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Matthew Warner Osborn

@nighthawkog.bsky.social

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Historian of early America. Author of Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic, and Night Hawk: A Nineteenth-Century Superhero and the Dawn of American Mass Culture press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/c…

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Matthew Warner Osborn @nighthawkog.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Night Hawk at San Diego Comic Con.

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Matthew Warner Osborn @nighthawkog.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I’m grateful to be a part of this event today with the Black Repertory Theater of Kansas City. jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/69...

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Matthew Warner Osborn @nighthawkog.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I was thrilled to learn today that @uchicagopress.bsky.social is planning a new paperback edition of my first book, Rum Maniacs, to be published in the fall of 2026. So, I have two paperbacks coming out next fall!

The cover of a book, Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic

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Matthew Warner Osborn @nighthawkog.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Ok, book won’t be out until next fall, so plenty of time to design merch! Prototype Night Hawk coffee cup.

Picture of a black coffee cup with The Nighthawk printed in it.

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Matthew Warner Osborn @nighthawkog.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I am thrilled to announce that my book Night Hawk: A Nineteenth-Century Superhero and the Dawn of American Mass Culture is officially in production and scheduled for publication in September 2026 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social

A nighthawk flying straight down with its beak open.

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Matthew Warner Osborn @nighthawkog.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The demon Asmodeus was a popular character on the antebellum stage.

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Matthew Warner Osborn @nighthawkog.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The patron demon of our modern-day detective fiction, Asmodeus. Engraving by Tony Johanott, frontispiece in Alain René Le Sage, Asmodeus, the Devil on Two Sticks (London: Willoughby and Company, 1842).

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Matthew Warner Osborn @nighthawkog.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

From The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851) by Henry Louis Stevens. The Night Hawk is from Alexander Wilson’s Ornithology, but why did Stevens choose to impose a woman’s face on it? Any suggestions are welcome.

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