Historian. Author of The Last Slave Ships: NYC & The End of The Middle Passage (Yale, 2020).
Working on a new book Spying on The Slave Trade.
Rep’d by Deirdre Mullane
N. Irish immigrant to U.S.
https://www.johnaeharris.com/
John Harris
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I am describing the hair of the 1800s men in my book because it's what I can see best from their photos or is it because I am bald and I'm curious about how they dealt with that. Hard to tell.
That worked well
Interesting backstory - they have recruited heavily from the Netherlands, of which it was formerly a colony. Lots of boundary crossing when it comes to eligibility, which is normal and good. My kids could play for N. Ireland, Ireland, or U.S.
I will be cheering Curaçao against Germany this afternoon. Population 158,000, smallest in the World Cup.
This is not your granddaddy’s Brazil
Elon Musk is a trillionaire. How could this happen?
Here's a gift link to my WSJ piece on how a longstanding idea of corporations & the stock market broke, making giant corporations & super-wealth possible. You Henry Varnum Poor fans are gonna plotz.
Some background...
www.wsj.com/finance/gild...
Looking forward to Haiti vs Scotland later today and thinking there’s got to be a name for countries that are on islands but share those islands with other countries?
One thing I’ve learned writing this biography of Emilio Sanchez (anti slavery spy, out next year) is how tempting it can be for reasons of narrative or sympathy to gloss over challenging parts of the story. But therein lies richness. Sanchez is conflicted but it’s so revealing about him - & humanity
The U.S. team was always so stodgy. What a fresh approach. Actually thrilling to watch.
U.S. is playing with such freedom and confidence. Front-foot football.
The 19th century titans did more than build railroads. They paved the way for the reinvention of the stock market—and the creation of runaway wealth.
