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drjohnaeharris.bsky.social
Historian of slavery and abolition. Author of The Last Slave Ships: NYC & The End of The Middle Passage (Yale, 2020). Working on a new book Spying on The Slave Trade 🕵️. Rep’d by Deirdre Mullane N. Ireland - U.S. https://www.johnaeharris.com/
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Less than 6% of college students in the US are international students. I don’t see that as a major problem in higher ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...

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Do Irish if you can swing it

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THE DRIVER'S STORY (@pennpress.bsky.social) has won the Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for World History. 🎉

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The Center for Brooklyn History does not disappoint!

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Update: Got a house tour from the Horace Greeley descendants - several of whom are named … Horace Greeley. It was Horace mania inside! Very cool to see where my subject (Sanchez) lived & to briefly walk in his footsteps. Got a sense of his living situation / stylistic interests (Italianate) /1

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Update: Got a house tour from the Horace Greeley descendants - several of whom are named … Horace Greeley. It was Horace mania inside! Very cool to see where my subject (Sanchez) lived & to briefly walk in his footsteps. Got a sense of his living situation / stylistic interests (Italianate) /1

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I was at a conference this morning in NYC where we heard about the impact of the elimination of the National Weather Service and of the privatization of weather info. Grim predictions: Paid access for weather forecasts and little info for rural communities bc fewer subscribers.

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Publication day! A four-year voyage comes to an end as *Freedom Ship* sails into port. Published by @VikingBooks. Thanks to all of you for your interest along the way. Available for purchase here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407...

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Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

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Today I was in Brooklyn and cold-called the old home of Emilio Sanchez, an undercover agent who tried to stop the illegal transatlantic slave trade out of NYC in the 1850s / 1860s. I’m writing his bio. It turned out to be a wild ride /1

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Historians in Brooklyn. Great to finally meet @unlawfulentries.bsky.social in person and to hear about her forthcoming book on early American immigration and much more. Excellent restaurant choice too - as expected!

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Jari Honora, the genealogist who made the Creole - Pope Leo connections for the world, works at the Historic New Orleans Collection and is just superb. He has dug out some great stuff for my current book in progress. All praise to him! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...

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My love of reading is strongly link to this man…

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Question for college profs: which department is your social studies major located in? Ours is in history and political science but the education department wants to take it.

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Something I've wanted more of for a long time are "Easterns" - movies set in the 1860s-1890s but in the Eastern United States. We have like 50,000 Western movies and 3 Eastern movies. It's a great and fascinating time period in America!

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Do you know “many Irish worked the dicks” in New Orleans? Me neither. Meant to write docks. #editing

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