@daviddoddington.bsky.social
Historian of slavery, age, and gender in the US. Co-editor of American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
Most recent book, Old Age and American Slavery (CUP, 2024).
Most recent book, Old Age and American Slavery (CUP, 2024).
American Nineteenth Century History (ANCH) welcomes journal submissions on themes and topics relating to America during the (looooooong 19th C), including historiographical, methodological, or pedagogical articles. Please do get in touch with your ideas! www.tandfonline.com/journals/fan...
February 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM
American Nineteenth Century History (ANCH) welcomes journal submissions on themes and topics relating to America during the (looooooong 19th C), including historiographical, methodological, or pedagogical articles. Please do get in touch with your ideas! www.tandfonline.com/journals/fan...
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Just a reminder about the new grant we (@universitypress.cambridge.org) are offering. Deadline is mid-April. Please spread the word.
Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr
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Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr
Amplifying voices
New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish
cup.org
February 5, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Just a reminder about the new grant we (@universitypress.cambridge.org) are offering. Deadline is mid-April. Please spread the word.
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Amidst all the tragic news a bright spot: @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social has named the finalists for the Lincoln Prize and among them are some fabulous historians including @jgiesber.bsky.social @amarshall.bsky.social Doug Egerton and @jonathansjones.bsky.social -- a Binghamton U. PhD. Congrats!
Announcing the 2026 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Finalists | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Announcing the 2026 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Finalists | |
www.gilderlehrman.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Amidst all the tragic news a bright spot: @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social has named the finalists for the Lincoln Prize and among them are some fabulous historians including @jgiesber.bsky.social @amarshall.bsky.social Doug Egerton and @jonathansjones.bsky.social -- a Binghamton U. PhD. Congrats!
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Coming soon from @livunipress.bsky.social A wild ride from Cuba to the Cape Colony and Civil War Kentucky. The moral of the story? Although C19 Britons thought their model of emancipation was exceptional, it was anything but #Cuba #AmericanCivilWar #slavery #emancipation #SouthAfrica
January 14, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Coming soon from @livunipress.bsky.social A wild ride from Cuba to the Cape Colony and Civil War Kentucky. The moral of the story? Although C19 Britons thought their model of emancipation was exceptional, it was anything but #Cuba #AmericanCivilWar #slavery #emancipation #SouthAfrica
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Looking for a New Year's Resolution? Look no further - how about reading an article a month from 'American Nineteenth Century History'? Simple, achievable and effective! 🇺🇸💡📚
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Latest articles from American Nineteenth Century History
Browse the latest articles and research from American Nineteenth Century History
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January 13, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Looking for a New Year's Resolution? Look no further - how about reading an article a month from 'American Nineteenth Century History'? Simple, achievable and effective! 🇺🇸💡📚
www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...
www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...
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If you or anyone you know might be interested, it is still possible to sign up for and attend this workshop on second projects tomorrow:
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-uk-r...
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-uk-r...
History UK Research Event – Second Projects
13 January 2026, 14:30-17:00pm, in-person only;Wolfson NB01, Institute of Historical Research, London. What comes after the PhD or the first book project? Like bands struggling to craft that diffic…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
January 12, 2026 at 11:51 AM
If you or anyone you know might be interested, it is still possible to sign up for and attend this workshop on second projects tomorrow:
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-uk-r...
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-uk-r...
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All set up at #AHA26. Exhibit hall opens tomorrow (Friday) at 9 am. So many great new books to see. Stop by (lower level of the Chicago Hilton) and have a look. @universitypress.cambridge.org @historians.org
January 8, 2026 at 11:28 PM
All set up at #AHA26. Exhibit hall opens tomorrow (Friday) at 9 am. So many great new books to see. Stop by (lower level of the Chicago Hilton) and have a look. @universitypress.cambridge.org @historians.org
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📣Out now on #firstview!
Keir Waddington (Cardiff University) on 'Living with Drought in the Long Nineteenth Century'
#Water #Environment #Climate #Rural #Weather
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Keir Waddington (Cardiff University) on 'Living with Drought in the Long Nineteenth Century'
#Water #Environment #Climate #Rural #Weather
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 2, 2026 at 3:05 PM
📣Out now on #firstview!
Keir Waddington (Cardiff University) on 'Living with Drought in the Long Nineteenth Century'
#Water #Environment #Climate #Rural #Weather
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Keir Waddington (Cardiff University) on 'Living with Drought in the Long Nineteenth Century'
#Water #Environment #Climate #Rural #Weather
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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And now, Writing Game Histories (2026) with cover art (courtesy of @murthynikhil.bsky.social’s Syphilisation)
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
December 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
And now, Writing Game Histories (2026) with cover art (courtesy of @murthynikhil.bsky.social’s Syphilisation)
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
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I wrote a new article: it’s on the Fallout franchise, & it’s just been published in Games&Culture
I’m currently trying to wrap my head around a bigger project on historical video game promotion and branding & this article is a slice (in progress) of that
+ it’s open access!
doi.org/10.1177/1555...
I’m currently trying to wrap my head around a bigger project on historical video game promotion and branding & this article is a slice (in progress) of that
+ it’s open access!
doi.org/10.1177/1555...
December 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I wrote a new article: it’s on the Fallout franchise, & it’s just been published in Games&Culture
I’m currently trying to wrap my head around a bigger project on historical video game promotion and branding & this article is a slice (in progress) of that
+ it’s open access!
doi.org/10.1177/1555...
I’m currently trying to wrap my head around a bigger project on historical video game promotion and branding & this article is a slice (in progress) of that
+ it’s open access!
doi.org/10.1177/1555...
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Thanks once again to the Times Higher for reminding us all - hundreds of job losses and the evisceration of entire disciplines later - who the real victim is in all of this.
Cardiff University’s plans to cut 400 academic jobs and close several departments prompted a media firestorm that heaped opprobrium on its v-c. But she also received support for her efforts to put the university back on an even financial keel, she tells Chris Havergal
https://ow.ly/c2Oy50XGUf0
https://ow.ly/c2Oy50XGUf0
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Thanks once again to the Times Higher for reminding us all - hundreds of job losses and the evisceration of entire disciplines later - who the real victim is in all of this.
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An interesting interview. While Prof Larner was getting sympathy from her neighbour's child who wanted to share their toys with her, I was explaining to mine the potential impact of the University's decision. I know that other colleagues were doing the same.
'It sounds like Kazakhstan is just the start for Cardiff’s offshore ambitions, with future transnational education projects in China, India, Malaysia, Singapore and the US in the pipeline. This was a clear direction of travel, Larner said'. 1/2
Wendy Larner: ‘It isn’t easy to have your personal integrity impugned’
Cardiff’s January announcement of plans to cut 400 academic jobs and close several departments prompted a media firestorm that heaped opprobrium on its vice-chancellor. But she also received lots of q...
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
An interesting interview. While Prof Larner was getting sympathy from her neighbour's child who wanted to share their toys with her, I was explaining to mine the potential impact of the University's decision. I know that other colleagues were doing the same.
I don't doubt that this process has taken its toll on senior staff, but the framing and timing of this seems pretty callous as we enter the festive period in month 10 of being in scope for redundancy. Happy holidays folks. www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/wendy-...
Wendy Larner: ‘It isn’t easy to have your personal integrity impugned’
Cardiff’s January announcement of plans to cut 400 academic jobs and close several departments prompted a media firestorm that heaped opprobrium on its vice-chancellor. But she also received lots of q...
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I don't doubt that this process has taken its toll on senior staff, but the framing and timing of this seems pretty callous as we enter the festive period in month 10 of being in scope for redundancy. Happy holidays folks. www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/wendy-...
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Congratulations to Antwain K. Hunter, whose book A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865 was published by UNC Press last month!
uncpress.org/978146968989...
uncpress.org/978146968989...
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Congratulations to Antwain K. Hunter, whose book A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865 was published by UNC Press last month!
uncpress.org/978146968989...
uncpress.org/978146968989...
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Deadline to submit an abstract to the always fabulous @histchild.bsky.social conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026, coming up on 14th December!* #histchild #histyouth #skystorians
*this is also a reminder to myself
www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
*this is also a reminder to myself
www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society
University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026
www.histchild.org
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Deadline to submit an abstract to the always fabulous @histchild.bsky.social conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026, coming up on 14th December!* #histchild #histyouth #skystorians
*this is also a reminder to myself
www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
*this is also a reminder to myself
www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
Thrilled to have this roundtable on @profmsinha.bsky.social's (most recent!) hugely significant book. As ever, if you're interested in submitting to @anchistjournal.bsky.social - whether a research essay, historiographical or methodological piece, or perhaps a review roundtable - drop us a line!
Very grateful to American Nineteenth Century History’s David Cox for putting together this wonderful symposium on #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic which grew out of the panel on the book at the United States Intellectual History conference organized by Benjamin Park.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thrilled to have this roundtable on @profmsinha.bsky.social's (most recent!) hugely significant book. As ever, if you're interested in submitting to @anchistjournal.bsky.social - whether a research essay, historiographical or methodological piece, or perhaps a review roundtable - drop us a line!
On this important anniversary, see also Adam Smith's powerful article on Gettysburg and American history. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
As ever, we'd love to hear from authors with planned research articles on 19th C American History. Drop us a line!
As ever, we'd love to hear from authors with planned research articles on 19th C American History. Drop us a line!
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
On this important anniversary, see also Adam Smith's powerful article on Gettysburg and American history. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
As ever, we'd love to hear from authors with planned research articles on 19th C American History. Drop us a line!
As ever, we'd love to hear from authors with planned research articles on 19th C American History. Drop us a line!
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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
www.tandfonline.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:51 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...
PhD funding at Cardiff (yes, there are all sorts of caveats about HE crises/funding and job issues/the world falling apart), but for those interested, please see: www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Happy to take queries if anyone would like to follow up via institutional email.
Happy to take queries if anyone would like to follow up via institutional email.
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Landscape Awards (DLA) scheme PhD Studentships
Cardiff University welcomes applications for 3 fully funded PhD studentships, funded through the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Landscape Awards (DLA) scheme.
www.cardiff.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
PhD funding at Cardiff (yes, there are all sorts of caveats about HE crises/funding and job issues/the world falling apart), but for those interested, please see: www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Happy to take queries if anyone would like to follow up via institutional email.
Happy to take queries if anyone would like to follow up via institutional email.
Important workshop being run by Myya Helm on 28.11.25 at Tramshed Tech, Cardiff. Sign up here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-s...
Workshop. Seeing Yourself In History
Come join our Workshop: Seeing Yourself In History to explore how individuals like you have shaped the course of history!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Important workshop being run by Myya Helm on 28.11.25 at Tramshed Tech, Cardiff. Sign up here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-s...
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The Frank and Harriet Owsley Award for the best book in Southern history published last year is awarded to David Doddington for Old Age and Americam Slavery #2025SHA
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Frank and Harriet Owsley Award for the best book in Southern history published last year is awarded to David Doddington for Old Age and Americam Slavery #2025SHA
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Congratulations! #2025SHA
David Doddington also published research related to this book project in the JSH: "Old Age, Mastery, and Resistance in American Slavery" (Feb 2022): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
David Doddington also published research related to this book project in the JSH: "Old Age, Mastery, and Resistance in American Slavery" (Feb 2022): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Congratulations! #2025SHA
David Doddington also published research related to this book project in the JSH: "Old Age, Mastery, and Resistance in American Slavery" (Feb 2022): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
David Doddington also published research related to this book project in the JSH: "Old Age, Mastery, and Resistance in American Slavery" (Feb 2022): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
#2025SHA didn't realise we were allowed to hold conferences in such nice weather. @branchuk.bsky.social just like Cardiff, right...?
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#2025SHA didn't realise we were allowed to hold conferences in such nice weather. @branchuk.bsky.social just like Cardiff, right...?
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It's been almost ten months to the day that my School has been 'in scope' for redundancy.
Exhausting as it's been, the most depressing thing is that the rest of the university seems to be forgetting that we're still in that pool and moving on as we drift and drown.
Exhausting as it's been, the most depressing thing is that the rest of the university seems to be forgetting that we're still in that pool and moving on as we drift and drown.
October 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It's been almost ten months to the day that my School has been 'in scope' for redundancy.
Exhausting as it's been, the most depressing thing is that the rest of the university seems to be forgetting that we're still in that pool and moving on as we drift and drown.
Exhausting as it's been, the most depressing thing is that the rest of the university seems to be forgetting that we're still in that pool and moving on as we drift and drown.