Join us for a free lecture tonight at the Royall House and Slave Quarters. Hear Professor Dr. Jim Downs discuss the history of the medical humanities and its relationship to slavery and its legacies. He will be joined by Professors Kendra Field and Kerri Greenidge.

Two great events are happening tomorrow at CHAT! Come join us at noon to hear CHAT Fellow Mia Levenson present her research, or join us at 6:30 p.m. at the Royall House and Slave Quarters to hear Jim Downs in conversation with Kendra Field and Kerri Greenidge.

🪻✨Stay tuned: my guest-edited double special issue, “Recovering Black Performance in Early Modern Spain,” due to drop soon in the coming weeks✨Featuring an illustrious lineup of colleagues too✨🪻Bulletin of the Comediantes lexie cook AlaniRosa The Renaissance Society of America Esteban Crespo brais

I’m honored to introduce Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez this Wednesday at the Hutchins Center at Harvard to discuss his impeccable research on the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Conversation with my brilliant friend and colleague ⁦P. Gabrielle Foreman⁩ on the ⁦Colored Conventions⁩ digital history project that is transforming our understanding about the role of Black women in strengthening democracy. We need this now more than ever. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rac…

Boston friends, I will be giving a talk next Wednesday at the Royall House and Slave Quarters followed by a conversation with the brilliant and dynamic duo Kendra Taira Field & Kerri Greenidge. I am honored to do this & very much looking forward to it!

It was an honor and a pleasure to chat with Paul Lerner about my new book TRACES OF A JEWISH ARTIST: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit for New Books Network 📚 NB Jewish Studies 📚 NB German Studies🎙️📚
Listen to the podcast interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/traces-of-a-je…

Look what came in the mail today! Robin Bernstein much-anticipated brand new book on the original prison for profit in 19th Century New York. The research is impeccable & illuminates an untold story of the antebellum North!

Trump's Gettysburg chat led some historians to write good threads. (Links ahead.) On the anniversary of Lincoln's death, let's ask why he was a successful strategist—why Jeff Davis failed—and how 'revisionist' history makes military history better.
The answer is slavery.
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The risks Black people took were awful, documented in Dr. Jim Downs's great book, 'Sick from Freedom.' The help to federal armies was huge: intelligence, labor, changing soldiers' politics, later troops. I documented the role of just one self-freed woman in 'Custer's Trials.'
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Thanks for arranging. A lovely gathering.

@ugapress are so proud of this book and the series.

OK, in preparation for a Global Health Book Club launch, I updated this list with 12 new books!

We are at over 375 great books!!

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Dr. Jim Downs Annette Gordon-Reed Adam Rothman Your lecture at Lehigh was beautifully organized, dense and nicely delivered.
Was looking for a link to share with a couple inspired students.
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Thanks to everyone who found the time to come to my book launch
for the January 6 volume in New Orleans ! It was great to see you!

Ok well while we are on the topic, please pre-order my second book. Which was grueling and brutal to write but I’m pretty happy with it!

Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot (Sexual Cultures) a.co/d/8EmVbek

I am now at [email protected]

“Oxygen is the unspoken coefficient between political activism and public health” Dr. Jim Downs