Later this month — please mark your calendars! Tony Buba and I will screen our film, *Becoming Benjamin Lay* at the City of Asylum, 40 W North Ave., Pittsburgh on Monday, August 31 at 7:00 pm. Join us! cityofasylum.org/program/tony...

Tony Buba & Marcus Rediker Present: "Becoming Benjamin Lay" - City of Asylum

City of Asylum hosts a film screening of a new documentary from director Tony Buba and historian Marcus Rediker, exploring the life and ideas of Benjamin Lay.

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A third thing-I-planned-to-do but never did: write an overview of labor history for 17c/18c North America, a book-length version of my article “Good Hands, Stout Hearts, and Fast Feet.” Commissioned by Eric Foner for Hill & Wang Books. I was too busy with *The Many Headed-Hydra*.

For all you writers out there: a list of sixteen writing tips, culled from long experience of trying get unruly words down onto the page. Originally posted on social media, recently republished in the *Pittsburgh Review of Books (@pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social). pghrev.com/sixteen-writ...

Sixteen Writing Tips from Marcus Rediker - Pittsburgh Review of Books

Editor's Note: Acclaimed writer and Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh Marcus Rediker has long informally circulated

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Coming in September 2026, a translation into German of my book *Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea*, courtesy of Assoziation A based in Berlin. www.assoziation-a.de/buch/freihei...

Grateful to be shortlisted for the MAAH Stone Book Award! (@maahstonebookaward.bsky.social) Congratulations to the authors of all the books!

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The 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList! Mark your calendar to join us in person or virtually for the awards ceremony on October 8th! Registration opens September 8th at maahstonebookaward.org. @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @marcusrediker.bsky.social @danaawilliams.bsky.social

Heaven help us. Over the past week I have received thirteen different AI-driven scamming emails from fictive people who say they want to feature one or another of my books in reading clubs. I hope no one out there is falling for this kind of thing.

Another thing-I-planned-to-do but never did: in 1990 Robin Blackburn invited me to conduct a set of interviews with the great historian Christopher Hill, to be published by Verso Books. The modest Christopher did not want to talk about himself so I relented. I wish I hadn’t. This is a real regret.

🏴‍☠️ Listen up! ⚓️ Double @workingclasshistory.com podcast episode on the Golden Age of #Piracy with historian @marcusrediker.bsky.social. 🐘 More on #Mastodon: kolektiva.social/@patadeperro... #Pirates 🎧 #Resistance 🔥 #ClassStruggle #Anarchism #AntiImperialism #Liberty #AntiColonialism

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Attached: 1 image 🏴‍☠️ Listen up! Double @workingclasshistory@mastodon.social podcast episode on the Golden Age of #Piracy with historian Marcus Rediker. ⚓️ Those legendary #pirates weren't just thie...

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Honored to say the my book *Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea* (Viking) has been shortlisted for the Stone Book Prize awarded by the Museum of African American History (@maahstonebookaward.bsky.social ebookaward.bsky.social). www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/free...

Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea — MAAH Stone Book Award

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One of those things-I-planned-to-do but never got around to: review Bernard Bailyn’s White Atlantic trilogy on the “peopling of America,” especially *The Barbarous Years*, under the title, “Waiting for the Barbarians.”

Here’s an interview with one of my favorite poets and musicians, the incomparable Linton Kewsi Johnson. I discovered his work when I went to London for the first time in 1979. LKJ has long been an inspiration. His music was the soundtrack to one of my book, *Outlaws of the Atlantic*.

‘Dread Beat an Blood’ Set Black Londoners’ Struggle to a Groove (Gift Article)

A newly restored 1979 documentary examines how Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dub-infused poetry documented the challenges faced by Britain’s Black Caribbean population.

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@marcusrediker.bsky.social, David Lester, and Paul Buhle call the Amistad uprising one of the best-known examples of resistance to bondage in all of US history. Their graphic novel, THE BLACK SCHOONER offers an important lesson for our own times.

Ron Verzuh reviews The Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad, A Graphic

Ron Verzuh reviews The Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad, A Graphic Novel, by David Lester and Mark Rediker with Paul Buhle (Boston: Beacon Press, 2026) $18.95 / 9780807016909

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Here is an excellent review of our film *Becoming Benjamin Lay* by climate and animal rights activist Lee Hall (@leehall.bsky.social), aptly entitled, “Whose History? Our History.” Thank you, Lee! www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/24/w...

Whose History? Our History. A Review of the Documentary Becoming Benjamin Lay

Becoming Benjamin Lay isn’t a documentary about an actor portraying dwarfism, actor Mark Povinelli explains. It’s about portraying one of the great

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I have been studying the Atlantic and its workers for almost fifty years now – a vast historic space of deadly repression and heroic resistance, its sea-bed an unmarked cemetery for millions. These many decades later it still whispers stories to me, especially when it is in this mood.

I’ve done a lot of interviews, but this one stands out. I spoke with Fritz McAlinden for his podcast, @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social. He asked smart, well-informed questions and I enjoyed the conversation immensely. Love the title: “World-Historical Mischief.” www.patreon.com/TheStateBetw...

33. World-Historical Mischief w/ Marcus Rediker | The State Between Us

Fritz's favorite historian, Marcus Rediker, joins The State Between Us to unearth long-lost nautical stories of bold and brilliant people li

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Spielberg’s 1997 film focused on the trial of the African slaves, yielding a whitewashed account that failed to feature the courage of the captives in overthrowing their oppressors. THE BLACK SCHOONER centers the Africans. @marcusrediker.bsky.social

Ron Verzuh reviews The Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad, A Graphic

Ron Verzuh reviews The Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad, A Graphic Novel, by David Lester and Mark Rediker with Paul Buhle (Boston: Beacon Press, 2026) $18.95 / 9780807016909

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When I was in Argentina in 2024 I asked a bunch of people, “Messi or Maradona?” Every single one of them said Maradona. I don’t know ….

108/158 2026 Official Submission #MAAHStoneAtoZ @marcusrediker.bsky.social @vikingbooks.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse

A new book by my friend Sharon Salinger, just published by University of Virginia Press: *Perceived in Print: Indigenous American and French Ideas of the Other*. I have known Sharon for decades and she is truly an outstanding historian. Can’t wait to read it! www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10207/

July 4th from below! How rebellious sailors, enslaved people, and the motley crew propelled the American Revolution, a condensed chapter of *The Many-Headed Hydra*, written by Peter Linebaugh and me, now published in *Economic and Political Weekly*, based in Mumbai. www.epw.in/journal/2026...

As always, with thanks to the Zinn Education Project! @zinnedproject.bsky.social

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Check out the new “Black Schooner” from @marcusrediker.bsky.social, Lester, & Buhle. Graphic “history from below” about the Amistad rebellion of 1839 when 53 enslaved Africans on the slave ship Amistad slipped out of their restraints & overpowered their enslavers & ship’s crew.

Please mark your calendars! We will screen our film, *Becoming Benjamin Lay*, directed by Tony Buba, at Pittsburgh's City of Asylum (@cityofasylum.bsky.social) on Monday, August 31 at 7:00 pm. Join us! cityofasylum.org/program/tony...

Tony Buba & Marcus Rediker Present: "Becoming Benjamin Lay" - City of Asylum

City of Asylum hosts a film screening of a new documentary from director Tony Buba and historian Marcus Rediker, exploring the life and ideas of Benjamin Lay.

cityofasylum.org

My film with Tony Buba, *Becoming Benjamin Lay*, will be screened tomorrow, June 27, in the Sam Yan Film Festival in Bangkok, Thailand. It is an honor to be able to bring the story of the radical abolitionist Lay to viewers in Thailand, thanks to Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal.

Just finished one of the best novels I’ve read in years: *Ghost-Eye* by my friend @amitav.bsky.social. It’s riveting from beginning to end in its vivid storytelling, driving dramatic tension, and radical environmental message. Highly recommended! us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

“Too little, too late." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Lloyd’s acknowledges historic role in slave trade with ne...

The commission is the company’s latest effort to recognise its involvement in insuring ships and slave owners, but such gestures also draw criticism

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Happy Juneteenth, everyone. Glad to see that @beaconpress.bsky.social is offering a 40% discount on several relevant books, including our own new *The Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad, A Graphic Novel*, about the revolt on the Amistad slave schooner in 1839. www.beacon.org/The-Black-Sc...

I just learned that Carlo Ginzburg, one of the great historians of our time, has passed away at age 87 in Bologna. I had the good fortune to work with Carlo several times. He was driven by a fierce curiosity. I will write about him in my forthcoming book on the history of “history from below."

Now reading, a magnificent book by my friend and colleague Larry Glasco, a life’s work devoted to understanding one of the greatest American playwrights, *August Wilson’s American Century*, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Highly recommended! upittpress.org/books/978082...

Happy #PublicationDay, @marcusrediker.bsky.social, David Lester & Paul Buhle! ✊🏽 THE BLACK SCHOONER, a stunning graphic history of the enslaved Africans’ Amistad rebellion of 1839, is “a necessary and unique, expectation-shattering chronicle.” — @libraryjournal.bsky.social, ⭐️Starred Review

Happy #BookBirthday to @marcusrediker.bsky.social, David Lester, & Paul Buhle for their latest graphic collab THE BLACK SCHOONER! @libraryjournal.bsky.social calls it "a necessary & unique, expectation-shattering chronicle." @beaconpress.bsky.social www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-b...