The Joint Center is pleased to announce its Online Seminar Series. On 21 Nov at 12 EST @malickghachem.bsky.social will be speaking at the Harvard Center on "Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue and the Debt of France." Click for abstract, room details & Zoom link.

Exactly

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Graphic by Ben Nathan of UPenn History

Solidarity and collective action is always the answer.

A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession. They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.

🚨🚨30 years after coming out in English, Michel-Rolph Trouillot's SILENCING THE PAST est paru *enfin* en français!!! Veuillez partager ces bonnes nouvelles avec vos meilleurs amis et collègues francophones! 🗃️🇭🇹 www.amitiefm.ht/post/michel-...

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale docs.google.com/document/d/1...

@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.

Why would anyone pay U of Chicago tuition for a Chat GPT education?

if you haven't seen @artgoldhammer.bsky.social's new Substack, definitely worth a read! arthurgoldhammer356783.substack.com

Coming up next month at Harvard Law School - “The Jewish Problem, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Liberalism” Details in the link, and zoom option to follow pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-je...

Now available!

as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

Seems a good day to remind that etymology of privilege is “private law”—the monarch makes one law for some people, another for others. Nothing is “universal” or “common” (and “public” = monarch’s self display to court). The democratic revolutions of 18C challenged all that. The work continues

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

Phew!

If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next? This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.

Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence 16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world" 17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent" 18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial" 19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"

Even if you think Paul Weiss and Columbia made the only choice available to them in the circumstances (and that's not what I think, to be clear), you have to recognize that there's no future for our democracy if every powerful institution approaches official extortion in this way.

Catholic Charities of San Diego is now also closing its shelter services. Jewish Family Services of SD already had to do layoffs because of *no* migrants; CCSD has gone from about 3000 asylee clients a week-->"a handful" per week! www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/c...

THIS

It’s not officially fascist until one could be shot for saying that it is.

We're ringing in the new year with JCB Reads, a hybrid event opportunity for former fellows to share their recent books with the JCB community. Join us for the series or one event- in person or via Zoom! This semester's authors are Tara Bynum, Surekha Davies, Chloe Ireton, and Joyce Chaplin.

be sure to join us if you’re within driving distance of boston

what's truly fascinating about the Christian right in America right now is that they have managed the unlikely feat of marrying a Scripture-based Christian worldview with Nietzschean contempt for Christianity

Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws (1748) identifies fear as the "spirit" of despotism/tyranny--it's the emotional driver that makes it work. Without fear, no tyranny. Spirit of monarchy is "honor" (rivalry for glory and approval), of a republic "virtue" (love of laws and fellow citizens).

Why do humans make monsters, and what do monsters tell us about humanity? Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. 🧵 on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. Preorder now! 💙📚 🧪🗃 #earlymodern #histsci 1/5 www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-mon...

Aujourd'hui 20/01/2025, les Etats-Unis marquent le Martin Luther King Day, jour férié fédéral institué pour rappeler l'importance du combat contre le racisme et pour l'égalité. (Re)découvrez la vie et les combats de ce héros américain, assassiné en 1968.👇 memoire-esclavage.org/biographies/...

I just found out that my book is getting a paperback edition! BLACK CROWN is the story of Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the first and only king of Haiti – based on deep archive work and extensive ground research in country. Release date coming soon! 🇭🇹👑💥

Humbled to share that "Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity" has received honorable mention for the International Studies Association's Book Award (Diplomatic Studies Section)! Many thanks to the awards committee for this honor 🙏🏾 📚

I…uh…wrote the book about this. www.amazon.com/National-Dut...

If you're interested in seeing what's inside my new book The Unnatural Trade, you can now get a preview of the introduction and extracts from other chapters. Find out more, see inside, and order - www.brycchancarey.com/bookshop/unn...

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! (Kind of) 📚💙 In honor of my late grandfather CLR James's 124th birthday, meet the new edition of his 1953 book *Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We live In* I wrote the foreword with 🧪 in mind! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Advice for students, from Stanley Hoffmann

Rappelons que le bonnet phrygien, devenu le symbole de la Révolution, est d'abord celui des esclaves affranchis sous l'empire romain. Son image a accompagné les combats pour l'abolition de l'esclavage et la Liberté Générale tout le long de la Révolution. 4/17

Alors, quand vous (re)découvrirez vous aussi #NotreDamedeParís, ayez une pensée pour le 18/02/1794, pour Jean-Baptiste Belley, Lucidor Corbin et tous les héros, toutes les haroïnes de la 1ère abolition de l'esclavage... FIN ! 17/17

C'est la singularité des monuments exceptionnels que d'avoir accueilli les événements les + contradictoires. En 1794 la Fête de l'Abolition, et 10 ans + tard, le sacre impérial de l'homme qui a rétabli l'esclavage dans les colonies françaises. 16/17

Uhhh, hi! It's me, Bookshop.org, a place to buy books online where every purchase financially supports indie bookstores instead of some billionaire.

One of the things I like the most about #chess a highly violent, individualistic, nasty game…once the game is over, opponents are usually happy to discuss what happened to find the elusive chess truth 🤔

Thrilled that hard copies of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY are *in the warehouse*! Pub date: Feb 4, 2025. *All* @ucpress.bsky.social books are currently on sale if you order directly from the press using the code HOLIDAY30. 💙📚 🧪🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #18thcentury

Un grand merci à la @fondationme.bsky.social pour cette prise de position forte.

seems worth revisiting 🧐

After 40 years trying to get unruly words on the page, I offer writing tips. Tip #1: as I write a book, I bury myself in a brilliant work of fiction about the same time period, to fill my mind with its literary power. As I wrote *The Fearless Benjamin Lay* I read Barry Unsworth's *Sacred Hunger.*

Everyone, stop what you're doing! @drsepinwall.bsky.social has done all of us a huge service! She's highlighted critical contributions of US-based historians to the study of colonial Saint-Domingue, slavery, and the French Caribbean, which predate the “colonial turn” in French historiography!

Finally made a #Blackademics starter pack! Let continue to build community here. This is part of #Blacksky so please show your appreciation to the architect, @rudyfraser.com

Great to see this piece from @drsepinwall.bsky.social in @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social about historians of France who were writing about the Haitian Revolution and/or slavery decades ago. I appreciate the focus as well on scholarly infrastructure—having venues in which to publish! 🗃️