Robert Colby
@rkdcolby86
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Asst. Prof @umhistory. Historian of the Civil War era. All views my own, RT =/= endorsements.
Joined February 2016
It's official! My first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South, is real and out in the world. I'm delighted to share this project with you all via @OUPHistory. You can get 30% with the code AAFLYG6 through Friday, 3/20, here:
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Fantastic resource for historians: a spreadsheet of NARA's digitized microfilm, with links to the files in the Archives catalog. May it help you as much as it has helped me.
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Day 2 of my NERFC roadtrip: looking for breadcrumbs in Dartmouth College's stunning Rauner Library.
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Stop one on my New England Regional Fellowship Consortium road trip: the Chapin Library @williamscollege. Not a bad day to be in the Berkshires!
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First time at the @bostonathenaeum, and it's hard to imagine a more beautiful place in which to do research. Grateful for the support of a Loring Fellowship to do so.
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Thrilled to be kicking off my time this morning as the Suzanne and Caleb Loring Research Fellow @MHS1791!
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NARA telling historians they can't park directly at NARA II:
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I'm looking forward to talking the slavery, the Civil War, and emancipation tomorrow with Elliott Drago and the @JackMillerCtr ahead of Juneteenth.
THIS WEDNESDAY at 3 pm ET! Join us for a special Juneteenth webinar: "The Long Road to Juneteenth." JMC's Elliott Drago will sit down with professor and award-winning author @rkdcolby86 (@OleMiss) to discuss Juneteenth's origins, slavery in the days leading up to emancipation,
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Had a wonderful weekend in Columbus, MS at the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters banquet. Honored to have received the 2025 prize for nonfiction! @OUPHistory @umhistory @umlibarts
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RT @cspanhistory: A pardon from Abraham Lincoln AND Jefferson Davis - who was Charles Cowlam? Learn more about this convict, spy, detective….
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Congratulations, @lukelleyp!.
The book is finally here. "Marking Native Borders" was published a few weeks ago by the University of Oklahoma Press.
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Ohio State University said from 2029 onward, every Ohio State graduate will be fluent in the application of AI in their field.
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I was lucky to get an advance look at this volume from @CivilWarJon and @LincolnDouglass. It's a really great volume that will be an excellent tool for teaching the Civil War era.
The front cover is complete -- with a fantastic blurb from @rkdcolby86!. "Deeply moving, sometimes shocking, and sure to provoke deep reflection. "
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Deadline approaching! Friday, June 6! Please consider submitting!.
The deadline to submit for @UM_CCWResearch's 2025 conference, "New Directions in the Legal History of the Civil War Era," is this Friday, June 6! Please consider applying, and share broadly!. @SoCWHistorians @JCWE1 @ASLHtweets @SHEARites @TheSouthernSHA.
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RT @rkdcolby86: The deadline to submit for @UM_CCWResearch's 2025 conference, "New Directions in the Legal History of the Civil War Era," i….
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The deadline to submit for @UM_CCWResearch's 2025 conference, "New Directions in the Legal History of the Civil War Era," is this Friday, June 6! Please consider applying, and share broadly!. @SoCWHistorians @JCWE1 @ASLHtweets @SHEARites @TheSouthernSHA.
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