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Huge shout out to our own Timothy Brown! Check it out:

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For any of our followers at the SHA conference today!

This historian flew around the world for the Chinese book launch of #theslavescause and is happy to be back home!

Historian in China here, some photographs from my talk at Peking University, a beautiful campus.

Very much enjoyed doing these lectures at Shanghai Normal and East China Normal
University today!

Pics from the second lecture at Wuhan University and we are now in the amazing city of Shanghai, which seems like the center of capitalism in the world.

First leg of the China lecture trip is over. The Americanists from all over the country who came for my talks were impressive. Many had spent time in the U.S. and were taken by American higher education now under severe attack.

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did you know Jorell has a @uconnhistory.bsky.social PhD and advised Bad Bunny on his videos? we stan!! ⬇️

Manisha Sinha Starts Lecture Tour in China | Department of History Professor Manisha Sinha is doing a lecture tour in China and the Chinese book launch of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (2016) in Beijing. Sh ...

Our own @profmsinha.bsky.social is heading to China for a series of lectures! Info below:

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Happening TOMORROW with @profmsinha.bsky.social

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The almost forgotten Black abolitionist activist and reformed minister 1827: James W. C. Pennington escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad, quickly receiving an education to become a teacher, journalist, activist, writer and evangelical Reformed Christian mi…

Check out this wonderful article from The Daily Campus about last week’s Wednesday Workshop with Jan Stievermann!

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Enjoyed this episode and I second @jamellebouie.net's recommendation at the end of Andy Horowitz's Katrina: A History, 1915-2015

The history of abolition is so important in these dark days of the republic. They succeeded when enslavers controlled the entire federal government, the Supreme Court, the Electoral College and Congress through the three fifths clause. Join me tonight! www.gilderlehrman.org/itv-registra...

@profmsinha.bsky.social will deliver the 2025 Richard T. Greener Lecture, “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic.”

Wednesday, October 15, 5:00 p.m. in the South Caroliniana Library at the @sc.edu

Sponsored by the Museum of Education and the History Center

Our second Wednesday Workshop of the semester, "Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist" with Jan Stievermann, is this Wednesday!

Check out @profmsinha.bsky.social ‬⁩ on the CBC this week! Link here:

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Hey undergrads! Experience China in the summer with a program which will immerse you in the history, arts, culture, and social life of China. You will visit world famous heritage sites such as The Great Wall of China, Terracotta warriors, and Forbidden City. Info session Oct 28th!

Black and yellow text on a white background describe the abstract for a talk titled "Vietnam's Buried Past" to be given by Nicolas Weber on October 30th at 5pm in room WW01 in Storrs. Circular images of primary source texts decorate the flyer.

Nicolas Weber will give a lecture on Vietnam's colonial expansion in the 19th century. The event entitled "Vietnam's Buried Colonial Past: Cham and Khmer Voices of Survivance," will highlight indigenous Cham and Khmer experiences of dispossession and displacement. 5pm Oct 30 in Storrs WW01.

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?...

Green and white poster showing Rose Miron smiling next to the details of her talks this week. The 9/23 talk title reads “Mohican Heritage Tourism: Cultivating Memoryscapes and Belonging in Indigenous Homelands” and notes it is at 5:00pm at Konover Auditorium. The 9/24 title reads "Re-Centering Native Women in Zhegagoynak (Chicago) History” and notes it will be at 12:15pm in the Wood Hall basement lounge.

THIS WEEK! Join UConn History as we host Rose Miron for two talks about her work as Vice President for Research and Education for the Newberry Library.

Folks if you would like to listen in, I did a podcast on the new book with the wonderful @mkn.bsky.social for the Massachusetts Historical Society. #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic audio book is selling at a promotional discount, link in the comments! www.masshist.org/podcast/hath...

ICYMI: our own @profmsinha.bsky.social discussed her most recent book on The Long View last week! Check it out here:

What a showing out of UConn graduate students at the 2025 SHEAR conference!

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The extended UConn History family had a great time at @shearites.bsky.social this past weekend!

Special congratulations to @profmsinha.bsky.social on a successful term as SHEAR President!

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Have a great weekend at the 2025 SHEAR meeting to the UConn faculty and grads in attendance, including our own Maisha Sinha, who is the current president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic!

Water from the Rock A multifaceted history of Black resistance during the War of Independence

PUB DATE today folks happy to have written the foreward to Sylvia Frey's classic on black resistance in the south during the American Revolution, one of my favorite books in grad school. @princetonupress.bsky.social did a great job with the new edition. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Congratulations to the UConn History faculty, grads, and affiliates attending the annual SHAFR Conference in Arlington, VA!

Frank Costigiola
Bradley Simpson
Grace Easterly
Gabrielle Westcott