2022 Brose lecturer Aaron Sheehan-Dean's book, Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War, was published by UNC Press today!

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

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Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era is now available for preorder. Preordering is a great way to support the book's success. Many thanks in advance. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/out-of-thi...

Once again, if you teach or conduct research in higher ed, please join @aaup.org

The SHA is thrilled to announce the 2025-2026 Junior Scholars Workshop! Please add these dates to your calendar, and join us on Zoom!

Our first meeting will be on Thursday, August 21, at 4:30 PM ET, featuring Leigh Soares.

Fill out this form to stay up to date: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The book is officially out, and for 2 days you can get it and all other books for 50% off at UNC Press with code 01NEWSITE50 🎉

Thanks to friends and colleagues who helped promote my first book, Counting the Cost of Freedom! (Especially those here, where I don't post much.)
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Please share! We are looking for TWO postdoctoral scholars in African American history and history of the Civil War era. Fellowships are for TWO years, and the anticipated start date is July 1, 2026. The deadline to apply is NOVEMBER 1! Links are in the replies below.

If youre interested, hit me up! Happy to tell you all about the role :)

The National Park Service announces the addition of seven new sites to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. This national network connects sites across the country that provide education, interpretation, and research related to the period of Reconstruction. www.nps.gov/reer/learn/n...

Counting the Cost of Freedom by @alkleintop.bsky.social
Post–Civil War white Southerners demanded $ for enslaved people who were freed. Deeply revealing. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

#tdih May 1: Int'l Workers' Day

Commemorated around world, but not in US, despite origins here (Haymarket).

Teach labor history outside textbook. See ⬇️

Join #MayDay protests www.nea.org/maydaytoolkit

Art, available as a poster, by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social
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If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there.

(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...

Whitney Plantation grant pulled, exhibit on African American history in limbo www.wwltv.com/article/news...

YES:

"Haitians call for reparations from France on 200th anniversary of independence ‘ransom’: France should return harsh damages imposed on Caribbean country in 1825 after Haitian Revolution, say campaigners"

Hoping these leaders—who helped build the entire field in Digital Humanities, for example —will find places in private foundations, in Deans and provost offices, and more. They are not only leaders, they’re fine people.

Trump is reportedly targeting the slavery section of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture for possible removal. “Black people are not going to stand for this,” says Nikole Hannah Jones, the author of the 1619 Project.

"Previously, the article started with a description of enslaved peoples’ efforts to free themselves and the organization of the Underground Railroad....

"The article now starts with two paragraphs that emphasize the 'American ideals of liberty and freedom' and do not specifically mention slavery."🗃️

"Adjusting for inflation, tenure-track faculty are now paid 10.2 % less than before Covid... While 'median pay increases for most higher education employees in 2024–25 remained strong, they have dropped...” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... #edsky #highered

“The Japanese American National Museum says Trump admin may withhold as much as $2 million approved by the Biden admin.”

“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’”

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Join the 2025-2026 SHA Junior Scholars Workshop cohort!

We meet once a month on Zoom. Junior scholars (pre-first book) have the opportunity to present work in progress, with comments by two senior scholars. Applications will be accepted until April 15.

Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1PGJ...

Civil War historian here so now the American Civil War is a DEI woke subject? The Trump regime is in a full blown fascist attack on all US history.

Without IMLS, there would be no Omeka and there would be no Zotero. Write to your representatives to defend IMLS today.

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Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order