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Martha Hodes

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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

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

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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 3d

More thoughtful and intense than "happy hour"! Thank you, Yale Club of New York, for last night's event about *My Hijacking.*

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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 8d

Incredible new bookstore in Swarthmore, Pa.! Thrilled to be there at the ribbon-cutting!

Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 8d

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

Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 22d

Wonderful evening last night at Rotary Arts, in conversation with brilliant poet Nat Anderson, Swarthmore College, talking about *My Hijacking.* Great audience!

Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Aug 1

Linda Hodes, 1931 - 2025. She was the oldest living Martha Graham dancer.

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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Jun 28

Are we back to this? "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red...on separate continents....that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix" (recounted in Loving v. Virginia, 1967, striking down laws against marriage across racial categories).

Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Jun 21

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)

Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Jun 17

So happy I rushed to buy it at the Corner Bookstore on Madison Ave.! (I almost don't want to start it because I don't want to be finished reading it.)

Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Jun 14

History-relevant messages at Philadelphia's No Kings protest today.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · Jun 9

Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.

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Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, or the Space Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

(Added Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, $ 18(a), 70A Stat.
626; amended Pub. L. 86-70, § 17(d), June 25, 1959, 73 Stat. 144; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIlI,
§ 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub.
L. 117-81, div. A, title X, § 1045(a), Dec. 27, 2021,
135 Stat. 1904.)

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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Jun 9

Great in the late 70s too!!!

Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Jun 9

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.

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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Jun 2

So deeply buying this book. Crucial for me to buy this book.

Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · May 31

Adore bicycling all over Berlin.

Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · May 25

Untrue!

Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · May 23

*My Hijacking* recently displayed at Authors' Celebration, NYU Center for the Humanities. Thank you!
[Photo credit: ©Braddock Jr.: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau]

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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · May 23

Thank you, Rachel, very kind of you to say.

Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · May 8

I sooo get it about being scared and freaked out about publishing a very personal memoir. I remember wanting to lock my finished manuscript in a drawer! But the book appeared, and over time I arrived at feeling at peace--even happy--with it. May the same be true for you. (If I may: bit.ly/4jJc70V).

My Hijacking

In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goe...

www.harpercollins.com

Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Apr 20

And tomorrow will be worse.

Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Apr 14

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.”

The cover of my book, about personal responses to Lincoln's assassination, published by Yale University Press, 2015..

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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Apr 6

" . . . 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).

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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Mar 28

So very much looking forward to reading this.

Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Mar 24

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.

The Return of Benjamin Lay @benlayplay.bsky.social · Mar 18

Shepherd. Sailor. Revolutionary.

THE RETURN OF BENJAMIN LAY starring Mark Povinelli is now open at the Sheen Center.

📸: @rebeccajmichelson.bsky.social

Mark Povinelli as Ben Lay, wears a plate of armor with a brown belt.

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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Mar 20

A beautiful evening!

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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · Mar 15

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*

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