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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Join us tomorrow for our annual Grad Research Conference! It’s the culmination of the HIST 5101 and HIST 5102 sequence, typically taken in the first year of the grad program. In these courses, students learn about the historian's craft as they write and now present an article-length research paper.
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Our own @profmsinha.bsky.social and Andy Horowitz are featured in UConn Today on two new exhibits they respectively curated that mark the country’s 250th Anniversary. today.uconn.edu/2026/07/cura...
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Curating the 250th: History Professors Mark Country’s Anniversary with Museum Exhibitions - UConn Today
Manisha Sinha curated the latest exhibition at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, while Andy Horowitz was a member of the curatorial team ...
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
So #SHEAR2026 is a wrap! So glad to see such good representation from @uconnhistory.bsky.social and UMass students. Our graveyard shift had around 30 attendees packed in a small room and the first time graduate students who delivered papers were great. Pic with past and future SHEAR Presidents.
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Associate Professor and CT State Historian Andrew Horowitz Collaborates with CT DOT on Signs Marking America 250. today.uconn.edu/2026/07/seri...
Andy Horowitz standing on front of a blue and white sign with the Webb Deane Stevens Museum in the background
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Historian here I never thought I would be in People magazine thanks to a History podcast produced by President Obama. The first episode on Reconstruction dropped June 4 on Audible and will be widely available on all platforms on June 18. Give it a listen! people.com/barack-obama...
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Barack Obama Partners with Malcolm Gladwell for New Podcast About an 'Often Overlooked' Subject
Former President Barack Obama is teaming up with journalist Malcolm Gladwell for a new, eight-part podcast series with The History Channel that aims to remind listeners of 'powerful sources of hope' b...
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Historian here so honored to have curated the 250th exhibition, The Second American Revolution, at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield based on my new book #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic starting next week. presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/News/135/New...
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Historian here, calling all friends, followers, and UConn alum. If you are in Philly this weekend, join me on this historic 250th tour. Registration closes on May 14th, if you can't get in DM me! www.events.foundation.uconn.edu/website/94934/
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Because of UConn Conversation Series: Democracy’s Blueprint: 250 Years of the Declaration of Independence
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Historian here so #OAH26 is a wrap! Wonderful to hear brilliant scholars and hang out with great friends. Our panel was packed and the highlight for me was receiving the Presidents Book prize from @shgape.bsky.social for #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Maybe a good time to mention that one of our amazing @uconnhistory.bsky.social graduate students @graceeasterly.bsky.social is currently writing a field defining dissertation on the centrality of freedom of the seas to US foreign policy, commercial, and strategic thinking in the 20th century.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Happy to see my @shearites.bsky.social Presidential Address "The First American Republic: An Alternative Genealogy" (expanded version) out in print in the Journal of the Early Republic Spring issue. Get your copies folks! muse.jhu.edu/issue/56474?...
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Project MUSE - Journal of the Early Republic-Volume 46, Number 1, Spring 2026
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Happy to have done this great podacst on #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic with Dr. Chelsea Gibson of #SHGAPE pod.link/1584947419
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
FYI for anyone in NYC!
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Attention, Michigan area followers! Check out our own Manisha Sinha this afternoon:
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Historian here join us today for this documentary featuring the research of my colleague @uconnhistory.bsky.social Nina Dayton who unearthed the later life of Phillis Wheatley and John Peters. www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-events/search-phillis-wheatley-peters-short-historical-documentary
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In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters: A Short Historical Documentary | American Antiquarian Society
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Our own @lincolnhirn.bsky.social will be speaking tomorrow evening at the @stowecenter.org in Hartford! Details below: stowecenter.org/event/stowe-...
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Stowe Prize Series: The Phillips Manuscript and “James: A Novel”
Register to Attend in Person Register to Attend Virtually The Stowe Prize Series is a public program series that extends the values of the Stowe Prize for Literary Activism—engaging bold writing,...
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Franklin & Marshall College @fandmcollege.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
At a Feb. 26 Common Hour talk, historian @profmsinha.bsky.social will discuss the ideas about American progress explored in her latest book, “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920.” Read our Q&A with the author: pulse.ly/uajbxmcluh
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A Q&A with Historian Manisha Sinha, F&M Mueller Fellow
Historian Manisha Sinha, this year’s F&M Mueller Fellow, will lead a Feb. 26 discussion centered on focus on her latest book, “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1...
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Historian here join us today for this free zoom webinar open to all: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Historian here, very happy to contribute to this special issue on abolition in Social Research (2 2025). Also alerting everyone to Chris Grasso’s superb review of #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic Reviews in American History (Sept 2024), a historiographical tour de force on Reconstruction!
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Also a @uconnhistory.bsky.social graduate
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Hey Jorrell Melendez Badillo one of our star graduates from @uconnhistory.bsky.social doing us proud!
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Happy Black History month! To commemorate I am doing talks at a private New England prep school today and at an independent black book store in Alabama next week. It's like the old abolitionist alliance that gave us emancipation and the Reconstruction Constitution. May we revive that again!
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Steven Nelson @stevenel.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
A new year, but the same concerns for democracy dating back to the Civil War (and before). To better understand the connections and to take lessons for today, I spoke with an expert on Reconstruction: @profmsinha.bsky.social . We covered a lot so I broke it up into two episodes. Here’s part 1.
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DIY Democracy: Lessons from American Reconstruction for a New Founding, Pt. 1
For this episode, I spoke with Prof. Manisha Sinha of the University of Connecticut, historian and author of the recent book . We spoke about what a "new founding" of American democracy has looked lik...
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Happy New Year Civics and Coffee named #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic one of the best books of 2025 “Sinha does an exquisite job of arguing that Reconstruction is a much broader period in history than we think and expertly covers its impact on various populations & regions” Pub date 2024
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Our own Manisha Sinha recently featured in The NY Times! Check it out here:
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Folks if you want to take a break from the end of semester and holiday preparations, come join me for this free virtual program at 7 pm EST part of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History's online programs via zoom. gilderlehrman.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/dec250-rise-...
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Declaration at 250: The Abolitionist Origins of the Second American Revolution
Scholar: Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut Moderator: Ziara Smith This workshop will look at the ways abolitionists, Black and White, critically
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
So this is what I did over the weekend, an interview on the Trump regime’s idiotic plan to make the national parks free on his birthday but cancel it for MLK Day with ABC News. The Pastor was far more eloquent than me but I could not help myself with the Nobel dig. abcnews.go.com/US/video/jun...
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Video Juneteenth and MLK Day removed as free-fee days at national parks
The National Park Service will offer free admission on President Donald Trump's birthday but is eliminating it for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth.
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Tonight at 7, featuring @profmsinha.bsky.social !
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Very grateful to American Nineteenth Century History’s David Cox for putting together this wonderful symposium on #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic which grew out of the panel on the book at the United States Intellectual History conference organized by Benjamin Park.
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Check out @profmsinha.bsky.social on Dec. 2 if you’re around Cambridge!
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Reminder that our next Wednesday Workshop will be TOMORROW (11/19) at 12:15. Info below: history.uconn.edu/news/wednesd...
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Wednesday Workshops | Department of History
The History Department hosts Wednesday Workshops several times throughout the semester to further scholarly dialogue among graduate students, faculty, and v ...
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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The First Fascist | Department of History
Sergio Luzzatto Harvard University Press, 2026 (US); Penguin Books, 2026 (UK) A vivid biography of the nineteenth-century French-Italian aristocrat Marquis ...
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
For any of our London followers!
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University of Connecticut Humanities Institute @uconnhumanities.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Today's read: former UCHI fellow Fiona Vernal and UCHI graduate assistant Timothy Brown (@uconnhistory.bsky.social) premiered an exhibit titled: “Bloomfield Mosaic: Stories from our Jewish, African American, and West Indian Communities.” This exhibit features over 40 oral histories.
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UConn Humanities Project Helps Bloomfield Preserve Its Cultural Mosaic - UConn Today
A new exhibition celebrates community history and highlights how UConn humanities research, led by professor Fiona Vernal, is helping Connecticut towns pres ...
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Huge shout out to our own Timothy Brown! Check it out:
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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Manisha Sinha's Counterrevolution of Slavery at Twenty Five | Department of History
The Southern Historical Association will be hosting a roundtable discussion of Prof. Manisha Sinha's, The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Id ...
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
For any of our followers at the SHA conference today!
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
This historian flew around the world for the Chinese book launch of #theslavescause and is happy to be back home!
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Historian in China here, some photographs from my talk at Peking University, a beautiful campus.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Very much enjoyed doing these lectures at Shanghai Normal and East China Normal University today!
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Pics from the second lecture at Wuhan University and we are now in the amazing city of Shanghai, which seems like the center of capitalism in the world.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
First leg of the China lecture trip is over. The Americanists from all over the country who came for my talks were impressive. Many had spent time in the U.S. and were taken by American higher education now under severe attack.
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Read the first chapter of The First Right: Self-determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000 here: www.google.com/.../The_Firs.... On Kindle here read.amazon.com/sample/B0FR5... ! Order from OUP: global.oup.com/.../the-firs.... and use promotion code AUFLY30 to save 30%
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Our own @profmsinha.bsky.social is heading to China for a series of lectures! Info below: history.uconn.edu/2025/10/20/m...
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Manisha Sinha Starts Lecture Tour in China | Department of History
Professor Manisha Sinha is doing a lecture tour in China and the Chinese book launch of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (2016) in Beijing. Sh ...
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Happening TOMORROW with @profmsinha.bsky.social history.uconn.edu/2025/10/14/m...
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Manisha Sinha to Deliver Richard Greener Lecture, 10/15/2025 | Department of History
Professor Manisha Sinha will deliver the Richard Greener Lecture at the University of South Carolina, Columbia on October 15, 2025 on her new book on Recons ...
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Check out this wonderful article from The Daily Campus about last week’s Wednesday Workshop with Jan Stievermann! dailycampus.com/2025/10/09/t...
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The almost forgotten Black abolitionist activist and reformed minister
1827: James W. C. Pennington escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad, quickly receiving an education to become a teacher, journalist, activist, writer and evangelical Reformed Christian mi…
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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New York Times Recommendation: Andy Horowitz's Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 | Department of History
New York Times opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie recently recommended Professor Andy Horowitz’s Katrina: A History, 1915–2015. “It’s just a wonderful history, ...
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