Theorists often talk about ‘the archive’ as if it is a thing that exists, but there is no ‘archive,’ only many particular archives, each with its own institutional, infrastructural+substantive affordances+restrictions, stories and silences, promises and pitfalls. This should not be controversial 🗃️

Work starts to save endangered, historic Bridgeport (CT) Freeman homes from what was the Little Liberia neighborhood www.ctpost.com/news/article...

Another @shgape.bsky.social podcast dropped! This is Boyd’s 2nd “best of.” Episode 54 Michael Cullinane interviews Chris Suh about his award-winning book _The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion_. shows.acast.com/gildedageand...

In today's Muster, Amanda Laury Kleintop explores the hidden history of compensated emancipation in Maryland www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/12/comp...

"The 1st Michigan Colored Regiment: Free Men Who Fought Slavery" by Maurice Imhoff is "an accessible account of Michigan’s only African American regiment," writes Greyson Bettendorf. Read more about it here: bit.ly/3Y6n9nO

Friends, please share? Brown2026 is advertising for its 3rd year of fellowships. Would love to have you consider this opportunity to work with us as we face 2026. Link to position and application info in the thread: And more info about the initiative is here: brown2026democracy.brown.edu 1/

I’m honored to be in Orange County (NC) this Saturday for an emancipation celebration. I’ll be with North Carolina Supreme Court justice, Anita Earls for a discussion about how our families were shaped by slavery, it’s evolution, and it’s after lives. triangleblogblog.com/2025/12/02/o...

Just under two weeks left to apply for this three-year post-doc to work on the AHRC-funded project, "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," based at the University of Edinburgh.

The holiday is over. Back to indexing Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era.

Records from AAHA’s Born Free and Emancipated database, 𝟏𝟖𝟐𝟗 ✦ Each week we will post a selection of these records to feature the individuals listed, supporting our continuous #KnowTheirNames initiative. #AAHAFauquier #history #Fauquier #knowtheirnames #va250

The page proofs for both forthcoming books have arrived. Proofreading and indexing are my present and future for the next few weeks. I'm looking forward to seeing the final versions of these books in print in Spring 2026.

Share your favorite StoryMaps with us in the comments. I love this student-created series on historic Lucyville: cardinalnews.org/2024/02/29/t... #GeographyAwarenessWeek

For #SHEAR #SHEAR2026, seeking panelists for session on economic issues circa 1780s-1790s. My paper: examining MA debates over property requirements etc. in the proposed 1778/1780 constitutions. Proposals due Dec 1st, please contact me [email protected] if interested.

After watching the full 12 hours of Ken Burns's The American Revolution, here is my conclusion: We would be better off if all Americans were starting with this interpretation of events versus the inaccurate, whitewashed understanding that so many people have and embrace.

Today is publication day for my book, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, through the University of Minnesota Press! www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...

A few thoughts about Episode 1 of Ken Burns's new documentary about the American Revolution. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Starting Sunday night on @pbs.org, watch me (and many others) in this guy’s film #AmericanRevolutionPBS @unumkenburns.bsky.social

Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era is now available for preorder on the UNC Press website. Use the code 01UNCP30 to receive 30% off. uncpress.org/978146969499...

Hi y'all! I wanted to re-up the CFP for the Southern and ask if anyone would be interested in putting together a roundtable reconsidering the impact the American Revolution had on Southern religious life: www.thesha.org/submit-a-pro...

The C. Vann Woodward Award for the best dissertation written on Southern history in the preceding year is awarded to Jewel Parker #2025SHA

Now available for preorder on the UNC Press website.

So many want an individual hero or savior. In religion. In politics. In celebrity. Is this universal or more pronounced in this individualist society?

Friends, I could not be more excited to let you know that my book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, is out today from Penguin. I’m super proud of it and super grateful to all the scholars whose work informs it. I hope you’ll take a peek and spread the word! amzn.to/4nHkziG

Missed the conversation live? Check it out on our YouTube page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPWU...

In today's Muster, contributor Kris Plunkett examines the rise of the New Lost Cause in Post-Civil Rights era alternative history stories www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/10/alte...

Today the Court starts two weeks of oral arguments. You can tune in to watch live here: www.youtube.com/@supremecour...

It’s officially pub day for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America‘s First Opioid Crisis! Available at a bookshop near you. Thanks to everyone who made it possible to bring this research to life! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968953...

New podcast with @alkleintop.bsky.social about her new book COUNTING THE COST OF FREEDOM: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War just dropped on the UNC Press Presents Podcast via @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🎧👇 newbooksnetwork.com/counting-the...

Walking the streets of Gettysburg in October:

St Peter’s Church in #Zurich where Mary Church #Terrell, the only Black delegate to the 1919 Women’s #Peace Congress, gave a key address urging delegates to include the end of lynching in the US as part of their vision of peace. Also: more mountains! #womenshistory #blackhistory #pacifism #philsky

As the 2026 legislative session approaches, audiologists are urging legislators to revisit the proposal, saying the lack of coverage for hearing aids affects thousands of Mississippians each year.

Meet Cleopatra Coleman, the Caroline County woman working to preserve a small Virginia town's (Port Royal) history www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...

Here it is, my 247th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

🎥 Missed our NARA Webinar? Watch the recording now! Who’s safeguarding the history of now? Learn why it's important to capture the stories of our present. 📺 Watch the recording: https://ow.ly/VOfG50Xf1Ac

Come work with me! My department at JMU is hiring for a tenure-track historian of the modern US (post 1950). Otherwise, the position is broadly construed. We are a large department in a growing university with strong enrollment, just 2 hrs from the archives in DC 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/69300/j...

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

A reflection on history and freedom. "Histories can be revised; rights revoked." time.com/7325167/supr... Please read and share! Thanks to Allie Lopez and Made By History for working with me on this.

North Carolina is one of 27 states that has been given the designation “needs assistance” two years in a row. www.wral.com/story/nc-isn...

LSU Press is getting started early with the annual holiday sale. You can receive 40% off North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885 and many other titles using the code SAVE40LSU. lsupress.org/978080717176...

So grateful to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social for their time and care and for giving me space to have a verrrrrrry "thinking out loud" piece. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...

When people tell you that founders as enslavers was something we should see "in the context of their time." Great piece fr @katytelling.bsky.social abt a wealthy 18hc Virginian (and there were others) who thought Washington and co. risked their honor and more. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...

Happy to announce that after my Lillian Smith bio comes out in Sept 2026, a new 10 year anniversary edition of #MasterlessMen - edited down with a new introduction - will debut spring 2027 (@CambridgeUP). It will also have a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Hahn!!!

You can use the code 10VABOOKS to receive 30% off your preorder of Freedom in the Age of Slavery: A History of Free People of Color in Virginia. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10193/

“A key contribution of Cirillo's intricate and insightful book is to reframe the chronology of the American abolitionist movement by making the Civil War ‘the center of, rather than a bookend to, its story.’"— New review in 𝘑𝘈𝘏 https://bit.ly/abolitionistcivilwar

We don’t talk enough about how physically exhausting archival work can be. I stood for 8 hours in an uncomfortable stress position today and took about 2000 pictures of these huge ledgers. My brain is fizzing, but my dogs are barking and my back hurts like hell. I wouldn’t swap this for anything! 🗃️

Very happy to be included in the new issue of @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social History Now, with @mkn.bsky.social, @catherinemcneur.bsky.social, Keith Pluymers, Lauret Savoy, and Sara Dant www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/...

Freedom in the Age of Slavery: A History of Free People of Color in Virginia coming to a bookstore near you in May 2026. Available for preorder now. For more info, see www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10193/

✨ An inspiring evening at the NC State Archives with @unchistory.bsky.social profs Fitzhugh Brundage, @kathleenduval.bsky.social, and Joseph Glatthaar to celebrate the publication of Foundations of American Democracy. Now available to all North Carolinians via a free digital edition on NC LIVE! 📚