Michael Hattem

I love the reverse idea!

Meet the Authors: 2025’s Best Books on the Founding Era Meet the Authors: 2025’s Best Books on the Founding Era

Looking forward to taking part in this event next week at Mount Vernon! Between now and then though, I’m off to Chicago this weekend for the equally estimable honor of officiating the wedding of two of my former Knox College students.

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This is a really excellent review of my most recent book that really gets at its core themes.

A hand holding the book "The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History" by Michael D. Hattem. The cover features George Washington surrounded by angels. Behind the book is a baseball cap patterned after the American flag and a blue blanket with red, white, and blue stars.

Waiting for the fireworks while reading Michael D. Hattem's "The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History." So interesting to see how Americans have invoked the nation's founding to support various causes for the last 250 years. A great read! 🇺🇸🎆🦅

It’s like deja vu all over again.

The more things change… 😉

“Analog history”

I miss that internet a lot.

I did the same with the marginal tax rate graphic when I taught a first-year seminar on “The American Dream.” When I asked them to guess my salary as a VAP at a small school in the Midwest… multiple students guessed $100k. 🤣🤣

A lot of those young male Trump voters were in their teens in 2016. Many have never seen the Access Hollywood tape, the photos of him with Epstein, the comments about Ivanka on Howard Stern, etc…. Dems should be running ads of all those “greatest hits.”

Thanks, Larry!

Didn’t you read last year’s winner as well?

😀✊

Ford Evening Book Talk: Lineage Ford Evening Book Talk: Lineage

So looking forward to talking about my research on genealogy in early America at Mount Vernon’s GW library Tuesday night! Free, fun, and the weather looks to be Virginia gorgeous. www.mountvernon.org/plan-your-vi...

It’s 978-0300270877

This is chapter 21 of my book all over again.

As a historian of the Revolution and memory, all of the posturing I’ve seen so far of him regarding this documentary has been almost laughable.

“We wanted to rid ourselves of the fashions of historiography,” Burns summarized at one event, “and make a film that simply shows what happened.”

🤣🤣🤣

The rhetorical differences make sense given that one is working at a national level and the other at the local level.

Thanks, Liz!! I really appreciate that coming from you.

Can’t wait!!

Haven’t we always been able to make founders say whatever we want, though? 😉

Nominees Announced for the 2025 George Washington Prize, One of America’s Most Esteemed Literary Awards Nominees Announced for the 2025 George Washington Prize, One of America’s Most Esteemed Literary Awards

Congratulations to Worlds Turned Upside Down contributors @frankcogliano.bsky.social and @michaelhattem.bsky.social on their nominations for the George Washington Prize! You’ll hear from both soon in Episode 19: The Gambit www.mountvernon.org/about/news/n...

Thanks, Karin!

Nominees Announced for the 2025 George Washington Prize, One of America’s Most Esteemed Literary Awards Nominees Announced for the 2025 George Washington Prize, One of America’s Most Esteemed Literary Awards

I am thrilled to share that “The Memory of ‘76” is a finalist for the 2025 George Washington Book Prize! This is especially rewarding because I worked on that book for six years, three as a contingent faculty member and three with a non-faculty job.

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Thanks, Kevin!

Exactly! 🤣

Assists are dependent on another player. And his minutes per goal is better than Eze, Gordon, and Rodrygo. Also, his xG per 90 is the best of all of them.

Thanks, Stessa!!

The getting of the contract or the writing of the book? 😉