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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 · 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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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
No Kings, Delaware County, PA--great turn-out! Loved this sign.
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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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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 · 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 · 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 · 06/01/2025
Two wonderful sessions at #AHA25. Honored.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Full-page ad in this week’s New Yorker! Happy to have an essay in this beautiful volume.
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Well, stamped at Heathrow, but the trip was to Wales. And before that, winter in Copenhagen too (rare November day warm enough to sit outside with coffee).
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Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Great book event last night at the Swarthmore Discussion Group, Swarthmore, Pa., talking about *My Hijacking* with an interested and empathetic audience. Thank you!
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