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Amanda Laury Kleintop @alkleintop.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Thank you! Very cool that my book made it to Wuhan

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30 uncpress.org/978146969484...

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White Power

Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

New podcast with @alkleintop.bsky.social about her new book COUNTING THE COST OF FREEDOM: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War just dropped on the UNC Press Presents Podcast via @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🎧👇 newbooksnetwork.com/counting-the...

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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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!

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Fighting with the Past

Civil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Aaron Sheehan-Dean reveals in this fascinating w...

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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. a.co/d/29c7EIP

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Warren Milteer @wemilteer.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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...

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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|Paperback

Free people of color were both architects of equal rights and active participants in the Civil War, on and off the battlefield. Their unique status as already free persons before emancipation shaped t...

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TheSouthernSHA @thesouthernsha.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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...

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Amanda Laury Kleintop @alkleintop.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

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.) @kringelberg.bsky.social @archiecrowley.bsky.social @gauthamrao.bsky.social @rkdcolby86.bsky.social

Cover of book, Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation after the Civil War by Amanda Laury Kleintop. Depicts a print of a federal eagle in red behind bold, black text of the title.

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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

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.

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Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 06/06/2025

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...

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Reconstruction Era National Historic Network Announces the Inclusion of Seven New Sites - Reconstruction Era National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#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 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/in...

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May 1: International Workers Day

International Workers’ Day began as a commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket massacre in Chicago.

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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"

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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

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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.

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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.

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Trump Targets a Slavery Removal from the National Museum of African-American History and Culture

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The museum's slavery facts and substantiating artifacts of the 250 years of the enslavement of Africans in America, curated by historians, are the bull’s-eye for the Trump adm...

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

"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."🗃️

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 08/04/2025

"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

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Most Higher Ed Workers Still Paid Less Than Before Pandemic

Although raises for most higher education employees last academic year beat inflation, most are still effectively earning less than they were in 2019–20, according to new salary survey data released M...

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

“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.’” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH

The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

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TheSouthernSHA @thesouthernsha.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

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...

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

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.

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sharonmleon.bsky.social @sharonmleon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Without IMLS, there would be no Omeka and there would be no Zotero. Write to your representatives to defend IMLS today. www.6floors.org/bracket/2025...

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Seeds of Innovation: Defending IMLS – [bracket]

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

In researching our report "Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction,” we found that many issues Du Bois exposed and challenged in his scholarship are still prevalent in state standards and textbooks. Read: teachreconstructionreport.org

Graphic with list of problems in state standards on Reconstruction. Photos in circles and text.

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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

At the request of the Trump Admin, the Ntl Park Service removed references to trans people in this essay w/o consulting the writer, historian @wendylrouse.bsky.social. Read it here as Prof Rouse intended (and as the NPS published/maintained it until now). 🗃️ drive.google.com/file/d/1p-rQ...

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The Very Queer History of the Suffrage Movement (U.S. National Park Service).pdf

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I'm putting together a lecture on the US between the world wars for tomorrow. Check out what photo seems to have taken off line from the LOC (it shows up in the preview, but not on the site itself) www.loc.gov/item/2015647...

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A man was lynched yesterday

1 photograph mounted on heavy board : gelatin silver print ; sheet 34.2 x 28.5 cm. | Photograph shows a flag flown from an upper story window of the NAACP headquarters on 69 Fifth Avenue, New York Cit...

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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 14, 2025
LGBTQ+ History Association response to NPS website removal of Transgender and Queer identities and history.

The LGBTQ+ History Association is outraged at the erasure of the history of important communities, and members of the Transgender (T) and Queer (Q) communities from National Park Service (NPS) Websites including: the Stonewall National Monument, Cold War, Lavender
Scare, and LGB Activism Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Governors Island in New York. The individual websites for legendary and important Americans: Pauli Murray, Marsha P.
Johnson, and the "Philadelphia's Heritage of LGBTQ Activism" on the NPS.GOV websites currently lead to dead links, which we call for the immediate restoration of these websites. From the beginning of the fight for LGBTQ equality and rights, the Transgender and Queer
individuals and communities have fought for, and continue to exist as part of the LGBTIQ communities. The erasure and removal of the “T” and “Q” from websites is unacceptable, inaccurate, and harmful. We as the LGBTQ+ History Association call on the National Park Service to restore both the T and Q on all websites immediately. History cannot be erased.
To learn more about the LGBTQ+ History Association please visit our website:

http://clgbthistory.org/

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 14/12/2024

Me for the past few weeks: Will the Blacksonian have a Searchable Museum feature for their new In Slavery’s Wake installation so I can use it in my Af/Am History and Memory seminar?🙏 NMAACH: Check out the Searchable Museum www.searchablemuseum.com/in-slaverys-... Me: 💃🏾🙌

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In Slavery’s Wake

<p>Learn how Black people resisted enslavement, claimed their humanity, and created freedom around the world. Learn how slavery and colonialism shape society today.</p>

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