***Historians - Academic Job Opportunity*** Latin American History (Assistant Professor/tenure-track) Tufts University, Department of History careers.historians.org/jobs/2252748...

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Head of Special Collections - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:Academic StaffEmployment Type...

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Interested in teaching, researching, & studying at the University of Oslo? Apply for a student or scholar Fulbright with us. (We are hosting one American historian this year.) The 2027-28 deadlines: Sept for scholars, Oct for undergrad & grad students. fulbright.no/grants/grant...

“If we’re not careful we will end up with what the great writer Toni Morrison called ‘statist history.’ And it will creat what she called ‘sanctioned ignorance.’” A righteous defense of the craft and the profession of history. Watch it. youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...

WATCH: David Blight makes opening statement in hearing on how Smithsonian presents history

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Amherst is hiring 2 classicists (one tenure-track, one tenured):

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New job: Associate or Full Professor of Classics Amherst College jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70113

oh permanent full-time pre-1800 job at Limerick! Deadline 14 August -- start of the job in January 2027. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a... #earlymodern #MedievalSky #Skystorians #Jobfairy

Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) at University of Limerick

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Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

The team of IN THE SAME SEA is happy to share a dataset about nearly 7,000 enslaved fugitives in Lesser Antilles. Read more at: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsdp/ar... Download at: dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?per... Watch at: experience.arcgis.com/experience/2... 🍀🌊🌞

I'm excited this is out! We spent countless hours building the database in a way that will hopefully be usable for other scholars and students of fugitivity in the Caribbean. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsdp/ar...

Enslaved Fugitives in the Lesser Antilles, 1760s-1860s

Dataset CreatorsRasmus Christensen, University of CopenhagenGunvor Simonsen, University of CopenhagenHeather Freund, University of CopenhagenFelicia Fricke, University of CopenhagenGabriëlle La Croix,...

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IN THE SAME SEA’s @feliciafricke.bsky.social and @heatherfreund.bsky.social together with @silvaperez.bsky.social have published “'Printed for the Proprietress': Women and Printing Families in the Caribbean, 1720s–1860s”, in Early American Studies 🗞️🌊🍀. Open access: doi.org/10.1353/eam.... 🗞️🌊🍀.

New publication alert! 🚨 You can now read this Open Access article about women's involvement in #Caribbean #colonialism through their work as print shop owners in #Guadeloupe #StKitts and #Curaçao 1720s-1860s 📰 @silvaperez.bsky.social @heatherfreund.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

IN THE SAME SEA's team and Dr. Joy Lewis have guest-edited the special issue “Small Islands, Proximity and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean” of the Journal of Caribbean History. See: www.uwipress.com/journals/the... Thanks to all contributors and the journal’s main editor Kathleen Monteith.

Journal of Caribbean History | University of the West Indies Press

The Journal of Caribbean History (JCH) is a peer reviewed journal produced by the Departments of History, The University of the West Indies, and published by the University of the West Indies Press. T...

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The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

UI African American, Gender Studies faculty prepare for program closures

University of Iowa faculty in African American Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies are preparing for closure of their programs following a review of "low-enrollment" degrees and majors ...

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Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh

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We are sorry to learn of the death of Doris L. Garraway, author of "The Libertine Colony" and a contributor to the journal Small Axe. buff.ly/ttM0p1g

The Department of History and the Integrated Liberal Studies Program at the UW-Madison invite excellent candidates who work in the history of science with a focus on water to apply for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor. wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UW_Mad...

Hurricane Melissa left at least dozens dead amid widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, where roofless homes, toppled utility poles and water-logged furniture dominated the landscape Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/48UWh0Y

LIVE MAP: Track the path of Hurricane Melissa

Hurricane Melissa left at least dozens dead amid widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, where roofless homes, toppled utility poles and water-logged furniture dominated the landscape W...

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The stories of enslaved African people and more than 1,000 British plantation owners who were compensated after abolition have been brought together in a searchable archive for the first time. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada made into searchable archive

Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors

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Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Finishing a Ph.D. on slavery in early American or Atlantic history this year? Consider applying for the University of California's President's Postdoc program. I'd love to sponsor at applicant if working with me @ucsantacruz.bsky.social might be a good fit! ppfp.ucop.edu/info/how-to-...

We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple. It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.

In "Archival Irruptions," @ktgerbs.bsky.social traces how British colonial authorities in Jamaica criminalized Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the introduction for free now. buff.ly/3JlgBEt

My Dept of History at W. Michigan University in Kalamazoo is hiring an Asst/Associate Prof in African American History. Please come join us! 2-2 load/generous research & travel funding, diverse & culturally lively community/ free college in MI for kids. ?s welcome. www.wmujobs.org/postings/4277

The party of death

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.

Forget sharks, this is the real summer threat. “Blood-sucking ticks that trigger an allergy to meat are exploding in # & spreading across the US…& could cover the entire eastern half of the US & infect millions”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/lone-star-ticks-increase-climate-crisis

‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis

Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them

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Gotta tell ya, I don’t super love it when every historian I know suddenly has expertise that’s ✨relevant✨ to current events

A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated

A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated

NOAA's Center for Heat Resilient Communities would have helped local officials keep residents safe.

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Scores of scientists at the NIH sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled The Bethesda Declaration, challenging “policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe.”

NIH scientists publish letter criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research

The letter addresses the termination of 2,100 research grants valued at more than $12 billion and some of the human costs that have resulted, such as cutting off medication regimens to participants in...

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Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.