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Freedom's Crescent

@JohnCRodrigue

History Professor, author of FREEDOM'S CRESCENT

I meant “OTHER THAN coming to class and turning in the work?”

It’s amazing how many times my response to “how can I pull my grade up?” Is “come to class and turn in the work.”



Listening to it right now.

“Parks has a genius for translating mood and landscape into sound poetry.”—DownBeat ★★★★ Aaron Parks "Little Big III" is out now! Available on LP/CD/digital: aaronparks.lnk.to/LittleBigIII

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Who’s George III? What’s the American Revolution?

I swear you can talk about the importance of Parliament and the American Revolution till you're blue in the face and students will still write essays about how tyrannical George III was.



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Proud to have published Paul Joyce’s book. A former Boston cop opens a new investigation into some of the city’s darkest years bostonglobe.com/2024/09/10/opi…


Old school

Larry Allen still has one of the most impressive plays in NFL History RIP



History major and recipient of the History Department’s 2023 D’Agostino Award.

Congratulations to @David_Satkowski from all of his football and academic fans on the Hill. We'll now be fans of the @XFLDefenders



My friend Mike Fitzgerald recently took this really cool photo of the old courthouse at Vicksburg that matches the cover of my book Freedom’s Crescent @CambridgeUP

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Earthquake! In sensorround!


I’m looking forward to giving a book talk tonight @LaOSC where some of the events in Freedom’s Crescent occurred. louisianaoldstatecapitol.org/exhibits-event… #LouisianaHistory


Thanks to Stonehill College for publicizing this panel at the 2023 @TheLincolnForum!

For @cspan: Professor John Rodrigue recently joined historians Jake Friefeld and Brian Mitchell to talk about how the United States moved from the Emancipation Proclamation to the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. Watch: zurl.co/YvCJ

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Lincoln said this in reference to wartime Reconstruction in Arkansas. For larger context: cambridge.org/us/universityp…

Some simple, direct election strategy from #AbrahamLincoln. #AbeSays #ALPLM Source: ow.ly/1brk50QQSvB

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Back up to Amazon #6 in US history, with some good company.

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Thanks @arothmanhistory for great endorsement.

Some simple, direct election strategy from #AbrahamLincoln. #AbeSays #ALPLM Source: ow.ly/1brk50QQSvB

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Happy International Women's Day from SIU Press! Celebrate with the excellent titles from our Women's History Month Collection at siupress.com/women. #internationalwomensday #happyinternationalwomensday

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Congratulations to Frances M. Clarke and @PlantRjp on winning the 2024 Lincoln Prize for Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era, and to fellow cofinalists Frank Cirillo, Yael Sternhell, and @ronaldcwhitejr


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