I haven't seen Cape Verde put a beating like that on Spain since the 1640 dissolution of the Iberian Union

Via UWI Press | The Journal of Caribbean History | Volume 59: 2 | Special Issue | Small Islands, Proximity and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean | Read the Latest Issue (Open Access): www.uwipress.com/journals/the...

If you got AI to write your book you didn’t write your book. Stephen King wrote your book. Octavia Butler wrote your book. Jilly Cooper wrote your book. Dav Pilkey wrote your book. Lisa Jewell wrote your book. I wrote your book. Every author whose work has been digitised wrote your book. You did not

Forthcoming (December 2026): Black Puerto Rican Studies - Edited by Chayanne Marcano and Vanessa K. Valdés | SUNY Press | More information can be found here: sunypress.edu/Books/B/Blac...

The third and final day of the 2026 Caribbean Philosophical Association Annual Conference continued with additional seminars and book talks!

The 2026 Caribbean Philosophical Association Annual Conference closed with a celebration of our award winners!! Thank you for joining us this year!

@achconference.bsky.social members (some, at least) might find a few unexpected nuggets in these holdings.

I feel like feeding your students’ work into ChatGPT to generate evaluative comments is, among other things, a massive intellectual property violation.

From presentations to plenaries, the 2026 Caribbean Philosophical Association Annual Conference the first day on sports and struggles started off strongly.

The 2026 Caribbean Philosophical Association Annual Conference started things off with an Author Event (June 3rd) with Book Culture + the87press. Here we have T.D. Harper-Shipman, Jimin Seo, Dorian Rhea Debussy, and jason b. crawford featured!

MARC BLOCH COMIC BOOK. This is not a drill. MARC BLOCH COMIC BOOK!!! www.tallandier.com/livre/marc-b... #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Academic research means reading 1 article, which leads you to a book and 6 other articles, which lead you to 17 articles and 4 book chapters, and oops now you’re an expert in the 1990s feminist criticism of Taylorist management philosophy, a thing you didn’t know existed until 3 days ago.

New Article (May 2026): Beyond Code Switching: The Multiple Voices in Claude McKay’s Songs of Jamaica – Heather Augustyn | The CLR James Journal | To read more, visit here: www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...

They describe the Battle of Jumonville Glen as "George Washington was sent to the French to mediate the conflict but returned empty handed" JFC.

Thanks my alma mater, University of the West Indies,TT for this feature in UWI Today. It's quite an honour! Thanks as well to Hollis Henry, UWI Today Ag. Editor for reaching out & asking me to be featured. Amy Li Baksh of course did an excellent job. #HumbledandGrateful @achconference.bsky.social

It was a great honour to be asked to speak at the 57th annual conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social in Kingston Jamaica earlier this week. I attended with my colleagues Michelle Charters (Head of the International Slavery Museum) & Olivia McCormick. #ACH

Here in #Jamaica for @achconference.bsky.social ! Already a lot of great presentations and looking forward to more over the next few days 😊✨️

A first look through the window slats at beautiful #Jamaica. No greater pleasure than to be here to attend the @achconference.bsky.social Annual Meeting! And now excuse me, I have to finish reading the conference papers ... 🤓

This precedent could also be applied to government officials who blow people up in boats without a declared war, due process, evidence, or trial.

Article of Interest (April 2026): Enslaved Fugitives in the Lesser Antilles, 1760s-1860s – Gunvor Simonsen, Rasmus Christensen, Heather Freund, Felicia Fricke, and Gabriëlle La Croix | Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation | To read more, visit: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsdp/ar...

Not nearly enough reporting about what's happening in Cuba, which the administration is attempting to squeeze, punish, and coerce into submission and violent self destruction. This is so much worse than the embargo. It's hideous. Haiti, Cuba, ongoing boat strike murders: anti-Black foreign policy

“What is being unmade this time is not only the right to vote or the right to citizenship—both of which are being whittled away—but also the right to know, the right to make knowledge, and the right to tell the truth.”

While I am glad that more people are acknowledging the scope of Harvard officials' enslaving and profiting from slavery (this database is a small part of a much larger history), I also hope that people will engage with the ongoing violence of this sort of data:

CFA: Philosophy Born of Struggle | “’I’m Buildin Me A Home’: Education as Struggle, Education as World-Making” | 16-17 October 2026 | Mississippi State University | Submission Deadline: August 29th, 2026 | More info here: pbos.com/722/pbos-202...

Join us June 10-11 for a symposium with scholars, artists, and activists from U.S. territories as they interrogate these structures and imagine a future where topics of sovereignty, justice, and freedom are no longer questions but guaranteed realities. RSVP for free --> https://ow.ly/OqPs50YZbSF

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

"Ces asymétries [éco et sociales] entre l'Hexagone et les outre-mer sont absolument énormes. Ces questions économiques et sociales sont à régler, et elles pourraient l'être au titre de la réparation de l' #esclavage qui a été enduré par les populations." www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...

This data article about fugitive adverisements in eastern #Caribbean newspapers is the result of years of work by the team at @inthesamesea.bsky.social Read it at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsdp/ar... and find the dataset at enslaved.org - an open-access research resource!

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

"But AI can transcribe quickly for me!" The lack of time for transcription in the archives is not natural, it is created. The time to transcribe, which is also time to read and think about material, has been taken from us by those with the power to fund our work. Now they want it without funding it.

"This will transform historical research!" Cool but it's already being transformed out of existence by the same forces pushing these transformative technologies. Forgive us if we're skeptical of a moment that's telling us "This will help you do your work--which we despise--faster and better."

*laughs in archivist* It always amuses me at how little historical material is actually not only digitized but also made available online compared to what lay people think.

A federal judge granted the motion for a summary judgment on all counts in favor of the AHA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @modernlanguage.bsky.social in our lawsuit to restore the NEH, ruling that the mass termination of grants was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect." 🗃️

(Re)Reading Senghor: Poet-Politician at the Crossroads | With Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall, Johann C. Ripert, and Cheikh Thiam | Saturday, May 9, 2026 - 11:00 am PST | Free on Zoom | Register Here: citylights.com/events/rerea...

Online Film Screening – Ludi 2021 (80 minutes) Date & Time: Friday, May 8th, 2026 at 1 p.m. EST buff.ly/OqitIOS Ludi follows a Haitian nurse employed at a nursing home in Little Haiti, Miami, trying to make ends meet to support her family in Haiti.

One thousand percent. Having never actually read anything beyond new-atheism and airport psychology, they assume they’ve exhausted the supply of human ideas and possibility.

Exhibition Opening | To Uncover and Reveal to the World: Arturo Schomburg’s Library | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | Thursday, May 7, 2026 from 6PM - 8PM | Free| More information: ow.ly/uWMV50YSoln

Difficult to overestimate the impact the Civil Wars in the British and Irish Isles had on colonial expansion in the Caribbean: in 1655 plantation owners in Barbados estimated that they employed some 12,000 prisoners of war on their estates, Irish but also Scottish and English PoWs.

Our new posting of “Caliban’s Readings” is now available. Please join José Enrique Hasemann Lara in exploring the tragic role of development for the inhabitants of Crawfish Rock who are “navigating and fighting for their future under no uncertain terms.” caribbeanphilosophy.org/blog/tragedy...

Meet a 2025–2026 Rooted + Relational Fellow at CENTRO:Dr. Andrés Olán-Vázquez, Research Associate Join us at the R+R Symposium in May. 🔗 RSVP: https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/rooted-relational-boricuas-in-relation/

Join us at our LAST CLACS Caribbean Studies seminar of this academic year! Tracing Dutch Caribbean Migrants in Black Radical Encounters w/ Margo Groenewoud. Kindly supported by @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social colleagues @deannalyncook.bsky.social // @ilcs.bsky.social ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Reminder that I would love to visit your class/college/university at some point next year to talk about Caribbean pirates in history and popular culture. DM me if you want to talk about it!

CFA: North American Sartre Society 31st Annual Meeting | October 23-24, 2026 | Theme: A.I., Virtual Worlds, and Digital Existentialism | Zoom | Submission Deadline: May 15, 2026 | For more information, visit: www.northamericansartresociety.org/https/static...

If You Missed It The First Time (May 2020): Gender Variances and Sexual Diversity in the Caribbean: Perspectives, Histories, Experiences - Edited by Marjan de Bruin and R. Anthony Lewis | University of the West Indies Press | More information can be found here: www.uwipress.com/978976640741...

down with endnotes renormalize footnotes. huge footnotes. not those ones that are just reading lists, that's what a bibliography is for, I mean discourse-packed messy source digression half the page eighteenth-century footnotes

Holy heck if you haven't taken a look at this just launched project and resources from the @historians.org _American Historical Review_, it's incredible. Of course I went to the 1665 Mass Bay petition about royal authoritarianism. Excellent! www.historians.org/news-publica...

The Red Historia Venezuela website has added a collection of indexes and guides for the Venezuela documents within the Archivo General de Indias. A huge undertaking in which @gonzalezsilen.bsky.social has played a very important role. You can find it here: redhistoriave.org/real-audienc...

New Article (April 2026): World-Making in Sylvia Wynter and Bernard Stiegler: Critical Encounters of Myth and Memory – Duncan R. Cordry | The CLR James Journal | To read more, visit here: www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...

Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately