My Dept of History at W. Michigan University in Kalamazoo is hiring an Asst/Associate Prof in African American History. Please come join us! 2-2 load/generous research & travel funding, diverse & culturally lively community/ free college in MI for kids. ?s welcome. www.wmujobs.org/postings/4277

The Free Black Women's Library, based in Bed-Stuy, is launching Sisters of the Yam/A Black Girl Book Club. Presumably named for the bell hooks book, the book club is for "Black girls, femmes and gender non-conforming youth ages 13-17." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #books #AmReading #Brooklyn #NYC

Talked to Robert Spano about growing up in new music: finally conducting your childhood idols. He’s also got three operas on his bucket list. www.lpm.org/classical/20...

"More of this delicious rope, Professor Sunstein?" "Thank you, yes."

After a decade of work, here is the unboxing of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction! Cloth ISBN 9780197804490. Use discount code AUFLY30 to get 30% off at global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Sad news. Hermeto Pascoal, "wizard of Brazilian music," has left us at age 89. www.diariodocentrodomundo.com.br/hermeto-pasc...

The history of Black travel during Jim Crow is archived at the Green Book Project. Contribute to that history. Know a neighbor or elder with Green Book memories? Invite them to share their story. Submission form here: greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

Next week! Marcus Rediker will be at the Tidewater Initiative in Baltimore for two events. First up: a conversation about the new book "Freedom Ship" at Bird in Hand, 6:30pm 9/15 @marcusrediker.bsky.social sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

Come be my colleague! We are indeed casting a wide net in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY search. **All** fields, areas, and periods of the History of Technology will be considered! #historyoftechnology #STS

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Sunset like a painting 😮 Enumclaw, Washington TT: Anna & Nitin

"In an email sent to Bucknell University faculty and staff last month, provost Wendy F. Sternberg announced that the university press would cease operations on June 30, 2026, citing a need to redirect funds to more “student-focused” functions."

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We! Are! Hiring! The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26 More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572 #blackademia #academia #PhDSky

🧵The Second Middle Passage Between 1808–1860, over 1 million enslaved people were relocated from the Upper South to the Deep South through the domestic slave trade. Auction posters document how this trade was organized and advertised. (1/6)

Louisville folks, please share widely with your networks: Sep 18th, come play bingo with me & SJC! Bring your friends and family for a fun, feel-good evening! You can make a tangible difference to your neighbors by joining us and/or donating a package (or 5 or 10) of men's briefs to SJC.

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now. www.weherepress.org

Sarabande has been processing the news and grieving the loss of beloved author and feminist activist Sallie Bingham, who passed away on Aug 6. We are grateful to Sallie for trusting us to publish so many of her books for the past 20 years. Our deepest condolences to the Bingham family.

Imagine being born in slavery and living up until 5 months before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Anna Julia Cooper is one of my favorite people in history. She was born on August 10, 1858, and lived to the age of 105. I can't sum her up in a single post, but she was born 167yrs ago today

As I enter the final stretch of my PhD journey, I've been been thinking about some of the things I wish I’d known before I started. Here’s eight I can remember...

It’s been forever since I’ve spent an actual day in Lexington, KY. Is there anywhere good to eat downtown now?

this hits hard in the summer in which I left an institution serving a poor state and went to one where yesterday I was handed a copy of the Iliad to start preparing for teaching the required freshman humanities course

More investment in LOC's excellent Chronicling America resource! We love to see it

1/ August 1st, the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834, became a day of celebration in many parts of the African diaspora, including the U.S. Two wonderful poems about August 1st were written by James Madison Bell and James Whitfield.

Hey y’all, I’m Etienne! I’m a law professor, writer, and private law scholar. I study how poverty, food insecurity, and environmental injustice are shaped by private law and racial capitalism. I’m also into African American literature, Afrofuturism, the Black radical tradition, and legal history

The property is now owned by the Black American West Museum 🥰

Batten down the hatches, Minnesota. This incoming is serious, and if you get weather warnings in your area, you should heed them, and get yourself to wherever you go when there's a tornado. (Tell your pops this means NOT his front porch rocker. Maybe start preparing him now. Minnesotans know why.)

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them. tomlehrersongs.com

Fully 19 years ago I was sitting in a grad school comp lit class and the professor made a reference to “the late Tom Lehrer.” I was happy to correct him that Lehrer was still very much alive and even still teaching. I could never have guessed he would live to almost 100.

“And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we all will go together when we go.” RIP, Tom.

abcnews.go.com/US/new-speci... Oh hell yes

Hey Louisville, we're hiring at World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana. We need someone to take over managing our international exchange programs throughout the region. Thanks. -Brian Easley, past board chair Check out this job: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Anyone here know how to contact Alison Brackenbury? My old email for her bounces & she ought to know my students are reading her poems @carcanet.bsky.social @jntod.bsky.social

Alice Allison Dunnigan (1906–1983) was a journalist, civil rights activist, and author. She was the first African-American woman correspondent allowed to receive White House credentials. She wrote an autobiography entitled Alice A. Dunnigan: A Black Woman's Experience. 📚

Also these kinds of situations are exactly why my unofficial motto is “never trust a chatbot.” (And why I share content like this.)

Yes, our phones can take all sorts of funky and creative #portraits, but back in the 1840s a few lucky humans had access to #Daguerreotype cameras, and they too captured the people that tickled their aesthetic fancy with this brand new #technology. #Museum youtube.com/shorts/m-W71... @metmuseum.org

The thing about UofC is that they do pay well and Hyde Park is pretty affordable. So if this is a good fit for someone, it could be worth relocating. #LISJobs #LibraryJobs #ArchiveJobs

English professor here: naive question for US C19 historian friends—based on the FL records I've seen, post-Civil War land office tract books and homestead land patents didn't identify claimants' race, whereas US census records obviously did. Is there an obvious reason for the difference?

My book in @backstorypdx ! Portland, Oregon! 📚✨❣️🫶🏾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💌💕

Hey Bluesky friends, there’s an account impersonating me. Pls report and block. @jay.bsky.team

Thank you so very much to Higher Heights for America for selecting my book for their #ChisolmSummerReadingList!!! ☀️❣️✨📚 🧵🪡

Find the history that many are trying to erase. It's sad; it's at times hard to watch; but it's also a celebration of what immigrants, those who came in chains, and those who were relocated against their will have created as a culture here -- how our literature and ideas are shaped by all of us.

And hey, I've got the handbook press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

"I feel like people misunderstood my $250,000 for Cuomo for real enthusiasm" belongs in the Louvre

Not that these people feel any shame, but my god all these people who threw away everything they "believed in" for the last 10 years to throw their support behind a corrupt sex pest

“legitimate business need” is a nearly meaningless phrase in the context of most researchers’ access to historical archives, so I guess this bit of illiteracy is intended as a clever way of saying “corporate customers and nationalist narratives only”

Arlene Smith was 16 when she recorded this lead vocal, the very pinnacle of human achievement youtu.be/IePTH1PWzAs