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The Graduate Student (G19) Collective is a Cluster Group affiliated with C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social. www.g19collective.org/home

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G19 Collective @g19collective.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Our latest #NewBookForum is out! Daniel Diez Couch, Associate Professor at the United States Air Force Academy, discusses "American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic," available from University of Pennsylvania Press. www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...
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The G19 Collective - On American Fragments
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G19 Collective @g19collective.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Our latest #NewBookForum is out! Abby Goode, Associate Professor at Plymouth State University, discusses her monograph "Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability," available now with The University of North Carolina Press. www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...
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The G19 Collective - On Agrotopias
Agrotopias cover illustration: Agrarian township image from Young America newspaper, mid-1840s. Courtesy American Antiquarian Society.
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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Get ready for the... 🎂 Great Douglass Day Bake Off! 🎂 How to enter: 1. Bake a birthday cake! 2. Decorate it! 3. Post a photo on here or IG to #DouglassDay Competition is going to be fierce! Learn more & see past winners: douglassday.org/bake-off/
Two-tiered birthday cake with the letters spelling out "Power Concedes Nothing Without A Demand." Candles on top spell out "happy birthday." the top tier is bright pink and the bottom tier is rainbow sprinkles. It's really doing a lot.
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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Get Ready for Douglass Day 2026! Fresh newsletter out today. - Preview event on Feb 6 - New teaching resources - Swag (trading cards are back!) open.substack.com/pub/douglass... And there's still plenty of time to register for Douglass Day 2026. All Rights for All!
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Learn everything you need to know to celebrate Douglass Day on February 13th!
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G19 Collective @g19collective.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
(1/2) Here's the first in our series of tips for Graduate Students planning on attending the #C19 Conference in Cincinnati, OH, from March 12-14, 2026! Today we're looking at #networking! You can find more info about the C19 Conference here: www.c19underground.com
Tips for the 2026 C19 Conference!

1. NetworkingLook for other grad students on the program, and email them before the conference. 

They might be just as new and shy as you, so form a team in advance to know you will be in good company.Be on the lookout for G19 staff!

We can help you connect with other people.
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G19 Collective @g19collective.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Our latest #NewBookForum is live! Sarah Ensor, Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses her first monograph "Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World," available now with NYU Press. @plantmetaphor.bsky.social www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...
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The G19 Collective - on Queer Lasting
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G19 Collective @g19collective.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Introducing our wonderful G19 New Book Forum Team. You can find more of their work at: www.g19collective.org
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G19 Collective @g19collective.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Meet the G19 Social Media Team!
G19 Social Media LogoEmma Thiébaut is a PhD student at Université Paris Cité (France). She specializes in nineteenth-century US literature, animal studies and queer theory.Michael R. Soriano is a fifth-year English PhD candidate at the University of Miami. His research focuses on the serialized print production, distribution, and consumption among 19th-century US and Caribbean radicals in the labor, abolitionist, and socialist and anarchist movements. He is also the project lead for the Radical Periodical Index, an online archive that digitizes the Chicago-based anarchist peridoical, The Alarm.Haley Garrelts is a fourth-year PhD candidate in American Literature at Texas Tech University. Her dissertation applies a sound studies lens to American Civil War poetry, exploring how authors create (and subvert) popular portrayals of the Civil War from the home front through their poetic soundscapes. Her work has appeared in Canadian Review of American Studies.
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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
We hope you'll join us for these important conversations at #MLA26! mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...
Poster about The Future of Graduate Education sessions at #MLA26: ACLS Doctoral Futures: Faculty Perspectives on Doctoral Education in the Humanities
Friday, 9 January, 12:00 to 1:15 p.m.

392: Discussion Group on the Future of Graduate Education 
 Saturday, 10 January, 8:30 to 9:45 a.m.

505: The Future of Graduate Education 
Saturday, 10 January, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m.
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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
If you're attending the upcoming @historians.org or @modernlanguage.bsky.social meetings, join sessions related to the Doctoral Futures initiative: bit.ly/3YtXXb7
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Doctoral Futures Events
A schedule of events related to Doctoral Futures at the upcoming annual conventions for the AHA and the MLA.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I picked up three books from this fantastic sale. You can pick up my book SEARCHING FOR BLACK CONFEDERATES: THE CIVIL WAR'S MOST PERSISTENT MYTH at 50% off. Already own it? That's OK. Send a copy to your neo-Confederate uncle. uncpress.org/978146965326...
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Searching for Black Confederates
More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free ...
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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Volume 41, Number 2, 2024 of Legacy is online! 🎉 You can find the entire issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53522 ! We'll be covering each piece and why you should reach them in the coming days!
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Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Max Chapnick & I are proud of this forum commemorating the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott's novel _Work_. Six innovative authors offer insights on C19 gender & labor in literature, very needed as we stand on the precipice of a new Gilded Age & a nadir of modern gender justice. Open Access! 🧵
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G19 Collective @g19collective.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
#TBT NBF: Dr. Kelly Ross, @kellyross910.bsky.social, Jun 2024: In *Slavery, Surveillance, & Genre,* Ross traces detective fiction’s roots in 19th-c. race, genre, and gender, showing how African Americans used “sousveillance” to resist white surveillance. ⬇️ www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...
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The G19 Collective - on Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre
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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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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The daily barrage of evil made me hold back on a cover reveal, but maybe this is the day. Out later in 2025, this book, like 7000+ books & so many other rich projects, would not exist without the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. These stories must be told & we must save the NEH.
The cover of Eric Gardner’s Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction. On a blue background, the largest portion of the cover reproduces a C19 engraving of African American author-activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper found in William Still’s 1872 The Underground Rail Road. The portrait shows her head and upper body. She is wearing traveling clothes, and she is in three-quarters profile, facing to the left. Her hair is pulled back in her signature chignon, and she looks ahead with wisdom and determination. The engraving lines can be seen throughout the portrait, especially on her skin and her dress. A mostly-opaque yellow rectangle rests perhaps two-thirds of the way down the cover below Harper’s chin and neck. Here, inside a thin brown border, the words “Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s” are offered in brown all caps, followed by the words “Civil War and Reconstruction” in smaller white all caps, followed by a partial centered line, followed by the author’s name in smaller brown all caps.
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G19 Collective @g19collective.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
#TBT NBF: Dr. R.J. Boutelle, @rjboutelle.bsky.social, Jul 2024: In *Race for America,* Boutelle argues that African Americans challenged “manifest destiny” to rearticulate the terms of national expansion in the antebellum period of the United States. ⬇️ www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...
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The G19 Collective - on The Race for America
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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Don't forget that in a couple of days you can attend this incredible-sounding pre-panel for the 2025 SSAWW conference! Just click on the link below!
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G19 Collective @g19collective.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
#TBT NBF: Dr. Thomas Koenigs, @tomkoenigs.bsky.social, Jul 2024: In *Founded in Fiction,* Koenigs argues that Early US literature was far more diverse in its applications and served more purposes than simply the aesthetic or artistic. ⬇️ www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...
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The G19 Collective - on Founded in Fiction
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P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
What an amazing collection. If you’re interested in Black print in all its forms this is a volume you will savor. Thanks to the editors @brigfield.bsky.social and @jsench.bsky.social
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Colby Townsend @colbytownsend.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My essay is now available in its online version through the Journal of the Bible and its Reception. Apparently they publish them first this way and then in whatever issue of the journal it’ll be in later this year. I’m so glad to see this one out in the world. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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Early Nineteenth-Century Biblical Scholarship and the Production of The Book of Mormon
Scholars have long written about the development of biblical criticism and its reception in elite circles in the transatlantic world of the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. This has cause...
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
In Callaloo's Phillis Wheatley special issue, Laura Vrana traces an intergenerational call-and-response conversation between “Wheatley poems" in which poets treat her as a central topic and conjure her as a major literary figure Read free thru 31 March: tinyurl.com/wvrjsdrn
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Tracing the Tradition of the “Wheatley Poem”: 1773, 1973, 2023, and Beyond
From the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival 50th Anniversary: A Special Issue of Callaloo
Illustrated with a portrait of Phillis Wheatley attributed to Scipio Moorhead
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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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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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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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2026 Conference CFP | C19 Society
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Jennifer Putzi @putzi.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
We have a cover! Forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press this fall!
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Geoffrey Kirsch @geoffreykirsch.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Still looking for submissions to this @melville-society.bsky.social MLA panel!
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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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Early American Studies @easmisc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
How did the environmental violence of the #AmericanRevolution affect Hudson River farming families and alter the region’s gender dynamics? Read #EAS #Winter2025 article “Ravage the Country” by Blake McGready here: doi.org/10.1353/eam....
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Kim Fox, The Podcast Professor @ohradiogirl.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The next session in this hybrid series is on Monday, March 10, 12-1:30pm ET. #podcasting
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G19 Collective @g19collective.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#TBT NBF: Dr. Zachary Tavlin, @zachtavlin.bsky.social, Aug 2024: In *Glancing Visions,* Tavlin demonstrates how a theory of the “glance” might open up the entrenched criticism surrounding the “gaze” in American Studies. ⬇️ www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...
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The G19 Collective - on Glancing Visions
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Jolie Braun @joliebraun.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Virtual book history lecture series happening later this month hosted by Penn & featuring Kelly Wisecup, "Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation." www.library.upenn.edu/events/asw-r...
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Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation
In this series of three lectures, Kelly Wisecup examines how Indigenous peoples made and used the page to address structures of dispossession.
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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
My department at Uppsala university has just announced two open PhD positions: one in history of science and the other in history of ideas. We research, for example, colonial history of science, history of medicine, and intellectual history. Deadline: 8 April
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Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
What's that? Just 4 ✨STARRED✨ reviews in row for @uncpress.bsky.social books from Library Journal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4 recent and in a row ⭐️STARRED review for UNC Press books from Library Journal: 
The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment
James Marten | HISTORY,  Mar 01, 2025

"Of great interest and value to Civil War enthusiasts, historians, and students, Marten’s account offers a detailed exploration of the war’s long-term impact. The book’s literary quality is exceptional, presenting a well-researched and engaging narrative that captivates from start to finish."
"A Campaign of Giants—The Battle for Petersburg, Vol. 2: From the Crater’s Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill
A. Wilson Greene | HISTORY,  Mar 01, 2025

"Greene’s well-written history of the Battle of Petersburg should be read by anyone interested in the American Civil War."

The Second Manassas Campaign
HISTORY,  Mar 01, 2025

"A welcome new volume that offers a detailed exploration of a crucial moment in American history."

The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry
POETRY,  Jan 01, 2025

"Well thought-out, the selections in this anthology beautifully introduce readers to this special college and to poets deserving of high praise and appreciation."
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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
February’s too short, so each day in March, a C21 book on Black histories. Truth: read all of Martha S. Jones’s work. Vanguard provides clarity in a frightening world & I can’t wait to get Trouble of Color. But I saw C19 anew w/ All Bound Up Together. @marthasjones.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social
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All Bound Up Together | Martha S. Jones | University of North Carolina Press
The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars...
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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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P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Daughter of Mifflin Gibbs, co-editor of California’s first Black newspaper, Colored Convention leader, 1st Black judge elected in the US. Her equally impressive sister Ida Gibbs Hunt, and she, like their mother Maria, all attended Oberlin. @ccp-org.bsky.social.
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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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Eric Gardner @profgardner.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Black History Month as the nation denies diversity #23. Frances Harper, wk of 8 Sep 1856: 1. gave one lecture at Toronto 2. gazed for the first time upon Free Land! 3. wept at that glorious sight 4. breathed the air of freedom 5. returned from Canada, 12 Sep @digblk.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social
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The #Harper200 Nationwide Read-a-thon - Colored Conventions Project
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Grace King @plantmetaphor.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
#envhum hive: I'm organizing a proposed session for MLA 2026 in Toronto, Literature and Taxonomy, that will examine the oppositions & alliances between literary studies and the science of taxonomy. all time periods & subfields welcome! deadline March 23. please share widely!
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
@profjennyshaw.bsky.social discusses her book THE WOMEN OF RENDEZVOUS and the story of 5 women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver on this episode of Atlantic Theory Podcast 🎙️ Listen here ⤵️ or wherever you get your podcasts 🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/b121667b
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Jenny Shaw on The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery | Conversations in Atlantic Theory | Episode 78
This discussion is with Professor Jenny Shaw, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama where she teaches classes in the histories of the Caribbean, the Atlantic World, Comparativ...
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G19 Collective @g19collective.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
#TBT NBF: Dr. Arielle Zibrak @zarielle.bsky.social, Oct 2024: In *Writing Against Reform,* Dr. Zibrak argues that those like Kate Chopin and James Weldon Johnson made the case for “aesthetic realism” as a more complex and ultimately potent art form. ⬇️ www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...
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The G19 Collective - on Writing Against Reform
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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Here at CBDR, our work is made possible by the incredible students who bring passion to our projects! Meet Courtney Murray, a committed #DigBlk scholar. Her work is helping to push the boundaries of digital scholarship. Join us in celebrating Courtney! Thank you for your amazing contributions!
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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
YOU MAKE HISTORY! Tomorrow we will make Black history accessible together 🎂 211 groups 👥 8400+ participants 📚 10,800 pages to transcribe ...and counting! Still time to join our *largest* transcribe-a-thon ever at DouglassDay.org + #DouglassDay
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G19 Collective @g19collective.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
#TBT New Book Forum: Dr. Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social *Transoceanic Blackface, * Nov 2024: “In *Transoceanic Blackface,* Hoxworth challenges the notion of blackface as a uniquely US American phenomenon.” ⬇️ www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...
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The G19 Collective - on Transoceanic Blackface
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C19 Podcast @c19podcast.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
New Episode! Join Marlene L. Daut (Yale University) and Grégory Pierrot (UConn-Stamford) as they revisit Ridley Scott's big-budget 2023 biopic, Napoleon, out of Apple Studios. soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s...
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S08 E05 | Napoleon and the Caribbean
In this episode, Marlene L. Daut (Yale University) and Grégory Pierrot (UConn-Stamford) revisit Ridley Scott's big-budget 2023 biopic, Napoleon, out of Apple Studios. The film’s writers promised to te
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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
With Douglass Day just a week away, we want to ensure that our First-Time Participants are ready for a day of celebration and transcribing! Get inspired by checking out highlights from past years on our YouTube channel! #douglassday #douglassday2025 #subscribe #blackhistory
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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 Podcast @c19podcast.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Season 10 proposals are due on 2/15! We're looking for projects that explore the nineteenth-century United States! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Call for Proposals: Ongoing
C19 Podcast: Call for Proposals The C19 Podcast invites proposals from individuals and collaborators of all ranks for single podcast episodes that offer creative, story-driven analysis of topical even...
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G19 Collective @g19collective.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Over the next weeks, we'll share past interviews from our New Book Forum. First up! @colbytownsend.bsky.social and @ppirli.bsky.social had a wonderful conversation with Dr. Amy Gore about her book, *Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History.* Check it out below!
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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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