Historian writing about early US ambassadors to Native American polities. Postdoc at SMU Center for Presidential History. Yale PhD '22. Former HS teacher.
Jul 23, 2022 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
Now I am going to try to do something impossible: to live tweet the #SHEAR2022 presidential address from my amazing advisor, Joanne Freeman @jbf1755
As many of you will already know, she is a master of incisive, witty, powerful language — so with this talk in particular I will be butchering it here and if you’re not in the room you should look out for the printed version that will come out in @TheJERPano
Jul 23, 2022 • 40 tweets • 7 min read
Ok, time for a #SHEAR2022 roundtable (figuratively speaking — literally it’s a quadrilateral) on “Teaching History Amidst the History Wars: A Conversation with Secondary School History Teachers.” A subject near and dear to my heart!
Co-chair of roundtable @brfranklin4 begins with the important (and heartwarming!) point that it’s not just that college profs have something to offer high school teachers—the exchange can and should go both ways.
Jul 23, 2022 • 32 tweets • 5 min read
Good morning from #SHEAR2022! I’m going to do my best to share highlights from the panel “Federal Sovereignty and State Policy: Authority, Law, and Governance in the Early Republic”
First up, @GraceMallon3, postdoc at Oxford, with “Federal Indian Policy and the Problem of the States in the 1790s” drawn from a project that takes an empirical approach to how state-federal relations worked in practice in the early national period
Jul 22, 2022 • 37 tweets • 5 min read
Greetings from #SHEAR2022. Welcome to my inevitably shambolic attempt to live tweet 3 rich papers from the panel “New Intellectual Histories of the Republic”!
First up, Hampton Smith, phd candidate at MIT, with “Weaving Black Mathematics.” Smith begins by discussing a powerful historiography demonstrating the multi-faceted deleterious role of quantification in Atlantic slavery — the dehumanizing effects of turning ppl into numbers.
