And on Day 1 of the 2026 conference of @c19americanists.bsky.social !!!

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 13.2, Fall 2025 CONTRIBUTORS Kristin Moriah Rafael Walker Susannah Sharpless Rachel Conrad Bracken Alexandra Burgess Matt Sandler Sabrina Evans Danielle Procope Bell Vivian Delchamps Wolf Magdalena Zapędowska Koritha Mitchell HOPKINS PRESS JOURNALS www.press.jhu.edu/journals/j19

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
13.2, Fall 2025

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CONTRIBUTORS
Kristin Moriah
Rafael Walker
Susannah Sharpless
Rachel Conrad Bracken
Alexandra Burgess
Matt Sandler
Sabrina Evans
Danielle Procope Bell
Koritha Mitchell
and more

Our special issue for @j19journal.bsky.social honoring Frances E.W. Harper's 200th birthday is now out! It features *8* terrific essays on intriguing facets of Harper's work and concludes with a stirring afterword by @profkori.bsky.social.

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Walking 1,300 km of Black history in Ontario | The Narwhal Ken Johnston walked from Niagara Falls to Owen Sound, following the boggy, buggy Underground Railroad path of early Black settlers in Ontario

Called by his ancestors, Ken Johnston walked 1,360 kilometres through southern Ontario to retrace parts of the Underground Railroad. Here's what he learned about Black history in Canada, including the outdoor survival skills needed to escape enslavement. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-nort...

We are thrilled to announce that Kristin Moriah will be joining the Legacy editorial team as Book Review Editor! Please join us in welcoming her! 1/5

Pleased to announce this small but mighty display at the Stauffer and W.D. Jordan libraries at Queen’s University. @queensulibrary.bsky.social

Thanks, Ria!

Thanks, Laura!

Thanks, Erin!

Queen’s welcomes five new Canada Research Chairs | Queen's Gazette In addition to the new positions, three current chairs have been renewed. Announcement also included new research support funding.

Thrilled to be able to announce that I have been awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Black Feminist Technologies and Artistic Praxis!

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Today at 1 PM! Join us to learn more about “Insensible of Boundaries: Studies in Mary Ann Shadd Cary.”

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EVENT: Don't miss @dark-stars.bsky.social discussing her new edited volume INSENSIBLE OF BOUNDARIES in a virtual book talk hosted by @congrelib.bsky.social for their 2025 Juneteenth Lecture on Thursday 6/19 at 1 p.m. ET! Register today to reserve your spot.

The @pennpress.bsky.social Summer Reading Sale begins today! The sale provides 40% off all available books on pennpress.org when customers use promo code PENN-SUMMER25 at checkout, and it runs through Friday, June 20th. It’s a great time to get “Insensible of Boundaries”.

The 2025 edition of the Black Studies Summer Seminar considers ways of being together while asking: what do we owe each other in this constellation of Black study?

Join us for our public keynotes on June 9th, 10th and 11th. Tickets are available here: blk-s3tudies.com/events

Juneteenth is two weeks away, and we hope you’re making plans to spend an hour with us at 1 pm EDT hearing Dr. Kristin Moriah speak about the life and legacy of Mary Ann Shadd Cary.

Registration for this virtual talk is free and open to all at congregationallibrary.org/events/insen...

SUMMER READING SALE! Save 40% on all available books on pennpress.org with code PENN-SUMMER25 at checkout, now through Friday, June 20!

The @pennpress.bsky.social Summer Reading Sale begins today! The sale provides 40% off all available books on pennpress.org when customers use promo code PENN-SUMMER25 at checkout, and it runs through Friday, June 20th. It’s a great time to get “Insensible of Boundaries”.

Details from two photographs showing individual African American women: at left, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, and, at right, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Both are head and shoulders pictures. Mossell’s body is turned slightly to her right, but she faces the camera slightly to her left. Harper’s body is turned to more to her right, but her face aims directly at us. Both are in fashionable late nineteenth-century dresses. Mossell’s hair is up, and Harper’s is pulled back.

September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances E. W. Harper’s birth. Here’s the fourth of six essays in the forum commemorating Harper in the current Legacy, Nazera Sadiq Wright’s amazing study of Harper, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, & Black library use & creation: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Make plans to join us for our 2025 Juneteenth Lecture, a virtual talk with Dr. Kristin Moriah about her book, “Insensible of Boundaries,” and learn more about trailblazing Black feminist, activist, journalist, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893).

A contemporary color photograph of a three-story rowhouse in Philadelphia owned by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper during the last four decades of her life. The front façade is red brick. The first floor features a blue door (at the top of a short set of off-white stairs) and two double hung windows trimmed in white with blue shutters and blue window boxes. Two basement windows made of glass blocks can be see below the first-floor windows. The second and third floor each feature two double hung windows, again with white trim and blue shutters. Off-white lintels matching the front stairs are placed at the top of the door and basement windows and at the top and bottom of the other windows. A small cornice done in blue with yellowish accents tops the structure. This is an end unit and the photograph approaches the structure at an angle, so the end side wall of gray stone is also visible. Various utility wires interrupt the view of parts of the second and third floors. A historical marker—a sign on a tall pole—can be see to the viewer’s right, rising from the red brick sidewalk. The rowhouse immediately to the right is brown brick, separated visually from the Harper home by a white drainage pipe running from the roof to a black base in the sidewalk.

September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s birth. Here’s the second of six essays in the forum commemorating Harper in the current issue of Legacy, the powerful “We Need to Speak about Home” by Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Thank you all for this forum on Frances Ellen Harper! We're so greateful!
Have a look at all those great contributions teased by Eagan Dean...

My publisher - Feminist Press - had their 35k NEA grant terminated. This is the highest level of government censorship attacking marginalized voices and stories. Please support FP by donoting, buying their books from your local bookstore, or from their website #NEA #neagrants www.feministpress.org

Volume 41, Number 2, 2024 of Legacy is online! 🎉 You can find the entire issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53522 ! We'll be covering each piece and why you should reach them in the coming days!

Thank you!

New drop in the @legacy1984.bsky.social Frances Harper Special Issue: "We Need to Speak about Home: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Domestic Concerns" dx.doi.org/10.1353/leg....

Cover of Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller. The title is in yellow at the top, with a curlicue to its left. The cover features detail from the painting "Yellow Book" by Iké Udé, with a light-skinned Black man in profile, sitting on chaise longue. He is wearing a dapper grey suit, gloves, and a floral boutonniere. The subtitle is written in white across his knees and the author's name is in yellow at the bottom of the cover.

Tonight is the #MetGala, celebrating the upcoming opening of the new exhibition "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," which was inspired by Monica L. Miller's 2009 book "Slaves to Fashion."
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The first event for 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦 will be a pre-release @haymarketbooks.org virtual event next Wednesday, 4/30 at 5pm ET featuring Garrett Felber in conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...