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Shirley Samuels
@shirleyinithaca.bsky.social
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Writer, teacher, friend, mother, sister.

October 28: “Haunted by the Civil War” (PUP, 2025)

Now writing: “Women & Democracy in the C19 U. S.” (Edinburgh UP)

Also (for now) a humanities chair

https://english.cornell.edu/shirley-samuels .. more

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Shirley Samuels is an American academic. She is the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies. Currently Picket Family Chair of the Literatures in English Department, she was formerly director of American Studies at Cornell University and is known for her work on American literature and culture. .. more

Political science 25%
Art 16%
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 7d
Friends helped me eat ghosts. Thank you! #haunted #cake/book #diadelosmuertos

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 13d
Today is publication day!

news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Civil War still haunts American attitudes toward democracy | Cornell Chronicle
A new book by Shirley Samuels examines the story behind today’s divided America in literature and art created during and soon after the Civil War.
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 25d
OTOH I am haunted by the war so maybe autocorrect is making a point?

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 25d
Thank you to @jsench.bsky.social for making it real. #haunted #halloween
jsench.bsky.social Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 25d
Happy pub day to @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social who’s Haunted by the Civil War from @princetonupress.bsky.social just dropped!
A book leaning on a pillow and chair, the title is Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth Century United States. The colors of the book color are tones of brown and orange, and are complemented by the same tones in the chair and pillow.

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 25d
Unboxing done.

#hauntedbook #halloween

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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 25d
Happy pub day to @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social who’s Haunted by the Civil War from @princetonupress.bsky.social just dropped!
A book leaning on a pillow and chair, the title is Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth Century United States. The colors of the book color are tones of brown and orange, and are complemented by the same tones in the chair and pillow.

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Oct 5
I got my advance copy. They did a nice job with it and it’s making me happy!

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Oct 5
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Haunted by the Civil War
How the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracy
press.princeton.edu

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Oct 5
Welcome to J19 journal with Sarah Chinn at the helm!
j19journal.bsky.social j19journal.bsky.social @j19journal.bsky.social · Oct 5
We've extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue, "Adaptations," to January 15th, 2026. Attaching the cfp here: please submit!
Cfp for special issue of J19, "Adaptations."

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j19journal.bsky.social @j19journal.bsky.social · Oct 5
We've extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue, "Adaptations," to January 15th, 2026. Attaching the cfp here: please submit!
Cfp for special issue of J19, "Adaptations."

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Sep 6
Just for a moment — taking a break

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Aug 28
The code is P329

Brings it under $30

For a hardback…!

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Aug 25
www.facebook.com/share/p/1J2i...

A coupon code is somewhere here…
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com

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michael veale @michae.lv · Nov 15
In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...
A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT
Site web d’Arthur Perret, enseignant-chercheur en SIC.
www.arthurperret.fr

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Jun 24
Coming soon:

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... Haunted by the Civil War | Princeton University Press
Haunted by the Civil War
How the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracy
press.princeton.edu

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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · Feb 4
Come study book history with me at @calrbs.bsky.social in LA this summer!

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Feb 8
(That was either too subtle or too obvious as an account of children playing with matches. It’s a true story.)

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Feb 7
Three guesses about what’s on my mind.

The first two don’t count.

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Feb 7
We assumed they would want to play with matches and we just wanted to show them how to safely close the matchbook and only strike once it was closed. Away from flammable materials.

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Feb 7
It’s hard to imagine all the protocols that would be in place now concerning research on human subjects, let alone young children.

We drove all over. We had matchbooks.

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Feb 7
When I was an undergraduate in the San Francisco Bay Area, back when my major was psychology, I had a work study job in connection with a study of children who played with matches.

The idea was to train them in safety…

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Jan 27
Respect the list. And solidarity with those who study the wild 19th century and hear echoes.

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Jan 27
Yes, please add me.

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C19 Podcast @c19podcast.bsky.social · Jan 27
Season 10 proposals are due on 2/15! We're looking for projects that explore the nineteenth-century United States! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Call for Proposals: Ongoing
C19 Podcast: Call for Proposals The C19 Podcast invites proposals from individuals and collaborators of all ranks for single podcast episodes that offer creative, story-driven analysis of topical even...
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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · Jan 10
Hey friends at #MLA25!

Join us on Feb 14 to help transcribe Black archives with the Library of Congress! Over 125 schools & community groups and counting!

See DouglassDay.org to register.

Plus get access to our organizing kit, teaching guides, interactive tutorials, swag and lots more!
Portrait of Frederick Douglass, ringed by the words "Power concedes nothing without a demand" and the url DouglassDay.org.

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Broadview Press @broadviewpress.bsky.social · Jan 2
New year = new reading goals 📚

Sign up for the Frances E. W. Harper Read-A-Thon, running from Jan-April!

Our edition of lola Leroy, edited by Koritha Mitchell, is a March feature!

Full schedule and sign up here ⏬ coloredconventions.org/news/read-ha...
The #Harper200 Nationwide Read-a-thon - Colored Conventions Project
coloredconventions.org

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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · Dec 16
Celebrating vastness in the americas…

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · Dec 16
go.bsky.app/JTUrohP

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Noliwe Rooks @nrooks.bsky.social · Dec 15
This is the intro to the introduction of to my spring 2025 book, Integrated. You can pre order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721962...

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The Journal of the Civil War Era @jcwe.bsky.social · Dec 6
The December issue of the JCWE is now available. This special issue on Black Internationalism is edited by Brandon Byrd, associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University and author of The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/june2024142/
Current Issue - The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 14, No. 3 December 2024 This is a special issue on Black Internationalism organized and edited by Brandon Byrd. Introduction – Brandon Byrd This introductory essay offers a historical and histo...
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