Get ready for the... 🎂 Great Douglass Day Bake Off! 🎂 How to enter: 1. Bake a birthday cake! 2. Decorate it! 3. Post a photo on here or IG to #DouglassDay Competition is going to be fierce! Learn more & see past winners: douglassday.org/bake-off/

Get Ready for Douglass Day 2026! Fresh newsletter out today. - Preview event on Feb 6 - New teaching resources - Swag (trading cards are back!) open.substack.com/pub/douglass... And there's still plenty of time to register for Douglass Day 2026. All Rights for All!

(1/2) Here's the first in our series of tips for Graduate Students planning on attending the #C19 Conference in Cincinnati, OH, from March 12-14, 2026! Today we're looking at #networking! You can find more info about the C19 Conference here: www.c19underground.com

Our latest #NewBookForum is live! Sarah Ensor, Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses her first monograph "Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World," available now with NYU Press. @plantmetaphor.bsky.social www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...

Introducing our wonderful G19 New Book Forum Team. You can find more of their work at: www.g19collective.org

Meet the G19 Social Media Team!

We hope you'll join us for these important conversations at #MLA26! mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...

If you're attending the upcoming @historians.org or @modernlanguage.bsky.social meetings, join sessions related to the Doctoral Futures initiative: https://bit.ly/3YtXXb7

I picked up three books from this fantastic sale. You can pick up my book SEARCHING FOR BLACK CONFEDERATES: THE CIVIL WAR'S MOST PERSISTENT MYTH at 50% off. Already own it? That's OK. Send a copy to your neo-Confederate uncle. uncpress.org/978146965326...

Volume 41, Number 2, 2024 of Legacy is online! 🎉 You can find the entire issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53522 ! We'll be covering each piece and why you should reach them in the coming days!

Max Chapnick & I are proud of this forum commemorating the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott's novel _Work_. Six innovative authors offer insights on C19 gender & labor in literature, very needed as we stand on the precipice of a new Gilded Age & a nadir of modern gender justice. Open Access! 🧵

#TBT NBF: Dr. Kelly Ross, @kellyross910.bsky.social, Jun 2024: In *Slavery, Surveillance, & Genre,* Ross traces detective fiction’s roots in 19th-c. race, genre, and gender, showing how African Americans used “sousveillance” to resist white surveillance. ⬇️ www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...

Our latest #TeachingC19 essay is published! Read Erica Stevens, Ashley Rattner, and Julia Tigner collectively reflect on how pedagogy rigorously and responsibly engages online modalities and digital technologies during the age of "enshittification." www.c19society.org/teachingc19a...

The daily barrage of evil made me hold back on a cover reveal, but maybe this is the day. Out later in 2025, this book, like 7000+ books & so many other rich projects, would not exist without the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. These stories must be told & we must save the NEH.

#TBT NBF: Dr. R.J. Boutelle, @rjboutelle.bsky.social, Jul 2024: In *Race for America,* Boutelle argues that African Americans challenged “manifest destiny” to rearticulate the terms of national expansion in the antebellum period of the United States. ⬇️ www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...

Don't forget that in a couple of days you can attend this incredible-sounding pre-panel for the 2025 SSAWW conference! Just click on the link below!

#TBT NBF: Dr. Thomas Koenigs, @tomkoenigs.bsky.social, Jul 2024: In *Founded in Fiction,* Koenigs argues that Early US literature was far more diverse in its applications and served more purposes than simply the aesthetic or artistic. ⬇️ www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...

What an amazing collection. If you’re interested in Black print in all its forms this is a volume you will savor. Thanks to the editors @brigfield.bsky.social and @jsench.bsky.social

My essay is now available in its online version through the Journal of the Bible and its Reception. Apparently they publish them first this way and then in whatever issue of the journal it’ll be in later this year. I’m so glad to see this one out in the world. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

In Callaloo's Phillis Wheatley special issue, Laura Vrana traces an intergenerational call-and-response conversation between “Wheatley poems" in which poets treat her as a central topic and conjure her as a major literary figure Read free thru 31 March: tinyurl.com/wvrjsdrn

With the CFP out, we are well on our way towards the C19 Conference in Cincinnati, OH on March 12-14, 2026! Please consider donating to our Travel Fund for C19 members with limited access to travel funding, especially graduate students and contingent faculty. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Today is the day! Take a look at the CFP for the 2026 Biennial Conference of The Society of 19th-Century Americanists: UNDERGROUND www.c19society.org/2026-confere... The Conference website will go up at the end of April / early May, and submissions will be due Sept 5th.

We have a cover! Forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press this fall!

Still looking for submissions to this @melville-society.bsky.social MLA panel!

Hey don't forget about this hot (or cold, as you wish) CFP for MLA26 @c19americanists.bsky.social @melville-society.bsky.social

How did the environmental violence of the #AmericanRevolution affect Hudson River farming families and alter the region’s gender dynamics? Read #EAS #Winter2025 article “Ravage the Country” by Blake McGready here: doi.org/10.1353/eam....

The next session in this hybrid series is on Monday, March 10, 12-1:30pm ET. #podcasting

#TBT NBF: Dr. Zachary Tavlin, @zachtavlin.bsky.social, Aug 2024: In *Glancing Visions,* Tavlin demonstrates how a theory of the “glance” might open up the entrenched criticism surrounding the “gaze” in American Studies. ⬇️ www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...

Virtual book history lecture series happening later this month hosted by Penn & featuring Kelly Wisecup, "Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation." www.library.upenn.edu/events/asw-r...

My department at Uppsala university has just announced two open PhD positions: one in history of science and the other in history of ideas. We research, for example, colonial history of science, history of medicine, and intellectual history. Deadline: 8 April

What's that? Just 4 ✨STARRED✨ reviews in row for @uncpress.bsky.social books from Library Journal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

February’s too short, so each day in March, a C21 book on Black histories. Truth: read all of Martha S. Jones’s work. Vanguard provides clarity in a frightening world & I can’t wait to get Trouble of Color. But I saw C19 anew w/ All Bound Up Together. @marthasjones.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social

19th century US history is replete with examples of collective organizing in resistance to tyranny. Slavery could not have been abolished without underground and out in the open organized collective resistance and refusal to comply with unjust law.

Daughter of Mifflin Gibbs, co-editor of California’s first Black newspaper, Colored Convention leader, 1st Black judge elected in the US. Her equally impressive sister Ida Gibbs Hunt, and she, like their mother Maria, all attended Oberlin. @ccp-org.bsky.social.

I'm on the organizing committee for next year's @c19americanists.bsky.social conference in Cincinnati & what I can tell you about this year's theme is that it was the first thing anybody pitched & we were all, like, "Yep that's it." The fastest I've ever seen five professors agree about anything.

Black History Month as the nation denies diversity #23. Frances Harper, wk of 8 Sep 1856: 1. gave one lecture at Toronto 2. gazed for the first time upon Free Land! 3. wept at that glorious sight 4. breathed the air of freedom 5. returned from Canada, 12 Sep @digblk.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social

#envhum hive: I'm organizing a proposed session for MLA 2026 in Toronto, Literature and Taxonomy, that will examine the oppositions & alliances between literary studies and the science of taxonomy. all time periods & subfields welcome! deadline March 23. please share widely!

@profjennyshaw.bsky.social discusses her book THE WOMEN OF RENDEZVOUS and the story of 5 women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver on this episode of Atlantic Theory Podcast 🎙️ Listen here ⤵️ or wherever you get your podcasts 🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/b121667b

#TBT NBF: Dr. Arielle Zibrak @zarielle.bsky.social, Oct 2024: In *Writing Against Reform,* Dr. Zibrak argues that those like Kate Chopin and James Weldon Johnson made the case for “aesthetic realism” as a more complex and ultimately potent art form. ⬇️ www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...

Here at CBDR, our work is made possible by the incredible students who bring passion to our projects! Meet Courtney Murray, a committed #DigBlk scholar. Her work is helping to push the boundaries of digital scholarship. Join us in celebrating Courtney! Thank you for your amazing contributions!

YOU MAKE HISTORY! Tomorrow we will make Black history accessible together 🎂 211 groups 👥 8400+ participants 📚 10,800 pages to transcribe ...and counting! Still time to join our *largest* transcribe-a-thon ever at DouglassDay.org + #DouglassDay

#TBT New Book Forum: Dr. Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social *Transoceanic Blackface, * Nov 2024: “In *Transoceanic Blackface,* Hoxworth challenges the notion of blackface as a uniquely US American phenomenon.” ⬇️ www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...

New Episode! Join Marlene L. Daut (Yale University) and Grégory Pierrot (UConn-Stamford) as they revisit Ridley Scott's big-budget 2023 biopic, Napoleon, out of Apple Studios. soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s...

With Douglass Day just a week away, we want to ensure that our First-Time Participants are ready for a day of celebration and transcribing! Get inspired by checking out highlights from past years on our YouTube channel! #douglassday #douglassday2025 #subscribe #blackhistory

As we look ahead to C19 2026 in Cincinnati, we are excited for our next C19 virtual event, a discussion of the life, work and activism of Ohio native Charles Chesnutt! The event will be on Feb 21st from 3:00 to 4:30 PM EST / 12:00 - 1:30 PM PST Check your email inboxes for the link!

Season 10 proposals are due on 2/15! We're looking for projects that explore the nineteenth-century United States! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Over the next weeks, we'll share past interviews from our New Book Forum. First up! @colbytownsend.bsky.social and @ppirli.bsky.social had a wonderful conversation with Dr. Amy Gore about her book, *Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History.* Check it out below!

We are on Bluesky! We are the Graduate Student Collective of the C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (@c19americanists.bsky.social). We aim to support C19 graduate students and junior faculty through initiatives like our G19 New Book Forum. Stay tuned to learn more!