Randy Browne

"I'll just do the footnotes when I'm done drafting, how long can that take?"

Handshake meme format Left side: Europeans and their beverages Right side: Americans who hate tyranny Middle agreement: Fuck ICE

morning conversations with my partner

Pull quote from review of THE DRIVER'S STORY in the Journal of Southern History. Text reads: "The stories in this volume, taken together, provide an incredible glimpse into the daily lives of drivers, the struggles they faced, and the careful calculations that they made—including whether to support rebellions—in order to survive the unrelenting violence of the plantation driving system. This is an excellent book.”

Nice to come across this very positive review of my book in the Journal of Southern History. muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...

Just saw that in my email! Congrats!!! (Great blurbs, too :-))

There are also a surprising number of #ootd historian dudes.

At Xavier University, players get paid for attention while professors get cut | Opinion Opinion: For smaller, tuition-dependent schools like Xavier, putting players on the payroll can be a risky proposition.

"Xavier’s enrollment continues to decline...the university has now seen a 36% drop in first-year enrollment over two years...The response? A plan to cut budgets, including faculty and staff positions." I got my official pay cut letter a few days ago.

www.cincinnati.com/story/opinio...

With enrollment dipping, cuts are looming at Xavier University Xavier University will have about 17% fewer freshmen this fall. It will "prudently reduce expenses" in response.

My employer is in the news (again) www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

Very important book by Katharine Gerbner out soon: www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...

Every time I do a tenure or promotion review, I have a renewed appreciation for the people who evaluated my dossiers.

SAME! And it's so much better than it was even five years ago. Seemingly more and more options every day, too. Cheers!

Cover image of Journal of Global Slavery

Dear #Skystorians, as Book Review Editor @journalslavery.bsky.social, I'm always looking for colleagues who'd like to write #reviews that deal with #slavery in the broadest sense. Non-English books are very welcome & so are junior scholars!

Interested? Get in touch: brill.com/view/journal...

Randy M. Browne. The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. In The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery, Randy M. Browne gives us a fascinating study of the multifaceted power dynamics on

I'm grateful for this incisive, thoughtful AHR review by Justin Roberts of THE DRIVER'S STORY, which he calls "a beautifully written, thoughtful, and engaging book” that is also short enough to be "ideal for an undergraduate course or a popular audience.” academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

Cover of The Crown’s Silence by Brooke Newman, forthcoming with Mariner in January 2026

Cover reveal for my upcoming book THE CROWN’S SILENCE—out with Mariner in January 2026 and available for pre-order now wherever books are sold.

With this sale you can get my THE DRIVER'S STORY for the cost of a burrito and a beer. www.pennpress.org/978151282586...

Seagull proudly perched on a "no seagulls" sign

Los Angeles 2025

Screenshot of United Chatbot, reading: "You can bring a surfboard on your trip from CVG to Managua with United Airlines. The surfboard must be packed in a board bag and weigh less than 100 pounds (45.3 kg). It should not exceed 115 total inches (length + width + height) if you're flying on United. If your flight has an extra bag limit, surfboards aren't accepted unless you're flying to Costa Rica, which includes Managua."

Yet another reason the shift to AI everything is not going smoothly. @unitedairlinesual.bsky.social chatbot thinks that Managua (capital of Nicaragua) is part of Costa Rica.

Thanks, Ramona!

Browne Randy M., The Driver’s Story. Labor and power in the world of atlantic slavery, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024, 213 p. ISBN : 978-1-5128-2586-2, 39,95 dollars. Pas encore de compte ?

Anyone with access to Outre-Mers able to send me a copy of this review? shs.cairn.info/revue-outre-...

The popo pepper sprayed a sin bather in a a Georges Seurat painting

LAPD out there like

The Sweet Taste of Empire – Penn Press How seventeenth-century English literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations of Caribbean colonization and slave...

Looks like the ‪@pennpress.bsky.social‬ off summer sale applies to imminent releases! You can get *Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo-Caribbean* for 40% off!! Use code ENN-SUMMER25 at checkout! www.pennpress.org/978151282786.... It'll be here in August!

After three (rewarding, challenging) years, I've completed my service as Secretary-Treasurer of the Association of Caribbean Historians. Many people helped along the way and I'm so grateful. I'm also very pleased that the ACH is in good hands, with Rebecca Goetz as the new Secretary-Treasurer.

I feel the same way when the bros eat raw steak like it's a flex.

I'm grateful to Sascha Auerbach for this review of THE DRIVER'S STORY, which he connects very well to my first book and concludes is "an original and important contribution to the field." muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Thanks, Holly! A very nice surprise

Thanks, Philippa!

Thanks!

Independent Publisher Book Awards graphic w/ gold medal (world history) icon for THE DRIVER'S STORY

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

This is a very thoughtful (and generous) review by @jrothman.bsky.social.

Ah, the annual ritual of spending a day ir two completing "annual update" (self-evaluation) paperwork, so that department chairs can spend precious summer time evaluating faculty only for the university to determine we're all equally deserving of a 0% merit raise.