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Shirley Samuels

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Writer, teacher, friend, mother, sister. October 28: “Haunted by the Civil War” (PUP, 2025) Now writing: “Women & Democracy in the C19 U. S.” (Edinburgh UP) Also (for now) a humanities chair https://english.cornell.edu/shirley-samuels .. more

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Shirley Samuels is an American academic. She is the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies. Currently Picket Family Chair of the Literatures in English Department, she was formerly director of American Studies at Cornell University and is known for her work on American literature and culture. .. more

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 5d

I got my advance copy. They did a nice job with it and it’s making me happy!

Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 5d

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Haunted by the Civil War

How the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracy

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 5d

Welcome to J19 journal with Sarah Chinn at the helm!

j19journal.bsky.social @j19journal.bsky.social · 5d

We've extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue, "Adaptations," to January 15th, 2026. Attaching the cfp here: please submit!

Cfp for special issue of J19, "Adaptations."

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j19journal.bsky.social @j19journal.bsky.social · 5d

We've extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue, "Adaptations," to January 15th, 2026. Attaching the cfp here: please submit!

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just for a moment — taking a break

Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Aug 28

The code is P329

Brings it under $30

For a hardback…!

Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Aug 25

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A coupon code is somewhere here…

Redirecting...

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michael veale @michae.lv · Nov 15

In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...

A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT

Site web d’Arthur Perret, enseignant-chercheur en SIC.

www.arthurperret.fr

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Jun 24

Coming soon:

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... Haunted by the Civil War | Princeton University Press

Haunted by the Civil War

How the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracy

press.princeton.edu

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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · Feb 4

Come study book history with me at @calrbs.bsky.social in LA this summer!

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Feb 8

(That was either too subtle or too obvious as an account of children playing with matches. It’s a true story.)

Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Feb 7

Three guesses about what’s on my mind.

The first two don’t count.

Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Feb 7

We assumed they would want to play with matches and we just wanted to show them how to safely close the matchbook and only strike once it was closed. Away from flammable materials.

Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Feb 7

It’s hard to imagine all the protocols that would be in place now concerning research on human subjects, let alone young children.

We drove all over. We had matchbooks.

Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Feb 7

When I was an undergraduate in the San Francisco Bay Area, back when my major was psychology, I had a work study job in connection with a study of children who played with matches.

The idea was to train them in safety…

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Jan 27

Respect the list. And solidarity with those who study the wild 19th century and hear echoes.

JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · Nov 11

go.bsky.app/L1iEbVX

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Jan 27

Yes, please add me.

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C19 Podcast @c19podcast.bsky.social · Jan 27

Season 10 proposals are due on 2/15! We're looking for projects that explore the nineteenth-century United States! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Call for Proposals: Ongoing

C19 Podcast: Call for Proposals The C19 Podcast invites proposals from individuals and collaborators of all ranks for single podcast episodes that offer creative, story-driven analysis of topical even...

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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · Jan 10

Hey friends at #MLA25!

Join us on Feb 14 to help transcribe Black archives with the Library of Congress! Over 125 schools & community groups and counting!

See DouglassDay.org to register.

Plus get access to our organizing kit, teaching guides, interactive tutorials, swag and lots more!

Portrait of Frederick Douglass, ringed by the words "Power concedes nothing without a demand" and the url DouglassDay.org.

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Broadview Press @broadviewpress.bsky.social · Jan 2

New year = new reading goals 📚

Sign up for the Frances E. W. Harper Read-A-Thon, running from Jan-April!

Our edition of lola Leroy, edited by Koritha Mitchell, is a March feature!

Full schedule and sign up here ⏬ coloredconventions.org/news/read-ha...

The #Harper200 Nationwide Read-a-thon - Colored Conventions Project

coloredconventions.org

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Dec 16

Celebrating vastness in the americas…

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · Dec 16

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · Dec 16

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Noliwe Rooks @nrooks.bsky.social · Dec 15

This is the intro to the introduction of to my spring 2025 book, Integrated. You can pre order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721962...

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The Journal of the Civil War Era @jcwe.bsky.social · Dec 6

The December issue of the JCWE is now available. This special issue on Black Internationalism is edited by Brandon Byrd, associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University and author of The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/june2024142/

Current Issue - The Journal of the Civil War Era

Volume 14, No. 3 December 2024 This is a special issue on Black Internationalism organized and edited by Brandon Byrd. Introduction – Brandon Byrd This introductory essay offers a historical and histo...

www.journalofthecivilwarera.org

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The Journal of the Civil War Era @jcwe.bsky.social · Dec 6

In today's Muster, JCWE associate editor Robert Bland talks with Dr. Brandon Byrd about the journal's special issue on Black Internationalism www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2024/12/inte...

Interview with Brandon Byrd on JCWE's Black Internationalism Special Issue - The Journal of the Civil War Era

In today’s Muster, JCWE associate editor Robert Bland interviews Dr. Brandon R. Byrd, editor and organizer of the journal’s December 2024 special issue on Black Internationalism. Dr. Byrd is an associ...

www.journalofthecivilwarera.org

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Dec 6

high school teacher asks: "is there a site w short videos of people describing their professions+their college major, to help guide students, show them all the different things people do?" we made humanitiesworks.org and individual depts have alumni roundtables, but got video testimonials? please RT

HUMANITIES WORKS – posters, postcards, and handouts to support the humanities

humanitiesworks.org

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Kate Topham @tophkat.bsky.social · Nov 20

Among other things, we'll be spotlighting Malinda Russell's 1886 A Domestic Cookbook, the first cookbook published by an African American woman. The only known copy is in UMich Special Collections, but you can read the whole thing on HathiTrust: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00474...

Catalog Record: A domestic cook book : containing a careful selection of useful receipts for the kitchen

catalog.hathitrust.org

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · Nov 18

Happy to share the cover of my book, *Freedom Ship*, which is forthcoming in May 2025 from Viking-Penguin. Pre-order available at many online outlets. The book is a hopeful sequel to *The Slave Ship: A Human History*.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407...

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Nov 15

Ok, you all have earned access to William Morris’ horniest wallpaper (also one of his first!). His 1862 ‘Pomegranate’ let you know that the craft movement knew how to handle some fruit 🥵

Wallpaper with pomegranates and fruit, that’s all they are and nothing else. It would take a real pervert to see anything else in this design. You’d better not be thinking any unclean thoughts about these innocent fruits!

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Nov 15

This story has a wonderful account of diving into archives and finding survivors of places that might not exist.

Plus #Nabokov

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · Nov 14

A story I've never told in its entirety. "I’ve long understood obsessions to be dangerous, but sometimes I can’t let one go. Which is how I wound up in a car careening through the Czech wilderness at the age of 43, wondering if I’d been kidnapped by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s interpreter."

Finding Zembla

On a journey to answer a riddle about literature, concentration camps, and stories from a lost world.

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