Karin Wulf

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 🗃️

There is so much that is terrible in what has been reported. But among them is the student’s reference to “our president’s laws.”

"It is hard to overstate how treasured the right to habeas corpus was in British law by the revolutionary era...the cornerstone of the due process that entitled every person to have their arrest proven lawful...that protected people from unjust and indefinite imprisonment." time.com/7288973/amer...

Thank you so, SO much to everyone who has recommended, read, and posted reviews of my book! And folks who have come to events! Sold out of 1st printing which is amazing (tho let's not get too excited this is an academic print run 😁), has now been reprinted and in process of restocking. Phew. 📚

Get out if your list doesn't include _Gaudy Night_. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/b...

Today is the last day for public comments! 🚨

90% of (my) writing is shuffling the notes around.

The cross sector impact of snotty disregard for expertise because it’s not your own. The wave of analysis is only starting to build.

Surfing the writing wave of "I love this" to "ugh, banality" to "I can do this!" to "what was I thinking obviously I wasn't." Repeat! Matching words to ideas to refine the ideas that need the right words is the best. Also the worst!

Public conversation about the OMB proposal has focused on science, but make no mistake: this is about ALL research and humanities are just as vulnerable. I'm back @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social w historian & @historians.org exec director Sarah Weicksel. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/10/t...

Here’s the main takeaway: while historians have worked to deliver evidence-based full histories for the semiquin, this report is among other things just sloppy. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/a...

"It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth...whether about the president or anyone else.” T Roosevelt, quoted here in Erica Green's 250 piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...

Loved writing this for the latest American Historical Review "76 Objects" issue. Why a family Bible? Because like all wars, the experience and politics of the American Revolution was foundationally about family. Mine + other essays are open! academic-oup-com.brown.idm.oclc.org/ahr/article/...

This afternoon at 2 on @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social Book Breaks! Genealogy at the foundation. Or, why nepo babies are a baked in phenom. Join us: marketing.gilderlehrman.org/l/941553/202...