Tryntje Helfferich

Arminius would surely also count as 16th C.

Taking notes is one thing. Being able to read them later is entirely different.

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Mending the Nation by @polisci-michael.bsky.social (kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640638/)

A Tempestuous Sea of Liberty by Thomas N. Ingersoll, edited by @tryntje.bsky.social (kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640362/).

Thanks John! Tom put years of hard work and sweat into this research so it's a real joy to see it come to light in the end.

A Tempestuous Sea of Liberty The final work by late historian Thomas N. Ingersoll on the political crisis posed by the presidential election of 1800—the reverberations of which are...

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Even during tempestuous times, he suggests, Americans should not lose faith in the future or abandon our demands to think and choose for ourselves. “Liberty, democracy, and equality,” he writes, “develop only gradually over time because they are such fine and difficult ideals.” (13/14)

In the end, however, Tom’s book is enormously optimistic. It centers America’s messy diversity and popular lack of consensus as the necessary and inevitable foundations of its great experiment in democratic self-governance. (12/14)

A view of the Capitol of Washington before it was burnt down by the British, c. 1800, painting by William Russell Birch

Violence, actualized at the capitol in January 2021, was only avoided by a thread at that same capitol, then brand new, in January 1801, and in both cases the losers of the election became, in Tom’s words, “angry enough to risk tearing up the country rather than accept the results.” (11/14)

The book demonstrates that our era is not alone in its sectarianism and uncertainty, and suggests that the continuation of the Republic as a democracy has from its earliest years been more a matter of luck and contingency than one of bedrock structural soundness. (10/14)

Cartoon showing an American eagle blocking Thomas Jefferson as he tries to destroy the Constitution. Unknown artist, The Providential Detection, 1797–1800. The American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA.

[Blurb cont.] “...In this period, Americans engaged in a fierce debate over every aspect of political life, but especially over the meaning of egalitarianism and equality in the nascent nation.” (9/14)

Death of Washington, Cornell University Library

From the blurb: “This book examines the fourteen-month struggle to control the identity and future of the United States following George Washington’s death in December 1799....” (8/14)

I’m now pleased to announce the publication of one of Tom's works, A Tempestuous Sea of Liberty, with the University Press of Kansas. The press has been wonderful throughout this process. Thanks also to the OSU History Department and OSU Lima Campus Dean for their financial support. (7/14)

After some digging, it became clear that he had no publisher lined up for either ms., but it was inconceivable that these works, and especially the most complete manuscript on the election of 1800, should be lost, so I took it on as a side project. (6/14)

On his office computer, I found a full manuscript on the tumultuous US election of 1800, almost complete, plus another less-finished manuscript on the Boston Tea Party. (5/14)

Cover of the Golden Field Guide to Reptiles of North America

His office was filled to the gunnels with artwork, bric-a-brac, old student papers, research notes, and stacks of books on early American history, the history of slavery, Tudor-Stuart Britain, China, and reptiles (the latter a hidden interest until that moment). (4/14)

He had no close family in Ohio, where we both taught, and only some nieces/nephews off in California, so after he died I volunteered to take on the sad task of cleaning out his office, which was down the hall and around the corner from mine. (3/14)

A History colleague, Tom Ingersoll, died in 2021. We weren’t super close, and he was an Americanist while I study early modern Europe (different scholarly species, in other words) but I liked and respected him, and used to enjoy chatting with him about campus and university politics. (2/14)

I thought I’d start posting with a little story about a colleague and his research. (Warning: a long thread ensues) (1/14)

Indeed!

OSU library has both online.

Congratulations! This looks like an amazing exhibition (and book!).

Congratulations! Very exciting!

Would like to read your work on this. Can you send me a citation?

Very cool (and, I imagine, quite useful)!

Lovely! Please add me as well.

I'd love to be added as well! Thanks for putting these lists together.

What a great list! Could you add me as well?

Love to be added to your list!

Please add me as well! So happy to see a growing Reformation community here!

Lovely, thanks!