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. 📚
“Written by an award-winning expert, *Freedom in the Age of Slavery* is the first modern comprehensive history of free Virginians of color from the colonial period through Reconstruction.” 📚
February 17, 2026 at 6:31 PM
“Written by an award-winning expert, *Freedom in the Age of Slavery* is the first modern comprehensive history of free Virginians of color from the colonial period through Reconstruction.” 📚
“Freedom of the press means what happens in one place can become collective action elsewhere.”
It was an honor to deliver the 2026 Willson Lectures—featuring research from new book project with @princetonupress.bsky.social—with the Wayland Baptist University community.
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It was an honor to deliver the 2026 Willson Lectures—featuring research from new book project with @princetonupress.bsky.social—with the Wayland Baptist University community.
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Johnson ties revolutions, press freedom to Wayland history | Wayland Baptist University
Historian Dr. Ronald Angelo Johnson of Baylor University connected the American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution and Wayland Baptist University’s own civil rights history during the Dinner Lecture o...
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February 17, 2026 at 6:27 PM
“Freedom of the press means what happens in one place can become collective action elsewhere.”
It was an honor to deliver the 2026 Willson Lectures—featuring research from new book project with @princetonupress.bsky.social—with the Wayland Baptist University community.
www.wbu.edu/news-and-eve...
It was an honor to deliver the 2026 Willson Lectures—featuring research from new book project with @princetonupress.bsky.social—with the Wayland Baptist University community.
www.wbu.edu/news-and-eve...
I had SO much fun talking with @lizcovart.bsky.social about my latest book *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social). Hope you enjoy our conversation!
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Episode 433: Ronald Angelo Johnson, Entangled Revolutions: Haiti, France, and the American War for Independence
Did you know that the American and Haitian Revolutions were entangled? Explore Haiti's connections with the American War for Independence.
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February 16, 2026 at 3:16 PM
I had SO much fun talking with @lizcovart.bsky.social about my latest book *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social). Hope you enjoy our conversation!
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A thoroughly enjoyable conversation about *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social). Thank you, Liz! 🙏🏾📚🎙️
6 years before Lexington & Concord, colonists in Saint-Domingue staged a multiracial revolt against the French army. American colonists read about it in their newspapers.
The Age of Revolution didn't start where you think it did. Join @ronajohnson.bsky.social for the story.
The Age of Revolution didn't start where you think it did. Join @ronajohnson.bsky.social for the story.
Episode 433: Ronald Angelo Johnson, Entangled Revolutions: Haiti, France, and the American War for Independence
Did you know that the American and Haitian Revolutions were entangled? Explore Haiti's connections with the American War for Independence.
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February 16, 2026 at 3:01 PM
A thoroughly enjoyable conversation about *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social). Thank you, Liz! 🙏🏾📚🎙️
“Episode 433 of @lizcovart.bsky.social Ben Franklin’s World features Ronald Angelo Johnson on the entangled Revolutions in Haiti & the United States.”
Celebrating Presidents in 2026? Fraught as hell, but what’s not is celebrating all the great public scholarship in my 263rd #ScholarSunday thread of writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
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#ScholarSunday Thread 263 (2/15/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
Celebrating Presidents in 2026? Fraught as hell, but what’s not is celebrating all the great public scholarship in my 263rd #ScholarSunday thread of writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books. Add mor...
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February 16, 2026 at 2:44 AM
“Episode 433 of @lizcovart.bsky.social Ben Franklin’s World features Ronald Angelo Johnson on the entangled Revolutions in Haiti & the United States.”
Thrilled *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social)
is alongside books from phenomenal @baylor.bsky.social authors as #BlackHistory Month picks. 📚
is alongside books from phenomenal @baylor.bsky.social authors as #BlackHistory Month picks. 📚
February 6, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Thrilled *Entangled Alliances* (@cornellupress.bsky.social)
is alongside books from phenomenal @baylor.bsky.social authors as #BlackHistory Month picks. 📚
is alongside books from phenomenal @baylor.bsky.social authors as #BlackHistory Month picks. 📚
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Happy Thursday, peeps! Another episode is headed your way! What do you think I am covering?
February 5, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Happy Thursday, peeps! Another episode is headed your way! What do you think I am covering?
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Such a pleasure to welcome @ronajohnson.bsky.social to Minnesota, and thank you again for your amazing lecture! #BlackHistoryMonth 🗃️
@carleton.edu students & faculty gave my new research an engaged, thoughtful hearing and deepened our discussion with insightful questions. Thank you @historleans.bsky.social for the invitation!
February 3, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Such a pleasure to welcome @ronajohnson.bsky.social to Minnesota, and thank you again for your amazing lecture! #BlackHistoryMonth 🗃️
@carleton.edu students & faculty gave my new research an engaged, thoughtful hearing and deepened our discussion with insightful questions. Thank you @historleans.bsky.social for the invitation!
February 3, 2026 at 6:02 PM
@carleton.edu students & faculty gave my new research an engaged, thoughtful hearing and deepened our discussion with insightful questions. Thank you @historleans.bsky.social for the invitation!
I get to share research for my next book (@princetonupress.bsky.social) with the @carleton.edu community.
February 1, 2026 at 3:10 PM
I get to share research for my next book (@princetonupress.bsky.social) with the @carleton.edu community.
Ahead of Black History Month on Sunday, I am sharing some of my favorite books that highlight important and relevant stories. I am considering making book recommendations a regular Friday post - what do you think? Let me know 👇🏼
January 30, 2026 at 10:38 PM
“Haiti has fared badly at the hands of its literary interpreters.” 🇭🇹
I am now in a Melville Herskovits rabbit hole, which maybe is a few decades in coming. 😆I mean, I'm probably the only scholar trained in Jewish Studies who is also a historian of Haiti!
January 28, 2026 at 1:32 AM
“Haiti has fared badly at the hands of its literary interpreters.” 🇭🇹
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It is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birthday. His cameo portrait appeared on the left side of this German-language bank note from a Pennsylvania institution that catered to the local German population. It also has a lumberjack petting a good dog. Lumbermen's Bank at Warren, PA, $10, 18--.🗃️
January 27, 2026 at 9:00 PM
It is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birthday. His cameo portrait appeared on the left side of this German-language bank note from a Pennsylvania institution that catered to the local German population. It also has a lumberjack petting a good dog. Lumbermen's Bank at Warren, PA, $10, 18--.🗃️
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Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE
I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
January 27, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE
I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Thrilled to have a chapter on Black Atlantic editors Frederick Douglass 🇺🇸 and Thélismon Bouchereau 🇭🇹 in this fabulous volume edited by Nele Sawallisch and Johanna Seibert. 📚
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Black Editorship in the Early Atlantic World
This book pays respect to different embodiments of Black editors in the Atlantic world, highlighting that from North to South America to Great Britain they occupied and promoted multifaceted roles, ag...
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January 27, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Thrilled to have a chapter on Black Atlantic editors Frederick Douglass 🇺🇸 and Thélismon Bouchereau 🇭🇹 in this fabulous volume edited by Nele Sawallisch and Johanna Seibert. 📚
www.routledge.com/Black-Editor...
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Research from my first book on 18thC US-Haiti diplomacy was featured on one of the panels. I was so proud to see it there!
January 23, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Research from my first book on 18thC US-Haiti diplomacy was featured on one of the panels. I was so proud to see it there!
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I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.
January 23, 2026 at 12:04 AM
I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.
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In 1926, a generation of artists was born that reshaped jazz for decades. This episode celebrates eight centennials, including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lou Donaldson, Tony Bennett and more. n.pr/4sVW5pu
Jazz centennials: Eight legends born in 1926
In 1926, a generation of artists was born that reshaped jazz for decades. This episode celebrates eight centennials, including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lou Donaldson, Tony Bennett and more.
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January 22, 2026 at 11:06 PM
In 1926, a generation of artists was born that reshaped jazz for decades. This episode celebrates eight centennials, including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lou Donaldson, Tony Bennett and more. n.pr/4sVW5pu
“Thanks to a gift from a @baylor.bsky.social alumna, Johnson “will study of the origins and evolution of Black Baptist history in North America to 1866.”
I’m thrilled about this exciting historical research and teaching venture!
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I’m thrilled about this exciting historical research and teaching venture!
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Bringing Black Baptist History to Life
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January 22, 2026 at 11:10 PM
“Thanks to a gift from a @baylor.bsky.social alumna, Johnson “will study of the origins and evolution of Black Baptist history in North America to 1866.”
I’m thrilled about this exciting historical research and teaching venture!
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I’m thrilled about this exciting historical research and teaching venture!
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“The Office of Undergraduate Research focuses on connecting undergraduate students with research and opportunities across subjects on campus.”
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Office of Undergraduate Research, additional programs, to shut down at end of semester – The Daily Texan
These were excellent programs that directly supported teaching and learning. Bad things happen when faculty are excluded from university governance.
Office of Undergraduate Research, additional programs, to shut down at end of semester – The Daily Texan
These were excellent programs that directly supported teaching and learning. Bad things happen when faculty are excluded from university governance.
Office of Undergraduate Research, additional programs, to shut down at end of semester
Four student support programs — the Office of Undergraduate Research, Office of Community Engagement, Vick Advising Excellence Center and The Center for Teaching and Learning — will be shut down by th...
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January 22, 2026 at 8:53 PM
“The Office of Undergraduate Research focuses on connecting undergraduate students with research and opportunities across subjects on campus.”
I took The Page 99 Test on *Entangled Alliances* with @cornellupress.bsky.social. 📚
It was fun! Check it out ⬇️
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It was fun! Check it out ⬇️
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Ronald Angelo Johnson's "Entangled Alliances"
Ronald Angelo Johnson holds the Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Chair of History at Baylor University. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his ne...
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January 21, 2026 at 1:55 AM
I took The Page 99 Test on *Entangled Alliances* with @cornellupress.bsky.social. 📚
It was fun! Check it out ⬇️
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It was fun! Check it out ⬇️
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Happen to be in Minnesota on February 2? Then please join us for our first #BlackHistoryMonth event: the amazing @ronajohnson.bsky.social will give a lecture, titled "Shared Struggle: The American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and Black-White Diplomacy." 🗃️
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January 16, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Happen to be in Minnesota on February 2? Then please join us for our first #BlackHistoryMonth event: the amazing @ronajohnson.bsky.social will give a lecture, titled "Shared Struggle: The American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and Black-White Diplomacy." 🗃️
www.carleton.edu/history/depa...
www.carleton.edu/history/depa...
Excited to deliver the Willson Lectures at Wayland Baptist University next month.
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January 12, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Excited to deliver the Willson Lectures at Wayland Baptist University next month.
www.wbu.edu/news-and-eve...
www.wbu.edu/news-and-eve...