David Silkenat
@davidsilkenat.bsky.social
Milbauer Chair of Southern History, University of Florida
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BIG NEWS, FRIENDS!
It is a quirk of the writing life that while you are finishing the current book, you are pitching the next one.
I am delighted that I will be working once again with Kathy Belden at Scribner, and returning to Civil War studies (and Texas!) for this exciting new project.
It is a quirk of the writing life that while you are finishing the current book, you are pitching the next one.
I am delighted that I will be working once again with Kathy Belden at Scribner, and returning to Civil War studies (and Texas!) for this exciting new project.
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
BIG NEWS, FRIENDS!
It is a quirk of the writing life that while you are finishing the current book, you are pitching the next one.
I am delighted that I will be working once again with Kathy Belden at Scribner, and returning to Civil War studies (and Texas!) for this exciting new project.
It is a quirk of the writing life that while you are finishing the current book, you are pitching the next one.
I am delighted that I will be working once again with Kathy Belden at Scribner, and returning to Civil War studies (and Texas!) for this exciting new project.
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Overjoyed to note the publication of Lauren Duval's much anticipated, The Home Front Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence (@uncpress.bsky.social @oieahc.bsky.social 2025)! And just in time for spring syllabuses!
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The Home Front
Prior to the American Revolution, the urban centers of colonial North America had little direct experience of war. With the outbreak of violence, British for...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Overjoyed to note the publication of Lauren Duval's much anticipated, The Home Front Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence (@uncpress.bsky.social @oieahc.bsky.social 2025)! And just in time for spring syllabuses!
uncpress.org/978146969005...
uncpress.org/978146969005...
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Whichard was the only man in North Carolina’s history to serve in the state House, Senate, Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court.
Former NC Supreme Court Justice Willis Whichard, who built rare service record, dies
Whichard was the only man in North Carolina’s history to serve in the state House, Senate, Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Whichard was the only man in North Carolina’s history to serve in the state House, Senate, Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court.
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Cyber Monday got you hunting for deals?
Don’t forget to snag some books for 30% off + free shipping on eligible orders during our Holiday Sale 📚🙌
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Don’t forget to snag some books for 30% off + free shipping on eligible orders during our Holiday Sale 📚🙌
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December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Cyber Monday got you hunting for deals?
Don’t forget to snag some books for 30% off + free shipping on eligible orders during our Holiday Sale 📚🙌
uncpress.org/holiday-sale/
Don’t forget to snag some books for 30% off + free shipping on eligible orders during our Holiday Sale 📚🙌
uncpress.org/holiday-sale/
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"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable Asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong."
~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788.
Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.
~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788.
Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable Asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong."
~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788.
Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.
~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788.
Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
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What a life & legacy. “Former North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Willis P. Whichard — the only man in North Carolina’s history to serve in the state House of Representatives, state Senate, Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court — died Tuesday in Chapel Hill.”
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https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article313056135.html#storylink=cpy
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November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
What a life & legacy. “Former North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Willis P. Whichard — the only man in North Carolina’s history to serve in the state House of Representatives, state Senate, Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court — died Tuesday in Chapel Hill.”
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📣 Our new @uncpress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalog is HERE ✨
This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...
This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
📣 Our new @uncpress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalog is HERE ✨
This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...
This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Whichard was the only man in North Carolina’s history to serve in the state House, Senate, Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court.
Former NC Supreme Court Justice Willis Whichard, who built rare service record, dies
Whichard was the only man in North Carolina’s history to serve in the state House, Senate, Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Whichard was the only man in North Carolina’s history to serve in the state House, Senate, Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court.
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Whichard was the only man in North Carolina’s history to serve in the state House, Senate, Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court.
Former NC Supreme Court Justice Willis Whichard, who built rare service record, dies
Whichard was the only man in North Carolina’s history to serve in the state House, Senate, Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Whichard was the only man in North Carolina’s history to serve in the state House, Senate, Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court.
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For those of you looking to follow up Ken Burn's documentary about the American Revolution with a good read, check out Richard Bell's new book. It's fantastic. 🗃️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752265...
The American Revolution and the Fate of the World by Richard Bell: 9780593719510 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“American history as if from a barstool, not a lecture podium. Giddy, rollicking, and bold.” —Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Master Slave Husband Wife "Accessible and impassioned...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
For those of you looking to follow up Ken Burn's documentary about the American Revolution with a good read, check out Richard Bell's new book. It's fantastic. 🗃️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752265...
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Want to learn more about Scots in the British Army in North America? #HATM
Matthew P. Dziennik
Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America
Nicola Martin, The British Army in Scotland and North America 1745-1775: militarisation on the fringes of the empire,
Matthew P. Dziennik
Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America
Nicola Martin, The British Army in Scotland and North America 1745-1775: militarisation on the fringes of the empire,
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Want to learn more about Scots in the British Army in North America? #HATM
Matthew P. Dziennik
Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America
Nicola Martin, The British Army in Scotland and North America 1745-1775: militarisation on the fringes of the empire,
Matthew P. Dziennik
Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America
Nicola Martin, The British Army in Scotland and North America 1745-1775: militarisation on the fringes of the empire,
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Our annual conference is on March 7, 2026 in Inverness at the University of the Highlands and Islands! Click the link below for details on our CFP (due December 5, 2025) and this year's essay prize (due December 5, 2025)! Hope to see you there!
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SASA 2026 | SASA
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November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Our annual conference is on March 7, 2026 in Inverness at the University of the Highlands and Islands! Click the link below for details on our CFP (due December 5, 2025) and this year's essay prize (due December 5, 2025)! Hope to see you there!
www.scotamstudies.org/sasa-2023-re...
www.scotamstudies.org/sasa-2023-re...
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Anna and I send our condolences to the family of former NC Supreme Court Justice Willis Whichard. Willis served our state effectively and with humility in so many ways — the State Senate, the Court of Appeals, and the NC Supreme Court. He will be missed. May his memory be a blessing.
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Anna and I send our condolences to the family of former NC Supreme Court Justice Willis Whichard. Willis served our state effectively and with humility in so many ways — the State Senate, the Court of Appeals, and the NC Supreme Court. He will be missed. May his memory be a blessing.
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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors transgender lives cut short. For more on trans history, read Abram J. Lewis’s piece “’Free Our Siblings, Free Ourselves:’ Historicizing Trans Activism in the U.S., 1952–1992.” https://www.oah.org/process/historicizing-trans-activism/
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors transgender lives cut short. For more on trans history, read Abram J. Lewis’s piece “’Free Our Siblings, Free Ourselves:’ Historicizing Trans Activism in the U.S., 1952–1992.” https://www.oah.org/process/historicizing-trans-activism/
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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I am absolutely over the moon that my book “The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP” is officially published TODAY!
After years of hard work, I am incredibly proud. Thank you to everyone who has made this possible 📚🐘🗃️
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After years of hard work, I am incredibly proud. Thank you to everyone who has made this possible 📚🐘🗃️
@uscpress.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I am absolutely over the moon that my book “The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP” is officially published TODAY!
After years of hard work, I am incredibly proud. Thank you to everyone who has made this possible 📚🐘🗃️
@uscpress.bsky.social
After years of hard work, I am incredibly proud. Thank you to everyone who has made this possible 📚🐘🗃️
@uscpress.bsky.social
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Wasn’t too impressed by the first episode of Ken Burns, but episodes 2 and especially 3 are much better.
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Wasn’t too impressed by the first episode of Ken Burns, but episodes 2 and especially 3 are much better.
Writing a book review always ends up being more work than I anticipated.
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Writing a book review always ends up being more work than I anticipated.
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Barnes & Noble has managed to put together a list of 23 "best" history books of 2025, 4.5 of which are authored by women. www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/the-bes...
#womenalsoknowhistory <-- sometimes I think we don't need this hashtag anymore, and then I realize I'm very wrong.
#womenalsoknowhistory <-- sometimes I think we don't need this hashtag anymore, and then I realize I'm very wrong.
The Best History Books of 2025 - B&N Reads
Remember why history matters and let the past teach you about how people lived, fought for change and evolved. These are the best history books of 2025.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Barnes & Noble has managed to put together a list of 23 "best" history books of 2025, 4.5 of which are authored by women. www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/the-bes...
#womenalsoknowhistory <-- sometimes I think we don't need this hashtag anymore, and then I realize I'm very wrong.
#womenalsoknowhistory <-- sometimes I think we don't need this hashtag anymore, and then I realize I'm very wrong.
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Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!