Liz Barnes
@embarnes.bsky.social
Historian of rape in the Civil War Era US South at the University of Reading. She/her.
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Liz Barnes
@embarnes.bsky.social
· May 28
Project MUSE - Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South
muse.jhu.edu
We're deep in marking season so this feels like a remnant of another life, but my article, 'Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South' is now available in the June issue of Civil War History: muse.jhu.edu/pub/14/artic...
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Gladstone's Library’s scholarship programme submission deadline is tomorrow!
If you are interested in applying to any of our scholarships, you still have until 11:45pm BST on Thursday 31st July 2025.
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If you are interested in applying to any of our scholarships, you still have until 11:45pm BST on Thursday 31st July 2025.
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July 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Gladstone's Library’s scholarship programme submission deadline is tomorrow!
If you are interested in applying to any of our scholarships, you still have until 11:45pm BST on Thursday 31st July 2025.
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If you are interested in applying to any of our scholarships, you still have until 11:45pm BST on Thursday 31st July 2025.
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Teaching Fellowship in Queer and Gender History with a Specific Focus on the 20th Century United States www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC500/t...
Teaching Fellowship in Queer and Gender History with a Specific Focus on the 20th Century United States at University of Oxford
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Teaching Fellowship in Queer and Gender History with a Specific Focus on the 20th Century United States on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
July 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Teaching Fellowship in Queer and Gender History with a Specific Focus on the 20th Century United States www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC500/t...
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So, fellow history professor kids, what kind of writing assignments are we thinking about that are AI-resistant? Beyond some in-class reading responses and close primary source readings, what things have been moderately successful for an in-person class? 🗃️
July 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
So, fellow history professor kids, what kind of writing assignments are we thinking about that are AI-resistant? Beyond some in-class reading responses and close primary source readings, what things have been moderately successful for an in-person class? 🗃️
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📣 Calling Am Studies postgrads
Submissions are now being accepted for the BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, entitled The Unequal Struggle for Equality & Rights in America.
The event will take place at Teesside University on 29 November 2025.
Proposals are invited before 22 August.
Submissions are now being accepted for the BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, entitled The Unequal Struggle for Equality & Rights in America.
The event will take place at Teesside University on 29 November 2025.
Proposals are invited before 22 August.
Call for Papers: BAAS Postgraduate Symposium - Teesside University, 29th November 2025 - British Association for American Studies
BAAS Postgraduate Symposium – Teesside University, 29th November 2025 ‘The people favored and the people oppressed’: The Unequal Struggle for Equality and Rights in America The original copies of the…
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July 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
📣 Calling Am Studies postgrads
Submissions are now being accepted for the BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, entitled The Unequal Struggle for Equality & Rights in America.
The event will take place at Teesside University on 29 November 2025.
Proposals are invited before 22 August.
Submissions are now being accepted for the BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, entitled The Unequal Struggle for Equality & Rights in America.
The event will take place at Teesside University on 29 November 2025.
Proposals are invited before 22 August.
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Check out Uncensored, the archive created by ex-NPS historians that documentes which stories have been censored by the administration www.resistancerangers.org/rangers-unce...
July 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Check out Uncensored, the archive created by ex-NPS historians that documentes which stories have been censored by the administration www.resistancerangers.org/rangers-unce...
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Calling all PGRs/ECRs 📣
In collaboration with @hotcus.bsky.social we are hosting a workshop at the Rothermere Americation Institute this November!
Participants can meet other junior scholars, get feedback on works-in-progress, and take part in academic publishing and ‘viva survivor’ sessions 💪📚
In collaboration with @hotcus.bsky.social we are hosting a workshop at the Rothermere Americation Institute this November!
Participants can meet other junior scholars, get feedback on works-in-progress, and take part in academic publishing and ‘viva survivor’ sessions 💪📚
2025 PGR/ECR Workshop — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
July 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Calling all PGRs/ECRs 📣
In collaboration with @hotcus.bsky.social we are hosting a workshop at the Rothermere Americation Institute this November!
Participants can meet other junior scholars, get feedback on works-in-progress, and take part in academic publishing and ‘viva survivor’ sessions 💪📚
In collaboration with @hotcus.bsky.social we are hosting a workshop at the Rothermere Americation Institute this November!
Participants can meet other junior scholars, get feedback on works-in-progress, and take part in academic publishing and ‘viva survivor’ sessions 💪📚
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Today's highlighted title from the 2025 shortlisted RHS Early Career Article & First Book Prizes is:
Aisha Djelid's 'Slavery, Forced Intimacy, and Enslavers’ Interference in Sexual Relationships in the Antebellum South, 1808–1861′, in American Nineteenth Century History bit.ly/4n3ArwF 1/2
Aisha Djelid's 'Slavery, Forced Intimacy, and Enslavers’ Interference in Sexual Relationships in the Antebellum South, 1808–1861′, in American Nineteenth Century History bit.ly/4n3ArwF 1/2
June 19, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Today's highlighted title from the 2025 shortlisted RHS Early Career Article & First Book Prizes is:
Aisha Djelid's 'Slavery, Forced Intimacy, and Enslavers’ Interference in Sexual Relationships in the Antebellum South, 1808–1861′, in American Nineteenth Century History bit.ly/4n3ArwF 1/2
Aisha Djelid's 'Slavery, Forced Intimacy, and Enslavers’ Interference in Sexual Relationships in the Antebellum South, 1808–1861′, in American Nineteenth Century History bit.ly/4n3ArwF 1/2
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After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
www.forkingpaths.co
June 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
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Registration is now open for our 2025 conference in Cardiff 🏴
Hosted in collaboration with BGEAH, this year's conference has an excellent programme of speakers, including keynotes from @timlockley.bsky.social (Warwick) and Catherine Kelly (William & Mary/OIEAHC)!
Check it out 👇
Hosted in collaboration with BGEAH, this year's conference has an excellent programme of speakers, including keynotes from @timlockley.bsky.social (Warwick) and Catherine Kelly (William & Mary/OIEAHC)!
Check it out 👇
2025 Conference — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
June 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Registration is now open for our 2025 conference in Cardiff 🏴
Hosted in collaboration with BGEAH, this year's conference has an excellent programme of speakers, including keynotes from @timlockley.bsky.social (Warwick) and Catherine Kelly (William & Mary/OIEAHC)!
Check it out 👇
Hosted in collaboration with BGEAH, this year's conference has an excellent programme of speakers, including keynotes from @timlockley.bsky.social (Warwick) and Catherine Kelly (William & Mary/OIEAHC)!
Check it out 👇
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Closes today!!
The @royalhistsoc.org sponsored @branchuk.bsky.social Harriet Tubman Essay closes soon on the 13th June! Please do get students to submit - details here: www.branch.org.uk/tubmanessayp...
Harriet Tubman Essay Prize — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
June 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Closes today!!
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Next Tuesday we host our annual meeting with heads of UK history societies.
This year our focus is advocacy: to learn from one another how to advocate and campaign for history as it's practiced by members of UK history societies.
We'll be joined by representatives of 30 societies #skystorians
This year our focus is advocacy: to learn from one another how to advocate and campaign for history as it's practiced by members of UK history societies.
We'll be joined by representatives of 30 societies #skystorians
June 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Next Tuesday we host our annual meeting with heads of UK history societies.
This year our focus is advocacy: to learn from one another how to advocate and campaign for history as it's practiced by members of UK history societies.
We'll be joined by representatives of 30 societies #skystorians
This year our focus is advocacy: to learn from one another how to advocate and campaign for history as it's practiced by members of UK history societies.
We'll be joined by representatives of 30 societies #skystorians
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The @royalhistsoc.org sponsored @branchuk.bsky.social Harriet Tubman Essay closes soon on the 13th June! Please do get students to submit - details here: www.branch.org.uk/tubmanessayp...
Harriet Tubman Essay Prize — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
June 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The @royalhistsoc.org sponsored @branchuk.bsky.social Harriet Tubman Essay closes soon on the 13th June! Please do get students to submit - details here: www.branch.org.uk/tubmanessayp...
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Reminder re: 12 month post in American history at Cardiff University. For, erm well publicized reasons, we don't have budget for external advertising so you need access to the link below to apply. Please do think about applying/sharing with possible candidates. Happy to take queries
Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Lecturer in American History - Cardiff University - Job Details
Job Details: Lecturer in American HistorySchool of History, Archaeology and ReligionAn exciting new opportunity has arisen
krb-sjobs.brassring.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Reminder re: 12 month post in American history at Cardiff University. For, erm well publicized reasons, we don't have budget for external advertising so you need access to the link below to apply. Please do think about applying/sharing with possible candidates. Happy to take queries
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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!
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.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“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...
www.tandfonline.com
May 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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!
We're deep in marking season so this feels like a remnant of another life, but my article, 'Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South' is now available in the June issue of Civil War History: muse.jhu.edu/pub/14/artic...
Project MUSE - Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South
muse.jhu.edu
May 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We're deep in marking season so this feels like a remnant of another life, but my article, 'Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South' is now available in the June issue of Civil War History: muse.jhu.edu/pub/14/artic...
Reposted by Liz Barnes
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.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“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...
www.tandfonline.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:44 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.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Lecturer in American History - Cardiff University - Job Details
Job Details: Lecturer in American HistorySchool of History, Archaeology and ReligionAn exciting new opportunity has arisen
krb-sjobs.brassring.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
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Are you a scholar who is working on issues related to politics, the state, or capitalism during the Civil War era? If so, please consider submitting a proposal for this JCWE special issue. The deadline for submission is April 25, 2025. www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/03/call...
Call for Papers: JCWE Special Issue on Politics, the State, and American Capitalism in the Civil War Era - The Journal of the Civil War Era
CALL FOR PAPERS … Read More Read More
www.journalofthecivilwarera.org
March 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Are you a scholar who is working on issues related to politics, the state, or capitalism during the Civil War era? If so, please consider submitting a proposal for this JCWE special issue. The deadline for submission is April 25, 2025. www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/03/call...
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This article by Sussex university’s vice chancellor about how the Office for Students seemingly oversaw its investigation into worries about free speech at Sussex is… quite something.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
The Kafkaesque investigation into our university looks like political scapegoating
The Office for Students' so-called investigation into the University I represent was flawed and politically motivated. The implications for the hig...
www.politicshome.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This article by Sussex university’s vice chancellor about how the Office for Students seemingly oversaw its investigation into worries about free speech at Sussex is… quite something.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We’re excited to announce that applications are open for the RAI/St Edmund Hall Broadbent Career Development Fellow in US History since 1600, a three-year postdoc starting September 2025! Closing date 22 April. Details: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies.
Jobs and Vacancies
www.rai.ox.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We’re excited to announce that applications are open for the RAI/St Edmund Hall Broadbent Career Development Fellow in US History since 1600, a three-year postdoc starting September 2025! Closing date 22 April. Details: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies.
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After 2.5 years of work, the 4 volumes of our collection "American Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History, 1775–1919" has been sent to the publishers. Hopefully out soon-ish! Thanks to my co-editors Adam Burns, @alysbeverton.bsky.social & @alex-bryne.bsky.social.
March 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
After 2.5 years of work, the 4 volumes of our collection "American Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History, 1775–1919" has been sent to the publishers. Hopefully out soon-ish! Thanks to my co-editors Adam Burns, @alysbeverton.bsky.social & @alex-bryne.bsky.social.
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@branchuk.bsky.social @baasusso.bsky.social As part of an all too pertinent special edition of American Nineteenth Century History, see: The price of Knowledge: Universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective: "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14664658.2025.2455208?src=exp-la
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 ...
www.tandfonline.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
@branchuk.bsky.social @baasusso.bsky.social As part of an all too pertinent special edition of American Nineteenth Century History, see: The price of Knowledge: Universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective: "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14664658.2025.2455208?src=exp-la
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We're thrilled to open the call for papers for the 2025 BrANCH Conference, to be held jointly with the British Group in Early American History (BGEAH). This year’s conference will be hosted in Cardiff, Wales on September 12-14, 2025! 🏴
Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇
Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇
Cardiff 2025 — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
February 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We're thrilled to open the call for papers for the 2025 BrANCH Conference, to be held jointly with the British Group in Early American History (BGEAH). This year’s conference will be hosted in Cardiff, Wales on September 12-14, 2025! 🏴
Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇
Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇