Early modern historian of the Atlantic world, Indigenous Americas, Western Africa, France. Editor, Huntington Library Quarterly. brettrushforth.com
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A really excellent, historically-grounded analysis:
#CfA 📢 The Medici Archive Project Fellowships 2026-2027🌍 Florence
Short-term #fellowships for graduate and pre-doctoral scholars researching early modern Italy, with access to archives, paleography training, and mentorship.
⏰ 15 June 2026
🔗 www.medici.org/scholarship/...
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Laurent Dubois
Although MAP is actively engaged with the digitalization of this vitally significant (yet still only minimally explored) archival collection, we strongly believe in the critical value of direct access...
I wrote a piece on Hegseth's religious code changes and the specific absurdity of removing the religions of some of our better known Founding Fathers. Up this afternoon @religiondispatches.org with my deepest thanks to @mpgphd.bsky.social for her edits & image.
religiondispatches.org/2026/06/08/f...
Every Pete Hegseth story somehow becomes a story about Christian nationalism, but few are as on the nose as last week’s. The Pentagon announced the culling of the US military’s list of recognized reli...
Great essay by Meredith Martin and Hannah Williams on France's continued reluctance to reckon with its colonial past (and present).
www.publicbooks.org/frances-art-...
"Reversing the damage of the Code Noir demands a better understanding of the widespread and deeply historical French investment in racialized inequality. It also requires a shift in focus from the actions of the French state to the needs of diverse human communities in France’s orbit."
Reese Witherspoon's French Atlantic, or, is Reese's Book Club the New New Parnassus? #earlymodern #skystorians #Canada open.substack.com/pub/frenchat...
We should celebrate France’s long-overdue repudiation of the Code Noir. But French racism did not begin with the code and won’t simply disappear with its repeal.
Petit Dieppe was probably real...It doesn’t change much to know this small detail. But the drive to solve the mystery changed our approach to these contested claims. Rather than nodding and moving on, we kept digging. And we kept turning up more.
open.substack.com/pub/frenchat...
Excited to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (which I am co-editing w/Scott Berthelette)
Feel free to reach out via DM/email if you have any questions
CFP here:
read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
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Brett Rushforth
"Contested Continent," the first volume of the Oxford History of the United States, spans c. 1000–1680, from Norse arrivals to waves of revolts.
It traces the enduring struggle for control of North America more than two centuries after Columbus.
Learn more: oxford.ly/4dMt7TB
Submission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special issue of French Historical Studies on European-Indigenous ...
"Reversing the damage of the Code Noir demands a better understanding of the widespread and deeply historical French investment in racialized inequality. It also requires a shift in focus from the actions of the French state to the needs of diverse human communities in France’s orbit."
“It wasn’t that we expected an exhibition on Charles X’s coronation to be turned into an exhibition on the double debt. But we did expect the show to complicate the narrative around France’s last king...
