FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER HYPE SQUAD RISE UP

(I completely forgot to post about it, oops, but this event was AWESOME)

Friday I’ll be in Chicago talking birthright citizenship with an amazing range of colleagues at Hosted at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Lots to talk about as we wait for a SCOTUS decision.

It was my honor to talk with Mary Helen Washington about her latest book — Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life — hosted by Baltimore’s Ivy Bookshop for C-Span’s BookTV. Give a listen.
www.c-span.org/program/book...

It was my honor to talk with Mary Helen Washington about her latest book — Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life — hosted by Baltimore’s Ivy Bookshop for C-Span’s BookTV. Give a listen.
www.c-span.org/program/book...

Remembering Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and being bound together Each year, the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts sponsors a free public lecture. The most recent lecture covered Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in celebration of her 200th birthday. Harper was t...

Baltimore did right by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, marking her 200th! Thanks to Dr. Ida Jones, Dr. Lawrence Jackson, the team at Hard Histories, and the many others who made these celebrations possible.

www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2026...

Just a reminder, you can get signed copies of The Edge of Space-Time at Rep Club!

Should Slavery’s Past Be Erased? Can it Be? Lessons from Philadelphia’s President’s House

From @marthasjones.bsky.social: Should Slavery’s Past Be Erased? Can it Be?

"[T]he memory of the nation’s greatness – its founding – and the memory of its great shame – slavery - are linked. They cannot be pulled apart, whether by bulldozers or a President’s Executive Order."

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Should Slavery’s Past Be Erased? Can it Be? Lessons from Philadelphia’s President’s House

« As I looked around Philadelphia’s President’s House site, I had to wonder, “Is anyone buying what the White House is selling when it comes to the history of slavery?” » open.substack.com/pub/hardhist...

Should Slavery’s Past Be Erased? Can it Be? Lessons from Philadelphia’s President’s House

« As I looked around Philadelphia’s President’s House site, I had to wonder, “Is anyone buying what the White House is selling when it comes to the history of slavery?” » open.substack.com/pub/hardhist...

Should Slavery’s Past Be Erased? Can it Be? Lessons from Philadelphia’s President’s House

« As I looked around Philadelphia’s President’s House site, I had to wonder, “Is anyone buying what the White House is selling when it comes to the history of slavery?” » open.substack.com/pub/hardhist...

Should Slavery’s Past Be Erased? Can it Be? Lessons from Philadelphia’s President’s House

« As I looked around Philadelphia’s President’s House site, I had to wonder, “Is anyone buying what the White House is selling when it comes to the history of slavery?” » open.substack.com/pub/hardhist...

Opinion | Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was Only for the Children of Slaves. He’s Wrong.

Another op-ed from Martha S. Jones and Kate Masur.

"Remade national belonging."

Today's #history book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @marthasjones.bsky.social & @universitypress.cambridge.org!

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Join us for "Hard History" at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 9 Freedom Bell: Celebrating the Life of Frances Harper; Remembering the Girls of the Hopkins Colored Orphan Asylum

“We cannot recall the past of Johns Hopkins University — most pointedly in this year in which it is marking a 150th anniversary — without also honoring Harper and the girls of the orphan asylum who were also a part of that founding scene.” open.substack.com/pub/hardhist...

Join us for "Hard History" at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 9 Freedom Bell: Celebrating the Life of Frances Harper; Remembering the Girls of the Hopkins Colored Orphan Asylum

“We cannot recall the past of Johns Hopkins University — most pointedly in this year in which it is marking a 150th anniversary — without also honoring Harper and the girls of the orphan asylum who were also a part of that founding scene.” open.substack.com/pub/hardhist...

The Trouble of Color: RPCS Welcomes Dr. Martha Jones for Annual Crane Lecture News Stories - Roland Park Country School is an independent all girls school in grades K-12, with a coed preschool (Little Reds) for children 6 weeks through 5 years old.

I spent a wonderful day at the Roland Park Country School, talking about The Trouble of Color in community and across the generations! www.rpcs.org/culture-comm...

This tour is fun in the afternoon too! Bring a water bottle though

Calhoun’s theories have made a dramatic comeback with Trump, whose policies are guided by an unmistakable racial determinism. Trump warns that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” and that many immigrants have “bad genes,” telling a white Fox News host that “they are not exactly your genetic.” Trump has focused his ire on immigrants from “third world” countries. He has virtually reimposed the eugenics-inspired immigration restrictions of the early 20th century, while instituting a Jim Crow–style system for refugees that prioritizes white South Africans. Trump’s reasoning for what he called a “permanent pause” in “third-world migration” was that instead of people from countries such as Norway or Sweden, we “always take people from Somalia,” which he called “disgusting.” The Democrats of Calhoun’s day, similarly, were not anti-immigrant, so long as only white people could naturalize. After all, the protection of slavery required white men, even those born in Dublin or Berlin. In January, the Trump adviser Stephen Miller posted something even more revealing on X: “Plenty of countries in history have experimented with importing a foreign labor class. The West is the first and only civilization to import a foreign labor class that is granted full political rights.” Miller’s disgust here is not with the “importing” of a “foreign labor class.” It is with such a class having the same rights as he does.

The birthright citizenship case shows how Trump-era Republicans have embraced the convictions of the proslavery Senator John C Calhoun, who believed America was a “white man’s government” and the integration of nonwhites onto the polity would destroy the country www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump's argument on birthright citizenship isn't backed up by history:

"To exclude children born here from citizenship because their parents are temporary or undocumented immigrants is to betray both the letter and the spirit of the 14th amendment"

- Martha Jones, Author of Birthright Citizens

Trump’s argument isn’t backed up by history. “To exclude children born here from citizenship because their parents are temporary or undocumented immigrants is to betray both the letter and the spirit of the 14th Amendment.”

— Martha S. Jones and Kate Masur

Opinion | Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was Only for the Children of Slaves. He’s Wrong. The framers of the 14th Amendment endorsed a capacious definition of ‘American.’

OAH Speakers Martha S. Jones and Kate Masur wrote in a NYT piece: "Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was Only for the Children of Slaves. He’s Wrong."
Read the essay: https://ow.ly/RrYX50YCqlU
Read more on our immigration resources: https://ow.ly/IFLL50YCqlV

Historian Fact-Checks President Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order as Supreme Court Weighs Case YouTube video by CBS Chicago

Historian @katemasur.bsky.social on the Trump admin's attacks on birthright citizenship:

"Efforts to undermine birthright citizenship" are "almost always highly political and driven by anti-immigrant sentiment, not by any legitimate understanding of the 14th Amendment."

(For more on Kate's work ⬇️)

As the CBS anchor mentioned, Kate and fellow historian @marthasjones.bsky.social filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on birthright citizenship:

www.brennancenter.org/media/15301/...

This brief is built on several amicus filings in lower courts over the course of 2025. Here's one: www.brennancenter.org/media/14006/...

Opinion | Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was Only for the Children of Slaves. He’s Wrong.

Earlier this week, Martha and Kate published an op-ed in the New York Times:

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

3/ @jamellebouie.net also collects on-point quotations from the briefs of @kewhittington.bsky.social, Akhil Amar, @katemasur.bsky.social & @marthasjones.bsky.social

Read his entire essay. It is a banger.