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Our own @ProfMSinha and Andy Horowitz are featured in UConn Today on two new exhibits they respectively curated that mark the country’s 250th Anniversary.
today.uconn.edu/2026/07/cura…
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So #SHEAR2026 is a wrap! So glad to see such good representation from @UConnHistory and UMass students. Our graveyard shift had around 30 attendees packed in a small room and the first time graduate students who delivered papers were great. Pic with SHEAR Presidents.
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I’m delighted to be reading proofs of my book: “For Your Health and Ours: An Eastern European History of Global Health.” Do you ever wonder about how our politics of health took shape? Then this book is for you
global.oup.com/academic/prod…
Related essay I wrote
snyder.substack.com/p/consum…
ALT Image of book cover. Text reads: "Sara Silverstein" "For Your Health and Ours: An Eastern European History of Global Health" There is a photograph of a group of employees from the League of Nations Health Organization. There are seven women and five men. They are dressed in clothes of the 1920s. They all face the camera with serious expressions.
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Historian here, calling all friends, followers, and UConn alum. If you are in Philly this weekend, join me on this historic 250th tour. Registration closes on May 14th, if you can't get in DM me! events.foundation.uconn.edu/…
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Historian here now that religion is so much in discussion here is my defense of the abolitionist John Brown whose personal war against slavery was truly a just war on @ReligionMag youtu.be/fbh80hIpJDg?si=NLEZ…
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Happy to see my SHEAR Presidential Address "The First American Republic: An Alternative Genealogy" (expanded version) out in print in the Journal of the Early Republic Spring issue. Get your copies folks!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56474?fbc…
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Historian here happy to have done this great podcast on #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic with #SHGAPE pod.link/1584947419
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Historian here join us tomorrow at NYU law school for this important conversation sponsored by the Brennan center. brennan.swoogo.com/thecauseo…
FYI for anyone in NYC!
Historian here join us tomorrow at NYU law school for this important conversation sponsored by the Brennan center. brennan.swoogo.com/thecauseo…
Attention, Michigan area followers!
Check out our own Manisha Sinha this afternoon:
Historian here very much looking forward to this talk at Eastern Michigan today. Join us if you can Michigan folks! #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic
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Historian here join us today evening for this wonderful documentary at American Antiquarian Society featuring the amazing research of my colleague @UConnHistory Nina Dayton who unearthed the later life of Phillis Wheatley Peters and her husband John Peters americanantiquarian.org/prog…
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Historian here very much looking forward to my visit to Franklin & Marshall College! Join us if you are in the area. fandm.edu/stories/historian-…
Our own @LincolnHirn will be speaking at the Stowe Center for Literary Activism tomorrow evening! Details below: stowecenter.org/event/stowe-…
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Historian here join us today for this free zoom webinar open to all: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Professor @_S_Silverstein is someone to whom I listen on issues of health and history. This essay helps us to situate the present American health drama in the history of health care, and thereby to see much more clearly what we face.
snyder.substack.com/p/consum…
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Abolition wasn’t born out of policy change—it was a radical, global revolution.
Manisha Sinha’s recent article illustrates how slave resistance fueled a movement that birthed feminism & fought imperialism, redefining democracy & human rights forever.
bit.ly/4rofTjK
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Happy Black History month To commemorate I am doing talks at a private New England prep school today and at an independent black book store in Alabama next week It's like the old abolitionist alliance that gave us emancipation and the Reconstruction Constitution Let's do it again
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Since Trump has brought back old fashioned imperialism it might be the time to think about how we can prevent the fall of the Third republic on the 250th anniversary of the American Republic. My thoughts on this great democracy podcast.
diydemocracy.libsyn.com/less…
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Happy New Year! #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic named one of the best books of 2025. “Sinha does an exquisite job of arguing that Reconstruction is a much broader period in history than we think and expertly covers its impact on various populations & regions” Pub 2024!
Our own Manisha Sinha recently featured in The NY Times! Check it out here:
Historian here, glad to be quoted on the Trump regime’s unprecedented actions. To be read alongside Jamelle Bouie’s brilliant the White House is a Lost Cause published last Sunday. nytimes.com/interactive/2025…
