Read our interview with new associate director of
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Peter Olsen-Harbich! He discusses with Early American Studies his scholarship, his first year at the Center, and future initiatives. Read it at: bit.ly/3Q9fRMv Penn Press @ProjectMuse #VastEarlyAmerica

it's not over folks

Happening today at 1pm! To join, please go to ow.ly/iFAZ50R3eJm

De discursos cometológicos, imaginación hemisférica y prodigios de la imprenta mexicana (1681).

I’m honored and excited to share my work McNeil Center for Early American Studies tomorrow!

Caesar Sheffield is my great grandfather. We don't know much, but family members and I have done research to try to understand what really happened. I'll share what we know, and how we know it, below...

The past few days I spent serving as chair of the 2024 Greater Gulf Symposium hosted by LU History & Culture were extremely fulfilling. I learned so much from the Symposium Fellows...y'all made my job easy! asmamehan Andrea Ringer

Just wrapped up my last (?) archival and field research trip to the Big Thicket before I finish the book for Columbia Univ Press this summer.

Hoy comenzó la 3a sesión del #ForoPermanenteAfrodescendiente , en donde representantes de organismos internacionales, gobiernos y activistas fijaron pugnaron por el establecimiento de un segundo #DecenioAfrodescendiente . Transmisión👉 webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q/k…

Congratulations to author Joan Flores-Villalobos, whose book THE SILVER WOMEN has won the 2024 David Montgomery Award from Organization of American Historians and LAWCHA for the best book on a topic in American labor and working-class history, just announced at #OAH24 ! ow.ly/VNMh50RfkEc

So wonderful to catch up with Beacon Press author Daina Ramey Berry at #OAH24 . If you haven't visited us at this year's Organization of American Historians conference yet, stop by booth 303 and say hello!

Join us in Philly next May for a conference on early early America. Proposals due August 30th. More info here: mceas.org/events/2025/05…

Global Black Thought, the official journal of AAIHS, is now accepting submissions for a special issue on race and identity in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean. Submissions deadline is 7/1/24. Read more today at Black Perspectives: aaihs.org/cfp-race-and-i….

Whew! 😳 Teach this and teach this now. Nat Turner is always dismissed as crazy so we can dismiss his profound desire to be free by any means necessary. For those who saw the eclipse in its totality, tell me now Nat was crazy for believing it a sign to fight for freedom!?!?

Excited to be working with Lisa Voigt Dr. Lisa Voigt on helping to demystify the publication process. As editorial board members of 'Colonial Latin American Review,' we want to ensure that dynamic original research on the region has a platform.

Interested in learning about Mexico's first 'True Crime' but questioning the genre of True Crime?

I just noticed this link with free access to the first hour of the audiobook!
youtube.com/watch?v=VqoPxj…
#Mexico #truecrime #CDMX #History #LatinAmerica

A few days ago, Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega recommended translating to Spanish the brilliant work of Janice Gallagher (which I echo and 100% support)

Today, I would like to add that we urgently need Camilo Vicente Ovalle's outstanding book on disappearances in 🇲🇽 to be translated to English

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Congratulations Dr. Kristin Moriah Dr. Kristin Moriah on receiving a national fellowship to study Black authors & themes that motivated them to write and publish their own works over the past century

Uncovering the history of Black self-publishing in Canada
queensu.ca/gazette/storie…

Kicking off the #JERSpring2024 'Meet the Author' series is jwb: to learn more about Julia's essay, 'Georgetown University and Slavery, From Plantation to Campus,' check out our new issue from UNC Press Awards Project MUSE ⬇️

My editor at Cambridge University Press last July asked if I would lead this new project on The Cambridge History of Black Women in the United States. Nearly a year later, the project is under contract and has officially launched! Black Perspectives AAIHS
aaihs.org/the-cambridge-…