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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

27 days

Guess what else is happening on November 5, 2024?

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

4 years

History of Capitalism syllabus discussion ahead, a 20 tweet thread. I'm refining a syllabus for a graduate seminar, essentially a 500-year survey across time, place, and methodology. The idea would be to introduce students to the field (to the extent I see it) 1/

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@sethrockman

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HISTORY OF CAPITALISM BIBLIOGRAPHY The spring 2021 @BrownHist graduate seminar compiled an extensive and eclectic annotated bibliography on the global history of capitalism. Hopefully there is something for everyone. Download here:

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

3 years

Ever notice that very few scholars who work on the social history of enslaved people in the US, 1787-1860 are primed to celebrate the American Revolution for its "consequences" of creating the circumstances that would eventually result in the end of slavery? Think about why.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

2 years

Time to finish.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

8 months

A TEXTILE HISTORY OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY is now underway @BrownHist . This seminar for new college students explores African Diasporic history and material culture, utilizing the amazing recent scholarship on the topic. Can't wait to learn with (and from) these students!

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

3 years

New course launches @BrownHist this week: “A Textile History of Atlantic Slavery.” The course will introduce students to the history of slavery and material culture methods, and consider how the material/visual record can respond to the silences of the (paper) archive. 1/8

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

5 years

There is a simpler explanation to why the current slavery/capitalism historiography looks the way it does in terms of the focus on the post-Revolutionary US.

Josh Marshall

@joshtpm

5 years

@mugwump2 @yeselson @EricLevitz @AdamSerwer @mattyglesias This is correct. But thats why these are questions that can’t really be answered in a US-centric framework. For that the real story is in the Caribbean. North American slave economies were relatively marginal in wealth production until pretty late.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

2 years

Reorganizing books by gerunds.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

5 years

Think academic book reviewing has gotten soft? From latest JAH: "His writing style is attractively informal, if occasionally too casual. His preface blames any errors on his cats (p.xiii). Presumably they are responsible for misspelling the name of James Fenimore Cooper (p. 72)."

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

2 years

This is a tremendous public resource. Thank you @washingtonpost . More than 50% of Congressmen were slaveholders 1789-1807.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

4 years

Fantastic to see @projo re-publish this 2006 set of articles about Rhode Island and the slave trade. From @hartfordcourant 's Complicity thru @nytimes and @nhannahjones 's 1619, our newspapers have been at the forefront of getting this history right.

Opinion / Rosenberg: A close look at slavery in Rhode Island

In this summer where racial injustice is at the forefront of our nation’s concerns, several readers suggested...

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

4 years

A much-appreciated end-of-school-year present from an undergraduate: an embroidered shipping container in honor of the history of capitalism! Thank you!

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

8 years

Undergrad in my abolitionism-heavy class goes to library, pulls 1867 book off shelves, opens to find inscription

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

3 years

It occurs to me that not everyone has watched the 1967 short film that Jim Henson made for IBM and its new word processing machine.

"Paperwork Explosion"

In 1967, Henson was contracted by IBM to make a film extolling the virtues of their new technology, the MT/ST, a primitive word processor. The film would exp...

www.youtube.com

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

3 years

Hard to focus this week, but big event coming up this Friday @SlaveryJustice : "Race, Slavery, Colonialism, and the Making of Capitalism" with @abufelix12 @ProfJLMorgan Pepijn Brandon, and Anthony Bogues. Link to registration in the next tweet...

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

3 years

I had some thoughts about the #1619Project that appeared in a recent @washingtonpost column.

Perspective | Why Republican efforts to ban the 1619 Project from classrooms are so misguided

"What is at stake in a version of U.S. history that foregrounds the lives and experiences of Black Americans? Why would this prove so threatening that it requires laws to prevent students from...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

8 months

Year 25 of professoring begins today.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

4 years

Man, a lot of historians are beclowining themselves over #1619 . Here is Colcanis.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

2 months

@RadioFreeTom you'll need to bring Molly Shannon back to SNL to do this in the persona of Mary Katherine Gallagher.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

5 years

I wrote an essay called "The Unfree Origins of American Capitalism"-- originally a 2001 conf paper, published in 2006-- that does a more articulate job of walking through this historiography. /end+1

The Economy of Early America

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

2 months

Big news from Brown in anticipation of 2026: a multi-year investment in scholarly engagement re: the American Revolution, its legacies, and the role of research universities in a democratic society, beginning with... a POSTDOC!!

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

2 years

What's next? "Biden needs a 'Willy Horton ad'"? It is so disappointing that commentators in the public sphere are openly calling for a race-baiting strategy as the best bet for saving "democracy" from rightwing book burners, covid deniers, and election liars.

Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸

@MaxBoot

2 years

Biden needs a “Sister Souljah moment”: He needs to attack the far-left activists who want to defund the police, boycott Israel and divide Americans by race. Biden should champion liberalism, not leftism. My latest in @PostOpinions .

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

3 years

What does scholarship look like at the intersection of Labor History and History of Science? A thread. tl;dr Conference in Philadelphia, June 2022, see the cfp:

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

2 years

So this is where you'll be able to find me for the next year. Give a shout if you're in Berlin.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

3 years

A good day to commemorate the time in 2019 when @knott_sarah and I tried our darnedest to suggest that economic logic shouldn't organize family life, and that "data driven" was a mask for class privilege rather than a synonym for objectivity. We clearly failed.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

5 years

Whoa! Brown will soon define assigning one's own book to a class as a conflict of interest, require formal disclosure, and ask that a departmental chair or ad hoc committee determine if text "is the best choice for the class in question." That's serious!

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

1 year

It was an honor to be part of this conversation.

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

1 year

What do modern labor fights, terrible worker protections and massive income inequality among workers of all races have to do with the legacy of U.S. slavery? Watch the CAPITALISM episode of #1619hulu . #1619Project out now.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

3 years

Dear Brown University PR Apparatus: The work you are promoting here by a long-retired emeritus professor undermines the current Brown University History Department and its commitment to a recovering and recounting a full, honest, and inclusive American past.

Brown Research

@BrownUResearch

3 years

In @WSJ , @BrownUniversity @BrownHist Prof Gordon Wood, a noted Revolutionary War era historian, reviews “American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850” by Alan Taylor: "His book is written in clear, readable prose."

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

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Question for colleagues in economic history so dismayed about the discussion of cotton, plantation slavery, and capitalism in #1619 : Are there ways you would analyze 20/21st c. petroleum that might be useful for thinking historically about cotton/slavery/capitalism? 1/12

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

5 years

At long last, I've been denounced on the website of the Mises Institute! "How College Profs Push Students to Socialism." My only consolation is that at least someone is reading Scraping By as part of the HoC conversation.

How College Profs Push Students to Socialism

The true aim of these “scholar activists,” as many academics have begun calling themselves, is to propagate socialism by redefining capitalism to encompass every evil of human history. Which means...

mises.org

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

7 months

Had a chance to revisit this book yesterday zooming with a high school class in Baltimore. Grateful that the book is still getting assigned and read, and that it seems to hold up pretty well! Thanks, Calvin for the kind words.

J C Schermerhorn

@CalScherm

7 months

Next up in my grad US core course: @sethrockman ’s modern classic Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore: a history of hard workers in an unforgiving labor market and how racial, ethnic, and gender diversity figured in the making of American capitalism.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

3 years

We can cite tweets in academic work, right?

ghostdunk.bsky.social

@illuminatedwax

3 years

it's weird how the framers of the US Constitution actually get off easy when people say they counted black people as 3/5 of a person, when really they made black people worth 0/5 of a person and the slave owners 8/5 of a person

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@sethrockman

4 years

A set of important observations from one of the best scholars of post-1865 US History. @charlespostel is not often on twitter, but perhaps that's about to change...

Charles Postel

@CharlesPostel

4 years

1/The NYT letter vs #1619 Project objects to the words “for the most part” black people “fought alone,” w/ some critics focusing on post-Civil War history of interracial class solidarity against corporate power. But history is more complicated than critics allow. Some thoughts.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

4 years

I appreciate all the kind words about the prospective syllabus for a history of capitalism graduate seminar. There was a point I was trying to make about what the history of capitalism looks like, and so I wanted to try again with an alternative model. A 18-tweet thread...

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

4 years

While it seems easy to attribute university closings to liability fears, might one also credit the presence of faculty epidemiologists, public health experts, and (dare I say) historians, social scientists, and humanists in the decision-making loop?

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

6 years

@mattyglesias Last year my American daughter learned German in a Berlin public school classroom designed primarily to serve refugee families from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. The school's motto was "School without Racism." We should try that here.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

4 years

Scene in 2050: "Daddy, what did you do to stop the rise of fascism in the US back in 2019?" "I stridently resisted the telling of an American history that foregrounds slavery in the nation's past, and spent a lot of time trolling a prominent Black intellectual on the internet."

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

4 years

Turns out that Wilentz has a new piece in the WaPo that "both-sides" the issue, saying 1619 and Trump are "closely matched symptoms of the same era." How obtuse do you have to be to miss the disproportionate danger of the state purporting to control the production of history?

jwb

@jwbernier

4 years

Anyone know when the “we write as historians” letter from Victoria Bynum, James McPherson, James Oakes, Sean Wilentz, and Gordon Wood about the 1776 Commission and that executive order is coming out in the NY Times?

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

4 years

There is something profoundly sick about a society where a public health crisis is conceptualized first and foremost as problem for markets.

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@sethrockman

5 years

New England colleges dependent on slavery for endowments, New York insurance companies issuing policies on slaves' lives, Rhode Island companies making clothing for slaves, a Massachusetts cotton industry using slave-grown cotton to employ 10000s of people in factories.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

4 years

Summer 2020 had its share of triumphs and defeats, but if nothing else, I read a bunch of new History books. If you've read some of these and want to talk them over, give a shout...

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

5 years

It doesn't mean that 1790-1860 US is the only story for the making of modern capitalism. But it does attest to the fact that most of the established stories of how national independence and political democracy made for a booming national economy had excluded slavery.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

4 years

We got no mail today, and I simply can't believe we're allowing these criminals to mess with the US Mail. So angry.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

5 years

Thrilled to be holding a copy of Lindsay Schakenbach Regele's *Manufacturing Advantage*-- a wonderful account of "national security capitalism" in the early republic. Much pride at @BrownHist on the publication of our 2015 PhD's new book from @JHUPress . Congratulations, Lindsay!

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

2 years

Crowdsourcing a question for a student re: #textilehistory , #fashionhistory , #dresshistory , #knittinghistory : Looking for scholarship and research leads on nineteenth-century striped knitted "yarn caps" as part of "A Textile History of Atlantic Slavery" 1/3

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

3 years

In my recasting of the 1790s as 2020, I've got the Jacobins as antifa, the St. Domingue slaves as BLM, the Bavarian Illuminati as Q... What else you got for me here?

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

6 years

People teaching the history of capitalism will want to be in better conversation with Nancy Fraser-- start with the New Left Review 2014 article, pick up her new book, and then listen to this podcast. Good stuff here.

Daniel Denvir

@DanielDenvir

6 years

It’s Nancy Fraser comprehensively explaining the entirety of capitalism in just over one hour on @thedigradio

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

1 year

Application portal open for a year-long fellowship ($72k) at @JCBLibrary and @SlaveryJustice -- a tremendous opportunity to work on the histories Atlantic slavery and its legacies. Closes 3/31. Would love to welcome colleagues to Providence next year!

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@sethrockman

2 years

Have been thinking about G. Wood’s 1987 “Interests and Disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution" as something of a parable for the current discussion regarding who gets to say what the Am Rev was actually about. (Life imitating art, or something like that) 1/5

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@sethrockman

2 years

Are you history of capitalism-curious? Do you wish you could access a short talk that might outline some of the contours and commitments of the field (at least as I understand them)? Apparently, such a talk exists...

Seth Rockman– The History of Capitalism as a Field in History

Professor Seth Rockman (History, Brown University) gives an overview of the history of capitalism as a field in History.For more information, visit the Stone...

www.youtube.com

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

4 years

@JenniferJJacobs @KristiNoem @ThisWeekABC Presumably for crimes against the people of the United States?

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

2 years

"...a keen reminder that historians do not discover anything. Instead, we learn to listen and to look in different places." What a wonderful closing line in an excellent essay!

Caroline Grego

@CarolineEGrego

2 years

My @AmHistReview piece is up! Search for the new AHR thru your library for access! I'm so excited that this essay is available; I think it'd be great for SC/Lowcountry, agricultural, Atlantic World, & material culture history classes, or a methods course.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

9 months

Got a reader's report back on my book ms. "Rothman's chapters..." I give up.

Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

3 years

At this point, probably every third or fourth citation to this book. I think it is @arothmanhistory 's turn to claim this one because @rothmanistan got the last one.

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@sethrockman

5 years

So what you have is a scholarship in 2019 that yes, is focused on US 1790-1860 largely as an artifact of the historiography that we inherited from the 1990s.

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@sethrockman

2 years

Thinking about the East Side parents for whom Election Day is the one time a year they visit a Providence public school. Is there any cognitive dissonance here regarding what civic engagement means in a diverse, multiracial city?

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@sethrockman

3 years

$4.9 million grant project to interrogate legacy of colonialism, subjugation in New England | Brown University

$4.9 million grant project to interrogate legacy of colonialism, subjugation in New England

Brown University, Williams College and the Mystic Seaport Museum scholars will use maritime history as a basis for studying the relationship between European colonization, dispossession of Native...

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

5 years

And so you've had a bunch of scholars thinking about how to write slavery into the story and what happens if you *don't* take it as a prima facia assumption that slavery had nothing to do with capitalism.

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@sethrockman

5 years

If you started grad school in the early 1990s, you had to read Gordon Wood's Radicalism of the American Revolution, Joyce Appleby's Capitalism and the New Social Order... books that said post-Rev US economy maximized freedom for pretty much everyone.

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@sethrockman

5 years

History of Capitalism @BrownHist starts this morning. Beginning with Ha-Joon Chang, ending with *The Box*, and making many stops along the way. Recent favorites include Susie Pak’s *Gentlemen Bankers* and David Arnold’s *Everyday Technology*.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

5 years

And those of us focusing on the post-rev US saw wage-earning slaves in Baltimore, Philadelphia banks owning Louisiana plantations, advanced bookkeeping in plantation spaces, southern judges promoting instrumental jurisprudence, remote communities of interest invested in slavery.

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@sethrockman

5 years

@saletan so, like, rod rosenstein?

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@sethrockman

4 years

Students uncover uncharted histories of the slave trade for upcoming documentary series | Brown University

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@sethrockman

5 years

You read Eric Williams and Sidney Mintz and you knew there was a compelling story regarding slavery/capitalism in British economic development-- you wondered where there seemed to be so little compelling work on these entanglements for the US.

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@sethrockman

5 years

That's where the scholarship is today. It has made an argument about US economic development specifically because of the arguments that the US has made (enabled by generations of historians) about itself and its unrivaled economic freedom. /end

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@sethrockman

5 years

There was, of course, compelling cultural history, like Roediger's Wages of Whiteness (in debt to Du Bois) that pointed the way, indicating slavery's "value" to the national economy was in the "unmaking" of white labor radicalism (which had Econ value to capitalism certainly).

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@sethrockman

4 years

People have many opinions about what the history of capitalism field "looks like" from a sociology of knowledge perspective. It doesn't have to look like it has previously. If you want the field to look different, you can make it look different. 20/end.

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@sethrockman

4 years

To amplify both @drhonor and @activisthistory , SHEAR does not have to be this. Very few of us want it to be this. Many of us must redouble our efforts to make it something else, something better.

@drhonor.bsky.social

@drhonor

4 years

FWIW, the shitshow of a #shear2020 plenary I just watched online does not make me want to abandon SHEAR. Quite the opposite. This organization has been my intellectual home. We are better than this. This cannot stand. #notmyshear

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2 years

A thread about threads… specifically, the surprisingly difficult answer to the seemingly easy question of “Did enslaved people wear blue jeans?” (of interest if you watched the PBS documentary last night) 1/

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@sethrockman

2 years

First time ever visiting Ithaca! Honored to have received such an invitation and very much looking forward to the talks.

CornellHistory

@CornellHistory

2 years

Announcement: The Carl Becker Lecture Series is set for March 14 through March 16 with Seth Rockman presenting on his project: Plantation Goods and the Material History of American Slavery.

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@sethrockman

3 years

Have you put a book on the syllabus so you'd finally have the space to read it? Have you ever then sat down to read that book and said, "Wow, this is a truly impressive book! How have I not read this yet?" That's me right now with Francesca Trivellato's Familiarity of Strangers.

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@sethrockman

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Charles Sellers' book by that title was a devastating critique of capitalism as an anti-democratic social formation. But the hero, fighting on behalf of democracy, was an Indian-killing slaveholder named Andrew Jackson... so that was ind of confusing.

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@sethrockman

4 years

So, you mean like Nell Painter, Patricia Limerick, Linda Kerber? Maybe I am naive too, but it seems like a weird coincidence how "the greatest living American historians" are so demographically similar to one another.

Robert P. George

@McCormickProf

4 years

@saletan I suppose I'm naive, Will, but wouldn't any reasonable person--any sane person (socialist, libertarian, or whatever)--want to know what the greatest living American historians think of an enterprise like the 1619 project? Does there have to be a backstory?

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Run, don't walk, to download (for free) Laura Edwards's wonderful new JAH article on early republic textiles: "James and His Striped Velvet Pantaloons: Textiles, Commerce, and the Law in the New Republic"

James and His Striped Velvet Pantaloons: Textiles, Commerce, and the Law in the New Republic

The striped velvet pantaloons of James, an enslaved man in the South Carolina upcountry, might not seem like an important legal artifact, but they are. Aft

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@sethrockman

3 years

This was also what Democrats were called to do in 2016. So basically, whether we win or lose an election, we are apparently obliged to reach out and try harder to understand the perspectives of people who hate us... with no reciprocity expected.

Touré

@Toure

3 years

Instead of asking us to reach out to the Trumpers who’ve been attacking and demonizing us, maybe they should be trying to understand us and reaching out to us. Perhaps “I am sorry for my behavior” is in order. “I am sorry for supporting a racist fascist.”

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Like a normal trial, but where the sworn-to-impartiality jurors consult with the defense team and the defendant issues public threats of violence to the prosecution. And the judge sits in silence. Oh, and also no witnesses or documents.

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3 years

Very pleased to announce that @BrownHist student and former @mcneilcenter fellow Simeon Simeonov successfully defended his dissertation this afternoon: "Empire of Consuls: Consulship, Sovereignty, and Empire in Revolutionary Atlantic (1778-1848)” Congratulations, Simeon!

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There is every reason to be excited about the upcoming Laura Edwards talk @SlaveryJustice October 10. I am also very pleased with the poster since I wove the fabric in the background!

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2 years

The last sixteen minutes have brought two requests to read manuscripts for major university presses. I am super impressed by-- and envious of-- everyone who managed to complete a draft book ms over the last 18 months. Also, when am I ever going to finish my book?

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You know what feeling never gets old? Having finished the reading for class! Phew!

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3 months

A beautiful sight to behold.

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@sethrockman

5 years

We are further degraded, our humanity is ever diminished, every day that this person remains the president.

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@sethrockman

3 months

In 10 days we begin reviewing applications for a 2-year postdoc in Labor History, 1500-Present. I hope that all eligible candidates will apply!

Brown History Dept.

@BrownHist

3 months

Upcoming deadline, 2/15: @BrownUniversity invites applicants for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Labor History, 1500–Present. Open to any geography, but with a preference for scholarship focused outside the U.S. and Europe. Learn more and apply:

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What follows is a fairly nerdy and perhaps unduly confessional thread, but I recently realized something about my interest in US history: I had been an avid stamp collector between the ages of 8 and 13. 1/

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3 years

Candidate for state office running ads about start of the school year for PPSD, referencing "our students." Ad pictures the candidate's children... who go to private school. Sorry, but if you opt out of collective institutions, you don't get to speak for the collective.

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2 years

Read (once again) @arothmanhistory 's **Slave Country** with my early republic undergrad class. This book has only gotten better with age (its age, not my age). Adam was out in front of a lot of things in this elegant and unsparing account of slavery's centrality to US history.

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5 years

Because, remember, Eric Williams didn't answer this, Sidney Mintz didn't answer this, Gordon Wood didn't answer this, Robert Fogel only took it so far, Charles Sellers didn't answer this. A big empirical hole in the scholarship on the spillovers and entanglements of slavery/cap.

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Seth Rockman

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A thought for anyone with an academic milestone this year: document it! There aren't enough special occasions in this career, so don't let your qualifying exams or dissertation defense go by without a picture (or screenshot). You'll be glad to have a memento. [Davis CA, 1996]

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Seth Rockman

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Labor and social history are dead! Long live labor and social history? You know I am all in favor of this topic, but genuinely curious about this framing relative to 50 years of labor and social history that has unabashedly told-- and continues to tell--capitalism from below.

Tehila Sasson

@TehilaSasson

11 months

Calling historians of economic life and economic thought! CFP for a workshop i'm co-organizing (w/ @hammock_tussock ) on “Histories of Capitalism from Below" inviting papers which position themselves as part of histories of capitalism and place at their center non-elites.

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Trifecta complete: the new issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History is here!

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

6 years

For the first time in its 5 years of existence, the History of Capitalism lecture course has majority-female enrollment (71/140) @BrownHist

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Seth Rockman

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4 years

A useful discussion for those who are unsure about the idea that capitalism has a history.

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

5 years

Really, there were great books conceptualizing the relationship of slavery and capitalism largely in global/Atlantic terms, but very little that got into the nitty-gritty for the post-Rev US (when as you recall from several tweets above, the US economy maximized freedom).

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Seth Rockman

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3 years

Ben Sasse is doing a "Drunk History" segment here, according to @taranummedal

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

2 years

It was a real treat to visit Cornell this week and give the 2022 Becker Lectures. Grateful to @Ed_Baptist , @TamikaYNunley , @csschmitt1 , and @CornellHistory for the warm welcome and enthusiastic engagement. Special thanks to @TealArcadi and @iad1_ileen and their undergrads!

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Seth Rockman

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2 years

I have spent the last five days— with a near monomaniacal focus— reading @sarahschulman3 's _Let the Record Show:A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993_. Completely blown away. Just finished it, and there's much to process, but some initial thoughts...

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

5 years

Well, I guess @Sven_Beckert would find out eventually that I was throwing down the gauntlet for wool as the most important fiber in the making of modern capitalism. 😉

Chris Evans

@cevans3

5 years

Featuring a keynote from @sethrockman ‘Empire of Wool: Slave Clothing in the Making of American Capitalism’

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Seth Rockman

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3 years

A review that touts the firm's success "underwriting cotton shipments to Britain on behalf of farmers in the American South." Tell you something about the ongoing inability of business journalists to take slavery seriously. via @financialtimes

Inside Money by Zachary Karabell — the price of stability

This history of one of America’s oldest financial institutions reveals the benefits and costs of conservative management

www.ft.com

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Seth Rockman

@sethrockman

5 years

(kind of confusing, in previous tweet). And then "market revolution" got picked up as a generic term for early-US economic development, minus the politics. But slavery was largely excluded from that literature. The south, we were told, didn't have a market revolution.

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Seth Rockman

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6 years

Look what came in the mail today!

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