Michaël Roy
Professor of History @upcite.bsky.social. Author of FUGITIVE TEXTS & YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS. Co-director of @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social.
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- Reposted by Michaël RoyDr Alice Mathieu-Dubois (1861-1942), the first Black woman Doctor of Médecine (MD) from French Guiana, will be honoured with her name inscribed on the Eiffel Tower 2027 onwards. Read about her in French here, numerabilis.u-paris.fr/ressources/p... #BlackHistoryMonth
- Le séminaire Nineteenth-Century Worlds (W19) reprend aujourd'hui! Il y sera question des expériences du passé à travers le cas des spectacles panoramiques et des représentations de la guerre de Sécession à la fin du 19e siècle echelles.u-pariscite.fr/events/event...
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- Reposted by Michaël Roy« L’espace académique reste majoritairement blanc » : des travaux montrent l’étendue du racisme à l’université Par @mathildegoanec.bsky.social et @sabrinakassa.bsky.social
- Reposted by Michaël RoyMise à l'honneur dans le documentaire "L'adieu à la viande" diffusé sur @artefr.bsky.social, retrouvez la #BIUSanté Médecine à travers le portrait d'Anna Kingsford, figure de la pratique du végétarisme qui soutenait en 1880, la première thèse de l'histoire sur le sujet. 📺➡ swll.to/tqUQd
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- Reposted by Michaël RoyHow did 19th-century Black activists fight for accurate census data? Meagan Wierda traces the struggle from Shirley Chisholm (1970) to the Early Republic, examining Black New Yorkers’ petitions against the error-riddled 1840 census. Read the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/01/06/t...
- I was asked by the French journal e-Rea to write about a book that was significant for my development as a historian. I chose The Slave's Cause by @profmsinha.bsky.social, which I realize will be turning ten next month. Happy anniversary to an inspiring book! journals.openedition.org/erea/21106
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- Reposted by Michaël RoyOn ne peut que regretter qu’un journal, qui veut être vu comme un symbole de la liberté d’expression, s’en empare pour raviver et véhiculer une imagerie coloniale et raciste peu compatible avec l’universalisme républicain. Soutien à @rokhayadiallo.bsky.social www.ldh-france.org/une-caricatu...
- Reposted by Michaël RoyLA VIE EN NOIR•E Je termine à l’instant l’écoute des 4 épisodes de « La Série Documentaire » par Sébastien THEME sur France Culture et je suis aussi émue que fière et pleine de gratitude. Si vous ne l’avez pas encore écoutée, c’est par ici que ça se passe : www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
- Reposted by Michaël RoyMy forthcoming book— For which I began research in 2006. Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press. Cover will be added soon. The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery
- Reposted by Michaël RoyFriends!!! You know how obsessed I have become with Common Sense. Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever. I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
- Reposted by Michaël RoyCheck out our multi-expert review of "The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920," by @profmsinha.bsky.social Manisha Sinha www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- Reposted by Michaël RoyToday’s Wheatley Census mystery: are there really no copies of the 1773 first edition in France? Published in London in 1773 and distributed, in part, through Methodist networks of Selina Hastings, there are copies all over the UK. But none in France?
- Reposted by Michaël RoyVery grateful to share that my book Dissenting Forces: A History of Abolition and Black Thought is now out with NYU press nyupress.org/978147983661...
- Reposted by Michaël RoyCFP: "AMERICAN REVOLUTION INTERNATIONAL" - Huntington Library, Nov. 6-7, 2006. With generous support from the Early Modern Studies Institute at USC, my co-conspirators & I look forward to two days of generative conversation. Travel & lodging included! Proposals due 1/10. Please spread the word! 🙏
- YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS is now available in open access through JSTOR and Open Square @nyupress.bsky.social www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30... opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...
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- Reposted by Michaël RoyThe Trump administration ordered several National Park Service sites to take down materials related to slavery and Native Americans, including an 1863 photograph of a formerly enslaved man with scars on his back, one of the most powerful images of the Civil War era. nyti.ms/4nyyyaQ
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- Reposted by Michaël RoyECHELLES : un nouveau laboratoire pour repenser l’histoire et les sociétés à l’échelle globale 👉 echelles.u-pariscite.fr/echelles/ech... @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social
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- Just realized that my neighborhood's public library (formerly Bibliothèque Parmentier) has a new name--and I love it!
- Also, Bibliothèque Sorbier is to be renamed after Maryse Condé 👌 la1ere.franceinfo.fr/a-paris-une-...
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- Reposted by Michaël Roy"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist
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- Reposted by Michaël RoyPUBLICATION DAY! _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
- Grateful to be included in this review of five new works on the era of abolition. Young Abolitionists is in great company! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
- Reposted by Michaël RoyCall for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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- Le 16 juin à l'Arsenal, on parlera de l'abbé Grégoire et des réseaux abolitionnistes transnationaux à l'ère des révolutions. Avec Maria Beliaeva Solomon, nous y évoquerons le devenir de Grégoire dans la *Revue des Colonies* et la culture abolitionniste étatsunienne des années 1830-1840 ⬇️
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- Reposted by Michaël RoyWhat a pleasure it was to get to discuss epistolary activism & Louise Michel’s US radical networks in Paris today. Great thanks to @mroyupc.bsky.social for organizing the session & to @johnerik-h.bsky.social for being such a superb respondent!
- Change of plans: John-Erik Hansson @johnerik-h.bsky.social will be J. Michelle Coghlan's respondent. Join us in person or online for a discussion of Louise Michel's reception in the United States and the transnational turn in anarchist studies!
- Change of plans: John-Erik Hansson @johnerik-h.bsky.social will be J. Michelle Coghlan's respondent. Join us in person or online for a discussion of Louise Michel's reception in the United States and the transnational turn in anarchist studies!
- Prochaine séance des séminaires W19 et A19 le 30 avril à 14h: comment les écrits et la pensée de Louise Michel sont-ils reçus dans les cercles radicaux états-uniens à la fin du 19e siècle? Réponse avec J. Michelle Coghlan @jmcoghlan.bsky.social et Thomas Caubet larca.u-paris.fr/events/event...
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- Prochaine séance des séminaires W19 et A19 le 30 avril à 14h: comment les écrits et la pensée de Louise Michel sont-ils reçus dans les cercles radicaux états-uniens à la fin du 19e siècle? Réponse avec J. Michelle Coghlan @jmcoghlan.bsky.social et Thomas Caubet larca.u-paris.fr/events/event...
- Reposted by Michaël RoyIn a lecture on May 8th, Dr. Joseph Rezek will discuss the ideologies that circulated around the first printing press in the Cherokee Nation--a case study from his forthcoming book, THE RACIALIZATION OF PRINT. [Document from the Collections of the American Antiquarian Society] @rezekjoe.bsky.social
- Reposted by Michaël RoyCFP - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026, University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social) Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)
- Reposted by Michaël RoySince returning to the Oval Office, President Trump has moved forcefully to advance his vision of history. For many in the historical profession, Trump’s moves are nothing short of an assault on history, an effort to sideline critical inquiry and purge the past of facts.
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- Reposted by Michaël RoyDans ce contexte d’attaques contre l’une des choses les plus formidables de ces 20 dernières années, @wikipediafr.bsky.social, j’ai voulu raconter ma petite expérience de participation à l’encyclopédie. Quel outil formidable et quelle communauté! langarchiv.hypotheses.org
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- Reposted by Michaël RoyNEW on Commonplace: Margaret Woods Lawrence was dedicated to bringing Americans out of the haze of tobacco use. Brian Fehler's latest essay explores the work of the 19th-century moral reformer and the crusade against smoking in American life. #VastEarlyAmerica commonplace.online/article/puff...
