Check out our exciting new roundtable: “Challenges and opportunities in writing Black biography”, with Katherine Burns (Glasgow), Adam Domby (Auburn), @hngreen.bsky.social (Davidson) and @davidsilkenat.bsky.social (Florida): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Challenges and opportunities in writing Black biography: a roundtable discussion

This roundtable is an outgrowth of a panel held at the BrANCH annual conference in Cardiff in September 2025. While the BrANCH panel focused on the particulars of the research findings of the panel...

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Check out the latest issue of American Nineteenth Century History - with articles on Jefferson's life and legacies, Malthusian politics in the US South, convict leasing, culture, temptation, and the US Civil War: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fanc20/c...

American Nineteenth Century History

Volume 27, Issue 1 of American Nineteenth Century History

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New article by @hngreen.bsky.social, Adam Domby, Katherine Burns, and me in @anchistjournal.bsky.social on writing Black biography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Challenges and opportunities in writing Black biography: a roundtable discussion

This roundtable is an outgrowth of a panel held at the BrANCH annual conference in Cardiff in September 2025. While the BrANCH panel focused on the particulars of the research findings of the panel...

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🧵With apologies for the delay, we're delighted that @anchistjournal.bsky.social Volume 27. 1 is out in its entirety, with articles on Jefferson's life and legacies, Malthusian politics in the US South, convict leasing, culture, temptation, and the US Civil War: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fanc20/2...

American Nineteenth Century History

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Hope everybody had a great July 4th 🇺🇸 – as we reflect on the nation’s 250th birthday, why not check out this piece on Abraham Lincoln’s evolving appreciation of the Declaration of Independence by Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Abraham Lincoln’s evolving appreciation of the declaration of independence

A scholarly consensus has emerged in recent years that the Declaration of Independence was the “apple of gold” in Abraham Lincoln’s anti-slavery political thought and moral grounding. Prior to Cong...

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Tomorrow is the anniversary of the arrest of Denmark Vesey, the architect of the largest rebellion of enslaved Americans in US history back in 1822. This article by Tim Lockley explores the wider context of the Vesey conspiracy and the trials that followed: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the arrest of Denmark Vesey, the architect of the largest rebellion of enslaved Americans in US history back in 1822. This article by Tim Lockley explores the wider context of the Vesey conspiracy and the trials that followed: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Summer appears to have taken a "rain check" here in the UK, so there's no better time to check out our three latest articles, all available to read online free of charge (Open Access)! ☔ 📚 ☕ www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...

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Thrilled that @erinshearer.bsky.social's article from ANCH @anchistjournal.bsky.social is shortlisted for this award. 2 years in a row ANCH authors have been listed here, and we're proud to support ECR colleagues getting their work published. Do think of us for your work! @branchuk.bsky.social

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The Society is pleased to publish today the Shortlist of its 2026 Early Career Article Prize: bit.ly/4wEuVoW This year's list includes eight articles published in 2025 and follows an open call for submissions. Our two winners for this prize will be announced in July #Skystorians 1/2

Delighted that my latest article in @anchistjournal.bsky.social, 'Challenging the Overseer', has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's 2026 Early Career Article Prize ⭐

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 3mo ago

The Society is pleased to publish today the Shortlist of its 2026 Early Career Article Prize: bit.ly/4wEuVoW This year's list includes eight articles published in 2025 and follows an open call for submissions. Our two winners for this prize will be announced in July #Skystorians 1/2

New OPEN ACCESS article in ANCH this week - Carson Eckhard (University of Cambridge) explores convict leasing in the nineteenth-century US South and how it formed an important part in the formation of the modern carceral state 📚 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“ … If we except the colored criminals of the south”: distorted discourse and American convict leasing on the international stage, 1870–1895

The history of the contemporary prison and its underlying “liberal mythology” was constructed not only in American reformatories, workhouses, and convict camps, but also in the debate halls of the ...

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New OPEN ACCESS article in ANCH this week - Carson Eckhard (University of Cambridge) explores convict leasing in the nineteenth-century US South and how it formed an important part in the formation of the modern carceral state 📚 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“ … If we except the colored criminals of the south”: distorted discourse and American convict leasing on the international stage, 1870–1895

The history of the contemporary prison and its underlying “liberal mythology” was constructed not only in American reformatories, workhouses, and convict camps, but also in the debate halls of the ...

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Want to become part of the editorial team here at @anchistjournal.bsky.social, or know somebody who would be a great fit for the role, then please check our current editor's post (below) and share this link with your network!

@daviddoddington.bsky.social · 3mo ago

British American 19th C Historians (@branchuk.bsky.social) is looking for new co-editors of its journal, American 19th C History (@anchistjournal.bsky.social) Applications due: 01.06.26. Pls share widely! @officialbaas.bsky.social @oah.org @royalhistsoc.org @historians.org @ihr.bsky.social

On this day in 1863, Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Soon after his death, a statue of him was commissioned in Britain. To find out more about this transatlantic memorial, check out this article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“British Tribute to Virginia Valor”: Unveiling the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Statue

This article outlines the political agendas surrounding the dedication of the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Statue, an early Confederate monument commissioned in Britain in 1863 and unveiled with much...

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In our latest OPEN ACCESS article, as the US approaches its 250th birthday, Professor @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social of the University of Cambridge assesses the changes in the scholarly reputation of Thomas Jefferson over the past 50 years www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A thoroughly adaptive and amoral public figure: Thomas Jefferson and 2026

This essay considers the changes in Thomas Jefferson's scholarly reputation since the bicentennial of 1976, with particular focus on the impact of revelations about Sally Hemings and Jefferson's mi...

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@branchuk.bsky.social announces a search for new co-editors of its journal, American 19th C History @anchistjournal.bsky.social. Apps to include c.v. and a 1-2 page cover letter, sent to ANCH co-editor, and incoming BrANCH Chair, David Doddington (doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk) by 01.05.26. Pls share!

On this day in US history (7 April 1940), the 10-cent Booker T. Washington stamp was released as part of the "Famous Americans" series - the first to feature a Black American. To find out more about Washington, see this ANCH article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Forging African American Minds: Black Pragmatism, “intelligent labor,” and a new look at industrial education, 1879–1900

This article examines black thought and black ideas about racial consciousness after Reconstruction in order to rethink the way African American leaders conceived the relationship between work and ...

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On this day in US history (7 April 1940), the 10-cent Booker T. Washington stamp was released as part of the "Famous Americans" series - the first to feature a Black American. To find out more about Washington, see this ANCH article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Forging African American Minds: Black Pragmatism, “intelligent labor,” and a new look at industrial education, 1879–1900

This article examines black thought and black ideas about racial consciousness after Reconstruction in order to rethink the way African American leaders conceived the relationship between work and ...

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Fancy a fascinating read that connects volcanoes, mosquitos and migration to the city of Savannah, Georgia? Then we have the OPEN ACCESS article you have been looking for! Check out this piece by Timothy J. Lockley: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The butterfly effect in action; or the tale of the volcano and the mosquito. The Peter J. Parish Memorial Lecture 2025

Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Check out this new, ahead-of-print article in ANCH by Lindsay Rae Smith Privette. It explores the complexity of patient-physician relationships during the Civil War 📖 🇺🇸 doi.org/10.1080/1466...

Of soldiers and surgeons: how the struggle for autonomy shaped patient–physician relationships during the Civil War

Between 1861 and 1865, hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers received traumatic injuries in service to their country and suddenly found themselves classified as casualties. They witnessed firstha...

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On this day in US history (1784), John Wesley chartered the first Methodist church in the United States. For more on how Wesleyan Methodism developed in the long nineteenth century, why not check out this OPEN ACCESS article by @randalljstephens.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From abolitionists to fundamentalists: the transformation of the Wesleyan Methodists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

This article analyzes the cultural trajectory of a small, but influential denomination that formed in 1843. Wesleyan Methodism first emerged as an abolitionist protest against the Methodist comprom...

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On this day in US history (1849) - James K. Polk became the first sitting president to have his photograph taken - find out more about Polk in these ANCH articles by Scott Stephan and W. Dusinberre: Stephan: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Dusinberre: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

President James K. Polk’s deathbed conversion: the contest of ideas and market within the mid-nineteenth-century southern evangelical press

In June 1849, James K. Polk died from cholera in Nashville, less than four months removed from the presidency. Seizing on a sensational column in the New York Herald, the editor of the Tennessee Ba...

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Volume 26, Issue 3 of American Nineteenth Century History

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Today is the anniversary of the start of the California Gold Rush back in 1848, so why not check out an article from our online archives, which explores the development of race relations during this crucial turning point in California's history? www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Hinton Rowan Helper's the land of gold and the evolution of race relations in California

The California Gold Rush of the mid‐nineteenth century attracted a multitude of prospectors from around the world, bringing together a vibrant mix of ethnicities and cultures. Historians have argue...

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Looking for a New Year's Resolution? Look no further - how about reading an article a month from 'American Nineteenth Century History'? Simple, achievable and effective! 🇺🇸💡📚 www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...

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Our 2025 ANCH journal prize goes to the exceptional @aishadjelid.bsky.social and her article on slavery and forced intimacy, which has now reached a simply staggering 82,000 VIEWS! Amazing work 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“The master whished to reproduce”: slavery, forced intimacy, and enslavers’ interference in sexual relationships in the antebellum South, 1808–1861

This article examines the extent to which enslavers across the antebellum South forced enslaved men and women to reproduce. Using a spectrum of violence as a tool of coercion, enslavers coerced, ca...

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Our 2025 ANCH journal prize goes to the exceptional @aishadjelid.bsky.social and her article on slavery and forced intimacy, which has now reached a simply staggering 82,000 VIEWS! Amazing work 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“The master whished to reproduce”: slavery, forced intimacy, and enslavers’ interference in sexual relationships in the antebellum South, 1808–1861

This article examines the extent to which enslavers across the antebellum South forced enslaved men and women to reproduce. Using a spectrum of violence as a tool of coercion, enslavers coerced, ca...

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Check out our multi-expert review of "The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920," by @profmsinha.bsky.social Manisha Sinha www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Reconstruction: Democracy for All”

Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 26, No. 2, 2025)

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We are excited to reveal another new article in ANCH, available now ahead of print via our website. In it, Isaiah Sterrett (Boston College) explores how young Northerners maintained a sense of morality and self amidst the maelstrom of the Civil War. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“To keep me steady”: Northern culture, temptation, and the talismanic home in the Civil War Age

Young people away from home in a world replete with temptation: to many Northerners, this was a disturbing fact of life in the nineteenth century's middle decades. How could a young person operate ...

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