Lewis Johnson

History PhD Candidate @EdinburghUni | Republican Party Politics and the US South in 1940s/50s | @HOTCUS PGR Rep | PG Fellow @RoyalHistSoc

[Lewis Johnson @lewisjohnsonUS]

Thankful for the opportunity to write for @HistoryToday and discuss Dwight #Eisenhower’s first big political gamble. American politics would be forever changed! @HCAatEdinburgh.

[History Today @HistoryToday]

America’s southern states were once strongholds for the #DemocraticParty. In 1952, #Eisenhower decided to win them over.

🔓 @lewisjohnsonUS’s article from the new issue is free to read for the next 7 days

https://t.co/YwHEVlZ56n

[Edinburgh Southern History Workshop @EdiSHWS]

Come join us in lovely Edinburgh for our workshop themed "'Coming Through the Fire': Memory, Identity, and the Legacies of Continuity and Change"--CFP due Feb 28 at the link in our bio!

[Lewis Johnson @lewisjohnsonUS]

It’s been great to help organise this event at @HCAatEdinburgh on 6 June 2025. Anybody working in the history of the US South, loosely defined, please consider taking part!

[Edinburgh Southern History Workshop @EdiSHWS]

The Edinburgh Southern History Workshop brings together PhDs and ECRs in the UK who study the history of the American South. Join us on 6 June 2025 to present your work, receive feedback, and connect with likeminded scholars. CFP due 28 Feb 2025
https://t.co/0YgMm6J5MJ

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

Spiro Agnew visiting Harry Truman in 1972

[Lewis Johnson @lewisjohnsonUS]

@TimGalsworthy And I think future scholarship will be far more favourable to him Tim

[The Carter Center @CarterCenter]

Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia.

[Lewis Johnson @lewisjohnsonUS]

@TimGalsworthy @catbateson Wow! Great gift!

[SASA @ScotAmStudies]

Our annual conference CfP is open for submissions!
This year we offer BOTH a postgrad workshop (Feb 28) & conference the next day (March 1) hosted @EdinburghUni.
See details at https://t.co/KzRTa6rKEI & attached!
Submit by January 10!
#AmericanStudies #Conference #Callforpapers

[Lewis Johnson @lewisjohnsonUS]

@_Megan_Hunt_ @TheSouthernSHA @UGAPress Congratulations Megan - big day!💪🏻

[Lewis Johnson @lewisjohnsonUS]

An honour and privilege to present a paper at the @TheSouthernSHA! Thank you to chair Prof Mary Brennan, fellow panellists, Prof Robin Morris, and audience members for a lively discussion. It was great to discuss my work on the Republicans and Dixiecrats from c.1948-52 #2024SHA

[The Discourse Lover @Trillburne]

When I lived in DC I once overheard a man tell a woman in a bar: "if the 19 people ahead of me all died one day, I'd be the acting Secretary of Agriculture."

[History Today @HistoryToday]

In tomorrow’s Miscellanies: how #Eisenhower turned the South #Republican.

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[Douglas Alexander @D_G_Alexander]

The University of Edinburgh is truly one of the jewels in Scotland’s crown educationally, economically, culturally and of course architecturally.

[HOTCUS @HOTCUS]

That’s a wrap on HOTCUS 2024 at the U of Southampton @Hotcus2023! Thank you to all our panellists and attendees for their contributions and the thought-provoking conversations that they stimulated. Special thanks to @Randall_Stps for a fantastic keynote. Looking forward to 2025!

[HistoryExtra @HistoryExtra]

On the podcast | Iwan Morgan (@IwanMorganUCL) discusses the remarkable life of Dwight D Eisenhower, a titan of the 20th century: https://t.co/3CammXQur3

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Yesterday, Ken Burns reminded me of FDR's prayer delivered to the nation by radio on the night of June 6, 1944:

"My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.

And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.

They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest-until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.

For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.

Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.

And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas -- whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them--help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.

Many people have urged that I call the Nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.

Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.

And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.

And, O Lord, give us Faith. Give us Faith in Thee; Faith in our sons; Faith in each other; Faith in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.

With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister Nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.

Thy will be done, Almighty God.

Amen."

[HCAatEdinburgh @HCAatEdinburgh]

Is it a space bonnet or a load of old pants? Graduates of @EdinburghUni are tapped on the head with the Geneva Bonnet, but what is it? @SMGThomson (history alumna) takes a closer look, https://t.co/5tUAlB1vWq

#History #Classics #Archaeology #Edinburgh #ExtraordinaryEdinburgh

[Nick Hely Hutchinson @NickHelyHutch]

1/2
Otd 1944. My father was President of the Political Society at his school. In early 1944, he went for the top man, General Dwight Eisenhower, inviting him to address the Society on Monday June 5th (he was very specific about that).

[Elizabeth Rees @drelizabethrees]

Really looking forward to taking part in this event tomorrow. Do join us online for a really important discussion as we approach the anniversary of Brown v. Board.