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Brett Rushforth
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Early modern historian of the Atlantic world, Indigenous Americas, Western Africa, France. Editor, Huntington Library Quarterly. brettrushforth.com
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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · Sep 9
Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.
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NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes

doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance
Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic
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November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Claude already knows...
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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how I navigated my simultaneous commitment to the sixteenth century (society conference) and Halloween: I submit these images

in which I experience alienation from humanity and identification with the materials of my labor

(photos of me by Raz Chen-Morris and Stephanie Leitch)
a person wearing a costume with a basket completely obscuring their face under a large light gray hooded bathrobe. if you zoom in there are weird fragments of Flemish on the hem of the robe. the person is holding a weird object and wearing a conference name tag. the background is one of those anonymous conference rooms but the subterranean style lighting enhances the creepiness of the costume the drawing of Bruegel's Beekeepers that is the basis for the costume. doughy looking humans in robes with faces blocked by basketlike masks interact with basketlike beehives. someone shady is climbing a tree and there's a cut off Dutch proverb in the lower left upper half of the same person in a costume where it is clearer that the object they are carrying is a beehive, and somewhat artificial bees are crawling all over the hive and over the basket face mask of the person, who would be in three quarter view but it's too creepy to really call it that
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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"What begins as scholarship becomes something larger: a way of asking how we live with the past and what responsibilities come with knowing it." Wonderful article about research at The Huntington, including a forthcoming HLQ Early/Modern Connections article. www.huntington.org/news/haven-h...
A Haven for the Humanities | The Huntington
Research Fellows reflect on the archives, art, and gardens that have shaped our world.
www.huntington.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
brettrushforth.bsky.social
"What begins as scholarship becomes something larger: a way of asking how we live with the past and what responsibilities come with knowing it." Wonderful article about research at The Huntington, including a forthcoming HLQ Early/Modern Connections article. www.huntington.org/news/haven-h...
A Haven for the Humanities | The Huntington
Research Fellows reflect on the archives, art, and gardens that have shaped our world.
www.huntington.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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The pile of 2026 must-reads is going to be talllllllll.
nicholasguyatt.bsky.social Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · Oct 22
Coming next spring, in time for what will surely be a lively but respectful debate about the 250th anniversary of the Declaration
October 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Share widely!

We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!

The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!

frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
Annual Meeting – French Colonial Historical Society
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September 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Isabel Robinson, "'The Anagrammatic Method': Titus Oates and Satiric Wordplay in Post-Restoration England." muse.jhu.edu/article/970060
#earlymodern #PopishPlot #skystorians
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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John Saillant, "Fictions of Freedom: An English Antislavery Novel and the Art of Jean-Étienne Liotard, 'Le Peintre Turc.'" muse.jhu.edu/article/970059
#skystorians #abolition #arthistory
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Loved this book - congrats to Jack (and @yalepress.bsky.social)!
henrysnow.bsky.social Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · Oct 7
My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Terra Nova
A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...
yalebooks.yale.edu
October 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Great opportunity to get supportive feedback!
librarycompany.org/academic-pro...
Call for Papers – The Library Company of Philadelphia
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October 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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📣 We are delighted to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.3) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
September 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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"A major shift in how we understand colonial growth in the early Caribbean, colonial-Indigenous relations, the origins of slavery in the Caribbean and North America, and the connections between piracy, privateering, and colonization." Greg O'Malley nails it. Congrats @csschmitt.bsky.social!
September 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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New HLQ issue live on Project MUSE. Articles explore imagined art in antislavery lit, deception in Stuart politics, reader engagement with the first English Quran, geopolitics in More's Utopia, anthologizing Shakespeare, and a bad actor in a c17 domestic dispute. #earlymodern #skystorians
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
brettrushforth.bsky.social
New HLQ issue live on Project MUSE. Articles explore imagined art in antislavery lit, deception in Stuart politics, reader engagement with the first English Quran, geopolitics in More's Utopia, anthologizing Shakespeare, and a bad actor in a c17 domestic dispute. #earlymodern #skystorians
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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@brettrushforth.bsky.social shared this with me years ago, and I return to it constantly. We must dare to risk delight. poetrysociety.org/poems/a-brie...
A Brief for the Defense
Placing poetry at the crossroads of American life since 1910.
poetrysociety.org
September 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
brettrushforth.bsky.social
Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Fascinating article by Nuala Zahedieh about the centrality of canoes in early colonial exploitation 🗃️https://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtaf021/8231030
Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work*
Abstract. The Caribbean, with its focus on cash crop production, played a major role in the rise of England’s Atlantic trading system and the making of mod
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August 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Reposting - the intro essay is available for free download for another 2 weeks.
brettrushforth.bsky.social Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · Jul 6
New HLQ special issue. What counts as an exhibition? As art? As respectable or "high" art? How did colonialism, empire, and race shape artistic production, display, and consumption? #arthistory #skystorians #BritishArt nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Cover image of the Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 87, number 2. "Paintings, Peepshows, and Porcupines: Exhibitions in London, 1763-1851." The journal's name and issue information are on an earth-colored banner above an artistic depiction of museum visitors.
July 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The introduction to the HLQ special issue on exhibitions in London is available for free download until Aug. 5. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Over an artistic depiction of museum visitors in nineteenth-century London is a white text box with the title of a journal article: "Special Issue Introduction: Exhibitions in London, 1763-1851," by Jordan Bear and Catherine Roach.
July 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Checking caption credits for the next HLQ issue (first French edition of Utopia) while also finalizing image permissions for The Book, and voila: Sir Thomas Morue. (Apologyes in advance, it's been a very long day.) #earlymodern
July 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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New HLQ special issue. What counts as an exhibition? As art? As respectable or "high" art? How did colonialism, empire, and race shape artistic production, display, and consumption? #arthistory #skystorians #BritishArt nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Cover image of the Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 87, number 2. "Paintings, Peepshows, and Porcupines: Exhibitions in London, 1763-1851." The journal's name and issue information are on an earth-colored banner above an artistic depiction of museum visitors.
July 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Phew!
June 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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"At a time when many scholars face narrowing opportunities in the humanities, The Huntington upholds a long-standing commitment to its community of research fellows and their work."
www.huntington.org/news/champio...
Championing the Humanities in Uncertain Times | The Huntington
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is a tourist attraction and collections-based educational and research institution.
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May 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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My article "Seasonal Harvests: Migration, Reproduction, and Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Tuna Fisheries" is now available online in advance of the July issue of
@envirohistory.bsky.social. The essay reflects years of work and revision; I'm so grateful for the help I got along the way.
May 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM