John Harris

Image of a book jacket for Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth.

Full book jacket just dropped, and we're pretty happy with it. Huge thanks to @cecilefromont.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, Alice, and Andrés for your generous words! #earlymodern #BeyondTheOcean global.oup.com/academic/pro...

My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period.

Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳

Librarian & Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut, 06032 | Other at Yale University Apply for Librarian & Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library job with Yale University in Farmington, Connecticut, 06032. Other at Yale University

JOB ALERT 📜📚

Librarian & executive director of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library (Farmington, CT)

•Research center for 18th-century Britain
•You’d report to the fabulous Michelle Light

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Director and Curator, Special Collections and Archives - Middlebury College Reporting to the Dean of the Library, the Director and Curator of Special Collections provides leadership, vision, and budget oversight for Middlebury’s special collections, including its rare book an...

JOB ALERT! 📜📚

Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin?

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Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

The Unspendable Pension of Henrietta Emory Meads - The Journal of the Civil War Era Sometime in July 1867, Henrietta Emory wrote to a clerk in the Claim Division of the Maryland Freedmen’s Bureau describing the challenges she had faced in trying to get money due to her as a soldier’s...

I wrote abt a Black war widow's attempts to gain recognition of the rights allegedly granted her by the postemancipation state. As she explained time & again, "I am poor & have not the money to pay for gitting any more certificates & things" required of her by pension officials.

The Misuses of the University - Public Books Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

Reflecting on this as I read @francoisfurst.bsky.social's excellent, pointed, ever wry, ultimately mournful reflection on how leadership inc boards can profoundly misunderstand or misdirect a university. This is a JHU problem; this is not just a JHU problem. www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

It's Publication Day! It was such a genuine pleasure to work on this important & timely volume w/ Bryan Banks & every one of our contributing authors. Amazing group of people, & I am just so pleased.

Get your copy of The Global Age of Revs, help spread the word, & consider assigning in your class!

Here's Harriet Jacobs writing in her memoir about NYC: “What a disgrace to a city calling itself free, that inhabitants, guiltless of offense, and seeking to perform their duties conscientiously, should be condemned to live in such incessant fear, and have nowhere to turn for protection.”

And NYC was so unsafe for Black people that the population dropped significantly from the 1830s through the Civil War.

YouTube video by American Masters PBS W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause | Official Trailer | American Masters | PBS

Coming this May. A documentary about WEB Du Bois - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kMs...

I wrote about enslaved people in Hamburg, flight attempts, and the city's free-soil law of 1837. It's an open-access publication: 🗃️

Thanks for sharing. I’m writing a biography of a figure who’s never been written about (an anti slave trade spy), no official papers, in for a pound… all this resonates.

Wow!

Slide commemorating the 15th amendment

My ancestor Henry registering to vote in 1867!

The cover of my book Black Folk!

Finding my 3-times great grandfather, Henry Rucker, registering to vote in 1867 was life changing. He did so at great risk to life and livelihood, but he did it anyway.

Honored to commemorate the day that those rights were Constitutionally enshrined, still sacred & paid for at great sacrifice.

The Contagion of Liberty The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution

Today is the paperback release day for my book The Contagion of Liberty! It’s about how Americans demanded that their governments provide inoculations for smallpox to the public as their right and also to affirm that public health is a foremost duty of government. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Dear history fans, what objects would you like to see in an exhibition on privateering & life at sea in the 18th century? Everyday objects, letters, navigational instruments, or something unexpected? It will also explore forced migration. I’d love to hear your thoughts #earlymodern #maritimehistory

The crisis is real, and this is part of our effort at new approaches to supporting scholars and advancing scholarship in the (vast!) early Americas.

Sharing again and would appreciate your sharing, too. More info in the thread. 🧵⬇️

That’s fantastic. congrats!

Manchester University Press - Agents of European overseas empires Agents of European overseas empires - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Agents of European overseas empires by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber

Self-promotion warning: @manchesterup.bsky.social will issue paper edition of our essay collection on #earlymodern European overseas empires in Jan '26 for pre-order @ GBP 30 @carrington-farmer.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195791/

Finished copies of The Crown’s Silence stacked in front of a bookshelf

A finished copy of The Crown’s Silence on a table, front cover facing the viewer

A finished copy of The Crown’s Silence on a table, back cover with lovely blurbs facing the viewer

My author copies of THE CROWN’S SILENCE are here!!! Please spread the word, support local bookstores, and buy a copy for every royal 👑 in your life!

King Charles, I’m looking at you!!

Out on 1/27 in the US 🇺🇸 and on 1/29 in the UK 🇬🇧. #booksky 📚 #slaveryarchive

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Caveat: with a revised subtitle as per anthempress.com/books/britis...

But yes, coming soon!

If you want an easy way to read and then amplify the voices of historians, follow and share things from @contingent-mag.bsky.social.

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These look like a banger series of documentaries on protests in the US.

Off to check where to stream.

“Emigrants,” 1894. Oil on canvas by Raffaello Gambogi (1874–1943). Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, Livorno, Italy.

🗃️ The US attracted more foreign-born people from more places than any other nation in history. We need language to acknowledge that central fact of American history. But we also need language that goes beyond the idea that the United States is, or ever was, simply a “nation of immigrants.” 🧵1/10

Thank you; it was great to catch up with the latest

Thanks for this terrific piece Michael