“The library is a place that promotes intellectual curiosity. Books inspire people to learn, to seek the truth, to verify information, instead of simply accepting what we’re told.” 📚 ~ Patricia Sargeant / Olivia Matthews

Haitian scholar-diplomat Weibert Arthus wrote a piece in @lenouvelliste.bsky.social about our @oah.org 2026 conference panel—including @dawnd.bsky.social—on Rayford Logan’s *The Diplomatic History of the United States with Haiti* from @uncpress.bsky.social. 🇺🇸🇭🇹📚 lenouvelliste.com/en/article/2...

*Entangled Alliances* spotted hanging out at the Monticello bookstore, just in time for the 4th of July. 📚🇺🇸🎆

Delighted to share I’ll be the 2026-27 Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the @amantiquarian.bsky.social completing my book “We Are All Equal” (under contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social)

Exciting! 📚

I think I’m going to talk about the mother-daughter relationship during incarceration and their attempts to avoid it in terms of the 16th and 17th century Mexican Inquisition. Maybe you have a topic in confinement you’d like to discuss with our panel? We’re still looking for folks to join us!

The 2026 SHAFR Summer Institute is underway! 16 junior scholars, 5 days, and a steady supply of buckeyes!

Missed our recent conversation with Paul Polgar and Ronald A. Johnson? Then visit https://vastearly.am/4uIvlcU to watch the replay of “Teaching about Slavery & Emancipation in the Age of Revolutions”. #Slavery #Emancipation #VastEarlyAmerica #Juneteenth @tuftshistorydept @baylorhistory

Enjoyed talking with Paul Polgar about each other’s books. 📚🎙️ Listen in: youtu.be/JR7j0ZrNryw?...

Join us as we team up with the @amphilsociety.bsky.social for the launch of the SHEAR Civics Exchange! The event titled: "Civic Engagement in the Revolutionary City, 1776 and 2026," will take place on Wednesday 7/15 from 6pm-7:30pm. Register to attend here: www.amphilsoc.org/events/civic...

This phenomenal documentary film featuring some brilliant scholars & artists is streaming NOW on @pbs.org across the United States. 🎥🇺🇸🍿Check it out: www.pbs.org/video/becomi...

New book loading from @rachelshelden.bsky.social with @uncpress.bsky.social 📚

“While Galveston is rightly renowned as the birthplace of #Juneteenth, Houstonians played an equally foundational role in the origins of the holiday.” New research on #Juneteenth from @wcaleb.org: www.alliancefortexashistory.org/juneteenth

“I could not think of a better time to be doing what we are doing. This is when the United States of America needs Black Studies the most.” 🇺🇸 I truly enjoyed the conversation! 🎙️ blackstudiespodcast.substack.com

HISTORIANS, Please share widely.I'm hosting an exciting Juneteenth event at the Library Company of Phila,June 16. "From Ledger to Genome: Data & the History of Black Life," exploring how Black lives have been recorded & recovered across time. Register here. support.librarycompany.org/event/junete...

Good News! I'm grateful to the Louisville Institute for this chance to tell the Sherrod's important and inspiring story. www.una.edu/pressroom/20...

Big round of applause to Dr. Johnson for being named Outstanding Faculty for Tenured Teaching in the Humanities 👏 Well deserved!

📚 Join us in welcoming the History Department’s new Assistant Professor, Misa Nguyen! 🎉 We’re excited to have her in our community in the Fall of 2026!

Proud of David’s MA thesis on the enduring Christian faith of enslaved Black women in the US. 👏🏾

Congratulations Dr. Ronald Angelo Johnson on winning the Phillis Wheatley Literary Award for his book Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution.

After the NYPL conversation tonight with an Opal Lee doll. Ms. Lee is the “Grandmother of Juneteenth”.

Thrilled ✨Entangled Alliances✨ (@cornellupress.bsky.social) is recognized with the Phillis Wheatley Book Award, alongside works of phenomenal scholars-artists including Marlene Daut, Brian Kwoba, @blackmomsrealitybc.bsky.social, Cheryl McKissack Daniel, Orice Jenkins, Jamie Mustard & Nancy Loewen.📚

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

On this day in 1787, 55 delegates gathered in Philadelphia to shape the future of a nascent nation. As we reflect on the Constitutional Convention, we invite you to explore the complexities and nuances of this pivotal event: vist.ly/55ez6 #America250 #ConstitutionalConvention

The JER and The Panorama are now on Linked in! Are you interested in connecting with the #JERPano in more meaningful ways beyond the 300-character limit? Connect with us at - www.linkedin.com/in/journal-e...

New job: Archivist for Public Engagement and Research Services (Librarian I) Newcomb College Institute of Tulane University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70037

The conference starts today. No false modesty. Trust me when I say I’m truly humbled at all the work the committee poured into organizing this event. I didn’t lift a finger. Grateful to everyone for honoring my 50 years of work. woodson.as.virginia.edu/McDowell2026 virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

as a grad student/post-PhD as I was trying to write my diss & then book I wd send my advisor these long emails & go on & on in his office abt all these DETAILS & he would reply/look at me w/ care but also concern as if to say "um ok but what's your argument?" & I find that extremely relatable now

This 30-second clip is 🔥 *Becoming American* drops on Philadelphia station @whyy.org on 28 May; on @pbs.org stations nationwide on 15 June. I’m proud to be a part of it. 🎥🇺🇸📜 www.pbs.org/video/traile...

“…free people of color still found ways to carve out a livelihood and sometimes thrive.” ~ @wemilteer.bsky.social

Publishers Weekly calls Tyrants and Rogues one of the 10 books you need to read to understand America at 250! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I’m thrilled to be part of this phenomenal film about #America250, Philadelphia & complexities within US democracy. Check it out on @pbs.org! www.pbs.org/show/becomin...

Reposting from new spiffier version at Columbia TC website, where it is now accompanied by the de rigueur podcast. www.tc.columbia.edu/media/center...

“Entangled Alliances is an important work of early diplomatic history that offers thoughtful & sophisticated racial analysis. Johnson’s archival work draws from a range of interdisciplinary scholarship.” This review in @shafrhistorians.bsky.social Diplomatic History journal. doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Orange moon over the Atlantic. Phone could not really capture it.

mushy!

More than 100 stories captured so far. Each one a voice, a perspective, a piece of history worth preserving. Our Federal Employees and Contractors Oral History Project is ensuring no story goes untold. Learn more about this work: https://www.fecohp.org/

@lmchervinsky.bsky.social’s superpower: Employing her brilliance to bring out the best in others. 🙏🏾

I look forward to a wonderful conversation with @lmchervinsky.bsky.social & the @georgewashingtons.bsky.social community about my new @cornellupress.bsky.social book about American patriots and rebels from Saint-Domingue (later Haiti). 📚🇺🇸🇭🇹 www.mountvernon.org/plan-your-vi...?

“The Haitian diaspora in the US numbers over a million people. These migrants play a crucial role in Haiti’s economy and are a vibrant part of US communities. They also continue to be frequent targets of virulent attacks.” 🇭🇹🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/o...

Did you know (èske w te konnen) that Michel-Rolph Trouillot's *Silencing the Past* wasn't published in French until... 2025, 30 years after its publication in English?? 🗃️ Here's a review of the new French edition FAIRE TAIRE LE PASSÉ from @maheo.bsky.social: journals.openedition.org/lectures/70955

It was pure joy to share findings from my new @cornellupress.bsky.social book as part of the Milton Klein Lecture with the informed and engaged University of Tennessee, Knoxville community. Thank you 🙏🏾

Excited to talk with the University of Tennessee community about my new @cornellupress.bsky.social book.

Historian here so #OAH26 is a wrap! Wonderful to hear brilliant scholars and hang out with great friends. Our panel was packed and the highlight for me was receiving the Presidents Book prize from @shgape.bsky.social for #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

Jefferson on Race, edited by @agordonreed.bsky.social, is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Thomas Jefferson’s conflicted attitudes—& the impact of race & slavery on American history. Out March 31 (26 May UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

A wonderful weekend talking about the Revolutionary War at the 2026 Schmidt Symposium with brilliant scholars & wonderful colleagues.Thank you, @karadixonvuic.bsky.social! 🙏🏾

Today’s @baylorhistory.bsky.social graduate US History seminar engages this powerful @ugapress.bsky.social work by Courtney Pace. 📚

Grateful that author @tiaphd.bsky.social dropped in on my @baylorhistory.bsky.social graduate US History seminar to discuss her amazing new book.

This Wednesday: Talking with Paul Polgar about our books. 📚🎙️

Not sure whether this is apt or terrible timing but here’s the official cover of my book due out with @uncpress.bsky.social W. Hodding Carter III imprint this fall. 🎉