@inpursuitusa.bsky.social is now live! Check out @kawulf.bsky.social's essay on Martha Washington, the first First Lady, and a plantation mistress shaped by lineages of power, revolutionary politics, and slavery. inpursuit.substack.com/p/martha-was... Hear Karin read her essay as well.

@samknightwrites.bsky.social in an essay around @brookenewman.bsky.social's book: "In a way, the conservative reaction to Newman’s book has mirrored the official response to Andrew’s involvement in the life of Jeffrey Epstein. It is to insist on the distinction between the individual and the Crown."

I’m honored that The New Yorker has published a feature on my book by @samknightwrites.bsky.social examining the monarchy’s historical entanglement with slavery — and how patterns of exploitation and institutional silence echo into the present. Read here: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

it’s a shame that donald trump wasn’t this passionate about checking ids back when he was partying with jeffrey epstein

Oh, Daily Mail, never let history get in the way of a dramatic headline. “Will Andrew become the first royal to go to prison?” The Tower of London would like a word.

The best headline I have seen on this in a major paper: metro.co.uk/2026/02/13/t...

A friend hosted a book party for me last night and I mixed a themed cocktail—The Bitter Truth—🍸 that captures the essence of THE CROWN’S SILENCE. 📚 @nmkennedy.bsky.social

“The concern expressed by the King & his heir —no matter how “deep” or “profound” —will not stop the outrage over Andrew’s conduct, which appears to have been taking place while he was paid from the public purse & acting against the interests of the British people.” www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...

Look what arrived from Amazon yesterday evening. Looking forward to reading your new book, @brookenewman.bsky.social Congratulations!🥂

Definitely assigning to my students. But also: This better become a Netflix series!! More here: lsupress.org/978080718618...

My teen’s elaborate text attempts to avoid walking the dog. 🤣 LMAO

Wonder who the “historians” are who are advising the Trump WH. I suspect even Chat GPT could do a better job!

LONDON (AP) — Palace says King Charles III will support police who are assessing reports that ex-Prince Andrew gave files to Epstein.

Really looking forward to Liz Pryor’s upcoming book—SOMETHING WE SAID. Liz delivered a talk related to the book several years ago at VCU, and I’ve been waiting to read it ever since. Congrats, Liz!!

Not a moment. Not a trend. A constant. Evergreen.

"Washington Post readers have rightly concluded that Bezos is no longer committed to the democratic ideals that he once professed to revere and that the newspaper has committed to defend....If ever the Post needed a new owner, it is now." www.thebulwark.com/p/jeff-bezos...

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

“[What] Trump has done is occupy a significant chunk of our attention every single day. Our consciousness is being polluted, and protecting ourselves against that at the same time we preserve the ability to act politically is a difficult balancing act.” 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/m...

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And millions of Americans thought he was fit for office (and still do).

New JBS article alert! 🚨 #slaveryarchive ““Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System”? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain” by Hannah Young. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Mark your calendars for March 9 at 12:00 ET for this livestream event! @brookenewman.bsky.social will be joining me to discuss her new book, The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas. Bookmark this on my YouTube channel and don't forget to subscribe!

Holy crap. This is real. And the crafty devils stuck Taylor Swift on their list of “good” billionaires. marchforbillionaires.org

I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.

I’m grateful to see THE CROWN’S SILENCE included in the JBHE’s list of recommended books to read in Feb 2026! 📚https://jbhe.com/2026/02/recent-books-of-interest-to-african-american-scholars-520/

He owns Amazon—this is no surprise. 👇

Exciting announcement from Jeff Bezos's reimagined Washington Post!

Cassie Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social and I had a great conversation at Politics & Prose last night. I also had the opportunity to eat at nearby Comet Ping Pong—aka the hipster target of the pizzagate 🍕 conspiracy—and buy a stack of books written by other historians! 📚 @politicsprose.bsky.social

A banger of an episode!👇🎧 @meredithconstant.bsky.social “The Epstein files reveal that people in power, regardless of party lines, will all protect each other & think that they're above the law & do not see poorer individuals, individuals from other countries, young women as human beings.”

I would love to see you TONIGHT at Politics & Prose in Washington D.C. Connecticut Ave. location at 7pm. I’ll be discussing my new book, THE CROWN’S SILENCE—& the response to its release in the UK 🇬🇧 —w/ historian Cassandra Good. Please join us! @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social @politicsprose.bsky.social

Shutting down (the stellar) books coverage at WaPo is a real telling move when your owner is literally Jeff Bezos

I’ve been reading @brookenewman.bsky.social’s The Crown’s Silence and it’s so good I’ll probably be shouting READ THIS BOOK at passing strangers. #AbolishTheMonarchy isn’t enough. We also need to expropriate their inherited blood money to fund reparations. harpercollins.co.uk/products/the...

THE CROWN’S SILENCE spotted by a friend in the window of Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford, and on the first table in the store.

Oh my…the poor timing on this one. Andrew M-W formerly known as Prince has ensured that's not gonna happen. Not to mention all the rest of the manacled skeletons in the royal closets.

Out today! Historian @gogogomalley.bsky.social has written a fantastic new book: THE ESCAPES OF DAVID GEORGE. Check it out! 👇📚#slaveryarchive

As the mother of two teenage girls, I’m appalled by this claim. Teenagers may appear physically mature, but they are still CHILDREN—legally, developmentally, and ethically. Minimizing that reality is dangerous.

Thank you historian @brookenewman.bsky.social for this important, needed, and beautiful book, which I am already citing in my current book manuscript. #slaveryarchive

👎 He may be cute, but Punxsutawney Phil needs to STFU. ☀️

Will he listen? Will he speak? www.theroyalobserver.com/p/king-charl...

I would love to see you at Politics & Prose on Connecticut Ave. this Wednesday at 7pm as I discuss my new book, THE CROWN’S SILENCE, and the response to its release in the UK 🇬🇧 with historian @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social —Join us! politics-prose.com/brooke-n-new...

So much for the party of individual freedom and small government. The Republican Party is now all in on the police state. Just to be clear, immigrants are not “invaders” and people standing up for human rights are not “traitors.” People who defend state violence ARE betraying American values.

“We should confront this history and not dismiss it as shameful. Because much of the past is shameful, and we disagree with many things our ancestors did, but we still need to talk about it and learn from it.” www.eldiario.es/internaciona...

Mi entrevista con @brookenewman.bsky.social, historiadora que acaba de publicar ‘The Crown’s Silence’: "La monarquía británica se benefició de la esclavitud durante siglos y es necesario que lo reconozca" www.eldiario.es/1_c590e9?utm...

THE CROWN'S SILENCE mentioned on NPR News Now this morning, 9am EST! The 5-minute global news roundup, starting at the 3:48 minute mark. www.npr.org/podcasts/500...

The Trump admin’s whole case regarding Haitians in Ohio is racism, xenophobia, and lies. There’s literally nothing else to it. Legal status, proper papers. No criminal record. Employers, neighbors, local leaders say they’re a benefit to the community. It’s showy, bigoted cruelty, nothing more.

👇 Also add “women are to be exploited & forced to reproduce”

As a Texan by birth, I’d like to say to fellow Texans who made this happen: I salute you! Keep making good trouble. 🗳️

“The Crown was not a passive beneficiary of slavery, nor a reluctant overseer, but an active architect, financier & legitimising force behind one of the greatest crimes in human history.The scandal is both what the monarchy did & what it has refused to say ever since.” slguardian.org/empire-by-om...

“Written w/ the precision of an archival historian & the moral urgency of a political intervention, the book dismantles one of the key myths of British national identity: that the monarchy stood above, apart from, or uneasily adjacent to the transatlantic slave trade.” slguardian.org/empire-by-om...