Emily Conroy-Krutz

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Friends, please share? Brown2026 is advertising for its 3rd year of fellowships. Would love to have you consider this opportunity to work with us as we face 2026. Link to position and application info in the thread: And more info about the initiative is here: brown2026democracy.brown.edu 1/

CFP: USIH-IU Community Scholars Program | Society for US Intellectual History In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at Indiana University, the Society for U.S. Intellectual History is pleased to announce the continuation of a new opportunity to support continge...

🔔 We’re honored to open a new round in the @susih.bsky.social -IU Community Scholars Program, which unlocks onsite + remote library access for 3 years for contingent scholars + historians working beyond the academy. Please apply + share! CFP due 2/1. Onward! 🗃️ s-usih.org/2025/12/cfp-...

Book Prize Winners - Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Explore winners of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Annual Book Prizes that both focus and do not focus on the history of women.

THE RISING GENERATION by Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, which chronicles the history of emancipation through the experiences of black northerners, has received an honorable mention for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (@berksconference.bsky.social) Book Prize! Congrats, Sarah! bit.ly/4i7OFdL

Spent part of my morning listening to one of my favorites talk about her writing process. Loved every minute! Listen to @jlepler.bsky.social and then go out and buy Canal Dreamers!
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FYI:
1. Books are great for timeline cleanses.
2. Book sales are even better for timeline cleanses.
3. @cornellupress.bsky.social is having a 44% off book sale.
4. I'm an #EndearinglyTenaciousEditor and #SorryNotSorry that I will shout about our awesome books for [looks at calendar] another 3 weeks.

Pretty amazing to see my brilliant MSU History colleagues and students presenting at @susih.bsky.social about their work on the Radical Historians Newsletter. Stay tuned!!!

⏳ Ken Burns’ The American Revolution premieres this Sunday, Nov 16 at 8pm ET on PBS!

Warm up for the premiere with a behind-the-scenes look at how the film was made.

🎧 New episode: benfranklinsworld.com/425

#KenBurnsPBS #AmericanRevolution #Documentary #BFW

I am SO excited for this

Oh, I just pop in occasionally to interview authors in the Cornell US in the World series. It’s called Authors in Conversation. Always a lot of fun!

You will be excited to hear that Ron spent part of our conversation talking about the importance of digital humanities to the research at the foundation of the book!

Everyone go buy Ron’s book! And stay tuned to hear our conversation about it on an upcoming Cornell podcast.

Is there anything better than having scholars you admire engage closely with your work? Thanks Cara Burnidge, Karine Walther, Kate Moran, Mike Verney, and Jay Sexton! @burnidge.bsky.social @karinewalther.bsky.social
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Fascinating! Their fields are interesting, too, given those dates. Who's the pseudo-missionary? Would love to hear more about them.

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.

Last spring, the faculty overwhelmingly voted to ratify freedom-of-expression principles that truly support real differences of opinion and perspective. The administration and the board of trustees have thus far blocked their adoption. All this comes at a time when higher education’s crucial role in cultivating critical thought and inquiry and producing knowledge is under political attack. Ours is a cautionary tale about what happens when rhetoric substitutes for material protections of free speech. Rather than unilateral decisions by administrators about what constitutes acceptable conversation, colleges and universities must have policies that involve the faculty, students and the staff in the robust protection of debate and inquiry. Elizabeth Castelli Hilary Callahan New York Dr. Castelli is the president of Barnard’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors; Dr. Callahan is the vice president. This letter was submitted on behalf of Barnard A.A.U.P.

Elizabeth Castelli & Hilary Callahan
on behalf of Barnard A.A.U.P.:

Beleaguered academics: good news!
Cambridge is hiring an assistant prof of US political history and/or the history of the US in the world (post-1920)
Come work in beautiful Cambridge, close to the site of Trump's historic 2nd state visit!
Deadline Oct 27 - apply, apply! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

The U.S. Constitution Learn about the text, history, and meaning of the U.S. Constitution from leading scholars of diverse legal and philosophical perspectives.

Today is Constitution Day in the United States, marking the anniversary of its signing in Philadelphia on this date in 1787. Take a few moments today to read the document all the way through, and find a way to contribute yourself to a "more perfect union."

constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

Everyone should have a friend like @econroykrutz.bsky.social! 🙏🏾📚

Book cover of Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

I'm excited to share that my new book ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is coming out with
@dukepress.bsky.social in October!

Honors thesis seminar is off to a great start with a first-day game of history jenga! These students are wonderful.

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations @shafrhistorians.bsky.social Summer Institute at The Ohio State University @mershoncenter.bsky.social on "strategic cultures" June 2026, advanced PhD students & early career scholars all welcome, please apply -> CFP: www.shafr.org/index.php?op...

A friend reminded me this weekend that it’s been 10 years now since Christian Imperialism came out in August 2015. It’s been quite the decade! Happy birthday, book.

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

National Museum of American History

📢 The OAH has issued a Statement on the White House Review of the Smithsonian. Read the statement: ow.ly/hgLR50WGhfQ

It would be helpful now if more Americans knew more about our history, and were ready for its myths to be punctured. Seems like the myths continue to do their work.

New version of the Slave Voyages website launched:

www.slavevoyages.org/blog/slavevo...

#History #EnslavedHistory 🗃️