Isaac Lee
@isaacjlee.bsky.social
I am a PhD candidate in early American social history at UW-Madison. Studying slavery, local governance, and colonialism.
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CONGRATULATIONS to our own Gloria Whiting 🎉 Her book, “Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England” is one of four finalists for the 2025 Frederick Douglass Prize! Congrats to Gloria and all this years finalists!
macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...
macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...
Yale Announces 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists
macmillan.yale.edu
October 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
CONGRATULATIONS to our own Gloria Whiting 🎉 Her book, “Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England” is one of four finalists for the 2025 Frederick Douglass Prize! Congrats to Gloria and all this years finalists!
macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...
macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...
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My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
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⚡️New from Drop Site:
We Tried to Stay in Gaza City. There Are No Longer Any Means of Sustaining Life.
Journalist Rasha Abou Jalal (@rasha-abou-jalal.bsky.social) documents her family’s forced displacement from Gaza City as Israeli forces bear down.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-city-...
We Tried to Stay in Gaza City. There Are No Longer Any Means of Sustaining Life.
Journalist Rasha Abou Jalal (@rasha-abou-jalal.bsky.social) documents her family’s forced displacement from Gaza City as Israeli forces bear down.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-city-...
We Tried to Stay in Gaza City. There Are No Longer Any Means of Sustaining Life.
Journalist Rasha Abou Jalal documents her family’s forced displacement from Gaza City as Israeli forces bear down.
www.dropsitenews.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
⚡️New from Drop Site:
We Tried to Stay in Gaza City. There Are No Longer Any Means of Sustaining Life.
Journalist Rasha Abou Jalal (@rasha-abou-jalal.bsky.social) documents her family’s forced displacement from Gaza City as Israeli forces bear down.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-city-...
We Tried to Stay in Gaza City. There Are No Longer Any Means of Sustaining Life.
Journalist Rasha Abou Jalal (@rasha-abou-jalal.bsky.social) documents her family’s forced displacement from Gaza City as Israeli forces bear down.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-city-...
I wrote about a freedom seeker named Ishmael Mux. His “white complexion” first caught my attention. What I discovered was the story of a boy whose mother was sold away in infancy by one of Connecticut’s most established families.
His enslavers called him Ishmael. He escaped bondage in December 1760 after spending more than a quarter-century enslaved to one of New London’s most prominent families. Read his story here: freedom-seekers.org/story/ishmae...
September 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I wrote about a freedom seeker named Ishmael Mux. His “white complexion” first caught my attention. What I discovered was the story of a boy whose mother was sold away in infancy by one of Connecticut’s most established families.
My latest for Freedom Seekers
On this day 249 years ago (8/27/1776) the Continental Army lost the Port of New York, surrendering the city to British control. Occupied Manhattan became a place where enslaved women like Bina could seize freedom. Read her story at freedom-seekers.org/story/bina-j...
August 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
My latest for Freedom Seekers
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On August 12, 1776, a fourteen-year-old boy named George Samba escaped his enslavers home in the heart of London’s East End. Read his story here: freedom-seekers.org/story/george...
August 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
On August 12, 1776, a fourteen-year-old boy named George Samba escaped his enslavers home in the heart of London’s East End. Read his story here: freedom-seekers.org/story/george...
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In August 1783, an enslaver named James Young posted an ad seeking the return of Daniel Anderson. But as @coryjamesyoung.bsky.social reveals, Anderson had already eluded capture for five years and had not intention of returning. Read his story: freedom-seekers.org/story/daniel...
August 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In August 1783, an enslaver named James Young posted an ad seeking the return of Daniel Anderson. But as @coryjamesyoung.bsky.social reveals, Anderson had already eluded capture for five years and had not intention of returning. Read his story: freedom-seekers.org/story/daniel...
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It was a typical advertisement. But the story of Dr. Caesar (or Augustus Thomson) is anything but typical. Follow his journey from Jamaica to the door of his absentee enslaver in Britain on our website: freedom-seekers.org/story/doctor...
July 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It was a typical advertisement. But the story of Dr. Caesar (or Augustus Thomson) is anything but typical. Follow his journey from Jamaica to the door of his absentee enslaver in Britain on our website: freedom-seekers.org/story/doctor...
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Great stuff from Joan Scott. So disappointing to see so many full and emeritus folks defend an organization that has: (1) failed to advocate for young scholars entering a collapsing profession; and (2) refused to take its members’ grievances and demands seriously—esp. on the issue of scholasticide.🗃️
On the Electoral Tactics of the American Historical Association academeblog.org/2025/07/04/o...
On the Electoral Tactics of the American Historical Association
BY JOAN W. SCOTT I was deeply disturbed to see this recent e-mailing from some 27 historians, 12 of whom are former presidents of the American Historical Association (AHA), urging members to vote f…
academeblog.org
July 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Great stuff from Joan Scott. So disappointing to see so many full and emeritus folks defend an organization that has: (1) failed to advocate for young scholars entering a collapsing profession; and (2) refused to take its members’ grievances and demands seriously—esp. on the issue of scholasticide.🗃️
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That infamous NYT article about Mamdani is, among other things, a perfect example of what Barbara and Karen Fields call racecraft.
July 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
That infamous NYT article about Mamdani is, among other things, a perfect example of what Barbara and Karen Fields call racecraft.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Research at risk: Records of enslaved people seeking freedom
Ed Baptist, my mentor and friend, explains the struggles for digital projects in this time of censorship
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Ed Baptist, my mentor and friend, explains the struggles for digital projects in this time of censorship
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Research at risk: Records of enslaved people seeking freedom | Cornell Chronicle
A research project collecting records of freedom-seeking enslaved people in the pre-Civil War U.S. came to a halt when researchers received a stop-work order from the National Endowment for the Humani...
news.cornell.edu
June 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Research at risk: Records of enslaved people seeking freedom
Ed Baptist, my mentor and friend, explains the struggles for digital projects in this time of censorship
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Ed Baptist, my mentor and friend, explains the struggles for digital projects in this time of censorship
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
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Congrats to UW-Madison’s Gloria Whiting, whose book “Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England” has won the 2025 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize from the WAWH! wawh.org/keller-sierr...
Western Association of Women Historians
Promoting the interests of women
historians since 1969
wawh.org
May 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Congrats to UW-Madison’s Gloria Whiting, whose book “Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England” has won the 2025 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize from the WAWH! wawh.org/keller-sierr...
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Under growing international pressure, Israel has allowed a trickle of food into Gaza for the first time in more than 11 weeks. But Mahmoud Alsaqqa with Oxfam says it's "merely a drop in the ocean" compared to the desperate need. "People here in Gaza are starving."
May 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Under growing international pressure, Israel has allowed a trickle of food into Gaza for the first time in more than 11 weeks. But Mahmoud Alsaqqa with Oxfam says it's "merely a drop in the ocean" compared to the desperate need. "People here in Gaza are starving."
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Read my latest:
ICE efforts in DC thwarted by solidarity
Kristi Noem has been denied another camera-ready moment of cruelty.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Read my latest:
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Judge Dugan’s arrest is outrageous and a fear tactic to our independent judiciary. Trump has always thought he was above the law, but now he’s enabling his goons to push that limit as far as it can go. His reckless deportations and flaunting of the Constitution will fail.
April 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Judge Dugan’s arrest is outrageous and a fear tactic to our independent judiciary. Trump has always thought he was above the law, but now he’s enabling his goons to push that limit as far as it can go. His reckless deportations and flaunting of the Constitution will fail.
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HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan
April 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan
@pocan.house.gov @baldwin.senate.gov need to follow Rep. Clancy’s example and stand by Judge Dugan
MADISON, Wis. – Yesterday, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and other publications reported that Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan apparently attempted to protect a defendant from ICE agents trying to detain that defendant. (1/6)
April 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
@pocan.house.gov @baldwin.senate.gov need to follow Rep. Clancy’s example and stand by Judge Dugan
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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
April 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
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AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.
April 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.