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Martha Hodes

@marthahodes.bsky.social
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Historian. Writer. Professor at NYU. Author most recently of My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering.

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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Gloria Steinem: As a senior in high school in 1975-76, I interned at Ms. Magazine. Gloria was kind to me, and a formidable presence.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This episode of the Sacred Nine Project podcast is SO good: Bruce Dorsey, Professor of History, Swarthmore College, @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social, speaking with C. Leonard Raybon, about translating *Murder in a Mill Town* into the vocal concert *American Martyr.* Wow.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A “stunning, deeply moving book”: So grateful for the review of *My Hijacking* in *Reviews in American History*! “Hodes is a renowned historian of nineteenth-century America, but here she brings her formidable skills . . . to bear on a more personal story, albeit one shot through with geopolitics.”
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
AMERICAN MARTYR concert preceded last night by a lively conversation called "History in Translation: Creative Adaptation of History Writing" with @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social and C. Leonard Raybon of Tulane University and the Sacred Nine Project
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
An magnificent event--history "brought to life in a new creative way"!
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
No Kings, Delaware County, PA--great turn-out! Loved this sign.
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Excited for upcoming world premiere concert, AMERICAN MARTYR, by composer C. Leonard Raybon and inspired by my book MURDER IN A MILL TOWN, at @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social on Friday, March 27 at 8pm. Sponsored by the William J. Cooper Foundation.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Philly area folks--exciting upcoming event on Friday, March 27! World premiere, “American Martyr,” inspired by the book *Murder in a Mill Town,* by Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social, Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College. Free and open to the public.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
So proud of my NYU PhD advisee Emilie Connolly! Congratulations to Emilie and to Beth Lew Williams, too--wonderful news all around.
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Histories of Native American Treaties and Anti-Chinese Violence Win Bancroft Prize
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"Empty bolt holes and shadows are all that remains on the brick walls where explanatory panels were displayed . . . One woman cried silently at their absence. . . . A hand-lettered sign said 'Slavery was real.'" . . . It's all connected. bit.ly/4q21GI9
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Philadelphia sues Trump administration over removal of slavery exhibit from public park
Outraged critics accused President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” on Friday after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Par...
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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 23/01/2026
AHA member @marthahodes.bsky.social wrote a book about a formative experience in her life—in 1970, at 12 years old she was held hostage for a week inside an airplane in the Jordan desert. Read her Member Spotlight to learn how she used her historical research training for this project. 🗃️
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AHA Member Spotlight: Martha Hodes – AHA
Martha Hodes is professor of history at New York University. She lives in New York, NY, and has been a member since 1989.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Thank you, American Historical Association! @historians.org www.historians.org/perspectives...
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AHA Member Spotlight: Martha Hodes – AHA
Martha Hodes is professor of history at New York University. She lives in New York, NY, and has been a member since 1989.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A wonderful evening in conversation with Ben Yagoda, discussing Ben’s latest book, *Alias O. Henry: A Novel* at Pete’s Tavern, O. Henry’s famous New York City haunt. Congratulations, Ben, on this masterful work of historical fiction!
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Right after college, in the early 1980s, I served with VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), working with Southeast Asian refugees--Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Hmong, Minh: Yes, the ignorance of history called out here. Exactly this. 👇👇
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
My parents, both principal Martha Graham dancers, would have been pleased. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/a...
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Martha Graham Dance Company Won’t Celebrate Centennial at Kennedy Center
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
New York area friends, I'm looking forward to this conversation, this Thursday, December 4. Join us if you can! www.gc.cuny.edu/events/megan...
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Megan Marshall on the Art of Biography, with Martha Hodes
Megan Marshall’s innovative books, including The Peabody Sisters and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Margaret Fuller, are treasured works of American biography.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
As a veteran of city rallies, I found No Kings Day in the trending-blue Philly suburbs fascinating: hundreds of protestors lining the Baltimore Pike (peacefully avoiding interactions with mingling MAGAs), while cars honked in solidarity (with MAGA middle fingers mixed in). A beautiful afternoon.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
More thoughtful and intense than "happy hour"! Thank you, Yale Club of New York, for last night's event about *My Hijacking.*
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Incredible new bookstore in Swarthmore, Pa.! Thrilled to be there at the ribbon-cutting!
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Wonderful evening last night at Rotary Arts, in conversation with brilliant poet Nat Anderson, Swarthmore College, talking about *My Hijacking.* Great audience!
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
My mother's obit in the New York Times captures her long, productive life.
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Linda Hodes, Dancer Who Championed Martha Graham’s Vision, Dies at 94
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Linda Hodes, 1931 - 2025. She was the oldest living Martha Graham dancer.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
A wonderful evening at The Quadrangle in Haverford, PA . . . even though a lightning strike and phenomenal storm meant no lights or tech! No matter. The audience was so engaged, with beautiful, caring questions. Thank you. (pic taken before the lights went out)
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
History-relevant messages at Philadelphia's No Kings protest today.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 09/06/2025
Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.
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Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, or the Space Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

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L. 117-81, div. A, title X, § 1045(a), Dec. 27, 2021,
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Bowdoin College 45th reunion: I was not there, but my book was--and Bowdoin friends make an appearance in the memoir. Thank you, Bowdoin, for the shout-out.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
*My Hijacking* recently displayed at Authors' Celebration, NYU Center for the Humanities. Thank you! [Photo credit: ©Braddock Jr.: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau]
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
On this 160th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, I quote from his magisterial Gettysburg Address, 1863: "that this nation . . . shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
The cover of my book, about personal responses to Lincoln's assassination, published by Yale University Press, 2015..
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
" . . . that this nation. . . shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth": Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863, and today in New York City (and all over the country).
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Go see this incredible one-man show, based on the book by historian Marcus Rediker, @marcusrediker.bsky.social, playing in New York NOW and heading to Philadelphia in May. It is so timely. You will be deeply moved.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
So deeply looking forward to reading this book about race, color, enslavement, freedom, and, most of all, family, by the ever-brilliant Martha Jones, @marthasjones.bsky.social. *The Color of Trouble: An American Family Memoir*
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Thank you, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Levering Lewis for naming *My Hijacking* as one of the books “on your night stand” in this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. I can’t wait to read Lewis’s new book, *The Stained Glass Window.* www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...
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Interview: David Levering Lewis on ‘The Stained Glass Window’ and His Reading Life
The august scholar has two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal. In “The Stained Glass Window,” he seeks to explain “macro-history as family history.”
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Great conversation, great book--a great event!
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Great event!
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Thank you, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Levering Lewis for naming *My Hijacking* as one of the books “on your night stand” in this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. I can’t wait to read Lewis’s new book, *The Stained Glass Window.* www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...
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Interview: David Levering Lewis on ‘The Stained Glass Window’ and His Reading Life
The august scholar has two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal. In “The Stained Glass Window,” he seeks to explain “macro-history as family history.”
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 18/02/2025
They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.
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Deirdre Mullane @mullanelit.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
for fans of historical true crime - the case that started it all - see you Saturday @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social @oxfordunipress.bsky.social #bksky
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Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
There is still time to register for this event, which takes place on Saturday at the Charles River Museum. Join us in honoring @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social on his wonderful book, *Murder in a Mill Town.* <https://www.masshist.org/events/peter-j-gomes-memorial-book-prize-ceremony-2024>
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"It is ... for us, the living" to "be dedicated to the great task remaining before us" that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Wow. Thank you very kindly, Honor Sachs @drhonor.bsky.social.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Book launch!
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Boston area folks: On Feb, 22, join me for a conversation with @manionjen.bsky.social about "Murder in a Mill Town." I'm honored to receive the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize. #Boston #Massachusetts #Skyhistorians
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Boston, Feb. 22!
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
January 19, 2025: Things do get worse. Tomorrow will be worse. January 20, 2025: Besides that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? January 21, 2025: Horrible, thanks for asking.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
January 20, 2025: Besides that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
January 19, 2025: Things do get worse. Tomorrow will be worse.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Two wonderful sessions at #AHA25. Honored.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Thank you for selecting *Sea Captain’s Wife*!
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