February 2024 Newsletter

Danielle Kinsey Blog Post
Valentine's Day cards
Handmade Valentine's Day cards, Wikipedia

A monthly roundup of what we’re reading, watching, or listening to this month in the world of material culture, alongside any updates from our editorial board.

February is the month for many, many things material culture, whether we’re talking about rodents and their shadows, valentines, or wood dragons. In the US, Canada, and parts of Europe, it’s Black History Month, and in the UK, it’s LBGT+ History Month. There are lots of ways material culture studies can be used to highlight, historicize, and critique in these 29 leap days, not to mention taking on

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A Five Year First Friday Feature from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.

Guest post by Walter Biggins, editor-in-chief, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Feeding the Elephant is five years old! To celebrate, we are featuring some of the most popular, noteworthy, or timely pieces we’ve published over the years on the first Friday of each month throughout 2024. We hope you enjoy our Five Year First Friday Feature.


If you’re preparing a draft of your manuscript to submit to a publisher, then the final throes of that will involve ironing out its wrinkles. Your manuscript may


Guest post by Walter Biggins, editor-in-chief, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Feeding the Elephant is five years old! To celebrate, we are featuring some of the most popular, noteworthy, or timely pieces we’ve published over the years on the first Friday of each month throughout 2024. We hope you enjoy our Five Year First Friday Feature.


If you’re preparing a draft of your manuscript to submit to a publisher, then the final throes of that will involve ironing out its wrinkles. Your manuscript may

Jan 2024 H-Material Culture Newsletter

Danielle Kinsey Blog Post

18th century woman's pocket

England, mid-18th century, Woman's Pocket, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

A monthly roundup of what we’re reading, watching, or listening to this month in the world of material culture, alongside any updates from our editorial board.

 

Welcome to 2024, everyone! The year ahead looks to be a tumultuous one in whatever way we want to think about it, be it national and global politics, trade, climate change and – wagering a hypothesis – probably in the way that people relate to their material world. Waste studies couldn’t be more timely, nor the question of “toxic” things and what we can

Don Longo, A Historian Against the Current: The Life and Work of Austin Gough. Mile End, SA: Wakefield Press, 2021.

Doug Munro, History Wars: The Peter Ryan – Manning Clark Controversy. Canberra: ANU Press, 2021. Available as a free download: https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/history-wars

With history wars heating up again in many countries, particularly where histories of race, racism, and colonialism are concerned, it seemed like a good time to check in with some biographers who have studied historians in a history wars setting. As luck would have it, biographers Doug Munro and Don Longo

Introducing the LEGACIES blog

R. Isabela Morales (she/her) Blog Post

Dear H-Slavery Members,

I am excited to introduce Legacies, H-Slavery's new blog on slavery and public history. More than 400 years after a slave ship brought the first enslaved Africans to colonial Virginia in 1619, more than 155 years after slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865, the history of slavery -- and how it is remembered in the public imagination -- remains a subject of controversy and contention, a flashpoint in ongoing culture wars. Sharing research about slavery and exploring innovative ways that scholars present their work to the public is as relevant and important as

Welcome!

David Prior Blog Post

Dear H-CivWar Subscribers, 

Welcome to the H-CivWar Authors' Blog! In the coming days and weeks our contributors will be introducing themselves and their projects. From there, we'll be taking turns unpacking our current research and writing, all with the hope of working through our ideas and tapping into feedback from H-CivWar's extensive and diverse scholarly community. If you think you might want to become a contributor or write a guest post down the road, please feel welcomed to drop me (dmprior@unm.edu) and Niels (eichhorn.niels@gmail.com) a quick email. 

Best wishes, 

David Prior
Associate

All Together Now: Haitian Studies at the 2019 AHA and MLA Annual Conventions

 

Claire Antone Payton, University of Virginia

Robert D. Taber, Fayetteville State University

 

The annual conventions of the American Historical Association and the Modern Languages Association were both held in Chicago, IL on January 3-6, 2019. This fortuitous coincidence provided the occasion for interdisciplinary collaboration between members of the two scholarly organizations. The result was a unique series of joint AHA/MLA panels on colonial Saint-Domingue and Haiti, topics of scholarly inquiry that thrive on

Forum on The Common Wind: In Honor of Julius S. Scott

Marlene Daut Blog Post

Forum on The Common Wind
In Honor of Julius S. Scott

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(Image courtesy of Elizabeth A. Fenn, private collection of Peter H. Wood)
 
 

This forum is a celebration of the long-awaited publication of Julius S. Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Verso Press in November 2018. In these short contributions, which have been written by scholars at various stages in their careers, and whose works have influenced or been influenced by Scott's own, we glimpse the historiographic revolution sparked by his landmark 1986 dissertation. However