Warren Milteer

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Freedom in the Age of Slavery: A History of Free People of Color in Virginia coming to a bookstore near you in May 2026. Available for preorder now. For more info, see www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10193/

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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! 📚

book cover featuring image of Mary Smith Peake, teacher

Freedom in the Age of Slavery: A History of Free People of Color in Virginia coming to a bookstore near you in May 2026. Available for preorder now. For more info, see www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10193/

‘Impossible not to feel the loss’: Duke Libraries address cost-cutting process, faculty governance At Thursday’s Academic Council meeting, Joseph Salem, vice provost for library affairs, defended the cost-cutting process, which included voluntary separation incentives, cuts to print collections and...

‘Impossible not to feel the loss’: Duke Libraries address cost-cutting process, faculty governance (North Carolina) 📚
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WRAL-TV Fights to Succeed in a New Media World WRAL confronts a precarious future as locally owned television stations deal with declining viewership and advertising revenue.

The last five years have thrown hurdles in WRAL’s path, including a string of high-profile departures. But in spite of the headwinds, WRAL is still relatively well-positioned. It has a newsroom staff of 143 and a host of profitable companies.

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Thanks! I promise, no more books after this one.

Freedom in the Age of Slavery: A History of Free People of Color in Virginia Freedom in the Age of Slavery: A History of Free People of Color in Virginia [Milteer Jr. Jr., Professor Warren Eugene] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Freedom in the Age of Slavery: A History of Free People of Color in Virginia

Next year is going to be a busy year for me. I have not one but two books coming out in 2026. Freedom in the Age of Slavery: A History of Free People of Color will be released by the UVA Press in May 2026. www.amazon.com/Freedom-Age-...

Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era [Milteer Jr., Warren Eugene] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era

The copyedits for Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom are in, and now the preorder page is up on Amazon. www.amazon.com/This-Strife-...

Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene A ProPublica and Assembly analysis of the more rural counties Helene pummeled found households that got the most aid had higher incomes.

An analysis by @propublica.org and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.

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We're hiring 2 tenure-track positions this year at FSU's History dept, one in US post 1865 and the other in sub-Saharan Africa -- just CV, letter, and online app to apply by Nov 3.

I'm not on either search committee (I'm on research leave in the spring) but am happy to answer any questions!

Thank you! I appreciate the interest and support.

Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era [Milteer Jr., Warren Eugene] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era

The copyedits for Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom are in, and now the preorder page is up on Amazon. www.amazon.com/This-Strife-...

Finishing a Ph.D. on slavery in early American or Atlantic history this year? Consider applying for the University of California's President's Postdoc program. I'd love to sponsor at applicant if working with me @ucsantacruz.bsky.social might be a good fit!
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YouTube video by The Democratic Constitution Podcast Manisha Sinha on the Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic

Enjoyed doing this interview with Luke Pickrell from Berkeley on his podcast Democratic Constitution. Do support his podcast on Apple. youtu.be/nEb4izWdf8k?...

Research Fellowships | Kentucky Historical Society To help facilitate your research, KHS offers short-term fellowships (one to four weeks) to promote scholarship on any facet of Kentucky’s history.

Upcoming funding deadline alert🚨 #skystorians. Fall deadline for the KHS research fellowship program is October 1, 2025. Funding available for wide range of research topics & time periods. Come see us in #Kentucky! 🐎 history.ky.gov/khs-for-me/f...

Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era|Paperback Free people of color were both architects of equal rights and active participants in the Civil War, on and off the battlefield. Their unique status as already free persons before emancipation shaped t...

Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era is now available for preorder. Preordering is a great way to support the book's success. Many thanks in advance. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/out-of-thi...

When Historians Rediscovered These Frederick Douglass Letters, They Were Surprised by His Candid Opinions About Abraham Lincoln In correspondence with a passionate abolitionist in London, the great American orator didn't hold back when talking about the 16th president, or his successor, the much-maligned Andrew Johnson

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hist...

Can the people who keep changing the style guides please take a break?

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“…the longor you keep my Child from me the longor you will have to burn in hell and the qwicer youll get their…”

Spotswood Rice, a Black soldier in the US Army, to a Missouri woman who held his daughter in slavery, #otd 1864

The Strange Case of Duke’s Still Living Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies Duke Libraries said the department would be eliminated. College leadership says that’s not true. While faculty remain in place, the department has no staff left and is being led by someone from anothe...

The mix-up is emblematic of the confusion spreading across campus as Duke continues layoffs, which follow a round of buyouts. With policies and timelines differing among Duke’s disparate departments, university leaders are struggling to provide clear information to their anxious faculty and staff.

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Now is a great time to grab a copy of Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South. UNC Press is offering 50% off this and all other titles with the code 01NEWSITE50. uncpress.org/978146966439...

🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840?

The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners!

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New This Week: August 19th - UNC Press Blog Another Tuesday, another selection of new books for you. New this week is a new book in our Civil War America series that examines the complex history of US debates about compensating enslavers and a ...

New reads just arrived 📚 Check out this week's new releases

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The latest issue of The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society is really great. It’s a special issue that examines abolition in the Bluegrass State. It’s up on JSTOR and Project Muse.