Pleased to announce that my most recent book, The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War, has won the 2024 John Lyman Book Award from the North American Society for Oceanic History.

People are worried about the bridge collapsing, but Constitution Avenue also sits atop the old Tiber Creek, now enclosed in some really old tunnels.

I'm naturally assuming the new pope likes deep dish and the Cubs, so he's all right by me.

It's not really the Gilded Age without Social Darwinism.

Dorothy A. Brown says The Plunder of Black America “sets out in clear and exquisite detail the huge obstacles placed in the path of African Americans who simply wanted to become self-sufficient & leave their children with brighter futures” lnkd.in/gXwhCUqs GooglePlay play.google.com/store/audiob...

The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made comes out in one week! It’s a story of several families over 400 years and how times changed but the theft continued. Please preorder now: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

After four months of stress, sleep deprivation, and exhaustion, finals week promises the sweet relief of year-end reviews and severe illness.

When you publish a book with @thenewpress.bsky.social, they send you a gift box of cookies from Levain Bakery. This is how it's done.

The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made follows several African American families through 400 years of dispossession, disinheritance, and decapitalization— an American process of wealth stripping that continues yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Happy pub week to THE PRICE THEY PAID by @jforret.bsky.social, “a detailed and worthy study of the clash of abolitionist and pro-slavery forces in early America” (Kirkus Reviews) ow.ly/BFFL50UaxbK

Release day for the new book, The Price They Paid. Huge thank you to The New Press and editor Marc Favreau for seeing this one to the finish line.

Ties officially now cut with the other place. After my last post there a few months ago, sharing the cover design for my next book, some angry dude I didn't know called me a [bleep] for writing about slavery. I can imagine no more fitting end to my time there than that.

The flood of new people here has finally convinced me to sever all ties with that other place. Now, to remember my password...

August 8 by the numbers: Fall courses: 5 Preps: 4 Syllabi prepared: 0

Dust jacket for the next book.

Question for the more tech savvy historians out there. What data visualization software have you used, and what was your experience? I'm looking at Flourish Studio for bar chart races, but curious about other good, user-friendly programs. TIA.

Today I signed a contract for my next book. The New Press will publish "The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations before the Civil War" in Fall 2024.

So, I'm temporarily filling in as department chair. In my first meaningful act, I hereby decree that, at next week's faculty meeting, there will be sandwiches.

First day here, hoping to reconstitute a community that once was. Will try and track y'all down again.