Amanda Laury Kleintop

Fighting with the Past Civil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Aaron Sheehan-Dean reveals in this fascinating w...

2022 Brose lecturer Aaron Sheehan-Dean's book, Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War, was published by UNC Press today!

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

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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...

AFT, AAUP Launch Nationwide Campaign, ‘Higher Education: Saving Lives, Building Futures, Powering the Economy’ WASHINGTON—The AFT and the American Association of University Professors, together representing the country’s largest and most powerful force of higher education workers, launched a major national cam...

Once again, if you teach or conduct research in higher ed, please join @aaup.org

The SHA is thrilled to announce the 2025-2026 Junior Scholars Workshop! Please add these dates to your calendar, and join us on Zoom!

Our first meeting will be on Thursday, August 21, at 4:30 PM ET, featuring Leigh Soares.

Fill out this form to stay up to date: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Counting the Cost of Freedom During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South’s wealth by nearly 50 percent. After t...

The book is officially out, and for 2 days you can get it and all other books for 50% off at UNC Press with code 01NEWSITE50 🎉

Cover of book, Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation after the Civil War by Amanda Laury Kleintop. Depicts a print of a federal eagle in red behind bold, black text of the title.

Thanks to friends and colleagues who helped promote my first book, Counting the Cost of Freedom! (Especially those here, where I don't post much.)
@kringelberg.bsky.social
@archiecrowley.bsky.social
@gauthamrao.bsky.social
@rkdcolby86.bsky.social

Please share! We are looking for TWO postdoctoral scholars in African American history and history of the Civil War era. Fellowships are for TWO years, and the anticipated start date is July 1, 2026. The deadline to apply is NOVEMBER 1! Links are in the replies below.

If youre interested, hit me up! Happy to tell you all about the role :)

Reconstruction Era National Historic Network Announces the Inclusion of Seven New Sites - Reconstruction Era National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)

The National Park Service announces the addition of seven new sites to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. This national network connects sites across the country that provide education, interpretation, and research related to the period of Reconstruction. www.nps.gov/reer/learn/n...

Counting the Cost of Freedom | Amanda Laury Kleintop | University of North Carolina Press During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South's wealth by nearly 50 percent. After the...

Counting the Cost of Freedom by @alkleintop.bsky.social
Post–Civil War white Southerners demanded $ for enslaved people who were freed. Deeply revealing. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

May 1: International Workers Day International Workers’ Day began as a commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket massacre in Chicago.

#tdih May 1: Int'l Workers' Day

Commemorated around world, but not in US, despite origins here (Haymarket).

Teach labor history outside textbook. See ⬇️

Join #MayDay protests www.nea.org/maydaytoolkit

Art, available as a poster, by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social
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If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there.

(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...

Whitney Plantation grant pulled, exhibit on African American history in limbo A federal agency revoked funds for a long-planned Whitney Plantation exhibit on Black resistance, citing a new executive order under President Trump.

Whitney Plantation grant pulled, exhibit on African American history in limbo www.wwltv.com/article/news...

Haitians call for reparations from France on 200th anniversary of independence ‘ransom’ France should return harsh damages imposed on Caribbean country in 1825 after Haitian Revolution, say campaigners

YES:

"Haitians call for reparations from France on 200th anniversary of independence ‘ransom’: France should return harsh damages imposed on Caribbean country in 1825 after Haitian Revolution, say campaigners"

Hoping these leaders—who helped build the entire field in Digital Humanities, for example —will find places in private foundations, in Deans and provost offices, and more. They are not only leaders, they’re fine people.

Trump Targets a Slavery Removal from the National Museum of African-American History and Culture BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The museum's slavery facts and substantiating artifacts of the 250 years of the enslavement of Africans in America, curated by historians, are the bull’s-eye for the Trump adm...

Trump is reportedly targeting the slavery section of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture for possible removal. “Black people are not going to stand for this,” says Nikole Hannah Jones, the author of the 1619 Project.

"Previously, the article started with a description of enslaved peoples’ efforts to free themselves and the organization of the Underground Railroad....

"The article now starts with two paragraphs that emphasize the 'American ideals of liberty and freedom' and do not specifically mention slavery."🗃️

Most Higher Ed Workers Still Paid Less Than Before Pandemic Although raises for most higher education employees last academic year beat inflation, most are still effectively earning less than they were in 2019–20, according to new salary survey data released M...

"Adjusting for inflation, tenure-track faculty are now paid 10.2 % less than before Covid... While 'median pay increases for most higher education employees in 2024–25 remained strong, they have dropped...” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... #edsky #highered

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

“The Japanese American National Museum says Trump admin may withhold as much as $2 million approved by the Biden admin.”

“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’”

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Join the 2025-2026 SHA Junior Scholars Workshop cohort!

We meet once a month on Zoom. Junior scholars (pre-first book) have the opportunity to present work in progress, with comments by two senior scholars. Applications will be accepted until April 15.

Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1PGJ...

Civil War historian here so now the American Civil War is a DEI woke subject? The Trump regime is in a full blown fascist attack on all US history.

Without IMLS, there would be no Omeka and there would be no Zotero. Write to your representatives to defend IMLS today.

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Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.

Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order

Graphic with list of problems in state standards on Reconstruction. Photos in circles and text.

In researching our report "Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction,” we found that many issues Du Bois exposed and challenged in his scholarship are still prevalent in state standards and textbooks.

Read: teachreconstructionreport.org

Letter on Modifications to the National Stonewall Monument Web Pages Letter on the National Park Service Modifications to the Stonewall National Monument Web Pages Signatures closed at 5 P.M. EST on February 19, 2025. If you are a journalist writing about this issue o...

Standing with my colleagues who signed this letter protesting the changes made to the Stonewall NPS website.

docs.google.com/document/u/0...

At the request of the Trump Admin, the Ntl Park Service removed references to trans people in this essay w/o consulting the writer, historian @wendylrouse.bsky.social.

Read it here as Prof Rouse intended (and as the NPS published/maintained it until now). 🗃️

drive.google.com/file/d/1p-rQ...

The Real Stonewall Monument The correct and original content for the Stonewall National Monument website that the National Park Service doesn't want you to see.

Ohhhh??? What's this...????
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realstonewall.com/
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A man was lynched yesterday 1 photograph mounted on heavy board : gelatin silver print ; sheet 34.2 x 28.5 cm. | Photograph shows a flag flown from an upper story window of the NAACP headquarters on 69 Fifth Avenue, New York Cit...

I'm putting together a lecture on the US between the world wars for tomorrow. Check out what photo seems to have taken off line from the LOC (it shows up in the preview, but not on the site itself) www.loc.gov/item/2015647...