@rkdcolby86.bsky.social
Historian at the University of Mississippi. Author of An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South (OUP, 2024).
It is a spectacular game--basically Cards Against Humanity with Shakespeare lines taken out of context.
28.07.2025 00:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Are you familiar with this?
www.amazon.com/Why-So-Ever-...
NERFC roadtrip stop #4: the New Hampshire Historical Society.
25.07.2025 17:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NERFC Fellowship stop #3: the Maine Historical Society.
23.07.2025 14:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Day 2 of my NERFC roadtrip: looking for breadcrumbs in Dartmouth College's stunning Rauner Library.
22.07.2025 13:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Check out the call for papers for the 2026 Society of Civil War Historians Conference (Richmond, June 18-20)! If you're not sure where to start, you can find the panel builder tool and connect with others looking to submit. Deadline is 9/15!
scwh.memberclicks.net/biennial-con...
Congratulations!
21.07.2025 13:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stop one on my New England Regional Fellowship Consortium road trip: Williams College's Chapin Library. Gorgeous day to be in Western Massachusetts!
21.07.2025 13:50 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
18.07.2025 14:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"Fighting Joe" or "Fighting, Joe"?
16.07.2025 18:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
First time at the Boston Athenaeum, and it's hard to imagine a more beautiful place in which to do research. Grateful for the support of a Loring Fellowship allowing me to do so.
14.07.2025 14:11 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thrilled to be kicking off my time this morning as the Suzanne and Caleb Loring Research Fellow @mhs1791.bsky.social!
07.07.2025 14:17 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations, @jonathansjones.bsky.social! Can't wait to read it!
03.07.2025 18:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
NARA informing historians they can't park directly at Archives II anymore:
25.06.2025 20:28 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
29/141 2025 Official Submission #MAAHStoneAtoZ
10.06.2025 16:07 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Had a wonderful weekend in Columbus, MS at the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters banquet. Honored to have received the 2025 prize for nonfiction! @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
16.06.2025 12:52 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Had a wonderful weekend in Columbus, MS at the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters banquet. Honored to have received the 2025 prize for nonfiction! @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
16.06.2025 12:52 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to check out the latest from Craig Friend, arriving via @uncpress.bsky.social!
10.06.2025 13:06 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The front cover is complete -- with a fantastic blurb from
@rkdcolby86.bsky.social!
"Deeply moving, sometimes shocking, and sure to provoke deep reflection..."
Deadline approaching this Friday, June 6! Please consider submitting!
05.06.2025 12:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our deadline is coming up this Friday (6/6)! It's going to be a great conference, featuring a keynote from @arielagross.bsky.social and conversation with @gauthamrao.bsky.social, Anne Twitty, and Cynthia Nicoletti. Please apply, and please share! @jcwe.bsky.social @joursouhist.bsky.social
02.06.2025 13:40 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Our deadline is coming up this Friday (6/6)! It's going to be a great conference, featuring a keynote from @arielagross.bsky.social and conversation with @gauthamrao.bsky.social, Anne Twitty, and Cynthia Nicoletti. Please apply, and please share! @jcwe.bsky.social @joursouhist.bsky.social
02.06.2025 13:40 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1One week remains to submit for the Center for Civil War Research's 2025 conference, "New Directions in the Legal History of the Civil War Era," happening in Oxford, MS Oct. 16-18. Details below; please share! @jcwe.bsky.social @joursouhist.bsky.social @historians.org
olemiss.edu/civil-war-re...
Please consider applying to the Center for Civil War Research's upcoming conference, New Directions in the Legal History of the Civil War Era, in Oxford, MS on 10/16-18! It's going to be a great program! Deadline is Friday, 6/6!
Please share widely! Details below!
olemiss.edu/civil-war-re...
The deadline for The Center for Civil War Research's 2025 conference approaches! We'll be looking at the legal history of the CW era, defined broadly. If you're working on something in this area, please consider applying!
olemiss.edu/civil-war-re...
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12.05.2025 12:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The deadline for The Center for Civil War Research's 2025 conference approaches! We'll be looking at the legal history of the CW era, defined broadly. If you're working on something in this area, please consider applying!
olemiss.edu/civil-war-re...
Congratulations to @cnzander.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book on the Civil War from the Center for Civil War Research at the University of Mississippi!
olemiss.edu/civil-war-re...
Congratulations to @cnzander.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book on the Civil War from the Center for Civil War Research at the University of Mississippi!
olemiss.edu/civil-war-re...
