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Thanks to Dr. Kathryn Cramer Brownell, Nicole Hemmer and Brian Rosenwald for their help with this piece and thanks to Chris Daly and Matthew Pressman for their inspiration!

Join Us for "Making the American City," the 12th Annual Grad Student US History Conference at BU, March20-21, 2020. Robert Self of Brown University will keynote. It's a great event! Find the Info and CFB at sites.bu.edu/aphi/grad-conf…

Thanks to Dr. Kathryn Cramer Brownell and Brian Rosenwald for their expert editing and special thanks to the students in HI 339 at BU, whose questions inspired this piece!

As the 2020 campaign heats up (finally) with Iowa and NH, I look back at how the tangled US presidential system took shape. My latest for the WaPo's Made By History feature washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…

Today's not the first time a NY Governor complained about an unfair federal balance of payments. This piece ran in 2017, during the debate over Trump's tax law, but it tries to shed some historical light on this longstanding struggle. washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-h…

Congrats to my friend, colleague, and BU History grad @SethBlumenthal --winner of BU's Metcalf Award for outstanding teaching. Well deserved! bu.edu/articles/2020/…

Add States? Double the Court? Expand the House? My Latest for the WAPO's "Made By History" on the historical case for Constitutional Hardball. With thx for expert editing by Dr. Kathryn Cramer Brownell and @car1ygoodman

As experts begin to rank Trump's presidency, I unearth the strange history of presidential rankings for the WaPo"s Made By History. With thanks to Dr. Kathryn Cramer Brownell and Brian Rosenwald for expert editing.

Could the cure for what ails our politics be more bureaucracy? Seriously! My latest for Made By History wapo.st/2vMApmo?tid=ss…

Americans always answer the call. OneAmericaAppeal.org

Must read: cities should want to win the Amazon sweepstakes. But to benefit, they'll need to win the right way washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-h…

Terrific piece by Margaret O'Mara giving essential context to Amazon location sweepstakes

What lies behind current debate over the SALT deduction? See my latest for Made By History. wapo.st/2xxVYVg?tid=ss…

See the terrific analysis of fiscal federalism by Josh McCabe x.com/joshuatmccabe/…

Rolling Stone Turns 50--a One-Time Fan (and Wannabe Writer) Turned Historian (Me) Looks Back. My latest. wapo.st/2zHgN5j?tid=ss…

Superb new piece by Matthew Pressman on the history of government-media relations underlying the Time Warner-ATT merger controversy x.com/matt_pressman/…

Great piece by Blanchard Prize winner and BU History PhD Matt Pressman on developing ideas for books. x.com/matt_pressman/…

I accept Tony Corsentino 's nomination to take the FilmStruck challenge to name four films that define me.

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