"You will encounter people who will encourage you to fear the past: those who want to be sure that hard history is forgotten, suppressed, even whitewashed. You will hear that it will harm you, wound you, undermine your ability to be great. Don’t believe them." open.substack.com/pub/hardhist...

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Historian here so honored to have curated the 250th exhibition, The Second American Revolution, at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield based on my new book #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic starting next week. presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/News/135/New...

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If you’re at #AHA26, stop by the exhibit hall to visit the @univnebpress.bsky.social booth! We’ll be here through noon on Sunday!

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My book lurking at the OUP exhibit @ #AHA26 next to a Pulitzer (E Fields-Black's remarkable _Combee_)! The introduction is "Genealogy as Statecraft." Excited for more opportunities this year to engage with readers about this meaningful and powerful practice in early America -- and since.

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“He reads it. He cites it. And he makes it accessible to a national audience.” Very cool moment @historians.org #AHA26 recognizing @jamellebouie.net’s exceptional engagement w history and historians in his brilliant opinion writing.

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