New from me, on the rise of US citizens caught smuggling drugs, weapons, and people across the border.

If you make enough podcasts, all your crossover episodes can be with other shows you work on. We had AJ Jacobs on This Day In Esoteric Political History to talk about the history of puzzles and his new daily show THE PUZZLER, which I produce! Believe it or not, the NYT was vehemently anti-puzzle at first.

Supreme Court could hold fate of US democracy in its hands - read more here from Nicole Hemmer cnn.com/2023/12/19/opi…

It’s official!!! Beyond thrilled to be writing this book on The Raincoats! 🎸

Coming to you in August 2025!

White Rabbit Books Hachette Books

Some personal news!

As of today, HNN is back in action! And we're delighted to introduce our new institutional sponsor: Bunk University of Richmond.

We'll be sharing more about the new partnership in our newsletter later today. Subscribe here! buff.ly/47Fg2WH

On this World AIDS Day, I wrote about Ryan White for TIME madebyhistory. Many thanks to Carly Goodman and Dr. Stacie Taranto.

The Poster Child for AIDS Obscured as Much About the Crisis as He Revealed time.com/6340507/ryan-w…

I've been meaning to mention that I'll be at the AHA meeting in San Fran in January—slightly intimidating to be on this panel with actual historians, but it should be a lot of fun. Would love to meet up with any Know Your Enemy listeners there! I'm sure I'll post up at some bar

#Twitterstorians ! The Richards Center has been working with some generous alumni on a new year-long fellowship for mid-career faculty that doesn’t require relocating. For the inaugural year the theme is military history (broadly conceived!). App due Feb 15. Please share widely!

6/3 years later, and with the leadership and help of Anastasia Curwood and @phdshammy29we, we are gathering again, this time in person for ' Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women's Lives.' A two-day conference of writing about Black women's lives.

🎉It's our 2023 book list, featuring historians working off the tenure track around the world 🎉 contingentmagazine.org/2023/11/27/202…

It's our first ever This Day gift guide! We just sent out a newsletter with links to buy all the books we talked about on the show this year, plus -- of course -- our new merch store. Check it out --> thisdaypod.substack.com/p/a-this-day-b…

Hi there! Just wanted to clear this up: this was not a speaking gig, but part of a panel on the intersections between public-facing historical scholarship and historically informed journalism. (1)

The Globe and Mail has GUN COUNTRY on its 2023 holiday gift guide. If you can't trust the second biggest newspaper in Canada who can you trust theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/art…

It’s alive

This was the best place for me to land immediately after completing the PhD. It was one of the most supportive environments I ever had the pleasure of working in. Even in a pandemic, there was a sense of community. Highly recommend!

So pleased to see my essay in the Organization of American Historians American Historian special issue on capitalism alongside Jessica Ann Levy & Maria R. Montalvo

I write about the history of “made in China” labels —ideas I explore further in my book, Made in China, coming spring 2024 with Harvard University Press

Tomorrow (11/20) at 4 PM EST: Dr. Kathryn Cramer Brownell joins American Historical Association' Washington History Seminar as a panelist to discuss her new book 24/7 Politics. She will be in conversation with Margaret O'Mara and Nicole Hemmer.

Register for this free, virtual event: hubs.ly/Q0299s4B0

OTD in 2023 you ordered *the coolest* This Day In Esoteric Political History merch from Jody Avirgan - mostly on threads, Nicole Hemmer, and Kellie Carter Jackson.

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Join us on Nov. 20 at 4 PM ET for a #WashingtonHistorySeminar on “24/7 Politics: Cable Television & the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News” with Dr. Kathryn Cramer Brownell & commentators Margaret O'Mara and Nicole Hemmer. The Wilson Center #AHAOnline us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…