Holly Jackson
@profhollyj
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writer, editor, scholar - 19th-century US culture
Joined July 2017
What a thrill to see American Radicals on @SmithsonianMag’s top-ten list for history books of 2019 alongside the work of so many excellent women historians and the late great Tony Horwitz. @womnknowhistory @CrownPublishing
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Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and help explain how we got to where we are today
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The settler university; the ends of affirmative action; Black campus protest; human remains in university collections. Historians, curators, legal scholars on these topics and more 9/27 @MHS1791. Keynote on Yale and slavery by David Blight. Register here
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Turns out the only way I could stop thinking obsessively about "The Zone of Interest" was to write about it. Grateful to @emiliomsauri, @AyeshaASiddiqi, Anna Aguilar Kosicki, @profhollyj for their incisive suggestions
"The Zone of Interest can be better understood in the context of recent scholarship on family abolition, white supremacy, and household work" - @NotSorrySari
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Hot new release from @NotSorrySari - audible original podcast on Judy Blume. Come for the puberty and banned books discourse; stay for the little cameo from our 10-year-old! https://t.co/TEfLV4p70E
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Check out this great listen on Audible.com. She’s the inventor of middle-grade literature. She’s the author of landmark books like Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. In 2023, she was named one of...
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The NEQ announces the Margaret Fuller Prize: $2500 to be awarded annually to an outstanding essay in literary studies on a New England subject, any period. All submissions considered for publication. 7-12k words, previously unpublished. Deadline June 15. Submit to neq@umb.edu
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Join @MHS_Research today at 5pm in person or virtually for “The Battle-Axe Letter: The Sexual Politics of Abolitionism & the ‘Annihilation of the Family State’” with Dan Joslyn presenting & @profhollyj commenting. Please register here: https://t.co/YeGvNQOpGs
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I'll be talking with dream interlocutors Prof. Daphne Brooks and Prof. S.S. Sandhu @autumnfarewells about 19th c. undergrounds at Making Worlds Bookstore on 9/14. Major thank you to @AydelotteFound for organizing. If you're in Philly, please come!
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With the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, we invite submissions for the 2023 Whitehill Prize in Early American History - deadline January 15, 2024
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First up in the #JERPano roundtable on the #ClimateCrisis is “All the World Will Burn: William Miller and the Roots of American Eco-Millenarianism” by Holly Jackson:
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Awesome to see @brittrusert cited in the Sunday book review 💫💫💫
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In “Benjamin Banneker and Us,” Rachel Jamison Webster uncovers Black ancestors she never knew about, and with the help of far-flung relatives assembles her family’s story.
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Featuring exciting contributions from Kadji Amin, Emma Heaney @riislover667 , Jules Gill-Peterson @gp_jls , Greta LaFleur @GretaLaFleur , Jen Manion @activisthistory , and Mark Rifkin. See here for more details: https://t.co/DOE0viPCdc
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A general strike has been called across France tomorrow. It’s worth repeating that while the riots are eye catching, it’s this power to act collectively, and to withhold labor collectively, that we need to learn from. Solidarity with the workers of France.
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If you live in Boston and like interplanetary free love, come through
March 9th! @LITatMIT presents, "'To Drop Beneath the Floors of the Outer World': Paschal Beverly Randolph's Occult Undergrounds" with Lara Cohen! More info here: “angular and eccentric” writer, Freedmen’s Bureau teacher, occultist, and sex magician. https://t.co/wv1Ur8yVU3
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"@Harvard and @RoyallHouse today announced a cooperation agreement to strengthen their collaboration on future research and educational programming. @Harvard_Law also announced that it will provide a gift of $500,000 in financial support to @RoyallHouse."
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Unless otherwise noted, all lectures and book talks are held in the Slave Quarters located at 15 George Street in Medford, Massachusetts. Visit our Directions and Map page for more information. Fo…
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It matters, I think, how you explain literature's decline. Bad critics & profs? Wrong objects of analysis? Hot new media? Or is it: poverty, debt, tuition, worklessness, and the anxiety of being shouldered with the whole burden of trying to "make a living"?
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Congratulations to all the workers and organizers and esp the senior early modernist who once announced she didn’t care “if all the grad students vaporized tomorrow” 🎉🎉
We Won! Grad workers at Yale said overwhelmingly: UNION YES!
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Thanks to the hard work of Smithsonian technical teams, @NMAAHC staff, and our digital #volunpeers, over 400K pages of #FreedmensBureau records (and counting!) and the names of all individuals documented are fully searchable FOR FREE, ONLINE. Learn more and #DiscoverTCFreedmen
Meet the Freedmen's Bureau Web Portal. 💻🔍 Free, comprehensive, and accessible with just a few clicks, family historians, genealogists, and all of us can seamlessly connect with the stories of the newly freed during Reconstruction. More: https://t.co/Z9ljRjXABh
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BREAKING: 48,000 academic workers at the University of California have begun the largest higher education strike in U.S. history. The UC workers, represented by @UAW, are picketing at all 10 UC campuses this morning.
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Lara Langer Cohen's new book "Going Underground," weaves together a range of underexplored materials to bring alive the concept of ‘the underground.' Read the introduction for free on our website now. #AmericanStudies #CulturalStudies
https://t.co/nIyQKusaTC
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Deeply honored to be speaking about Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life on a panel at #bostonbookfestival with the powerful writers @GreenidgeKerri, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, and @profhollyj , 10/29 5:00, Old South Church, Boston. Join us! https://t.co/PsmkNprMuJ on @emamo
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