Michaël Roy
@mroyupc.bsky.social
Professor of History @upcite.bsky.social. Author of FUGITIVE TEXTS & YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS. Co-director of @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social.
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CFP: "AMERICAN REVOLUTION INTERNATIONAL" - Huntington Library, Nov. 6-7, 2006. With generous support from the Early Modern Studies Institute at USC, my co-conspirators & I look forward to two days of generative conversation. Travel & lodging included! Proposals due 1/10. Please spread the word! 🙏
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
CFP: "AMERICAN REVOLUTION INTERNATIONAL" - Huntington Library, Nov. 6-7, 2006. With generous support from the Early Modern Studies Institute at USC, my co-conspirators & I look forward to two days of generative conversation. Travel & lodging included! Proposals due 1/10. Please spread the word! 🙏
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NYU News interviews Michael E. Jirik about his book "Dissenting Forces," which explores how college activists advanced the abolitionist movement before the Civil War and contributed to Black liberation efforts, paving the way for Du Bois's educational vision.
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How 19th Century College Students Argued for the Abolition of Slavery
NYU Press author Michael Jirik explores how Black intellectuals ascended in society through dissent on campus
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October 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
NYU News interviews Michael E. Jirik about his book "Dissenting Forces," which explores how college activists advanced the abolitionist movement before the Civil War and contributed to Black liberation efforts, paving the way for Du Bois's educational vision.
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YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS is now available in open access through JSTOR and Open Square @nyupress.bsky.social
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Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement on JSTOR
How children helped abolish slavery During the antebellum period, several abolitionist figures, including William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Liberator; S...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS is now available in open access through JSTOR and Open Square @nyupress.bsky.social
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30...
opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30...
opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...
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📌 Comment recevoir l'appui d'ECHELLES dans le cadre du concours 2026 des chercheur.e.s du CNRS @cnrs.fr ? On vous explique ici ⬇️
Concours CNRS 2026 : ECHELLES accompagne les candidat·e·s | Echelles
Les candidat·e·s seront informé·e·s du soutien éventuel du laboratoire au début du mois de décembre. La lettre de soutien sera transmise dans les semaines suivantes.
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October 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
📌 Comment recevoir l'appui d'ECHELLES dans le cadre du concours 2026 des chercheur.e.s du CNRS @cnrs.fr ? On vous explique ici ⬇️
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Disparition de Jean Roy, critique de cinéma à @humanite.fr et ancien délégué général de la @semainecannes.bsky.social.
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Disparition de Jean Roy, ancien délégué général de la Semaine de la critique
Critique de cinéma notamment pour "L'Humanité", il a été délégué général de la Semaine de la critique de 1984 à 1999.
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October 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Aujourd'hui dans Paroles d'histoire, sur les traces d'un esclave affranchi au XVIIIe siècle, avec @julydup.bsky.social pour son livre @cnrseditions.bsky.social
Bonne écoute et bonne semaine !
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Bonne écoute et bonne semaine !
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October 6, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Aujourd'hui dans Paroles d'histoire, sur les traces d'un esclave affranchi au XVIIIe siècle, avec @julydup.bsky.social pour son livre @cnrseditions.bsky.social
Bonne écoute et bonne semaine !
parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...
Bonne écoute et bonne semaine !
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Une enquête signée des universitaires Maxime Cervulle et Sarah Lécossais documente la manière dont les industries du cinéma, du théâtre et de l’audiovisuel continuent d’écarter les comédiennes et comédiens racisés, tout au long de leur parcours professionnel.
Par Ludovic Lamant
Par Ludovic Lamant
Racisme : des discriminations toujours vivaces au cinéma et au théâtre
Une enquête signée des universitaires Maxime Cervulle et Sarah Lécossais documente la manière dont les industries du cinéma, du théâtre et de l’audiovisuel continuent d’écarter les comédiennes et comédiens racisés, tout au long de leur parcours professionnel.
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September 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Une enquête signée des universitaires Maxime Cervulle et Sarah Lécossais documente la manière dont les industries du cinéma, du théâtre et de l’audiovisuel continuent d’écarter les comédiennes et comédiens racisés, tout au long de leur parcours professionnel.
Par Ludovic Lamant
Par Ludovic Lamant
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The Trump administration ordered several National Park Service sites to take down materials related to slavery and Native Americans, including an 1863 photograph of a formerly enslaved man with scars on his back, one of the most powerful images of the Civil War era. nyti.ms/4nyyyaQ
September 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The Trump administration ordered several National Park Service sites to take down materials related to slavery and Native Americans, including an 1863 photograph of a formerly enslaved man with scars on his back, one of the most powerful images of the Civil War era. nyti.ms/4nyyyaQ
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Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
September 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
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ECHELLES : un nouveau laboratoire pour repenser l’histoire et les sociétés à l’échelle globale
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@echelles-umr8264.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social
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September 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
ECHELLES : un nouveau laboratoire pour repenser l’histoire et les sociétés à l’échelle globale
👉 echelles.u-pariscite.fr/echelles/ech...
@echelles-umr8264.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social
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Now available! THE RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP: 19th-CENTURY PRINT CULTURE & ANTI-SLAVERY, by Sarah Allison
Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%: bit.ly/3V9ygLk @sarahdallison.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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August 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Now available! THE RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP: 19th-CENTURY PRINT CULTURE & ANTI-SLAVERY, by Sarah Allison
Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%: bit.ly/3V9ygLk @sarahdallison.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%: bit.ly/3V9ygLk @sarahdallison.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
Just realized that my neighborhood's public library (formerly Bibliothèque Parmentier) has a new name--and I love it!
August 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Just realized that my neighborhood's public library (formerly Bibliothèque Parmentier) has a new name--and I love it!
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Jeremy D. Popkin - The First Emancipation
The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France
À paraître en avril aux Princeton UP
The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France
À paraître en avril aux Princeton UP
July 30, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Jeremy D. Popkin - The First Emancipation
The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France
À paraître en avril aux Princeton UP
The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France
À paraître en avril aux Princeton UP
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Caroline Rolland-Diamond - Rosa Parks
À paraître en octobre chez Gallimard
À paraître en octobre chez Gallimard
July 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Caroline Rolland-Diamond - Rosa Parks
À paraître en octobre chez Gallimard
À paraître en octobre chez Gallimard
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"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist
July 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist
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Read an excerpt from “Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories” by Miranda Spieler. @harvardpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/slav...
Slave Hunts as “Normal Policing”
In 18th century Paris, policemen accepted that property could take the form of people.
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July 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Read an excerpt from “Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories” by Miranda Spieler. @harvardpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/slav...
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If you haven't read Racecraft before, you're in for a treat.
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Racecraft
Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life." Most peop...
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July 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
If you haven't read Racecraft before, you're in for a treat.
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PUB DATE today folks happy to have written the foreward to Sylvia Frey's classic on black resistance in the south during the American Revolution, one of my favorite books in grad school. @princetonupress.bsky.social did a great job with the new edition. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Water from the Rock
A multifaceted history of Black resistance during the War of Independence
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July 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
PUB DATE today folks happy to have written the foreward to Sylvia Frey's classic on black resistance in the south during the American Revolution, one of my favorite books in grad school. @princetonupress.bsky.social did a great job with the new edition. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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At night, Toni Morrison worked on her novels. By day, she was the first Black female senior-editor at Random House. She championed a fresh generation of authors, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes. A new book chronicles her time as an editor:
How Toni Morrison Changed Publishing
At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.
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June 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
At night, Toni Morrison worked on her novels. By day, she was the first Black female senior-editor at Random House. She championed a fresh generation of authors, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes. A new book chronicles her time as an editor:
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PUBLICATION DAY!
_I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social
To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below!
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_I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social
To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
I Have Avenged America
A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule ...
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June 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
PUBLICATION DAY!
_I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social
To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
_I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social
To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Grateful to be included in this review of five new works on the era of abolition. Young Abolitionists is in great company!
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June 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Grateful to be included in this review of five new works on the era of abolition. Young Abolitionists is in great company!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
June 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Looking forward to the symposium "Generations and Generational Time in the US in the Long 19th Century", June 12-13, Université de Lille. Keynotes by Brigitte Fielder @brigfield.bsky.social and Dana Luciano @danaluci.bsky.social @cecille-ulille.bsky.social cecille.univ-lille.fr/detail-event...
Colloque "Generations and Generational Time in the United States During the Long Nineteenth Century"
Les 12 et 13 juin 2025 - Campus du Pont-de-Bois à Villeneuve D'Ascq
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June 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Looking forward to the symposium "Generations and Generational Time in the US in the Long 19th Century", June 12-13, Université de Lille. Keynotes by Brigitte Fielder @brigfield.bsky.social and Dana Luciano @danaluci.bsky.social @cecille-ulille.bsky.social cecille.univ-lille.fr/detail-event...