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Brent Howard

@brenthoward.bsky.social
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Agent at Gramercy Literary, representing historians and journalists. Former book editor at PRH. Reader of history. Will never give up the em dash. Inquire at brent@gramercyliterary.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/07/2026
Dad History is the kind of history most Americans find accessible enough to read. High-quality Dad History should be hailed for what it is: a crucial way to learn and to inform our civic debates and public understanding. David Head from the archives: lnk.thebulwark.com/4aBYONs
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We Need ‘Dad History’ to Help Understand Our Monuments
The civic value of high-quality, eminently readable history.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Richard was a real person with dreams, ambitions, and plans, all of them denied to him because of slavery. We know him today only through the paper trail left by the men fighting to keep him enslaved. That fact alone should give us pause. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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The Missing Men of Pickett's Charge
Richard was there on July 3, 1863. No monument, no history, no memory has ever acknowledged it.
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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Latest deal. Congrats to Jason Emerson!
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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Wish list time: I’m actively building a list of ambitious narrative nonfiction—and I’m looking for projects with the intellectual rigor, narrative force, and the cultural reach of Say Nothing, The Wager, The Splendid and the Vile, The Warmth of Other Suns, and SPQR, etc. #MSWL
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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Thrilled to share a new deal with Oxford University Press: Lincoln From Life by Harold Holzer—arguably the leading Lincoln scholar working today. The book looks at how Lincoln’s image, as shaped by artists and sculptors, helped carry him from candidate to icon.
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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Pardon pending?
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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Some in Congress are so opportunistic that they forget that others, like Mike Johnson, are true believers of the heinous shit this party puts out on a daily basis to get attention.
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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Big congrats to Jon White @civilwarjon.bsky.social and Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social and @beaconpress.bsky.social!
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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
As a longtime editor but a new literary agent, it’s a joy to see this project land in the right hands. Congratulations to @jonathonlearle.bsky.social and the team at Basic Books!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/07/2025
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I hope Democrats learn from Merrick Garland’s mistakes and the failure of Obama’s “move on” strategy vis-a-vis Bush era war crimes, and understand that all these people ultimately need to go to prison.
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