Save upcoming dates for my book tour in May and June. 5/19, Mayflower Society virtual on Zoom, ⚓ then St. Simons Island and Savannah, GA on 5/22. 🏇🏾 Then in Norfolk and RIchmond, VA on 6/11 and 6/12, respectively. More details here: bit.ly/3UAhTpz

I was lucky to get an advance look at this volume from Jonathan White and Lucas Morel. It's a really great volume that will be an excellent tool for teaching the Civil War era.

Have you ever been traveling abroad and met someone from your hometown or state? These chance encounters usually result in excited chatter. Is this unique to Americans? Read our latest essay to find out what De Tocqueville, an 18th Century visitor to America himself, thought!

My talk in Petersburg will air on CSPAN 2 this Saturday at 2 pm EST: c-span.org/event/american… LSU Press Christopher Newport University Jack Miller Center

Had a wonderful weekend in Columbus, MS at the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters banquet. Honored to have received the 2025 prize for nonfiction! OUP History umhistory UM Liberal Arts

Juneteenth and Independence Day honor the struggle of an imperfect people on an imperfect path to freedom and equality, write Lucas Morel and Jonathan White on.wsj.com/4e8XaDz

On a recent trip to DC we happened to walk past 800 F Street NW, across the street from the National Portrait Gallery USA, where Charles Cowlam lived in the Census of 1870 LSU Press Longleaf Services

Join me over Independence Day weekend in Yorktown, VA, where I will be speaking July 5 at 2:00pm at the American Revolution Museum. The event is part of the Talking History Lecture series and is co-sponsored by the Jamestown Settlement. Reserve your seat: bit.ly/3Tt5J2k

Get "Shipwrecked" audiobook for 50% off with this link from Tantor Audio Rowman & Littlefield audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…

A nice review for "New York City in the Civil War" The History Press Arcadia Publishing emergingcivilwar.com/2025/07/15/boo…

Calling all true crime fans! Check out this program from our past speaker, Dr. Frank W. Garmon, Jr., author of “A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlam’s Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age.” Watch our past series speakers here: youtube.com/@lincolnpresid…

Last summer I visited Ottawa, Canada, and saw the offices of John A. Macdonald and Gilbert McMicken in Parliament. The subject of my book, Charles Cowlam, corresponded with both in 1868 as he described a threatened Fenian invasion of Canada lsupress.org/9780807182666/… LSU Press

TGIT.

Imma gonna leave this here for everyone as a kind of announcement of something underway (and soon ready). Hehehe

If you're in Charlottesville or the surrounding areas this weekend, come to Cunningham Creek Winery in Palmyra, VA to drink some delicious wine and hear me chat about the Freedman's Bank! Sunday, Sept. 7th @ 2pm! cunninghamcreek.wine/ccwevents/

Excited to get my hands on the latest from Jonathan White and Lucas Morel! Look out for this great volume.

Bought a Second American Edition of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Printed in 1838, two years before volume II was published in French Jack Miller Center Constituting America CNUCenter4AmStudies

📃On display for the first time ever: the entire U.S. Constitution, including the "fifth page" and all 27 amendments!

This is the best book intro about Canada ever

From my talk in Visit Yorktown on my book, A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlam’s Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age lsupress.org/9780807182666/… LSU Press CNUCenter4AmStudies Longleaf Services