We're hiring 2 tenure-track positions this year at FSU's History dept, one in US post 1865 and the other in sub-Saharan Africa -- just CV, letter, and online app to apply by Nov 3. I'm not on either search committee (I'm on research leave in the spring) but am happy to answer any questions!

The copyedits for Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom are in, and now the preorder page is up on Amazon. www.amazon.com/This-Strife-...

Finishing a Ph.D. on slavery in early American or Atlantic history this year? Consider applying for the University of California's President's Postdoc program. I'd love to sponsor at applicant if working with me @ucsantacruz.bsky.social might be a good fit! ppfp.ucop.edu/info/how-to-...

Enjoyed doing this interview with Luke Pickrell from Berkeley on his podcast Democratic Constitution. Do support his podcast on Apple. youtu.be/nEb4izWdf8k?...

Upcoming funding deadline alert🚨 #skystorians. Fall deadline for the KHS research fellowship program is October 1, 2025. Funding available for wide range of research topics & time periods. Come see us in #Kentucky! 🐎 history.ky.gov/khs-for-me/f...

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. Preordering is a great way to support the book's success. Many thanks in advance. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/out-of-thi...

Can the people who keep changing the style guides please take a break?

“…the longor you keep my Child from me the longor you will have to burn in hell and the qwicer youll get their…” Spotswood Rice, a Black soldier in the US Army, to a Missouri woman who held his daughter in slavery, #otd 1864

The mix-up is emblematic of the confusion spreading across campus as Duke continues layoffs, which follow a round of buyouts. With policies and timelines differing among Duke’s disparate departments, university leaders are struggling to provide clear information to their anxious faculty and staff.

Looks like almost everything I've published is on the list.

Now is a great time to grab a copy of Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South. UNC Press is offering 50% off this and all other titles with the code 01NEWSITE50. uncpress.org/978146966439...

🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840? The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners! #SwitchingTheLens

New reads just arrived 📚 Check out this week's new releases uncpressblog.com/2025/08/19/n...

The latest issue of The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society is really great. It’s a special issue that examines abolition in the Bluegrass State. It’s up on JSTOR and Project Muse.

North Carolina universities are partnering with ChatGPT and Google, and some have created new policies about using AI platforms. www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

Mark your calendars - KHS Civil War History Day is back! Join us September 27, 2025, 9:00am & dive into stories that shaped KY & the Border South. Hear from historians Dr. Anne Marshall, Dr. Brian McKnight, Dr. Cicero Fain & KHS staff. RSVP: ow.ly/a8nf50WCOl0 #America250KY #kyhistory #skystorians

There's only one week left to register for our upcoming conference in Cardiff 🚨 Details below - don't miss out!

In the first season finale of our podcast "Civil War Curious," historian Jonathan S. Jones discusses the causes and prevalence of postwar drug addiction among Union and Confederate veterans. Sponsored by @battlefields.org & SUVCW (suvcw.org). Listen here: bit.ly/4fyFNwJ

Euphemia Toussaint was freed by her uncle, Pierre Toussaint, a formerly enslaved man from Haiti who became a very successful entrepreneur & philanthropist in New York. She wrote him weekly letters in English & French. This one is from June 20, 1828.

Nice to come across this very positive review of my book in the Journal of Southern History. muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...

Fifty years ago today, President Gerald Ford signed the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act in the White House Rose Garden—one day after signing a resolution to restore citizenship to Confederate general Robert E. Lee at Arlington House. (Original NYT coverage here and here.)

Really urge you to find some time today to read this powerful reckoning from @jimfussell.bsky.social on Black resistance to Quaker enslavement.

Any political scientists out there done work on how late civil rights efforts (late 1970s-1990s) might be opposed not with language of segregation/law and order but with language of anti-welfare/fed gov or privatization?

A classic dissertation about free people of color is now available in book form!

Looking forward to reading this new study of a Virginia freedom suit by my former colleague Dan Thorp.

Learning the hard way that June Purcell Guild's Black Laws of Virginia contains heavily edited text. Guild did not use verbatim abstracts from the original laws and changed the very text of the original laws. Ugh!

I’ve spent much of today trying to identify the woman leaning against an Arlington House pillar in this photo, which shows President Gerald R. Ford signing a bill to restore the citizenship of Robert E. Lee in 1975. I’m ending the day with some working theories, but no firm answers yet.

As I go through the notarial archives of Berbice, Essequibo and Demerara, I will share some of my findings here below 👇

SHEAR 2025 is over but the conference discount code lives on...until August 15! Use promo code <10SHEAR25> at checkout for 40% off select books! upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/SHE... #booksky #readUP

My next book has a cover. What do you think? The book will be released by UNC Press in early 2026.

Interesting www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zyB...

"What is often forgotten in narratives about plantations even in their destruction is the skilled labor . . . of the enslaved and free African Americans who often participated in the building and maintaining these structures." New guest blog by Torren L. Gatson 👇 uncpressblog.com/2025/07/08/b...

Interesting www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zyB...

State history journals across the country are struggling to stay afloat. Please share this and support Iowa history. 🗃️

The latest Talking Legal History episode is up! Catherine Evans talks with @chloejskennedy.bsky.social about Kennedy’s book “Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law.” Take a listen to the fascinating conversation here: aslh.net/talking-lega...

Dear #Skystorians, as Book Review Editor @journalslavery.bsky.social, I'm always looking for colleagues who'd like to write #reviews that deal with #slavery in the broadest sense. Non-English books are very welcome & so are junior scholars! Interested? Get in touch: brill.com/view/journal...

Lots of good stuff on the @uncpress.bsky.social NetGalley account rn including: ➡️ Alice Gerrard's memoir CUSTOM MADE WOMAN ➡️ Mycologist Maria Pinto's FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS ➡️ @amyefarrell.bsky.social's Girl Scouts history INTREPID GIRLS Media/reviewers— happy reading! bit.ly/UNCPNetGalley

Is anyone working on the history of homeopathy? Or do you know scholars who have written about homeopathy recently? I could use some help... #histmed 🗃️

Now live! I'm teaching a five week course on the Transatlantic Slave Trade (November-December 25). This is an exciting opportunity to engage with an array of primary materials and to consider slavery from the perspective of those forcibly enslaved. Please share! www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-...

"I want readers to learn that Native nations have been here for millennia. They have been complicated and powerful, and changing over time. And maybe even more importantly, I want readers to know that Native nations are still here today."

My next book has a cover. What do you think? The book will be released by UNC Press in early 2026.

Enjoyed this episode of the Road to Now podcast. theroadtonow.com/episodes/nat...

Sometimes you read a court docket book entry -- brief, elliptical -- that simply breaks your heart. Waiting for her husband John to return home after an 1809 voyage to Cuba, African American woman Jane Jasper learns that he's been murdered in Havana by the ship's mate, but is unable to get justice 🗃️

Time to change your passwords

My latest quarterly bibliography of new work in Native American/Indigenous history. Not an exhaustive list, but all the stuff I will look at to prepare tge next edition of NATIVE AMERICA and to stay up ok the field.Let me know what I’ve missed. michaelleroyoberg.com/new-publicat...

Worth a visit if you are passing through south central Virginia or north central North Carolina. Thomas Day was a free man of color and successful cabinet maker. historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/th...