Yale Announces 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists. Congratulations to Kerri Greenidge - Dr. Kerri Greenidge, Sara E Johnson, and Emily A. Owens 📚📚📚 glc.yale.edu/news/yale-anno…

The 2025 meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) will be in Providence, Rhode Island 17-20 July 2025. The call for papers is now OPEN! Please share shear.org/annual-meeting…

Publisher's Weekly called "Savings and Trust" an "ingenious work of financial sleuthing" and "a captivating narrative that reads like a slow-burn legal thriller" in today's featured review! publishersweekly.com/978-1-324-0738…

This conversation between Tiya Miles and alexispauline was standing room only at the #NatBookFest! Thanks to BookTV on C-SPAN2, you can tune in here!

As Director of the Program in African American History at the Library Co of Phila, I am thrilled to post the CFP for a conference, BLACK PHILA, that I am organizing with 1838 Black Metropolis & McNeil Center at Penn. Please distribute widely: librarycompany.org/academic-progr…

*ICYMI*: This study showing that large language models (AI) output racist stereotypes about speakers of AAVE (African-American Vernacular English) that connect with overtly negative stereotypes about Black people, even when trained not to do so. science.org/content/articl…

In memory of Peter S. Carmichael Gettysburg College, the new fall issue of the Journal of the Civil War Era Journal of CW Era has made the article/transcript of 2023's Fortenbaugh Lecture—which Peter moderated—available to read via Project MUSE without paywall for 90 days. uncpressblog.com/2024/09/03/in-…

Want to win a free copy of "Savings and Trust"? Enter the Goodreads giveaway! goodreads.com/giveaway/show/…

The Department of History at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin Fall of academic year 2025-26. We seek a historian who specializes in the area of Atlantic Slavery and the African Diaspora in the U.S. before 1865.

**Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery** publishes 2 months from today! This NYC hardware dealer's ad appeared in the leading periodical for Southern slaveholders, who themselves often came north on annual purchasing trips for textiles and tools. 1/7

"Since Reconstruction times 53,000 Negroes have been killed in the South, & not more than three white men have been convicted & hung for these crimes." -- Robert Smalls, SC Constitutional Convention, #tdih 1895 #TeachReconstruction #Reparations 🧵Read ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sc-c…

Learn more about Reconstruction from two Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes this year. Here about the Reconstruction robbery -- the rise and betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank from Justene Hill Edwards Check out her soon to be released book too! ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/news/the-rise-…

We are now accepting applications for our 2025 Nau Center Library Fellowships! Fellows will receive $2500 to conduct research on the Civil War era in UVA's Special Collections Library. Applications are due by Sunday, November 10. To learn more, visit: naucenter.as.virginia.edu/fellowships

Open Rank: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Women Gender & Sexuality - Charlottesville, Virginia, United States jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/open-rank…

Freedom Was In Sight! A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region is out Oct. 1! I'm so excited. This was a hugely collaborative project. First I must mention prize-winning illustrator Liz Clarke; without her I would have been lost. uncpress.org/book/978146968…

Reminder: Dr. Elizabeth Varon will deliver our Crozer Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 5pm in UVA's Special Collections Library. The lecture, "Reconsidering Longstreet: Gettysburg, Appomattox, New Orleans," is free & open to the public. To register, visit eventbrite.com/e/reconsiderin…

The featured book is by Dr Justene Hill Edwards, ‘Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank and Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina’.

Check out my newest piece in the AHA's "Persectives Daily"! I talk about teaching the Reconstruction Amendments in my undergrad courses on the history of American Slavery. historians.org/perspectives-a…

Yes! Join us as I discuss my new book!