Historian @UT_Dallas | author Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited Am Abolitionism (2020) | editor American Yawp | Cheesehead | Spring-Nut
Dallas, TX
Joined August 2009
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It's book release day!
Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired & Limited Am Abolitionism is officially out!
Drawing winners for a book & donation: @ChanceBonar, @AmazingSymetri, @KeriLeighMerrit, @BaltimireNoMore, & @cmMcConnaughy
Congrats, and thanks for the support!
Attention digital humanists interested in the interdisciplinary study of early America - Check out this CFP for a workshop and eventual special issue of the journal Early American Studies.
theitps.org/scholarship-lear…
I do not have the patience or endurance to handle scholar-washing of "benevolent" billionaires. If we truly value democracy and human dignity, robber barons vs oligarchs is a distinction without a difference.
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ALT @JihadalHaqq People: We must separate the art from the artist! The British Empire: Say no more
ALT @britishmuseum blocked you
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For anyone still on this site, we're looking for any and all feedback you might have re:@AmericanYawp!
Attention historians of the United States! The American Yawp is a decade old, and it’s time for some updates! Our team is hard at work preparing a second edition, and we want your feedback! Please take a few minutes to fill out this brief form and RT! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F….
Attention historians of the United States! The American Yawp is a decade old, and it’s time for some updates! Our team is hard at work preparing a second edition, and we want your feedback! Please take a few minutes to fill out this brief form and RT! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F….
Also thanks in advance for your help in sharing the form. In another example of how this site is no longer operational, we have been locked out of @AmericanYawp and multiple appeals to the bots who run this cesspool have gone unanswered.
The most magical moment of every holiday is discovering which corporations have somehow received my email address.
Thank you for the Happy Thanksgiving wish Saran Wrap
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🚨The deadline for the Maria Stewart Journal Article Prize is fast approaching! The prize will be awarded to the author of the best article published in each volume of Global Black Thought.
Visit our website to learn more: bit.ly/3NLTStI
It's been a demoralizing few weeks for the UTD 21 w rising student suffering, intransigent uni admin, and declining ally support. But an inspiring Dallas Peace & Justice Center ceremony named the UTD 21 "Justice-Seekers of the Year," and we have hope more help is on the way.
Help me twitterstorian remnant—I’m applying for a sizable grant that requires a supporting letter from uni adm. A grants officer told me to write the letter and they will sign it. This feels unethical and also like someone is asking me to do their job for them. Am I off-base?
Over-bureaucratization has been endemic in our culture since at least 1776. Just learned that the American Revolution's Committee of Five somehow had 3 subcommittees....
We need skilled writers like Wright Thompson to democratize historical knowledge. And we need skilled broadcasters like Torre to promote their work. But can y'all stop Columbusing the work of academic historians?
This is such a fun and smart podcast and I love reading Wright Thompson. And many important truths are told in this episode. But journalists must stop dismissing the work of professional historians when promoting their work.
"That whole story was written to erase the barn."
The murder of Emmett Till — a killing that sparked the Civil Rights Movement, that forever shaped America — has been criminally underreported.
Until Wright Thompson started mapping the history of intentionally constructed silence in his new book, The Barn.
More: youtu.be/_defomnV3EM
The title of this episode states that Till has been "erased from textbooks." I'm right now studying the 10 most commonly assigned US history textbooks to help improve americanyawp.com. All 10 of these textbooks discuss Till's brutal murder.
I try to resist dystopian/doomer commentary on tech, but this one really makes me shudder
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Thrilled that 1838 BLACK METROPOLIS, one of the most innovative, Black public history initiatives in the country, is cosponsoring this conference that I am directing for Library Company of Phila. Please spread the word! librarycompany.org/academic-…
