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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“While he worked” yeah right

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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 · 17/05/2026

Former PRH history editor turned agent here—I can help.

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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I’m a highly editorial agent. If you have a great idea but need help shaping it into a compelling, market-ready proposal, that’s part of what I do. I work closely with authors to develop projects that can break out both critically and commercially. #MSWL #nonfiction

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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

If you own your subject and can write the hell out of it, we should talk. #amquerying #nonfiction

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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

What I’m looking for: • Authority: you’ve done the deepest work on your subject • Originality: you’re saying something new and necessary • Narrative drive: this is a story, not just information • Platform: you can help this book reach the audience it deserves #amquerying

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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I’m especially interested in: • Narrative history with a strong throughline • Deeply reported journalism • Military, political, and international history • Books that illuminate systems of power • Fresh perspectives on overlooked or misunderstood events

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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I know what makes editors say yes—and how to shape a project to get there. #MSWL

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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

As an editor, I worked with authors like Alex Kershaw, Phillips Payson O’Brien, Jonathan W. Jordan, Daniel Stone, John C. McManus, Tim Mak, and William Inboden. As an agent, I've sold projects to Basic Books, Beacon and Oxford University Press. #MSWL

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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Before becoming an agent, I spent nearly two decades acquiring nonfiction at Penguin Random House, with a strong passion for history and politics. #MSWL

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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I’m seeking journalists and historians with deeply reported, analytically sharp, story-driven books about power, conflict, and the forces that shape the modern world—projects that can define a subject for a wide readership. #MSWL

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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 · 05/05/2026

I’m thrilled to see this book hitting shelves. Can’t wait to read it. Congrats, Dave!

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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This would make Baghdad Bob roll his eyes

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Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I wonder if he had this dictated? I'm imagining the poor soul who had to type this.

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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 · 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 · 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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