If You Missed It The First Time (May 2020): Gender Variances and Sexual Diversity in the Caribbean: Perspectives, Histories, Experiences - Edited by Marjan de Bruin and R. Anthony Lewis | University of the West Indies Press | More information can be found here: www.uwipress.com/978976640741...
down with endnotes renormalize footnotes. huge footnotes. not those ones that are just reading lists, that's what a bibliography is for, I mean discourse-packed messy source digression half the page eighteenth-century footnotes
I'll see your Knights of Malta and raise you an Order of Alcantará. :D
Holy heck if you haven't taken a look at this just launched project and resources from the @historians.org _American Historical Review_, it's incredible. Of course I went to the 1665 Mass Bay petition about royal authoritarianism. Excellent!
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The Red Historia Venezuela website has added a collection of indexes and guides for the Venezuela documents within the Archivo General de Indias. A huge undertaking in which @gonzalezsilen.bsky.social has played a very important role. You can find it here: redhistoriave.org/real-audienc...
It's currently 89F in my office.
New Article (April 2026): World-Making in Sylvia Wynter and Bernard Stiegler: Critical Encounters of Myth and Memory – Duncan R. Cordry | The CLR James Journal | To read more, visit here: www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately
The meltdown is truly spectacular.
If You Missed It The First Time (September 2016): American Imperialism's Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism - By Raphael Dalleo | University of Virginia Press | More information can be found here: www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4998/
Did a field in medieval European history with the late, great Thomas N. Bisson. He used to metaphorically smack us upside the head when we imputed *anything* to feudalism. Of course he was mostly an expert on Aragon, but his skeptical view of feudalism/lordship/power applies to England too.
I guess I should've asked this a few weeks ago, and not the day before I teach the module on "machine translation" for my Translating the Caribbean course, but here goes: What's your favorite contemporary critical essay on machine translation coming from the humanities?
Online Films Screening – Four Short Films by Al’Ikens Plancher
Date & Time: Friday, April 24th, 2026 at 1 p.m. EST/12 p.m. CT/ 10 a.m. PST
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• Boat People, 2024 (10 minutes)
• Tifi , 2021 (13 minutes)
• La Vie, 2023 (4 minutes)
• Konpa, 2023 (9 minutes)
pile of books and papers
Colleague after seeing my office desk: "Writing a book?"
Me: "Making a single footnote!"
In 1693 a slave trader observed that to a person from West Africa, the word ‘Barbados’ invoked a ‘more dreadful apprehension than we have of Hell’.
Can confirm--I've had to add a sequence in the third lecture I give in US to 1865 about the differences between Catholics and Protestants and why it matters for the history of European colonialism in the Americas.
when?
Screenshot of event description with book cover for Archival Irruptions!
Doing a cool JCB Reads event today at noon (eastern)-- join us to hear from Katharine Gerbner about her fascinating book on 18th century Obeah. And working through and around the archives of criminalized religiosity. Join us! jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
Congratulations to Professor Matthew J. Smith and the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS) on receiving a $575k grant to build a database of enslaved people in the British Caribbean! 👏
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✍️ Happy to share the publication of this article. It examines the relief policies implemented in Cuba for Spanish subjects from Santo Domingo and former French colonists from Saint-Domingue who remained loyal to Spain, after Santo Domingo's cession to France (1795)
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oh Yay!
Hadas is the best!
Via Small Axe | Keywords in Caribbean Studies | Virtual Conversation on Heritage | Friday, April 3, 2026 from 12:00-1:30PM EST | RSVP: tinyurl.com/sxkeywords-H...
Just sip the gazpacho out of the glass. LOL. :)
Excited to announce "ser islas / being islands" by V edctor Fragoso! Pre-order now & RSVP for the April virtual launch. Book on sale April 20! → https://ow.ly/8A0m50YyiAC https://ow.ly/uhf050YyiAE
New (February 2026): Originary Violations: Discursive Constructions of Caribbean Motherhood and Motherlands - By Paula Morgan and Hannah Regis | University of the West Indies Press | More information can be found here: www.uwipress.com/978976658068...
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apparently it is, le sigh. :(
