Amanda Laury Kleintop
@alkleintop.bsky.social
Historian of US Civil War & Reconstruction, working on history and memory of enslavers' claims for compensation. First book, Counting the Cost of Freedom, forthcoming w/ UNC Press, August 2025. Public and occasional digital historian. she/they.
The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30 uncpress.org/978146969484...
White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
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New podcast with @alkleintop.bsky.social about her new book COUNTING THE COST OF FREEDOM: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War just dropped on the UNC Press Presents Podcast via @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🎧👇 newbooksnetwork.com/counting-the...
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2022 Brose lecturer Aaron Sheehan-Dean's book, Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War, was published by UNC Press today!
Fighting with the Past
Civil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Aaron Sheehan-Dean reveals in this fascinating w...
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Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP
Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era is now available for preorder. Preordering is a great way to support the book's success. Many thanks in advance. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/out-of-thi...
Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era|Paperback
Free people of color were both architects of equal rights and active participants in the Civil War, on and off the battlefield. Their unique status as already free persons before emancipation shaped t...
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Once again, if you teach or conduct research in higher ed, please join @aaup.org
AFT, AAUP Launch Nationwide Campaign, ‘Higher Education: Saving Lives, Building Futures, Powering the Economy’
WASHINGTON—The AFT and the American Association of University Professors, together representing the country’s largest and most powerful force of higher education workers, launched a major national cam...
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The SHA is thrilled to announce the 2025-2026 Junior Scholars Workshop! Please add these dates to your calendar, and join us on Zoom! Our first meeting will be on Thursday, August 21, at 4:30 PM ET, featuring Leigh Soares. Fill out this form to stay up to date: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thanks to friends and colleagues who helped promote my first book, Counting the Cost of Freedom! (Especially those here, where I don't post much.) @kringelberg.bsky.social @archiecrowley.bsky.social @gauthamrao.bsky.social @rkdcolby86.bsky.social
Please share! We are looking for TWO postdoctoral scholars in African American history and history of the Civil War era. Fellowships are for TWO years, and the anticipated start date is July 1, 2026. The deadline to apply is NOVEMBER 1! Links are in the replies below.
If youre interested, hit me up! Happy to tell you all about the role :)
Dr. Evan A. Gatti@eagatti.bsky.social · last yr.@arthistoryelon.bsky.social is seeking someone to teach ARH 2100: Art History of the Ancient World in 25-26 AY. If you are interested in working with my amazing colleagues (or have colleagues or students who might be), please reach out via email (www.elon.edu/u/directory/...). Review begins now!
The National Park Service announces the addition of seven new sites to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. This national network connects sites across the country that provide education, interpretation, and research related to the period of Reconstruction. www.nps.gov/reer/learn/n...
Reconstruction Era National Historic Network Announces the Inclusion of Seven New Sites - Reconstruction Era National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)
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Counting the Cost of Freedom by @alkleintop.bsky.social Post–Civil War white Southerners demanded $ for enslaved people who were freed. Deeply revealing. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Counting the Cost of Freedom | Amanda Laury Kleintop | University of North Carolina Press
During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South's wealth by nearly 50 percent. After the...
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#tdih May 1: Int'l Workers' Day Commemorated around world, but not in US, despite origins here (Haymarket). Teach labor history outside textbook. See ⬇️ Join #MayDay protests www.nea.org/maydaytoolkit Art, available as a poster, by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/in...
May 1: International Workers Day
International Workers’ Day began as a commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket massacre in Chicago.
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Whitney Plantation grant pulled, exhibit on African American history in limbo www.wwltv.com/article/news...
Whitney Plantation grant pulled, exhibit on African American history in limbo
A federal agency revoked funds for a long-planned Whitney Plantation exhibit on Black resistance, citing a new executive order under President Trump.
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YES: "Haitians call for reparations from France on 200th anniversary of independence ‘ransom’: France should return harsh damages imposed on Caribbean country in 1825 after Haitian Revolution, say campaigners"
Haitians call for reparations from France on 200th anniversary of independence ‘ransom’
France should return harsh damages imposed on Caribbean country in 1825 after Haitian Revolution, say campaigners
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Hoping these leaders—who helped build the entire field in Digital Humanities, for example —will find places in private foundations, in Deans and provost offices, and more. They are not only leaders, they’re fine people.
Roopika Risam@roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2y agoThere are now a number of incredible folks from the NEH & state humanities councils who will be looking for jobs. They are humanities leaders, strategists, thinkers. You want them on your team.
Trump is reportedly targeting the slavery section of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture for possible removal. “Black people are not going to stand for this,” says Nikole Hannah Jones, the author of the 1619 Project.
Trump Targets a Slavery Removal from the National Museum of African-American History and Culture
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The museum's slavery facts and substantiating artifacts of the 250 years of the enslavement of Africans in America, curated by historians, are the bull’s-eye for the Trump adm...
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"Previously, the article started with a description of enslaved peoples’ efforts to free themselves and the organization of the Underground Railroad.... "The article now starts with two paragraphs that emphasize the 'American ideals of liberty and freedom' and do not specifically mention slavery."🗃️
CNN@cnn.com · 2y agoAn image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.
"Adjusting for inflation, tenure-track faculty are now paid 10.2 % less than before Covid... While 'median pay increases for most higher education employees in 2024–25 remained strong, they have dropped...” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... #edsky #highered
Most Higher Ed Workers Still Paid Less Than Before Pandemic
Although raises for most higher education employees last academic year beat inflation, most are still effectively earning less than they were in 2019–20, according to new salary survey data released M...
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“The Japanese American National Museum says Trump admin may withhold as much as $2 million approved by the Biden admin.” “Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
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Join the 2025-2026 SHA Junior Scholars Workshop cohort! We meet once a month on Zoom. Junior scholars (pre-first book) have the opportunity to present work in progress, with comments by two senior scholars. Applications will be accepted until April 15. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1PGJ...
Civil War historian here so now the American Civil War is a DEI woke subject? The Trump regime is in a full blown fascist attack on all US history.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2y agoArlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.
Without IMLS, there would be no Omeka and there would be no Zotero. Write to your representatives to defend IMLS today. www.6floors.org/bracket/2025...
Seeds of Innovation: Defending IMLS – [bracket]
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Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order
Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.
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In researching our report "Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction,” we found that many issues Du Bois exposed and challenged in his scholarship are still prevalent in state standards and textbooks. Read: teachreconstructionreport.org
Standing with my colleagues who signed this letter protesting the changes made to the Stonewall NPS website. docs.google.com/document/u/0...
Letter on Modifications to the National Stonewall Monument Web Pages
Letter on the National Park Service Modifications to the Stonewall National Monument Web Pages Signatures closed at 5 P.M. EST on February 19, 2025. If you are a journalist writing about this issue o...
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At the request of the Trump Admin, the Ntl Park Service removed references to trans people in this essay w/o consulting the writer, historian @wendylrouse.bsky.social. Read it here as Prof Rouse intended (and as the NPS published/maintained it until now). 🗃️ drive.google.com/file/d/1p-rQ...
The Very Queer History of the Suffrage Movement (U.S. National Park Service).pdf
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