@_ThatHistoryGuy

PhD Candidate @GWHistoryDept Studying Race and Historical Memory | MA Museum Studies @MorganStateU | BA History @ubaltmain | TV watcher

 Baltimore, MD
Joined April 2015
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Kevin McCarthy
@SpeakerMcCarthy27 Nov 2023
Think for one moment. In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterward—except for enough to bury the Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.
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In February of 1848, Mexico and the United States signed a treaty which ended the Mexican War and yielded a vast portion of the Southwest, including present day California, to the United States. parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23856….
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My favorite part of watching #GildedAge is pointing out all the places that are probably Starbucks now.
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*PLEASE SHARE* Baltimore City police are searching for 12-year-old Achyiah Lillyford missing from the 1100 block of Braddish Ave after not returning from school. She was last seen in a gray polo shirt, khaki pants and white sneakers. Please call 911 with any information.
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary once stated "Self-reliance is the fine road to independence". Her life's work and rich legacy as an activist, educator and social responsible journalist greatly affirmed her political convictions.
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Is it worth it to have your dissertation professionally edited?
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This "history" account has almost 400,000 followers and so a basic corrective about the origins of colonial slavery in the Americas is required to counter this insidious narrative.
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Work from home dad Chronicle #7678. My favorite part of watching Blues Clues is thinking about the logistics of Blue setting up these intricate ass clues. Back to reading about slavery and stuff.
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No better feeling as a grad student then when your funding kicks back in at the start of the year.
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The fact that rudy giuliani is being indicted on Rico charges is perfect.
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Me after watching bubble guppies for two hours with the 1.5 year old: this show makes zero sense. Also me: line up everybody line up line up.
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The Associated Press
@AP1 Aug 2023
BREAKING: The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company they accused of taking her cervical cells without her knowledge. They accused the company's leaders of reaping billions of dollars from a racist medical system. apnews.com/article/henrietta…

Family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold medicine, settles with biotech company

The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company it accuses of improperly profiting from her cells.

apnews.com
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The perniciousness of this narrative goes beyond the false narrative that slavery had some underlying benefit to the enslaved. It also promotes the idea that Africans and their descendants did not posses those skills until they were enslaved. That those skills did exist in Africa
Acyn
@Acyn24 Jul 2023
Watters: This is historical fact that slaves did develop skills while they were enslaved and then used those skills as blacksmiths, in agriculture, tailoring, in the shipping business, to benefit themselves and their families..
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What’s it like having a 1.5 year old you ask. Well mine just got finished trying to feed her shadow veggie straws.
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Any Africanists in the DC area?
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No power. No internet. I guess the universe really wants me to read these articles.
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Alright historians. Who’s all on Threads?
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Wait until you hear how they talk to their TAs.
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Just some numbers to keep in mind while y’all enjoy your day off. #HappyJuneteenth 1619 around 20 captive AA came to the colony of Jamestown. In 1790 the federal census counted almost 700,000 enslaved Africans and there descendants in the United States
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By 1808 over 400,000 enslaved Africans were brought to British North America. By 1860 there were around 4.4 million African Americans in the United States. Of that 3.9 million were enslaved
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Between 1526 and 1867 around 12.5 million Africans were captured and taken aboard slave ships bound for the Americas. Of that around 10.7 million survived the journey. An estimated 1.8 million Africans died on the journey.
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