@ProfessorTwitty

Missourian in exile. Author of Before Dred Scott: Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857 (#CambridgeUP, 2016).

Joined September 2012
On May 10, 1906, Charles Scott, a candidate for governor who often campaigned in his Confederate uniform, gave the speech dedicating a new Confederate monument at @OleMissRebels. We’ve searched for the full text of this speech for years. On Friday night, I finally found it.
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Happy 250th! For an interesting wrinkle to the whole thing, check out the exciting historical discovery below. 👇🏻
One of the most incredible things I have ever worked on: Recently discovered documents, written by John Dickinson in 1775, that reveal his secret and previously unknown efforts to prevent the American Revolution. Now featured in the New York Times. nytimes.com/2026/06/30/us/25…
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One of the most incredible things I have ever worked on: Recently discovered documents, written by John Dickinson in 1775, that reveal his secret and previously unknown efforts to prevent the American Revolution. Now featured in the New York Times. nytimes.com/2026/06/30/us/25…
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Empire of Purity is here! Thanks @PrincetonUPress
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Today at the @pennlaw/@PennHistory #LegalHistory workshop: we're excited to host @Stanford's Jonathan Gienapp (@TheGNapp)! He'll be talking with us about the importance of the Constitution's Preamble in the Founding Era and "The Lost Constitution of National Popular Sovereignty."
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Exceptionally powerful book by @TheGNapp on what he sees as the (historical) mistakes of modern "originalism"; note that this is a work of history, not politics, and it offers a new understanding of what the founders' "constitution" actually was. amazon.com/Against-Constitut…
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My book is coming out in November! So excited to share this thing that I have been working on for so long (and that so many amazing people helped make happen)! Happy to talk about it with classes, book groups, your uncle, etc.! press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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I haven't read it, but if @TheGnapp's name is on it, it's got to be good.
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Trying to figure out how @mgraber_’s terrific new book fits into (some) of the literature on Reconstruction? Want to know what makes his approach to the making of the Fourteenth Amendment so novel? Read up!
The new issue of the JACH brings together two of my favorite people. Check out @ProfessorTwitty's exciting essay on @mgraber_'s important new book on the Fourteenth Amendment. jach.law.wisc.edu/resuscitat…
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.@POTUS @JoeBiden Mr. President, I hope you see this video I'm posting. This precious woman — who knows her presidential history — speaks for the majority of Americans. WARNING: Have some Kleenex handy. 😭
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For all the talk about Donald Trump’s “new tone” last night, I thought it served as a good reminder: Don’t believe everything you see in the press.
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How Biden needs to be at the Democratic National Convention 2024 this year 😂🇺🇸
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Her name is Hadley Duvall, and you need to hear her story.
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Nate… you can call me a lot of things but a liar is definitely not one of them. I know you THINK you know every thing but class is now truly in session. Pull up a chair: * The DNC started this process in May in response to the OH Secretary of State stating that our convention was after their deadline and no waiver would be provided *The current law in OH requires certification by Aug 7 to ensure a presidential candidate is on the ballot for November *Gov. DeWine signed into law on 6/2 a bill delaying the deadline until Sept 6 *Under the OH constitution the new law doesn’t take effect until 90 days after enactment which is 9/1 * Therefore the August 7th deadline will still be in place… giving rise to litigation and/or GOP games to create more hurdles and road blocks So if we did nothing, then from August 7th- September 6th, we would not be in compliance with the OH law. To not have a presidential candidate on a state ballot would have enormous consequences and impacts on turnout for all races on the ballot. So you can definitely take that risk and other chances when you Chair a party… I however will not.
I mean Jaime Harrison and the DNC are blatantly lying about this (Ohio changed its law so there's no reason to nominate Biden early) but the good news is that there very much will be consequences if they force Biden's nomination thru and he loses. nytimes.com/2024/07/16/us/po…
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As per his own post, the virtual nomination isn’t necessary. If this bill that establishes a September 6th deadline takes effect on September 1st, that leaves 6 days for Democrats to file the necessary paperwork. legislature.ohio.gov/files/special-…
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Biden: Poor Donald, he can't even watch TV this week because it's shark week
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It's been 8 days since over 300 pages of never before seen docs with evidence confirming Trump as a co-conspirator w Epstein in an underage sex trafficking scheme, inc very graphic sexual details. Yet no major media outlet has covered it since it went public. #TrumpPedoFiles
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