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Writing tip #11: Suffuse your writing with energy. Use the active voice. Craft strong topic sentences for each paragraph and finish each with a flourish that drives home the main point. Embrace metaphor and poetic description. Use adjectives that evoke light and movement.

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Can anyone suggest the best scholarship on friendship among enslaved people in the 19th century? @adamrothman.bsky.social @rkdcolby86.bsky.social @rickbell.bsky.social @wemilteer.bsky.social @aaronastor.bsky.social @hngreen.bsky.social @jforret.bsky.social @jrothman.bsky.social

i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

I just rewatched that last night!

I'm very excited to be working with you on this project!

Big congrats to Jon White @civilwarjon.bsky.social and Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social and @beaconpress.bsky.social!

This one is in my collection.

Where is the original held?

I bought this soap at a museum this week. It has a hint of smoke to it.

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I lost the citation.

How Frederick Douglass Changed His Mind About Lincoln | Maryland Today Alum’s New Book Finds Fresh Nuance in Relationship That Helped End Slavery

Our own alum, Jonathan White M.A. '03, Ph.D. '08 and Lucas Morel recently published “Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln,” which recounts Frederick Douglass' journey from criticism to respect of Abraham Lincoln. Read more here! today.umd.edu/how-frederic...

Had a great publication day event yesterday at President Lincoln's Cottage. People flew in from Michigan and Illinois just for the event!

When Historians Rediscovered These Frederick Douglass Letters, They Were Surprised by His Candid Opinions About Abraham Lincoln In correspondence with a passionate abolitionist in London, the great American orator didn't hold back when talking about the 16th president, or his successor, the much-maligned Andrew Johnson

My latest in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social about newly discovered Frederick Douglass letters.

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I am posting some Chicago bank notes and shinplasters this week and today's bill features an amazing center vignette of Neptune's sea chariot being pulled by hippocampi. Seated at the back of the chariot is Liberty on a clam shell. Marine Bank of Chicago, IL, $3, 18--.🗃️

When Historians Rediscovered These Frederick Douglass Letters, They Were Surprised by His Candid Opinions About Abraham Lincoln In correspondence with a passionate abolitionist in London, the great American orator didn't hold back when talking about the 16th president, or his successor, the much-maligned Andrew Johnson

My latest in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social about newly discovered Frederick Douglass letters.

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hist...

Washington, DC Set to Dedicate a New Lincoln Statue Last week a 6-feet tall, 600-pound statue of President Abrahan Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation was installed on the steps of the soon-to-be opened African American Civil War Museum in th...

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Happy to get my hands on the latest from @civilwarjon.bsky.social and Lucas Morel.

As we begin the 1st few weeks of classes, a reminder that FSSP hosts a large collection of classroom-ready documents related to slavery & its destruction. These first-hand testimonies of enslaved people, Black soldiers, & officials give life to lessons on slavery & the contested arc of emancipation.

I am so proud of this book and excited for it to get out into the world in a few weeks. We’ve discovered a dozen new documents by Frederick Douglass that are going to change how we think about the relationship between Lincoln and Douglass.

I am so proud of this book and excited for it to get out into the world in a few weeks. We’ve discovered a dozen new documents by Frederick Douglass that are going to change how we think about the relationship between Lincoln and Douglass.

I am thrilled to share that the Board of Governors @uncpress.bsky.social granted its unanimous approval for the publication of my biography of Robert Gould Shaw: "A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw." l couldn't be more pleased. Shaw appears pleased as well.

I piece of wood from the White House roof, installed shortly after the British burned Washington. Notice Eleanor Roosevelt's signature toward the right.

A new Affiliate School Offer is now available! Claim two free posters commemorating Black Lives in the Founding Era.

Poster #1: Phillis Wheatley
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Baseball championship at Hoboken, NJ, on August 3, 1865.

Abraham Lincoln and Harry Houdini, ca. 1924.