Martha Hodes

Incredible new bookstore in Swarthmore, Pa.! Thrilled to be there at the ribbon-cutting!

Wonderful evening last night at Rotary Arts, in conversation with brilliant poet Nat Anderson, Swarthmore College, talking about *My Hijacking.* Great audience!

Linda Hodes, Dancer Who Championed Martha Graham’s Vision, Dies at 94

My mother's obit in the New York Times captures her long, productive life.

Linda Hodes, 1931 - 2025. She was the oldest living Martha Graham dancer.

Are we back to this? "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red...on separate continents....that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix" (recounted in Loving v. Virginia, 1967, striking down laws against marriage across racial categories).

A wonderful evening at The Quadrangle in Haverford, PA . . . even though a lightning strike and phenomenal storm meant no lights or tech! No matter. The audience was so engaged, with beautiful, caring questions. Thank you. (pic taken before the lights went out)

So happy I rushed to buy it at the Corner Bookstore on Madison Ave.! (I almost don't want to start it because I don't want to be finished reading it.)

History-relevant messages at Philadelphia's No Kings protest today.

Cornell Law School LII " Legal Information • Institute Search Cornell Q Menu 18 U.S. Code § 1385 - Use of Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force as posse comitatus U.S. Code Notes prev | next Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, or the Space Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (Added Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, $ 18(a), 70A Stat. 626; amended Pub. L. 86-70, § 17(d), June 25, 1959, 73 Stat. 144; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIlI, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 117-81, div. A, title X, § 1045(a), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1904.)

Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.

Great in the late 70s too!!!

Bowdoin College 45th reunion: I was not there, but my book was--and Bowdoin friends make an appearance in the memoir. Thank you, Bowdoin, for the shout-out.

So deeply buying this book. Crucial for me to buy this book.

Adore bicycling all over Berlin.

Untrue!

*My Hijacking* recently displayed at Authors' Celebration, NYU Center for the Humanities. Thank you!
[Photo credit: ©Braddock Jr.: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau]

Thank you, Rachel, very kind of you to say.

My Hijacking In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goe...

I sooo get it about being scared and freaked out about publishing a very personal memoir. I remember wanting to lock my finished manuscript in a drawer! But the book appeared, and over time I arrived at feeling at peace--even happy--with it. May the same be true for you. (If I may: bit.ly/4jJc70V).

And tomorrow will be worse.

The cover of my book, about personal responses to Lincoln's assassination, published by Yale University Press, 2015..

On this 160th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, I quote from his magisterial Gettysburg Address, 1863: "that this nation . . . shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

" . . . that this nation. . . shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth": Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863, and today in New York City (and all over the country).

So very much looking forward to reading this.

Go see this incredible one-man show, based on the book by historian Marcus Rediker, @marcusrediker.bsky.social, playing in New York NOW and heading to Philadelphia in May. It is so timely. You will be deeply moved.

A beautiful evening!

So deeply looking forward to reading this book about race, color, enslavement, freedom, and, most of all, family, by the ever-brilliant Martha Jones, @marthasjones.bsky.social. *The Color of Trouble: An American Family Memoir*

Interview: David Levering Lewis on ‘The Stained Glass Window’ and His Reading Life The august scholar has two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal. In “The Stained Glass Window,” he seeks to explain “macro-history as family history.”

Thank you, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Levering Lewis for naming *My Hijacking* as one of the books “on your night stand” in this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. I can’t wait to read Lewis’s new book, *The Stained Glass Window.* www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...

Every book bought in person, every online order.

Great conversation, great book--a great event!

Great event!

Interview: David Levering Lewis on ‘The Stained Glass Window’ and His Reading Life The august scholar has two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal. In “The Stained Glass Window,” he seeks to explain “macro-history as family history.”

Thank you, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Levering Lewis for naming *My Hijacking* as one of the books “on your night stand” in this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review. I can’t wait to read Lewis’s new book, *The Stained Glass Window.* www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...

Just. Yes.