Bruce Schulman

As experts begin to rank Trump's presidency, I unearth the strange history of presidential rankings for the WaPo"s Made By History. With thanks to @KathrynBrownell and @brianros1 for expert editing.

Add States? Double the Court? Expand the House? My Latest for the WAPO's "Made By History" on the historical case for Constitutional Hardball. With thx for expert editing by @KathrynBrownell and @car1ygoodman

@WinbergOscar Holy disappointment!! But Oscar, you did tell your 4-year old that we rode in style that day??

@kesslerbs @KevinLevin @SethBlumenthal And with 3, you can have “Southern Man,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” and “Play It All Night Long”—replying to each other.

@KevinLevin @SethBlumenthal Film Clip: Network from Beale losing it to people shouting I’m mad as hell. Song: Parliament, Chocolate City. Text: Carter Crisis of confidence speech.”Great American ride” passage in Updike or HST on cresting of wave in F&L in Vegas too. Many faves.

Congrats to my friend, colleague, and @HistoryBU grad @SethBlumenthal --winner of BU's Metcalf Award for outstanding teaching. Well deserved! bu.edu/articles/2020/…

Today's not the first time a NY Governor complained about an unfair federal balance of payments. This piece ran in 2017, during the debate over Trump's tax law, but it tries to shed some historical light on this longstanding struggle. washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-h…

@KathrynBrownell Thanks to @KathrynBrownell and @brianros1 for their expert help with this piece!

What is a caucus and how is it different from a primary? @bjschulm explains the history behind our nominating system. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…

I’m so excited to share the first two articles in the #HistoriansGuideto2020 from @madebyhistory. See below!

As the 2020 campaign heats up (finally) with Iowa and NH, I look back at how the tangled US presidential system took shape. My latest for the WaPo's Made By History feature washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…

@katisjewell The Ramones have the answer. "Howlin at the Moon"! youtube.com/watch?v=S7DykT…

Worst placeholder chapter title I have: "Chapter 9Punk and New Wave Explosions at Night"

@steveyknight Still working on it ! But I’m getting there ( and that title is outdated) thanks for asking

@bjschulm Hello. I was wondering if ther were any updates on “Reawakened Nation: The Birth of Modern America, 1896–1929”, I am eagerly awaiting it!

@History_Daniel Thanks! Hope you enjoy it!

As someone who plans on studying the 1970s I have a vested interest in this but, even if I wasn’t, I would highly recommend The Seventies by @bjschulm - it was a great read!

Thanks to @KathrynBrownell and @brianros1 for their expert editing and special thanks to the students in HI 339 at BU, whose questions inspired this piece!

Join Us for "Making the American City," the 12th Annual Grad Student US History Conference at BU, March20-21, 2020. Robert Self of Brown University will keynote. It's a great event! Find the Info and CFB at sites.bu.edu/aphi/grad-conf…

@Randall_Stps Brian Ward,Just My Soul Responding;Nelson George,Death of Rhythm and Blues; Rob Walser,Running With The Devil,Alice Echols,Hot Stuff,Ben Filene, Romancing the Foilk, Bill McKeen, Everybody Had an Ocean,McKeen, Rock n Roll Is Here To Stay and, yeah,@Randall_Stps ,The Devil's Music

Thanks to @KathrynBrownell, @pastpunditry and @brianros1 for their help with this piece and thanks to @profdaly and @matt_pressman for their inspiration!

@LarryGlickman Ill bet you’re thinking of Isaiah Berlin’s. “The Fox and the Hedgehog.” It —and the question of jumpers and splitters-also came up in my first class yesterday

#twitterstorians I am looking for an article on "lumping" and "splitting" in historical analysis. I have a vague memory of a classic article on the subject, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment. Any recommendations would be much appreciated.

@KevinMKruse Dude, ain’t that Cobain tune on your mixtape right between Dead Kennedys’ “Nazi Punks DON’T Suck” and “KELLY Anne by The Beach Boys ?

@LarryGlickman Lincoln: a house divided against itself? Sure, it CAN stand. Nixon: Just kidding—I obviously AM a crook

Trump is following an honorable tradition of presidential corrections: Roosevelt: I meant to say that Dec 7th is a day that "won't live in infamy." JFK: Darn. What I wanted to say was, "ask what your country can do for you—not what you can do for your country.”

@HC_Richardson @shadihamid And that sign was erected by the Louisiana Department of Commerce and Industry in 1950!

@shadihamid This is precisely what white southerners said of the massacres that left black Americans dead during the 1860s and 1870s. They described the 1873 Colfax Massacre, for example, as a black mob attacking good white citizens. Yet look at the ratio of dead:

The bar is rather high, but this is one of the most disgusting things I've ever heard a US official say twitter.com/christinawilki…