“The great appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise”: a timely essay by his Irishness @fotoole.bsky.social on the project of imperialism and national vanity as lampooned in “Gulliver’s Travels.” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

📜 Thursday 11 June · 2–3pm BST 📜 #LuanaReis (@princeton.edu) presents: "Lélia Gonzalez, Beatriz Nascimento, and the Poetics of Kilombo." Join us on #MSTeams: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3825331... #Kilombo #Quilombo #LéliaGonzalez #BeatrizNascimento #Amefricanidade #CHoM #CamMarronage #Black

🤔Y'all let the most racist people in the world pick a president to be their "New Fuhrer." Their words. Because their New Fuhrer would get to pick their Supreme Court. In order to destroy Black voting power. So that they can enable ethnic cleansing and world war. What did y'all think would happen?

Original. Invincible. #hiphop

Making Deep Time Visible in Stone and Space great blog by Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel @nhmwien.bsky.social on how architects of C19th natural history museums worked with geologists to express deep time thro their buildings, incl @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social valuepast.hypotheses.org/6678

'United States of America at 250' marked the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This major event on 29 May also launched the Centre for the United States of America at Cambridge (CUSAC), Cambridge's new intellectual home for research and teaching on the United States ⬇️

TODAY, Thurs 4 June · 2–3pm BST #CHoM welcomes Nigel Browne-Davies (@camhistory.bsky.social PhD candidate, @queens.cam.ac.uk, @cam.ac.uk): "From Maroon to Creole: Loyalism, Marronage & Creolization." MS Teams (#LinkInBio) #CamMarronage #Marronage #Maroons #BlackLoyalists #BlackHistory #Black

Sometimes you come across the prefect quote: an expression that captures precisely the relationships you're writing about. Here is John Mitford Bowker illustrating perfectly settler colonialism's environmental & human impacts plus the moral conviction justifying them: doi.org/10.1111/j.00...

Graham Nickerson at #CHoM!

📜Thu 21 May · 2–3pm BST📜 Graham Nickerson, UNB (@discoverunb.bsky.social) on: "To be Made Majesties of..." — Black Loyalist communities in #NovaScotia & #NewBrunswick as sites of marronage. Join: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3825331... #CHoM #Maroon #Marronage #BlackLoyalist #BlackCanada #Canada

‪Cambridge Histories of Marronage workshop TODAY with @daroldcuba.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️

Sujit Sivasundaram’s Waves Across the South has received an Honourable Mention ("Accessit") in the inaugural Zeev Sternhell Prize for the History of the Revolution👏 The book was ranked 2nd among works published globally on the French Revolution and broader Age of Revolutions over the past 5 years.

#CHoM Easter Term • Thurs May 21, 2pm-3pm BST: " #HarvestAsMarronage: Shankleville's #TxPHP Fest & the #MaroonLegacies of #FreedomColonies," my chapter in the new #ManyWaysToThinkAboutHarvest #Routledge book. Join us on #Teams: t.co/fpCnhle9nt #Maroon #Maroons #Marronage #History #Cambridge

📜Thu 21 May · 2–3pmBST📜 @daroldcuba.bsky.social (Cam.ac.uk), #HistoryPhD candidate, @stjohnscollege.bsky.social: " #HarvestAsMarronage: Shankleville's #TexasPurpleHullPea Festival & the #MaroonLegacies of #FreedomColonies." Join: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3825331... #CHoM #Maroon #Marronage

We are thrilled to share our Easter Termcard! As always, if you have any questions or would like the link to join us remotely, please feel free to get in touch!

Dearest Maroons, We are thrilled to share #CHoM's Easter 2026 Term Card! Join us every Thursday from 2-3pm BST on #MSTeams to explore the #HistoriesOfMarronage at @cam.ac.uk's @camhistory.bsky.social . See you on Thursday! #Maroon #Maroons #Marronage #History #Cambridge

WORKSHOP TODAY 👉 As part of a larger project on a Global Black Atlantic family, Professor Nemata Blyden (University of Virginia) will look at members of the family who settled in Liberia in the 19th century. 🔎 How can we understand their experience if looked at through the lens of marronage?

📢 Approaching fast: join Professor Caroline Humfress (Uni. of St Andrews) next week for the first of the Seeley Lectures. These are given biennially by a distinguished visitor to Cambridge on a topic in political thought and its history. Her four lectures start next week on 19 & 21 May ⬇️⬇️

💫 25th anniversary event: Global History Lab’s Narrative Observatories in Action Bottom‑up, globally scaled social science in action, which explores narratives as a tool for understanding fracture and building connection 15 May 9.30-12.45 Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4d8p2ZP

Prof Sir Chris Clark, Regius Professor of History, wins the Ludwig Börne Prize 2026. Federal President Steinmeier praised Clark for his “great talent for writing about history in a way that is both understandable and entertaining, as incisive as it is serious.” 🔗 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/prof-si...

📜 Join us Thu 14 May · 2–3pm BST · #MSTeams Prof. #NemataBlyden (#UVA), Armstead L. Robinson Prof. of 19th-C African American History, presents: "'#BackToAfrica' as #Marronage: A Global Black Family in Liberia." All welcome: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3825331... #CHoM #Maroon #Maroons #Cambridge

In 1841 Mary Richardson married John Jones of North Carolina. They carried free papers when they settled in Chicago & Mr. Jones established a successful tailoring business. Active in abolitionist politics & voting rights campaigns, they hosted & dressed John Brown & crew en route to Harper’s Ferry.

What made John Brown a great man was not actually that he was a "great" man. It was that he recognized himself as a regular man that rejected white supremacy. And was willing to die for that. That when he saw another Black face, he saw a human like himself. May 9, 1800 he was born

“These men are all talk; What is needed is action — action!” — John Brown

Save the date for the Cambridge American History Workshop Conference Researchers from across the UK and Ireland will present new work spanning the long 19th century to the late Cold War. 📅 22 May ⏲️ 9am-5pm 🏢 Jesus College, Cambridge Free, open to all 🔗Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-...

Join us tomorrow, Thursday, May 7, 2-3pm (BST) for #CHoM: Dr. Johnhenry "Hank" Gonzalez, @camworldhistory.bsky.social will present "Fanchette and Gautiche: Two Cloaked Microhistories of Black Female Power During the Haitian Revolution." MSTeams: bit.ly/4et0s6O #CamMarronage #Marronage #Maroons

🎙️ PODCAST | Listen to @camhistory.bsky.social’s Hank Gonzalez talk to David Runciman on the History of Ideas Podcast. 🎧 Find out more about the Haitian Revolution: the first time in history a slave revolt resulted in an independent free state ⬇️

#CamBAH symposium: www.blackadvisory.hub.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate... 📢CfP deadline📢: Thursday, February 20, 2024 📅 Monday, March 10, 2025 ⏰ 17:00 - 20:00 📍Student Services Centre (Exam Hall D - ground floor, entry from main reception via Bene't Street) Sign up: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

What is the value and use of history in contemporary society and culture? We're delighted to launch a new OA short-form book series - 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society', with @cambridgeup.bsky.social - to explore this question. Proposals now invited bit.ly/4aqCiG4 1/2 👇 #Skystorians

Applications are open until 2/15 for our October conference on the history of the US Navy & Marine Corps! www.mceas.org/navigating-p...

Another great #CFP for our followers - please share. #WomensHIstory

Read @bethlehemattfield.bsky.social's research on #Amharic literature, translations, and digital archives. In her #ASAUK2024 paper highlights the importance of #digitalhumanities & inclusive AI in challenging Eurocentrism and amplifying African knowledge systems 🔽 https://buff.ly/3E3lNDT

📢 Call for Papers! 📢 The Women's History Network invites submissions for a special issue of "Women's History Today" on women & the making of art history. Submit your abstracts by 10 Jan 2025 #WomensHistory #ArtHistory #CallForPapers #WomenInArt Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/cfp-womens-h...

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Join our #CamWorldHistory community, wherever you are: @Bluesky.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/camw... #WhatsApp: chat.whatsapp.com/GMgDd0EdIYf8... X/#Twitter: x.com/CamWorldHist... @camhistory.bsky.social: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/graduate-stu...