“Bad Bunny’s performance reflects strength of Puerto Rican roots in music & the Black Atlantic as resistance to empire.” @baylorhistory.bsky.social PhD student Kayla Becknuss has great piece in *Black Perspectives* on the Super Bowl, empire & cultural resistance. www.aaihs.org/rhythms-of-r...

Rhythms of Resistance in Afro-Latino Identity, Music, and Culture - AAIHS

The opening beats from the bombas de pellejo at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime show came from an instrument brought over by enslaved Africans to Puerto Rico. Bad Bunny then displays a sugar plantatio...

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Author @wemilteer.bsky.social talking about his latest book 📚🎙️

"Miss the vernacular roots of the 4th of July speech & you miss why it has lasted. That's the lineage worth claiming on the country’s 250th birthday." An engaging essay on Frederick Douglass's famous speech from @baylorhistory.bsky.social PhD student Russell Crosthwait. www.aaihs.org/the-black-in...

The Black Intellectual Traditions That Shaped Frederick Douglass - AAIHS

The United States recently marked 250 years since the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. For this occasion, a quote has been circulating from Frederick Douglass: "This Fourth July is yo...

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Excited to get an advance copy of @laurenarrington.bsky.social’s book, out in December from @stmartinspress.bsky.social!

Excited about this @shearites.bsky.social 2026 panel “Validating the Medical Profession: Patients, Practitioners, and Clashing Epistemologies in the Early Republic” featuring @baylorhistory.bsky.social PhD candidate Savannah Flanagan.

Looking forward to delivering the @oieahc.bsky.social keynote lecture “DIPLOMATIC DISAGREEMENT: REVOLUTIONARY FOUNDATIONS FOR DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES IN US FOREIGN POLICY” next week at the Transatlantic Studies Association conference in Williamsburg, VA.

“Black Catholics formed the Society of the Holy Family, a center of Catholic & Black religious life in Baltimore.” @baylorhistory.bsky.social PhD student Philip Chivily published this lovely research piece in America - The Jesuit Review. Nice work, Phil! www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...

A rare look at Black Catholic life before the Civil War

Even if the Society of the Holy Family did not survive the antebellum period, it showed how a West African-rooted Catholicism could thrive in the United States.

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“The library is a place that promotes intellectual curiosity. Books inspire people to learn, to seek the truth, to verify information, instead of simply accepting what we’re told.” 📚 ~ Patricia Sargeant / Olivia Matthews

Haitian scholar-diplomat Weibert Arthus wrote a piece in @lenouvelliste.bsky.social about our @oah.org 2026 conference panel—including @dawnd.bsky.social—on Rayford Logan’s *The Diplomatic History of the United States with Haiti* from @uncpress.bsky.social. 🇺🇸🇭🇹📚 lenouvelliste.com/en/article/2...

From Pawn to Perceived Threat: Revisiting Rayford Logan’s Analysis of Haitian-American Relations

As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence—the first independence in the Americas—I had the opportunity, during a panel at the annual conference of the Organization of A...

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*Entangled Alliances* spotted hanging out at the Monticello bookstore, just in time for the 4th of July. 📚🇺🇸🎆

Delighted to share I’ll be the 2026-27 Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the @amantiquarian.bsky.social completing my book “We Are All Equal” (under contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social)

Exciting! 📚

MAAH Stone Book Award@maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · last mo.

73/158 2026 Official Submission #MAAHStoneAtoZ @ronajohnson.bsky.social @cornellupress.bsky.social

The 2026 SHAFR Summer Institute is underway! 16 junior scholars, 5 days, and a steady supply of buckeyes!

Missed our recent conversation with Paul Polgar and Ronald A. Johnson? Then visit https://vastearly.am/4uIvlcU to watch the replay of “Teaching about Slavery & Emancipation in the Age of Revolutions”. #Slavery #Emancipation #VastEarlyAmerica #Juneteenth @tuftshistorydept @baylorhistory

Enjoyed talking with Paul Polgar about each other’s books. 📚🎙️ Listen in: youtu.be/JR7j0ZrNryw?...

OI Author Conversation with Paul Polgar & Ronald Angelo Johnson

YouTube video by Omohundro Institute

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Join us as we team up with the @amphilsociety.bsky.social for the launch of the SHEAR Civics Exchange! The event titled: "Civic Engagement in the Revolutionary City, 1776 and 2026," will take place on Wednesday 7/15 from 6pm-7:30pm. Register to attend here: www.amphilsoc.org/events/civic...

Civic Engagement in the Revolutionary City, 1776 and 2026 | American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic cordially invite you to “Civic Engagement in the Revolutionary City, 1776 and 2026.” This event, which ...

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This phenomenal documentary film featuring some brilliant scholars & artists is streaming NOW on @pbs.org across the United States. 🎥🇺🇸🍿Check it out: www.pbs.org/video/becomi...

Becoming American: Philadelphia's Story

“Becoming American” explores the nation’s founding through untold Philadelphian stories.

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New book loading from @rachelshelden.bsky.social with @uncpress.bsky.social 📚

“While Galveston is rightly renowned as the birthplace of #Juneteenth, Houstonians played an equally foundational role in the origins of the holiday.” New research on #Juneteenth from @wcaleb.org: www.alliancefortexashistory.org/juneteenth

“I could not think of a better time to be doing what we are doing. This is when the United States of America needs Black Studies the most.” 🇺🇸 I truly enjoyed the conversation! 🎙️ blackstudiespodcast.substack.com

HISTORIANS, Please share widely.I'm hosting an exciting Juneteenth event at the Library Company of Phila,June 16. "From Ledger to Genome: Data & the History of Black Life," exploring how Black lives have been recorded & recovered across time. Register here. support.librarycompany.org/event/junete...

Good News! I'm grateful to the Louisville Institute for this chance to tell the Sherrod's important and inspiring story. www.una.edu/pressroom/20...

UNA Professor Receives Louisville Institute Grant

Dr. Ansley Quiros, a Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Alabama, has received a grant from the Louisville Institute through its Grants for Researchers program for the 20...

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Big round of applause to Dr. Johnson for being named Outstanding Faculty for Tenured Teaching in the Humanities 👏 Well deserved!

📚 Join us in welcoming the History Department’s new Assistant Professor, Misa Nguyen! 🎉 We’re excited to have her in our community in the Fall of 2026!

Proud of David’s MA thesis on the enduring Christian faith of enslaved Black women in the US. 👏🏾

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Congratulations to David Wilke on defending his Master’s Thesis! 🥳

Congratulations Dr. Ronald Angelo Johnson on winning the Phillis Wheatley Literary Award for his book Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution.

After the NYPL conversation tonight with an Opal Lee doll. Ms. Lee is the “Grandmother of Juneteenth”.

Thrilled ✨Entangled Alliances✨ (@cornellupress.bsky.social) is recognized with the Phillis Wheatley Book Award, alongside works of phenomenal scholars-artists including Marlene Daut, Brian Kwoba, @blackmomsrealitybc.bsky.social, Cheryl McKissack Daniel, Orice Jenkins, Jamie Mustard & Nancy Loewen.📚

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP