The new @jcwe.bsky.social board lineup is 🔥🔥
27.01.2026 22:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
It's time to start making reservations for our Annual Meeting! Secure the conference rate at the Omni Hotel by booking by May 27.
You can also reserve space in the book/publishers' exhibit hall by emailing our managing director at societycwh@gmail.com.
We're excited to see you in Richmond in June!
26.01.2026 21:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
His FIRST book, nominated for this. Whew. 😅
20.01.2026 19:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An excellent book and an excellent scholar! Congrats, @jonathansjones.bsky.social!
20.01.2026 19:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: the SCWH is soliciting nominations for President-elect and three at-large members of the Executive Council. Please submit your nominations to SCWH Managing Director Lindsey Peterson at SocietyCWH@gmail.com by March 1!
18.01.2026 00:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Death by Lightning - An Ode to Service - The Journal of the Civil War Era
In his inaugural speech on March 4, 1881, newly elected President James Garfield emphasized the importance of ongoing Reconstruction, asserting that the “elevation of the negro race from slavery to th...
Here’s a great piece on @netflix.com’s series “Death by Lightning” by the outstanding Historian and National Park Ranger @richcondon.bsky.social. He’s kind enough to mention my name and cite my book in this review of the series for @scwhistorians.bsky.social’s Journal of the Civil War Era.
22.12.2025 22:36 — 👍 32 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
Hey grad students! Working on your "elevator pitch?" Apply to present at a five-minute lightning round and receive feedback at the 2026 SCWH Conference! Submissions are due on March 13. More here!
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18.12.2025 20:16 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Banquet attendees sit for dinner and the keynote
A stack of COMBEE books
You can learn more about COMBEE and the Tom Watson Brown Book Award here: scwh.memberclicks.net/tom-watson-b...
16.12.2025 15:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tad Watson, president of the Watson-Brown Foundation; Dr. Edda Fields-Black, book award honoree; SCWH President Jason Phillips
Dr. Edda Fields-Black speaks during the banquet in honor of her book award
Coping with the cold weather by remembering last month's Southern in St. Pete Beach, where Dr. Edda Fields-Black received the 2025 Tom Watson Brown Book Award for COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War. Congrats again, Dr. Fields-Black!
16.12.2025 15:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Image with the hashtag Giving Tuesday, encouraging people to donate to the SCWH
On this #givingtuesday, please consider donating to our 40th Anniversary Campaign, which will support our graduate student and early career initiatives, scholarship awards, the Journal of the Civil War Era, and conferences!
Help us meet our goal by visiting scwh.memberclicks.net/donate-to-th...
02.12.2025 17:02 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Kool Aid man is busting through a wall, saying "oh yeah!"
Oh hey. We're on Bluesky now.
22.11.2025 02:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
History Professor, #skystorians, Writer, dog lover and AcaMama. Specialities: #CivilWar, Gender, Military, Naval, #SocialStudiesEd, #WomenStudies.
Asst Prof of History | teacher educator |GovSt in Southland Chicago
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Historian at the University of Mississippi. Author of An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South (OUP, 2024).
Historian of US Civil War & Reconstruction, working on history and memory of enslavers' claims for compensation. First book, Counting the Cost of Freedom, forthcoming w/ UNC Press, August 2025. Public and occasional digital historian. she/they.
Assistant Prof in Texas
Civil War & Reconstruction Historian*Public Historian*Material Culture*Oral History*Sensory History
Author—The Fabric of Civil War Society
Historian. Knitter. Mom of a feral girl-child. Author of Beyond Redemption & To Walk About in Freedom. I post about history, education, & books. Go Bills! She/hers. www.caroleemberton.com
Historian 🗃️ | US Civil War era, History of Medicine | My book *Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis* is now out from UNC Press, tinyurl.com/opiumslavery) | proud #firstgen | jonathansjones.net
Historian and whatnot. Recently published FREEDOM WAS IN SIGHT! A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF RECONSTRUCTION IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. REGION, with illustrations by the remarkable Liz Clarke. See also katemasur.com.
C19 US History, slavery, Civil War, Director, Last Seen Project, Author, _Last Seen: The Enduring Search By Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families_, Simon and Schuster, 2025.
Historian at Mississippi State University; Frank & Virginia Williams Chair for Abraham Lincoln & Civil War Studies (https://www.library.msstate.edu/williamscollection); Dir., Civil War & Recon. Govs. of MS Proj (http://cwrgm.org)
Historian of the nineteenth-century United States at North Carolina State University.
Scholar, Educator. Author of Educational Reconstruction (Fordham UP, 2016) and Unforgettable Sacrifice (forthcoming Fordham UP, 2025) and other works.
Historian & Author; Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, University of Alabama; DREAD DANGER is now available from Cambridge University Press.
https://history.ua.edu/people/lesley-gordon/
PhD student in History and African American studies at Penn State. Interested in history of 19th C. America, poverty, and childhood. Sometimes also writes about F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Historian of grief and public memory | Senior Manager of Interpretation at Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey House | Writing about Edwin Booth, celebrity, and grief | Author of Marquis de Lafayette Returns (History Press, 2024) |
www.elizabethmreese.com
PhD candidate in History & African American Studies at UC Davis; 19th-century working-class history; Managing Editor @cliocontemporary.bsky.social ; Host @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social ; Chair SCWH GSCC ; Co-Chair OAH GSC ; Labor Organizer
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