Ronald Angelo Johnson
@ronajohnson.bsky.social
Lynn Endowed Chair of History at Baylor | Author of *Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025)
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Today is the official PUBLICATION DAY for *Entangled Alliances* from @cornellupress.bsky.social!!! Save on your copy of the book with the QR code and discount code. 📚
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New job:
Director, Oral History Research Center, UNLV University Libraries
University of Nevada - Las Vegas
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Director, Oral History Research Center, UNLV University Libraries
University of Nevada - Las Vegas
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December 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
New job:
Director, Oral History Research Center, UNLV University Libraries
University of Nevada - Las Vegas
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Director, Oral History Research Center, UNLV University Libraries
University of Nevada - Las Vegas
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69671
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Historians lynnprobbins.bsky.social and jimambuske.bsky.social delve into the revolutions that reshaped the Atlantic world, from Britain's civil wars to Revolutionary Haiti, exploring the Enlightenment and everything in between.
December 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Historians lynnprobbins.bsky.social and jimambuske.bsky.social delve into the revolutions that reshaped the Atlantic world, from Britain's civil wars to Revolutionary Haiti, exploring the Enlightenment and everything in between.
OMG! @civicspod.bsky.social & I chat about French Foreign Minister Choiseul in our conversation about Entangled Alliances. What are the odds? 📚🎙️🇫🇷🇺🇸
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December 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
OMG! @civicspod.bsky.social & I chat about French Foreign Minister Choiseul in our conversation about Entangled Alliances. What are the odds? 📚🎙️🇫🇷🇺🇸
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Any conversation with @kawulf.bsky.social about a great new book is worth a listen! 📚
Such a joy to talk about The Predatory Sea with Karin Wulf as part of the JCB Reads series! 🗃️
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JCB Reads 2025 with Casey Schmitt
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December 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Any conversation with @kawulf.bsky.social about a great new book is worth a listen! 📚
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Get ready to celebrate Bennett College at 100: One century committed to Black women’s higher education! #bennettcollege
December 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Get ready to celebrate Bennett College at 100: One century committed to Black women’s higher education! #bennettcollege
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Adolph Reed wants a usable past that is not so flat and reductionist. thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/12/29/r...
Review: On the flattening of Jim Crow history
This essay originally appeared at Current on January 27, 2023 The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives by Adolph Reed Jr. Verso, 2022. 161 pp., $24.95 In her foreword to Adolph L. Reed, Jr.…
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December 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Adolph Reed wants a usable past that is not so flat and reductionist. thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/12/29/r...
Talking with @civicspod.bsky.social was so much fun. One of the best interviewers in the business! 📚🎙️
He grabs your attention from the jump and does not let up until he has finished making his point. With the 250th anniversary of the Revolution on the horizon, I highly recommend adding Entangled Alliances to your bookshelf!
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Entangled Alliances: The Global Roots of American Freedom with Dr. Ronald Angelo Johnson
Entangled Alliances: The Global Roots of American Freedom with Dr. Ronald Angelo Johnson page for Civics & Coffee
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December 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Talking with @civicspod.bsky.social was so much fun. One of the best interviewers in the business! 📚🎙️
Thank you! 🙏🏾 Much love to @cornellupress.bsky.social 🫶🏾
Entangled Alliances by @ronajohnson.bsky.social is a probing analysis about the power of diplomacy during the revolution - & critically the power and influence of Black Atlantic residents. Johnson artfully reframes our understanding of the revolution by highlighting the relationship between…
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December 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Thank you! 🙏🏾 Much love to @cornellupress.bsky.social 🫶🏾
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Raymond Schuyler & Four of His Children c. 1904 in Worcester, MA. Portrait made by photographer William Bullard. Mr. Schuyler was an active member of All Saints Episcopal Church, the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, & the NAACP.
December 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Raymond Schuyler & Four of His Children c. 1904 in Worcester, MA. Portrait made by photographer William Bullard. Mr. Schuyler was an active member of All Saints Episcopal Church, the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, & the NAACP.
At Purdue, @johnnysmith135.bsky.social & I swapped dissertation woes over Buffalo Wild Wings.
In 2025, Johnny published a new book with @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social & I wrote a new one with @cornellupress.bsky.social. 📚
Nice work, my friend! 🙌🏾
In 2025, Johnny published a new book with @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social & I wrote a new one with @cornellupress.bsky.social. 📚
Nice work, my friend! 🙌🏾
December 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
At Purdue, @johnnysmith135.bsky.social & I swapped dissertation woes over Buffalo Wild Wings.
In 2025, Johnny published a new book with @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social & I wrote a new one with @cornellupress.bsky.social. 📚
Nice work, my friend! 🙌🏾
In 2025, Johnny published a new book with @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social & I wrote a new one with @cornellupress.bsky.social. 📚
Nice work, my friend! 🙌🏾
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Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
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⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Congratulations to Paul Reitter, whose translation of Karl Marx's Capital is the winner of the @modernlanguage.bsky.social's Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work!
The committee calls Reitter's work "a marvel" and "refreshingly readable." Check it out for yourself: hubs.ly/Q03YpqTz0
The committee calls Reitter's work "a marvel" and "refreshingly readable." Check it out for yourself: hubs.ly/Q03YpqTz0
December 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Congratulations to Paul Reitter, whose translation of Karl Marx's Capital is the winner of the @modernlanguage.bsky.social's Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work!
The committee calls Reitter's work "a marvel" and "refreshingly readable." Check it out for yourself: hubs.ly/Q03YpqTz0
The committee calls Reitter's work "a marvel" and "refreshingly readable." Check it out for yourself: hubs.ly/Q03YpqTz0
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Celebrating the brilliant life and work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, born #OnThisDay in 1960.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Celebrating the brilliant life and work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, born #OnThisDay in 1960.
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#JeanMichelBasquiat #Basquiat #OTD
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#JeanMichelBasquiat #Basquiat #OTD
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By chronicling the long history of Native land dispossession through financial paternalism, Vested Interests by Emilie Connolly reveals the unequal dividends of colonialism in the United States.
Out now (20 Jan UK pub).
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#History
Out now (20 Jan UK pub).
Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History
December 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
By chronicling the long history of Native land dispossession through financial paternalism, Vested Interests by Emilie Connolly reveals the unequal dividends of colonialism in the United States.
Out now (20 Jan UK pub).
Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History
Out now (20 Jan UK pub).
Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History
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Now available worldwide, Shirley Samuels' Haunted by the Civil War explores how the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracy.
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#Literature #History
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#Literature #History
December 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Now available worldwide, Shirley Samuels' Haunted by the Civil War explores how the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracy.
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#Literature #History
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#Literature #History
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@historytoday.com selects The Third Reich of Dreams as one of their best books of the year!
Books of the Year 2025: Part 1
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December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
@historytoday.com selects The Third Reich of Dreams as one of their best books of the year!
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Thrilled to see @quinnslobodian.com's Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right longlisted for the @bookcritics.bsky.social Award for Criticism!
Check out his book and how neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War: hubs.ly/Q03YLsVS0
Check out his book and how neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War: hubs.ly/Q03YLsVS0
December 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Thrilled to see @quinnslobodian.com's Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right longlisted for the @bookcritics.bsky.social Award for Criticism!
Check out his book and how neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War: hubs.ly/Q03YLsVS0
Check out his book and how neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War: hubs.ly/Q03YLsVS0
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Daniela R. P. Weiner will discuss her book, TEACHING A DARK CHAPTER: HISTORY BOOKS AND THE HOLOCAUST IN ITALY AND THE GERMANYS, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
#SaveTheDate January 29, 2025
More info: https://jewishstudies.unc.edu/event/kaplan-brauer-lecture-daniela-r-p-weiner/
#SaveTheDate January 29, 2025
More info: https://jewishstudies.unc.edu/event/kaplan-brauer-lecture-daniela-r-p-weiner/
Kaplan Brauer Lecture: Teaching a Dark Chapter - Jewish Studies
Teaching a Dark Chapter: History Books and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys with Daniela R.P. Weiner Dr. Daniela R. P. Weiner will discuss her book, Teaching a Dark Chapter: […]
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December 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Daniela R. P. Weiner will discuss her book, TEACHING A DARK CHAPTER: HISTORY BOOKS AND THE HOLOCAUST IN ITALY AND THE GERMANYS, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
#SaveTheDate January 29, 2025
More info: https://jewishstudies.unc.edu/event/kaplan-brauer-lecture-daniela-r-p-weiner/
#SaveTheDate January 29, 2025
More info: https://jewishstudies.unc.edu/event/kaplan-brauer-lecture-daniela-r-p-weiner/
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🏙️ DARK CONCRETE by Kimberley Johnson is about how the Black Power movement reshaped urban politics in the United States—from expectations to practices. #UrbanPolitics #History #CivilRights
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Dark Concrete by Kimberley Johnson | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Dark Concrete is about how the Black Power movement reshaped urban politics in the United States—from expectations to practices. Although the national and international dimensions of the Black Power...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🏙️ DARK CONCRETE by Kimberley Johnson is about how the Black Power movement reshaped urban politics in the United States—from expectations to practices. #UrbanPolitics #History #CivilRights
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🌍 AFTER BARBARY by Timothy Mason Roberts traces how Algeria became a key site in the making of the American and French empires—from the Barbary Wars through decolonization. #History #Empires #France #Algeria #USHistory
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After Barbary by Timothy Mason Roberts | Paperback | Cornell University Press
After Barbary explores the connection between the United States and North Africa between the Barbary Wars of the early nineteenth century and the era of European decolonization after World War II. Timothy...
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December 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🌍 AFTER BARBARY by Timothy Mason Roberts traces how Algeria became a key site in the making of the American and French empires—from the Barbary Wars through decolonization. #History #Empires #France #Algeria #USHistory
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My latest book review is @nathankfinney.com Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War
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December 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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🌍 NORMS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (Second Edition) by Audie Klotz revisits the global struggle against apartheid and considers its impact on how we grapple with race and racism in international relations today. #InternationalRelations #Race #Apartheid
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December 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🌍 NORMS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (Second Edition) by Audie Klotz revisits the global struggle against apartheid and considers its impact on how we grapple with race and racism in international relations today. #InternationalRelations #Race #Apartheid
Learn more here: https://ow.ly/RS9w50XlR2c
Learn more here: https://ow.ly/RS9w50XlR2c
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@ajhasocial.bsky.social Please spread the word about the Charles R. Eisendrath Fellowship at the Clements Library. The fellowship supports research on the relation of journalism to US history before 1900 in both pictorial and written reportage and commentary. See clements.umich.edu/research/fel...
Apply for a Clements Library Fellowship - UM Clements Library
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December 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
@ajhasocial.bsky.social Please spread the word about the Charles R. Eisendrath Fellowship at the Clements Library. The fellowship supports research on the relation of journalism to US history before 1900 in both pictorial and written reportage and commentary. See clements.umich.edu/research/fel...
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🇺🇸 ORCHESTRATING POWER by Nathan K. Finney examines how the American state expanded for WWI through the Council of Defense system—revealing how local decisions drove national mobilization. #WWI #History #AmericanHistory #Governance
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Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🇺🇸 ORCHESTRATING POWER by Nathan K. Finney examines how the American state expanded for WWI through the Council of Defense system—revealing how local decisions drove national mobilization. #WWI #History #AmericanHistory #Governance
Learn more here: https://ow.ly/XhJC50XlQ2n
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WHEN THE CITY STOPPED: STORIES FROM NEW YORK'S ESSENTIAL WORKERS by Robert Snyder included in The Best Books of 2025 by @newyorker.com #ThreeHills
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December 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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