🚨 New Book 🚨 Friends - @elprofebarba.bsky.social and I are excited to share news about another publication we've got coming out this fall, “Sanctuary in America: How Activists Defied the Government and Defended Immigrants—And Why It Still Matters” published with Oxford University Press!

Huge congratulations to long-time podcast co-host & PhD candidate @sheahendry.bsky.social for her publication in AHR's special issue “‘76 Objects” marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence! academic.oup.com/ahr/article/... @historians.org @camhistory.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk

Portrait of Charles Russell

Katherine Russell divulged a nearly thirty-year-old secret just before she died in 1847. Years earlier, when “alone in the room” with her late father’s por

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A shot in the dark, but does anyone here have access to this book and want to share with me? Tried Amazon, but they won't deliver to the US and the only copy on Abebooks is $113 for shipping from Germany, which is insane.

Please check out & share this incredible new digital humanities archive w/ interactive map, the Black Church Burning Project. blackchurchburningproject.org It exists to identify & document every Black church & congregation that was burned, bombed, or otherwise attacked during the Civil Rights era.

250 years on, what is the legacy of the US Declaration of Independence? Everyone is welcome at this free event bringing together leading scholars, journalists, artists and politicians. https://www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/story/the-united-states-of-america-at-250

The United States of America at 250

Reflections on the past, present, and future of independence. 29 May 2026, 12.30pm to 5.30pm, Ray Dolby Centre, Cambridge

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If you're anywhere near Cambridge on May 29th, come see Jamelle Bouie, Martha Jones, Heather Thompson & other starry speakers reflect on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Tickets are *free* but nearly gone so hit the link below asap www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/story/the-un...

The United States of America at 250

Reflections on the past, present, and future of independence. 29 May 2026, 12.30pm to 5.30pm, Ray Dolby Centre, Cambridge

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Save the date for the Cambridge American History Workshop Conference Researchers from across the UK and Ireland will present new work spanning the long 19th century to the late Cold War. 📅 22 May ⏲️ 9am-5pm 🏢 Jesus College, Cambridge Free, open to all 🔗Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-...

Had the privilege today of hearing about this new historiographical intervention in Jefferson scholarship! A really helpful take on a topic frequently misconstrued.Congrats to @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social and Christa Dierksheide!

The podcast has been running since 2018, and you can access old and new episodes on your streaming platform of choice, including Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast

Education Podcast · Monthly · Where big ideas in history meet open conversation. Each episode invites listeners into the Seminar experience, where, every Monday afternoon during term, visiting scholar...

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Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Utopia, Dystopia, Myopia 2. Myth, Morality, Rings (Lord of the Rings) 3. American Political Thought 4. Victorian Literature 5. Age of Reason and Revolution

Media outlets are claiming that Greenland would be the largest ever US territorial acquisition as a way to pique interest. Problem is the original Louisiana Purchase was over 900k sq. mi. Greenland is 836k.

Check out this *free* resource on the ARDA that provides demographic, social, and religious information about communities across the United States!

The Association of Religion Data Archives@religiondata.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Have you explored the ARDA's free Community Profile Builder resource? This tool assists church, community, and scholarly leaders in accessing online demographic and religious information about communities across the United States. Explore the CPB today on the ARDA. (Link in the comments!)

New book from IEHS member, David-James Gonzales: Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange County, California (Oxford University Press, 2025). global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I couldn't be more thrilled with the cover art for my forthcoming book with @uncpress.bsky.social. Lindsay Starr and the rest of the art production team knocked it out of the park. Thank you to everyone involved. It's starting to look like a book.

Check out these fantastic teaching resources for #AmRel and #AfricanaReligions. SPIRIT HOUSE has storymaps, music, comics, documentaries, experimental films, oral histories, and more related the Black religious histories, communities, and cultures.

The Crossroads Project@xroadproj.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Gearing up for a new semester? Did you know that @xroadproj.bsky.social's SPIRIT HOUSE gallery of 36 projects on varied aspects of Black religious histories, communities, and cultures has a teaching guide? Check it out here:

For those interested in religion, culture, and politics in 19c U.S. history, can’t recommend this enough. Great work by a great friend from grad school. lsupress.org/978080718593...

Lutheranism and American Culture

Timothy D. Grundmeier’s Lutheranism and American Culture examines the transformation of the nation’s third-largest Protestant denomination over the cour...

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Incredible that this was written over 70yrs ago: “School is shortened,…philosophies, histories, languages dropped…. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts.” Fahrenheit 451

It's time for @laurenfturek.bsky.social & I to celebrate the book birthday for The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States Since 1775! 44 chapters, 48 contributors representing both History & Religious Studies www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... 1/n

The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States Since 1775

Drawing together history and recent historiography, this volume offers a reference work for understanding how religion influenced politics and how politics shaped religion in the United States from th...

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It was a whirlwind week finishing out the term, but a highlight was presenting my research to the Brooke Society @caiuscollege.bsky.social. Got to share my work on historiographies of Christian nationalism during the 1950s.

My end-of-the-term solution…

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...

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Material religious history finds today at an antiques store in Ely:

May have found the cover for my next book..."Nothing's Sacred" (1953)

While going through security at Logan for an early morning flight, I turned around to see Nick Offerman behind me.

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what's the most random interaction you've ever had with a celebrity?

Pleased to share my review of @galekenny.bsky.social’s latest book. If you study 20c gender, culture, religion, and/or Protestant missions, definitely give it a read. @nyupress.bsky.social

Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire. By Gale L. Kenny

The history of Protestant missionaries is a robust field. When it comes to missionaries from the United States, however, most historical attention is direc

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Pleased to share my review of @galekenny.bsky.social’s latest book. If you study 20c gender, culture, religion, and/or Protestant missions, definitely give it a read. @nyupress.bsky.social

Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire. By Gale L. Kenny

The history of Protestant missionaries is a robust field. When it comes to missionaries from the United States, however, most historical attention is direc

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***Graduate students studying migration and/or ethnic history*** Apply to the Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations. More information is available here: iehs.org/awards/georg...

George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award

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PUB DATE today folks happy to have written the foreward to Sylvia Frey's classic on black resistance in the south during the American Revolution, one of my favorite books in grad school. @princetonupress.bsky.social did a great job with the new edition. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Water from the Rock

A multifaceted history of Black resistance during the War of Independence

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JOB!!! Four-year full-time job in Modern European History (Social/Economic) at Cambridge. By today's standards, it's pretty good! Split between Trinity Hall College and History Faculty. It's also widely defined so do apply, deadline July 27. @camhistory.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR005/s...

Senior Teaching Associate [Temporary Cover] at University of Cambridge

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Senior Teaching Associate [Temporary Cover] opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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