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Chris Magra

@ChrisMagra

History Professor at the University of Tennessee. Director of the Center for the Study of Tennesseans and War

 Knoxville, TN
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Joined December 2013
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Publication Day! New military history of the Declaration of Independence!
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We’re talking Civil War-era mourning customs at tonight’s ALLM event, with a few archival selections on display.
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Michael Lynch@mlynchhistOct 7
It’s a day of anniversaries—the anniversary of the Battle of Kings Mountain, in a year when we’ve been celebrating the 250th anniversary of independence. So here’s an anniversary Kings Mountain monument, dedicated in 1880 on the battle’s centennial.
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📣 CFP: 93rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History ⏰ Submission deadline: October 10, 2026 The Society for Military History invites paper proposals for its 93rd Annual Meeting, hosted at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel.
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AI didn’t save me from work. It helped replace repetitive Canvas labor with cumulative intellectual work. The lesson for universities: use machines to reduce paperwork. Use the savings to bring humans back into the room. computationalhistory.substac…
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Department of History is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the field of History of Science and Technology. careers.historians.org/jobs/…
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The Daughters of the American Revolution were kind enough to ask me to talk about the Bill of Rights in preparation for Constitution Week.
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Hello Equal Earth. What the @UN vote to move beyond the Mercator projection means for changing education, navigation and public perception. Thanks @Nature for chance to contribute. Honored to share space with one of my favorite scientists @deepseadawn nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Hello Equal Earth: what the UN’s new world map will change

Hello Equal Earth: what the UN’s new world map will change

Nature - What the UN vote to ditch the Mercator projection means for education, navigation and public perception.

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First time sheltering in place. I was fine. And the matter was resolved. But, I’m mindful of the people on campus who were traumatized sitting behind a locked door on campus for an hour.
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The Board of Trustees of the Society for Military History has approved the following statement of protest regarding the recent closure of public access to the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).
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The JER Pano@TheJERPanoAug 19
Read #JERpano award-winning scholarship for FREE Meagan Wierda's "Statistics 'in Relation to Themselves'" now available without a login thanks to @uncpress Learn how Af-American activists challenged the flawed 1840 Census and used data to counter pro-slavery arguments Link 👇
Visual announcement with QR code for Meagan Wierda's article gaining open access status for a limited time by UNC press and the JERPano. Same link can be found in first thread.

ALT Visual announcement with QR code for Meagan Wierda's article gaining open access status for a limited time by UNC press and the JERPano. Same link can be found in first thread.

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Just in time for the 250th—“America’s First War: The Military History of the Declaration of Independence.” This essay collection includes my chapter on Revolutionary war and peace in the Cherokee Nation. Thanks to the University of Tennessee Press: utpress.org/9798895271193/am…
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The new Journal of East TN just dropped! If you are interested in the early South, early America, Native America, or the Early Republic, then be sure to check out these amazing articles!
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The Maritime Origins of the American Revolution: Press Gangs and Fishing Rights - Analyzing American Revolution analyzingamericanrevolution.…
The Maritime Origins of the American Revolution: Press Gangs and Fishing Rights

The Maritime Origins of the American Revolution: Press Gangs and Fishing Rights

How did press gangs, naval impressment, and fishing rights help drive the American Revolution? The maritime origins of the Revolution.

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New book!
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My author copy arrived!
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McNeil Center conference on America's Early Navy c-span.org/program/america-2…
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The JER Pano@TheJERPanoJun 17
Kicking off a new #JERPano250 series, “250 in the West," with “Washington Didn’t Sleep Here: The Semiquincentennial in the Evergreen State!” Read Lawrence B.A. Hatter on how geography shapes Revolutionary memory in Washington State at thepanorama.shear.org/2026/0…
Washington Didn’t Sleep Here: The Semiquincentennial in the Evergreen State

Washington Didn’t Sleep Here: The Semiquincentennial in the Evergreen State

Lawrence B.A. Hatter explores what the Semiquincentennial means to the people of Washington state.

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Michael Lynch@mlynchhistJun 16
The @LMUtweets ALLM collection just got bigger. @LSU_Shreveport has graciously given us custody of the International Abraham Lincoln Center for American Studies holdings. Dr. William Pederson, the center’s founding director, built this collection over many years.
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Michael Lynch@mlynchhistJun 15
Another item from @VandyLibraries current exhibit: a letter from John Sevier to fellow Rev War vet David Henley. Henley’s Knoxville office was the site of TN’s constitutional convention; Sevier became the state’s first governor.
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