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hnn.us/article/hereti… An excerpt from The Heretic of Cacheu in @myHNN. Great thanks to Jaime Fuller.

The Women Who Ran Senegambia: How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town. An excerpt from The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green at History News Network #slaveryarchive hnn.us/article/hereti…

A modest excerpt from The Second Emancipation, focused on the role of HCBUs on forging links between African liberation movements and the struggle for human and citizens' rights by Africans, major theme of the book. hnn.us/article/a-powe…

When Good Housekeeping Meant Getting Vaccinated Against Polio The pages of 1950s lifestyle magazines offer a glimpse of a time when childhood vaccines were anything but controversial hnn.us/article/good-h…

📚 #PaceU American Studies Adjunct Professor Philip Kadish examines how government records were distorted to support racist narratives in 19th-century America. Check out "A Mere Mass of Error," an excerpt from his book The Great White Hoax: brnw.ch/21wUIbz

Fascinating research on the cookbook’s central role in fashioning and circulating domestic ideologies in the 19th century - historynewsnetwork.org/article/master…

With Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein out soon, I consider the immortality of Goth Mother Mary Shelley's book, via Frankenfictions from Scotland + Iraq: Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things + Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad — part four of my found documents series, @myHNN (🔗⬇️)

up now on @myHNN — Henry Boernstein — friend of Marx, one of the first St. Louis novelists, socialist scourge of Missouri Confederates while also being the founder of the Missouri Republican Party

My piece about the dangerous memory of Lexington and Concord came out with @myHNN today. It will be 250 years to the famous "shot heard round the world" on April 19 hnn.us/article/the-da…

“We need to get the bastards out of here.” History matters. historynewsnetwork.org/article/indiff…

I wrote about Thaddeus Stevens and the power of the purse for @myHNN. Check it out, if you're so inclined. historynewsnetwork.org/article/thadde…

The answer is because… (I just wrote about this today) hnn.us/article/whose-…

The group that authored the #AHA25 #scholasticide resolution, @Histpeace, has a new petition drive underway to convince the AHA Council to reverse its veto of the resolution and allow all AHA members to vote on it: historiansforpeace.org/2025/01/17/his…

up now on HNN, check out the write-up on the KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE — Booth, Bickley, opium, and buried (racist) treasure historynewsnetwork.org/article/knight… @myHNN

Each year, we sift through thousands of online articles, essays, blogs, and newsletters that deal, in one way or another, with the American past. Here is our annual roundup of 40 standouts from 2024. bunkhistory.org/resources/best…

Read an excerpt from Marlene L. Daut’s “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe.” @AAKnopf hnn.us/article/i-have…

Queen Marie-Louise outlived most of her family, yet her story about the revolution and its aftermath was rarely consulted by those writing the era’s history. hnn.us/article/i-have…

The 3rd in my series on found documents in fiction, @myHNN, looks at arguably the genre's GOAT: Vladimir Nabokov's PALE FIRE, which in his words "is supposed to be the production, without any editorial interference" of a madman who purloins a dead poet's final work (🔗in reply).

The curious tale of when the Christmas Bird Count sparked a protracted court battle in the 1970s.