The ACH Executive Committee is pleased to announce that its 57th Annual Conference will be held at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.) Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...

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...

This is all over the Dutch media today: early modern historian @judithpollmann.bsky.social wins the Spinoza Prize, the highest prize in Dutch science! Many congratulations, Judith, with a well-deserved tribute to your wonderful work.

Some advertisement for an exciting public lecture by Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, University of London) in Nijmegen: Complicity, Conscience & Compassion: History & Morality in Germany Since World War II Friday 27 June 2025, 5 pm E2.53 (Erasmusgebouw Radboud Univ.) Register here: shorturl.at/6IQI7

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...

Always exciting to have a book you’ve worked on be honored as a Pulitzer finalist. It’s a remarkable book, drawing new connections between North and South that complicate our understanding of their relationship. If you buy directly from our site and use the code ROCKMAN30 you can get 30% off.

Call for Papers: Eastern Marxisms. We are planning a special issue of Historical Materialism on Eastern Marxisms, the distinctive tradition of post-war critical and radical thought in East and Central Europe. Please take a look at the extended call, share with your networks and consider applying.

The work of Viola Franziska Müller, University of Bonn uk.news.yahoo.com/enslaved-bla...

It's the 10th anniversary of our 'Journal of Global Slavery' (@journalslavery.bsky.social) 🎉 In this interview led by @vfmueller.bsky.social, the editors reflect on the current state of slavery studies and on the journal's role within the field over the past decade – and look ahead: tiny.cc/emzh001

Wij kijken over grenzen heen🔍🌍 Maak kennis met de bachelor Internationale Ontwikkelingsstudies van Wageningen University & Research! Waarom is welzijn ongelijk verdeeld? Hoe kan honger nog bestaan terwijl er genoeg voedsel is? Dit zijn vragen waar je hier mee aan de slag gaat! youtu.be/qp2zh5VuO84

10 Years JOURNAL OF GLOBAL SLAVERY!!!🥳 In our anniversary issue, book review editor @vfmueller.bsky.social interviews founding editor Damian Pargas, current editor Ismael Montana & incoming editor Juliane Schiel about #slavery & #global #history. Access the #interview here: brill.com/view/journal...

In addition to our new layout, and fabulous cover, this issue is also remarkable because it is a Special Issue on the “Golden Age” of Social Democracy. To begin, check out the Introduction which is free to the public for the next three months read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

For the 10th Anniversary of the #Journal of #Global #Slavery, I interviewed the founding, present & incoming editors, Damian Pargas, Ismael Montana & Juliane Schiel, about the field of slavery studies, the development of global #history & their plans for the future of JGS: brill.com/view/journal...

It's been tough to keep mum about this: I'm deeply honored that my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery (2026), will help launch @uncpress.bsky.social's new W. Hodding Carter III trade imprint, edited by the incomparable @dgershenowitz.bsky.social. www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...

Historians, if you have undergraduates studying Black History in the c18 & c19, please encourage them to apply for a summer fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia. I am extending the deadline. librarycompany.org/mellon-schol...

Did you publish a book on #slavery (in any field or discipline) last year? Consider submitting it for the Paul Lovejoy Prize! #skystorians

Yesterday I couldn't get the link to work, but today I was actually able to look at the site and Y'ALL y'all y'all - this is so cool. So many stories! So many different fields! Women at sea is a very exciting thing to be studying! hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/rew...

#Amsterdam is celebrating its 750th anniversary this year. As I did previously on twitter, this #blackhistorymonth I will post a story from Amsterdam's rich Black history every day. #skyhistorians #blackhistorymonth2025 #amsterdam750

Lees het Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis-themanummer ‘Wie schrijft onze geschiedenis van de slavernij’ in open access: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

Een gouden tip voor mensen met een adres in Nederland (anders werkt het niet): een abonnement bij de Koninklijke Bibliotheek kost slechts €15 per jaar en geeft toegang via "PressReader" tot honderden buitenlandse kranten.

My group (Economic & Environmental History at Wageningen) is looking for two new PhDs to work on institutions and deforestation in Southeast Asian history. Pim de Zwart is a true sweetie and would be a gr8 supervisor + the group is such a nice place to do research. Apply! www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

NEWS!!! A CFP for our capstone conference, "Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World", King's College London, 15-17 May. A *stellar* roster of confirmed speakers. All expenses paid. Please share with anyone who may be interested. 🗃️ #EarlyModern

Historian here, I approve of this message. Our Second Gilded Age might be worse than the First. In #theriseansfallofthesecondamericanrepublic I link the fall of Reconstruction with the rise of gross economic inequality and monopolistic trusts and corporations. Musk Bezos Zuckerberg and co are worse

ICYMI, our third issue was published this fall! Download the full issue or individual articles here: naajournal.org/issues/

Enslaved people planned rebellions between #Christmas and #NewYear. Two examples: the Aponte Rebellion in #Cuba in 1812 and the Christmas Rebellion – or Baptist War in 1832 in #Jamaica. More in my The Conversation US article #slaveryarchive theconversation.com/for-enslaved...

RELEASE DAY!!! It’s here at last and I am very proud of it. Immense thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social for supporting this project ( & check out the promotional code).

🎉 Huge congratulations to Prof. Dr. Pia Wiegmink on her collaborative Discovery Grant Award by the Australian Research Council! With her fellow investigators in Australia & Cologne, she will conduct research on "Unfreedom, Voices, Redress: Plantation Cultures of the Western Pacific".

Thanks to the Southern Labor Studies Association for selecting me as an Executive Board member for the next 2 years! I look forward to talking #labor #history with inspiring colleagues! @joursouhist.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social y.social To see what SLSA is all about: southernlaborstudies.org

Elated by and proud of our @uncpress.bsky.social / OIEAHC sweep of the @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social Frederick Douglass book prize! Please congratulate Marlene Daut and Sara Johnson and share widely! 🍾⚡️🥳 macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...

I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here. #skystorians uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...

Could you all share? We're advertising a 2 yr postdoc position for someone who works in #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas to help coordinate the @jcblibrary.bsky.social projects and programs around 2026. Fuller info here: apply.interfolio.com/159279 and v happy to answer questions!

The Global Labour University has posted a free Labour History course with lectures and essays by @rickhalpern.bsky.social Peter Cole, Dorothy Sue Cobble, me and others. Check it out.

Can't tell you how exciting I am to see this in print, having seen some of the work that's gone into it. Believe me when I say @maryhicks.bsky.social's first book is going to be a fantastic contribution to #AtlanticWorld, #AfricanHistory, and #AfricanDiaspora #history. #BlackHistory

“The Substance” with Demi Moore is a real jaw-dropper. If you’re interested in the deep & troubling history of our destructive obsession with youth, I have the right book for you. Pre-order your copy today! Coming your way in January.

If you (or anyone you know!) is interested in doing a PhD in the history of science and/or technology, and being based in London for 3-4 years, we have scholarships at CHoSTM at King's: www.kingschostm.com/funding-oppo...

Hello southern historians! We've created a starter pack for @thesouthernsha.bsky.social historians! Go give them a follow, and let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/25VwPRh

A few weeks from now, we'll be welcoming the wonderful scholar Görkem Akgöz to Brown's History Department for an important lecture. If you are remotely interested in global labor history, I hope you'll be able to make it on December 6, 4:00pm.

Early American History position at UF: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome! go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q

Please see attached a CALL FOR A DEPUTY EDITOR for 'Environment and History'. #envhist

Created a (non-sports) Batimore starter pack. Would love to add more folks. Let me know if you’d like to be added or if you know someone who should be added. go.bsky.app/VA6VBAj

2 years ago, my book ESCAPE TO THE CITY saw the light of the world. If you can, buy it anywhere except through extremely big & disproportionally powerful e-commerce companies. @uncpress.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social uncpress.org/book/9781469...

A truly outstanding article that I've long admired. (@alexfinley.bsky.social) Alexandra Finley, “‘Cash to Corinna’: Domestic Labor and Sexual Economy in the ‘Fancy Trade,’” JAH 104, no. 2 (September 2017), 410-30. academic.oup.com/jah/article-... #legalhistory #carceralstate

Welcome to everyone new to Bluesky! Here are 4 (illustrated) steps you can take to make your experience here more pleasant than what you left behind on X and/or Threads. A 🧵

“The right-wing media sets the news agenda in this country. Not the NYT. Not WaPo (which bent over backwards to exert no influence due to Bezos’s order). Not CBS, NBC, ABC. Even the mighty NYT follows in its wake, aping the tone they set disturbingly often.” newrepublic.com/post/188197/...

Hello Bluesky! the BCDSS is now on Bsky! You can find out who we are and what we do on our website: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en We are looking forward to sharing our academic activities here with you!

Looking for people to follow? Here’s a directory of 4,500 starter packs which you can search by keyword! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...