Henry Snow

Briefly returning from my social media hiatus to share that my article for the Journal of the Early Republic, on Philadelphian freedom-seeking in the Haitian Revolutionary diaspora, is now live (thank you to @chelseastieber.bsky.social for alerting me!).

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Thank you to Verso for letting me write a 50,000 word little book about the American Revolution. It's like an antidote to those Dad-history-book doorstops! www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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I admit I'm in the latter category and I think it's probably worse

there are two kinds of historians: historians who need to stop reading and write, and historians who need to stop writing and read

Steve King 9 @SteveKinglA + Follow Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. ESTERN ILIZATION Voice of Europe @V_of_Europe Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel RETWEETS LIKES 516 688 10:40 AM - 12 Mar 2017 from lowa, USA

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

the beacons are lit. dunkin calls for aid

"... to compel people to return home voluntarily..."

The “authorities” part is key.
Who authorizes this “death and destruction” and on what grounds?
Reminded of William Blackstone’s admonition to judges: “To shed the blood of our fellow creature is a matter that requires the greatest deliberation, and the fullest conviction of our own authority. …,”

Talking about freedom and democracy while being allied to the Gulf States is so dumb

legendary sword that gives you a penalty to intimidate rolls and causes you to autofail combat rolls, but neither are obvious to the player because they're all hidden dm rolls

oh man I can't believe we're bringing back "unleash Chiang" lore!

teaching winstanley again this week

"They have by subtile wit and power, pretended to preserve a people in safety by the power of the Sword. . . But all this is but a bloudy and subtile Theevery, countenanced by a Law that Covetousness made"

I will be speaking this Thursday evening at the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at the New School on my forthcoming book with Arjun Jayadev, Against Money. The event is free, but you need to register in advance. event.newschool.edu/againstmoney

hey some of us naval historians are agnostics who go to episcopal services and are otherwise indistinguishable from practicing episcopalians okay

the episcopal church welcomes you (to a richer understanding of naval strategy)

ah and it's gotten worse within <10 minutes

war of kushner's ear

if uhhh any journalists need an academic to talk about trade flows and naval logistics the 18th-century maritime world is becoming rapidly more analogous in alarming ways

finally a use for the LCS

Apropos of nothing, "comparative advantage" means the thing *you're* best at -- not the thing you're *better at than others*. This isn't pedantry; it's essential to the entire argument, from Ricardo to today

pivot to asia meant pivot to south west asia I see

Happy to have this out - give it a read and let me know what you think

People who use the computer to be pathologically careless will never understood those of us who use it to be pathologically careful.

that's a big part of it yeah! it certainly adapts over time and is about seizing opportunities as much as planning but it's very much planned and envisioned and deliberate

The MAGA Plot to Take Down Canada A growing movement of MAGA-pilled Albertan separatists would happily break up the country to be closer to Trump.

This is an excellent summary of the looming Alberta Crisis. Probably not much much new information if you’ve been following the issue, but it’s one that neatly lays out the pieces on the board

yeah good question! GE is a big subject of one of the later chapters, mostly. in the 1940s in response to left wing unions they begin developing and popularizing right-wing economic thought, ultimately leading to Reaganomics! the book especially adds detail here on early factory floor propaganda

National Park Service database flags hundreds of items that might ‘disparage’ America — The Washington Post An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, cl...

welp, someone (not me!) finally put this database out into the wild... it's as bad as you thought it was, if not worse.

My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period.

Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳