I ran from the Upper Marlboro, MD plantation of Levi Osbourn in September 1850; I might have hoped to get to DC and find shelter there, but I was caught. In October 1850, I was shipped from Baltimore to New Orleans by slave trader J.S. Donovan. My name was HANNIBAL BUTLER. #slavery #blackhistory

In 1900, Black librarian Daniel Murray began a bibliography of works by Black Americans, his goal “to secure every book and pamphlet in existence, by a Negro Author”, exhibit them at the 1900 Paris Exposition, and then archive them at @LibraryCongress: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...

had an amazing in-depth conversation w/ @jaredlholt.bsky.social & @michaelehayden.bsky.social about the history of the antifa bogeyman in America, what antifa is in the MAGA imagination, and what Trump's executive order declaring antifa "domestic terrorists" means open.spotify.com/episode/7xlC...

"Presenting music from 1687 through the 1860s in modern treble clef and banjo tablature, along with the rich stories behind each song, Gaddy and Giddens take readers on a journey from the Caribbean across the Americas." This book looks absolutely wonderful for musicians and historians alike.

This ad was published in a Charleston, SC newspaper in 1857. (Transcription in Alt text.) #slaveryarchive 🗃

Just got word from WHA that the great historian Quintard Taylor has passed away. His book, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West was such a huge inspiration in my own work on the region. Also first Black president of WHA. A legend who will be missed.

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...

Coming in 2026!

"Terrell and her fellow activists saw the need for a national organization to provide a network of women-led initiatives, among them voting rights and racial justice. Terrell...was among the principals in the 1953 Supreme Court case that desegregated restaurants and stores in Washington, DC."

Taking Stock and Setting Agendas: A Workshop on Data, Digital Humanities, and Early American Studies. Grateful for the audience, copanelists, and organizers.

I ran from Eliza Martin in September 1850; we were then living at the house of Dr. John Gibson, her brother, in Calvert County, Maryland. I wasn’t able to take much with me from the house, and I might not have gotten very far before I was captured. My name was BETSY. #slavery

office door material right here

In the #AHRSyllabus module “Unpacking the History of Higher Education,” authors use college and university digital archives to capture the rich histories of women’s sports, LGBTQ+ student experiences, and Hispanic-Serving Institutions. 🗃️

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has published new tutorial videos focusing on searching BBIH and using BBIH to research the histories of race and ethnicity, gender, LGBTQ+, emotions, social class, and health.

Leeds Beckett Uni, I am coming! October 8 at noon at the Humanities Hub on City Campus. This is my first author talk or my trade book and yes it is in England during their Black History Month. Very grateful.

Join us for a discussion on how #PublicHistorians can push back on efforts to sanitize or avoid "controversial" topics in their workplaces! Register at https://community.ncph.org/event/workplacechallenges#PublicHistorians#Skystorians

I escaped and ran after William G. Matthews, town clerk of Fayetteville, NC sold me to Poindexter & Edmondson of Halifax, VA in September 1850. My fate might have been to be shipped to New Orleans, but they were still looking for me in September 1853. I was called HANNIBAL. #slavery

A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842) publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...

When I was 12 years old, I ran away from Number 170 South Sharp Street in Baltimore, Maryland. It was September 1850, and I left without shoes or a coat, only a short dress. My name was MARIA. #slavery #BlackHistory

More than 1/5 of all undergraduate students are parents, and, like many of them, Bridgette Ellis lives on a tight budget, supporting her family with a part-time job and a handful of grants and scholarships that help cover the family’s living expenses. www.chronicle.com/article/a-mo...

The Call for Proposals for NCPH-AASLH 2026 is here! If you’re looking for feedback or possible co-presenters for a proposal-in-progress, you can submit an optional topic proposal by Oct. 15, 2025. https://ncph.org/conference/2026-annual-meeting/topic-proposal-form/

How widespread were medieval technological objects, and who owned them? Read about where they were found in medieval households in a new DALME feature essay by Dan Smail. dalme.org/features/a-n...

It begins. I am in talks with a Lead Editor at Louisiana State University Press for my 2nd book. This is the book that will earn me tenure. "Pest Control: Birds, Black Folk, and the History of Environmental Consciousness in the United States South" by Christy Hyman

In early September 1850 I ran from the store of merchant Zora H. H. Cropper, at No. 92 Dugan’s Wharf, Baltimore, MD, where I was likely being offered for sale. I was 12 years old and already scarred from the beatings I had received. My name is UNKNOWN. #slavery #Baltimore

Historian here Happy Labor Day to those who claim to believe in American exceptionalism: you don’t believe in a constitutional democracy, the rule of law, civic nationalism beyond ethnicity, a prosperous healthy educated middle class and scientific progress that made the US the envy of the world!

This summer, author Louis D. Hall set out to explore the history of his homeland of Fife, north of Edinburgh; an enchanting place of hills, estuaries and coasts. Setting out on foot he discovered stories of adventurers and witches, saints and scholars👇

Workers everywhere are under attack. From the Gulf Coast to the Global South, fisherfolk are getting record-low catch, while Indonesian farmers are pushed off their lands by industrial development. We’re challenging the corporations profiting off their suffering. #LaborDay https://bit.ly/3VoOAYJ

New podcast episode up. Thanks to Eric K for being a guest! Random Nature Podcast can be found on any podcasting platform.

My good friend Dr. Gunter, replying to a (deep sigh) slavery apologist.

Ann Arbor to use art to commemorate historic Black neighborhood www.wemu.org/wemu-news/20... #blackmidwest

🚨 COMING TOMORROW🚨 📜🔫 Dive into the controversial history of the Troubles and the Philadelphia Five in our latest episode! Join us tomorrow for a thought-provoking discussion with journalist Ali Watkins. Tune in tomorrow! #HistoryRage #IrishAmerica

I really have fun georeferencing old maps. source of historical map: Dave Rumsey citation: Author-Lewis, Samuel Attributed Author-Arrowsmith, Aaron Date-1812 Short Title-South Carolina. Publisher-Thomas & Andrews Publisher Location- Boston

"Cotton Machine Used for Punishing Runaways, South Carolina, 1830s," from Moses Roper, A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper from American slavery (London, 1837), p. 51. #slaveryarchive www.slaveryimages.org/database/ima...

Friends Center's featured tenant today is The Tract Association of Friends. Since 1816, the Tract Association has published pamphlets, essays and books on Friends beliefs, concerns, history, and practice. /28a

The AHA is compiling resources developed by historians in response to recent actions by the federal governments. We welcome submissions from our members about op-eds, media appearances, or other resources they've contributed offering historical context and insight to the public. 🗃️

I've been thinking a lot about a harm reduction approach to AI for those of us that cant refuse and keep our jobs (staff dont get academic freedom 🤘). How do you look like you are engaging and maybe even engage in ways that are less all-in, while not abandoning the necessity of critical use

Absolutely STOKED to teach this book this year for my African American Women's History to 1877 class.

Thank you so much Professor Rediker. We are still so grateful that you spoke to our group this summer!

Thinking about the women growing, harvesting, or mining commodities for others' profit, and and then having to cook, clean, and bath in water polluted by those industries. Pesticides & fertilizers used for cocoa is just as bad as cobalt. Orig. 1879 photo of a Black woman washing clothes in river:

Manisha Sinha, author of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 open.substack.com/pub/julianze... @profmsinha.bsky.social joined The Long View to discuss her important book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920.

“Gardening has become part of my methodological toolkit for doing history,” writes Cecilia Slane in her second #AHAPerspectives summer column. 🗃️

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

Our project might have lostNEH funding, but we still went out with a bang thanks to funding from the Mellon Foundation, celebrating our Cornell Freedom on the Move Data Fellows! Can't stop, won't stop!

1/3 Something that comes up more than one would think is that I almost pursued experimental puppetry performance art instead of history or whatever it is I do. I give you a sample of my capstone undergraduate absurdist silent chance-operation puppet theater

In August 1783, an enslaver named James Young posted an ad seeking the return of Daniel Anderson. But as @coryjamesyoung.bsky.social reveals, Anderson had already eluded capture for five years and had not intention of returning. Read his story: freedom-seekers.org/story/daniel...

On the saddest day of my life, the day I lost my son, I reflected on the comforting philosophy foundational to Sufism. My fifth year in the Aftermath of loss. I am forever changed. spatialhumanorg.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/c...

I ran from the Onslow County, North Carolina farm of Owen Jarrott in July 1850. I could read well and probably wrote my own pass to escape via the railroad from Wilmington to the north. Jarrott was still advertising for me in late October. I was called CORNELIUS. #blackhistory #northcarolina

Tentatively set to do a book talk at the Beniba Center for Slavery Studies at the University of Glasgow, big thanks to Drs. Peggy Brunache and Simon Newman! More details to come in late Autum 2025.

From #AHAOnline in February 2022: Karlos Hill, Jennifer Turner, Trinidad Gonzales, & Leland J. White with chair @kmhilliard.bsky.social help equip historians with tools to advocate effectively for history education. 🗃️