triumph. Bravo!

If the students have any questions, I will pass them along.

The Memory of ’76 The surprising history of how Americans have fought over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution for nearly two and a half centuries  Finalist, George Wash...

I am excited to teach The Memory of '76 by @michaelhattem.bsky.social in my early American grad seminar tomorrow. It will be a new staple for the course because it is concise, eloquent, provocative, and a survey of popular and academic historiography. 🗃️
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Yes. I’ll take the warmth, but it is just WEIRD.

I like warm. It’s just WEIRD!

Tonight’s full moonrise is breathtaking. What a lovely and slightly haunting end to an 82 degree day in October in New Hampshire. I appreciate the free trip to Florida, but global warming much?

Following this discussion. I need to update my sense of the field. The transition to coal seems super important these days.

My undergrad and grad students are doing a footnote assignment where they have to find the primary source cited in a secondary source and analyze the accuracy of its use. It is working well toward getting them to dig in to the reading more.

With news that Trump wants to be put on a $1 coin, here is the $.05 fractional currency featuring Spencer Clark, Superintendent of the US National Currency Bureau that led to outrage over putting living people on currency. PA Rep Russell Thayer’s 1866 appropriations amendment forbid this practice.

If you want new pictures of me, UNH is taking new photos on Tuesday! Good timing!

"Swim beyond your school!" And other hilarious and fishy advice from the @shearites.bsky.social program committee! 🗃️

History Professor Pens “Canal Dreamers” Associate professor of history Jessica Lepler's new book "Canal Dreamers" tells the story of an 1820s attempt to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through Nicaragua.

Delighted to see Canal Dreamers featured on UNH Today, um, today. @uncpress.bsky.social 🗃️
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All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions.

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Events: Dinosaurs: Animal History Before Humans (and After). Join us on October 17th for a free Zoom presentation as Jessica Lepler, a historian at the University of New Hampshire, will offer a compelling program that may change the way you view both animals an...

I love teaching my intro-level course on the History of Animals. I'm excited to share my lecture on "Dinosaurs: Animal History Before Humans (And After)" through a free online program sponsored by the Free Library of Philadelphia on October 17. Register here: 🗃️
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I was awash in emotion!

I really needed a sign today that what I do as a historian matters. I did not expect to literally see a sign. On the sidewalk. And in the window. Hooray for local bookstores! Water Street Bookstore totally made my day! 🗃️
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OFF THE SHELF: SEPTEMBER 2025 The Panama Canal, our late Queen, teachers, stained glass and liturgy

A quarter century ago, I had an amazing year as a visiting student at Mansfield College of Oxford University. I am so honored that Canal Dreamers is featured on the alumni book review page of @ox.ac.uk. @uncpress.bsky.social 🗃️

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getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender

Not only is this coming for you, it is here and we are collectively behind in preparing.

Thanks for announcing the release of Canal Dreamers! It’s so exciting to share it with everyone! uncpress.org/978146969055...

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Today several different students in separate conversations expressed interest in a course on the French Revolution. 🗃️

The Almighty Dollar by Brendan Greeley: 9780593138885 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations...

Honestly this is just really cool. I wrote a book and now they're going to sell it in stores. This was my one little dream and now it's a thing. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...

Thanks, Sara!

Thanks, Brendan!

Thanks so much Josh!

Thank you!

Thank you!

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...

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

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