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profmarkwilson.bsky.social

@profmarkwilson.bsky.social

History professor at UNC Charlotte; research and writing on history of the US military-industrial complex. Author of The Business of Civil War (2006); Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II (2016).

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Gregory A. Hargreaves@bordergroves.bsky.social · yesterday

So proud of this forthcoming book! I spearheaded the project, but it was a labor of love for a whole team of talented scholars.

Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society@hagleycenter.bsky.social · yesterday

The newest volume in our Hagley Perspectives in Business and Culture book series is now available for pre-order from UPenn Press! How and why do microorganisms, mountains, crabs, and chimps shape business? Check out Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Business History here www.pennpress.org/978151283057...

Joel Dodge@joeldodge07.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In a new @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social piece, I explain how this agenda from @repcasar.bsky.social & @usprogressives.bsky.social revives an American tradition of DIY progressivism that promotes affordability by using public factories to counter monopoly power washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/18/p...

The Affordability Case for Public Factories

Public factories once helped America fight monopoly pricing. A new push would revive them to lower drug costs and ease supply bottlenecks.

washingtonmonthly.com

Congressman Greg Casar@repcasar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We make your prescription drugs cheaper by saying if companies won’t make prescription drugs affordable, we’ll just make them ourselves. A vial of insulin goes from $300 a vial to $50. That's a bill from @schakowsky.house.gov and @warren.senate.gov.

Joel Dodge@joeldodge07.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In the supply-shock era, we should revisit a lost industrial policy tool: public factories. 🏭In a new paper, Ganesh Sitaraman & I explore the history & future of US public factories. ⚡️In another paper, I propose public factories for critical energy components www.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt-p... 🧵

Public Factories

Our Work Public factories can be powerful means to support production of critical goods. Policymakers at all levels of government have deployed government-owned production facilities throughout Americ...

vanderbilt.edu

Risa Brooks@risabrooks12.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I appreciate @kschake.bsky.social's efforts to shed light on these vital issues, but I am less sanguine Politicization operates through multiple mechanisms not captured by analyzing the credentials or past partisan commentary of senior officers replacing those who have been fired. 1/

Kori Schake@kschake.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Mostly not — we found just 2 concerning appointments, beyond the obvious attempt to undercut the deservingness of minority and female officers.

Public Ed Works@publicedworks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

North Carolina’s budget stalemate froze raises, cutting average teacher pay ~1% to $60,984. The state ranks 43rd nationally, and about 10.1% of teachers—roughly 1 in 10—leave each year, worsening shortages. #NCed

NC lawmakers didn’t pass a state budget. How it’s led to a drop in teacher pay

New state report shows the average pay for North Carolina teachers dropped 1% this school year amid no new raises from General Assembly

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Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 8mo ago

RIP to Nick Salvatore, author of Eugene V. Deb’s: Citizen and Socialist, one of the book’s that inspired me to pursue the study of history.

David Waldstreicher@dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Thinking about one of my all-time favorite historians, CUNY grad Nick Salvatore, & what he did for cultural/political biography, radical history, Af-Am history. I am always telling folks about We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber. www.ithacavoice.org/2025/12/obituary-nick-salvatore/

T.J. Stiles@tj-stiles.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"Death by Lightning," Episode 3 reaction thread: • Praise for the series • Major players: What's right/wrong/missing • What was machine politics? How did the spoils system work? Why do they keep talking about the New York Custom House? Let's get wonky! 1/14

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profmarkwilson.bsky.social@profmarkwilson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Three points about the “Department of War” talk: 1. Hegseth called for the name change before he was nominated. 2. The term used historically, for the most part, was actually “War Department.” Its sister was the Navy Department. 3. Only Congress can change the name.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Trump: "We have officially renamed the Dept of Defense back to the original name, Dept of War. And remember we won World War 1, we won World War 2, we won everything in between. We won everything that came before. And then we brilliantly decided to change the name. We became politically correct"