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Casey Schmitt

@csschmitt.bsky.social

Historian of early America and the Caribbean at Cornell U, avid Philadelphia Phillies fan, sometimes gardener.

5,781 Followers  |  2,568 Following  |  299 Posts  |  Joined: 22.08.2023  |  1.8774

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Aw! Thank you!

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Aw, thank you!

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Thank you!

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Aw, thank you! You'll have a copy in your mailbox as soon as I get my copies!

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The Predatory Sea – Penn Press A new interpretation of captivity, human trafficking, and colonization in the seventeenth-century CaribbeanA century before the height of the Atlantic slave ...

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My Writing Living with Sathnam Sanghera Sathnam Sanghera is an author, journalist and broadcaster, whose works include his memoir The Boy with the Topknot, as well as a series of books exploring the legacy of the British Empire. We sat down...

Don't experiment with LLM-based so-called AI. People are losing work & the infoscape is being poisoned. Don't help subsidize that, even indirectly, by adding to the user numbers that help these companies raise venture capital to make the world worse. @sathnam.bsky.social writes: 1/n

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I Have Avenged America A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule Β ...

PUBLICATION DAY!

_I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social

To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Reading List: Baseball FanΒ Favorites Over the years, UNP has developed a national reputation for publishing award-winning books in baseball history. To help you clear the bases (and your wish list), we've compiled a list of some of our recently published titles and forever best sellers. Browse for something to read during the next rain delay to learn more about your favorite team or iconic figures from America's favorite pastime.

To help you clear the bases (and your wish list), we've compiled this #readinglist of recently published baseball books and forever best sellers.

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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a β€˜summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

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Call for Writers: Imagining Survival β€” INSURRECT! Submit by June 20th!

Insurrect! is soliciting writers for Imagining Survival, which will examine the emotions of survival in our present through pre-1900 contexts in the Americas and Atlantic. We invite nuanced and accessible reflections on communal care, solidarity, and courage amidst violence.

Submit by June 20th!

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Blood on the River | The New Press Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works of history, capturing both the Frederick Douglass Prize and the Cundill History Prize in...

Marjoleine Kar's book Blood on the River is a good one for this!

thenewpress.com/books/blood-...

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After a Brown doctor was deported, university officials advise students, staff to postpone travel - The Boston Globe The advisory comes as Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant doctor at Brown Medicine, was prevented from re-entering the country after a trip to Lebanon. Brown’s spring break begins March 22.

NEW: After a Brown doctor was deported, university officials advise students, staff to postpone international travel
via @bostonglobe.com

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/17/m...

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About that part where it’s not a constitutional crisis until the government disobeys a court order…

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Congratulations - I can't wait to read it!

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Thank you!!

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Thank you, Rob!!!

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Thank you, Frances!!! I hope you're doing well!

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Thank you!!

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Thanks! @pennpress.bsky.social did such a great job!

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Thank you!

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Thank you!

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Thank you!!

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Thank you!!!

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Thank you!!

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Thank you! I'd be more than happy to Zoom into a classroom, if you'd be interested!

18.02.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!!! It wouldn't have been possible with support from the @jcblibrary.bsky.social!

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