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Shirley Samuels

@shirleyinithaca.bsky.social
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Writer, teacher, friend, mother, sister. Latest book: “Haunted by the Civil War” (PUP, 2025) Now writing: “Women & Democracy in the C19 U. S.” (Edinburgh UP) english.cornell.edu/shirley-samuels

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Half price offer at Princeton University Press for almost all books (including mine) Use the code: SPRING50 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Haunted by the Civil War
How the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracy
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
It’s currently 25% off a pretty reasonable sticker price on Amazon. About $25? Let me know if that is still too much for you. I want to be in conversation about this kind of haunting.
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Happy to read this first review— #haunted emergingcivilwar.com/2026/01/15/b...
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Book Review: Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States - Emerging Civil War
Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Shirley Samuels. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Hardcover, 232 pp. $32.00. Reviewed by Robin Frie...
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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January 1, 2026
On January 1, 1892, seventeen-year-old Annie Moore walked down the gangway from the steamship Nevada with her two brothers Anthony, eleven, and Philip, nine, and into history as the first person proce...
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I’m mostly lurking. But also always looking to make contact. Warm thoughts.
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
It was far too short but an excellent set of responses from people like Michael Jonik, Russ Castronovo, and Cecile Roudeau. Very grateful.
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Happy (late) birthday!
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Happy Sojourner Truth Day & Sarah Grimke Day! Ain't that America? memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/november-n...
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November Nominees
November 1: Parker David Robbins , the North Carolinian and US Colored Troops Civil War veteran who went on to an inspiring career as a po...
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Headed to Paris in a couple of weeks to talk about #Hauntedbook How about you? branca-2025.weebly.com
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2025 BrANCA SYMPOSIUM
Lise Chenal (Université Paris Cité) Thomas Constantinesco (Sorbonne Université) Anna Diamantouli (American College of Greece) Erin Forbes (University of Bristol) Edouard Marsoin (Université Paris...
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Friends helped me eat ghosts. Thank you! #haunted #cake/book #diadelosmuertos
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Today is publication day! news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
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Civil War still haunts American attitudes toward democracy | Cornell Chronicle
A new book by Shirley Samuels examines the story behind today’s divided America in literature and art created during and soon after the Civil War.
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
OTOH I am haunted by the war so maybe autocorrect is making a point?
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Thank you to @jsench.bsky.social for making it real. #haunted #halloween
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Unboxing done. #hauntedbook #halloween
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I got my advance copy. They did a nice job with it and it’s making me happy!
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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Haunted by the Civil War
How the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracy
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Welcome to J19 journal with Sarah Chinn at the helm!
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Just for a moment — taking a break
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The code is P329 Brings it under $30 For a hardback…!
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
www.facebook.com/share/p/1J2i... A coupon code is somewhere here…
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Redirecting...
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Coming soon: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... Haunted by the Civil War | Princeton University Press
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Haunted by the Civil War
How the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracy
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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Reupping: Application period open to survey the history of books with me in Los Angeles this summer. There are amazing collections at amazing libraries staffed by amazing librarians in LA. We'll work with them to explore how books emerged, were made, used, & made meaning/information for centuries!
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
(That was either too subtle or too obvious as an account of children playing with matches. It’s a true story.)
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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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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Three guesses about what’s on my mind. The first two don’t count.
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
We assumed they would want to play with matches and we just wanted to show them how to safely close the matchbook and only strike once it was closed. Away from flammable materials.
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
It’s hard to imagine all the protocols that would be in place now concerning research on human subjects, let alone young children. We drove all over. We had matchbooks.
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
When I was an undergraduate in the San Francisco Bay Area, back when my major was psychology, I had a work study job in connection with a study of children who played with matches. The idea was to train them in safety…
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Respect the list. And solidarity with those who study the wild 19th century and hear echoes.
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Yes, please add me.
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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Hey friends at #MLA25! Join us on Feb 14 to help transcribe Black archives with the Library of Congress! Over 125 schools & community groups and counting! See DouglassDay.org to register. Plus get access to our organizing kit, teaching guides, interactive tutorials, swag and lots more!
Portrait of Frederick Douglass, ringed by the words "Power concedes nothing without a demand" and the url DouglassDay.org.
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Broadview Press @broadviewpress.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
New year = new reading goals 📚 Sign up for the Frances E. W. Harper Read-A-Thon, running from Jan-April! Our edition of lola Leroy, edited by Koritha Mitchell, is a March feature! Full schedule and sign up here ⏬ coloredconventions.org/news/read-ha...
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The #Harper200 Nationwide Read-a-thon - Colored Conventions Project
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Noliwe Rooks @nrooks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
This is the intro to the introduction of to my spring 2025 book, Integrated. You can pre order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721962...
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Celebrating vastness in the americas…
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The Journal of the Civil War Era @jcwe.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In today's Muster, JCWE associate editor Robert Bland talks with Dr. Brandon Byrd about the journal's special issue on Black Internationalism www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2024/12/inte...
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Interview with Brandon Byrd on JCWE's Black Internationalism Special Issue - The Journal of the Civil War Era
In today’s Muster, JCWE associate editor Robert Bland interviews Dr. Brandon R. Byrd, editor and organizer of the journal’s December 2024 special issue on Black Internationalism. Dr. Byrd is an associ...
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The Journal of the Civil War Era @jcwe.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The December issue of the JCWE is now available. This special issue on Black Internationalism is edited by Brandon Byrd, associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University and author of The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/june2024142/
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Current Issue - The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 14, No. 3 December 2024 This is a special issue on Black Internationalism organized and edited by Brandon Byrd. Introduction – Brandon Byrd This introductory essay offers a historical and histo...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
high school teacher asks: "is there a site w short videos of people describing their professions+their college major, to help guide students, show them all the different things people do?" we made humanitiesworks.org and individual depts have alumni roundtables, but got video testimonials? please RT
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HUMANITIES WORKS – posters, postcards, and handouts to support the humanities
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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
🎂 SAVE THE DATE: Feb. 14, 2025! 🎂 This year Douglass Day is transcribing Black history with the Library of Congress! 💻 Crowdsourcing project on Black history 📽️ Live Broadcast 🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off 📣 Special guests! Join us online or host an event in your community! Info: douglassday.org
Save the Date for Douglass Day, February 14, 2025, featuring the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress.
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Kate Topham @tophkat.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Among other things, we'll be spotlighting Malinda Russell's 1886 A Domestic Cookbook, the first cookbook published by an African American woman. The only known copy is in UMich Special Collections, but you can read the whole thing on HathiTrust: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00474...
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Catalog Record: A domestic cook book : containing a careful selection of useful receipts for the kitchen
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
All 6 of Edward W. Said's recorded Reith lectures on Representations of the Intellectual can be heard here: 1) Representations of the Intellectual 2) Holding Nations And Traditions At Bay 3) Intellectual Exiles 4) Professionals and Amateurs 5) Speaking Truth To Power 6) Gods That Always Fail
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BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Edward Said - Representation of the Intellectual - Available now
Available episodes of Edward Said - Representation of the Intellectual
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Happy to share the cover of my book, *Freedom Ship*, which is forthcoming in May 2025 from Viking-Penguin. Pre-order available at many online outlets. The book is a hopeful sequel to *The Slave Ship: A Human History*. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407...
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Ok, you all have earned access to William Morris’ horniest wallpaper (also one of his first!). His 1862 ‘Pomegranate’ let you know that the craft movement knew how to handle some fruit 🥵
Wallpaper with pomegranates and fruit, that’s all they are and nothing else. It would take a real pervert to see anything else in this design. You’d better not be thinking any unclean thoughts about these innocent fruits!
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/11/2024
Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
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Belinda Archibong @belindaarch.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hey all, I created a starter pack with a list of Black economists and academics for an easily accessible list of folks doing research that we can all follow and cite #Blacksky #AddtoBlacksky #Econsky: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This story has a wonderful account of diving into archives and finding survivors of places that might not exist. Plus #Nabokov
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Molly Weston Williamson @mollyww.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Nearly every country on the face of the planet guarantees some form of paid leave. The United States, virtually alone, does not nationally guarantee any paid leave--not one day, not one dollar.
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michael veale @michae.lv · 15/11/2024
In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...
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A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT
Site web d’Arthur Perret, enseignant-chercheur en SIC.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I’ve been avoiding election post-mortems because I’m tired of hearing the same bromides about the dangers of “wokeness” or reaching out to the “white working class” but this one from @gabrielwinant.bsky.social avoids those traps and provides a real analysis. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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Exit Right - Dissent Magazine
Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.
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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Curious about university press publishing? Want to publish with a university press? #AskUP! University press professionals answer frequently asked publishing questions here: bit.ly/3milXtt
Ask Up logo, tagline: Authors Seeking Knowledge from University Presses
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