I just applied for sabbatical and that’s what it was called in the system (“sabbatical leave application”). Same name whether one semester or two. Who is saying we can’t call it sabbatical??? 😳

Thank you @sonyabonczek.bsky.social@uncpress.bsky.social

We’re hiring! The Department of History at Florida State invites applications for a TT assistant professor in the history of early America, and we’re only requesting a cover letter and CV at this stage. I’m chairing the search, so please reach out with any questions. 🗃️ www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

Jennifer Morgan as a MacArthur fellow is the best news. About time! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Jennifer L. Morgan

Deepening understanding of how the exploitation of enslaved women enabled the institutionalization of race-based slavery in early America and the Black Atlantic.

The staff of UNC Press’s hearts are heavy due to the incomprehensible path of destruction that has devastated western North Carolina. Blue Ridge Public Radio has published a vetted list of ways to donate and help that will be updated periodically: uncpressblog.com/2024/09/30/h...

Hurricane Helene Disaster Relief - UNC Press Blog

The staff of UNC Press's hearts are heavy due to the incomprehensible path of destruction that has devastated western North Carolina, as well as the other southern states that are impacted by this his...

It is me - December! uncpress.org/book/9781469...

The Women of Rendezvous | Jenny Shaw | University of North Carolina Press

The Women of Rendezvous is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two o...

I cannot get past CBS News' Tony Dokoupil telling Ta-Nehisi Coates he's an extremist for writing about Israel's segregationist regime. Then asked him, a child of Black parents who were raised in Jim Crowe America, why he doesn't support Israel's apartheid. GENUINELY bizarre interview.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on the power of stories, new book, "The Message"

YouTube video by CBS Mornings

Catching up on Football Weekly and laughed out loud at @jonathanliew.bsky.social essentially summarizing Trouillot's point about history being "that what is said to have happened." Maybe I should just have my students listen to 30 secs of a podcast instead of spending 2.5 hours on this in class?!?

JSprofjennyshaw.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 2:19pm

Happiness is a Saturday morning with a Ben’s Bread everything bagel, some lovely coffee from a friend, and one of my favorite books (even if I am rereading for class)

Everything about Helene is awful. And given the lack of comms in western NC it may be some time before we know just how bad things are...

TKtkovach.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 2:11pm

"All roads in Western NC should be considered closed." That's not good.

Happiness is a Saturday morning with a Ben’s Bread everything bagel, some lovely coffee from a friend, and one of my favorite books (even if I am rereading for class)