It's H-Net-official! Apply for our postdoctoral fellowship now! Two years to join our work in Dallas SMU and build your CV for the next opportunity. h-net.org/jobs/job_displ…

TONIGHT SMU - "West of the White House BEFORE 1900." Join us for Part 1 of our symposium exploring the relationship between the frontier & the presidency. All info (including a difference location than normal) at blog.smu.edu/cph/event/west…

Hope to see folks tonight at 6PM! And tomorrow!

Great crowd & discussion SMU for Night 1 of “West of the White House: The Frontier and the American Presidency.” Thanks to our co-sponsors Clements Center, SMU DCII, SMU Libraries & GeorgeWBush Library

Night 2 of “West of the White House: The Frontier and the American Presidency.” Terrific work on post-1900 from @TJStiles_Author, Julie Reed, Ruth Lawlor, Aileen Teague & Augusta Dell’Omo. Thanks to our co-sponsors Clements Center, SMU DCII, SMU Libraries & GeorgeWBush Library

Theodore Roosevelt? Never heard of him.

ATTN EVERYONE: Andrew C. Isenberg’s The Age of the Borderlands (April 2025) rewrites the story of Manifest Destiny. It reveals how Indigenous societies, enslaved people, and rival empires fiercely resisted US expansion, challenging the idea of “the land of the free.” Game changer

Extremely grateful that *The Army under Fire* has been chosen as one of the The Civil War Monitor's best books of 2024. And so glad to be featured alongside friends like Robert Colby and Dr. Shae Smith Cox; and to see so many LSU Press books on the list!

It’s a new year, so it seems as good a time as any to share some exciting news. I’m thrilled to say I’ll be joining the History Department at the University of Wyoming in the fall, coming home to the Mountain West after a decade away. Moe is ready to be a cowdog.

If you are looking for Wednesday evening plans this week, you can join me for a conversation about my book, The Army under Fire, with the Lincoln Presidential Foundation: Zoom registration here: lincolnpresidential.org/1979/Four-Scor…

Think you know about manifest destiny? Think again. THE AGE OF THE BORDERLANDS by Andrew Isenberg releases April 15 -- preorder now from UNC Press for a fresh, new take that upends the tired narrative.

Kick off your week with some Civil War West.

I wrote about Thaddeus Stevens and the power of the purse for History News Network. Check it out, if you're so inclined. historynewsnetwork.org/article/thadde…

Check out Senior Fellow Cecily Zander's new History News Network piece-"Thaddeus Stevens and the Power of the Purse." A story of how a Republican congressman utilized his House leadership to oversee federal spending and the quest for Black Equality during Reconstruction. historynewsnetwork.org/article/thadde…

Happy #pubday to "From Dakota to Dixie: George Buswell's Civil War" edited by Jonathan White and Reagan Connelly The remarkable account of a Union soldier whose service took him from Indian Country to the heart of the Confederacy. upress.virginia.edu/title/10075/

The Lincoln Forum is pleased to announce its schedule for November, feat. Richard Carwardine, michaelvorenberg Martha Hodes Saladin Ambar Christopher Oakley Jonathan White Lucas Morel Susannah J. Ural Cecily Zander juliansher Stephen Puleo Fergus Bordewich, & more! thelincolnforum.org

We're excited to announce that Dr. Cecily Zander (Cecily Zander) has won our 2025 Wiley-Silver Prize for her book, The Army Under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era, published by LSU Press! olemiss.edu/civil-war-rese…

Huge congrats to Cecily Zander for winning the 2025 Wiley-Silver Prize! And just you wait for the second book . . . Liveright Books

Best purchase of all time?

A belated congrats to author Cecily Zander for winning the Wiley-Silver Prize for the Best First Book in Civil War History! Cecily is also the editor of our series History in an Afternoon: bit.ly/4nZmTC6