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Historian, American Revolution and popular memory | Author of "The Memory of '76" (E209 .H38 2024) and “Past & Prologue” (E210 .H38 2020) | Music: National Steel | @Arsenal

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At least you helped “safeguard the interests of the federal government.” 🙄

07.03.2026 21:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do it, Kevin! You won’t regret it.

04.03.2026 14:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ve written all my work on it since 2009 including both books.

04.03.2026 14:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Legal scholars: does anyone know of good research on what the Founders thought about the pardon power? I'm trying to figure out it was intended to be as unlimited as the plain text suggests it is

26.02.2026 14:34 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 1
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When Profit Met Protest in Colonial New York - JSTOR Daily Economic self-interest shaped how New Yorkers responded to British taxes and imperial crackdowns.

Cool to see JSTOR Daily do a story taken from my first journal article on pre-revolutionary New York City that was published in 2017. daily.jstor.org/when-profit-...

25.02.2026 02:14 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Black Atlantic Worlds — Harvard University Press Landscapes are key to the Black Atlantic. The history of how Africans and their descendants populated and transformed nations, regions, and ecosystems has always been attentive to the multiple meaning...

It’s officially pub day for this incredible work! Thank you to Oscar de la Torre for making this possible!!
And thank you to CUNY DSI for research consults and permission to use your images in my work!!
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...

24.02.2026 17:00 👍 94 🔁 39 💬 2 📌 2
Sociogram showing early national Americans who corresponded about historical writing, research, and publication.

Sociogram showing early national Americans who corresponded about historical writing, research, and publication.

My book, Past and Prologue, has a chapter that covers networking in the revolutionary era over issues related to historical writing, research, and publication. It’s also available as a conference paper on my website. mdhattem.com/wp-content/u... and includes this sociogram.

23.02.2026 18:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is there anything funnier than Richarlison being mad or frustrated?

22.02.2026 18:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History The surprising history of how Americans have fought over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution for nearly two and a half centuries.

Looking forward to doing a talk tomorrow at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul. Minnesota Monthly included the talk in its “Best Bets” of the week for things to do along with an Eagles tribute band. The event is hybrid so you can register to watch it remotely. www.mnhs.org/events/38217...

20.02.2026 15:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Canal Dreamers In the 1820s, there was a little-known quest to unite the world by building a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. As Spanish American nations d...

Today's release of the Canal Dreamers audio book made me realize that I should pin a thread with links related to the book. Starting with the @uncpress.bsky.social website:
uncpress.org/978146969055...

13.01.2026 19:20 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

Exactly. But even more simplistic and generalized than Himmelfarb.

14.02.2026 17:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

He’s smartly doing the kind of things Cory Booker did when he was mayor of Newark. Helping shovel people’s cars after snow, this kind of thing, etc… just being accessible to residents and visibly helping out (but without all the corporate favoritism behind the scenes).

14.02.2026 16:24 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Had a great time speaking at the North Carolina History Center last night and looking forward to doing another talk there in a few weeks.

13.02.2026 20:08 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Somebody’s stealing all the stuff they stole!! Unconscionable!! 😉

12.02.2026 23:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Excellent! I’ve gotten a really good feedback from people using parts 2 and 6 in undergrad courses.

08.02.2026 18:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Interesting! Balkin and Rana’s recent books might be useful.

08.02.2026 18:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I may have to print this out and frame it!

08.02.2026 00:47 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
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US District Judge Fred Biery cites several grievances from the #DeclarationofIndependence in an order releasing Adrian Conejo Arias and his five year old son, Liam, who were seized by ICE in Minneapolis, and tells the Trump administration that "'We the people' are hearing echos of that history."

01.02.2026 04:01 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History | American Antiquarian Society

Looking forward to doing a short remote talk and then some conversation hosted by the American Antiquarian Society tonight at 7pm. Registration link below.

www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve...

29.01.2026 18:16 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

You look appropriately concerned. 😀

22.01.2026 18:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.

This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

19.01.2026 22:59 👍 19383 🔁 6467 💬 617 📌 313

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

14.01.2026 02:09 👍 9429 🔁 2279 💬 66 📌 52

Hi all,

I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.

As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!

Sincerely,

Nathan

09.09.2025 00:48 👍 178 🔁 83 💬 6 📌 0
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Ivano Dal Prete was awarded the 2023 ACHA Marraro prize for distinguished book in Italian history or history of Italo-American relations. If you're interested in the history of (mythmaking about) deep time, this is the book!
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

19.12.2023 21:46 👍 31 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

Should be 5-1 right now

11.01.2026 14:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Only a few hours after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Minneapolis resident and mother Renee Good on January 7, federal immigration enforcement agents descended onto Roosevelt High School property during school dismissal as students were exiting the building. MFE members say that ICE agents tackled and detained a school staff member and union member who was working at the time. The MFE member was since released, according to a union spokesperson. The agents also deployed a chemical irritant against students and staff on school grounds, MFE says. A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.

Only a few hours after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Minneapolis resident and mother Renee Good on January 7, federal immigration enforcement agents descended onto Roosevelt High School property during school dismissal as students were exiting the building. MFE members say that ICE agents tackled and detained a school staff member and union member who was working at the time. The MFE member was since released, according to a union spokesperson. The agents also deployed a chemical irritant against students and staff on school grounds, MFE says. A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.

workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...

10.01.2026 12:24 👍 3924 🔁 1834 💬 59 📌 71

Can’t remember the last time I saw a team win on pens 3-0.

10.01.2026 15:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Worst half of the season and still didn’t concede. Sucks but we’re six points clear.

08.01.2026 22:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If only we had some sort of historical precedent that could help us understand what might happen when a constellation of highly militarized far right governments, organized around an angry and resentful, blood and soil version of nationalism, emerges and tries to remake the world in their image.

08.01.2026 16:10 👍 245 🔁 87 💬 8 📌 7

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

07.01.2026 14:49 👍 135 🔁 147 💬 1 📌 3