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Watch the President of SFHS Joe Bohling talk about our upcoming conference in Portland!
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September 14, 2026 at 7:22 PM
And be sure to look at the FHS May issue as well! Here is an article by Christina Carroll: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
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Rewriting Transportation and Incarceration Between France and Algeria, 1858–1871 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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September 10, 2026 at 12:55 AM
There is a new issue of FHS hot off the presses! It's a forum on medieval environments and the introduction is free until December. Check it out 👇 #skystorians #envhist @eseh.bsky.social
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Volume 49 Issue 3 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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September 10, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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Delighted to put together this curated collection for French Historical Studies, enhancing our recent INCARCERATION special issue with these fantastic articles from the archive – all deal with issues of race and the carceral in French history @sfhs.bsky.social 🗃️ @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social
Incarceration and Race | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
This curated collection presents an opportunity to showcase French Historical Studies articles that treat questions of race and incarceration in French his
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August 5, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Suzanne K. Kaufman “Incident at Sousse: West African Soldiers, Legionnaires, and the Racial Politics of Colonial Policing in 1930s French Tunisa.” FHS 46 no 3 (2025) has won the FCHS article prize. CONGRATULATIONS!
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July 25, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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Article Prize: Suzanne Kaufman, “Incident at Sousse: West African Soldiers, Legionnaires, & the Racial Politics of Colonial Policing in 1930s French Tunisia.”

Honorable Mention: Wallace Teska, "Arbitrating Abolition: Women's Resistance and the Worodugu Slave Exodus of 1907."
July 9, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Deadline approaching!
Submit by August 31, 2026!
July 20, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Got the new issue of @sfhs.bsky.social in the mail today. Very excited for these articles on the theme of incarceration.
June 2, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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Disappointed to learn of the cancellation of this Fall’s @thewsfh.bsky.social conference in Memphis, TN. Sending my respect & gratitude to the Society’s officers & local organizers for all their efforts

Hope to see many of you at the @sfhs.bsky.social here in PDX next April. And in Memphis in 2030!
June 11, 2026 at 8:52 PM
July 7, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Submit by August 31, 2026!
July 7, 2026 at 11:18 AM
June 25, 2026 at 12:14 PM
The new issue of French Historical Studies is out!
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Volume 49 Issue 1 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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April 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2026 Prizes and Awards. Congratulations to all!
March 10, 2026 at 8:54 PM
This year's David Pinkney Prize goes to Miranda Spieler for Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2025. Congratulations!
March 10, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Our next French Presse is this Sunday at 3pm ET! Join Alice Conklin and Dan Sherman in conversation about Dan's new book Sensations: French Archaeology between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940 (Chicago, 2025). Register at Eventbrite here:
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French Presse: Dan Sherman and Alice Conklin on Sensations!
Alice Conklin in conversation with Dan Sherman about his book Sensations: French Archaeology between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940
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January 22, 2026 at 10:43 PM
French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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December 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Check out our new curated issue on "What’s Old is New Again? The French Extreme Right from Dreyfus to Vichy and the Contemporary Authoritarian Impulse."
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What’s Old is New Again? The French Extreme Right from Dreyfus to Vichy and the Contemporary Authoritarian Impulse | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
We live in dangerous times. This is a sentence that I hoped never to have to write. It is neither a cliché nor a reference to history. The danger is immedi
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December 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Recent PhDs, graduate students (and their supervisors): the Society for French Historical Studies will be awarding a number of grants. The deadline for these is January 1, 2026! Make sure to apply if you are eligible: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/awards-new-o...
Awards for New/ Ongoing Research — SFHS
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December 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
New issue of FHS is out now! Policing and State Power in France and the French Empire: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Volume 48 Issue 3 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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October 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Philly 2025 - Deadline extended! The Society for French Historical Studies program committee has extended the proposal deadline to September 30. The original call for papers with the submission portal link can be found here =>
https://www.sfhsconference.org/ — SFHS
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September 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Throwback to the wonderful "Resist" conference that took place in Paris earlier this month. Thank you to everyone who participated!
July 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Registration for the 2025 conference "Resistance/Résister" organized by The Global Consortium for French Historical Studies is now open. Have a look at our stunning program. We can't wait to see you in Paris in a few weeks! www.sfhsconference.org
June 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM