Looking forward to delivering the 2026 Willson Lectures next week. www.kcbd.com/2026/02/05/p...

Thrilled *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social) is alongside books from phenomenal @baylor.bsky.social authors as #BlackHistory Month picks. 📚

Happy Thursday, peeps! Another episode is headed your way! What do you think I am covering?

Such a pleasure to welcome @ronajohnson.bsky.social to Minnesota, and thank you again for your amazing lecture! #BlackHistoryMonth 🗃️

@carleton.edu students & faculty gave my new research an engaged, thoughtful hearing and deepened our discussion with insightful questions. Thank you @historleans.bsky.social for the invitation!

I get to share research for my next book (@princetonupress.bsky.social) with the @carleton.edu community.

WOW! What a list!!! 📚 Thrilled *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social) is on it! 🙏🏾

“Haiti has fared badly at the hands of its literary interpreters.” 🇭🇹

It is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birthday. His cameo portrait appeared on the left side of this German-language bank note from a Pennsylvania institution that catered to the local German population. It also has a lumberjack petting a good dog. Lumbermen's Bank at Warren, PA, $10, 18--.🗃️

Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Thrilled to have a chapter on Black Atlantic editors Frederick Douglass 🇺🇸 and Thélismon Bouchereau 🇭🇹 in this fabulous volume edited by Nele Sawallisch and Johanna Seibert. 📚 www.routledge.com/Black-Editor...

Research from my first book on 18thC US-Haiti diplomacy was featured on one of the panels. I was so proud to see it there!

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

In 1926, a generation of artists was born that reshaped jazz for decades. This episode celebrates eight centennials, including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lou Donaldson, Tony Bennett and more. n.pr/4sVW5pu

“Thanks to a gift from a @baylor.bsky.social alumna, Johnson “will study of the origins and evolution of Black Baptist history in North America to 1866.” I’m thrilled about this exciting historical research and teaching venture! artsandsciences.baylor.edu/news/story/2...

“The Office of Undergraduate Research focuses on connecting undergraduate students with research and opportunities across subjects on campus.”

I took The Page 99 Test on *Entangled Alliances* with @cornellupress.bsky.social. 📚 It was fun! Check it out ⬇️ page99test.blogspot.com/2026/01/rona...

Happen to be in Minnesota on February 2? Then please join us for our first #BlackHistoryMonth event: the amazing @ronajohnson.bsky.social will give a lecture, titled "Shared Struggle: The American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and Black-White Diplomacy." 🗃️ www.carleton.edu/history/depa...

Excited to deliver the Willson Lectures at Wayland Baptist University next month. www.wbu.edu/news-and-eve...

I was asked by the French journal e-Rea to write about a book that was significant for my development as a historian. I chose The Slave's Cause by @profmsinha.bsky.social, which I realize will be turning ten next month. Happy anniversary to an inspiring book! journals.openedition.org/erea/21106

I had such a wonderful time talking to Holley about Edwin Booth, grief, and celebrity!

The #JERPano is pleased to announce our newest team of Co-editors to begin this July. Please join us in congratulating Lindsay Schakenbach Regele and Mark Boonschoft in their new roles!

How did 19th-century Black activists fight for accurate census data? Meagan Wierda traces the struggle from Shirley Chisholm (1970) to the Early Republic, examining Black New Yorkers’ petitions against the error-riddled 1840 census. Read the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/01/06/t...

"Some sources catch the eye only on a second reading." In a new #JERPano post, Michael E. Woods explains how a second pass through the archive revealed a lost letter containing the "Wilmington Doctrine," central to his JER article on proslavery politics. thepanorama.shear.org/2025/12/31/a...

Looking forward to discussing early US-Haiti relations with @historleans.bsky.social & the @carleton.edu community next month. 🇺🇸🇭🇹 www.carleton.edu/humanities/e...

Thankful to @johnfea1.bsky.social for great questions about *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social) in The Author’s Corner! Check out the blog post.📚⬇️ thewayofimprovement.blog/2026/01/06/t...

I’ll be talking about *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social) in Dallas at SMU’s Center for Presidential History, 29 January. 📚🎙️ blog.smu.edu/cph/event/en...

I started the new year with some updating of my CV for a required annual report, a task made easier by having some new public domain films on in the background as I worked.

Includes an article by the GC History Program’s very own Melanie Rush! @cuny-ears.bsky.social @historygc.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

The last 2025 edition of @thejerpano.bsky.social is out!

New job: Director, Oral History Research Center, UNLV University Libraries University of Nevada - Las Vegas jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69671

Historians lynnprobbins.bsky.social and jimambuske.bsky.social delve into the revolutions that reshaped the Atlantic world, from Britain's civil wars to Revolutionary Haiti, exploring the Enlightenment and everything in between.

OMG! @civicspod.bsky.social & I chat about French Foreign Minister Choiseul in our conversation about Entangled Alliances. What are the odds? 📚🎙️🇫🇷🇺🇸 www.civicsandcoffee.com/entangled-al...

Any conversation with @kawulf.bsky.social about a great new book is worth a listen! 📚

Get ready to celebrate Bennett College at 100: One century committed to Black women’s higher education! #bennettcollege

Adolph Reed wants a usable past that is not so flat and reductionist. thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/12/29/r...

Talking with @civicspod.bsky.social was so much fun. One of the best interviewers in the business! 📚🎙️

Thank you! 🙏🏾 Much love to @cornellupress.bsky.social 🫶🏾

Raymond Schuyler & Four of His Children c. 1904 in Worcester, MA. Portrait made by photographer William Bullard. Mr. Schuyler was an active member of All Saints Episcopal Church, the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, & the NAACP.

At Purdue, @johnnysmith135.bsky.social & I swapped dissertation woes over Buffalo Wild Wings. In 2025, Johnny published a new book with @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social & I wrote a new one with @cornellupress.bsky.social. 📚 Nice work, my friend! 🙌🏾

Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as: ⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year ⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year ⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Congratulations to Paul Reitter, whose translation of Karl Marx's Capital is the winner of the @modernlanguage.bsky.social's Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work! The committee calls Reitter's work "a marvel" and "refreshingly readable." Check it out for yourself: hubs.ly/Q03YpqTz0

Celebrating the brilliant life and work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, born #OnThisDay in 1960. press.princeton.edu/books?search... #JeanMichelBasquiat #Basquiat #OTD

By chronicling the long history of Native land dispossession through financial paternalism, Vested Interests by Emilie Connolly reveals the unequal dividends of colonialism in the United States. Out now (20 Jan UK pub). Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #History

Now available worldwide, Shirley Samuels' Haunted by the Civil War explores how the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracy. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Literature #History

@historytoday.com selects The Third Reich of Dreams as one of their best books of the year!

Thrilled to see @quinnslobodian.com's Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right longlisted for the @bookcritics.bsky.social Award for Criticism! Check out his book and how neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War: hubs.ly/Q03YLsVS0

Daniela R. P. Weiner will discuss her book, TEACHING A DARK CHAPTER: HISTORY BOOKS AND THE HOLOCAUST IN ITALY AND THE GERMANYS, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. #SaveTheDate January 29, 2025 More info: https://jewishstudies.unc.edu/event/kaplan-brauer-lecture-daniela-r-p-weiner/

🏙️ DARK CONCRETE by Kimberley Johnson is about how the Black Power movement reshaped urban politics in the United States—from expectations to practices. #UrbanPolitics #History #CivilRights Learn more here ⬇️ https://ow.ly/ljY050XlP8w