Greg A. Beaman
@historicbeaman.bsky.social
City Hall/Market Square Research Historian, Alexandria (Va.) Archaeology. Director of Research, Claiborne Avenue History Project (New Orleans). Teaching Atlantic World at Georgetown.
Garcraig aka Gartcraig wins the day
Can anyone decipher the name of the place that Patrick Ramsay is from, as listed in this Edinburgh, Scotland newspaper from 1777? I am scrolling thru gazeteerofscotland.org.uk (from 1896) with no luck. I can tell it begins and ends with "g". Any help is appreciated! 🗃️
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Garcraig aka Gartcraig wins the day
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Looks to me like G[xxx]craig, but maybe you can work it out.
Can anyone decipher the name of the place that Patrick Ramsay is from, as listed in this Edinburgh, Scotland newspaper from 1777? I am scrolling thru gazeteerofscotland.org.uk (from 1896) with no luck. I can tell it begins and ends with "g". Any help is appreciated! 🗃️
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Looks to me like G[xxx]craig, but maybe you can work it out.
Can anyone decipher the name of the place that Patrick Ramsay is from, as listed in this Edinburgh, Scotland newspaper from 1777? I am scrolling thru gazeteerofscotland.org.uk (from 1896) with no luck. I can tell it begins and ends with "g". Any help is appreciated! 🗃️
December 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Can anyone decipher the name of the place that Patrick Ramsay is from, as listed in this Edinburgh, Scotland newspaper from 1777? I am scrolling thru gazeteerofscotland.org.uk (from 1896) with no luck. I can tell it begins and ends with "g". Any help is appreciated! 🗃️
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“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
‘Doing the Readings’
Dr Will Pooley (Associate Professor in Modern History), University of Bristol The students, we often grumble, don’t read the secondary readings we set for class. Every year, we find ourselves press…
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November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
these meetings should be live streamed.
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
these meetings should be live streamed.
Why would Joe Biden do such an awful thing?
NEW: Sec. Noem has now admits "last mile" disaster communications weren't up to par in the Texas catastrophe. But while bodies were still being recovered on Tuesday DHS canceled a $3 million grant focused on improving precisely those kinds of "last mile" comms. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dhs-c...
DHS Cancels Extreme Weather Comms Grant While Bodies Still Being Recovered in Texas
As more than a hundred fatalities have been confirmed in Texas flash...
talkingpointsmemo.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Why would Joe Biden do such an awful thing?
When I am president, I will use my non-reviewable Article II powers to abolish all social media in the interest of "promoting the general welfare." #IAmArticleII
July 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
When I am president, I will use my non-reviewable Article II powers to abolish all social media in the interest of "promoting the general welfare." #IAmArticleII
What's going to happen when a federal judge decides to issue a nationwide injunction anyway?
June 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
What's going to happen when a federal judge decides to issue a nationwide injunction anyway?
So the justices *can* read and understand legitimate historical research and then apply its conclusions in their rulings? *phew*
There's something really interesting going on here methodologically in Justice Jackson's Medina v. Planned Parenthood dissent. You can see it in one footnote.
In short, Jackson is emphasizing that Black Americans are part of the original "public" about which "originalists" should be concerned.
In short, Jackson is emphasizing that Black Americans are part of the original "public" about which "originalists" should be concerned.
June 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
So the justices *can* read and understand legitimate historical research and then apply its conclusions in their rulings? *phew*
It's telling that dozens of historians worried that their access to archives for historical research might not qualify as a "legitimate business interest."
June 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It's telling that dozens of historians worried that their access to archives for historical research might not qualify as a "legitimate business interest."
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#Juneteenth is a day of paradox for me, a historian of slavery at Georgetown University, since June 19 is also the anniversary of the infamous 1838 sale of the Maryland Jesuit enslaved community, known today as the GU272(+). May they be remembered.
slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/1
slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/1
Articles of agreement between Thomas F. Mulledy, of Georgetown, District of Columbia, of one part, and Jesse Beatty and Henry Johnson, of the State of Louisiana, of the other part. 19th June 1838 · Ge...
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June 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
#Juneteenth is a day of paradox for me, a historian of slavery at Georgetown University, since June 19 is also the anniversary of the infamous 1838 sale of the Maryland Jesuit enslaved community, known today as the GU272(+). May they be remembered.
slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/1
slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/1
Yes exactly.
Also, it's not legal "rights" they are enforcing, it's legal "powers." Congress has the *power* to force compliance. ICE does not have the *power* to refuse.
Also, it's not legal "rights" they are enforcing, it's legal "powers." Congress has the *power* to force compliance. ICE does not have the *power* to refuse.
It's unclear to me why the US Congressmen are not escorted by big armed cops to push through obstacles to them exercising their legal rights, and instead everyone now defers to the guys with no uniforms or badges or name tags to determine what is and is not legal?
In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.
June 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Yes exactly.
Also, it's not legal "rights" they are enforcing, it's legal "powers." Congress has the *power* to force compliance. ICE does not have the *power* to refuse.
Also, it's not legal "rights" they are enforcing, it's legal "powers." Congress has the *power* to force compliance. ICE does not have the *power* to refuse.
If you are being assaulted, you have the right to defend yourself. It doesn't matter if the person(s) claim lawful authority if they refuse to prove it. Sooner or later, someone is going to start shooting at these guys claiming to be ICE. Surprised it hasn't already happened.
June 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
If you are being assaulted, you have the right to defend yourself. It doesn't matter if the person(s) claim lawful authority if they refuse to prove it. Sooner or later, someone is going to start shooting at these guys claiming to be ICE. Surprised it hasn't already happened.
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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
June 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
Happy Flag Day, everyone!
June 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Happy Flag Day, everyone!
No Kings, No Trumps
June 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM
No Kings, No Trumps
That's not a tuba. It's a sousaphone.
Come on nerds, I know you have tubas or Tuba Christmas wouldn't exist. Marching band where you at youtube.com/shorts/r_UP_...
June 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
That's not a tuba. It's a sousaphone.
Protest is not lawlessness. Government officials disregarding the Bill of Rights is lawlessness.
June 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Protest is not lawlessness. Government officials disregarding the Bill of Rights is lawlessness.
Someone remind me real quick what the remedy is when the executive branch violates orders from the judicial branch and the legislative branch doesn't have any say in governing?
🚨According to litigators, ICE just put a dozen men on a flight (which may have already taken off) to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order requiring ICE to give people an opportunity to raise objections before being sent to a country not their own.
May 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Someone remind me real quick what the remedy is when the executive branch violates orders from the judicial branch and the legislative branch doesn't have any say in governing?
I'm grateful this fire didn't harm any people. And let us not forget that the building should have never been built in the first place. Let its charred ruins remain as a site of education and remembrance of our history of slavery and the harms inherent in extractive capitalism.
"The plantation, which is now a museum, event [wedding] venue and hotel, was built at the request of John Hampden Randolph, a prestigious sugar cane planter, and was completed in 1859 ... By 1860, Randolph owned 155 enslaved Black people."
May 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I'm grateful this fire didn't harm any people. And let us not forget that the building should have never been built in the first place. Let its charred ruins remain as a site of education and remembrance of our history of slavery and the harms inherent in extractive capitalism.
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BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention.
Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago.
Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.
Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago.
Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.
BREAKING: Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri to be Released From ICE Detention
The release strikes another blow to the Trump administration following the release of Mohsen Mahdawi and Rumeysa Ozturk.
zeteo.com
May 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention.
Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago.
Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.
Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago.
Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.
Welcome news
Badar Khan Suri is freed from detention, follows Mohsen Mahdawi and Rümeysa Öztürk
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ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
Georgetown Scholar to Be Freed From Detention in Another Loss for the Trump Administration
Federal judge orders Dr.
ccrjustice.org
May 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Welcome news
The stupidest, most naive possible thoughts must swim around in Hawley's head.
It's called "greed" ya dupe
It's called "greed" ya dupe
Hawley dismisses Trump lining his pockets with his memecoin: "Listen, I think nobody believes that Donald Trump can be bought. I mean, what does Donald Trump need more money for?"
May 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The stupidest, most naive possible thoughts must swim around in Hawley's head.
It's called "greed" ya dupe
It's called "greed" ya dupe
New job begins today!
I'm starting as a Research Historian for the City of Alexandria, responsible for researching and writing the history of City Hall/Market Square with special focus on the built environment, urban slavery, and its legacies into the 20th century.
Excited to do this work!
I'm starting as a Research Historian for the City of Alexandria, responsible for researching and writing the history of City Hall/Market Square with special focus on the built environment, urban slavery, and its legacies into the 20th century.
Excited to do this work!
May 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
New job begins today!
I'm starting as a Research Historian for the City of Alexandria, responsible for researching and writing the history of City Hall/Market Square with special focus on the built environment, urban slavery, and its legacies into the 20th century.
Excited to do this work!
I'm starting as a Research Historian for the City of Alexandria, responsible for researching and writing the history of City Hall/Market Square with special focus on the built environment, urban slavery, and its legacies into the 20th century.
Excited to do this work!
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I know this holiday means different things for folks, but 1 thing we all can agree on: my 224th #ScholarSunday thread features a mother lode of public scholarly writing, podcast eps, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Share widely & enjoy, all!🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 224
Published on May 11, 2025
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May 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I know this holiday means different things for folks, but 1 thing we all can agree on: my 224th #ScholarSunday thread features a mother lode of public scholarly writing, podcast eps, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Share widely & enjoy, all!🗃️
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...