Looking forward to speaking tomorrow on a panel on the 40th Anniversary of the 1984 presidential election, convened by Dr James Cooper - details in link: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-1984-us-… CPHatSMU

Join us tomorrow night (11/19) SMU for "Character Matters: and Other Life Lessons from George H.W. Bush." Featuring Jean Becker, former Chief of Staff to President Bush. All info & registration here: blog.smu.edu/cph/event/char…

My favorite reads of 2024! 1. Recent stunning novels from Leif Enger, Anthony Doerr & Madeline Miller. 2. Keller, Peterson & Bonhoeffer - guiding me into love & justice even after they've gone. 3. Treasure Island & The Return of Sherlock Holmes- favorite authors to read again :)

SMU dominated their conference, played in their conference championship, and only lost 2 games. to two 10-win teams, by a combined total of 6 points. In the words of Dabo Swinney, “SMU better be in the dang playoff!” #SMU #PonyUp SMU Football

Mustangs' College Football Playoff Debut: SMU Football is headed to State College for the first-round of the CFP! #PonyUp x #CFBPlayoff

Join us SMU tomorrow (1/30) for a special event. We welcome Joseph Thompson & his new book *Cold War Country.* What better to accompany a book about country music than LIVE music?! So we also welcome David Tribble to SMU! Info & free registration here: blog.smu.edu/cph/event/cold…

Congratulations to our five finalists for the 2025 CPH Book Prize: Dr KJ Chen, Susan Gaunt Stearns, Brianna Nofil, Eva Payne, & Cara Rogers Stevens. Our committee will announce the 2025 winner during the week of Presidents Day when we host an event featuring our 2024 winner Sheyda Jahanbani!

It's official: SMU has achieved Carnegie Research One (R1) classification, joining the ranks of the nation’s top public and private research institutions. Read more: bit.ly/4hBQHBU

Announcing the winner of the 2025 CPH Book Prize: Susan Gaunt Stearns (umhistory) "Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade" UVA Press Link here for the full announcement: smu.edu/dedman/researc…

Big congratulations to my umhistory colleague Susan Gaunt Stearns for winning the CPH Book Prize!

My West Texas home visiting us in Dallas today😵

A full house for “Texas: An American History.” A privilege to welcome Benjamin H Johnson back to the SMU Hilltop! Cosponsored with Clements Center for Southwest Studies, GeorgeWBush Library & Friends of the SMU Libraries.

A very cool way to #RememberTheAlamo today! Confirmed discovery of the exact quarry that provided stone to build the Alamo!

It's Opening Day, favorite fictional baseball player? #OpeningDay #TheSandlot

Sad to learn of Edward Countryman’s passing. His book ‘The American Revolution’ is one of those concise masterpieces you turn to again and again.

I’d like to join or build a panel for ASCH that is related to Chicago church history. My paper will focus on evangelical brands that are sponsored or born by the Christian Workers Foundation in Chicago during the 1940s.

“Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave!” ~ John Chrysostom, “Easter Sermon” ca. 400

Congratulations to Cecily Zander on this well-deserved award. Perhaps the best way I can rep this book: it *immediately* changed how I teach an era of U.S. History. In this case, Reconstruction as a clash of civil rights, party politics, West/South & the Army. Buy it and read it!

Just pre-ordered Otis Pickett's book: "Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves: Presbyterian Domestic Missionaries & Race in South Carolina, 1802-1874" University of South Carolina Press. Really important book for understanding religion, slavery, missions & society in 19th-century U.S. uscpress.com/Southern-Sheph…