Liz Covart

Oh, this is so exciting! Thank you @lizcovart.bsky.social for the invitation. And while I'm here, pleased to announce that @uchicagopress.bsky.social is bringing out a paperback in Spring 2026!!!

Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman.

Today is @bfworld.bsky.social’s 11th Podversary. The first 4 episodes debuted 11 years ago.
So it’s fitting we have a great new episode to celebrate!

How did Northern manufacturers support Southern slavery?

Seth Rockman joins us to talk about “plantation goods” and slavery’s hidden supply chain.

ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

"No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it." @acls1919.bsky.social statement on the White House "compact" proposed to universities. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

What time does it start?

ACTUALLY, Blueskis, you don't even have to be in the Boston area!

This is a hybrid event, so you can register to listen and post questions on Zoom! Huzzah!

Explore the Past with Curious Minds | History Explorers Club A community for history lovers who crave deeper stories, expert insights, and connection. Join us to explore the past—together.

I’m recording this session on history publishing with Nadine Zimmerli. It will be available to all future members of the History Explorers Club.

Be the first to know when we re-open for new members.

www.historyexplorers.club

It used to be that publishers looked for proposals with about 100,000 words including notes. That was for a 300-page book. Between paper prices and students not reading, that number has gone down by 25-35 percent.

I just learned there are regional trade presses that don’t require agents or peer review. They publish works of history that are of regional interest to a smaller audience.

Explore the Past with Curious Minds | History Explorers Club A community for history lovers who crave deeper stories, expert insights, and connection. Join us to explore the past—together.

Publishers/presses change in expertise. Always look at the most current books they are publishing when trying to find a press. This will give you an idea of what to look for when researching a press for your work.

www.historyexplorers.club

“There is a lot of gatekeeping in trade presses” your book has to have commercial appeal and work with an agent. If your project is regional or mission-driven a university press can be a great option.—Nadine Zimmerli on history publishing

Explore the Past with Curious Minds | History Explorers Club A community for history lovers who crave deeper stories, expert insights, and connection. Join us to explore the past—together.

Running our first quarterly workshop in the History Explorers Club today. As members in our first cohort are working on independent research projects, Nadine Zimmerli has joined us and is taking us through the world of History publishing.

www.historyexplorers.club

I’m in my last academic class in my master program. It’s Fundamentals of Digital Marketing. I have to research an influencer for my homework.

I googled influencers and just feel old…I also haven’t found anyone I want to spend time researching.

Who are the influencers you follow and enjoy?

Thank you for reading and considering.

Ben Franklin's World Ben Franklin's World is an award-winning podcast about early American history hosted by historian Liz Covart, Ph.D. It's for people who love and enjoy history and want to know more about the people, p...

Country over self.

George Washington could’ve become king. Instead, he gave up power for the country.

242 years later, that choice still matters.

🧠 I wrote about Washington’s example & how it echoes in today’s headlines.

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We are thrilled to welcome Jennifer Lee to the Paul Revere House for the first time to demonstrate bark basket making for visitors between 1:00 and 3:00 PM on Saturday, October 4th. She will also have previously produced goods for sale! www.facebook.com/share/16hHXQ...

Editors & UNC-Chapel Hill Historians Miguel La Serna, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Kathleen DuVal with copies of Foundations of American Democracy: A Critical Documents Reader.

Panel moderated by Dr. Darin Waters, Deputy Secretary, Office of Archives & History

✨ An inspiring evening at the NC State Archives with @unchistory.bsky.social profs Fitzhugh Brundage, @kathleenduval.bsky.social, and Joseph Glatthaar to celebrate the publication of Foundations of American Democracy.

Now available to all North Carolinians via a free digital edition on NC LIVE! 📚

I also intend to turnout with my fellow Bostonians to peacefully protest when the National Guard makes its way here. Their arrival is very much a “when,” not an “if.” I believe in democracy and the republic—I think/hope most of our troops do too.

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He just wants to be remembered no matter the actions or cost.

The First Drafts of the United States: Early Experiments in American Union - With Liz Covart of the Ben Franklin's World Podcast (Image: Ben Franklin's "Join or Die" cartoon, with a chopped-up snake representing the colonies.)

Wednesday! Join historian @lizcovart.bsky.social on Zoom for a conversation about the forgotten stories of America's "rough drafts."

Before the Articles of Confederation, Americans spent over a century struggling to unite — and mostly failing spectacularly. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-first-...

Me to Myself: Maybe I can pull out my turtlenecks, I think fall is here.

::Looks at Weather App::

Me: Nope, it’s fake Fall.

My reading assistant enjoying @ronajohnson.bsky.social’s new book Entangled Alliances. He was struck by how intertwined events in Saint Domingue were with the American Revolution and vice versa.

America’s 250th Birthday Is in Trouble

"How do we create a national celebration that many Americans can embrace even with competing visions of identity?" @lizcovart.bsky.social #America250 #Semiquincentennial ben-franklins-world.kit.com/posts/americ...

All of the “creep” is happening at the grocery store.

header for the Dawn Township in Lambton County, Ontario, showing column headers for the number of acres and bushels of peas, oats, buckwheat, corn, potatoes, turnips, clover, carrots, and mangle wurtzel produced in 1851

One of the records I looked at for our report on Black History at the Vassall Estate was the 1851 Agricultural Census of the Dawn Settlement, a community of freedom-seekers in Ontario, near Detroit.

It was founded by Josiah Henson, who escaped slavery in Maryland:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_...

Congrats, Kevin! As someone else who struggles with weight thanks to genetics it’s inspiring to hear someone who’s losing it. I’m also really happy to hear you are doing better mentally and feeling better. That’s the best news!

I know it’s early but Clio and Orbit offer you a feed cleanse.

reMarkable 2 paper tablet reMarkable - "Replace your notes and printed documents with a digital notebook that feels like paper."

Remarkable Tablets are great!

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This.

I have seven part-time/consultant positions at the moment. Any writing or peer review I do beyond those contracts--including work on my own book and public-facing project--is unpaid time.

Having to say I'm an Independent Scholar feels untrue. I'm just dependent on more than one institution.