Associate Professor of History @umkc Founder @thecliodotcom USAF veteran #twitterstorians #publichistory #digitalhistory
Kansas City via Appalachia
Joined September 2015
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I just told our six-year old about interlibrary loan.
Daughter: They’ll get you ANY book? Even if it’s ten miles away?
Dad: Even if it’s a thousand miles away!
Daughter: Librarians must be magic.
Dad: They have to be. They work with books.
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David Trowbridge and his app Clio were featured in Kansas City Magazine!
"Imagine walking through Loose Park and your phone notifying you that local historian Bill Worley can tell you the story of how the park came to be."
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Black female figures were a powerful force that drove 19th-century Cambridge forward. Their ideas came to life in churches, schools, and other spaces that still stand today. Stroll through the sites where Black women made history with this walking tour: camb.ma/4bwQBcq.
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Some very good news. ❤️
Update from @ChildrensMercy “all patients have been discharged from Children’s Mercy” from last Wednesday’s mass shooting after the Chiefs SB rally. @KMBC
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#OTD in 1960, four African American @NCATSUAggies students, named the Greensboro Four, staged a nonviolent sit-in at a lunch counter in #Greensboro, #NC.
Learn about the impact of these protests, with the #NEHgrant-funded @Thecliodotcom: theclio.com/tour/1129/8
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Discover the hidden history of Cape Charles on this self-guided walking tour!
theclio.com/tour/2388
#visitesva #visitva #hiddenhistory #walkingtour #traveljanuary #thingstodo #winter #travel
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In two days, the @TCU History Department will unveil our new student-produced HISTORY Frogcast! Join us if you can, or stay tuned for episodes to drop in January!
Special thanks to alum Geoff Mitchell @TheFrogCastTCU for sharing the great name and uniting scholars and athletes!
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And so much more!
Thank you Jeopardy for this question in yesterday’s show.
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I know APUSH has its issues, as any AP class (& of course the whole College Board) does. But few things have given me more hope over the last two years than listening to the boys share both what they're learning about & their ideas & arguments on all things American history.
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Apply! Apply! Apply!!!
Applications are open for the 2024 SMH Summer Seminar in Military History. This year's seminar will be held on the VMI campus in Lexington, Virginia, July 7-26, 2024. Applications are open until February 15. For more information: smh-hq.org/summerseminar/
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Please take action to support the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join @HumanitiesAll and take action here: p2a.co/UJ6K3dQ
I turned 47 today, but here’s the thing… I thought I was already 47 so it feels like I just got a free year of life and that is an incredible birthday present.
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📢 Junior Af-Am #twitterstorians, come work in my Department!
"The Department of History at the University of Washington @UWHist seeks to appoint a full-time tenure-track assistant professor to specialize in African American history."
Link for more info: h-net.org/jobs/job_display.p…
"Democracy Demands Memory," Julian Bond, 1997.
"That after nearly one-hundred years the job remains undone is not a testimony to the (Civil Rights) movement’s failure; it is a measure of how great the odds were, and how difficult the task is that remains."
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
We Are Running to the Fight!
ASALH Brings its National Conference to Jacksonville, Florida with Annual Theme: “Black Resistance”
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Given the season they’ve endured, no one would blame the @Royals social media person for letting everyone know the Kansas City Royals have the longest active winning streak in Major League Baseball.
It was an honor to host these four Freedom Riders with @BlackArchivesKC @ajazzmuseumKC @UMKCSHSS @KauffmanFDN
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