Opinion | ‘The American Revolution’ Is Not Woke. It’s Magnificent.

LOL. How did I miss this?! Goodness.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

Florida Senate advances $4M compensation for Groveland Four families A proposal to compensate the families of the Groveland Four is advancing in the Florida Senate, decades after the men were wrongly accused in one of the state’s most infamous racial injustice cases.

www.fox35orlando.com/news/florida...

Nursing the Revolution: Care Work in Revolutionary America In connection with the new year-long exhibition Nursing the Revolution, the Bates Center invites scholars and professionals working in areas related to early American care work, nursing, medicine, and...

One more: On Feb 18 I’ll be talking about this history with an emphasis on Black women inoculators and healers.

www.library.upenn.edu/events/nursi...

We don’t need “great man history” to celebrate Black History Month. As I tell my students, the arc of Black history bends toward collectivism. Onesimus is great but we must remember the legions of unnamed Africans who shared the vital knowledge of inoculation within and beyond the U.S.

I 👍🏾 page proofs on the peer reviewed article about this for Past and Present last month so it’s dropping any day now for classes and tesearchers.

The Lesser Known Black History of Smallpox Inoculation | Public Health Chats YouTube video by College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Here’s an interview if you’re more into that:

youtu.be/dDVGZGtp57c

Slavery and Smallpox Inoculation YouTube video by GBH Forum Network

Here’s a video lecture if you’re more into video:

www.youtube.com/live/4RRvlZ_...

How Far Back Were Africans Inoculating Against Smallpox? Really Far Back. When I looked at the archives, I found a history hidden in plain sight.

Happy Black History month! Here’s a thing I wrote about the Black history of inoculation a while back! Remember it wasn’t just Onesimus! Legions of Black men and women shared and shaped the practice in the Americas!

slate.com/news-and-pol...

Liberty for All? Women in the Age of Revolutions | The New York Historical The eleventh annual Diane and Adam E. Max Conference on Women’s History considers women’s lives and experiences within the Revolutionary period, to better understand the American story.

What a sick conference program! Heavy hitters!

www.nyhistory.org/programs/lib...

Clarence Thomas definitely just sat first class on my flight to South Bend tonight LOL. I should have asked him if he listened to @joelanderson.bsky.social’s Slow Burn season.

Opinion | A New Jersey Primary Shows the Depth of Democratic Fury

Today @jamellebouie.net quotes @kidadaewilliams.com vital work on Reconstruction: "Societies experiencing atrocities struggle to put a stop to and then meaningfully address them." He talked about how he incorporates historians' work Monday for @jcblibrary.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

Don't Delay -- Apply TODAY for one of the 2026-2027 Predoctoral Fellowships!

Deadline for submitting application packet is March 1, 2026!

Please help share this amazing opportunity to be a part of the Richards Center Community!!

richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...

I have so much great stuff going on. Partnering with great institutions to create awesome American Revolution content. Starting a real video strategy for YouTube later this month. And I think @jmadelman.bsky.social & I have finally figured out how we’re going to build a sustainable nonprofit.

On Friendship and Black Study YouTube video by GBH Forum Network

youtu.be/5Ds9dVAtjJ0?...

Thank you for reading and engaging so thoughtfully.

Tribe's review shares some features of that AGR piece, even though hers was appreciative and his is not; they each approach the work with both a measured tone and a careful unfolding of their reading of the work. It's not just not rushed, it's showing the reader their process. 3/

The Art and Craft of Review - The Scholarly Kitchen What makes Annette Gordon-Reed's recent NYRB essay such a powerful example of the book review genre?

Some years ago I did a full forensic on @agordonreed.bsky.social's NYRB review of @rparkinson.bsky.social's _Common Cause_, that's how much I love reviews and reviewing. 2/ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/01/09/t...

Congratulations to the Africana Research Center's Director Dr. Sherita L. Johnson, whose book Mixing: Race, Higher Education, and the Case of Clyde Kennard was published by the University Press of Mississippi this month! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/M/Mixing

What a day to get an ARC of @johngmarks.com amazing book in the mail.

Looking forward to hosting him at Woodlawn later this spring.

Originally part of Mount Vernon, Woodlawn has been inextricably entwined in the legacy of Washington and slavery.

We kicked off our spring series of workshops this week with an excellent discussion on "“My Room-mate is a Democrat”: Young Women’s Political Culture at Antebellum Midwestern Schools" by our very own Assistant Program Director Hope McCaffrey! Congratulations, Hope!

We cannot escape the fact that George Washington enslaved people, and he knew he could not escape that fact either. Signs may come down (for now), but good history is out there, starting with: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Black Atlantic Worlds — Harvard University Press Landscapes are key to the Black Atlantic. The history of how Africans and their descendants populated and transformed nations, regions, and ecosystems has always been attentive to the multiple meaning...

Just got my author copy of Black Atlantic Worlds! I’m honored and delighted to be a part of this volume.

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...

The Department of English at Wayne State University in Detroit invites applications for an open rank tenure-track position specializing in the literatures and cultures of the Early Black Atlantic, beginning on August 18. 2026.

waynetalent.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

LISTEN: @kendradboyd.bsky.social discusses her award-winning 2025 book FREEDOM ENTERPRISE, which traces the rise and fall of the historic Black business community in Detroit, with @adamxmcneil.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social's podcast! bit.ly/4sWiqDJ

LISTEN: @kendradboyd.bsky.social discusses her award-winning 2025 book FREEDOM ENTERPRISE, which traces the rise and fall of the historic Black business community in Detroit, with @adamxmcneil.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social's podcast! bit.ly/4sWiqDJ

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

Open-Rank Professor of Black Studies - Providence, RI 02918 - Indeed.com Providence College

The Black Studies Department at Providence College invites applications for a full-time open-rank, tenure-track, faculty position, with consideration for appointment with tenure, beginning August 2026. Salary range: $75,000 – $125,000.

www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk...

Go Friars!

Providence College Job Opportunities | CAREER PAGE

The Black Studies Department at Providence College invites applications for a full-time open-rank, tenure-track, faculty position, with consideration for appointment with tenure, beginning August 2026.

www.schooljobs.com/careers/prov...

Ready for #aha26 and lots of podcast talk, but first I need a bagel sandwich.