Martha Hodes
@marthahodes.bsky.social
Historian. Writer. Professor at NYU. Author most recently of My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering.
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Martha Hodes
@marthahodes.bsky.social
· Feb 21
Interview: David Levering Lewis on ‘The Stained Glass Window’ and His Reading Life
The august scholar has two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal. In “The Stained Glass Window,” he seeks to explain “macro-history as family history.”
www.nytimes.com
Thank you, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Levering Lewis for naming *My Hijacking* as one of the books “on your night stand” in this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. I can’t wait to read Lewis’s new book, *The Stained Glass Window.* www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...
A wonderful evening in conversation with Ben Yagoda, discussing Ben’s latest book, *Alias O. Henry: A Novel* at Pete’s Tavern, O. Henry’s famous New York City haunt. Congratulations, Ben, on this masterful work of historical fiction!
January 23, 2026 at 2:19 PM
A wonderful evening in conversation with Ben Yagoda, discussing Ben’s latest book, *Alias O. Henry: A Novel* at Pete’s Tavern, O. Henry’s famous New York City haunt. Congratulations, Ben, on this masterful work of historical fiction!
Right after college, in the early 1980s, I served with VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), working with Southeast Asian refugees--Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Hmong, Minh: Yes, the ignorance of history called out here. Exactly this. 👇👇
I suspect 9 of 10 Americans are unaware that the Hmong are here because they aided the US in the Vietnam war, and then had to flee as refugees afterwards. Quite the “thank you” we’re giving them 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
ICE is allegedly hunting for Hmong people in Minneapolis and as I watched video of the incident lo and behold @whstancil.bsky.social was on the scene
January 20, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Right after college, in the early 1980s, I served with VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), working with Southeast Asian refugees--Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Hmong, Minh: Yes, the ignorance of history called out here. Exactly this. 👇👇
My parents, both principal Martha Graham dancers, would have been pleased.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/a...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/a...
Martha Graham Dance Company Won’t Celebrate Centennial at Kennedy Center
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 1:56 AM
My parents, both principal Martha Graham dancers, would have been pleased.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/a...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/a...
New York area friends, I'm looking forward to this conversation, this Thursday, December 4. Join us if you can!
www.gc.cuny.edu/events/megan...
www.gc.cuny.edu/events/megan...
Megan Marshall on the Art of Biography, with Martha Hodes
Megan Marshall’s innovative books, including The Peabody Sisters and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Margaret Fuller, are treasured works of American biography.
www.gc.cuny.edu
December 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
New York area friends, I'm looking forward to this conversation, this Thursday, December 4. Join us if you can!
www.gc.cuny.edu/events/megan...
www.gc.cuny.edu/events/megan...
As a veteran of city rallies, I found No Kings Day in the trending-blue Philly suburbs fascinating: hundreds of protestors lining the Baltimore Pike (peacefully avoiding interactions with mingling MAGAs), while cars honked in solidarity (with MAGA middle fingers mixed in). A beautiful afternoon.
October 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
As a veteran of city rallies, I found No Kings Day in the trending-blue Philly suburbs fascinating: hundreds of protestors lining the Baltimore Pike (peacefully avoiding interactions with mingling MAGAs), while cars honked in solidarity (with MAGA middle fingers mixed in). A beautiful afternoon.
More thoughtful and intense than "happy hour"! Thank you, Yale Club of New York, for last night's event about *My Hijacking.*
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
More thoughtful and intense than "happy hour"! Thank you, Yale Club of New York, for last night's event about *My Hijacking.*
Incredible new bookstore in Swarthmore, Pa.! Thrilled to be there at the ribbon-cutting!
Exciting! A new independent, women-run bookstore (Celia's Bookshop) has opened in Swarthmore. Happy to be at the ribbon-cutting, and to see so many book-loving customers crowding into the beautiful and welcoming space. #Swarthmore
October 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Incredible new bookstore in Swarthmore, Pa.! Thrilled to be there at the ribbon-cutting!
Wonderful evening last night at Rotary Arts, in conversation with brilliant poet Nat Anderson, Swarthmore College, talking about *My Hijacking.* Great audience!
September 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Wonderful evening last night at Rotary Arts, in conversation with brilliant poet Nat Anderson, Swarthmore College, talking about *My Hijacking.* Great audience!
My mother's obit in the New York Times captures her long, productive life.
Linda Hodes, Dancer Who Championed Martha Graham’s Vision, Dies at 94
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
My mother's obit in the New York Times captures her long, productive life.
Linda Hodes, 1931 - 2025. She was the oldest living Martha Graham dancer.
August 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Linda Hodes, 1931 - 2025. She was the oldest living Martha Graham dancer.
A wonderful evening at The Quadrangle in Haverford, PA . . . even though a lightning strike and phenomenal storm meant no lights or tech! No matter. The audience was so engaged, with beautiful, caring questions. Thank you. (pic taken before the lights went out)
June 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A wonderful evening at The Quadrangle in Haverford, PA . . . even though a lightning strike and phenomenal storm meant no lights or tech! No matter. The audience was so engaged, with beautiful, caring questions. Thank you. (pic taken before the lights went out)
History-relevant messages at Philadelphia's No Kings protest today.
June 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
History-relevant messages at Philadelphia's No Kings protest today.
Reposted by Martha Hodes
Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.
June 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.
Bowdoin College 45th reunion: I was not there, but my book was--and Bowdoin friends make an appearance in the memoir. Thank you, Bowdoin, for the shout-out.
June 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Bowdoin College 45th reunion: I was not there, but my book was--and Bowdoin friends make an appearance in the memoir. Thank you, Bowdoin, for the shout-out.
*My Hijacking* recently displayed at Authors' Celebration, NYU Center for the Humanities. Thank you!
[Photo credit: ©Braddock Jr.: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau]
[Photo credit: ©Braddock Jr.: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau]
May 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
*My Hijacking* recently displayed at Authors' Celebration, NYU Center for the Humanities. Thank you!
[Photo credit: ©Braddock Jr.: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau]
[Photo credit: ©Braddock Jr.: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau]
On this 160th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, I quote from his magisterial Gettysburg Address, 1863: "that this nation . . . shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
April 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
On this 160th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, I quote from his magisterial Gettysburg Address, 1863: "that this nation . . . shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
" . . . that this nation. . . shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth": Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863, and today in New York City (and all over the country).
April 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
" . . . that this nation. . . shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth": Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863, and today in New York City (and all over the country).
Go see this incredible one-man show, based on the book by historian Marcus Rediker, @marcusrediker.bsky.social, playing in New York NOW and heading to Philadelphia in May. It is so timely. You will be deeply moved.
Shepherd. Sailor. Revolutionary.
THE RETURN OF BENJAMIN LAY starring Mark Povinelli is now open at the Sheen Center.
📸: @rebeccajmichelson.bsky.social
THE RETURN OF BENJAMIN LAY starring Mark Povinelli is now open at the Sheen Center.
📸: @rebeccajmichelson.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Go see this incredible one-man show, based on the book by historian Marcus Rediker, @marcusrediker.bsky.social, playing in New York NOW and heading to Philadelphia in May. It is so timely. You will be deeply moved.
So deeply looking forward to reading this book about race, color, enslavement, freedom, and, most of all, family, by the ever-brilliant Martha Jones, @marthasjones.bsky.social. *The Color of Trouble: An American Family Memoir*
March 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
So deeply looking forward to reading this book about race, color, enslavement, freedom, and, most of all, family, by the ever-brilliant Martha Jones, @marthasjones.bsky.social. *The Color of Trouble: An American Family Memoir*
Reposted by Martha Hodes
Thank you, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Levering Lewis for naming *My Hijacking* as one of the books “on your night stand” in this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. I can’t wait to read Lewis’s new book, *The Stained Glass Window.* www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...
Interview: David Levering Lewis on ‘The Stained Glass Window’ and His Reading Life
The august scholar has two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal. In “The Stained Glass Window,” he seeks to explain “macro-history as family history.”
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Thank you, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Levering Lewis for naming *My Hijacking* as one of the books “on your night stand” in this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. I can’t wait to read Lewis’s new book, *The Stained Glass Window.* www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...
Great conversation, great book--a great event!
Great thrill to be in conversation with Jen Manion @manionjen.bsky.social at the Charles River Museum @charlesrivermuseum.bsky.social for the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize celebration, awarded by the Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Great conversation, great book--a great event!
Great event!
We were pleased to welcome the Massachusetts Historical Society for their Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize Ceremony.
@profbrucedorsey.bsky.social was the recipient, author of Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation, published in 2023 by Oxford University Press
@profbrucedorsey.bsky.social was the recipient, author of Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation, published in 2023 by Oxford University Press
February 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Great event!
Thank you, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Levering Lewis for naming *My Hijacking* as one of the books “on your night stand” in this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. I can’t wait to read Lewis’s new book, *The Stained Glass Window.* www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...
Interview: David Levering Lewis on ‘The Stained Glass Window’ and His Reading Life
The august scholar has two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal. In “The Stained Glass Window,” he seeks to explain “macro-history as family history.”
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Thank you, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Levering Lewis for naming *My Hijacking* as one of the books “on your night stand” in this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. I can’t wait to read Lewis’s new book, *The Stained Glass Window.* www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...
Reposted by Martha Hodes
They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.
February 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.