I’m so happy for you! What a get for Bloomsbury. I’m sad about losing your incredible influence on our field & lost conf time but I’ll be in NYC in Dec & hope we can connect. Congrats, Debbie!

Before Juneteenth A firsthand account of freedom’s earliest celebrations

_Emancipation Celebration_, which features rare accounts of Juneteenth celebrations in 1864 New Orleans told from an entirely Black perspective, inspired this article by Ann Marsh Daly & me. Thanks @jimdowns.bsky.social for encouraging us to publish this!
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Thanks, Anne!

MS State History Department's 15th annual Symposium for History Undergraduate Research begins today w/ keynote speaker Jim Downs. If you're in the area, please join us! Check out the program: bit.ly/4aqbtQS #skystorians