Friends helped me eat ghosts. Thank you! #haunted #cake/book #diadelosmuertos

Today is publication day! news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Thank you to @jsench.bsky.social for making it real. #haunted #halloween

Unboxing done. #hauntedbook #halloween

Welcome to J19 journal with Sarah Chinn at the helm!

Just for a moment — taking a break

Coming soon: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... Haunted by the Civil War | Princeton University Press

Reupping: Application period open to survey the history of books with me in Los Angeles this summer. There are amazing collections at amazing libraries staffed by amazing librarians in LA. We'll work with them to explore how books emerged, were made, used, & made meaning/information for centuries!

Season 10 proposals are due on 2/15! We're looking for projects that explore the nineteenth-century United States! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

When I was an undergraduate in the San Francisco Bay Area, back when my major was psychology, I had a work study job in connection with a study of children who played with matches. The idea was to train them in safety…

Respect the list. And solidarity with those who study the wild 19th century and hear echoes.

Hey friends at #MLA25! Join us on Feb 14 to help transcribe Black archives with the Library of Congress! Over 125 schools & community groups and counting! See DouglassDay.org to register. Plus get access to our organizing kit, teaching guides, interactive tutorials, swag and lots more!

New year = new reading goals 📚 Sign up for the Frances E. W. Harper Read-A-Thon, running from Jan-April! Our edition of lola Leroy, edited by Koritha Mitchell, is a March feature! Full schedule and sign up here ⏬ coloredconventions.org/news/read-ha...

This is the intro to the introduction of to my spring 2025 book, Integrated. You can pre order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721962...

Celebrating vastness in the americas…

In today's Muster, JCWE associate editor Robert Bland talks with Dr. Brandon Byrd about the journal's special issue on Black Internationalism www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2024/12/inte...

The December issue of the JCWE is now available. This special issue on Black Internationalism is edited by Brandon Byrd, associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University and author of The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/june2024142/

high school teacher asks: "is there a site w short videos of people describing their professions+their college major, to help guide students, show them all the different things people do?" we made humanitiesworks.org and individual depts have alumni roundtables, but got video testimonials? please RT

🎂 SAVE THE DATE: Feb. 14, 2025! 🎂 This year Douglass Day is transcribing Black history with the Library of Congress! 💻 Crowdsourcing project on Black history 📽️ Live Broadcast 🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off 📣 Special guests! Join us online or host an event in your community! Info: douglassday.org

Among other things, we'll be spotlighting Malinda Russell's 1886 A Domestic Cookbook, the first cookbook published by an African American woman. The only known copy is in UMich Special Collections, but you can read the whole thing on HathiTrust: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00474...

All 6 of Edward W. Said's recorded Reith lectures on Representations of the Intellectual can be heard here: 1) Representations of the Intellectual 2) Holding Nations And Traditions At Bay 3) Intellectual Exiles 4) Professionals and Amateurs 5) Speaking Truth To Power 6) Gods That Always Fail

Happy to share the cover of my book, *Freedom Ship*, which is forthcoming in May 2025 from Viking-Penguin. Pre-order available at many online outlets. The book is a hopeful sequel to *The Slave Ship: A Human History*. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407...

Ok, you all have earned access to William Morris’ horniest wallpaper (also one of his first!). His 1862 ‘Pomegranate’ let you know that the craft movement knew how to handle some fruit 🥵

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

Hey all, I created a starter pack with a list of Black economists and academics for an easily accessible list of folks doing research that we can all follow and cite #Blacksky #AddtoBlacksky #Econsky: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb

This story has a wonderful account of diving into archives and finding survivors of places that might not exist. Plus #Nabokov

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Nearly every country on the face of the planet guarantees some form of paid leave. The United States, virtually alone, does not nationally guarantee any paid leave--not one day, not one dollar.

In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...

I’ve been avoiding election post-mortems because I’m tired of hearing the same bromides about the dangers of “wokeness” or reaching out to the “white working class” but this one from @gabrielwinant.bsky.social avoids those traps and provides a real analysis. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Curious about university press publishing? Want to publish with a university press? #AskUP! University press professionals answer frequently asked publishing questions here: https://bit.ly/3milXtt

The pressing question of the relationship between capitalism and higher education is an (often implied) topic of every meeting I go to lately. And there have been way too many meetings.

I can’t imagine where C19 US Studies would be without @uncpress.bsky.social

in case you missed tonight's meeting: PART TWO of our James reading group discussion will be at 7:30pm EST on November 26 (two weeks from today). all are welcome even if you missed today's! details here: mid-theory.com/reading/

Fun with the family of ideas. Reaching out for future conversations!

What the heck: Long Eighteenth Starter Pack right here: go.bsky.app/6aF4mek -- I'm sure I missed lots of people; respond if you want to be added.

first cohort of the American Climate Corps has been sworn in. 9,000 people will be deployed in the coming weeks to restore landscapes, erect solar panels, and work on environmental projects across America. #ShareGoodNewsToo grist.org/solutions/am...

Visit to @metmuseum.bsky.social to see Harlem Renaissance show Crowded— and worth it Here: Laura Wheeler Waring

Rainbow last night expressed hope— at least for now.

The Day of the Dead altar in old San Juan commemorates women killed by their partners. Ongoing violence exacerbated by the pandemic.

I’m in old San Juan looking at forts that celebrate Spanish colonialism and never mention the traffic in humans. Four hundred years of forts. Right.

My sister has a new website… visit! www.lisasamuels.net

Still daydreaming about flying over the Sacramento River delta at dawn last week.

Pacifica— Mori Point. With gratitude to the friend who made sure I had my ocean fix before heading back to Ithaca.

The NEH has just announced a major new initiative, "Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence." It specifically focuses on encouraging humanistic research about the potential ethical, legal, cultural, and societal impacts of AI. www.neh.gov/AI

Listening to Jodi Byrd via #ICM on Monday, October 16 in Goldwin Smith G22. #Cornell

Excitement in Klarman Hall right now. N. J. Jemisin at #Cornell