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Volume 26, Issue 2 of American Nineteenth Century History
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Just a reminder, as November reaches its midpoint, there's plenty of innovative US history to enjoy in our latest issue!
The latest issue of American Nineteenth Century History has just dropped online - the perfect thing to fill that awkward gap between Halloween and Thanksgiving! 🎃 🦃 🇺🇸 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fanc20/c...
American Nineteenth Century History
Volume 26, Issue 2 of American Nineteenth Century History
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November 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The latest issue of American Nineteenth Century History has just dropped online - the perfect thing to fill that awkward gap between Halloween and Thanksgiving! 🎃 🦃 🇺🇸 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fanc20/c...
American Nineteenth Century History
Volume 26, Issue 2 of American Nineteenth Century History
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November 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Are you fascinated by the US Civil War era? If so, we have a number of fantastic ahead-of-print articles available now on our website, bringing fresh light to this complex and always resonant conflict - www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...
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October 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Our latest article is now available ahead of print! In it, Sean A. Scott explores the contested nature of loyalty to both church and state during the Civil War - find out more on our website 📚 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Episcopalians in Civil War Washington: loyalty, prayer, and the struggle over religious authority within the Diocese of Maryland
In 1862, the Episcopal bishop of Maryland, William Whittingham, issued a prayer of thanksgiving for deliverance from the Confederate blockade to be used expressly by parishes in Washington, D.C. Th...
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October 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Thrilled to see my research published in @anchistjournal.bsky.social!

'Enslaved women were not only violent in their interactions with Southern overseers through avenues of assault, homicide, and attempted murder, they were also armed.'

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Challenging the overseer: enslaved women’s violent resistance in the US antebellum South
This article examines violent confrontations between enslaved women and white overseeing men, exploring how enslaved women opposed overseers through the weaponization of objects and fixtures on sit...
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September 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Hot on the heels of the latest issue of ANCH comes a TRIPLE drop of new articles available ahead of print on our website.
September 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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In 2014, I wrote an article about the Scourged Back photo for @anchistjournal.bsky.social which has generated more public interest than nearly anything I've written. The erasure of this image, which remains as powerful today and when it was taken, horrifies me. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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The latest issue of "American Nineteenth Century History" is now out! 🙌

This special issue's focus is "Universities and Slavery," it is edited by Benedict Carton & Natalie Zacek, and features contributions from Chana Kai Lee, George D. Oberle III & Wendi N. Manuel-Scott
American Nineteenth Century History
Universities and Slavery. Volume 26, Issue 1 of American Nineteenth Century History
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September 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The latest issue of "American Nineteenth Century History" is now out! 🙌

This special issue's focus is "Universities and Slavery," it is edited by Benedict Carton & Natalie Zacek, and features contributions from Chana Kai Lee, George D. Oberle III & Wendi N. Manuel-Scott
American Nineteenth Century History
Universities and Slavery. Volume 26, Issue 1 of American Nineteenth Century History
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September 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Delighted to see this important special edition of @anchistjournal.bsky.social "Universities and Slavery" out now, edited by Benedict Carton & Natalie Zacek, and featuring contributions from Chana Kai Lee, George D. Oberle III, Wendi N. Manuel-Scott
September 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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@branchuk.bsky.social @anchistjournal.bsky.social BrANCH/BGEAH conference looking real now. Who doesn't love putting name tags into plastic wallets and lanyards. Rock n roll...
September 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
As summer comes to an end, why not try out our most-read paper of 2025 so far. It's OPEN ACCESS, so no subscription necessary...

Gettysburg and American history: the Peter J. Parish Memorial Lecture by Adam I. P. Smith

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Gettysburg and American history: the Peter J. Parish memorial lecture 2023
The article asks why Gettysburg has always been the granted an exceptional place in the memory of the Civil War. It argues that Gettysburg, more perfectly than any other battle, has suited narrativ...
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September 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This summer, why not try out our most-read papers? Our second most-read paper of 2025 so far is OPEN ACCESS: The price of knowledge: universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective by Natalie Zacek

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The price of knowledge: universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective
This article centers on the different ways that English and American universities have uncovered, publicized, and responded to their historical connections to transatlantic slavery. It argues that ...
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August 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
NEW ARTICLE: April Haynes assesses the historiography of nineteenth-century movements for women's rights in a recent article for ANCH: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Nineteenth-century feminist historiography: continuities, intersections, and breakthroughs
This article assesses the interpretations of nineteenth-century movements for women's rights and finds that the historiography has been shaped equally by narrative continuity and interpretive debat...
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August 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Thrilled to publish this article on queer heritage in the 19th Century and beyond
August 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This summer, why not try out our most-read papers?

Our third most read paper in 2025 so far is OPEN ACCESS:

From Brazil to Brattle street: the transnational history of emperor Dom Pedro II’s dinner with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Stefan Aguirre Quiroga

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From Brazil to Brattle street: the transnational history of emperor Dom Pedro II’s dinner with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Through a transnational and microhistorical approach, this article seeks to interpret the Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II’s 1876 visit to Boston, Massachusetts, with a focus on the June 10 dinner be...
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August 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Looking for some summer reading? 📚 Why not try this fascinating article by Bill L. Smith on the weaponization of canines by enslavers in the antebellum American South and the manner in which abolitionists used reports of canine attacks in their fight against slavery... 📘📗📕
“Open jaws of this monster-tyranny”: abolitionism, resistance, and slave-hunting canines
This article focuses on the weaponization of canines by enslavers in the antebellum American South and the manner in which abolitionists used reports of canine attacks in their fight against slaver...
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July 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Applications still open for this exciting opportunity. Happy to take questions via DM or email.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Exciting news - the journal is looking for a new book review editor or editors! For details of the role and how to apply, visit the journal website at: www.branch.org.uk/anch Deadline: 28 July 2025 📚✒️
ANCH — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
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July 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
NEW ARTICLE: Professor Chana Kai Lee (@universityofga.bsky.social‬) explores evidence, both seen and unseen, about this reality for unfree laborers at the University of Georgia before the Civil War: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Of counterhistories and black collective memory: enslaved people and the University of Georgia
The history of slavery at the University of Georgia paralleled the experiences of other colleges during the early nineteenth century. Enslaved persons cooked for students, faculty, and administrato...
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June 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Exciting news - the journal is looking for a new book review editor or editors! For details of the role and how to apply, visit the journal website at: www.branch.org.uk/anch Deadline: 28 July 2025 📚✒️
ANCH — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
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June 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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For those who could not hear this address in person, here is the published version. Thank you for the amazing editors and team at American Nineteenth Century History and BrANCH!
May 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
An innovative NEW PAPER in ANCH. @hngreen.bsky.social, James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College, calls for a new subfield in Civil War memory studies, focusing on the experiences, traditions, and community practices of African Americans.

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“Toward a new future in civil war memory studies”
This paper calls for the development of new subfield for exploring the experiences, traditions, and community practices of African Americans remembered and commemorated the American Civil War. Afri...
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May 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Many congratulations to @aishadjelid.bsky.social – whose recent article for ANCH has been shortlisted for the @royalhistsoc.org Early Career Article Prize 2025 🥳. Fingers crossed for July! 🤞 Read it now for free on our website – OPEN ACCESS.

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“The master whished to reproduce”: slavery, forced intimacy, and enslavers’ interference in sexual relationships in the antebellum South, 1808–1861
This article examines the extent to which enslavers across the antebellum South forced enslaved men and women to reproduce. Using a spectrum of violence as a tool of coercion, enslavers coerced, ca...
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May 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Excited to see my article published in @anchistjournal.bsky.social has been shortlisted alongside some amazing scholarship!
The shortlist for the Society's 2025 Early Career Article Prize is now available bit.ly/4mS0hUz

Eight articles have been selected, following an open call for submissions. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July.

The RHS First Book Prize Shortlist is published tomorrow. #Skystorians
May 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM