For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.

1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

I'm shocked at how little we engage with the extra-geographical features of early modern maps. I mean, LOOK at this one!

We have some news! After ten years of working on this project, the new website and database interface will go live on May 10, 2025, during a special launch symposium at Brown University. More details soon! @brownhist.bsky.social @linford.bsky.social @ashleychampagne.bsky.social @browncds.bsky.social

This is a great resource: 355 historic statutes on slavery from the Atlantic World, 1661 - 1838.

Laws of Enslavement and Freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic World

slaveryandfreedomlaws.lib.unb.ca

#History #EnslavedHistory #LegalHistory 🗃️

Want to drift into the currents of the past? The cover for "Canal Dreamers" will pull you in! Love this watery confection by @uncpress.bsky.social. I'm so excited for the book's release later this year. 🗃️🌊🌎📘

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it.

Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on.

Making this my pinned post.

I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night.

Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar.

I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below.

What an immense loss

We will likely never be able to establish with certainty the identity of the two Black men painted by Rembrandt. There are no documents found, linking the painting to individuals. But we can make a reasoned guess. #blackamsterdam #17thcentury #Rembrandt #thread

I agree with Blight's sentiment. I teach at an expensive SLAC in a small town in a rural state. Locals assume that profs & students are wealthy and out of touch; many who teach at the college snub their noses at the town www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/o...

Our latest blog post, "Resisting slavery on the Belvidere Estate in Jamaica," is by Simon P. Newman, the Brown 2026 Fellow at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study.

jcblibrary.org/news/resisti...

I am thrilled to circulate the CFP for Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World, 1700-1888, a conference to be held in Copenhagen on June 13 and 14, 2014. Please share the CFP far and wide! Image of CFP posted below and linked here: rosscarroll.co.uk/index.php/im...