Anyone with access to Labor able to send me a copy of this review? read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

If nothing else, this phenomenon is heightening the visibility of those who use citation simply as a signaling apparatus and not for the purposes of leading readers to the source of their claims or the thinking with which they are engaging.

I've read most of these and they are great.

good morning holy shit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Congratulations to Justene Hill Edwards!!! macmillan.yale.edu/stories/yale...

Nice review of THE DRIVER'S STORY in the latest issue of Slavery & Abolition, which calls the book "a fascinating and excellent study that will be of great benefit to scholars of slavery within the Caribbean and beyond." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

all i'm saying is that there were better options

Yes. Also, one time I was rejected 14 months after applying. I guess it was good to have closure?

Well, if we're doing front discourse, might as well re-read this absolute classic www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

Good mail day! @pennpress.bsky.social @csschmitt.bsky.social

Book launch event @bookshopsantacruz.bsky.social on Feb. 2 for The Escapes of David George. (Free, but registration required) bookshopsantacruz.com/gregory-omal... #bskystorians @stmartinspress.bsky.social

This is such a nice surprise! Thanks to the editors of @choicereviews.bsky.social for selecting THE DRIVER'S STORY as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2025.

I’ve respected Klay ever since I read his novel, and this does not dissapoint. What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

"Sorry again about those salary cuts (and no, they're not as temporary as we said, oops!), but don't worry, during Faculty Appreciation Fridays you can get 5% of all spirit wear at our corporate partner bookstore!"

I'm very grateful to the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize jury and @journalslavery.bsky.social for this recognition! Congrats to the winner, Magdalena Moorthy Kloss, and other finalists. brill.com/view/journal...

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.

Today only, THE DRIVER'S STORY and many other great @pennpress.bsky.social books are on sale for 50% off. www.pennpress.org/978151282586...

Henrique Espada Lima wrote an especially thoughtful review of THE DRIVER'S STORY for @journalslavery.bsky.social. It's so gratifying when a reviewer understands what an author wanted to accomplish w/ a book and communicates that clearly, along w/ some very fair critiques. brill.com/view/journal...

Anyone able to send me a copy of this review from the @journalslavery.bsky.social?

Don't miss Sascha Auerbach's review of "The Driver's Story' by @randybrowne.bsky.social It's free #S2O #OpenAccess in the Spring 2025 issue of Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History at @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.” www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...

I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive. www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

Thanks to everyone who attended my keynote yesterday, "The Plantation Complex: Towards a Global History." I got some great questions and feedback.

This is pretty much my approach to AI in the classroom, too.

🗣️ “Drivers can’t just crack down. They risk rebellion. But they can’t go soft—they risk losing everything. It’s a war.” —Historian Randy Browne Want more insight like this? Listen to Ep. 418 of Ben Franklin’s World: benfranklinsworld.com/418 #EarlyAmerica #History #BFW

Great deal on @pennpress.bsky.social books -- 40% off until the end of the year.

Anyone with access to @smallaxeproject.bsky.social able to send me a copy of this piece by Catherine Hall? read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...

Might Norway be interested in recruiting historians, too?

Skateboarding helps Gaza children with trauma amid ruins, adds rare joy Children turn war-shattered ruins into makeshift skateparks as mental health crisis deepens. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

Looking forward to this one-day workshop next Thursday: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/events/lo...

honestly one of the most striking things about epstein's emails is the fact that the man, described in many places as "a genius," is essentially subliterate

University admin, too

The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.

Why. Were. So. Many. Men. Regularly. Emailing. Jeff. Epstein. After. He. Was. A. Known. Pedophile?

Thank god! I had been worried about them this whole time.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I was just detained by ICE for 10 days despite being a citizen carrying Real ID. But at least I know the Oberlin Student Senate won’t be doing land acknowledgements any more.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

"'Without Fear' celebrates the activism of Black American women—an 'often-overshadowed group of activists and intellectuals.'" @randybrowne.bsky.social reviews Keisha N. Blain’s “Without Fear.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-the-transnational-activism-of-black-women/

My review of Keisha Blain‘s WITHOUT FEAR for the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/uniq...

CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️

In case any of my NYC friends needed another reason to vote for Zohran 👇

If you can take even more dystopian news, this is a sobering read. "A third of [Ireland's] electricity is expected to go to data centers in the next few years, up from 5 percent in 2015." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

Maybe blindly relying on Amazon for so many things was what the preschoolers would call a red choice?

Oh wow

With alt text. Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters

The Plantation Complex: Towards a Global History I'm looking forward to this talk (part of the Joseph C. Miller Lecture Series) about the global history of the plantation complex at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies on November 17. www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...