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. 🎉

Today at the JCB! Join us in person or virtually at 5 p.m. for Cross Talks: Labor, part of Brown 2026! Zoom registration: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi... In-person registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A great time was had at the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2026 conference talking about new history books on Haiti with Malick Ghachem, Julia Gaffield, Erica Caple James, and Felix Germain!📚🇭🇹

In the last couple of months, the #JERPano has published some great new pieces on The Panorama! Check out all the excellent companion pieces accompanying articles from the Winter edition of the JER at: thepanorama.shear.org/tag/companio...

Congratulations, David Wilkie, who defended an engaging thesis on the religion & resistance of enslaved Black women across the 19th-century American South. My thanks to @baylor.bsky.social committee members.

We have a logo! I am proud to steward the vision to study at @baylor.bsky.social the origins and evolution of Black Baptist history in North America to 1866.

friends near pvd: join #Brown2026 and Discovery Through Dialogue for Cross Talk: A Whole Campus, Distinct Disciplines Approach @jcblibrary.bsky.social on Fri. April 3, 2026, at 5pm. this first Cross Talk is about Labor, moderated by @sethrockman.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@profchrisadams.bsky.social and I remember two remarkable scholars, Elborg Forster and Patricia Ranum, "faculty wives" who never held formal positions but their generative scholarship made contributions to the field of French history. www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/in-memoriam

Morning task: Talk about new books on Haitian history with amazing colleagues like at the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) conference.📚🇭🇹

This week’s book in my @baylorhistory.bsky.social graduate seminar 📚

A huge debt of gratitude is owed to these works for helping me prepare *Entangled Alliances* to be a part of the @cornellupress.bsky.social family. 🙏🏾📚

It's a pretty dire sign when a major university founded in a city named after a Greek colony cuts its Classics department. dailyorange.com/2026/03/suns...

The University of North Carolina Wilmington invites junior scholars to apply for the 2026 Sherman Emerging Scholar Lecture. This year's theme: “The Global American Revolution” Deadline April 13 uncw.edu/academics/co...

A huge thanks to RéDEHJA president and world-class scholar Claire Bourhis-Mariotti for joining my @baylorhistory.bsky.social graduate seminar! She discussed her amazing @ugapress.bsky.social book and encouraged students with words about archival research and publishing the first book.

What can you do with a history BA? Join our online roundtable, History Majors at Work: Career Paths for History BAs, on March 26, 3–4:15 p.m. ET to hear from professionals who turned their history training into careers across a range of fields. Register here:

I’m thrilled to be recognized for teaching in a @baylorhistory.bsky.social Department filled with outstanding, dedicated instructors! 🙏🏾

This week my @baylor.bsky.social graduate Black Atlantic History seminar engages Claire Bourhis-Mariotti’s brilliant *Wanted! A Nation!* (@ugapress.bsky.social ). 🇭🇹🇺🇸

The author copies of Freedom in the Age of Slavery: A History of Free People of Color in Virginia have arrived!

I get to work with one of the best managing editors in the business. Congratulations, @katebegins2rock.bsky.social!

I’m excited that *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social) received the Honor Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book from the Texas Institute of Letters! 📚

Excited to be a part of this discussion!

Tomorrow! 📚🎙️

I am SO excited to see this fine piece of historical scholarship in print! Congratulations, Frances. Philadelphia, Saint-Domingue (Haiti), and freedom… Well done.

A great opportunity to engage with a great historical organization.

So glad my talk on *Entangled Alliances* got rescheduled after the January ice storm. 📚

Author @jmbeatty.bsky.social will be talking about her book. 📚