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melanie newport
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My book Fatherhood, Race, and the American State: The Politics of Patriarchal Anxieties will be released with Penn Press on August 25.
www.pennpress.org/978151282984...
Michigan!
And here it is, my belabored retrospective on Gordon Wood. Of course they changed the title, as magazines do. I preferred "How Gordon S. Wood Became the Rhetoric and Reality of the American Revolution" but knew it probably wouldn't fly.
newrepublic.com/article/2115...
met a carceral historian on the airport shuttle, the profession is sometimes really great
this guy says tenure standards are lower for faculty who “diversify” departments. 🚮
somehow I don’t think the New Britain campaign for vengeance will stop here
Bizarre to write this story without mention of the LDS church. Are they doing nothing?
loved “The Transit of Venus.” another perfect Bluesky book rec
