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If you're trying to straddle the academic/popular divide, good agents who understand you and what you want to do are hard to find, but they're also worth every penny.

Sergio Lussana's My Brother Slaves is the first that comes to my mind.

The Price They Paid book cover.

Pleased to announce that my most recent book, The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War, has won the 2024 John Lyman Book Award from the North American Society for Oceanic History.

It's not "traditional country" unless they appeared on Hee Haw. Sorry.

Time to update that c.v.

People are worried about the bridge collapsing, but Constitution Avenue also sits atop the old Tiber Creek, now enclosed in some really old tunnels.

Bookmarked. Thank you.

I'm naturally assuming the new pope likes deep dish and the Cubs, so he's all right by me.

My Pell Grant said otherwise.

It's not really the Gilded Age without Social Darwinism.

Dorothy A. Brown says The Plunder of Black America “sets out in clear and exquisite detail the huge obstacles placed in the path of African Americans who simply wanted to become self-sufficient & leave their children with brighter futures” lnkd.in/gXwhCUqs
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The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made comes out in one week! It’s a story of several families over 400 years and how times changed but the theft continued. Please preorder now: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

My sincere condolences. Your dad meant the world to me. I could not have asked for a kinder, more generous, or more brilliant mentor.

After four months of stress, sleep deprivation, and exhaustion, finals week promises the sweet relief of year-end reviews and severe illness.

A false appositive!

When you publish a book with @thenewpress.bsky.social, they send you a gift box of cookies from Levain Bakery. This is how it's done.

The Plunder of Black America The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations...

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Happy pub week to THE PRICE THEY PAID by @jforret.bsky.social, “a detailed and worthy study of the clash of abolitionist and pro-slavery forces in early America” (Kirkus Reviews) ow.ly/BFFL50UaxbK

This one covers four U.S. domestic slave-trading vessels that wrecked or were blown off course to holdings in the British colonial Atlantic b/t 1831 and 1840. The British offered freedom to the enslaved, and U.S. slave owners and insurance companies pressed for compensation from the Crown.

Release day for the new book, The Price They Paid. Huge thank you to The New Press and editor Marc Favreau for seeing this one to the finish line.

Is there a "historians who lift" starter pack?

Ties officially now cut with the other place. After my last post there a few months ago, sharing the cover design for my next book, some angry dude I didn't know called me a [bleep] for writing about slavery. I can imagine no more fitting end to my time there than that.

Oh, wait. Nevermind. Thank you!

Me, please.

The flood of new people here has finally convinced me to sever all ties with that other place. Now, to remember my password...

More of an end-of-the-semester phenomenon these days.

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Synthol's bad.

August 8 by the numbers:
Fall courses: 5
Preps: 4
Syllabi prepared: 0

That was understood. I've followed you a long time.