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19thnews @19thnews.org · 14d

On her 200th birthday, Harper’s voice is as urgent now as it was centuries ago — and her vision lives on through The 19th’s HBCU fellowship and other efforts in her name.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s bicentennial is a call to action

Harper’s voice is as urgent now as it was centuries ago — and her vision lives on through The 19th’s HBCU fellowship and other efforts in her name.

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 3d

Chapter One from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction is available for free to all for one more week! Read it online, download it in pdf, share the link, recommend it to libraries, but please don’t feed it to any AI! Check out academic.oup.com/book/60645/c...

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 12d

Print ISBN 9780197804490. Use the discount code AUFLY30 for 30% off the hardcover directly from Oxford UP. Also available online through Oxford Academic. See global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 12d

The footnotes I struggled with most in my new book Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction (#24 & #28) are in Chapter 1, and THAT is the chapter that is currently freely available to everyone. Book info in the comments. See academic.oup.com/book/60645/c...

This photograph offers a three-quarters length portrait of African American activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper standing behind a chair with her hands on the chair’s back. Her body is turned to her right, but she faces viewers directly. Her dress is dark, with a bustle skirt, darker sleeves, and a row of buttons down the front of a skirted vest that matches the fabric of the dress skirt. Harper used this photograph as a frontispiece in some of her later books.

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 14d

Print ISBN 9780197804490. Use the discount code AUFLY30 for 30% off the hardcover directly from Oxford UP. See global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 14d

A birthday present for Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s 200th: you can now read Chapter 1 of my new book Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction online for free for a limited time! Please share widely. Book info in the comments. Check out: academic.oup.com/book/60645/c...

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 14d

Dr. Dye, your candle is amazing, and lighting it in commemoration and celebration of Frances Harper was fire!

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 14d

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is 200 today! @c19americanists.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social @blkgrlpoet.bsky.social @profgabrielle.bsky.social @npr.org She’s just as fabulous, relevant, and fiery now as she was in C19! For a sample, see commonplace.online/article/vol-...

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 22d

After a decade of work, here is the unboxing of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction! Cloth ISBN 9780197804490. Use discount code AUFLY30 to get 30% off at global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · Sep 1

I hope to see Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction go into paperback before too long, but for now, a discount code—AUFLY30—to help folks who want the hardcover directly from Oxford. ISBN 9780197804490; release date within a month! See global.oup.com/academic/pro...

A card offering a discount code--AUFLY30--that will allow buyers to save 30% when they order the hardcover edition of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction (ISBN 9780197804490) directly from Oxford University Press. The card shows the book's cover and notes the book's ISBN, prices, and September 2025 release date.

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · Aug 29

The digital version of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction is now available for folks who have Oxford Academic Access! Online ISBN 9780197804520; print (forthcoming) ISBN 9780197804490. See academic.oup.com/book/60645

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · Jul 6

Proofs are proofed. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction is on track for 1 Oct release from Oxford UP. The book wouldn’t exist w/o support from the NEH & so many librarians & scholars committed to the fact that Black history is American history. We still have so much to learn.

Excerpts from proofs of the title page of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction by Eric Gardner and of the Contents page. The latter lists: Acknowledgments, page ix; Chapter 1, Strangers and Neighbors: Recovering Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Life and Work, page 1; Chapter 2, Origin Stories, page 29; Chapter 3, Reconstructing an Abolitionist Voice, page 66; Chapter 4, “Go on”: Harper’s Challenges to Reconstruction, page 94; Chapter 5, “Lay the whole foundation anew”: Harper in the Thick of Reconstruction, page 134; Chapter 6, The Fifteenth Amendment and Epic Struggles, page 176; Chapter 7, Endings and Not, page 221; Notes, page 263; Works Cited, page 295; Index, page 305.

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · Jul 5

And this: Frederick Douglass for July 4th, July 5th, and the days to come. "You may rejoice; I must mourn."

VIDEO: Frederick Douglass' descendants deliver his 'Fourth of July' speech

Five descendants of Frederick Douglass read and respond to excerpts of his famous speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?".

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · Jul 5

“[I]t may have been the fourth of July; it does not matter.... The next day my child … said: ‘I know why we can’t ride in the cars; because we are colored!’ … yet … trodden under foot as our people are, I would not change souls with the richest and proudest stockholder….”--Frances E. W. Harper 1867

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s “National Salvation”: A Rediscovered Lecture on Reconstruction - Commonplace

What makes Harper’s January 31 [1867] lecture rare is that we have its full text. The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph printed a transcription of “National Salvation” the day after Harper spoke.

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · Jul 2

because when things are broken, I always turn to Hemingway for the fix. . . .

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · May 26

Per Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, remembering Black soldiers who “marched to the front, faithful to the country when others were faithless—who were rallying around the flag when Rebels were trampling it under feet; true to the country when she wanted a friend.” See commonplace.online/article/vol-...

Detail from the front page of the 10 October 1863 issue of the Weekly Anglo-African (a Black newspaper published in New York) that shows Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s poem “The Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth,” commemorating the efforts of the famed all-Black Civil War regiment. For more on the poem including its full text, see https://scholarlyediting.org/2013/editions/aa.18631010.1.html and https://journals.psu.edu/phj/article/view/25194/24963

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · May 24

September will mark the 200th anniversary of author-activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s birth. Here’s the sixth of six essays in the exciting forum on Harper in the current issue of Legacy, @brigfield.bsky.social’s breathtaking & visionary “Generational Harper.” muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · May 23

September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances E. W. Harper’s birth. Here’s the fifth of six essays in the forum on Harper in the current Legacy, Barbara McCaskill’s wise & rich “Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Ethics of Personal Rest and National Restoration”: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Detail from a photograph of an African American woman (Frances Ellen Watkins Harper) featuring her head and shoulders. Her body is turned to the right, but she faces the camera directly, with a calm power. Her hair is pulled back, and she wears a fashionable nineteenth-century traveling dress. Harper use the larger version of this photograph--a three-quarters view of her standing behind a chair--as the frontispiece in several of her later works.

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · May 22

September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances E. W. Harper’s birth. Here’s the fourth of six essays in the forum commemorating Harper in the current Legacy, Nazera Sadiq Wright’s amazing study of Harper, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, & Black library use & creation: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Details from two photographs showing individual African American women: at left, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, and, at right, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Both are head and shoulders pictures. Mossell’s body is turned slightly to her right, but she faces the camera slightly to her left. Harper’s body is turned to more to her right, but her face aims directly at us. Both are in fashionable late nineteenth-century dresses. Mossell’s hair is up, and Harper’s is pulled back.

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · May 21

September will mark the 200th anniversary of author-activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s birth. Here’s the third of six essays in the forum commemorating Harper in the current issue of Legacy, Leslie Schwalm’s groundbreaking intro to Harper’s work in Iowa (!) muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

This photograph offers a three-quarters length portrait of an African American woman (Frances Ellen Watkins Harper) standing behind a chair with her hands on the chair’s back. Her body is turned to her right, but she faces viewers directly. Her dress is dark, with a bustle skirt, darker sleeves, and a row of buttons down the front of a skirted vest that matches the fabric of the dress skirt. Harper used this photograph as a frontispiece in some of her later books.

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · May 20

September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s birth. Here’s the second of six essays in the forum commemorating Harper in the current issue of Legacy, the powerful “We Need to Speak about Home” by Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

A contemporary color photograph of a three-story rowhouse in Philadelphia owned by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper during the last four decades of her life. The front façade is red brick. The first floor features a blue door (at the top of a short set of off-white stairs) and two double hung windows trimmed in white with blue shutters and blue window boxes. Two basement windows made of glass blocks can be see below the first-floor windows. The second and third floor each feature two double hung windows, again with white trim and blue shutters. Off-white lintels matching the front stairs are placed at the top of the door and basement windows and at the top and bottom of the other windows. A small cornice done in blue with yellowish accents tops the structure. This is an end unit and the photograph approaches the structure at an angle, so the end side wall of gray stone is also visible. Various utility wires interrupt the view of parts of the second and third floors. A historical marker—a sign on a tall pole—can be see to the viewer’s right, rising from the red brick sidewalk. The rowhouse immediately to the right is brown brick, separated visually from the Harper home by a white drainage pipe running from the roof to a black base in the sidewalk.

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · May 19

September will mark the 200th anniversary of author-activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s birth. Here’s the first of six essays in the forum celebrating & commemorating Harper in the current issue of Legacy, Lois Brown’s stunning & timely “Catalysts for Justice”: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · May 19

September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s birth. To help commemorate and celebrate, the current issue of Legacy features a forum on Harper’s life and work. This week, I’ll share each of the six essays; for now, here’s the intro: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · May 15

Mutual, @eagandean.bsky.social!

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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · May 12

A powerful piece by Patricia Okker, former President of the New College of Florida, on how reading American women writers can shape our current moment. This is what the humanities can do, and this is why they are so afraid of us. Free access from Legacy: muse.jhu.edu/article/959226

Project MUSE - Learning to Read American Women Writers

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