Jeff Forret
@jforret.bsky.social
Dad, historian, prof, first-gen academic. Author of The Price They Paid, Williams' Gang, Slave against Slave, Race Relations at the Margins.
Pleased to announce that my most recent book, The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War, has won the 2024 John Lyman Book Award from the North American Society for Oceanic History.
September 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Pleased to announce that my most recent book, The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War, has won the 2024 John Lyman Book Award from the North American Society for Oceanic History.
People are worried about the bridge collapsing, but Constitution Avenue also sits atop the old Tiber Creek, now enclosed in some really old tunnels.
Constitution Avenue has been selected as the main route for Trump’s Jun. 14 military parade, so for once “trampling on Constitution” will be more than a metaphor for him.
Here's what we know about Trump's June 14 D.C. military parade
From the route to the music, permit applications give us a glimpse into the spectacle.
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May 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
People are worried about the bridge collapsing, but Constitution Avenue also sits atop the old Tiber Creek, now enclosed in some really old tunnels.
I'm naturally assuming the new pope likes deep dish and the Cubs, so he's all right by me.
May 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I'm naturally assuming the new pope likes deep dish and the Cubs, so he's all right by me.
It's not really the Gilded Age without Social Darwinism.
May 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It's not really the Gilded Age without Social Darwinism.
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Dorothy A. Brown says The Plunder of Black America “sets out in clear and exquisite detail the huge obstacles placed in the path of African Americans who simply wanted to become self-sufficient & leave their children with brighter futures” lnkd.in/gXwhCUqs
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February 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Dorothy A. Brown says The Plunder of Black America “sets out in clear and exquisite detail the huge obstacles placed in the path of African Americans who simply wanted to become self-sufficient & leave their children with brighter futures” lnkd.in/gXwhCUqs
GooglePlay play.google.com/store/audiob...
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The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made comes out in one week! It’s a story of several families over 400 years and how times changed but the theft continued. Please preorder now: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
February 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made comes out in one week! It’s a story of several families over 400 years and how times changed but the theft continued. Please preorder now: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
After four months of stress, sleep deprivation, and exhaustion, finals week promises the sweet relief of year-end reviews and severe illness.
December 9, 2024 at 8:11 PM
After four months of stress, sleep deprivation, and exhaustion, finals week promises the sweet relief of year-end reviews and severe illness.
When you publish a book with @thenewpress.bsky.social, they send you a gift box of cookies from Levain Bakery. This is how it's done.
November 20, 2024 at 10:34 PM
When you publish a book with @thenewpress.bsky.social, they send you a gift box of cookies from Levain Bakery. This is how it's done.
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The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made follows several African American families through 400 years of dispossession, disinheritance, and decapitalization— an American process of wealth stripping that continues yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
The Plunder of Black America
The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations...
yalebooks.yale.edu
November 20, 2024 at 2:49 AM
The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made follows several African American families through 400 years of dispossession, disinheritance, and decapitalization— an American process of wealth stripping that continues yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Happy pub week to THE PRICE THEY PAID by @jforret.bsky.social, “a detailed and worthy study of the clash of abolitionist and pro-slavery forces in early America” (Kirkus Reviews) ow.ly/BFFL50UaxbK
November 19, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Happy pub week to THE PRICE THEY PAID by @jforret.bsky.social, “a detailed and worthy study of the clash of abolitionist and pro-slavery forces in early America” (Kirkus Reviews) ow.ly/BFFL50UaxbK
Release day for the new book, The Price They Paid. Huge thank you to The New Press and editor Marc Favreau for seeing this one to the finish line.
November 19, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Release day for the new book, The Price They Paid. Huge thank you to The New Press and editor Marc Favreau for seeing this one to the finish line.
Ties officially now cut with the other place. After my last post there a few months ago, sharing the cover design for my next book, some angry dude I didn't know called me a [bleep] for writing about slavery. I can imagine no more fitting end to my time there than that.
November 11, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Ties officially now cut with the other place. After my last post there a few months ago, sharing the cover design for my next book, some angry dude I didn't know called me a [bleep] for writing about slavery. I can imagine no more fitting end to my time there than that.
The flood of new people here has finally convinced me to sever all ties with that other place. Now, to remember my password...
November 10, 2024 at 5:08 PM
The flood of new people here has finally convinced me to sever all ties with that other place. Now, to remember my password...
August 8 by the numbers:
Fall courses: 5
Preps: 4
Syllabi prepared: 0
Fall courses: 5
Preps: 4
Syllabi prepared: 0
August 8, 2024 at 1:27 PM
August 8 by the numbers:
Fall courses: 5
Preps: 4
Syllabi prepared: 0
Fall courses: 5
Preps: 4
Syllabi prepared: 0
Dust jacket for the next book.
July 28, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Dust jacket for the next book.
Question for the more tech savvy historians out there. What data visualization software have you used, and what was your experience? I'm looking at Flourish Studio for bar chart races, but curious about other good, user-friendly programs. TIA.
March 15, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Question for the more tech savvy historians out there. What data visualization software have you used, and what was your experience? I'm looking at Flourish Studio for bar chart races, but curious about other good, user-friendly programs. TIA.
Today I signed a contract for my next book. The New Press will publish "The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations before the Civil War" in Fall 2024.
March 14, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Today I signed a contract for my next book. The New Press will publish "The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations before the Civil War" in Fall 2024.
So, I'm temporarily filling in as department chair. In my first meaningful act, I hereby decree that, at next week's faculty meeting, there will be sandwiches.
January 11, 2024 at 11:17 PM
So, I'm temporarily filling in as department chair. In my first meaningful act, I hereby decree that, at next week's faculty meeting, there will be sandwiches.
First day here, hoping to reconstitute a community that once was. Will try and track y'all down again.
October 19, 2023 at 9:44 PM
First day here, hoping to reconstitute a community that once was. Will try and track y'all down again.