Brett Rushforth

Ah I see! Glad to know a second Michael Oberg!

Hahaha, oops! Congratulations by proxy, I guess!

The Central Fire of the Iroquois A comprehensive history of the Native American community at the heart of the HaudenosauneeThe people of the Onondaga Nation have lived in central New York St...

Just finished this one, pre-publication. I loved how @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social balanced sweeping scale with intimate, empathetic storytelling. It's a huge book in all the ways, but it never felt like a slog. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

The annual BYU Redd Center funding season is here and we have INCREASED the $$$ amounts!

PLEASE share this as broadly as possible.

We accept applications from ANY discipline for projects focused on the intermountain states of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, & WY.

tinyurl.com/2026ReddAwards

Race and the Early Modern — CEMS KCL Blog

Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu.

A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.

Sign up to attend!

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

It was a pleasure to participate in this roundtable about a remarkable book. We find things to critique because that's the exercise, but what an achievement by the editors and all 260+ contributors.

By Flesh and Toil — Harvard University Press A richly detailed transoceanic history of the early French Empire, illuminating how it became bound by a common legal culture of race—as well as how enslaved and free people critically shaped the deve...

@brettrushforth.bsky.social says 'Colonisations' is 'among the most innovative contributions to French colonial scholarship for the pre-revolutionary period'.
But that was just a warm-up for co-editor Mélanie Lamotte's upcoming BY FLESH AND TOIL out this month!!

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

How exciting!!! Congratulations!

This includes my forthcoming book, What's in a Name. Order now! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191908/

And the first new issue features an amazing article by @vreinburg.bsky.social!

I couldn't be happier, or more honored, that the first issue of the redesigned and reimagined HLQ will feature the work of the Somali American artist Ebony Iman Dallas. Like much of her work, 𝘉𝘓𝘈𝘊𝘒𝘰𝘶𝘵: 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 puts past and present in vital conversation. #earlymodern #skystorians

Image of the cover and title page for a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The cover features an 18th century watercolor of a harbor with three large ships and some smaller boats in the foreground and coastline with rising hills in the background.

Proofs! (Not that colonialism, sovereignty, resource extraction, forced relocations, or racialized power are relevant to the modern world...)

Susan Juster's A Common Grave with tabs in it

Some light post Christmas reading, because when @brettrushforth.bsky.social recommends a book, you buy it.

The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic

NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes

doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

Wait, why isn't the post you were quoting showing up? This makes no sense now! (Open the pod bay doors, HAL.)

Claude already knows...

Were you tweeting about this, you'd be doing it in a sub way.

a person wearing a costume with a basket completely obscuring their face under a large light gray hooded bathrobe. if you zoom in there are weird fragments of Flemish on the hem of the robe. the person is holding a weird object and wearing a conference name tag. the background is one of those anonymous conference rooms but the subterranean style lighting enhances the creepiness of the costume

the drawing of Bruegel's Beekeepers that is the basis for the costume. doughy looking humans in robes with faces blocked by basketlike masks interact with basketlike beehives. someone shady is climbing a tree and there's a cut off Dutch proverb in the lower left

upper half of the same person in a costume where it is clearer that the object they are carrying is a beehive, and somewhat artificial bees are crawling all over the hive and over the basket face mask of the person, who would be in three quarter view but it's too creepy to really call it that

how I navigated my simultaneous commitment to the sixteenth century (society conference) and Halloween: I submit these images

in which I experience alienation from humanity and identification with the materials of my labor

(photos of me by Raz Chen-Morris and Stephanie Leitch)

Brilliant! I was in an elevator with you today and was both amazed and uneasy. Well done!

A Haven for the Humanities | The Huntington Research Fellows reflect on the archives, art, and gardens that have shaped our world.

"What begins as scholarship becomes something larger: a way of asking how we live with the past and what responsibilities come with knowing it." Wonderful article about research at The Huntington, including a forthcoming HLQ Early/Modern Connections article. www.huntington.org/news/haven-h...

A Haven for the Humanities | The Huntington Research Fellows reflect on the archives, art, and gardens that have shaped our world.

"What begins as scholarship becomes something larger: a way of asking how we live with the past and what responsibilities come with knowing it." Wonderful article about research at The Huntington, including a forthcoming HLQ Early/Modern Connections article. www.huntington.org/news/haven-h...

The pile of 2026 must-reads is going to be talllllllll.

Share widely!

We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!

The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!

frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...

Congratulations, Holly!!

That's amazing!

Nice!

You're not wrong! But her dog doodle is epic.

Ros Smith has an article coming out in the HLQ in a few weeks that discusses a similar example: Rosalind Smith, "Errant Marks: Misreading, Marginalia, and Early Modern Women's Book Use."

Isabel Robinson, "'The Anagrammatic Method': Titus Oates and Satiric Wordplay in Post-Restoration England." muse.jhu.edu/article/970060
#earlymodern #PopishPlot #skystorians