For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.
1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
The first known map of Barbados, created before scientific cartography took off. Created by Richard Ligon, it lists the plantations around the coastal parts of the island, while the less-explored interior is an explosion of images and symbolism which highlights what Ligon knew and imagined about this space.
I'm shocked at how little we engage with the extra-geographical features of early modern maps. I mean, LOOK at this one!
We have some news! After ten years of working on this project, the new website and database interface will go live on May 10, 2025, during a special launch symposium at Brown University. More details soon! @brownhist.bsky.social @linford.bsky.social @ashleychampagne.bsky.social @browncds.bsky.social
This is a great resource: 355 historic statutes on slavery from the Atlantic World, 1661 - 1838.
Laws of Enslavement and Freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic World
slaveryandfreedomlaws.lib.unb.ca
#History #EnslavedHistory #LegalHistory 🗃️
Cover design depicts an artist's rendering of a multi-colored blue wave overlaid with a geometric pattern and the words "Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions" as well as the author's name "Jessica Lepler."
Want to drift into the currents of the past? The cover for "Canal Dreamers" will pull you in! Love this watery confection by @uncpress.bsky.social. I'm so excited for the book's release later this year. 🗃️🌊🌎📘
Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it.
Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on.
Making this my pinned post.
A professional headshot of a woman in a navy suit with long black hair.
I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night.
Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar.
I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below.
What an immense loss
We will likely never be able to establish with certainty the identity of the two Black men painted by Rembrandt. There are no documents found, linking the painting to individuals. But we can make a reasoned guess. #blackamsterdam #17thcentury #Rembrandt #thread
Historian of French Atlantic, nineteenth century!
(the reluctance to move here, the 2nd whitest state in the country, is completely warranted for BIPOC & international faculty, though)
There's a real breakdown in trust between the college and locals. IMO, it's warranted on the part of locals! Many job candidates who interview here express reluctance to move to a small town. "What do you mean, there is no uber? I have to have a car?" = a real convo I had with a candidate
This became very apparent to me after a local newspaper published an article about the high hospital fees I had to pay after a miscarriage. Many of the comments were locals who had no sympathy because I was a "rich" college professor. The sentiment was: why should they care?
I agree with Blight's sentiment. I teach at an expensive SLAC in a small town in a rural state. Locals assume that profs & students are wealthy and out of touch; many who teach at the college snub their noses at the town www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/o...
The image shows a newspaper clipping about Kitty Thomson, the woman who is the focus of the blog post.
Our latest blog post, "Resisting slavery on the Belvidere Estate in Jamaica," is by Simon P. Newman, the Brown 2026 Fellow at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study.
jcblibrary.org/news/resisti...
I am thrilled to circulate the CFP for Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World, 1700-1888, a conference to be held in Copenhagen on June 13 and 14, 2014. Please share the CFP far and wide! Image of CFP posted below and linked here: rosscarroll.co.uk/index.php/im...
Lots of other counties essentially on lockdown too. I'm in Kennebec (in Waterville), and public schools are closed, in addition to lots of local businesses...it's crazy!
