Sean Gallagher

post your fits plz

I support this!!!

i'm willing to post get ready with me about going to a coffee shop to write 7 words of my manuscript

the only two types of online male historian are msnbc pundit or gymtok guy (seriously think about how many dude historians are posting workout content!)

unfortunately there are no grwm histori-men

Yeah!!!!!!!!! @adamxmcneil.bsky.social

Yeah lots of big swings which means some big misses here or there 😂

what's your view of DISCOVERY? I think it's underappreciated how much it explores how/why to cohere a utopian vision of the future in the age of trump.

Here is Landon Carter, ordering 12 gorgeous silver spoons to celebrate crushing the Stamp Act which stood in the way of colonial assembly's independent right to tax. Not ten years later he'd be raging at enslaved people taking royal Gov. Lord Dunmore's offer of freedom to join the loyalists.

excellent point!

Agreed! why it's the greatest era to study ;-)

agree, but (I know this is a simplistic take) I don't think freedom meant the same discrete things that it took on in the 20th c. Reading Otis, jr. "liberty" is so clearly attached to the agencies of the settler. Reading Gadsden, it's so explicitly about whiteness. not sure of the utility for us?

just finished this. very cool. lots of insights into how colonial legislatures used slave codes to govern society generally, which Latin Americanists and Caribbeanists have written about extensively but feels comparatively understudied in Anglo/mainland lit.

absolutely true!!!! and I should clarify that I think what abolitionists and freesoilers did with Jefferson in the 1850s was genius, immensely politically creative and powerful

Totally agree that there were radical projects and movements within the Revolution (shoutout Barbara Clark Smith's "Freedoms We Lost"), but I hesitate to place any of it even latently in the Constitution, TJ, etc. Maybe better seen as alternative roads not taken? potential founders that never were?

yes!!!!!!

i assume the SAT scores are meant to signal race IQ stuff, which i guess is what all anti-DEI politics boils down to eventually

and yet in our current political crisis, so many scholars are still drawn to the myth of an essentially virtuous or "ideals driven" American Revolution. They refuse to see 2025 as downstream from the Rev's origins in settler colonialism, slavery, and capitalism.

i remain amazed at how many fellow early americanists read 19th c Lincolnian constitutionalism back into the founding, and the founders. This is the essential problem with the works of Oakes, Wilentz, and liberal (bourgeois) historiography generally.

Check out this thread from @melbuer.bsky.social this morning on the ground in Los Angeles. Seems DHS did a sweep of a public park with lots of troops and heavy gear.

I’m generally glad that my academic training is in Black Studies. It really comes in handy when I’m reading literature on settler colonialism that consistently fails to mark enslaved people as people.

CLR James

The Long American Counter-Revolution - Boston Review Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

a treat to read @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social on the work of Gerald Horne and the vantage points we assume when we read and write US history www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Thanks!

The Slaving State: Confiscation, Public Labor, and the Black Experience of the American Revolution YouTube video by Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy

@seangallagher.bsky.social, “The Slaving State: Confiscation, Public Labor, and the Black Experience of the American Revolution.”

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"I don't even admire George Washington. White men from the south that will help the Negro is far and few between." - Doc Daniel Dowdy, Oklahoma Slave Narratives
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"I don't even admire George Washington. White men from the south that will help the Negro is far and few between." - Doc Daniel Dowdy, Oklahoma Slave Narratives
www.loc.gov/resource/mes...

DISCO knew its moment so well

“Continental soldiers loaded their muskets with ammunition produced by Black women and men who had dared to be free but lost because the United States won.”

Chiswell’s Lead Mines in the American Revolution - Encyclopedia Virginia Origins Chiswell discovered lead deposits on Cherokee land near the west of the sometime in the 1750s. After William Byrd III, who served as a colonel with British forces during the , constructed F...

My entry for Encyclopedia Virginia, focusing on how the U.S. war effort depended on enslaved miners during the Amrrican Revolution, and how patriots used public labor to *terrorize* Black Virginians, is published.
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