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David Patrick McKenzie
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Public history consultant, sometimes digital & academic historian. GMU PhD in 19c US-LatAm history—US citizens living in Mexico’s interior, 1821-46. Formerly of Folger, Ford’s Theatre, Capital Jewish Museum, Design Minds, Alamo.
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Know a young filmmaker 14 to 22? Encourage them to join in Lincoln Presidential Foundation's Latest Generation Film Contest—opportunity to speak their voices & learn about nuanced historical storytelling through film. Two sessions this month! More info: www.lincolnpresidential.org/events/upcom...
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Best way to start @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social latest book: curled up on the couch with new-to-us schnauzer with NBA Playoffs on mute in the background.
A schnauzer lying on a couch next to a man reading a book called “Remembering Conquest,” with a basketball game on a television in the background.
May 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Sitting with GMU history classmate @mebrett.bsky.social as we watch GMU classmate @faisdaudau.bsky.social + Denise Frazier + Hannah Krueger-Benson talk about work on amazing Frenchmen Notes public history project. #ncph2025 frenchmennotes.com
Two people speaking by a slide saying: “Frenchmen Notes: Documenting and Advocating for a New Orleans Music Scene,” along with names of presenters.
March 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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At my old stomping grounds Ford’s Theatre for “Written Then, Spoken Now” on @katemasur.bsky.social graphic history of Reconstruction in DC area. Excited to hear words from “Freedom Was In Sight!” & see combo of history and theatre, put together and introduced by the brilliant Alex Wood & Erika Scott
A program for “Written Then, Spoken Now: Freedom Was in Sight!” In front of a stage. Two women with microphones on a historic 1800s theatre stage, introducing a program. Seven people in chairs on a historic 1800s stage.
February 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Snow piling up more in South Arlington now, after a long period of rain @capitalweather.bsky.social
January 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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April 3, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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#TIL, thanks to Lindsay Schakenbach Regele’s new biography of Joel Roberts Poinsett, that Poinsett wasn’t Secretary of State John Quincy Adams’s first choice as U.S. Minister to Mexico. Who was? None other than Andrew Jackson… 😳🤔😮
A book called Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism, with a deep red cover, outlines of poinsettia flowers, and a drawing of a white man wearing an 1800s suit and a cape. Pictured on a table in a coffee shop, with a mug of coffee beside the book.
November 24, 2023 at 9:00 PM