Holly Jackson

writer, editor, scholar - 19th-century US culture

[Holly Jackson @profhollyj]

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

[Holly Jackson @profhollyj]

@ashleyrattner Of course he is omg. Hard oof.

[NewEnglandQuarterly @_NEQuarterly_]

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

[sari edelstein @NotSorrySari]

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

[Holly Jackson @profhollyj]

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!
https://t.co/TEfLV4p70E

[NewEnglandQuarterly @_NEQuarterly_]

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 All submissions considered for publication. 7-12k words, previously unpublished.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]

[Holly Jackson @profhollyj]

@AaronLecklider 😱

[Massachusetts Historical Society @MHS1791]

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

[Holly Jackson @profhollyj]

@melnickjeffrey1 😍 thanks Jeff! I had a blast

[Lara Langer Cohen @LaraLangerCohen]

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!

[NewEnglandQuarterly @_NEQuarterly_]

With the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, we invite submissions for the 2023 Whitehill Prize in Early American History - deadline January 15, 2024

[The JER Pano @TheJERPano]

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

[Holly Jackson @profhollyj]

@melnickjeffrey1 @uncpress @DGershenowitz Awesome, Jeff - I’m thrilled for you!

[Holly Jackson @profhollyj]

Awesome to see ⁦@brittrusert⁩ cited in the Sunday book review 💫💫💫 https://t.co/8oP3xN7KPp

[Eagan S Dean @dean_lit]

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

[Holly Jackson @profhollyj]

@BenjaminEPark Thank you! Was sorry not to be there to deliver it myself. Hope we can discuss some other time

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

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.

[Holly Jackson @profhollyj]

@sarageorgini @OUPHistory Yay Sara! Amazing!

[Lara Langer Cohen @LaraLangerCohen]

If you live in Boston and like interplanetary free love, come through

[Holly Jackson @profhollyj]

@ChristoHanlon @OUPAcademic @MarthaSchoolman Let’s see it then