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Public historian studying Early America & Digital History
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tillcenter.bsky.social
The Emmett Till Interpretive Center has purchased and protected the barn near Drew, MS, where Emmett Till was brutally beaten and murdered. It will be preserved not merely as a structure, but as sacred ground. Read our open letter here: www.emmett-till.org/barn
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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foundhistory.bsky.social
I’ve been writing about and experimenting with generative AI systems a lot lately. AI figures much less prominently in my teaching, but as we approach the end of the semester in my History of Digital Culture class, it just so happens that AI is on the syllabus for today.
Ten Things You Need to Know About AI
Author’s note: Regular readers will know that I’ve been writing about and experimenting with generative AI systems a lot lately. AI figures much less prominently in my teaching, but as we app…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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freedomseekers.bsky.social
250 years ago today Virginia governor Lord Dunmore declared martial law and promised freedom to the enslaved who would join his ranks.

For enslavers like Mark Bird this was a nightmare. But for Cuff Dix this was an opportunity for freedom.

Read Cuff’s story: freedom-seekers.org/story/cuff-d...
Runaway newspaper advertisement from an 18th century newspaper
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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gauthamrao.bsky.social
Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

a.co/d/29c7EIP
September 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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foundhistory.bsky.social
The all new Sourcery is here! Request scans from any archive in New York or Boston and our team of Sourcerers will get them for you!

Get yours now!

sourceryapp.org

(Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. coming soon!)
Home - Sourcery
Open Source Not for Profit Community Driven Any archive, any time Get Started Request documents through Sourcery Need archival documents for your research but can’t make the trip? Want to streamline m...
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September 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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jdickerson.bsky.social
Slavery and American exceptionalism: substack.com/@johnfdicker...
August 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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dhowlett1692.bsky.social
AskHistorians has a fantastic AMA today with @kawulf.bsky.social on her new book Lineage! There are already a bunch of great questions and answers!

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July 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
It’s the very rare small N qualitative study with results I’m willing to generalize to *everybody everywhere doing all the things*:
June 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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gauthamrao.bsky.social
I've spent much of my career studying the legal institution known as "the posse comitatus" as well as "The Posse Comitatus Act." Here's a quick thread. Cites at the end.

Posse comitatus is Latin for "power of the county," or temporarily deputized people obligated to assist law enforcers.
June 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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jeffsharlet.bsky.social
I... oh my god.
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Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
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June 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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gbrockell.bsky.social
My thoughts on @billshaner.bsky.social's horrific account of the abduction of a Worcester, Mass., woman by federal agents yesterday, and the participation of local police.
hardghistory.ghost.io/kidnapping-again/
Kidnapping again!!
I thought of this poster last night as I read journalist Bill Shaner's account of the kidnapping of a woman from her neighborhood in Worcester, Mass. In video taken by Shaner and others, Worcester pol...
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May 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
jordangrant.bsky.social
In 1847, Robert Cromwell was rescued from slave-catchers *in a federal courthouse* in part because of a judge’s quiet assistance. From what I know, that judge was never convicted of a crime.

I hope cases like Cromwell’s (and Joshua Glover's) give hope to folks in Wisconsin this weekend.
As the day ended on April 14, 1847, sounds of a struggle echoed behind the locked doors of the U.S. District Courthouse in Detroit, Michigan. Three slave-catchers strained to keep hold of Robert Cromwell. One of the three, a city constable, tried to "cram a handkerchief down" Cromwell's throat and stifle his cries. But Cromwell was not daunted. Later, newspapers would describe how the formerly enslaved man, filled with "energy imparted from a feeling that it was a desperate struggle for LIBERTY," dragged his would-be captors to one of the courthouse's windows and bellowed for help. As Cromwell's shouts echoed down Jefferson Avenue, the slave-catchers' carefully laid plans began to unravel. Ross Wilkins, the federal judge who was scheduled to oversee Cromwell's summary reenslavement under the authority of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, retreated to the building's attic to avoid involving himself in the case. At the same time, a mob of Cromwell's "colored friends and others" rallied outside the courthouse's doors and—with the help of a key provided by one of Wilkin's abandoned clerks— soon "found their way in." Cromwell was escorted to another part of the city under the crowd's protection. David Dunn, the Missouri slaveholder who had hoped to reenslave Cromwell, was chased into a nearby store, charged with kidnapping, and sent to the Wayne County jail. Weeks passed. As Dunn waited for his criminal trial to begin, Cromwell left the city and crossed over to Canada, a second escape that put him safely beyond his former enslaver's reach. The symbolic importance of Cromwell’s deliverance was not lost on contemporaries. His daytime rescue from nothing less than a “vestibule of a United States Court of Justice” showcased the strength of the anti-slavery movement as the fourth decade of the nineteenth century came to an end. This strength was based, in large part, on anti-slavery forces’ willingness to embrace both extra-legal and legal tactics to resist slave-catchers...
April 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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bhgross144.bsky.social
The situation @nehgov.bsky.social continues to deteriorate, and the worst part is we still don’t know the full extent of the funding cuts…

#NEH #OhTheHumanities 🗃️📜📚
Groups Are Told That Federal Humanities Grants Are Canceled (Gift Article)
Letters informed grant recipients that funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities would be redirected to furthering “the president’s agenda.”
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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johngmarks.com
As we all think about how we’ll respond to this—in op-eds, advocacy, statements—please remember there’s some really good research about how we can communicate to most effectively build support for thoughtful, inclusive history. Some links ⬇️
johngmarks.com John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · Mar 27
Lots of predictably terrible stuff in here, but this order is prime example why historians and history institutions defending their interpretation as “The Truth” is a dead end. There are better ways to do argue for exploring the past in all its depth and complexity www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Truth and Sanity to American History
RESTORING TRUTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by
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March 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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dpmckenzie.bsky.social
On my way to Montréal for #NCPH2025, where I’m looking forward to, among other things, sessions on historical consulting. So I suppose this the right time to announce my next career step:

I’m setting up my own consultancy!
David Patrick McKenzie
Versatile Public Historian | Museum Interpreter | Exhibition Developer
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March 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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willtchak.bsky.social
Deadline extended to April 7th to be the HBCU Radio Preservation Project's next intern. Do you know a grad student who may be interested in this paid opportunity? They'll have a blast documenting Black radio history. HBCU alums strongly encouraged to apply. us21.campaign-archive.com?e=d624b10e71...
Graduate Internship Available
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March 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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davidehrlich.bsky.social
THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2024

A video countdown

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January 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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abbymullen.bsky.social
Christmas is done, you’re getting ready for the @historians.org annual conference, putting finishing touches on your conference paper… but what are you trying to do in that paper? I wrote up a few thoughts about what good conference papers do. open.substack.com/pub/abbymull...
The Ideal Conference Paper
According to me. So, take that under advisement.
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December 26, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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miriamposner.com
I feel like people are not sufficiently appreciating one of the better things about Bluesky’s API, which is the resurrection of sites that can list the most-posted links by people you follow. Remember Nuzzel? sill.social
Sill
Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what's happening.
sill.social
December 18, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
www.popehat.com/p/some-other...
Some Other America, One I Do Not Know
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December 9, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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baconscholar.bsky.social
We teach the Fugitive Slave Act as history, not a policy proposal.

www.kctv5.com/2024/12/05/1...
‘$1,000 per person’: Missouri lawmaker proposes paying residents to catch undocumented neighbors
Senate Bill 72 was pre-filed to the Missouri legislature by House Representative David Gregory to pay Missourians $1000 to find and detain illegal immigrants in the show-me-state.
www.kctv5.com
December 7, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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gauthamrao.bsky.social
Amid the raging storm surge of antistatism, it is more important than ever to preserve the history of American statecraft. So I'm thrilled to note that Professor Peter Kastor's remarkable digital project "Creating a Federal Government, 1789-1829," is live: creatingafederalgovernment.wustl.edu
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Creating a Federal Government | Washington University in St. Louis
The remarkable story of how the Founding Fathers built the institutions of the U.S. government and of the men and women who served in government during the crucial decades following the ratification of the Constitution
creatingafederalgovernment.wustl.edu
November 26, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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rachelshelden.bsky.social
⬇️ My favorite of the *many* pointed insights in this brilliant @kmtani.bsky.social piece that uses the tools of history 🗃️ to interrogate how the Supreme Court engages in processes of curation, narration, and erasure to shape both its docket & public image: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
November 12, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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historygirl.bsky.social
Two GS 9 Historian positions are open right now. They are only terms, but can lead to bigger things.
www.usajobs.gov/job/806892100

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Historian
This position is located in the Park History Program office within the National Park Service Cultural Resources, Partnerships, and Science Associate Directorate in Washington, DC.<br> <br> The incumbe...
www.usajobs.gov
August 31, 2024 at 12:08 AM