Michaël Roy

Félicitations!

“Reconstruction: Democracy for All” Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 26, No. 2, 2025)

Check out our multi-expert review of "The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920," by @profmsinha.bsky.social Manisha Sinha

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

on my desk!

Face à l’IA générative, l’objection de conscience Manifeste pour l’enseignement supérieur et l’éducation nationale [Vous pouvez signer ce manifeste (version pdf ici) dans ce formulaire. Un document de mise en perspective critique des discours de défe...

Un texte important venant de l'Atecopol (atelier d'écologie politique) sur l'IA générative: "Face à l’IA générative, l’objection de conscience"
atecopol.hypotheses.org/13082

‘I Felt All This’ Cambridge Core - American Studies - ‘I Felt All This’

Excited to see my book, 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South, is up on CUP's website - coming out in July 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

Project to map enslaved people’s testimony | News | The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh historians will investigate slavery and the law in British Guiana, now Guyana, in a new three year-long project.

I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin

www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...

A map showing mostly Europe with red dots indicating book locations in the UK and Germany, nothing in France.

Today’s Wheatley Census mystery: are there really no copies of the 1773 first edition in France? Published in London in 1773 and distributed, in part, through Methodist networks of Selina Hastings, there are copies all over the UK. But none in France?

Dissenting Forces A history of enslaved people and abolitionists who fought racism on college campuses and reimagined higher learningSince their inception in North America, un...

Very grateful to share that my book Dissenting Forces: A History of Abolition and Black Thought is now out with NYU press

nyupress.org/978147983661...

CFP: "AMERICAN REVOLUTION INTERNATIONAL" - Huntington Library, Nov. 6-7, 2006. With generous support from the Early Modern Studies Institute at USC, my co-conspirators & I look forward to two days of generative conversation. Travel & lodging included! Proposals due 1/10. Please spread the word! 🙏

Thank you Ashley, great video! I didn't know about Duff Green's plan to publish proslavery schoolbooks in the wake of the postal campaign. I thought it was a thing of the 1850s.

Thank you Leon!

YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS is now available in open access through JSTOR and Open Square @nyupress.bsky.social

www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30...
opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...

📌 Comment recevoir l'appui d'ECHELLES dans le cadre du concours 2026 des chercheur.e.s du CNRS @cnrs.fr ? On vous explique ici ⬇️

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couverture de l'épisode

La discussion : Les choix d’écriture du livre (1:00) Que sait-on des conditions dans lesquelles « É » est réduit en esclavage ? (15:30) Un enfant choisi et nommé par le second du navire (20:00) Un esclave revendu, devenu apprenti cuisinier (26:00) Un affranchi, marié, tenant avec succès un hôtel (36:20) Un parcours qui rencontre la Révolution et ses débats sur l’esclavage (47:30) Les conseils de lecture : Olivia Butler, Mauvaise graine Gisli Palsson, L’homme qui vola sa liberté

Aujourd'hui dans Paroles d'histoire, sur les traces d'un esclave affranchi au XVIIIe siècle, avec @julydup.bsky.social pour son livre @cnrseditions.bsky.social
Bonne écoute et bonne semaine !
parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...

A man sits with his back to the camera. His back is full of scars and ridges in the skin from beatings. A headline reads: Park Service Is Ordered to Take Down Some Materials on Slavery and Tribes. Photo via the Library of Congress.

The Trump administration ordered several National Park Service sites to take down materials related to slavery and Native Americans, including an 1863 photograph of a formerly enslaved man with scars on his back, one of the most powerful images of the Civil War era. nyti.ms/4nyyyaQ

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

ECHELLES : un nouveau laboratoire pour repenser l’histoire et les sociétés à l’échelle globale
👉 echelles.u-pariscite.fr/echelles/ech...
@echelles-umr8264.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social

Now available! THE RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP: 19th-CENTURY PRINT CULTURE & ANTI-SLAVERY, by Sarah Allison

Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%: bit.ly/3V9ygLk @sarahdallison.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

À Paris, une bibliothèque renommée en hommage à Maryse Condé Le conseil de Paris a voté mardi 3 juin en faveur du changement de dénomination de la bibliothèque Sorbier, située dans le 20ᵉ arrondissement de la capitale. Elle sera désormais appelée la "bibliothèq...

Also, Bibliothèque Sorbier is to be renamed after Maryse Condé 👌

la1ere.franceinfo.fr/a-paris-une-...

Just realized that my neighborhood's public library (formerly Bibliothèque Parmentier) has a new name--and I love it!

Jeremy D. Popkin - The First Emancipation

The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France

À paraître en avril aux Princeton UP

Caroline Rolland-Diamond - Rosa Parks

À paraître en octobre chez Gallimard

Screenshot of the website header for slavesinparis.org comprising a drawing of the Place des Victoires in 18th-century Paris

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

Slave Hunts as “Normal Policing” In 18th century Paris, policemen accepted that property could take the form of people.

Read an excerpt from “Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories” by Miranda Spieler. @harvardpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/slav...

Racecraft Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life." Most peop...

If you haven't read Racecraft before, you're in for a treat.
www.versobooks.com/products/227...

Félicitations! J'ai regardé avec un très grand intérêt votre entretien pour Hors Série récemment. Il me tarde de lire le livre.

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...