It arrived!!! Congratulations! 🥳

My job talk (and prob one of my book chapters) is centered around a bee hive heist! 🐝

Yes!! I meant to say something but forgot until I saw this!

Awful! On a brighter note, I had a student cite your dissertation in his final project for my colonial North America class this semester!

first page of article in the william & mary quarterly

contents page of the william & mary quarterly

So thrilled that my piece on Barbary Newton, a seventeenth-century enslaving woman is out in the world - part of a WMQ article forum, “Absentee Women Enslavers: Two Case Studies” - paired with Jared Ross Hardesty’s research on the Mackintosh sisters w/ reflections from Zacek, Maskiell & Amussen ✨

Ha! I'm a Bates grad too!

Makes a lot of sense! I went to college in Maine and think I was less bothered by it then, but I also don’t think I had ever known how nice a southern spring could be!

Exactly! Spring makes a rather late entrance in New England.

Campus yesterday. March & April in Maine after a decade in VA/NC may be a rough adjustment.

My class had a wonderful trip to special collections to work with Bowdoin’s copies of the Algonquian bible!

Cover of The Predatory Sea by Casey Schmitt, image with ocean and coastline

It has a cover! I am so excited to have The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean coming out September 2025 with
@pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

Great Bowdoin Orient article about my friend and colleague Jamey Tanzer's research on the local history of slavery in Maine! Jamey is doing amazing social historical research and has been successful in really grounding his work in local geographies! bowdoinorient.com/2025/01/31/q...

Book cover with various kinds of evidence of family history arrayed around the author and title, the latter is _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_. The kinds of materials include printed texts, manuscripts, a red book (shhhhh that figures largely in the Introduction!), a watercolor family record, Fraktur, gravestone, and a sampler. One repeated text says "born free, born free (etc)"

It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️

It’s beautiful! Cannot wait to read and assign this! Congratulations!

Snow, I have missed you! So happy to be living in Maine again! ☃️

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for sharing this terrific postdoc @jcblibrary.bsky.social! I'm testing your generosity here but would love to also share that we have TWO additional senior research fellowships for BROWN2026. Details at apply.interfolio.com/159128 and see number 2 below for terms... 1/

Loved this! I do a lot of thinking about where account books were written, consulted, and stored, and this example—a literal grain tucked between pages—does a great job of bringing those materialities to the fore.

I found that many books were surprisingly affordable with the discount, so possible worth the peak! But I get it—no willpower here either!

Just went a little crazy buying books!

The Predatory Sea – Penn Press

Looking for something else just now and what a nice surprise to see @csschmitt.bsky.social's THE PREDATORY SEA on the @pennpress.bsky.social site!
www.pennpress.org/978151282814...

No worries! Very much looking forward to reading your book. Congratulations!

Exciting to find these waiting for me at home!

Wrote this up more fully, same bottom line on Washington: there is no carve out for slavery. "Slavery was not an incidental factor in his life. It was part of all that he did and accomplished. His world was made by, and bound by, the centrality of slavery." 1/ time.com/7173647/geor...

Reviewing how much (Vast) early American content I posted on Twitter back in the day and reviving that practice. Michelle McKinley’s brilliant new article in the Oct 24 WMQ, putting Mediterranean and Atlantic slaveries in conversation, focuses on “contingent liberty.” 1/ #VastEarlyAmericas

A flyer advertising a call for submissions for the Huntington Library Quarterly. The Text reads: The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original research and new perspectives on the early modern period, broadly defined (c. 1400–1800). Its content reflects an early modern world that was connected and cosmopolitan, with diverse communities and cultures increasingly linked by the circulation of people, ideas, social practices, and material objects in ways that transcend disciplinary and geographic boundaries. We invite submissions that draw on the sources, methods, and theoretical frameworks of literature, art, history, science, medicine, material culture, music, performance, and critical cultural studies, with a preference for scholarship that is broadly legible across disciplines. HLQ’s historical focus on Britain and its American colonies has been dramatically expanded to embrace broader and more diverse fields of inquiry, including scholarship rooted in continental Europe, the African Diaspora, and the Indigenous Americas, as well as their intersections with Mediterranean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds. The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) invites article submissions for two featured issues that will mark the journal’s new direction. Submissions received before 15 January 2025 will be evaluated for the first of these issues, to be published in September 2025. Submissions received before 15 March 2025 will be evaluated for the second of these issues, to be published in December 2025.

Hello, new followers! Reposting this recent announcement for those who missed it: New era for the HLQ. Please share widely! If you study the #earlymodern period (c. 1400-1800) in any discipline, we'd love to see what you're working on. www.pennpress.org/journals/jou...

First time seeing the Aurora!!

Reminder: Applications for "Recording Women in the Early Modern Atlantic World" workshop are due this Friday, March 1. @juliehardwick.bsky.social, @caycarbs.bsky.social and I hope you'll join the conversation!

www.txst.edu/history/news...

Teaching a first year course — with "family histories" as my guiding theme — means I get to explore some much more recent history! Enjoyed digging up these Family Week Proclamations from Nixon-Biden and using these to consider how family has changed over time! Highly recommend!