Historic photo of Reeves Chapel AME Church in Navassa, NC before restoration.
It's gearing up to be a gorgeous week for the 2026 NC Rice Festival! www.northcarolinaricefestival.org/2026-ncrf-ev...
Two of them were grad students who wanted to share fun archival finds!
Record number of students have dropped by my office hours today unprompted, or have emailed to set up meeting. Must be the fact that we have exactly one month left of classes!
Anyways, Scotland π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ was looking π₯ in todayβs rugby game. US seemed asleep. Now on to cheer the All Blacks! π³πΏπ
Maybe itβs just my neurodivergence, but I really hate it when Iβm kinda new to a thing and someone who might know more about said thing acts like they are superior. Let me just enjoy, please.
'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary βchurch and kingβ mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
Viago, my beloved.
This semester has been kind of ridiculous, but for one magical night I got to speak at a lighthouse!
Feels symbolic that a Confederate statue first installed in 1901, at the peak of the consolidation of the Jim Crow systemβwhen the states of the former Confederacy were in the midst of revising their constitutions to disfranchise Black citizensβhas been reinstalled.
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
*creeps back onto bsky* Hello? Anyone out there?
As someone with a chronic illness that makes me incredibly sensitive to heat and thus my body cannot regulate temperature, I am not looking forward to this AT ALL.
On Juneteenth, a reminder that Commonplace has 25 years of free, open access articles on slavery and abolition up through this week's piece by Jayne Ptolemy about documents related to William Ansah Sessarakoo. Browse the Slavery and Abolition subject page here: commonplace.online/topic/slaver... ποΈ
Our Flag Means Death does an excellent job of dealing with tropes as well as being a strong story with diverse characters. Plus, it's bloody funny.
This is cool. I always explain to students that broadsides were kind of like an early modern blog post!
I cannot emphasize enough how much this reminds me of kidnappings and false arrests in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850.
Very folk horror
This is a succinct version of the longer blog series 3/3
savingplaces.org/stories/why-...
I keep thinking, this emphasis on removing the βunseemlyβ parts of our shared past, itβs like playing in the shallow end of the swimming pool when we could/should be exploring the depths of the ocean. 2/3
While reading some of Tom Mayes 2013 blog series βWhy Old Places Matterβ this morning I couldnβt help but think about how the current admin is attempting to reshape the narrative of American history at old places like those overseen by NPS. 1/3
Living in this timeline is exhausting.
Having read two NYT articles related to historical work this morning, this is the one that makes me optimistic about the future of our discipline.
I get why some people would want to use an LLM to gather, organize, or administrate. But what upsets me here is the suggestion that history can be written with a mere imitation of the human experience. Writing is personalβthat is what makes it so hard and beautiful. What is history without heart?
This whole thread π
So jealous!! Was just listening to JLP yesterday.
For those claiming protests donβt mean anythingβ¦
How do you think movements are built, fueled, sustained, & grown?
How do you prove the spirit of resistance is loud, proud, present, & powerful?
How do you prove democracy is loved, valued, & worth fighting for?
This IS what democracy looks like.
Seeing all the social media posts of yesterdayβs NO KINGS protests from so many small towns, including my own, across NC has really made my heart happy. π
Thanks Steve! I might email this archival source to you with more questions, if thatβs alright?
Historians of Presbyterianism! Question: what would lead a woman in 18c America to sign a covenant? Iβm guessing this was part of church discipline?
This was a lovely project to be part of!
In a bit of good news, Scottish Loyalism in the British Atlantic World @routledgehistory.bsky.social arrived today, featuring essays by me, @kbsherman.bsky.social, Nicola Martin, @matthewcward.bsky.social, @kmccullo.bsky.social, & Graeme Morton. Thanks to Katie and Graeme for editing this project!
