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Association of Black Women Historians, founded 1979

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@abwhtruth @HachetteBooks giving away 3 free copies of Vengeance Feminism by @EmoryUniversity prof Kali Gross. Discover stories of Black women who fought back against injustice & abuse. U.S. mailing only. Enter by Jan 11: https://t.co/zhUQoOsaX4 #bookgiveaway #vengeancefeminism

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🚨 **Take a Stake in the Future of ABWH!** Nominations still open! Submit yours by **🗓️ December 20, 11:59 PM ET** Shape the leadership. Shape the legacy.

Don’t miss your chance to make an impact! 💪 #ABWH #Leadership #NominationsOpen #ShapeTheLegacy

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Time to elect 2025-26 @abwhtruth officers! Let your voice lead ABWH forward!
- Learn more about positions: https://t.co/FOWmbsP7Vk
- Nominate: https://t.co/uBqZhoP64c
- Key Dates:
12/13: Nominations Open
12/18: Nominations Close
12/23–30: Voting Period
#ABWHElections #ShapeTheFuture

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Congrats @abwhtruth 2024 Award Winners!
Hornsby Essay: Matalin Crossgrove, "Contemporary Fiction as Historical Erasure"
Houston Essay: Jade Bentil, "We Are Poor, We Are Black, & We Are Women"
Brown Article: @margaritalrosa "They Won’t Let Me Alone"
Brown Book: Nikki M Taylor, Brooding Over Bloody Revenge

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@abwhtruth Honorable Mention Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize Tessa Murphy, “Centering Slavery in the Age of Abolition: Insights from the St. Lucia Register of Plantation Slaves, 1815” (@OIEAHC W&MQ)

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@abwhtruth Honorable Mention Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize Amrita Chakrabarti Myers @CountessCanuck - The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chin (@UNC_Press)

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@abwhtruth Honorable Mention 2024 Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize @CookieWoolner The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall (@UNC_Press)

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@abwhtruth 2024 Houston Essay Prize Honorable Mention @MonetTimmons “My Diary is Going to be a Valuable Thing One of These Days: The Cross-Generational Lineage of Black Women’s Archives”

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Congrats @abwhtruth 2024 Brown Book Prize winner @HowardUHistory Prof. Nikki M Taylor, Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance (@cambUP_History). Learn more: https://t.co/ZEXmgo80B9 Order: https://t.co/VyfYAuyIoU.

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Congrats! @abwhtruth 2024 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize winner Margarita Lila Rosa https://t.co/pXZx5yx7CA, "They Won’t Let Me Alone”: Riotous Black Women and the Archival Offerings of Desire and Desperation (@JAAHistory). Read here: https://t.co/A5e7qf4HuZ

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Congrats 2024 @abwhtruth Houston Award for best essay in Black women’s history by a Black woman grad student winner Jade Bentil, “We Are Poor, We Are Black, & We Are Women”: Brixton Blk Women’s Group & the Intellectual Histy of Blk Socialist Feminism. https://t.co/kICqPr4Ptn

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Congrats to @abwhtruth 2024 Hornsby Award winner Matalin Crossgrove for her essay, "Contemporary Fiction as Historical Erasure: Examining White Saviorism in The Help as a Novel and Film." The award honors the best unpublished essay on Black women by a Black woman undergraduate in History or related fields.

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In today’s Muster, Dr. Justene Hill Edwards, associate professor of history at the University of Virginia, discusses her new book Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank with the JCWE’s digital editor Robert Bland.
https://t.co/iyHciUoL9f

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‼️ABWH Featured Job Advertisement‼️

The Department of History at Pennsylvania State University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position specializing in the Global South, broadly constructed, for the endowed professorship, the Oliver McCourtney Professor of History, at the rank of Professor, to start in August 2025. Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2024, and continue until the position is filled.

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