What a thrill to see American Radicals on @SmithsonianMag’s top-ten list for history books of 2019 alongside the work of so many excellent women historians and the late great Tony Horwitz. @womnknowhistory@CrownPublishing https://t.co/SL6ji2xZVY
The settler university; the ends of affirmative action; Black campus protest; human remains in university collections. Historians, curators, legal scholars on these topics and more 9/27 @MHS1791. Keynote on Yale and slavery by David Blight. Register here https://t.co/DKwC4u5qbA
Turns out the only way I could stop thinking obsessively about "The Zone of Interest" was to write about it.
Grateful to @emiliomsauri, @AyeshaASiddiqi, Anna Aguilar Kosicki, @profhollyj for their incisive suggestions
Hot new release from @NotSorrySari - audible original podcast on Judy Blume. Come for the puberty and banned books discourse; stay for the little cameo from our 10-year-old!
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The NEQ announces the Margaret Fuller Prize: $2500 to be awarded annually to an outstanding essay in literary studies on a New England subject, any period. All submissions considered for publication. 7-12k words, previously unpublished. Deadline June 15. Submit to [email protected]
Join @MHS_Research today at 5pm in person or virtually for “The Battle-Axe Letter: The Sexual Politics of Abolitionism & the ‘Annihilation of the Family State’” with Dan Joslyn presenting & @profhollyj commenting. Please register here: https://t.co/YeGvNQOpGs #MHS1791
I'll be talking with dream interlocutors Prof. Daphne Brooks and Prof. S.S. Sandhu @autumnfarewells about 19th c. undergrounds at Making Worlds Bookstore on 9/14. Major thank you to @AydelotteFound for organizing. If you're in Philly, please come!
First up in the #JERPano roundtable on the #ClimateCrisis is “All the World Will Burn: William Miller and the Roots of American Eco-Millenarianism” by Holly Jackson: https://t.co/doWCKlwKTl
Featuring exciting contributions from Kadji Amin, Emma Heaney @riislover667 , Jules Gill-Peterson @gp_jls , Greta LaFleur @GretaLaFleur , Jen Manion @activisthistory , and Mark Rifkin. See here for more details: https://t.co/DOE0viPCdc
A general strike has been called across France tomorrow.
It’s worth repeating that while the riots are eye catching, it’s this power to act collectively, and to withhold labor collectively, that we need to learn from.
Solidarity with the workers of France.