Melissa DeVelvis
@melissadevelvis.org
GA/SC boundary dweller, historian of women & the U.S. South. Author of Gendering Secession: White Women and Politics in South Carolina, 1859-1861. Bit.ly/genderingsecession
melissadevelvis.org
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My former student and Augusta Jewish Museum Manager Angela Russo at the Georgia Historical Marker Dedication for the Congregation Children of Israel Synagogue!
June 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My former student and Augusta Jewish Museum Manager Angela Russo at the Georgia Historical Marker Dedication for the Congregation Children of Israel Synagogue!
Surely this can't be used to hurt faculty at all! /s
May 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Surely this can't be used to hurt faculty at all! /s
Now getting ready for the South Caroliniana Society's annual meeting, "E is for Edgar" with Walter Edgar, SC ETV, and BBQ 😊
May 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Now getting ready for the South Caroliniana Society's annual meeting, "E is for Edgar" with Walter Edgar, SC ETV, and BBQ 😊
My students, who wrote the state marker application for Reverend Doctor William Jefferson White
May 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My students, who wrote the state marker application for Reverend Doctor William Jefferson White
Historic marker time!
May 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Historic marker time!
PTKU is my favorite school, support them at preownedairboats.com ty @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
PTKU is my favorite school, support them at preownedairboats.com ty @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social
Let's just say I worked on two big projects this past year 😊
Gendering Secession is OUT NOW! I can't believe!
Bit.ly/genderingsecession
Gendering Secession is OUT NOW! I can't believe!
Bit.ly/genderingsecession
March 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Let's just say I worked on two big projects this past year 😊
Gendering Secession is OUT NOW! I can't believe!
Bit.ly/genderingsecession
Gendering Secession is OUT NOW! I can't believe!
Bit.ly/genderingsecession
Forgot to attach lol
March 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Forgot to attach lol
This is so CUTE @joursouhist.bsky.social
(I reviewed I Saw Death Coming and it was a very hard and very necessary read)
(I reviewed I Saw Death Coming and it was a very hard and very necessary read)
February 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is so CUTE @joursouhist.bsky.social
(I reviewed I Saw Death Coming and it was a very hard and very necessary read)
(I reviewed I Saw Death Coming and it was a very hard and very necessary read)
Here's a clip of me saying that South Carolina and Virginia had "beef," now immortalized on CSPAN
February 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Here's a clip of me saying that South Carolina and Virginia had "beef," now immortalized on CSPAN
Ladies and Gentlemen, friends and enemies, Gendering Secession has a cover and wonderful blurbs
January 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen, friends and enemies, Gendering Secession has a cover and wonderful blurbs
Getting my family's Marietta/Atlanta updates when I live in Augusta
January 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Getting my family's Marietta/Atlanta updates when I live in Augusta
What if instead of grading I laid on the floor and squished the waterbed toy
December 13, 2024 at 8:05 PM
What if instead of grading I laid on the floor and squished the waterbed toy
No one leaves my US history class without learning about Harriet Tubman and the Combahee Ferry Raid (and usually the Drunk History video about it)
December 12, 2024 at 9:31 PM
No one leaves my US history class without learning about Harriet Tubman and the Combahee Ferry Raid (and usually the Drunk History video about it)
This is so, so exciting! I admire the Civil Rights Center so much and it's amazing to see them expand to a postdoc! Please share widely!
November 25, 2024 at 5:18 PM
This is so, so exciting! I admire the Civil Rights Center so much and it's amazing to see them expand to a postdoc! Please share widely!
First paid keynote last night ☺️ I think it went well and, most importantly, my PowerPoint was gorgeous
November 17, 2024 at 1:03 AM
First paid keynote last night ☺️ I think it went well and, most importantly, my PowerPoint was gorgeous
Truly can't tell if she's miserable or living her best pillow life post-op
September 17, 2023 at 1:24 AM
Truly can't tell if she's miserable or living her best pillow life post-op
Love to make students buy and discuss my favorite books
September 12, 2023 at 11:00 PM
Love to make students buy and discuss my favorite books
The whiplash from Butchered Tongue to Anything But on Hozier's new album
August 21, 2023 at 3:07 AM
The whiplash from Butchered Tongue to Anything But on Hozier's new album
Beginning of year three and I have already given up on looking like a Serious Professional
August 16, 2023 at 6:15 PM
Beginning of year three and I have already given up on looking like a Serious Professional
Well THIS is sus...
August 16, 2023 at 3:41 AM
Well THIS is sus...