Hey Bluesky: We're prepping vol. 51 for publication & it is looking fabulous w/articles on artists in Vichy & the actor/author Claudius Roussarie, a roundtable on Karen Offen's "The Woman Question," Interventions, Notes on Sources & the 2025 JWSFH Mixtape!

New issue of FHS is out now! Policing and State Power in France and the French Empire: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

The CFP for the 2026 Society for the Study of French History conference has just been launched. Come join us in Groningen! frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/conference2/

Beautiful review by @plso.bsky.social of Tyler Stovall's last book 💔 #NearAndFar, from @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social. h-france.net/vol25reviews...

H-France Salon announces a new issue (17: 1) on "The Myth of French Taste." Edited by Oliver Wunsch & w/contributions by Natacha Coquery, Benjamin Poole, Sophie Kurkdjian, Shana Cooperstein, Linda Stratford, & Grace Allen, the Salon explores how 'French taste' has been defined & redeployed over time

1/ I recently wrote a review for @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social on Arnaud Orain’s Le monde confisqué: Essai sur le capitalisme de la finitude. The book has stirred major debate in France. It’s rare (and great) to see a historian of economic thought in the spotlight.

H-France Forum announces its newest issue (20:6) on Geoffrey Turnovsky, Reading Typographically: Immersed in Print in Early Modern France. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2024. ISBN: 9781503637214 (hb); 978150363916 (eb) h-france.net/hfrance-foru...

Very excited for this semester's NCFS Unbound events (@ncfsassn.bsky.social). This is a great chance to hear from lots of fantastic 19th-century scholars who’ll be discussing their new books! Find out more here: ncfs-assn.byu.edu/ncfs-in-capt...

H-France Salon CFP: Beyond the “Degas Dilemma”: Dance-Sculpture Encounters in Francophone Contexts, Past & Present Guest editors: Juliet Bellow (American Univ.) and Madison Mainwaring (Univ. of Notre Dame) Deadline: 15 Oct. 2025

H-France Forum announces its most recent issue (vol. 20:5) on Antónia Szabari, Agents without Empire: Mobility & Race-Making in 16th-Century France. NY: Fordham Univ. Pr., 2024. xii+294 pp. ISBN 978-1-5315-0666-7 (cl), 978-1-5315-0667-4 (pb), 978-1-5315-0668-1 (eb) h-france.net/hfrance-foru...

"[FROM NEAR AND FAR is] a highly readable monograph that will be especially of use for undergraduate students in advanced seminars," writes Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira for H-France. h-france.net/vol25reviews...

I had the privilege of reviewing Tyler Stovall's last book for @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social—a monograph that elegantly suggests the progressive potentials of global French studies.

This was really interesting to work on alongside Elisa Jones, Sophie Nicholls, John O'Brien, @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social, and Paul-Alexis Mellet too – an important book with wide implications, and lots to explore in the discussion

cc: @tombhamilton.bsky.social @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social

IMAGINARIES announces vol. 15:2, "Off the Beaten Path" The films & texts reviewed here offer alternate understandings of metropolitan France, taking novel approaches to environmental, social, & racial challenges weighing on modern France & finding space for hope h-france.net/imaginaries/...

Pleased to see the publication of my short piece on Alice Diop’s Nous for H-France’s Imaginaries h-france.net/imaginaries/... @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

H-France Forum is pleased to announce its newest issue (20:4) on Paul-Alexis Mellet, Les Remontrances: discours de paix et de justice en temps de guerre. Une autre histoire des guerres de religion (France, v.1557-v. 1603) Geneva: Droz, 2022. ISBN: 978-2-600-06336-4 (pb) h-france.net/hfrance-foru...

What an absolute dream to have a Paris launch for my new book. And so lovely to be surrounded by friends and fellow French historians, many of whom (incl @willpooley.bsky.social) I’d never had the chance to meet in person before #GCFHSResist 🗃

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

I've had a brilliant time at #GCFHSResist - rich, engaging papers and lots of brilliant colleagues. It was all pulled off with a riotous panache as well! Chapeau to the organisers and to Luc and Solveig for being brilliant hosts! Now for a few days off

#GCFHSResist It was such a pleasure to meet/catch up with so many wonderful scholars in French history! Although French history/history/academia faces so many challenges, there is an abundance of kindness and generosity within the community that will help us face those challenges together.

What a pleasure to celebrate @brionyneilson.bsky.social’s new “Dangers of Youth” at #GCFHSResist fringe event yest evening with appreciations from Natalia Muchnik and Charlotte Legg. A timely+sobering reminder of continuing relations between state/youth/repression/military in France 🗃️ #FRHistory

Delighted to share vol. 12 of French History & Culture is now published! Featuring fantastic new work by David Garrioch, @leonhughes.bsky.social, Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Robert Aldrich, Adrian Muckle, Helen Gramotnev, and Martyn Lyons. All open access – enjoy! 🗃️ @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

Heartfelt thanks to the organizers of the French History Global Consortium for a wonderful conference Paris 15-19July. Special thnx to Solveig Serre & Luc Robene + execs of @sfhs.bsky.social @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social SSFS (@frenchhistory.bsky.social) + George Rude Society.Merci!

Enjoyed putting together this H-France Forum on Paul-Alexis Mellet's *Les Remontrances: discours de paix et de justice en temps de guerre. Une autre histoire des guerres de religion* – reviews and response available here: h-france.net/hfrance-foru... @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

ICYMI: An excellent review of @micahalpaugh.bsky.social's "The People's Revolution of 1789" is in @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social, describing it as a "genuinely engaging, stimulating narrative" of "the people’s revolution: a message he insists on from title to conclusions." h-france.net/vol25reviews...

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Charles Bégué Fawell's article, ‘Effervescent Seas: Racialized Labor and Mobile Militancy on the Steamship Highways of the French Indo-Pacific’, was just awarded the 2025 article prize from the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes. Warmest congratulations! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

A new curated collection is available from French Historical Studies, on Muslims, Gender, and the “French” Mediterranean, and edited by Naomi Davidson. Check it out! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

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The Routledge Handbook of the History of Paris 1789-present, including over thirty chapters by our brilliant collaborators, which I co-edited with @kory-ory.bsky.social and Erin-Marie Legacey, has a pub date of May 15! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

H-France announces the newest issue of H-France Forum (20:3) ed. by Kathryn Kleppinger, George Washington Univ. on Adam Shatz, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. NY: FS&G, 2024. ISBN 9780376426 (hb) 9781250347619 (pb) 9780374720001 (eb) h-france.net/hfrance-foru...

H-France announces the latest issue of H-France Forum (20:2), ed. by Junko Takeda, Syracuse Univ. on Elizabeth Cross, Company Politics: Commerce, Scandal, & French Visions of Indian Empire in the Revolutionary Era. NY: Oxford University Press, 2023. ISBN 9-78-0197653753 (hb) 9-78-0197653777 (eb)

Review forum @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social on Adam Shatz's book on Frantz Fanon h-france.net/hfrance-foru... four reviews and author response.

📍Fernand Braudel, historien de l’économie-monde📍 🗣️avec Jean-Yves Grenier @ehess.fr @crhehess.bsky.social, Arnaud Esquerré @cnrsshs.bsky.social @laboiris.bsky.social 📻France Culture, Émission "Entendez-vous l'éco ?" 📑Série " "Portraits d'économistes", Épisode 29 📅Jeudi 3 avril 2025 ▶️ bit.ly/42uqoZk

The sun is out, the birds are singing, the flowers are in bloom, and five months ago I published a fun article about a forgotten celebrity French teacher and the people who read him in English, German, Dutch, Italian, & Arabic. Open access, it's as seamless a reading experience as that was a segue.

Day 98: Among the highlights of my day has been reading the fantastic new H-France forum on @ecrosshistory.bsky.social's "Company Politics: Commerce, Scandal, and French Visions of Indian Empire in the Revolutionary Era"! Bravo to Junko Takeda for bringing together this wonderful group of scholars 👏

"As [Davis] suggests, the tensions between liberty and license, embodied by the libertine, maintain their relevance for efforts to build societies based on rights not privileges...Readers will gain much insight," writes Lisa Jane Graham for @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social bit.ly/4lfq8F5

H-France is pleased to announce the new Chief Editor of H-France Review: Prof. Kirsty Carpenter, Massey University (Aotearoa/New Zealand). A specialist of Revolutionary-Era France, Prof. Carpenter has previously served as a Review Intake Editor & is currently an At-Large Editorial Board Member.

H-France Forum announces its latest issue (20:1) on Marlen Schneider, Belle comme Vénus: Le portrait historié entre Grand Siècle et Lumières. Trans. Aude Virey-Wallon. Paris: Éds de la MSH/Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, 2020. 370 pp. ISBN 978-2-7351-2659-0 (pb); 978-2-7351-2730-6 (ebook).

On behalf of @lm8son.bsky.social, H-France is pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of IMAGINARIES, devoted to bandes désinées & graphic novels, with an eye to how one might use these dazzling resources in a broad range of classes. Articles include:

Coedited by @andrewmdaily.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & @rpanchasi.bsky.social, this year's issue features articles on spectacle in 17th-c. Paris, child sexual assault in 19th-c. Algeria & family planning in 20th-c. Tunisia by authors Jun Huang, E. Claire Cage & Hannah Olsen.

Vol. 50 (2024) of JWSFH, the official journal of @thewsfh.bsky.social is now online! journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/2... We're delighted to share this issue with readers who can access it online &/or download PDFs of each article/essay. Check out the table of contents:

New issue of FHS! Forum: Framing Muslims in the Making of France, 1300–1800 read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

2024's SPECIAL FEATURE is the JWSFH MIXTAPE, a look back on the journal's/society's 50 yrs, with article picks & reflections from @sfhs.bsky.social Executive Director Tabetha Ewing & WSFH members @skmiles.bsky.social & Robin Walz. Don't miss the AMAZING artwork by @tgpeterson.bsky.social in the PDF!

Check out this new curated issue - "Atlantic Antecedents: Before the "Haitian Turn""- in FHS. Congratulations @drsepinwall.bsky.social! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES - CALL FOR PAPERS “Children and Childhood in the French-Speaking World” Please submit article manuscripts by August 15! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Congratulations @jenniferheuer.bsky.social !

Thrilled to see the news on @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social that the '25 @sfhs.bsky.social Pinkney Prize for Best Book in French History went to... my 🗃️ bestie @jenniferheuer.bsky.social's THE SOLDIER'S REWARD: Love and War in the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon! 🥳 So proud of my friend!! 💙

CFP: Society for French Studies PG conference on the brilliant theme of ‘conditions’ www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/... 🗃️ #FRHistory #FrenchHistory