I'm very excited about our second game con in Newberg! Very satisfying to see an idea come to fruition and to benefit so many people! newsberg.org/2024/09/24/n...

Newberg Game Con Returns for Second Year - Newsberg

Newberg Game Con is back September 28-19 where games convene to learn new games or share their favorites with the gaming community.

My latest blog post . . . #ADHD#migraine#fatigue#depression#hope#ambition

Academic Deficit Disorder - Paul Andrew Otto

“I’m tired of feeling tired.” That’s a phrase I’ve repeated to my partner many, many times in the past ten years. But I’ve been tired, at least intermittently, for decades before that. And not only ...

NYT: "Will Chamberlain, a . . . former Ron DeSantis staffer . . . [asserts] that 'Kamala Harris shouldn’t be President' [because she has] 'no children.'" Guess what, Mr Chamberlain? By you standards, neither did George Washington (and he's not the only one). #Kamala2024#georgewashington

I've updated my website and restarted my blog! #history#scifi#frontiers

Blogging across Disciplinary Boundaries - Paul Andrew Otto

Having recently hung up my doctoral tam as a full-time professor, I’m looking ahead to a new, or renewed, professional life. To support that life, I’ve created a new website and migrated my old blog o...

gun control, anybody?

Nice write up about me in the George Fox Journal! #retired#boardgames#roleimmersion#rttp#pepsi#americanrevolution#southafrica#history#gamedesign#ushistory#sf#scifi#flyfishing#opentowork#wampum

A Professor of Historical Importance | Summer 2024 George Fox Journal

Paul Otto’s love of history and connecting with students kept him returning to the classroom for more than two decades

Departing soon for NYC, where I'm running Bacon's Rebellion (with co-author, Verdis LeVar Robinson) at the annual Reacting to the Past Institute.

Bacon's Rebellion, 1676-1677 | Verdis LeVar Robinson | University of North Carolina Press

In the early seventeenth century, Virginia's Chesapeake region saw the emergence of a multiracial society centered around the profitable tobacco industry. Wh...

The Journal of Early American History has just published my review essay of Minty's Unfriendly to Liberty, Carp's Great New York Fire, and Offutt's Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City.

I'm hosting a board game convention in Newberg, Oregon!

As though history is all continuity and never change . . . a typical misapprehension of the historical process.