Robb Haberman
@robbkh.bsky.social
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We were delighted to welcome Julie Kim and her @fordham.edu University students last week for a tour and nature journaling session! Julie has collaborated with our Collections team on work related to John Tyley, who worked for Alexander Anderson, Superintendent of the St Vincent Botanical Gardens.
June 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We were delighted to welcome Julie Kim and her @fordham.edu University students last week for a tour and nature journaling session! Julie has collaborated with our Collections team on work related to John Tyley, who worked for Alexander Anderson, Superintendent of the St Vincent Botanical Gardens.
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This is an amazing essay, dataset, maps, analysis about commerce between Philadelphia and Haiti across the revolutionary period. A model for other studies. Highly recommend!
James A. Dun shares a record of 4,428 discrete voyages between Philadelphia and a variety of Dominguan/Haitian ports for scholars to explore. Click for Dun's introduction to the project (with a BONUS StoryMap!) ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04/28/a...
American Trade with Revolutionary Haiti: A Dataset for Public Use
By James A. Dun It was spring 2002 and I was entering what I thought—and hoped and needed to be—the final stages of my dissertation, a study of the ways in which the events that historians have sin…
ageofrevolutions.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is an amazing essay, dataset, maps, analysis about commerce between Philadelphia and Haiti across the revolutionary period. A model for other studies. Highly recommend!
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NEW EPISODE! In which Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson undertakes a fundraising campaign that is a smidge harder than just going door to door.
www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...
www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...
Episode 59: The Scheme I Undertake with Chearfulness
Diane Ehrenpreis joins Kathryn Gehred to discuss a letter from Martha Jefferson to a Mrs. Madison dated August 8, 1780 in which Jefferson encourages women to join t…
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April 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
NEW EPISODE! In which Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson undertakes a fundraising campaign that is a smidge harder than just going door to door.
www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...
www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...
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“The game's afoot: follow your spirit, and upon this charge, cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’”
Wishing all my followers a very happy Saint George’s Day x
Wishing all my followers a very happy Saint George’s Day x
April 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
“The game's afoot: follow your spirit, and upon this charge, cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’”
Wishing all my followers a very happy Saint George’s Day x
Wishing all my followers a very happy Saint George’s Day x
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The Early Republic Tracker is now live!
This new initiative from the #JERPano documents efforts to alter or erase interpretations of early U.S. history at public sites, national parks, and federal websites through citizen contributions. Visit the site at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
This new initiative from the #JERPano documents efforts to alter or erase interpretations of early U.S. history at public sites, national parks, and federal websites through citizen contributions. Visit the site at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
The Early Republic Tracker
The Early Republic Tracker documents instances where the federal government is removing facts and stories essential to the public’s understanding American history from public historical sites, muse…
thepanorama.shear.org
April 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The Early Republic Tracker is now live!
This new initiative from the #JERPano documents efforts to alter or erase interpretations of early U.S. history at public sites, national parks, and federal websites through citizen contributions. Visit the site at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
This new initiative from the #JERPano documents efforts to alter or erase interpretations of early U.S. history at public sites, national parks, and federal websites through citizen contributions. Visit the site at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
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The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see
www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.
www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.
Archived Resources | The Society for Military History
www.smh-hq.org
April 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see
www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.
www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.
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The @humanitiesall.bsky.social has a resource, NEH for All, w data about the impact of the NEH locally and nationally. Yes, it is important to right now use the contact and advocacy resources, but it's also critical, imho, to read, gather, & share this info w family &community. www.nehforall.org
April 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The @humanitiesall.bsky.social has a resource, NEH for All, w data about the impact of the NEH locally and nationally. Yes, it is important to right now use the contact and advocacy resources, but it's also critical, imho, to read, gather, & share this info w family &community. www.nehforall.org
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Let it be so. “Many Americans do care about the country’s past; they can handle the truth:conflicts, tragedies, redemptions and all. They actually prefer complexity to patriotic straitjackets.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Order to the Smithsonian Distorts Teaching of American History
The assumption that there is a standard, agreed-upon truth about the country’s past is a fantasy; but when declared by a sitting president, it becomes a provocation.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Let it be so. “Many Americans do care about the country’s past; they can handle the truth:conflicts, tragedies, redemptions and all. They actually prefer complexity to patriotic straitjackets.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...
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#OnThisDay in 1818, the War Pension Act was signed to address care for veterans.
Continental Army veteran Lieutenant Samuel Gerock presented this almanac on display at the Museum as proof of his military service for his 1818 pension application.
Explore with our online interactive: bit.ly/4hisyPZ
Continental Army veteran Lieutenant Samuel Gerock presented this almanac on display at the Museum as proof of his military service for his 1818 pension application.
Explore with our online interactive: bit.ly/4hisyPZ
March 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
#OnThisDay in 1818, the War Pension Act was signed to address care for veterans.
Continental Army veteran Lieutenant Samuel Gerock presented this almanac on display at the Museum as proof of his military service for his 1818 pension application.
Explore with our online interactive: bit.ly/4hisyPZ
Continental Army veteran Lieutenant Samuel Gerock presented this almanac on display at the Museum as proof of his military service for his 1818 pension application.
Explore with our online interactive: bit.ly/4hisyPZ
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Not “disappeared.”
Erased by frightened small-minded petty racist individuals.
Erased by frightened small-minded petty racist individuals.
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order
Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.
www.axios.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Not “disappeared.”
Erased by frightened small-minded petty racist individuals.
Erased by frightened small-minded petty racist individuals.
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Judge Okamoto was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart with 3x oak leaf clusters. He was a 1967 commissionee of the UCLA Army ROTC Program, despite being a graduate of crosstown rival USC.
I have had the honor of attending dinners with him twice
I have had the honor of attending dinners with him twice
The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history.
Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...
Disgusting.
Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...
Disgusting.
Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders | The United States Army
U.S. Army Heritage Asian American & Pacific Islander Microsite | The United States Army
web.archive.org
March 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Judge Okamoto was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart with 3x oak leaf clusters. He was a 1967 commissionee of the UCLA Army ROTC Program, despite being a graduate of crosstown rival USC.
I have had the honor of attending dinners with him twice
I have had the honor of attending dinners with him twice
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The Washington Post has now picked up on my recent newsletter post about the scrubbing of web pages at Arlington National Cemetery. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The Washington Post has now picked up on my recent newsletter post about the scrubbing of web pages at Arlington National Cemetery. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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This is not about “removing all references to diversity, equity, and inclusion.” It’s about resegregating the US military and the US government more broadly. We don’t need to accept the right-wing framing of this.
Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.
Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
This is not about “removing all references to diversity, equity, and inclusion.” It’s about resegregating the US military and the US government more broadly. We don’t need to accept the right-wing framing of this.
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Running this one again. Wearily
In the very first State of the Union address, given #OTD in 1790, POTUS George Washington told Congress it must encourage "science and literature" (meaning both the sciences and the humanities), given that "knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness." Yes.
January 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Running this one again. Wearily
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Between illegally firing Inspectors General and illegally impounding Congressionally appropriated spending and setting his militia free and purging the Justice Department and unleashing the ethnic cleansing police, I’m starting to think that “just for one day” might not have been on the level.
January 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Between illegally firing Inspectors General and illegally impounding Congressionally appropriated spending and setting his militia free and purging the Justice Department and unleashing the ethnic cleansing police, I’m starting to think that “just for one day” might not have been on the level.
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Read Belinda Sutton's petition here @harvardlibrary.bsky.social iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/vi...
January 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Read Belinda Sutton's petition here @harvardlibrary.bsky.social iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/vi...
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"Began to mend by degrees." Dec 1777. Mad day but never too busy to think about how we know the past. A lovely family gifted this Revolutionary War soldier's diary to the JCB today. He writes about getting sick. Illness rather than battlefield wounds the most common medical issues. 🗃️
January 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"Began to mend by degrees." Dec 1777. Mad day but never too busy to think about how we know the past. A lovely family gifted this Revolutionary War soldier's diary to the JCB today. He writes about getting sick. Illness rather than battlefield wounds the most common medical issues. 🗃️
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Inspired by the recent #JERWinter2024 conversation on the Revolution at 250, Dillon Streifeneder considers how historians in recent years have worked to bring military history back into the history of the American Revolution: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/01/21/a...
American Revolution or Revolutionary War?
Inspired by the recent JER conversation on the Revolution at 250, Dillon Streifeneder considers how historians in recent years have worked to bring military history back into the history of the Ame…
thepanorama.shear.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Inspired by the recent #JERWinter2024 conversation on the Revolution at 250, Dillon Streifeneder considers how historians in recent years have worked to bring military history back into the history of the American Revolution: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/01/21/a...
Enjoyed sharing my research on James Selkirk at the American Historical Association annual meeting. #AHA2025 #AmRev #ContinentalArmy #JamesSelkirk #SelkirkMemoir
January 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Enjoyed sharing my research on James Selkirk at the American Historical Association annual meeting. #AHA2025 #AmRev #ContinentalArmy #JamesSelkirk #SelkirkMemoir
History Friends, if you are attending the AHA conference in January, stop by Poster Session #1 (Sunday morning) and say hello. Here's a sneak peek of my presentation: "A Personal Account and a Borrowed History: The Revolutionary War Memoir of James Selkirk."
December 28, 2024 at 4:02 PM
History Friends, if you are attending the AHA conference in January, stop by Poster Session #1 (Sunday morning) and say hello. Here's a sneak peek of my presentation: "A Personal Account and a Borrowed History: The Revolutionary War Memoir of James Selkirk."
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December 16, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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My book talk at the Filson Historical Society, on The Cutting Off Way, is now up. youtu.be/dWpxLBAxP94?...
The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500–1800 Paperback - Wayne E. Lee
YouTube video by FilsonHistoricalKY
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December 12, 2024 at 9:29 AM
My book talk at the Filson Historical Society, on The Cutting Off Way, is now up. youtu.be/dWpxLBAxP94?...
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There's a new review of The Cutting-Off Way on H-War (and also in Ethnohistory). The H-War one, lacking a word limit, is pretty comprehensive.
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory...
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory...
H-Net Reviews
www.h-net.org
December 10, 2024 at 9:52 AM
There's a new review of The Cutting-Off Way on H-War (and also in Ethnohistory). The H-War one, lacking a word limit, is pretty comprehensive.
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory...
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory...
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Calling all history lovers in NY's Hudson Valley: Tomorrow I will be speaking at the Henry Wallace Center at the FDR house in Hyde Park at 6pm. My interlocutor will be the excellent @alexiscoe.bsky.social. It's free to the public but you need to register.
December 10, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Calling all history lovers in NY's Hudson Valley: Tomorrow I will be speaking at the Henry Wallace Center at the FDR house in Hyde Park at 6pm. My interlocutor will be the excellent @alexiscoe.bsky.social. It's free to the public but you need to register.