John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Very impressed you take time to do this. Respect 110
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It would be wild if Lindsey Graham’s prophecy about Republicans picking Trump and getting crushed came true in his sister’s senate bid in South Carolina 523932
Reposted by John HarrisRichard Bell @rickbell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Folks, I could not be more delighted by this wonderful recognition for the book. Congratulations to the other finalists and please check out our work! 3203
Reposted by John HarrisAndrés Pertierra @andrespertierra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026In 2023 Cuban peso passed 200 to 1 USD In 2024 Cuban peso hovered between 300-400 to 1 USD Now, in 2026, the Cuban peso is now almost 800 pesos to the dollar. 142
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026List of people enslaved in the White House (or associated with the White House), organized by President: www.whitehousehistory.org/index-of-ens...whitehousehistory.orgIndex of Enslaved IndividualsBelow you will find a list of all known enslaved people who were associated with the White House. This list is not complete because some individuals were not recorded, and... 03616
Reposted by John HarrisLucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Join us 8–9 October for "The Prize Papers of the American War of Independence" at The National Archives, UK, and online. Explore newly catalogued documents from captured ships that reveal wartime lives and a global conflict. Register: www.eventbrite.de/e/the-prize-... #Rev250 #earlymodern #historyeventbrite.deThe Prize Papers of the American War of Independence (Online)An International Workshop on the UK Prize Papers and the American War of Independence: Wartime Lives, Capture, and Transnational Exchange 14829
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Student misses test because she has to take her horse to get a X-ray. Student misses makeup because she has to get her truck aligned. Teaching in the South. 4120
Reposted by John HarrisRachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Many thanks to @ala-booklist.bsky.social!! 3205
Reposted by John HarrisSemafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2... 62731511121
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Giving my students extra credit for registering to vote. Small class, they are all U.S. citizens, only one had voted before. 290
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Speaking of Hawks, Hawkeyes, etc, I would like read a history of how American sports teams got animal names. Any suggestions? 140
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, […] 01826
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... 412139
Reposted by John HarrisJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I give up. I’m moving into a cave. 743490676
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 · 26/09/2026Which means a much needed course release for me as I get Spying on the Slave Trade finalized for publication 010
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 🥹🇨🇦 30720210
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 6700149
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... 8253104
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. 077
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 25150283941
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026And we never will. For one thing, it’s much more fun to teach this way. Admittedly I benefitted from a small class in this case - which we should also prioritize! 010
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. 4330160
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I (from UK now is US) found I had to rid myself of hedging language: quite, somewhat, fairly etc. 010
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