Director of Collections & Research, @FilsonHistory. Co-Editor, #OVHjournal.
Louisville, KY
Joined January 2015
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🗺️"The great challenge in writing the history of the Ohio Valley, however, is that few people have ever seen it as a coherent whole." #OVHjournal
📚#OVHjournal debuted with @miamiuniversity's Andrew R. L. Cayton articulating the journal's unified Border South/Midwest regional focus, "Artery and Border: The Ambiguous Development of the Ohio Valley in the Early Republic" #twitterstorians
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2016 - With a goal and an assist on Saturday @RacingLouFC's Elexa Bahr became the first player to score and assist in her first #NWSL match (all competitions) since Rachel Daly for Houston in 2016. Arrival.
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.@UofLEnvirome’s #BaldwinKingProject thanks @blackstar1906,
@FilsonHistory, @LouisvilleUL, @roots101AAM, @SCKY_1879, Black Man Lab: Atlanta, UofL’s Department of Pan-African Studies, and all who came out to “Carter G. Woodson and the Killing of Black History” last night!
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I’ve received questions about how I pronounced “Pennyroyal” and “Cadiz” in my inauguration poem. That’s how most Kentuckians would say those words. I intentionally included words that would allow Kentucky pronunciations to help capture our specificities. m.youtube.com/watch?v=BCjW27…
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Huge news for our city! We are excited about the potential of bring passenger rail back to Louisville for the first time in decades. Thank you to the @kipda for partnering with us on this grant.
As we aim to modernize Louisville's transit, I'm thrilled to share news of a $500,000 grant for a passenger rail line between Louisville and Indianapolis. This is the first step in our journey to bring @Amtrak service back to our city, linking us to Indianapolis and beyond.
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Well, this is a thing. My book will be out February 21, 2024!
If you are interested in preordering you can find it here: lsupress.org/9780807181171/
There will be a digital component to the book that I’m currently working on with some of my students.
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There is no one better to lead @RacingLouFC into the future than @bevyanez !
We could not be more excited to have her as the next Racing Head Coach!
Her rapid rise has been no surprise. 📈
@bevyanez is the head coach for Racing Louisville FC!
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I'm recharged after a wknd at home! Heading to KY later this week. Looking forward to TWO events: a talk at @FilsonHistory, Thurs at 6pm, & then the #louisvillebookfestival, Fri at 5pm. Get your tix now! @carmichaelsbook @UNC_Press @IUCollege @SonyaBonczek filsonhistorical.org/events/…
Are you heading to the Louisville Book Festival next week? Be sure to catch @CountessCanuck's book talk on Friday! #louisvillebookfestival #juliachinn
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To my fellow Kentuckians: Thank you.
This is our chance to turn these four years of progress into decades of prosperity for your kids and mine. Let's make it happen together. ^AB
ALT Gov. Beshear gives high fives to children during a school visit.
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The world's largest country ham biscuit is loaded – via forklift – into an oven at the Trigg County Country Ham Festival in Cadiz, Kentucky.
@heraldleader
ALT An aerial photograph of a forklift transporting a large baking sheet with a biscuit nearly 10.5 feet in diameter into a specially made oven in downtown Cadiz, Ky., during the Trigg County Country Ham Festival on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023.
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Today in Comics History: In “Peanuts,” Snoopy was the WWI flying ace for the first time on October 10, 1965. (I’d wager that, thanks to Peanuts, the Sopwith Camel is the only WWI airplane most people can name.) Here, the debut of the flying ace and his trusty biplane:
I’d say to @Savannah_DeMelo that she can’t know how much this means to Sally, … but she knows precisely what it means. We’re lucky to have you in Louisville. #GoBigPurp #RacingLou
