The train trellis where McKie Meriwether was killed while shooting at the town's Black militia. He has a marker in his honor for defending "Anglo-Saxon" supremacy

Hamburg, South Carolina in 1872 and Hamburg now from the far left bridge.
This is the site of the "dead-ring" of executions during the Hamburg Massacre of 1876

The first step to giving advice as an Ivy Leaguer is to remember that your experiences aren't universal.

Big yikes, brother.

Y'all should also donate and support New American Pathways, a refugee support org in Georgia! Plus if you donate your football team advances in the rankings.

Obligatory UGA donation coming soon from me as well.

Georgia tried to pass a lot of anti-LGBTQIA bills this year and FAILED. One of them was HB 104, which tried to stop trans kids from playing sports. So here's my spite donation of $104 plus fees to Protect Trans Kids University

Edsbscharitybowl.com

@edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social

Thank you, this will be excellent for intro weeks!
Let me know if you ever find one for post 2020 as well for personal reasons lol

Friends, 🗃️, do y'all know of a really good Reconstruction historiography at an undergrad level? Having a hard time finding an intro with authors names attached

Video ‘They didn’t even know what we did’: Former official on DOGE cuts that gutted USAID | Whistleblower Aid Congratulations to our client Nicholas Enrich on the publication of his new book, "Into the Wood Chipper"! In this interview with ABC News, Enrich, a former USAID Acting Assistant Administrator of Global Health, describes finally getting a chance to explain the 60-year-old agency's health work the day *after* his team was let go. “I just gave a high-level overview,” Enrich says. The top brass, he discovered, didn’t know what USAID did. “‘These are the infectious diseases we work on. Here's what we do in maternal and child health…’" he says he explained. "And the chief of staff looks at...

"I had no idea that USAID did this kind of work," USAID's chief of staff told our client, former USAID Global Health chief Nicholas Enrich, as he described the agency's life-saving programs. "I just assumed it was just abortions." Which USAID never funded. More:
https://ow.ly/PPyh50YITax

(and yes I know it goes into effect next year this is for the bit)

Thank you! Feels wild that I got here

Excuse my corniness, I'm excited

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

They're getting coooooked right now though

Sinead O'Connor Tribute - Jessie Buckley & the RTÉ Concert Orchestra | Troy Live - Culture Night YouTube video by RTÉ - IRELAND’S NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA

I knew Jessie Buckley could sing but I didn't know she could Cover Sinead O'Connor sing
youtu.be/8fbc9DV1Pws?...
(The bell-like clarity of her voice is both my favorite thing and the thing that makes this unlike the magic of the original)

Oh wow this is evil. "Pay us to take your intellectual property and pay more for college if you refuse"

i am joining Geno Auriemma's war on Dawn Staley on the side of Dawn Staley

Male coaches are just too emotional 😏

This is the only Carolina team I cheer for, go Gamecocks, Dawn Staley for president

Was true before AI and is extra true now

By the time I was at USC he had fully transitioned into the Deanery, but Lacy Ford's work on antebellum South Carolina politics made mine possible

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🦈 🏳️‍⚧️ this Trans Day of Visibility is also THE last day of the @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social Q1 PTKU fundraiser

100% of the money we’ve received from PTKU merch since January 1 will be donated to the fine folks at TransVisible Montana

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I’d never thought to use primary sources for historical research. Very cool.

FLORIDA… the Villages shows up again…

#NoKings

"PowerPoint slide doesn't have a title"

....I know this. It doesn't need one. It's just a quote on the board

As someone very much in favor of education and accessibility, the AI-based "accessibility scans" for desire2learn/brightspace are RAGE INDUCING

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Faith and Freedom: Understanding the Nat Turner Rebellion in Context

This free classroom resource covers the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia, exploring his religious motivations and the broader context of resistance to slavery.

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For Presidents' Day, here's a clip of me on C-SPAN talking about how when it comes to his memory, "there's a Washington for everyone."

The problem with undergraduate research mentorship is that it is a significant amount of time added to your schedule without any extra compensation.

It's also harder to cater my own research to undergrads as a historian than it is as someone in STEM running a lab.

I sure do love it, though.

Historians @marthasjones.bsky.social and @katemasur.bsky.social filed a critical brief on birthright citizenship in the circuit courts, showing how the story of free Black Americans' advocacy unravels the admin's lead justification for its executive order.

www.brennancenter.org/media/14006/...