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Today — join me & Peggy King Jorde at Museum of the City of New York as we discuss why Public History is critical to our city’s future

Tix here: www.mcny.org/event/robert...

More from Peggy King Jorde: www.theguardian.com/news/2024/ma...

November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM

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An honor to be in conversation w/ Peggy King Jorde for The Robert A. & Elizabeth R. Jeffe Distinguished Lecture in Urban History at Museum of the City of New York

We’ll discuss why Public History is critical to our city’s future www.mcny.org/event/robert...

www.theguardian.com/news/2024/ma...

A book standing upright with a book cover that reads Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Community that Shaped a Borough by Prithi Kanakamedala. Black and white photo of the author. And event details Museum of the City of New York, November 12 at 6:30pm

November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM

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Joy, light & justice this Deepavali 🪔

A brightly colored diya and two electric candles placed on a colorful painted tray

October 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM

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“Historicizing the present robs it of its sense of inevitability, and restores its sense of human agency” ~Mike Wallace

Congrats to Mike Wallace, NYC historian extraordinaire, for a lifetime of work & his new book Gotham at War. Gotham Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social - what a rich legacy 🗽

Screen that reads “Historicizing the present robs it of its sense of inevitability, and restores its sense of human agency.” A quote by Pulitzer-prize winning New York City historian Mike Wallace. Photo taken at Gotham at War Book Event — a celebration of the culminating book in Mike Wallace's Gotham series and of his contributions to understanding NYC's history, organized by The Gotham Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, October 2025

October 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM

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🫶🏾⚽️🏆 #lionesses #football

July 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM

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Join us tonight & thank you for the invitation @qplnyc.bsky.social #juneteenth @dominiquejl.bsky.social • queenslib.org/4ka

June 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM

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Join genealogists @neeksmit.bsky.social‬ & Robyne Walker Murphy +friends at Weeksville Heritage Center for this free virtual series centering Black voices,legacies www.weeksvillesociety.org/unearthing-t...

5/21: Civil War Pension, Freedmen’s Bureau, +Probate records us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Flyer for the 4 part virtual African-American genealogical series Unearthing the Voices of Our Ancestors led by Nicka Sewell-Smith, nationally recognized genealogist and storyteller, hosted by Weeksville Heritage Center. Dates are Wednesdays at 7pm on Zoom May 7, May 21, June 25, July 23

Screenshot of Zoom Screen to register for this week’s workshop hosted by Weeksville Heritage Center. Description reads: Genealogists and family historians alike have spent decades looking for a tried and true method for unearthing slaveholders of those enslaved prior to 1865. Learn how three crucial record sets (Civil War Records/Pensions, the Freedmen’s Bureau, and Probates/Successions) can become just the wrecking ball needed to obliterate brick walls related to slavery

May 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM

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The rainiest & most glorious afternoon with @dominiquejl.bsky.social on a Jane’s Walk led by Mariame Kaba 🖤 @prisonculture.bsky.social

Look up and look around, our city contains so many stories of brave New Yorkers past #slaveryaboliton

A photo of a commemorative ground plaque in Lower Manhattan shows the various burial sites of New Amsterdam, later New York. It reads The African Burial Ground 1712-1794

May 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM

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Shoutout to the wonderful nyc kid on spring break calming everyone’s dental waiting room nerves with an impromptu Elmo show

Elmo sits in an opening between a dental office waiting room and the kids play area entertaining patients waiting to see the dentist.

April 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM

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@prithik.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who came out tonight to hear me and THE @profmsinha.bsky.social discuss legacies of the 19th c abolitionists who organized for a more just world, and how we must continue to speak their names & their stories @nyhistory.bsky.social #historymattters

Professor Manisha Sinha and Professor Prithi Kanakamedala sit next to each other on stage at The New-York Historical. Behind them a screen shows a child’s hands holding up a book with Brooklynites by Prithi Kanakamedala on the cover

A statue of Abraham Lincoln stands on the stairs of The New-York Historical. A sign shows their latest exhibit, a blurry picture of New York City in the background

A statue of Frederick Douglass outside the entrance to The New-York Historical

April 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM

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@prithik.bsky.social

Mon, Apr 7 — excited to talk abt how New Yorkers built better worlds & futures for us all with THE @profmsinha.bsky.social @nyhistory.bsky.social

Tix here:
www.nyhistory.org/programs/bro...

March 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM

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Moving listen to @dominiquejl.bsky.social describe her curatorial and collaborative process for Trace/s on @allofitwnyc.bsky.social today

www.wnyc.org/story/traces...

February 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM

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@prithik.bsky.social

Brooklynites is a Gotham Book Prize finalist. The book commemorates New Yorkers past who dreamed big abt better futures & worlds. Deep gratitude to the nominating committee, an honor to be included with these amazing writers 🗽📚 @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu apnews.com/article/goth...

Finalists for this year’s Gotham Book Prize

February 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM

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Congrats @dominiquejl.bsky.social @bklynlibrary.bsky.social 🫶🏾

Flier for Trace/s an exhibit on slavery and genealogy held outside the Center for Brooklyn History building

Panel text reads Two Portraits Two Families and explains that one family the Lotts were descendants of the slaveholder and the other descendants of Samuel Anderson who was enslaved by the Lotts before seizing his freedom. All of them lived in Brooklyn

Descendent & Brooklynite Mildred Jones, Artist Rusty Zimmerman, and Chief Historian Dr. Dominque Jean-Louis stand in front of a contemporary portrait painting of Jones by Zimmerman

Chief Historian at Center for Brooklyn History Dr. Dominique Jean-Louis holds a microphone thanking visitors for attending the exhibit opening Trace/s

January 31, 2025 at 1:07 AM

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@prithik.bsky.social

Brooklynites invites us to learn more about chapters of our city’s history in which New Yorkers past organized and mobilized to build better worlds and futures.

Join us today at 12pm & thank you for the invite NYS Library nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13554364

Featured book cover Brooklynites, with a portrait of the author Prithi Kanakamedala

January 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM

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@prithik.bsky.social

An honor to have “Brooklynites” among some of the best company @nyupress.bsky.social @historians.org #AHA25 Thank you for including #NYUPress

January 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM

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@prithik.bsky.social

grades in, assessment done, abundance + gratitude = fall 2024 ✨

A selection of books under Notable Non-Fiction at Strand Books, New York City including the poster’s book Brooklynites

Aerial view of Center for Brooklyn History’s staircase at Brooklyn Public Library as part of Nikole Hannah Jones’ curated evening for the 1619 Project

Whitney Museum, New York City exterior with signage for Edges of Ailey exhibit currently on view

December 19, 2024 at 1:18 PM

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@prithik.bsky.social

Almost end of semester recharge to the exquisite exhibit Edges of Ailey @whitney.org 🖤

Three photos of legendary dancer Carmen de Lavallade in a display case

December 4, 2024 at 8:54 PM

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Excited to be in conversation with my good friend, neighbor, and co-conspirator Lauraberth Lima (Museum Studies, NYU) at our local bookstore this Sunday. Space is limited so please grab a free ticket www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

A yellow flier with the words Sunday December 8 at 3pm The World’s Borough Bookshop, Prithi Kanakamedala in conversation with Lauraberth Lima

December 2, 2024 at 5:31 PM

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@prithik.bsky.social

Thank you for the kind invitation #Brownsville branch @bklynlibrary.bsky.social ✨ Honored to share the long history of Black activism in Brooklyn at one of BPL’s oldest branches this Thursday 🫶🏾

Flier advertising Prithi Kanakamedala’s lecture on Black activism in Brooklyn and her book Brooklynites at Brooklyn Public Library. Thursday November 21 6pm-7:30pm. The Brownsville branch is located at 61 Glenmore Ave, Brooklyn

November 18, 2024 at 10:25 PM

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@prithik.bsky.social

Excited to be in conversation with friends, colleagues, co-conspirators as we honor the past to think about building better futures #Brooklynites #nyupress

Flier with various conversations between Prithi Kanakamedala the author of Brooklynites and her friends and colleagues both in person and online

November 15, 2024 at 7:15 AM

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✨🫶🏾 The Salon at CBH curated by Nikole Hannah-Jones in celebration of the 1619 Project: A Visual Experience #BrooklynPublicLibrary @natiba.bsky.social @dominiquejl.bsky.social

November 3, 2024 at 12:41 PM

prithi

@prithik.bsky.social

honored to be invited by the brilliant Nikole Hannah-Jones, and to join these gifted souls esp my sister in public history @dominiquejl.bsky.social 🖤 “1619 Project: A Visual Experience” www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/sal...