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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

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Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

So thrilled that my piece on Barbary Newton, a seventeenth-century enslaving woman is out in the world - part of a WMQ article forum, “Absentee Women Enslavers: Two Case Studies” - paired with Jared Ross Hardesty’s research on the Mackintosh sisters w/ reflections from Zacek, Maskiell & Amussen ✨

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contents page of the william & mary quarterly

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Campus yesterday. March & April in Maine after a decade in VA/NC may be a rough adjustment.

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

My class had a wonderful trip to special collections to work with Bowdoin’s copies of the Algonquian bible!

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It has a cover! I am so excited to have The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean coming out September 2025 with @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

Cover of The Predatory Sea by Casey Schmitt, image with ocean and coastline

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Great Bowdoin Orient article about my friend and colleague Jamey Tanzer's research on the local history of slavery in Maine! Jamey is doing amazing social historical research and has been successful in really grounding his work in local geographies! bowdoinorient.com/2025/01/31/q...

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Quash Winchell: An uncovered history – The Bowdoin Orient

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️

Book cover with various kinds of evidence of family history arrayed around the author and title, the latter is _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_. The kinds of materials include printed texts, manuscripts, a red book (shhhhh that figures largely in the Introduction!), a watercolor family record, Fraktur, gravestone, and a sampler. One repeated text says "born free, born free (etc)"

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Snow, I have missed you! So happy to be living in Maine again! ☃️

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for sharing this terrific postdoc @jcblibrary.bsky.social! I'm testing your generosity here but would love to also share that we have TWO additional senior research fellowships for BROWN2026. Details at apply.interfolio.com/159128 and see number 2 below for terms... 1/

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Loved this! I do a lot of thinking about where account books were written, consulted, and stored, and this example—a literal grain tucked between pages—does a great job of bringing those materialities to the fore.

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Just went a little crazy buying books!

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Looking for something else just now and what a nice surprise to see @csschmitt.bsky.social's THE PREDATORY SEA on the @pennpress.bsky.social site! www.pennpress.org/978151282814...

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The Predatory Sea – Penn Press

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Exciting to find these waiting for me at home!

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Wrote this up more fully, same bottom line on Washington: there is no carve out for slavery. "Slavery was not an incidental factor in his life. It was part of all that he did and accomplished. His world was made by, and bound by, the centrality of slavery." 1/ time.com/7173647/geor...

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Even George Washington Was a Tyrant

We don't need to find heroes in our past presidents. We need to try to understand that tyranny has always been part of American freedom.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Reviewing how much (Vast) early American content I posted on Twitter back in the day and reviving that practice. Michelle McKinley’s brilliant new article in the Oct 24 WMQ, putting Mediterranean and Atlantic slaveries in conversation, focuses on “contingent liberty.” 1/ #VastEarlyAmericas

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hello, new followers! Reposting this recent announcement for those who missed it: New era for the HLQ. Please share widely! If you study the #earlymodern period (c. 1400-1800) in any discipline, we'd love to see what you're working on. www.pennpress.org/journals/jou...

A flyer advertising a call for submissions for the Huntington Library Quarterly. The Text reads: The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original research and new perspectives on the early modern period, broadly defined (c. 1400–1800). Its content reflects an early modern world that was connected and cosmopolitan, with diverse communities and cultures increasingly linked by the circulation of people, ideas, social practices, and material objects in ways that transcend disciplinary and geographic boundaries. We invite submissions that draw on the sources, methods, and theoretical frameworks of literature, art, history, science, medicine, material culture, music, performance, and critical cultural studies, with a preference for scholarship that is broadly legible across disciplines.

HLQ’s historical focus on Britain and its American colonies has been dramatically expanded to embrace broader and more diverse fields of inquiry, including scholarship rooted in continental Europe, the African Diaspora, and the Indigenous Americas, as well as their intersections with Mediterranean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds.

The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) invites article submissions for two featured issues that will mark the journal’s new direction. Submissions received before 15 January 2025 will be evaluated for the first of these issues, to be published in September 2025. Submissions received before 15 March 2025 will be evaluated for the second of these issues, to be published in December 2025.

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Sara Damiano @sdamiano.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

Reminder: Applications for "Recording Women in the Early Modern Atlantic World" workshop are due this Friday, March 1. @juliehardwick.bsky.social, @caycarbs.bsky.social and I hope you'll join the conversation! www.txst.edu/history/news...

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Teaching a first year course — with "family histories" as my guiding theme — means I get to explore some much more recent history! Enjoyed digging up these Family Week Proclamations from Nixon-Biden and using these to consider how family has changed over time! Highly recommend!

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Sara Damiano @sdamiano.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Delighted to announce the CFP for “Recording Women in the Early Modern Atlantic World” at UT-Austin and Texas State University, Sept. 26-28, 2024, hosted by me, @caycarbs.bsky.social , & @juliehardwick.bsky.social. March 1 application deadline. Please circulate & apply! www.txst.edu/history/news...

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

📣 Please spread the word and apply: @sdamiano.bsky.social, @juliehardwick.bsky.social, and I are hosting a workshop, "Recording Women in the Early Modern Atlantic World" in the Austin, TX area Sept 26-28, 2024. Proposals due March 1, 2024! CFP here: www.txst.edu/history/news...

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

People keep saying that students are no longer interested in Hamilton, but I have 33 signed up and a 17 person waiting list for my winter term Hamilton course ....!

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Pretty excited to use the "Black Founders: The Fortune Family of Philadelphia" exhibit's digital platform to bring my early American family students on a virtual field trip tomorrow!

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

As someone who basically never missed class ever in college, I'm clueless as to how students can have missed 5+ classes already when it is still September...🤦‍♀️

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

It seems that a large part of being a professor is just answering emails from students who are sick 😷

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Masked and boosted but I can hear so much coughing on campus and it's making me so nervous 😷

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Happy Monday! Meet Calli, our trial adoption cat! Assuming my allergies can take it, we’re hoping to make her a permanent member of the fam :)

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Jenn Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

My work in progress: recreating this ca.1600 jacket, V&A 173-1869, in polychrome silk on linen. I started in Nov 2021 & have completed the embroidery on the back & 2 front panels. Working on the first sleeve now.

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Had to return to my research today for a book chapter I'm finishing up and now I want to spend the whole day looking at little books and stitched pages and .... wow I miss the archives.

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

When prepping for class is the perfect excuse to open a new book that has been patiently waiting on your shelves

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Caylin Carbonell @caycarbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

A little late to the game, but glad to finally be here! I'm a historian of early America in my first year on the tenure track at Elon University! I'm mostly thinking about teaching right now, but love to nerd out about manuscript sources and early America more generally!

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