Timothy Brown
@timothybrown.bsky.social
PhD Student at UConn. Studying antislavery in Connecticut. Public Historian. He/Him. 🏳️🌈
My Top 10 Books I read this year. These books stood out the most as not only beautifully written studies, but ones that challenged my understanding of the meaning of freedom.
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December 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
My Top 10 Books I read this year. These books stood out the most as not only beautifully written studies, but ones that challenged my understanding of the meaning of freedom.
@kevinkenny.bsky.social
@kcarterjackson.bsky.social
@countesscanuck.bsky.social
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Buffalo’s Michigan Street African-American Heritage Corridor: A Rising Cultural Destination for Travellers www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...
Buffalo’s Michigan Street African-American Heritage Corridor: A Rising Cultural Destination for Travellers - Travel And Tour World
Explore Buffalo's Michigan Street African-American Heritage Corridor – a vibrant cultural hub showcasing Black history and heritage in Buffalo, NY.
www.travelandtourworld.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Buffalo’s Michigan Street African-American Heritage Corridor: A Rising Cultural Destination for Travellers www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...
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“We don’t have to wait for somebody to tell our own story, we can tell our own story,” said Fiona Vernal @uconnhistory.bsky.social
The new Caribbean Museum is the result of the West Indian Social Club’s organizing, mutual aid and cultural work in Hartford.
Hartford's Caribbean Museum offers chance to 'tell our own story'
The new Caribbean Museum is the result of the West Indian Social Club’s organizing, mutual aid and cultural work in Hartford.
ctmirror.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“We don’t have to wait for somebody to tell our own story, we can tell our own story,” said Fiona Vernal @uconnhistory.bsky.social
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I want to watch a six-part series on the Haitian Revolution 😕
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I want to watch a six-part series on the Haitian Revolution 😕
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Today's read: former UCHI fellow Fiona Vernal and UCHI graduate assistant Timothy Brown (@uconnhistory.bsky.social) premiered an exhibit titled: “Bloomfield Mosaic: Stories from our Jewish, African American, and West Indian Communities.” This exhibit features over 40 oral histories.
UConn Humanities Project Helps Bloomfield Preserve Its Cultural Mosaic - UConn Today
A new exhibition celebrates community history and highlights how UConn humanities research, led by professor Fiona Vernal, is helping Connecticut towns pres ...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Today's read: former UCHI fellow Fiona Vernal and UCHI graduate assistant Timothy Brown (@uconnhistory.bsky.social) premiered an exhibit titled: “Bloomfield Mosaic: Stories from our Jewish, African American, and West Indian Communities.” This exhibit features over 40 oral histories.
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Huge shout out to our own Timothy Brown! Check it out:
I’m quoted in this wonderful piece in UConn Today about our recently premiered Bloomfield Mosaic exhibit. This oral history project set out to capture the stories of the Jewish, African American and West Indian population of the CT suburb.
today.uconn.edu/2025/11/ucon...
today.uconn.edu/2025/11/ucon...
today.uconn.edu
November 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Huge shout out to our own Timothy Brown! Check it out:
I’m quoted in this wonderful piece in UConn Today about our recently premiered Bloomfield Mosaic exhibit. This oral history project set out to capture the stories of the Jewish, African American and West Indian population of the CT suburb.
today.uconn.edu/2025/11/ucon...
today.uconn.edu/2025/11/ucon...
today.uconn.edu
November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I’m quoted in this wonderful piece in UConn Today about our recently premiered Bloomfield Mosaic exhibit. This oral history project set out to capture the stories of the Jewish, African American and West Indian population of the CT suburb.
today.uconn.edu/2025/11/ucon...
today.uconn.edu/2025/11/ucon...
A fantastic interview with my dear friend and former UNLV cohort @loveshistory123.bsky.social about her research (and recent Journal of Arizona History article) into the incarceration of Japanese Americans on the Gila River Indian Community during World War II. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...
When U.S. put a Japanese internment camp on Gila River reservation, 2 groups found common ground
During World War II, when Japanese Americans were relocated to internment camps, some of them came to Arizona — to another place where the U.S. government had “relocated” a group of people: the Gila R...
www.kjzz.org
August 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A fantastic interview with my dear friend and former UNLV cohort @loveshistory123.bsky.social about her research (and recent Journal of Arizona History article) into the incarceration of Japanese Americans on the Gila River Indian Community during World War II. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...
Super excited that my first book review has been published! The review is of John Reeves’ Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant. A big thank you to H-Net and my review editor at H-War for this opportunity. networks.h-net.org/group/review...
Brown on Reeves, 'Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant' | H-Net
Reeves, John. Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant. New York: Pegasus Books, 2023. 352 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781639365272. Reviewed by Timothy Brown (Univ...
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August 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Super excited that my first book review has been published! The review is of John Reeves’ Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant. A big thank you to H-Net and my review editor at H-War for this opportunity. networks.h-net.org/group/review...
A poignant piece by @marthasjones.bsky.social. With an important reminder of the long historical battle for birthright citizenship in the aftermath of yesterday’s ruling from SCOTUS.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The fight for birthright citizenship started with these Black Americans
We have endured years, decades, even centuries of confusion about citizenship.
www.msnbc.com
June 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A poignant piece by @marthasjones.bsky.social. With an important reminder of the long historical battle for birthright citizenship in the aftermath of yesterday’s ruling from SCOTUS.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Gave it a shot after much contemplation:
June 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Gave it a shot after much contemplation:
Couldn’t have said it better myself. A truly wonderful piece, building on the great scholarship of @profmsinha.bsky.social.
Fantastic reflection by @profmsinha.bsky.social on how Black abolitionists laid the groundwork for emancipation by helping Abraham Lincoln eventually arrive at the position that slavery must be fully eradicated.
Abraham Lincoln Wasn't Born an Abolitionist, He Became One
We live in polarized times when freedom is threatened but this Juneteenth we should remind ourselves that we have overcome far worse
www.theunpopulist.net
June 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Couldn’t have said it better myself. A truly wonderful piece, building on the great scholarship of @profmsinha.bsky.social.
My interview for a blog series to discuss my Graduate Assistantship with @uconnhumanities.bsky.social and share advice about applying skills to different positions. I also talked about my work with EPOCH (w/ @uconnhistory.bsky.social) and @shearites.bsky.social.
career.uconn.edu/blog/2025/06...
career.uconn.edu/blog/2025/06...
Enhancing Career Readiness: Doctoral Students at Work Featuring Timothy Brown, Graduate Assistant at the Humanities Institute
How his Graduate Assistantship has contributed to PhD student, Timothy Brown’s, career readiness.
career.uconn.edu
June 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
My interview for a blog series to discuss my Graduate Assistantship with @uconnhumanities.bsky.social and share advice about applying skills to different positions. I also talked about my work with EPOCH (w/ @uconnhistory.bsky.social) and @shearites.bsky.social.
career.uconn.edu/blog/2025/06...
career.uconn.edu/blog/2025/06...
On the 250th Anniversary of the “Shot Heard Round the World” I feel it is fitting to post this fascinating recent piece by @eranzelnik.bsky.social about the continuing myths and afterlives of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. www.hnn.us/article/the-...
The Dangerous Afterlives of Lexington and Concord
How a myth about farmers taking on the British has fueled more than two centuries of exclusionary nationalism.
www.hnn.us
April 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
On the 250th Anniversary of the “Shot Heard Round the World” I feel it is fitting to post this fascinating recent piece by @eranzelnik.bsky.social about the continuing myths and afterlives of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. www.hnn.us/article/the-...
Very much looking forward to today’s Draper Workshop on American Empire featuring panelists Greg Grandin, Moon Ho-Jung, @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social, @laurenfturek.bsky.social and moderated by @profmsinha.bsky.social.
April 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Very much looking forward to today’s Draper Workshop on American Empire featuring panelists Greg Grandin, Moon Ho-Jung, @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social, @laurenfturek.bsky.social and moderated by @profmsinha.bsky.social.
I had the distinct pleasure of hearing @eranzelnik.bsky.social talk about his fascinating new book during this week’s @uconnhistory.bsky.social Wednesday Workshop and receiving a signed copy (thx @profmsinha.bsky.social). Looking forward to reading it! And get yourself a copy too!
April 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I had the distinct pleasure of hearing @eranzelnik.bsky.social talk about his fascinating new book during this week’s @uconnhistory.bsky.social Wednesday Workshop and receiving a signed copy (thx @profmsinha.bsky.social). Looking forward to reading it! And get yourself a copy too!
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Trump Admin is targeting Patricia Navarro-Velez, a UNLV professor killed in a mass shooting n the UNLV campus in Las Vegas in 2023, for violating its racist and illegal DEI executive order. www.yahoo.com/news/unlv-pr...
UNLV professor killed in 2023 mass shooting is named as part of Trump’s DEI crackdown at colleges
Patricia Navarro-Velez, 39, one of three people gunned down in December 2023
www.yahoo.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Trump Admin is targeting Patricia Navarro-Velez, a UNLV professor killed in a mass shooting n the UNLV campus in Las Vegas in 2023, for violating its racist and illegal DEI executive order. www.yahoo.com/news/unlv-pr...
So sad to see this! The historic Nishikida Laundry in Gardnerville, NV faces impending demolition. While working for a preservation organization in the state I did background research into the building. This news hurts me knowing the rich history of it.
thenevadaindependent.com/article/gard...
thenevadaindependent.com/article/gard...
Gardnerville laundry building linked to Japanese American heritage to be demolished - The Nevada Independent
The old Nishikida laundry building in Gardnerville holds ties to the detainment of Japanese Americans during World War II and is one of the state’s rare properties associated with Nevada’s Japanese Am...
thenevadaindependent.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
So sad to see this! The historic Nishikida Laundry in Gardnerville, NV faces impending demolition. While working for a preservation organization in the state I did background research into the building. This news hurts me knowing the rich history of it.
thenevadaindependent.com/article/gard...
thenevadaindependent.com/article/gard...
A fantastic piece by @rkdcolby86.bsky.social reminding us that the slave trade was very much alive during the Civil War and showing the struggles of formerly enslaved mothers to reunite with their children and family after the downfall of slavery.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/afte...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/afte...
After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the conflict ended, two women sought help from high places to track down their l...
www.smithsonianmag.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A fantastic piece by @rkdcolby86.bsky.social reminding us that the slave trade was very much alive during the Civil War and showing the struggles of formerly enslaved mothers to reunite with their children and family after the downfall of slavery.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/afte...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/afte...
A fantastic piece by @hngreen.bsky.social about her own effort at collecting Black visual culture not in traditional archives and what these images can tell us about Black Civil War memory. The piece makes me even more excited to pick up her new book!
www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/02/phot...
www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/02/phot...
Photography, Visual Culture and Building a Black Civil War Memory Archive - The Journal of the Civil War Era
I am a collector of early African American photography and visual culture. I began my collection after attending a NEH Summer Institute focused on the visual culture of the American Civil War. I initi...
www.journalofthecivilwarera.org
February 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A fantastic piece by @hngreen.bsky.social about her own effort at collecting Black visual culture not in traditional archives and what these images can tell us about Black Civil War memory. The piece makes me even more excited to pick up her new book!
www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/02/phot...
www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/02/phot...
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This administration is trying to bar schools that receive federal funds from referring to any k-12 child as nonbinary or by their name or accurate pronoun (if the name or pronoun differs from that given at birth)
This is as bad as one might expect.
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Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
January 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This administration is trying to bar schools that receive federal funds from referring to any k-12 child as nonbinary or by their name or accurate pronoun (if the name or pronoun differs from that given at birth)
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Thank goodness: after an outpouring of public dissent, Lackland reversed its terrible decision and will thankfully be teaching recruits about the Tuskegee airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots again. A reminder that we must always push back: www.expressnews.com/news/article...
Air Force says new recruits will again learn about Tuskegee Airmen
The head of the service's San Antonio-based training command said a video about the pioneering Black aviators would remain in the basic training curriculum.
www.expressnews.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Thank goodness: after an outpouring of public dissent, Lackland reversed its terrible decision and will thankfully be teaching recruits about the Tuskegee airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots again. A reminder that we must always push back: www.expressnews.com/news/article...
Utterly egregious that the Tuskegee Airmen and the history of other African American service members are being erased in the training of recruits. All of this in the name of “anti-DEI.” www.expressnews.com/news/article...
Heeding Trump, Air Force won't teach recruits about Tuskegee Airmen
A video on the pioneering Black pilots, famed for their World War II exploits, was stripped from an Air Force basic training curriculum this week.
www.expressnews.com
January 26, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Utterly egregious that the Tuskegee Airmen and the history of other African American service members are being erased in the training of recruits. All of this in the name of “anti-DEI.” www.expressnews.com/news/article...