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Historian of the politics of slavery

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Seeking the High Ground with Matthew Mason
Seeking the High Ground with Matthew Mason YouTube video by North American Conference on British Studies

If you were among the 8.3 billion people who missed this event live, take heart: there’s this recording. It was great to discuss the book with such a great historian as Eliga Gould as well as the audience
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09.03.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Matthew Mason's "Seeking the High Ground" Matthew Mason is Professor of History at Brigham Young University and the author of Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic . ...

This is a cool blog with a very interesting test. Relieved that my book passed!

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19.11.2025 21:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

This is the day we all (ok, really I) have been anticipating - the publication of this book. If you assign it in courses on, say, the American Revolution, slavery and abolition, etc., and invite me to zoom in to talk with your students, I’d find that great fun

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

21.10.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 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 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m here

22.11.2024 01:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

15.11.2024 17:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ja

12.11.2024 16:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

12.11.2024 15:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0