Matthew Mason

Among the highlights of the conference on 19th-century conservatism at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford was getting 2/3 of our writing group together. In keeping with the theme of the conference, we arranged for ourselves on a spectrum of dress from reactionary to radical

28.06.2025 09:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Seeking the High Ground <b>How American slavery engendered a new political vocabulary used on both sides of the Atlantic</b><br/><br/> How is it, Samuel Johnson famously aske

I just learned that the site for my forthcoming book is live, and obviously the world needs to know

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10097/

07.05.2025 18:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U A Call for Constructive Engagement

Happy to see the University of Maryland represented here. I wish my undergraduate alma mater the University of Utah or my employer BYU were, although supremely unsurprised even given how measured this statement is. Fear the Turtle though

24.04.2025 17:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Comparing Trump to Andrew Jackson has long been the done thing - heck, I’ve done it in essay form myself. But all this talk of annexing Canada and Greenland to the empire is giving me strong James K Polk vibes

07.01.2025 17:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m here

22.11.2024 01:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have a question as a political historian: what did clown cars do to deserve such insulting comparisons?🤔

15.11.2024 17:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ja

12.11.2024 16:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wasn’t the Articles of Confederation the federalism starter pack? Sign me up!

12.11.2024 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bluesky is now complete with my first post.
What a joy and honor it was to join other Ira Berlin PhD students on a special tribute session at the SHA.
And good fun to connect with friends (I’m seen here contemplating their brilliance).

28.10.2024 19:14 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0