adamxmcneil.bsky.social
@adamxmcneil.bsky.social
2025-2027 Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Ph.D. in Early African American Women's History from Rutgers University.
I had a great convo with University of Chicago historian, Mary E. Hicks, about her new book, Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery! Look out for our convo on the New Books Network tomorrow morning!
September 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
@csschmitt.bsky.social look what I got?!? Congratulations! And I look forward to finishing your book and interviewing you later this fall!
August 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Can’t even lie, this panel’s probably my all-time fave #SHEAR panel. Well done, conference conveners. 🫡🥹
July 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Exclusive Preview of Ken Burns’ forthcoming @pbs.org documentary: The American Revolution.

From left to right:

@jamellebouie.net, Jane Kamensky, Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and Vincent Brown.
July 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The National Archives in College Park, MD will soon close to the public! Wtf! Per journalist, Phillip Lewis.
June 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Last week’s @oieahc.bsky.social conference went incredibly well. Workshopped new ideas, met new friends, hung out with old ones, and enjoyed the beauty and 🔥 of Charleston. Pictured below, I also took a photo with Peter Wood, author of Black Majority. Always good to see and speak to Peter.
June 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Oh boy. I am happy to finally say, on March 31, I defended my dissertation, “Contested Liberty: Fugitive Women & the Shadow of Re-Enslavement and Displacement in Revolutionary Virginia.” Tears of joy! More to come later. 🥹❤️😉

If you tryna help me celebrate, CashApp: $AXM1992
April 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Lauren Duval’s long awaited first book drops on December 16, 2025! us.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1469...
April 2, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Big news for the OI and the study of Early America!
March 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
In a world where Southwest Airlines decides to turn their back on consumers, I am crying tears of joy over GIANT FINALLY selling Cafe Bustelo Iced Coffee!
March 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Here to learn from my best buddy, Sean Gallagher!

“Punching Back: Black Resistance to Patriot Violence in the American Revolution.” #AHA25
January 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM