Dane Morrison
@trueyankees.bsky.social
Historian of early America & the World
Sept 30, 1787 Columbia and Lady Washington depart Boston for Northwest Coast, inaugurating NW fur trade
September 30, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Sept 30, 1787 Columbia and Lady Washington depart Boston for Northwest Coast, inaugurating NW fur trade
Happy Coincidence. As I am finishing up a chapter on Americans in the Indian Ocean: September 21, 1833, Edmund Roberts and Said bin Sultan sign Treaty of Muscat, first US treaty with an Arabian Gulf state. (Images of US Treaty and, for effect, French treaty with Muscat in 1844)
September 21, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Happy Coincidence. As I am finishing up a chapter on Americans in the Indian Ocean: September 21, 1833, Edmund Roberts and Said bin Sultan sign Treaty of Muscat, first US treaty with an Arabian Gulf state. (Images of US Treaty and, for effect, French treaty with Muscat in 1844)
6 August 1788, Salem merchant EH Derby sent bark Light Horse to Mauritius, opening his Indian Ocean trade
August 6, 2026 at 11:36 AM
6 August 1788, Salem merchant EH Derby sent bark Light Horse to Mauritius, opening his Indian Ocean trade
July 19, 1801, the Salem ship Margaret arrived at Nagasaki
July 19, 2026 at 1:03 PM
July 19, 1801, the Salem ship Margaret arrived at Nagasaki
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Phobes do not belong in medicine.
#transmemes
#transmemes
June 26, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Phobes do not belong in medicine.
#transmemes
#transmemes
How does an emeritus History professor spend his Thursday after a morning of research and writing?
June 25, 2026 at 2:59 PM
How does an emeritus History professor spend his Thursday after a morning of research and writing?
This looks interesting.
Instead of kings, plutocrats, and generals, a new kind of historical walking tour focuses on the people they repressed, and tells a more complete story. This is one of the more uplifting pieces tucked away in my archive.
Walking Tours Get a Radical Makeover, Focusing on People’s Histories
Instead of kings, plutocrats, and generals, a new kind of historical walking tour focuses on the people they repressed, and tells a more complete story.
newsletter.mariannedhenin.com
June 24, 2026 at 7:07 PM
This looks interesting.
28 December 1784, ship Empress of China, with supercargo Samuel Shaw, sailed from Whampoa (Huamg-po) for New York, ending first American visit to China
December 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
28 December 1784, ship Empress of China, with supercargo Samuel Shaw, sailed from Whampoa (Huamg-po) for New York, ending first American visit to China
In 1987, Tom Wolfe fretted over a threat to established institutions by a group that "sought nothing less than to sweep aside all codes and restraints of the past." He blamed "the hippies." One wonders what he would say about our current political plight. matiane.wordpress.com/2021/11/30/g...
Great Relearning – 20th Century Is Over by Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe In 1968, in San Francisco, I came across a curious footnote to the psychedelic movement. At the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic there were doctors who were treating diseases no living doctor h…
matiane.wordpress.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In 1987, Tom Wolfe fretted over a threat to established institutions by a group that "sought nothing less than to sweep aside all codes and restraints of the past." He blamed "the hippies." One wonders what he would say about our current political plight. matiane.wordpress.com/2021/11/30/g...
What went wrong with the @nytimes?
How the hell do you write a piece about historians writing for the courts that quotes three judges and four law profs but ZERO historians?
As the Supreme Court Focuses on the Past, Historians Turn to Advocacy
www.nytimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
What went wrong with the @nytimes?
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"The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power."
Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power."
Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
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It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️
December 28, 2024 at 11:26 AM
It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️
Our colleague, @provatlantic.bsky.social , came up with a great anti-AI phrase: “Leave History to people.” Can we make this go viral? @kawulf.bsky.social @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social @danmandel.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Our colleague, @provatlantic.bsky.social , came up with a great anti-AI phrase: “Leave History to people.” Can we make this go viral? @kawulf.bsky.social @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social @danmandel.bsky.social
Dem leaders just can’t let go of their tired, losing ways.
July 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Dem leaders just can’t let go of their tired, losing ways.
An alternative interpretation: Native Americans didn't kill enough Coulters.
Yall don’t get it. You don’t. Get. It.
It’s so sad. You don’t see us and never have. And until you do, you’re doomed too. It’s not “at first they came for us.” It’s that they’re still coming for us, and have, since 1492.
It’s so sad. You don’t see us and never have. And until you do, you’re doomed too. It’s not “at first they came for us.” It’s that they’re still coming for us, and have, since 1492.
July 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
An alternative interpretation: Native Americans didn't kill enough Coulters.
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OK, this is how it's done.
June 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
OK, this is how it's done.
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Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]
Naval Academy history chair resigns over ordered removal of symposium paper
Tom McCarthy cited the removal of a paper on grounds beyond its academic standard.
www.baltimoresun.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]
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The Academy was founded by John Adams during the American Revolution.
Every institute should be fighting back.
Millions of Americans stood at the barrel of a gun to help protect what Trump is destroying now.
Every institute should be fighting back.
Millions of Americans stood at the barrel of a gun to help protect what Trump is destroying now.
The 245-year-old American Academy of Arts & Sciences releases a statement rejecting assaults on scholarly and cultural institutions, the rule of law, & open inquiry--and calls on all Americans to "help fortify" democratic civic culture. www.amacad.org/news/board-s...
April 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The Academy was founded by John Adams during the American Revolution.
Every institute should be fighting back.
Millions of Americans stood at the barrel of a gun to help protect what Trump is destroying now.
Every institute should be fighting back.
Millions of Americans stood at the barrel of a gun to help protect what Trump is destroying now.
So, ICE isn’t actually going after gangs and drug-dealers? Who would have guessed?
He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.
gotta say I did not anticipate ICE goons going after the whitest possible immigrants with American families, jobs, and in good standing legally. a freaking Danish-born welder in Mississippi with four blonde kids and a pregnant wife. just omnidirectional hate
May 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
So, ICE isn’t actually going after gangs and drug-dealers? Who would have guessed?
Proud of my alma mater tonight.
I appreciate that the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences has this prominently placed at the top of their main webpage right now. as.tufts.edu
May 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Proud of my alma mater tonight.
What nonsense.
Ah, so this is where the money from my canceled grant is going. Let's not funding the teaching of history but rather let's fund statues. Awesome, wow! www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...
NEH Announces Grant Opportunity to Create Statues of Iconic Americans for the National Garden of American Heroes
www.neh.gov
April 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
What nonsense.
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Join me tomorrow at 12:00 for a #lunchtimetalk on #women & #boycotts of #Englishmade #shoes in the years prior to the #AmRev #wenhammuseum @revolution250.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social #resistancethroughfashion #purchasingpower #womenlead #nonimportation #letmetellyouastoryaboutshoes
April 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Join me tomorrow at 12:00 for a #lunchtimetalk on #women & #boycotts of #Englishmade #shoes in the years prior to the #AmRev #wenhammuseum @revolution250.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social #resistancethroughfashion #purchasingpower #womenlead #nonimportation #letmetellyouastoryaboutshoes
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Really looking forward to Revolutionary April in Salem! www.historicnewengland.org/visit/events/
April 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Really looking forward to Revolutionary April in Salem! www.historicnewengland.org/visit/events/
FWIT, today marks the anniversary of the Revenue Act of 1764 (the Sugar Act), for which Stephen Hopkins of Rhode Island observed, "Liberty is the greatest blessing that men can enjoy, and slavery is the heaviest curse that human nature is capable of...."
April 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
FWIT, today marks the anniversary of the Revenue Act of 1764 (the Sugar Act), for which Stephen Hopkins of Rhode Island observed, "Liberty is the greatest blessing that men can enjoy, and slavery is the heaviest curse that human nature is capable of...."