Scott Huffard

History prof deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Wrote a book about trains (and capitalism):

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

Excited to share the final cover design for my book (coming out with @uncpressblog this Fall)! If you're already jonesing for some railroad action, the amazon pre-order page is also now live: https://t.co/wsfZtiEZty

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

pretty much my experience cycling on beech mountain's gravel roads

[Lukáš Ronald Lukács @lucxsronald]

Oh deer…

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

fight or flight response immediately kicks in when I walk into a faculty meeting and they’ve got out huge sheets of white paper and markers

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

@BruceHistorian I do! Perhaps I need to wear that to demonstrate the importance of being on time to class

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

I told my Appalachian history students I wore my Mothman t-shirt to their final exam for good luck and one was like isn’t seeing the mothman actually bad luck and….yeah I didn’t really think that one through

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

i'm always saying this

[Quintin Pope @QuintinPope5]

As a percent of GDP, hyperscaling isn't that extreme. The railroads were goddamn crazy, though!

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

somehow missed that Gillian Welch was touring with a set list of all Dead covers but just found a live video and 🤯!

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

after the 1916 floods, the Southern Railway restored service between Asheville and Salisbury in 6 weeks. It took 18 months post-Helene: https://t.co/IzBRETk6X2

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

maintenance is here at the humanities offices now bc it smells like something died in here. I mean c'mon isn't this metaphor just a little too on the nose

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

started my PhD in 2007 and while picking a program I distinctly remember a campus visit conversation about how the # of job ads was actually greater than new PhDs that year 💀

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

Been off the conference circuit as I've worked to wrap up the Casey Jones project but I'm heading up to Huntington for App Studies on Thursday! I'll be sharing some research (on a 1916 flood/railroad disaster ballad that I found in a Utah archive) at 8 am Friday

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got a fun severe thunderstorm watch/winter weather advisory combo going here today in the NC mountains - gotta love March

[DJ Branham 🗽 @DJBranham]

Land acknowledgements but it's for former railroads that ran in your area.

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

teaching Civil War in a highly visible library classroom w/glass windows = shocking random students with my lecture slide feat. a pile of amputated limbs (it was civil war medicine day)

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

I’ve listened to enough Norwegian black metal to know Bergtatt when I see it

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthletic: The Norwegian skier Atle Lie McGrath was heartbroken after he lost a slalom gold medal that was his to take. He threw his poles, unstrapped his skis, and stormed off, alone with his thoughts as the world watched on. https://t.co/0IVjzp37XV

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

Excited to share that “Casey Jones: America’s Engineer” (tentative title) now has final UNC Press board approval and is heading to publication (in early 2027). Thanks especially to @Lucas_Church for working with me to get this over the line. Stay tuned for more details…🚂

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

I’m always saying this

[Amtrak @Amtrak]

THE UNBRIDLED GREATNESS OF TRAINS WILL ENDURE FOR A MILLION YEARS

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

@AstorAaron @HerecomesDrBob @news5wcyb it saved us during that ice storm!

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@HerecomesDrBob @AstorAaron @news5wcyb we had another strange temp inversion thing during that ice store a week or so ago. It was way warmer up on Beech than it was in the valleys and down in the Piedmont

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

Today I learned that I was born in the same hospital as Pat McAfee, Curt Cignetti, and Mark Cuban? (Magee women’s hospital in Pittsburgh)

[Scott Huffard @shuffard]

Was awesome getting to see this live last night in AVL: https://t.co/tEQXkpRxhH