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Matthew Dennis

@matthewdennis.bsky.social

Historian of early America, US culture, politics, and environment, and American public memory; author most recently of American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory (2023) and American Blood: A History of Spectacle and Power (forthcoming 2027).

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Matthew Dennis @matthewdennis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our Sacred Third Amendment mjdennis.substack.com/p/our-sacred... In a just world, the Second Amendment would be as irrelevant as the Third.

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Our Sacred Third Amendment

In a historical vein: What the Third Amendment, in all its obscurity and irrelevance, says about our Constitution, those who misunderstand and fetishize it, and what we might make of it.

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Matthew Dennis @matthewdennis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A new substack post, on the first anniversary of Charlie Kirk's death, and the perils of making political "sense" of the senseless.

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Blood Will Out: On the Elusive Meaning of an Icon

In a Historical Vein: What should we make of the new Charlie Kirk statue, with its red patina?

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