nighthawkog.bsky.social
Historian of early America. Author of Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic, and Night Hawk: A Nineteenth-Century Superhero and the Dawn of American Mass Culture https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo271055968.html
👤 Joined on 19 November 2024
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@nighthawkog.bsky.socialOut today: Floriano Canale, On the Manner of Discerning and Healing the Bewitched (1614), in English. Diagnosis before treatment, with a never-printed rite from a 1663 copy. Hardcover $64.99, ebook $19.99. thethinkingpress.org/project/discerning-and-healing-the-bewitched 🗃️ 💙📚 #earlymodern
Show PostGoing to go visit some gravesites of the subject of my paper. I still haven't figured out why Woodlawn Cemetery became the preferred burial location for Boston's Black community. Segregation/racism is always a possibility, but it was also more suburban and is a lovely spot, so maybe that too? 🗃️
Show PostI am thrilled to be hosting a live Q&A on r/AskHistorians this morning. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
Show PostToday @nighthawkog.bsky.social joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social to discuss Ameria's first superhero, Night Hawk. Come check it out! (And see his book, new from @uchicagopress.bsky.social) www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
Show PostInteresting read about a superhero from the 1820s! #HistoryBluesky #BlueskyHistory #Antebellum #Philadelphia
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