Joseph听Hall-Patton
Joseph Hall-Patton is an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico and a public historian.听 He specializes in southwestern American violence during the frontier period, having written a dissertation called 鈥溾楪reat Excitement鈥:听 Violent Incorporations of the American Southwest.鈥澨 He runs The Cynical Historian, where he publishes regular video essays about historical topics on his YouTube channel to over 300,000 subscribers, regularly livestreams on Twitch, and builds a community across听various social media platforms.