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Emmanuel Mehr
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Public Historian of/in Baltimore City | President @historycoffee.bsky.social Georgetown History MA '21 | NCPH Membership Committee | SABR Historian/Editor | Opinions Mine | He/Him
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☕️h&c book boost (5/19/24)🔄
📚in *Fear of a Black Republic* (2022) Leslie M. Alexander illuminates💡
🗣️african american haitian revolution responses🇭🇹
🔥forged black internationalist thought💭
🚨white fear➡️policy backlash💥
🌊haiti motivated seizing freedom in u.s.🔊
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Leslie M. Alexander, Fear of A Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022)
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May 19, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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Yesterday was a wonderful first day of exhibiting for history & coffee at #AAM2024. We debuted our interactive exhibit developed together with our partners Quatrefoil Associates. It explores national stories through the lens of Baltimore histories, with a focus on amplifying underrepresented voices.
Two African American people engaging with an interactive exhibit display screen. history & coffee's General Manager Tiheera is facilitating visitor engagement with the exhibit while also handing them a free gift in a box.
May 18, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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calling myself “the steve kornacki of public history” at #aam2024 for @historycoffee.bsky.social
📍baltimore convention center
White man Emmanuel standing in front of a digital interactive exhibit screen displaying exhibit content. To the right beside this is a promotional banner for history & coffee featuring a large QR code and logo.
May 17, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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☕️h&c book boost (5/9/24)🔄
📚in *City of Inmates* (2017), Kelly Lytle Hernández examines incarceration around what became Los Angeles⛓️
💡to illuminate settler colonialism & power💥
🪢structuring u.s.➕cross-border imperialism🌎
🚧forced labor building social order🧱
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May 9, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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☕️h&c book boost (5/8/24)🔄
📚in *I've Been Here All the While* (2021), Alaina E. Roberts (@alainaroberts.bsky.social) shares her family histories as a jumping off point to understand💡
🌄Native American & Black interrelationships🖇️
✨of freedom, land, belonging💗
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Alaina E. Roberts, I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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May 8, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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☕️h&c book boost (5/7/24)🔄
📚in *Cutting School* (2017), Noliwe Rooks foregrounds segregated education🏫
💡for understanding economic➕racial structuring🏗️
💵unequal education🟰profitable📈
💰white philanthropy restricted Black opportunity🛑
⚖️ongoing disputed access💥
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May 7, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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☕️h&c book boost (5/6/24)🔄
📚in *Resistance from the Right* (2023), Lauren Lassabe Shepherd (@llassabe.bsky.social)💡illuminates rw student backlash vs. the civil rights movement🪃
💰conservative money power💵
⛓️inherently reactionary🧲
🎓embraced Republican Party🐘
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023)
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May 6, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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☕️h&c book boost (4/28/24)🔄
📚in Scattered & Fugitive Things (2024), Laura E. Helton (@lehelton.bsky.social)🖊️
💡illuminates how Black people shaped histories🇺🇸
🧱building➕preserving archives🗃️
⚒️in community libraries, HBCUs, homes🏡
💥taking risks & forging accessibility🏦
🪙valuing➕ordering Black memories💞
April 28, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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Hey #baltimore + #history sky, I'm working on an exhibit & want to ask if this image brings up narratives for anyone. I'm thinking Mfume & Schaefer standing beside each other (+ rivalry) is the main interpretive opportunity but wondering if you see other strands to expand for an interactive exhibit:
Six people posing together for a group photo, including two African Americans, three white people, two people in Baltimore Orioles baseball uniforms, and two people in full business suits.
April 17, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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The other thing happening on the first Tuesday in November.
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April 12, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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Reminder, we're looking for a summer intern to write and edit with us! This is a paid opportunity with mentorship, we'd love to have you!
March 22, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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Excited to share my 170th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below & enjoy, all! Skystorians

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#ScholarSunday thread 170
Published on March 24, 2024
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March 24, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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Messages like this inspire my public history work and keep the @historycoffee.bsky.social project going! Learn more on our site: www.historyandcoffee.com
A screenshot of direct messages received on TikTok, timestamped "Yesterday 7:39 PM." The first message states: "Hi, I just wanted to thank you for your content. I'm the caretaker for both of my grandparents (adopted parents). My pawpaw is a retired history teacher and we watch your content daily. He loves it so much. He said, and I quote, 'that's a fine young man.'" The second message states: "It might not seem like much but that is HIGH praise coming from him."
March 24, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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Big day!
historycoffee.bsky.social history & coffee @historycoffee.bsky.social · Mar 14
Exciting news: we just got the keys to history & coffee's space in historic Fells Point! 📚☕
Emmanuel receiving the keys for history & coffee's new space from a leasing agent. They both look excited.
March 14, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Some nice guiding questions, quotes, and synopsis of Live from the Underground from @historycoffee.bsky.social! www.historyandcoffee.com/books/live-f...
March 11, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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Exciting!!
emmanuelmehr.bsky.social Emmanuel Mehr @emmanuelmehr.bsky.social · Mar 9
General Manager Tiheera Blount & I are thrilled to share that it is digital launch day for our new alternative history space: @historycoffee.bsky.social. Opening July 2024 in #Baltimore, it combines a history bookstore, coffee shop & interactive exhibits w/ online community: www.historyandcoffee.com
A color photograph of African American woman Tiheera Blount and white man Emmanuel Mehr posing beside the Billie Holiday statue in Baltimore. They both hold a copy of Angela Y. Davis's book Blues Legacies and Black Feminism, which features an image of Holiday on its cover.
March 9, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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General Manager Tiheera Blount & I are thrilled to share that it is digital launch day for our new alternative history space: @historycoffee.bsky.social. Opening July 2024 in #Baltimore, it combines a history bookstore, coffee shop & interactive exhibits w/ online community: www.historyandcoffee.com
A color photograph of African American woman Tiheera Blount and white man Emmanuel Mehr posing beside the Billie Holiday statue in Baltimore. They both hold a copy of Angela Y. Davis's book Blues Legacies and Black Feminism, which features an image of Holiday on its cover.
March 9, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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To help March come in like a lion, here’s my 168th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share more below & enjoy, all! Skystorians
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#ScholarSunday thread 168
Published on March 3, 2024
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March 3, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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"Through weary, wasting years men have destroyed, dashed in pieces & overthrown, but today we stand on the threshold of woman’s era & woman’s work is grandly constructive."
―Frances E. W. Harper, 1894

Frances E. W. Harper, "Woman's Political Future," 1894, 433-434, hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x00....
March 2, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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This week for Baltimore Histories, the 3rd installment of my series “B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships.” It focuses on the harmful capitalist leadership of B&O president John W. Garrett & Mayor William D. Schaefer: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/b-o-to-...
B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships — Part Three
BHW 57: March 2, 2024 The election of John W. Garrett to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad’s (B&O) board of directors in 1855 signaled a drastic shift in company leadership from public-private cooperation...
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March 2, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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Here it is, my 167th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. As always, please share more below, & enjoy, all! Skystorians
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#ScholarSunday thread 167
Shared on February 25, 2024
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February 25, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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This week for Baltimore Histories, check out the 2nd installment of my series “B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships.” This piece focuses on leaders leveraging initial successes to support greater development & profit: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/b-o-to-...
B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships — Part Two
BHW 56: February 24, 2024 From the incorporation of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) in early 1827 until its construction reached the Ohio River, public and private investors largely worked togethe...
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February 24, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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Happy Birthday to W. E. B. Du Bois (b. Feb. 23, 1868), who wrote: “Birthday dinners which have been given me . . . have become I assure you, as embarrassing to me as to you.” What he really wanted was understanding of his centering of Black Americans in histories of democracy, capitalism & the U.S.
A black-and-white photograph of Black man W. E. B. Du Bois smiling at his birthday cake on the table in front of him. It is collaged with a scanned letter stating: “W. E. B. DU BOIS FEBRUARY 23, 1951 BIRTHDAY DINNER THE SUCCESSION OF BIRTHDAY DINNERS WHICH HAVE BEEN GIVEN ME IN THE LAST THIRTY YEARS, HAVE BECOME I ASSURE YOU, AS EMBARASSING TO ME AS TO YOU.” At the top of the image is this text: “Happy Birthday to changemaker and social visionary W. E. B. Du Bois (born February 23, 1868 – 156 years ago today), who lived in Baltimore from 1939 to 1950. In his work, he emphasized the centrality of African Americans to histories of democracy, capitalism, and the United States.”
February 23, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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Saving for later (soon!) :)
emmanuelmehr.bsky.social Emmanuel Mehr @emmanuelmehr.bsky.social · Feb 17
This week for Baltimore Histories, check out the 1st installment of my multipart series “B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships.” It focuses on the public-private origins of the B&O & downtown Baltimore renewal projects: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/b-o-to-...
B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships — Part One
BHW 55: February 17, 2024 In February 1827 and January 1955, Baltimorean business leaders gathered to express grave concern about the city’s economic future. Both meetings resulted in immense public-p...
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February 17, 2024 at 1:53 PM