Brett Rushforth
@brettrushforth.bsky.social
Early modern historian of the Atlantic world, Indigenous Americas, Western Africa, France. Editor, Huntington Library Quarterly. brettrushforth.com
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Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
Ah I see! Glad to know a second Michael Oberg!
February 6, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Ah I see! Glad to know a second Michael Oberg!
Hahaha, oops! Congratulations by proxy, I guess!
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Hahaha, oops! Congratulations by proxy, I guess!
Just finished this one, pre-publication. I loved how @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social balanced sweeping scale with intimate, empathetic storytelling. It's a huge book in all the ways, but it never felt like a slog. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
The Central Fire of the Iroquois
A comprehensive history of the Native American community at the heart of the HaudenosauneeThe people of the Onondaga Nation have lived in central New York St...
yalebooks.yale.edu
February 6, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Just finished this one, pre-publication. I loved how @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social balanced sweeping scale with intimate, empathetic storytelling. It's a huge book in all the ways, but it never felt like a slog. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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The annual BYU Redd Center funding season is here and we have INCREASED the $$$ amounts!
PLEASE share this as broadly as possible.
We accept applications from ANY discipline for projects focused on the intermountain states of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, & WY.
tinyurl.com/2026ReddAwards
PLEASE share this as broadly as possible.
We accept applications from ANY discipline for projects focused on the intermountain states of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, & WY.
tinyurl.com/2026ReddAwards
January 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
The annual BYU Redd Center funding season is here and we have INCREASED the $$$ amounts!
PLEASE share this as broadly as possible.
We accept applications from ANY discipline for projects focused on the intermountain states of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, & WY.
tinyurl.com/2026ReddAwards
PLEASE share this as broadly as possible.
We accept applications from ANY discipline for projects focused on the intermountain states of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, & WY.
tinyurl.com/2026ReddAwards
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Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu.
A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.
Sign up to attend!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.
Sign up to attend!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
Race and the Early Modern โ CEMS KCL Blog
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu.
A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.
Sign up to attend!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.
Sign up to attend!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
It was a pleasure to participate in this roundtable about a remarkable book. We find things to critique because that's the exercise, but what an achievement by the editors and all 260+ contributors.
Glad to see this roundtable on Colonisations Notre Histoire out!
It was great to read Rose Ndengue, Robert Aldrich, Jennifer Boittin and Brett Rushforth look at the volume from different perspectives, and to have the opportunity to respond to what such a project can and cannot do
It was great to read Rose Ndengue, Robert Aldrich, Jennifer Boittin and Brett Rushforth look at the volume from different perspectives, and to have the opportunity to respond to what such a project can and cannot do
Brilliant round table online ahead of print from @frenchhistory.bsky.social on โColonisations: notre histoireโ, a history in reverse of France and empire, written by 268 contributors (!!!)
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January 14, 2026 at 5:37 PM
It was a pleasure to participate in this roundtable about a remarkable book. We find things to critique because that's the exercise, but what an achievement by the editors and all 260+ contributors.
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@brettrushforth.bsky.social says 'Colonisations' is 'among the most innovative contributions to French colonial scholarship for the pre-revolutionary period'.
But that was just a warm-up for co-editor Mรฉlanie Lamotte's upcoming BY FLESH AND TOIL out this month!!
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
But that was just a warm-up for co-editor Mรฉlanie Lamotte's upcoming BY FLESH AND TOIL out this month!!
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
By Flesh and Toil โ Harvard University Press
A richly detailed transoceanic history of the early French Empire, illuminating how it became bound by a common legal culture of raceโas well as how enslaved and free people critically shaped the deve...
www.hup.harvard.edu
January 14, 2026 at 4:49 PM
@brettrushforth.bsky.social says 'Colonisations' is 'among the most innovative contributions to French colonial scholarship for the pre-revolutionary period'.
But that was just a warm-up for co-editor Mรฉlanie Lamotte's upcoming BY FLESH AND TOIL out this month!!
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
But that was just a warm-up for co-editor Mรฉlanie Lamotte's upcoming BY FLESH AND TOIL out this month!!
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
How exciting!!! Congratulations!
January 9, 2026 at 4:47 AM
How exciting!!! Congratulations!
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This includes my forthcoming book, What's in a Name. Order now! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191908/
January 6, 2026 at 5:44 PM
This includes my forthcoming book, What's in a Name. Order now! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191908/
And the first new issue features an amazing article by @vreinburg.bsky.social!
January 9, 2026 at 3:35 AM
And the first new issue features an amazing article by @vreinburg.bsky.social!
I couldn't be happier, or more honored, that the first issue of the redesigned and reimagined HLQ will feature the work of the Somali American artist Ebony Iman Dallas. Like much of her work, ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต: ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ข ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ puts past and present in vital conversation. #earlymodern #skystorians
January 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
I couldn't be happier, or more honored, that the first issue of the redesigned and reimagined HLQ will feature the work of the Somali American artist Ebony Iman Dallas. Like much of her work, ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต: ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ข ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ puts past and present in vital conversation. #earlymodern #skystorians
Proofs! (Not that colonialism, sovereignty, resource extraction, forced relocations, or racialized power are relevant to the modern world...)
January 7, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Proofs! (Not that colonialism, sovereignty, resource extraction, forced relocations, or racialized power are relevant to the modern world...)
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Some light post Christmas reading, because when @brettrushforth.bsky.social recommends a book, you buy it.
December 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Some light post Christmas reading, because when @brettrushforth.bsky.social recommends a book, you buy it.
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NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance
Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
Wait, why isn't the post you were quoting showing up? This makes no sense now! (Open the pod bay doors, HAL.)
November 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Wait, why isn't the post you were quoting showing up? This makes no sense now! (Open the pod bay doors, HAL.)
Claude already knows...
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Claude already knows...
Were you tweeting about this, you'd be doing it in a sub way.
November 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Were you tweeting about this, you'd be doing it in a sub way.
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how I navigated my simultaneous commitment to the sixteenth century (society conference) and Halloween: I submit these images
in which I experience alienation from humanity and identification with the materials of my labor
(photos of me by Raz Chen-Morris and Stephanie Leitch)
in which I experience alienation from humanity and identification with the materials of my labor
(photos of me by Raz Chen-Morris and Stephanie Leitch)
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
how I navigated my simultaneous commitment to the sixteenth century (society conference) and Halloween: I submit these images
in which I experience alienation from humanity and identification with the materials of my labor
(photos of me by Raz Chen-Morris and Stephanie Leitch)
in which I experience alienation from humanity and identification with the materials of my labor
(photos of me by Raz Chen-Morris and Stephanie Leitch)
Brilliant! I was in an elevator with you today and was both amazed and uneasy. Well done!
November 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Brilliant! I was in an elevator with you today and was both amazed and uneasy. Well done!
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"What begins as scholarship becomes something larger: a way of asking how we live with the past and what responsibilities come with knowing it." Wonderful article about research at The Huntington, including a forthcoming HLQ Early/Modern Connections article. www.huntington.org/news/haven-h...
A Haven for the Humanities | The Huntington
Research Fellows reflect on the archives, art, and gardens that have shaped our world.
www.huntington.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"What begins as scholarship becomes something larger: a way of asking how we live with the past and what responsibilities come with knowing it." Wonderful article about research at The Huntington, including a forthcoming HLQ Early/Modern Connections article. www.huntington.org/news/haven-h...
"What begins as scholarship becomes something larger: a way of asking how we live with the past and what responsibilities come with knowing it." Wonderful article about research at The Huntington, including a forthcoming HLQ Early/Modern Connections article. www.huntington.org/news/haven-h...
A Haven for the Humanities | The Huntington
Research Fellows reflect on the archives, art, and gardens that have shaped our world.
www.huntington.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"What begins as scholarship becomes something larger: a way of asking how we live with the past and what responsibilities come with knowing it." Wonderful article about research at The Huntington, including a forthcoming HLQ Early/Modern Connections article. www.huntington.org/news/haven-h...
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The pile of 2026 must-reads is going to be talllllllll.
Coming next spring, in time for what will surely be a lively but respectful debate about the 250th anniversary of the Declaration
October 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The pile of 2026 must-reads is going to be talllllllll.
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We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!
The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!
frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!
The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!
frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
Annual Meeting โ French Colonial Historical Society
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September 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Share widely!
We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!
The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!
frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!
The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!
frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
Congratulations, Holly!!
October 18, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Congratulations, Holly!!