What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.

Really interesting topic and support for attending presenters-

We’re welcoming applicants for a fully funded history PhD project researching the first 100 years of the UK's Public Record Office, ahead of its bicentenary in 2038. Find out more and apply here by Friday 8 May: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... (1/2)

You can read more of Prof. Mota's research on this topic in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

📢 JOB OPENINGS at CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social (Madrid)! As part of my ERC project WILDHIST, the Institute of History is hiring two 3-year postdoctoral researchers in the global history of rubber. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. More info 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012 @erc.europa.eu

Just a week left to get your proposals in for NNI's November Conference "New Netherland and the World"! CFP here: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/eve.... Dutch folks, we do have travel funding to get you to Albany if you need it.

New job: Senior Historian Colonial Williamsburg Foundation jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69898

JOB: Full Professor Political History of contemporary (post-1945) Europe, SciencesPo, France. They are open to people working on environmental politics. Application deadline 13 April 2026. www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fil... #envhist

The Call for Papers for NACBS 2026 is now open! Join us in Pasadena! Read the full CFP here: www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

📢The information pages for NACBS prizes, grants, and fellowships are now updated for the 2026 application season. Find more information at the link below! www.nacbs.org/news/prize%2...

Jobs! Three jobs! I am hiring three full-time, three-year postdocs to research the long history of song at Newcastle, from any disciplinary background (within reason), starting 1 October 2026. Spread the news far and wide – all details in the link below... jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

"I’m very worried about what is being destroyed. We’re all extremely worried, because what we’re seeing is the ad hoc closure and drastic cutting of many, many departments across the country." Historian Lyndal Roper in today's THE: bit.ly/4sqsfJ2 #Skystorians 1/2

Missed this two weeks ago, but it looks great and you can just download the entire special issue with a click 🗃️

#skystorians! If you work on vast early America and want to develop your writerly and storytelling chops in community with other historians, please consider applying to the inaugural Craft Intensive sponsored by @oieahc.bsky.social (led by myself and Scott Heerman). For more details, visit:

Read an amazing book on British Studies in the post 1800 period? Consider nominating the book for the Stansky Book Prize! 📅Nominations due May 15 More info and how to nominate here: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...

Interesting job for folks working on gender pre-19th C outside of Europe and Australia: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU693/l...

Congrats to my friend Felix Jean-Louis and everyone involved in the making of The Forgotten Occupation - had the pleasure of watching a screening this evening in a packed auditorium at Miami’s Little Haiti Cultural Complex. Recommend the documentary to all Caribbeanists!

JOB ALERT! 📜📚 Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin? apply.workable.com/middleburyco...

Delighted to have an article on Maritime Marronage in the Grenadines published in this special issue of The Journal of Caribbean History. Special thanks to Kathleen Monteith & the special issue editors @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social, @feliciafricke.bsky.social, Joy Lewis & Rasmus Christensen.

Co-editors @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social, Joy Lewis, Rasmus Christensen, and I have recently published a special issue of the Journal of #Caribbean #History! 🎉 Article topics include migration, trade networks, commons, marronnage, slavery law, and indentureship: www.uwipress.com/journals/the...

* Call for papers * PhD Workshop at @kitlv.bsky.social organized by @fatahblack.bsky.social and I: Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation👇 We welcome PhDs working on early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation to participate. www.kitlv.nl/cfp/early-mo...

One more try here - does anyone know if USD was circulating widely in the Caribbean in the 1870s? Dominica had only irregular steamship commerce (mostly resale from Barbados and Martinique). But maybe it was a dominant currency, as most imported food was of US origin? Guesses welcome! 🗃️ #skystorians

Having got to a place where there are few to no career-length jobs in the humanities, in a society where much of the work itself — particularly on “divisive” subjects — is reviled in media and attacked by politicians, we have created conditions that select for wealthy folk, cliff divers and saints

Jonathan Gienapp joins the Omohundro Institute for a public lecture on constitutional originalism & the authority of history. 📅 Mar 18, 2026, 4–5:30 PM EDT 📍 Hennage Auditorium Register: oieahc.wm.edu/events-overview/events/vast-early-america-lecture-with-jonathan-gienapp Image: Wikimedia Commons

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

New at the Iberian Colonial Repository: Catalogue of the microfilms from the Archivo General de Indias held at The Historic New Orleans Collection, from subsections Papeles de Cuba and Santo Domingo. If interested in Spanish sources about Louisiana, this will interest you.

Did you know that H-Net Reviews has published more than 51,000 reviews since 1993? That’s all thanks to our volunteer review editors who commission dozens of reviews from fellow scholars, who review these works as service for the scholarly community. Browse and search our entire archive!

Calling Historians of Latin America, the Caribbean, Atlantic World, and Borderlands- Deadline Extended to 27th Feb!

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

@dlocaribbean has a great series of events coming up!

FEATURED JOB: 2026-2027 Gilder Lehrman Center Fellowships, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University - Connecticut networks.h-net.org/jobs/69786/g... #fellowships #edusky #academicsky #highered #history

We've extended the deadline for the 2026-2027 Goizueta Graduate Fellowships @umchc.bsky.social to Feb 20. If you're a grad student in the US working on Cuba-focused or Cuba-adjacent topics, apply! mailchi.mp/miami.edu/li...

Some professional news: I'm now hiring two postdocs to be part of the research project I'm leading on global republicanism and the making of democratic cultures in the early 19th century. If you know someone for whom this may be relevant, don't hesitate to let them know. www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

🚨CFP 2026 🚨: LACS–SHA invites individual paper and panel proposals for the SHA’s 92nd Annual Meeting, held November 5–8, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. Panels and papers welcome on all aspects of Latin American and Caribbean history, including borderlands and the Atlantic World. Deadline: 30th Jan. '26.

The Call for Papers for the 2026 SHA meeting in Atlanta is now open. We encourage scholars at all career stages to build on these conversations and submit proposals for panels, roundtables, or individual papers. Find out more at shorturl.at/4hLTg

Reflecting back on 2025, we’d like to thank everyone who helped make the LACS–SHA events at the SHA Annual Conference in St. Pete such a success.

The New Netherland Institute announces a new, semester-long fellowship to study the Dutch in/and the American Revolution. Applications are due 2/1/26. For more information and to apply, visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/application/... Image: St Eustatius, View of Fort Orange, ca. 1860.

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

LLMs can only understand the first line. Humans can understand the infinite context below.

If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.

Join us on a day full of new data of the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) Database, presentations from researchers that are related to ESTA or the field of Indian Ocean slavery, and the introduction of TIDES. iisg.amsterdam/en/events/la...

The Oct. issue of The William and Mary Quarterly is out now! It follows Dutch-trained soldiers to Jamestown, uncovers enslaved resistance in the Caribbean, revisits abolition-era debates through new eyes, and shows how Equiano’s reach went farther than previously known. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55884

Our final CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar of the year “Laboring Neighbors: Afro-Asian Ecologies in the Colonial Caribbean” takes place on 9 Dec w/ Dr Catie Peters @oieahc.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social / @deannalyncook.bsky.social / @ilcs.bsky.social ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The @upmississippi.bsky.social flash sale is extended one more day. 50% off all books including, SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN for only $15! 🗃️🇭🇹 www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...

More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.” www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...

CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminars Autumn 2025: 25 Nov Baseball & Postcolonial Nation Building on Curaçao 9 Dec Laboring Neighbors: Afro-Asian Ecologies in the Colonial Caribbean shorturl.at/BnOkd @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social @deannalyncook.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉 universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/ (All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.) Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

Consider sending in an abstract to this important conference about slavery and privacy 🍀 teol.ku.dk/privacy/news...