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Historian of early America and the Caribbean at Cornell U, avid Philadelphia Phillies fan, sometimes gardener.
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It has a cover! I am so excited to have The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean coming out September 2025 with @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

submitted 10 days ago • 34 comments

Civil War historians! The deadline for the Center for Civil War Research's Wiley-Silver Prize (Friday, 2/21) approaches! If you published your first book this year on a topic related to the CW, please submit! As @mkn.bsky.social reminds us all, authors, make sure your press has nominated you!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

The AHA & the @oah.org have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” “We reject the premise that it is ‘anti-American’ or ‘subversive’ to learn the full history of the United States.” 🗃️

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

Neither the public or the tech giants pushing artificial intelligence understand its long-term implications, warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

submitted 23 days ago • 48 comments

Hey early Americanists/Caribbeanists/Atlanticists! If you're in the Philadelphia area this weekend, join PEAES for a discussion of where the field has been and where it's going! 🗃️ Please share widely: librarycompany.org/academic-pro...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Watch AHA President Thavolia Glymph (Duke Univ.) deliver her presidential address, "Paper Tracings in the Spectacularly Boisterous Archive of Slavery,” at #AHA25. 🗃️

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Iron law of academia: correcting page proofs requires a high level of concentration when you are at your most tired and sick of the thing you likely took years to write.

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

submitted 32 days ago • 269 comments

Hey early Americanists/Caribbeanists/Atlanticists! If you're in the Philadelphia area Feb. 7-8, join PEAES for a discussion of where the field has been and where it's going! 🗃️ Please share widely: librarycompany.org/academic-pro...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

A gentle reminder that your attention is a form of currency. Spend it wisely.

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

We're looking for historic sites in the Philly region interested in employing undergraduate interns to carry out public-facing history initiatives this summer––and we'll provide $3,000 toward each intern's stipend. Learn more and submit site partner applications here: www.mceas.org/index.php/co...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments