“It is ‘in the going toward’ that salvation can be found…. To be vulnerable, to tend and to love, to rip off the mask that blinds us to the beauty of the human being right in front of us. To recognize…disfiguring effect of hatred and fear, and the exacting power of love.”

Hit the “Send” button to Cornell University Press on the revised manuscript of Entangled Alliances. 👨🏾‍💻✅

Congratulations to P. Gabrielle Foreman on your induction into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! A well-deserved honor. amacad.org/new-members-20…

Interested in attending the Archives Leadership Institute? Want more details about ALI@Virginia? Two informational webinars are scheduled in November to share details and answer any questions you may have about ALI’s 2025 program held from June 8-14 in Charlottesville, VA.

#PuertoRicanHeritageMonth: Explore materials in our collections to learn more about the activism of our founder #ArturoSchomburg (1874–1938). He was of #PuertoRican and African descent. #SchomburgCenter #PRHM ow.ly/aMM650TXxoy

The Archives Leadership Institute will take place from June 8-14, 2025, at the University of Virginia. Applications open tomorrow! Find out more at archivesleadershipinstitute.org #archives #leadership

👉🏾The Brown University History Department is accepting proposals for the Brown-HBCU #History Collaboration Grants. The grants will provide funding for research projects that further cross-campus collaboration b/w Brown Univ. & faculty & students at HBCUs. bit.ly/BrownHBCUHistG…

Alyssa Sepinwall explores the historiography of slavery and the Francophone world before the "Haitian Turn" in her essay. sfhs ageofrevolutions.com/2024/11/18/bef…

Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a ProPublica analysis found. propublica.org/article/segreg…

A growing trend. Just heard recently that grad unionization is leading universities to reduce or cut PhD programs. Hum and soc sci departments can’t afford the increased benefits costs and uni admins aren’t making up the difference in their budgets. insidehighered.com/news/admission…

Back in 2019, I wrote about the Catholic nuns who bought and sold human beings. It turns out that they were far from the only women actively engaged in the American slave trade. nytimes.com/2024/11/22/us/…

Dr. Trevon D Logan Dr. Logan's report builds on the extensive research conducted by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, historian at the University of California, Berkeley, who wrote “They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South,” published in 2019. stephaniejonesrogers.com/book

L’historien et résistant Marc Bloch va entrer au Panthéon. Marc #Bloch va entrer au #Panthéon. Un professeur d'histoire, un résistant, un penseur décisif et visionnaire du dialogue entre l'histoire et les sciences sociales. liberation.fr/sciences/histo…

Applications for Rose Library's 2025 Visiting Researcher Fellowships are now live! 🥳 You can explore the different fellowships and apply here: buff.ly/4gghqmB Applications close at 11:59 EST on February 28th, 2025, and awards will be announced on April 18th, 2025.

Global Black Thought, the official journal of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is now accepting submissions for our special issue on the 90th anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois’s book, Black Reconstruction in America. bit.ly/3CvqyoN

Teachers, students, anyone interested in the history of slavery in the Americas, join me ONLINE on Sunday, DEC 8, 2:00 PM EST at The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Book Breaks to discuss my UChicagoPress Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery. Register below marketing.gilderlehrman.org/l/941553/2024-…

We uploaded another tranche of documents across a range of policy topics to the American Congress Digital Archives Portal congressarchives.org. This National Endowment for the Humanities and NHPRC funded project has documents from six partner institutions across the country.

Educators-Apply to join the National Archives in Washington, DC this July for our “Civics for All of US” Teacher Institutes and discover resources for teaching civics with primary sources. Learn more and apply: civics.archives.gov/2025-civics-fo… #CivicsforAllofUS

Watch Edda Fields-Black (she/her/hers)'s book talk on her Pulitzer Prize winning book, "Combee" about Harriet Tubman - Sunday at noon on CSPAN 2

If you missed C-SPAN’s BookTV broadcasts, you can catch the recording with me with Danielle Allen talking THE TROUBLE OF COLOR here. People ask how my family feels about the book!? My wonderful cousins get their questions in during the Q&A. c-span.org/program/book-t… @CSPAN