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Shirley Samuels
@shirleyinithaca.bsky.social
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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
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 3d
I got my advance copy. They did a nice job with it and it’s making me happy!
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 3d
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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 · 3d
Welcome to J19 journal with Sarah Chinn at the helm!
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j19journal.bsky.social @j19journal.bsky.social · 3d
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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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Sep 6
Just for a moment — taking a break
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Aug 28
The code is P329

Brings it under $30

For a hardback…!
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Aug 25
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A coupon code is somewhere here…
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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
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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · Feb 18
Reupping: Application period open to survey the history of books with me in Los Angeles this summer. There are amazing collections at amazing libraries staffed by amazing librarians in LA. We'll work with them to explore how books emerged, were made, used, & made meaning/information for centuries!
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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.)
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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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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Feb 7
Three guesses about what’s on my mind.

The first two don’t count.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · Nov 11
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Jan 27
Yes, please add me.
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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
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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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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Dec 16
Celebrating vastness in the americas…
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · Dec 16
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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...
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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...
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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
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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · Nov 14
🎂 SAVE THE DATE: Feb. 14, 2025! 🎂

This year Douglass Day is transcribing Black history with the Library of Congress!

💻 Crowdsourcing project on Black history
📽️ Live Broadcast
🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off
📣 Special guests!

Join us online or host an event in your community!
Info: douglassday.org
Save the Date for Douglass Day, February 14, 2025, featuring the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress.
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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
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