John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 9hGiving my students extra credit for registering to vote. Small class, they are all U.S. citizens, only one had voted before. 280
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 15hSpeaking of Hawks, Hawkeyes, etc, I would like read a history of how American sports teams got animal names. Any suggestions? 220
Reposted by John HarrisThiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Call for proposals for a workshop, my people! Slavery and transimperial trade next March at William & Mary. Please spread it far and wide: I want to read your many great proposals!atlanticexchanges.wm.edu2027 Workshop Call for Proposals - Atlantic Exchanges WorkshopAtlantic Exchanges 2027 Slavery and the Commercial Machinery of Empires The Atlantic Exchanges Workshop invites proposals for its second edition, […] 01723
Reposted by John HarrisKeri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today is book release day!!! So thrilled that An Inconvenient Woman is finally out after years of research & writing. Thanks to everyone who has ordered or told their library to order - I truly appreciate you!♥️♥️♥️ @stmartinspress.bsky.social us.macmillan.com/books/978125...us.macmillan.comAn Inconvenient WomanA revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregati... 411939
Reposted by John HarrisJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I give up. I’m moving into a cave. 743468667
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Drew Gilpin Faust reviews Moving Toward Freedom: The Political Education of Enslaved Americans by Susan Eva O’Donovan And A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South by Melvin Patrick Ely 030
Reposted by John HarrisAnna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Had bookmarked this and just now listened. Fantastic episode. The enslavement of Native Americans was based on *where* they were. They were on land that settler Americans wanted. It was qualitatively distinct from the enslavement of African Americans and those differences need to be understood. 37731
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In the mess that is federal funding I just learned my department got a grant to teach teachers about the history of technology, which everyone seems to agree is important right now 130
Reposted by John HarrisAndrés Pertierra @andrespertierra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Pretty astounding scoop from independent cuban media site El Toque; we now have granular details of financial workings of Cuban embassy in DC. In 6 years it made over $250 million USD sending most of it home while workers lived on a few hundred a month eltoque.com/las-cuentas-...eltoque.comLas cuentas secretas de la Embajada cubana en Washington: esta es la cantidad de dinero que recaudan en Estados UnidosDocumentos internos filtrados revelan que el Gobierno cubano convirtió sus servicios consulares en Estados Unidos en una fuente multimillonaria de ingresos, con metas anuales de recaudación que llegar... 181
Reposted by John HarrisAndrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026* timeline cleanse * Please enjoy this adorable CBC video of a preschool class in Baltimore taking an imaginary trip to Canada 🥹🇨🇦 30718209
Reposted by John HarrisJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We also looked at some FSA primary sources and this one really grabbed students' attention. It's a diagram that shows the arrangement of members of the Boston Anti-Man-Hunting League as they would surround a man-hunter, concealing him until he consented to release the person he was trying to kidnap 6699149
Reposted by John HarrisDavid Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My old boss has asked me to give his new book a social media bump, because he has wisely chosen never to set up his own account! So I’m happy to announce that ‘Britain’s Slave Traders: A Hidden History’ is available today in all good bookshops! www.penguin.co.uk/books/460026... 8252104
Reposted by John HarrisGreg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Amazing job opportunity the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for a curator of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery: nypl.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...nypl.pinpointhq.comCurator, Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery - Schomburg CenterJob Opening: Curator, Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery - Schomburg Center at The New York Public Library in Schomburg Center. 076
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Popping in to say the Abigail Adams, John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren "remember the ladies" letters remain brilliant for classroom discussion 021
Reposted by John Harriselia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible 25150223941
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026💯 this. Yesterday in my history class we pulled our tables into a circle and discussed a book about Pocahontas. Old school. Book in hand stuff. The conversation went all over, in a good way. It was dynamic, challenging, fun, unexpected. Students ate it up. 191
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Kudos to Nick Radburn, Will Pettigrew and others for putting this together. Very important resource on the British slave trade. 1123
Reposted by John HarrisAdam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is a very interesting new resource, The Register of British Slave-Traders. 'The Register focusses on the individuals who sought to profit from the enslavement of over 3 million African men, women, and children, whose identity was – for the most part – erased from the historical record.' 🗃️britishslavetraders.orgThe Register of British Slave-TradersThe Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807. 4330161
Reposted by John HarrisKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Teaching is the very thing that’s been degraded and underfunded and is the very thing that we know across k-16 is the most important aspect of student learning and outcomes – well beyond the classroom. Yes, this is now my checklist for any essay/ pod abt "higher ed." 10/ 1156590
Reposted by John HarrisKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Students in discussion of uncurated materials is not teaching. Students hanging out together is not teaching. Good teaching is the thing that AI cannot do, while it can mimic a role in the first two. 9/ 541856
Reposted by John HarrisKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I have listened to and read lots and lots of What AI will Mean for College and the one big thing that gets skips all the time is TEACHING. Information provided is not teaching. 8/ 350889
Reposted by John HarrisProfessor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Please do get in touch with ideas for #maritime books - our @degruyterbrill.bsky.social series 'Early Modern Maritime Humanities 1400-1800: Oceans in History and Culture', ed. by me & John Mcaleer is keen to hear from you! Contact me or @erikagaffney.bsky.social here or via brill.com/page/forthco... 03628
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026My dear fellow millennials: I was having a perfectly fine evening introducing my kid to Beauty and the Beast only to learn it was made in 1991 … 35 years ago. 010
Reposted by John HarrisUna Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“Trump is a bully and a braggart, a self-confessed sexual predator and a purveyor of racial slurs... Most people would not welcome such a man into their home, and the majority of Irish people will not welcome this visit.” Irish Times editorial on Trump in Ireland.irishtimes.comThe Irish Times view on Trump’s visit: a less than welcome guestMost people would not welcome such a man into their home but political leaders must make a different calculation 22942337
Reposted by John HarrisRebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Sounds like a great new book by Alan Taylor: "They knew slavery was morally wrong and dangerously unstable, but repressing that knowledge seemed easier than addressing it. Monstrous cruelty became a “tradition” worth loving.: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/b...nytimes.comPiercing the Delusions of a ‘Humane’ Plantation (Gift Article)In “Tower Hill,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Alan Taylor pulls apart the twisted logic of a Virginia slave owner and his descendants. 0198
Reposted by John HarrisMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/09/2026"To establish that AI did not write your book, we will upload it to an AI detector. The detector will retain your words, learn from your distinct syntax and semicolon placement, and use them to improve the technology that will eventually produce more books resembling yours." buff.ly/FYVr6Zxmcsweeneys.netA Note from Your Editor Regarding the Entirely Routine Authentication of Your Humanity“To establish that AI did not write your book, we will upload it to an AI detector. The detector will retain your words, learn from your distinct syntax and ... 112437
Reposted by John HarrisKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Relatedly, how I wish this little post wasn't relevant / necessary. karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...karinwulf.comCoverture, Now More than Ever - Karin WulfCoverture is a legal principle in which a married woman's legal identity and capacity is subsumed under her husband's. 43712
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026My oddest job: I was in police line ups while I was in college, Belfast, c2006. 141
Reposted by John HarrisKing Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Harriet Tubman lived into the 20th century, and late in her life, she founded a nursing home for elderly black people, where she lived out her days in a dormitory named John Brown Hall. www.nps.gov/places/tubma...nps.govHarriet Tubman Home for Aged & Indigent Negroes (U.S. National Park Service)Harriet Tubman Home for Aged & Indigent Negroes 16011
Reposted by John HarrisVanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026we hear (rightly!) a lot of moaning about peer review but occasionally, as editor, I read a review which is just such an impressive piece of scholarship in its own right, such an act of generosity towards the original author, that I wish the review itself would be published and read more widely 2929
Reposted by John HarrisKevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 05/09/2026My new book finally arrived. Say hello to A GLORIOUS FATE: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF COLONEL ROBERT GOULD SHAW. #booksky #CivilWarMemory cc: @uncpress.bsky.social 2017225
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Teaching Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson never fails. Walking through the Hemings family tree with students gathered round a table - and filling in the world they lived in as we go - is a simple but effective strategy. Jaws drop. As ever, a salute to @agordonreed.bsky.social. 2416
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026My sweet colleagues and students decorated my office door to celebrate my manuscript submission 2180
Reposted by John HarrisCasey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It is such an incredible honor to have my book included as a finalist alongside the excellent scholarship of Kim Hall and Daniel Lord Smail. I haven't stopped smiling since they made the announcement! 🗃️ macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...macmillan.yale.eduYale Announces 2026 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists 811621
Reposted by John HarrisStephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026still my favorite Civil War soldier's letter and it's not even close 216937
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Instead of asking your colleagues to read your manuscript, host a “roast my chapter titles” event with food and drink in your office. They will come, and it will be helpful. Trust me. 060
Reposted by John HarrisJohn Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Just submitted my manuscript to Yale Press. Spying on the Slave Trade - a bio of the most important abolitionist you never heard of - coming to you in 2027! 2705
Reposted by John HarrisGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 02/09/2026Huge thanks and congrats to the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social @comixaction.com and everyone who answered the call to demand @mayor.nyc.gov establish a moratorium on "A.i." in the public schools. We got a PARTIAL win today, thanks to you! But more needs to be done... 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/n...nytimes.comA.I. Is to Be Banned in N.Y.C. Elementary and Middle SchoolsA new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using artificial intelligence, but stops short of a moratorium. 6815187
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Just submitted my manuscript to Yale Press. Spying on the Slave Trade - a bio of the most important abolitionist you never heard of - coming to you in 2027! 2705
Reposted by John HarrisDavid Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Transcribing a 1660 treaty that, amongst other things, forced the English and French into agreeing to abolish the slave trade in Indigenous Caribbeans in exchange for peace. Quite remarkable, and I'm happy to stand corrected if anyone has ever come across a treaty like this. 48521
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I am submitting my manuscript tomorrow and I’m reading it over—and I’m delighted to say it is NOT BAD! 090
Reposted by John HarrisRussell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I bumped into my Hungarian buddy on Friday, fresh back from a visit home. He said it's hard now to find anyone who'll cop to having been an Orban supporter. The regime is very rapidly disappearing into history. This how quickly things can turn. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on the new Hungary: de-Orbánising at pace | EditorialEditorial: As a Brussels deadline looms with over €10bn at stake, Péter Magyar’s first three months have been transformative in addressing a corrupt legacy 12391111
Reposted by John HarrisHolly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Slaves were the collateral for that debt. There are crucial structural issues here we should be paying more attention to. Book link below. Note eg praise from Peter Onuf. I’m curious to see what others will think—press.princeton.eduThe King's SlavesA provocative account of how empire and absolutism institutionalized slavery in America 4275
Reposted by John HarrisCarly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026What a story in the NYT real estate section 😭 1115
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 30/08/2026@willdalrymple.bsky.social brings a historian’s perspective to the problem of monster corporations - and how to tame them. Brilliant essay.nytimes.comOpinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World (Gift Article)A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech. 16323