Brett Rushforth

In honor of e-publication week, Chris and I have launched a Substack. Follow for more than you ever wanted to know about the ivory sporks, wildly inaccurate maps, and emetic recipes that didn't make it into the book. #earlymodern #frenchhistory #skystorians open.substack.com/pub/frenchat...

Some news.

This is such amazing news! Thank you @srsrensoc.bsky.social and many thanks to the judges for their hard work on this prize, and thank you for writing such a generous citation about the book. Many congratulations to fellow shortlisted authors. What a stellar line up! @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social

The new issue of Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr is out now and open access (not sure if this is temporary or not). Use the link below to view the special anniversary issue. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...

Official pub day in the UK. Get our US remainders while you can! global.oup.com/academic/pro... #EarlyModern #skystorians #France

"Before I banned all devices from my lectures, I would walk around the classroom as I spoke, watching my students engage in blatant day trading of cryptocurrency, sports gambling and placing Polymarket bets on everything under the sun." www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Congratulations to all the finalists for this well-deserved recognition, with a special shout out to @csschmitt.bsky.social for writing a truly transformational book. macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...

New! Kate talked to @laurenworking.bsky.social abt her vibrant book A GOLDEN WORLD and the pleasures and frustrations of writing history through objects. Lauren shared advice about evoking the sensory experience of objects (even those long gone) on the page. www.draftingthepast.com/lauren-worki... 🗃️

Shout-out to Steve Hackel and the many others who have built this over 2 decades. An important resource for scholarship and community research (and community-based scholarship). news.ucr.edu/articles/202...

I'll be giving a tour of some of the art & spaces at Queen's House, Greenwich, for the @forarthistory.org.uk Art History Festival in October. It's a free event, please spread the word and come along if you can! festival.forarthistory.org.uk/event/pearls... #earlymodern #AGoldenWorld

Looking forward to this: The Great Peace of Montreal / La grande paix de Montréal, a 3-day international symposium. pacmusee.qc.ca/workspace/up...

Have really enjoyed hearing about @brettrushforth.bsky.social & Chris Hodson’s new history of the French Atlantic, here & elsewhere — stunning archival & geographic breadth, and lots too about the impact of encounter on 16th/17th century France (such as the Black boatmen at Louis XIV’s Versailles).

People always ask me whether Aphra Behn and Hortense Mancini were friends. So I spent 4 years piecing together every bit of evidence that links them and wrote it all up in an article for HLQ. Here it is! 💫

Super interesting discussion with @brettrushforth.bsky.social and Chris Hodson about their new book about the French Atlantic: archives, collaboration, writing, organizing your research, questioning big narratives, history from below, and more #earlymodern

This was a lot of fun. Thanks, Kate, for having us on!

Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...

Giving this cfp a boost: please consider submitting something. Our Forum feature is a great home for shorter pieces. #earlymodern

Kudos to Elspeth Currie (Boston College) for hosting a great conversation about Beyond the Ocean on New Books Network. She read the whole book and really understood what we were trying to do with it. #EarlyModern #FrenchAtlantic #Skystorians newbooksnetwork.com/beyond-the-o...

Look what arrived! I just dived in, but 🔥!! "Attempting to understand the history of the French Empire primarily from an institutional perspective distorts how empires actually functioned in the early modern world." 👏 Very readable, so ambitious, and brilliant! @brettrushforth.bsky.social

Join me and Chris for a zoom talk about Beyond the Ocean: Thursday at 6:45pm eastern. We each picked one thing and one person from the book to illustrate some of its main themes. #earlymodern #atlanticworld #skystorians smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...

Join me and Chris for a zoom talk about Beyond the Ocean: Thursday at 6:45pm eastern. We each picked one thing and one person from the book to illustrate some of its main themes. #earlymodern #atlanticworld #skystorians smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...

Today is the Faber summer party AND the release of #AGoldenWorld in the US! Featured here with a few 17th century objects — a tobacco pipe & engraving of pearl divers. www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Gold... #Tudors #earlymodern

Still time to submit for this special issue, guest edited by two superstars, @paulecohen.bsky.social and Scott Berthelette.

It’s brilliant to get my hands on this beauty at last! Proud to have chapter on ugliness in this great collection @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social #beauty #earlymodern #gender #shakespeare

For the 250th, The Huntington curated an exhibtion called "This Land Is..." The curators--Linde Lehtinen and Josh Garrett-Davis--give a preview in the latest Verso article. www.huntington.org/watch-read-l...

Fantastic lineup asking such interesting questions.

This is goofy, but they did a very nice job with the visuals. The guy talking, meh. youtu.be/HeiByIL13Xs?...

He Words Me: Men Writing as Women in Early Modern England, edited by Catherine Loomis, collects approximately 300 poems and short prose works from early modern England in which male authors adopt the voice of a female narrator. Read online for free now: https://asu.pressbooks.pub/he-words-me/

bookdna.com/best-books/t... I guess it’ll have to be a surprise that I picked some great NEW books too… @stevesarson.bsky.social @emilysneff.bsky.social

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this, @chelseastieber.bsky.social. One of my absolute favorite bookstores. @politicsprose.bsky.social

"In mid-seventeenth-century France, it turned out, female beauty, elite status, and the intertwined growth of Atlantic commerce and racial slavery registered together in all sorts of unusual places." #earlymodern open.substack.com/pub/frenchat...

#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/... #EarlyModern

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...

"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

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-...

A really excellent, historically-grounded analysis:

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...

Reese Witherspoon's French Atlantic, or, is Reese's Book Club the New New Parnassus? #earlymodern #skystorians #Canada open.substack.com/pub/frenchat...