I’m so happy for you! What a get for Bloomsbury. I’m sad about losing your incredible influence on our field & lost conf time but I’ll be in NYC in Dec & hope we can connect. Congrats, Debbie!
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Before Juneteenth
A firsthand account of freedom’s earliest celebrations
_Emancipation Celebration_, which features rare accounts of Juneteenth celebrations in 1864 New Orleans told from an entirely Black perspective, inspired this article by Ann Marsh Daly & me. Thanks @jimdowns.bsky.social for encouraging us to publish this!
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
17.06.2024 12:36 — 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
Thanks, Anne!
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MS State History Department's 15th annual Symposium for History Undergraduate Research begins today w/ keynote speaker Jim Downs. If you're in the area, please join us! Check out the program: bit.ly/4aqbtQS #skystorians
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W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor of all things history @uncpress.bsky.social, living in Brooklyn. uncpress.org/debbie-gershenowitz
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John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University. Books: GUN COUNTRY (2023) and CONSUMING JAPAN (2017).
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