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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Last night’s #c19 @c19americanists.bsky.social plenary, with founders and past (and present) presidents reflecting on the last 15 years, was a beautiful thing to listen to and gave hope for the present and future. Lots of love to all involved, including Chris’s pants, for keeping this org growing.

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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

And on Day 1 of the 2026 conference of @c19americanists.bsky.social !!!

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Welcome to Day One of the 2026 conference!

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Rafael Walker @rafaelwalker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Our special issue for @j19journal.bsky.social honoring Frances E.W. Harper's 200th birthday is now out! It features *8* terrific essays on intriguing facets of Harper's work and concludes with a stirring afterword by @profkori.bsky.social. @dark-stars.bsky.social @c19americanists.bsky.social

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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The Dial has stickers. See you in Cincinnati. @c19americanists.bsky.social

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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Life Writing’s Uses and Abuses Saturday, 10 January 2026 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM MTCC - 707 Presider Koritha Mitchell Boston U See pic for full list of titles and presenters Also attached Thursday and Friday sessions on American literature before 1900

Life Writing’s Uses and Abuses
Saturday, 10 January 2026
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
MTCC - 707

Presider
Koritha Mitchell Boston U

Presentations
‘No Schemes Too Wild’: A Quiet Reading of Black Women’s Life Writing in the Era of Slavery
Ariel Lawrence, Emory U
Elizabeth Keckley and the Crip Reenvisioning of Reconstruction’s Citizenship Practices
Stephen P. Knadler, Spelman C
‘Who Is He That Would Become My Follower?’: Walt Whitman and F. O. Matthiessen
Jay Grossman, Northwestern U
Against the Clinical Gaze on Life Writing: Louisa May Alcott and Self-Narrated Gender
Eagan Dean, C of Wooster

MLA Sessions: American Literature Before 1900

THURSDAY
8 Dickinson’s Kinships
Judith Scholes, Saint Mark’s C and Corpus Christi C
Thursday, 8 January 2026
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
MTCC - 706

38 Slight Forms
Michelle Sizemore, U of Kentucky, Thomas W. Howard, Bilkent U, Nathan Motulsky, Columbia U, Rebecca Rosen, Murray State U, Lauren Santoru, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Leah Thomas, Virginia State U and Holly Wiegand, Boston U
Thursday, 8 January 2026
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
MTCC - 705

101 Poe and Games
Philip Edward Phillips, Middle Tennessee State U
Thursday, 8 January 2026
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
MTCC - 707

FRIDAY
199 Declaring Dependence
Ben Bascom, West Virginia U, Morgantown and Ben Bascom, West Virginia U, Morgantown
Friday, 9 January 2026
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
MTCC - 605

235 Thermal Melville
Jeffrey Insko, Oakland U
Friday, 9 January 2026
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
MTCC - 801A

Melville and the Geopolitics of Reading
Melville Society
Friday, 9 January 2026
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
MTCC - 712

304 Technology and Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature
Heather E. Ostman, Westchester Community C, State U of New York
Friday, 9 January 2026
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM [VIRTUAL]

338 Thoreau’s Revolutions
Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Northeastern U
Friday, 9 January 2026
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
MTCC - 707

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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

#MLA2026 #Toronto LLC 19th Century American Forum's Sponsored Sessions RESOLUTION!!!!!! Thurs 8 Jan 2026 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM MTCC - 606 To protest the MLA’s suppression of Resolution 2025-1, discuss how to organize, teach, research c19 American lit committed to staying, fighting Presider Xine Yao

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LLC 19th Century American Forum's Sponsored Sessions

RESOLUTION!!!!!!
Thursday, 8 January 2026
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
MTCC - 606
Description: To protest the MLA’s suppression of Resolution 2025-1, participants discuss how to organize, teach, and research nineteenth-century American literary studies with a commitment to staying and fighting; a failed resolution is a lack of resolve.

Presider
Xine Yao University C London

Speaker
Oliver Baker Penn State U, University Park
Max Chapnick Saint Mary’s C, IN
Jess Goldberg New Mexico Highlands U
Alex Moskowitz Mount Holyoke C
Martha E. Schoolman Florida International U

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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

See attached for the Saturday and Sunday sessions at @modernlanguage.bsky.social for American literature before 1900 @c19americanists.bsky.social @earlyamerican.bsky.social

SATURDAY
376 Writing Poe Biography
Emron Esplin, Brigham Young U, UT
Saturday, 10 January 2026
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
MTCC - 705

410 Frances E. W. Harper at Two Hundred
Kristin Moriah, Queen’s U
Saturday, 10 January 2026
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
MTCC - 707

444 Margaret Fuller and Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Observing Nature, Engaging Science
Christina Katopodis, Graduate Center, City U of New York
Saturday, 10 January 2026
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
MTCC - 705

480 1776 and 2026
Michelle Sizemore, U of Kentucky
Saturday, 10 January 2026
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
MTCC - 206D

541 Towheads, Loaded Dogs, and Worms: Family Resemblances in the Writings of Mark Twain
Edward A. Shannon, Ramapo C
Saturday, 10 January 2026
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
MTCC - 206C

SUNDAY
603 Family Resemblances: Hawthorne’s Extended Bloodlines
Ariel Silver, Southern Virginia U
Sunday, 11 January 2026
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
MTCC - 601B

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

We are now accepting both applications for Travel Grants for the 2026 Conference and donations to the Travel Grant Fund pool for distribution. If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution, please visit our C19 Zeffy page: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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Support the C19 Travel Fund

Begun with the 2018 C19 conference, the Travel Fund is made possible by the generous tax-deductible contributions of our members. Travel Fund awards help defray costs for travel, lodging, and conferen...

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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I knew Fall 2025 would be labor-intensive in terms of teaching, so it’s all easier said than done, but this is also a semester exciting conversations with folk I admire. A couple more on deck! ASA: American Studies Association AAR: American Academy of Religion

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

My co-editors Andrew Taylor, Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and I are so proud of this latest book in the Interventions series published by @edinburghuniversitypress. The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time by Mai Wang will change the stories we tell about US literary history.

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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

19th-Century Americanists of North America! Will any of you be in Europe in Dec? I've been asked to draw your attention to the BrANCA conference in Paris on Dec 12-13 They would love to see some of you there! @c19americanists.bsky.social branca-2025.weebly.com

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j19journal.bsky.social @j19journal.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

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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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Hello C19-ers! The deadline for submitting panel/roundtable or individual paper proposals for 2026 conference in Cincinnati is TODAY! And the deadline for submitting a proposal to one of our seminars is SEPT 15TH! www.c19society.org/2026-confere...

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2026 Conference CFP | C19 Society

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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Issue 2.1 is out! Essays by @alicedegalzain.bsky.social & Peter Balaam; don’t miss our forum on higher ed now featuring Stephanie Foote, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social, @cnewf.bsky.social, & @samcohen.bsky.social Read/circulate/submit: thedialjournal.org

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The Dial – A Journal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

We are hard at work on the 2026 Conference Website. In the meantime, a reminder that you can find the CFP for panels, individual papers, AND seminars here: www.c19society.org/2026-confere...

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2026 Conference CFP | C19 Society

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

‘Whiteness and American Literature’, edited by Jolene Hubbs, is out today with Cambridge UP, featuring a chapter by me where I discuss whiteness in a bunch of extremely weird C19 novels and short stories! @c19americanists.bsky.social @ssag.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/au/universit...

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Whiteness and American Literature | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I guess I'm on the only @c19americanists.bsky.social watching the Sex and the City sequel series.

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S. Sommers @printculture.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

This is the most 19th-Century shit I’ve seen in all my years.

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The 19th century abolitionist movement utilized a diversity of tactics and engaged in constant critical internal debate in the mission to end slavery. The movement needed speeches, lawyers, lawbreakers, newspapers, and armed resisters. History teaches us that freedom requires all of the above.

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Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

OMG, everyone, @c19americanists.bsky.social is in @alisonbechdel.bsky.social 's new book, #Spent! This is page 144!!! Published today!

Frame from Alison Bechdel's new book, Spent. Ginger says to Sparrow, "Two weekends from now, I'm off to the 19th-century conference. Theme: 'The End: From Climate Apocalypse to the Dire State of Our Profession."

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Our #TeachingC19 series is a rich resource for careful, insightful thinking about pedagogy in C19 studies. We just published a new piece today by Jill Swiencicki www.c19society.org/teachingc19a...

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#TeachingC19 | C19 Society

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Our latest #TeachingC19 essay is published! Read Erica Stevens, Ashley Rattner, and Julia Tigner collectively reflect on how pedagogy rigorously and responsibly engages online modalities and digital technologies during the age of "enshittification." www.c19society.org/teachingc19a...

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#TeachingC19 | C19 Society

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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

My NEH grant was terminated in service of a new focus on “patriotic programming,” but as an American and an Americanist, I know that resisting this dangerous decision and the broader movement of which it is a part is my patriotic duty. Wrote abt it @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1936...

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Here’s What One of Trump’s Grantee Termination Letters Looks Like

This NEH grantee was told the “immediate termination” of her grant “is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government.” Is this America?

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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

All, this is an incredibly important story paper for American women writers, and NIU holds almost 1,000 issues. Every $1K they raise will allow them to digitize 75 issues! The fundraiser ends at 11:59 CST on April 3rd. Please help if you can, even just the cost of a coffee! #C19AmLit

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The first essay in the 2025 iteration of our #TeachingC19 series is published on our website! Read Margaretta M. Lovell's "The Narrative of Nancy Prince: Historical Facts—Artistic Fiction" here: www.c19society.org/teachingc19a...

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#TeachingC19 | C19 Society

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

My grad students are asking for examples of historians who use literature to help make their argument. Who would you recommend?

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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🚨 C19ers & Asian Americanists! 🚨I’m co-hosting @c19americanists.bsky.social Virtual Panel: Asian American Studies in the Long C19 Wed 4/9/25 3:00-4:30pm EST Ft Julia H. Lee (UC Irvine), Andrew Leong (UC Berkeley), Mich Ling (Rutgers), Edlie Wong (Maryland), and Caroline Yang (UMass)

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the following announcement for the next C19 Virtual Event, which will be held on Wednesday, 4/9 from 3:00-4:30pm Eastern Time.

C19 Virtual Panel: Asian American Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Date: Wednesday, 4/9/25, 3:00-4:30pm Eastern Time

Hosted by Xine Yao (Associate Professor, University College London) and Spencer Tricker (Assistant Professor, Clark University).

Featuring Julia H. Lee (Professor, UC Irvine), Andrew Leong (Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley), Mich Ling (Graduate Student, Rutgers), Edlie Wong (Professor, Maryland), and Caroline Yang (Associate Professor, UMass).

Description:

While the nineteenth century has long represented an important historical starting point for the study of Asian America, the field of Asian American studies largely remains focused on twentieth- and twenty-first century developments. In nineteenth-century American studies, analyses of the literature and experiences of people of Asian descent has similarly registered as a marginal concern, despite the fact that path-breaking works on these topics have productively complicated our understanding of the era’s racial politics and cultural production.

Addressing these patterns of neglect, this C19 virtual panel seeks to reinforce scholarly networks first established at past C19 conference seminars and spotlight research, teaching, and community-building practices among scholars of Asian America in the long nineteenth century. It also provides a forum in which scholars can underscore–among other issues–the responsibilities of Asian American studies to reckon with longstanding histories of Asian settler colonialism, anti-blackness, and the complicated inter-imperial dynamics of our present moment, in which the abuses of both US and Chinese power loom large.

While the panel will center Asian Americanist scholars at various career stages, it strives to be a welcoming space to colleagues across the spectrum of nineteenth-century studies who are interested in deepening their knowledge of Asian American studies and/or looking to diversify their teaching materials in this area. The panel, held on Zoom, will begin with questions for the panelists before opening up to Q&A with attendees.

Zoom link: https://clarku.zoom.us/j/96534831636?pwd=csRnDIa2CePExBRMNrWNv86ERST1cw.1

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

With the CFP out, we are well on our way towards the C19 Conference in Cincinnati, OH on March 12-14, 2026! Please consider donating to our Travel Fund for C19 members with limited access to travel funding, especially graduate students and contingent faculty. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

A few fun things to know about this thing that already made you angry: 1.) Parrhesia program is direct result of a series of ad hoc committees who found student protesters were too disruptive when they shouted down fascists, blocked roads, & got shot by campus police. Parrhesia teaches civility.

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The final has to be Ahab vs. Moby-Dick. It is inevitable.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

BREAKING: the U.S. District Court in D.C. has found that Trump’s firing of former NLRB Chair Gwynne A. Wilcox’s firing was unlawful, and ruled that she must be immediately reinstated to serve out the rest of her term as a board member. She was appointed and confirmed to a 5-year term in 2023.

Text: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
GWYNNE A. WILCOX,
Plaintiff,
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity
as President of the United States
and
MARVIN E. KAPLAN, in his official
capacity as Chairman of the National Labor
Relations Board,
Civil Action No. 25-cv-334
Judge Beryl A. Howell
Defendants.
ORDER
Upon consideration of plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, ECF No. 10,
defendants’ cross motion for summary judgment, ECF No. 23, the legal memoranda in support
and in opposition, and the entire record herein, for the reasons set forth in the accompanying
Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby--
ORDERED that plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, ECF No. 10, is GRANTED;
it is further
ORDERED that defendants’ motion for summary judgment, ECF No. 23, is DENIED; it
is further DECLARED that the termination of plaintiff Gwynne A. Wilcox was unlawful, in
violation of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 153(a), and therefore null and void; it is further…

DECLARED that plaintiff Gwynne A. Wilcox remains a member of the National Labor
Relations Board (“NLRB”), having been appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate
to a five-year term on September 6, 2023, and she may be removed by the President prior to
expiration of her term only “upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in
office, but for no other cause,” pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 153(a); it is further
ORDERED that plaintiff shall continue to serve as a member of the NLRB until her term
expires pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 153(a), unless she is earlier removed “upon notice and hearing,
for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office,
” id.; it is further
ORDERED that defendant Mark Kaplan, as well as his subordinates, agents, and
employees, are ENJOINED, during plaintiff’s term as a member of the NLRB, from removing
plaintiff from her office without cause or in any way treating plaintiff as having been removed
from office, from impeding in any way her ability to fulfill her duties as a member of the NLRB,
and from denying or obstructing her authority or access to any benefits or resources of her office;
it is further
ORDERED that defendant Mark Kaplan and his subordinates, agents, and employees
provide plaintiff with access to the necessary government facilities and equipment so that she
may carry out her duties during her term as a member of the NLRB; and it is further
ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court is directed to close this case.
SO ORDERED.
Date: March 6, 2025
This is a final and appealable order.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Hey don't forget about this hot (or cold, as you wish) CFP for MLA26 @c19americanists.bsky.social @melville-society.bsky.social

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

19th century US history is replete with examples of collective organizing in resistance to tyranny. Slavery could not have been abolished without underground and out in the open organized collective resistance and refusal to comply with unjust law.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I'm on the organizing committee for next year's @c19americanists.bsky.social conference in Cincinnati & what I can tell you about this year's theme is that it was the first thing anybody pitched & we were all, like, "Yep that's it." The fastest I've ever seen five professors agree about anything.

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2026 Conference CFP | C19 Society

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Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This theme!!! Hell yes C19 and program chair @marthaschoolman.bsky.social and president @femmenoire.bsky.social

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Today is the day! Take a look at the CFP for the 2026 Biennial Conference of The Society of 19th-Century Americanists: UNDERGROUND www.c19society.org/2026-confere... The Conference website will go up at the end of April / early May, and submissions will be due Sept 5th.

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G19 Collective @g19collective.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We are on Bluesky! We are the Graduate Student Collective of the C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (@c19americanists.bsky.social). We aim to support C19 graduate students and junior faculty through initiatives like our G19 New Book Forum. Stay tuned to learn more!

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Spooky Electric 🦀🌊 👻 @idabeware.blacksky.app · 07/02/2025

Ida B. Wells was a teacher. She knew she could write, and she knew how to ask questions. She investigated and addressed a problem, lynching. She was a woman who had adult responsibilities way too young and little resources. But she did. Be afraid, and do it anyway.

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

As we look ahead to C19 2026 in Cincinnati, we are excited for our next C19 virtual event, a discussion of the life, work and activism of Ohio native Charles Chesnutt! The event will be on Feb 21st from 3:00 to 4:30 PM EST / 12:00 - 1:30 PM PST Check your email inboxes for the link!

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Dear C19ers, This note is just a quick reminder to look out for a CFP for the 2016 Conference next month! And again, the next C19 conference will be March 12-14, 2026 in Cincinnati, Ohio. More information coming next month.

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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

As I see my beloved home state of California burn, a million times yes

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C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Hello C19 members! Check your inboxes for a message from out Communications Committee with the CFP for our #TeachingC19 series. We'd love to review your proposal for a teaching-focused piece of writing on C19 American studies! Proposals for Spring are due Jan 24. www.c19society.org/teachingc19a...

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

It looks like copies of my book are sold out at the @uminnpress.bsky.social table at #2024ASA but you can order it at this link with the code MN92070 for 30% off!! If you order it, let me know when you get your copy! ☺️ www.upress.umn.edu/978151791789...

A display copy of Jess A. Goldberg's book "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" sits in a bookstand on a table at the American Studies Association conference.

A flyer with a discount code for ordering a copy of "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" by Jess A. Goldberg.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

3 years ago today I was able to launch this labor of love for hidden collections in PWIs. The amount of overtime/sheer will/effort that went into this internally unappreciated project is a bit unimaginable to me now, but it helped me jump to better places curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/slavery-abol...

Banner announcing launch of "Slavery, Abolition, Emacipation, and Freedom" a curated digital collection from Houghton Library.

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