Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI)
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The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. FEEGI hosts conferences every 2 years. https://feegi.org/index.html
What did they write about? : An intellectual history of Timbuktu ca. 1450-1900. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/what-did-t...
What did they write about? : An intellectual history of Timbuktu ca. 1450-1900.
No single body of primary sources in the literary heritage of West Africa has attracted as much attention and attained as much celebrity as the fabled manuscripts of Timbuktu.
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WHAT'S FEEGI? FEEGI is a special conference because it is unpretentious, affordable, and welcoming to scholars at all levels. The conferences are composed entirely of plenary sessions with short papers to maximize general discussion. Awards and travel grants are also available. Come to FEEGI!
Terra Nova won our @nichecanada.bsky.social prize for best book in Canadian Environmental History this year. :) niche-canada.org/2026/06/03/b... #envhist #cdnhist #books
Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize: The 2026 Winner
We are pleased to announce that NiCHE’s 2026 Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize has been awarded to Jack Bouchard, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Rutgers Univer...
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Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI)@feegiconference.bsky.social · 3w agoFEEGI Spotlight: Jack Bouchard is an Medieval and Early Modern Historian specializing in maritime environments, food and island geographies. His recent book explores fishermen, geographies, and food production. Check it out! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
📣 CFP | RSA 2027 🗺️Early Modern Maps and Their Materialities 📍Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Philadelphia 🗓️March 11–13, 2027 🗓️ Deadline: July 15, 2026 (1/4)
CFP for the RSA 2027: The Sack of Rome at 500 🚨 Sponsored interdisciplinary panels on all aspects of the Sack. See www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... #earlymodern #Renaissance #Skystoriana
FEEGI Spotlight: Jack Bouchard is an Medieval and Early Modern Historian specializing in maritime environments, food and island geographies. His recent book explores fishermen, geographies, and food production. Check it out! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Terra Nova
A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...
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My wonderful friend, the stellar (and wildly productive) historian @rparkinson.bsky.social has written another fabulous book. Congratulations, Rob! I can't wait to dive in.
Rob Parkinson@rparkinson.bsky.social · 2mo agoYesterday was my birthday, today is the birthday for Tyrants and Rogues! The first book to interrogate the Declaration’s 27 grievances. On sale now!
This is exciting. Our most recent double issue of the JEMH is now live. Titled "Reflections on the Global Early Modern", we envision this to be just the beginning of an ongoing conversation--check out Vol. 1 and stay on the lookout for Vol. 2! #earlymodern #globalhistory
Journal of Early Modern History@earlymodhistory.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur special issue #30.1-2, "Reflections on the Global Early Modern," is now available online! It opens with an introduction by Zoltán Biedermann, Giancarlo Casale, and Molly Warsh, "How Early? How Modern? Reflections on the Global Early Modern (Part 1)." brill.com/view/journal...
FEEGI supports and encourages scholarship around the Early-Modern world. Research spotlight: Sarah Balakrishnan Check out her innovative work! #Earlymodern #history www.sarahbalakrishnan.com
Sarah Balakrishnan
Sarah Balakrishnan is an award winning fiction writer and a historian of West Africa at Duke University.
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As we lead up to America's semiquincentennial, check out archival holdings on the people and events. www.masshist.org/thomasjeffer...
Massachusetts Historical Society: Thomas Jefferson Papers
Selections from the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts at the Massachusetts Historical Society
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In honor of Juneteenth explore the Huntington Library's slavery and abolition collection. #history #earlymodern #huntingtonlibrary #juneteenth #abolition #slavery hdl.huntington.org/digital/coll...
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Honoring the official end of slavery on Juneteenth. 📷: Wrist shackles on display at the Smithsonian African American History Museum . . #juneteenth #slavery #emancipation #freedom #smithsonian #canonphotography #ushistory #photography #history #factnotfiction
Looking for materials you can use in your teaching or research? The AHA Resource Library includes syllabi, primary sources, teaching tools, and disciplinary guidelines—all developed or vetted by historians. Whether you’re building a course, revising a lecture, or exploring new topics, start here:
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Explore All Resources Search Resource Type Thematic AHA Topics Geographic K-12 Education Undergraduate Education Graduate Education Professional & Career Resources Academic Department Resources Histor...
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Steven Teasdale@steventeasdale.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe FORTES project plans to digitize handwritten historical tables and transform them into structured and analyzable data. This should result in a powerful research dataset for #earlymodern socioeconomic and environmental historians (among others). I'm looking forward to seeing the outputs!
In honor of e-publication week, Chris and I have launched a Substack. Follow for more than you ever wanted to know about the ivory sporks, wildly inaccurate maps, and emetic recipes that didn't make it into the book. #earlymodern #frenchhistory #skystorians open.substack.com/pub/frenchat...
Introducing Beyond the Ocean
Welcome to our Substack!
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Did you know that on June 4th, 1755 a combined force of Mi'kmaq, Acadians, and French fighters attempted to keep the British from taking Fort Beauséjour? British victory in the siege isolated the Mi'kmaq in the region as the French retreated in an early battle in the Seven Years War. #earlymodern
Fort Beauséjour – Fort Cumberland National Historic Site
Discover a time when Britain and France were caught in a tug-of-war for dominance in Acadie, and be moved by the stories of soldiers and settlers who lived and died around the historic star-shaped for...
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@deborahhamer.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you know a Masters student who would like to go on to the PhD and knows Dutch, there's a Phd position open in Alisa van de Haar's exciting "Leveraging Language, Proclaiming Power: Linguistic Politics in Early Colonial North America" project at Leiden: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Leiden-P...
Another successful FEEGI Conference in the bag! Thank you to our incredible conference organizing committee and for all of YOU who made this such a smashing success!! We hope to see all of you in Pittsburgh for FEEGI 2028. #earlymodern
#earlymodern CFP for the Renaissance society of America (RSA). Sounds like an exciting slate! Global early modern, religion and interdisciplinary. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Call for Papers: Renaissance Society of America Conference, 11-13 March, 2027, Philadelphia, PA (USA) | H-Net
CFP: Jesuit Studies panels at the Renaissance Society of America annual Conference, March 11-13, 2027 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.The 2027 annual meeting w...
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EUI Department of History@eui-history.bsky.social · 2mo ago📣 #CallforPapers 📣 Working on how Central and Eastern Europe participated in #EarlyModern global exchanges? Check the #CfP for the conference Global Connections – Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern World (ca. 1500-1800) 👉 loom.ly/68-mKyU ⏰ Submit your proposal by 15 June 2026
IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800@ihrscb.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur next and final event of this academic year is on Thursday 4 June! Melissa Calaresu will be giving the following paper ‘Painting by Numbers: Writing the Life of Thomas Jones (1744-1803)’. Thomas Jones was known for his strikingly exact portrayals of urban Naples: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
African Studies Association@asanewsonline.bsky.social · 3mo agoApply to the PACT Workshop and ESN Mentorship Program by extended deadline May 31! Share application details with your students and colleagues here: https://africanstudies.org/emerging-scholars-network/esn-newsfeed/emerging-scholar-opportunities-at-the-asa-annual-meeting/
Join @amandajsummers.bsky.social and I at RSA in Philly next year! Send us your abstracts by July 31st 🥳
