#Reconstruction

Ben Railton

AmericanStudier

What a week to be an AmericanStudier (or an American). But so many folks rose to that challenge & produced great public scholarly writing. To wit, another #ScholarSunday thread on

Dave Harden

Dave_Harden

1/10 [NEW THREAD]: Yemen, Middle East, NatSec Watchers - Here is further analysis of Pompeo’s designation of the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization but within the context of the

Ashley Kirsten Weed

AshleyKirstenW

Today my students discussed the debate re: Black American education between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. du Bois (we are so close to finally starting Quest of the Silver Fleece!).

Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee

DLCC

There’s never been a Black woman governor in the US--except for 1 day in 1972. For 1 day, Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman to serve as president pro temp

Nicholas Whithorn

NickWhithorn

5.20 a.m. Monday 28 December 1908, the city of Messina is asleep. The evening before saw the inauguration of the city's new public lighting system & a Christmas performance of

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selgowiros

U̯irotutis icon. Explanation in thread. Establishing anything in a Gaulish language is difficult. There are usually 3 suggestions of what a name or theonym could actually mean, what functions it

Jon Titterington

jontitterington

I've been thinking, lately, about similarities between the RNC's treatment of this election and "The Lost Cause" which was a post-Civil War propaganda effort designed to sow division and give

Nick Sacco

NickSacco55

Thanks to @AlbertMackey1 for providing a nice overview of legislation that could lead to the removal Confederate monuments from NPS battlefields. https://studycivilwar.wordpress.com/2020/08/08/confederate-monuments-in-national-parks/amp/?__

Marijn "i before j" van Putten

PhDniX

Berber and Semitic share many morphological and phonological similarities. Those similarities make me feel pretty good about reconstructing Proto-Afro-Asiatic (or at least Proto-Berber-Semitic). But good lexical matches are few and

Mattias Lehman ✊🏾🌄

MattiasLehman

160 years ago, the slave-owning states of the South started a Civil War, rather than agree to end slavery.Many have carried on that war since.They said "The South Shall Rise

Still wearing a mask. Still Chicagowench.

Cynsharpe

I swear I wrote this (and many thanks to my ‘beta readers’ - @davecobb, Craig Hanna, Eric Hoff, and Nkenge Cameron) prior to yesterday’s Op-Ed. But now seems like a

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chuckdegroat

It’s challenging to do deep spiritually-formative and therapeutically-intensive work, especially for many of the people I’ve worked with navigating mid-life. Often sin has been reduced to behavior-management and many can’t

Women of 1000 AD

women_1000

NEW! For #BlackHistoryMonth I bring you the story of the parishioner of North Elmham. Buried in the cathedral cemetery over 1000 years ago, she was a Black woman who

Ivan Katchanovski

I_Katchanovski

My paper on Maidan massacre trials & investigations revelations in #Ukraine presented at virtual 52 Annual Convention of Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies in US is now

Your fave killjoy| Ericka Hart (She/ They)

iHartEricka

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the word empathy. Activists to kindergarten teachers to Kim Kardashian fans will assert that empathy is a necessity and requirement in caring for

Larry Schweikart

LarrySchweikart

1) "Trump needs to . . ." I get a dozen of these a day. 2) "Trump needs to get evidence of this fraud out." Right. Do you guys see

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