Ronald Angelo Johnson

Public invited to free Willson Lectures chapel event at Wayland Baptist Plainview Wayland Baptist University reminds area residents, pastors, alumni, and friends that the 2026 Willson Lectures public chapel event takes place at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, in Harral Auditorium on th...

Looking forward to delivering the 2026 Willson Lectures next week.

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And this great book for #BlackHistory 📚

Thrilled *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social)
is alongside books from phenomenal @baylor.bsky.social authors as #BlackHistory Month picks. 📚

Congratulations 👏🏾

Happy Thursday, peeps! Another episode is headed your way! What do you think I am covering?

Such a pleasure to welcome @ronajohnson.bsky.social to Minnesota, and thank you again for your amazing lecture! #BlackHistoryMonth 🗃️

@carleton.edu students & faculty gave my new research an engaged, thoughtful hearing and deepened our discussion with insightful questions. Thank you @historleans.bsky.social for the invitation!

I get to share research for my next book (@princetonupress.bsky.social) with the @carleton.edu community.

WOW! What a list!!! 📚

Thrilled *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social)
is on it! 🙏🏾

“Haiti has fared badly at the hands of its literary interpreters.” 🇭🇹

It is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birthday. His cameo portrait appeared on the left side of this German-language bank note from a Pennsylvania institution that catered to the local German population. It also has a lumberjack petting a good dog. Lumbermen's Bank at Warren, PA, $10, 18--.🗃️

The cover of The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas--out TODAY with Mariner!

Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE

I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Black Editorship in the Early Atlantic World This book pays respect to different embodiments of Black editors in the Atlantic world, highlighting that from North to South America to Great Britain they occupied and promoted multifaceted roles, ag...

Thrilled to have a chapter on Black Atlantic editors Frederick Douglass 🇺🇸 and Thélismon Bouchereau 🇭🇹 in this fabulous volume edited by Nele Sawallisch and Johanna Seibert. 📚

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Research from my first book on 18thC US-Haiti diplomacy was featured on one of the panels. I was so proud to see it there!

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

Jazz centennials: Eight legends born in 1926 In 1926, a generation of artists was born that reshaped jazz for decades. This episode celebrates eight centennials, including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lou Donaldson, Tony Bennett and more.

In 1926, a generation of artists was born that reshaped jazz for decades. This episode celebrates eight centennials, including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lou Donaldson, Tony Bennett and more. n.pr/4sVW5pu

“Thanks to a gift from a @baylor.bsky.social alumna, Johnson “will study of the origins and evolution of Black Baptist history in North America to 1866.”

I’m thrilled about this exciting historical research and teaching venture!

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“The Office of Undergraduate Research focuses on connecting undergraduate students with research and opportunities across subjects on campus.”

Ronald Angelo Johnson's "Entangled Alliances" Ronald Angelo Johnson holds the Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Chair of History at Baylor University. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his ne...

I took The Page 99 Test on *Entangled Alliances* with @cornellupress.bsky.social. 📚

It was fun! Check it out ⬇️

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Talk by Ronald A. Johnson - Events Calendar - Carleton College Calendar Events - History - Carleton College

Happen to be in Minnesota on February 2? Then please join us for our first #BlackHistoryMonth event: the amazing @ronajohnson.bsky.social will give a lecture, titled "Shared Struggle: The American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and Black-White Diplomacy." 🗃️

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Excited to deliver the Willson Lectures at Wayland Baptist University next month.

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Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition En 2018 et 2019 a figuré au programme de l’agrégation externe d’anglais une question sur l’abolition de l’esclavage aux États-Unis entre 1776 et 1865. L’inscription d’une telle question au concours...

I was asked by the French journal e-Rea to write about a book that was significant for my development as a historian. I chose The Slave's Cause by @profmsinha.bsky.social, which I realize will be turning ten next month. Happy anniversary to an inspiring book!

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I had such a wonderful time talking to Holley about Edwin Booth, grief, and celebrity!

JER Announcement. The Journal of the Early Republic welcomes our new Co-Editors Mark Boonshoft of the Virginia Military Institute and Lindsay Schakenbach Regele of Miami University of Ohio. Mark and Lindsay will be taking over for our current editors, Johann Neem and Ronald Angelo Johnson, in July. Please join us in offering a warm welcome, and congratulations to our newest co-editors for the #JERPano.

The #JERPano is pleased to announce our newest team of Co-editors to begin this July.

Please join us in congratulating Lindsay Schakenbach Regele and Mark Boonschoft in their new roles!

To Be Counted Is to Be Considered Meagan Wierda illustrates the importance of accurate census data to the long history Black activists in the United States.

How did 19th-century Black activists fight for accurate census data? Meagan Wierda traces the struggle from Shirley Chisholm (1970) to the Early Republic, examining Black New Yorkers’ petitions against the error-riddled 1840 census.

Read the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/01/06/t...

Diamonds in the Archival Rough Michael Woods describes how a fortuitous archival discovery influenced his recent JER article.

"Some sources catch the eye only on a second reading."

In a new #JERPano post, Michael E. Woods explains how a second pass through the archive revealed a lost letter containing the "Wilmington Doctrine," central to his JER article on proslavery politics.

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Looking forward to discussing early US-Haiti relations with @historleans.bsky.social
& the @carleton.edu community next month. 🇺🇸🇭🇹

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The Author’s Corner with Ronald Angelo Johnson Ronald Angelo Johnson is Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Endowed Chair of History and Associate Professor at Baylor University. This interview is based on his new book, Entangled Alliances: Racialized Fr…

Thankful to @johnfea1.bsky.social for great questions about *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social) in The Author’s Corner! Check out the blog post.📚⬇️

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I’ll be talking about *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social) in Dallas at SMU’s Center for Presidential History, 29 January. 📚🎙️

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