Michael Hattem

A wonderful piece on a visit to St. Andrew’s School with @michaelhattem.bsky.social and Zara Anishanslin www.standrews-de.org/n/~board/new...

Hey @shearites.bsky.social, stick around until Sunday morning, you won't want to miss this roundtable conversation featuring authors of recent books related to the Declaration of Independence! @michaelhattem.bsky.social @rparkinson.bsky.social @frankcogliano.bsky.social @stevesarson.bsky.social

My first-ever beach sighting of P&P!! 😀

The first Road to 250 piece is up! Featuring @michaelhattem.bsky.social www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

Happy to share this piece in the @inquirer.com today!

Quoted in a New York Times article that draws on my book & have a piece in the Philly Inquirer out soon. This fall I’ll doing the Missouri Historical Society’s Jefferson Lecture, Brattleboro Literary Festival, talks in VA, CA, SC, & MN, & have a new book out in Nov. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/m...

The number of people at the Knicks parade today were roughly equal to the combined population of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana & Alaska. So if you heard about any issues in NYC today, but not about any crimes in those states, you know the agenda of that media.

A lot of complaints about Arsenal “time wasting” but their keeper didn’t cause a three-minute stoppage just to fix his ponytail.

@nbcsportsoccer.bsky.social has totally blown their coverage of the final day.

I’m old and lucky enough to have seen #Arsenal win the league three times and in many ways this is the most satisfying because it’s the first one for my two boys who are now 20 and 19 and have been supporters from birth.

Looking forward to talking about how and why remember the American Revolution tonight at the Massachusetts Historical Society! www.masshist.org/events/revol...

Looking forward to this event at the MHS in a week and a half!

In “The Memory of ‘76,” I wrote about how, in 1976, Jesse Lemisch had his students collect cheap ephemeral items branded for the Bicentennial and make an exhibit out of them. Prof. Jason Smith at SCSU has done the same thing for the 250 and I’m excited to speak at their exhibit’s opening next week.

I’ve been fortunate to get to travel this year for talks. One of the highlights was returning to City College last week for the first time in 15 years. And I’m looking forward to the Annual Fiori Lecture event at the Massachusetts Historical Society next month. www.masshist.org/events/revol...

Looking forward to doing a talk this afternoon at MIT.

My new book on the Declaration of Independence, out in November, is now available for pre-order, which is especially exciting because I still have talks for my previous book over the next few months in MA, TX, NC, TN, NY, CT, NJ, PA, MO, and CA.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen my life so summed up in one image.

Soon you will walk into the office of Dr. who used AI to get through med school. Or you’ll be in their emergency or surgery rooms. And when you go to sue them for malpractice, your lawyer will have used AI to get through law school, etc…. We’re heading toward a future with no actual human expertise.

My forthcoming book, out in November on Oxford University Press, has a cover!

History by Algorithm or What AI Doesn’t Understand About Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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

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-...

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...

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...

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...

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.

I may have to print this out and frame it!

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."

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...

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.

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/?)

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

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...

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-...

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-...

Donnarumma is embarrassing.

Looking forward to this talk in a few weeks!

I know there will be bigger priorities but the next Dem president, if there is one, needs to remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center. They also need to undo all the renovations to the White House and restore it exactly to how it was.

A paragraph from the preface of Michael Kammen’s “People of Paradox.”

As a grad student my research & handwriting analysis solved a 240-year old mystery about the authorship of a 1775 Cont. Congress document. And during my diss, I identified the author of an anon. mss in the NYHS’s Jay Papers that turned out to be one of the first histories of the AmRev by D. Ramsay.

They’re trying to poison the entire intellectual structure and with it the very notions of expertise and authority. Some for the purpose of discrediting it entirely and others for the purpose of making it easily manipulated on both the micro and macro levels. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Watching this segment I kept waiting for Washington to break out into an ad for a supplement promoting increased testosterone.

having heard talks from this project at field conferences for the past few years, this is a major new book from an inspired, indeed field defining scholar- many of us in early modern studies and beyond have been eagerly anticipating this book- and now- it’s here at last!