History teacher; Dad; author of "Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington"; https://xitter.cf/t.co/kJLUIumfGr…
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thanks to @nytimesbooks for publishing this review today nytimes.com/2025/06/07/books…
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The American Revolution is not simple to define, writes @ted_widmer. Was it the war? Or was it the struggle to build a new nation and a better kind of society than the world had known?
That remains a work in progress. #Revolution250 trib.al/YvXcDqU
Proud to be part of a team with @GlobeOpinion publishing a new series of articles about the American Revolution, bostonglobe.com/2025/04/03/o…
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The day after the 2025 presidential inauguration, join @KateMasur, @ted_widmer, & Michael Gerhardt as they reflect on inaugural addresses throughout history. @RosenJeffrey moderates.
Register to attend #AmericasTownHall on Jan. 21 at Noon ET: ow.ly/XsFo50UHREo
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Join @mawaldman and @ted_widmer—both former speechwriters for President Bill Clinton—to examine the history of the nation's most important political speech and its role in the peaceful transition of power. bit.ly/3DDaeTw
Grateful to @nytbooks for publishing this fun review nytimes.com/2024/05/29/books…
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This is lovely. I’ve read your book three times so far and find new nuggets each time. And somehow, I’ve read Liz’s twice already.
You both are national treasures.
Grateful to @MartinPengelly and @GuardianUS for publishing this today. And also to @Liz_Cheney for putting country before party.
.@Liz_Cheney read my book: a historian, Lincoln and the lessons of January 6 | @ted_widmer | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2023/d…
Will miss this great American nytimes.com/2023/10/12/arts/…
Can't wait to read!
Came up with the below in 2019, suspecting I’d never actually write a book. Then met @ted_widmer and thus @GodinePub, and in short order BROTHERHOOD: WHEN WEST POINT RUGBY WENT TO WAR was born. Lucky me.
tinyurl.com/Brotherhood-book
And grateful again to @wsj for publishing this remembrance of Nixon's tapes, revealed to exist fifty years ago, July 1973 wsj.com/articles/the-tapes-t…
Grateful to @WSJ for publishing a Beatle book review yesterday wsj.com/articles/1964-review…
huge congrats to @MartinPengelly!
Eight years ago this month, I was starting research on the West Point rugby team of 2002 and what happened to them in Iraq and elsewhere.
Now, thanks to @GodinePub (and to the great @Ted_Widmer) the story is going to be a book.
Out 17 October. Order: tinyurl.com/mry9cphy
grateful to @nytimes and @nytimesbooks for publishing this book review today nytimes.com/2023/05/17/books…
thanks to @KevinMKruse and to the Society for this great honor
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with so much bad news, this story came as a welcome surprise
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Proud to be represented by @SenWhitehouse. Great NYT profile just up:
nytimes.com/2023/03/07/clima…
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Reminiscent of @ted_widmer in his book Lincoln on the Verge describing the last most dangerous train trip - by President Elect Lincoln in 1860. @JakeSullivan46 inspiring and amazing leadership.
Gripping story by @peterbakernyt "Never in Mr. Biden’s lifetime had a president ventured into a war zone that was not under the control of American forces, much less on a relatively slow-moving locomotive that would take nine and a half hours" nytimes.com/2023/02/20/us/po…
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Lincoln on the Verge is a fabulous book on multiple levels: brilliant writing, assiduous research & an acute focus on a largely-overlooked moment in history that resonates deeply at this time. @ted_widmer did a masterful job. (Also, should be a movie.)
Resounding RT for this recommendation of Lincoln on the Verge by the great @ted_widmer, a book that informed @Liz_Cheney in her response to Trump’s election subversion and January 6, which we know thanks to @DraperRobert…
amp.theguardian.com/books/20…
