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History Twitter is Good IV

“These are bold words from people hiding behind a dead insurrectionist and a horse.”

Alexis Coe
Sep 22, 2021
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History Twitter is Good IV

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I’m giving a virtual talk tonight at the Library of Alexandria for National Constitution Week. On October 7th, I’ll be in conversation with Dr. Keisha Blain, a New York Times bestselling author, about her new biography on Fannie Lou Hammer, Until I Am Free.

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Alexis Coe @AlexisCoe
I took it to the streets
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trying to do my research (for my dissertation) @varsha_venkat_
history in the streets, historiography between the sheets
11:28 PM ∙ Sep 20, 2021

Twitter is often a hellscape of pile-ons and bad opinions, but once you find your people, there’s nothing like it. Here are some of the most thoughtful, vexing, delightful tweets I’ve (recently) bookmarked.

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“These are bold words from people hiding behind a dead insurrectionist and a horse.”

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Alison Herring @HistoryHerring
Threats on Twitter are a first for me. I must be doing this right! These are bold words from people hiding behind a dead insurrectionist and horse. I blocked and reported both. I’m sharing in case these two threaten anyone else today.
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2:58 PM ∙ Sep 8, 2021
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L.D. Burnett @LDBurnett
ugh @chrislhayes just said, "the North - the Union - eventually won. the South - the confederacy - eventually lost." Nope. the United States eventually won and the Confederacy eventually lost. not all the South was Confederate, and the US never ceased being the US.
12:06 AM ∙ Sep 9, 2021
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I didn’t ask for this shirt but I’m not mad at it.

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Howard Dorre @plodwithme
Well it’s here, the shirt you’ve all been asking for.
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4:02 PM ∙ Sep 6, 2021
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Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke
Historians will look back in astonishment as to why it took so long to tear down a statue celebrating a traitor who fought for the enslavement of human beings. #Virginia #RobertELee
apnews.comGen. Lee statue comes down in former Confederate capitalRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee that towered over Richmond for generations was taken down, cut into pieces and hauled away Wednesday, as the former capital of the Confederacy erased the last of the Civil War figures that once defined its most prominent thoroughfare.
4:05 PM ∙ Sep 8, 2021
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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
exactly. and once you understand lee as an utterly typical man of his class it is even easier to see how the mythology around him is total bullshit. there’s nothing exceptional about the guy!
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Bokhara Burnes @zoffany90
@jbouie That Lee was typical of his class is a great point. Thus the discourse of the saintly slave owner. But it also highlights the complete threat to the entire Souths social, political and economic order anti-slavery was. And why fighting was to his mind the only logical choice.
11:56 PM ∙ Sep 10, 2021
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Dr. Chelsea Gibson @gibsoche
FWIW it's incredible to me how many bad faith arguments good historians have made against the 1619 project. Like the piece never said slavery was the only contributing factor to the AR, but an important one. What honest historian can deny that?
10:12 PM ∙ Sep 18, 2021
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Christopher J. Slaby @CJSlaby
"Slavery is confined to the South after the Revolution." —G. Wood Two points. 1. No. But also 2. This is part of why we need to make sure that any conversation about "slavery" is a conversation about anti-Black racism.
6:06 PM ∙ Sep 7, 2021
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Rachel Hope Cleves @RachelCleves
If Pliny the Younger invited me to dinner, I would _not_ stand him up. All those fine foods, and dancers from Cadiz to entertain me, too? No wonder Pliny stuck him with a no-show invoice. #histfood
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6:08 PM ∙ Sep 14, 2021
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Jennifer Schuessler @jennyschuessler
tfw when you profile America's oldest park ranger (100 years old tomorrow!) and there's so much going on you have to leave out all the stuff about her involvement in... Oakland's hip-hop scene??
nytimes.com‘America’s Oldest Park Ranger’ Is Only Her Latest ChapterBetty Reid Soskin has fought to ensure that American history includes the stories that get overlooked. As she turns 100, few stories have been more remarkable than hers.
3:12 PM ∙ Sep 21, 2021
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MW. @OliveTheLights_
CHECK ME OUT IN THE NEW YORK TIMES 😭😭😭😭😭😭
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5:39 PM ∙ Sep 21, 2021
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Nick Kapur @nick_kapur
Historian Scott Nelson on how an authoritarian system designed to perpetuate segregation is forcing Georgia universities to become petri dishes for COVID
ajc.comHistorian: From segregation to COVID, Regents served governors, not studentsIn trying to make sense of the intransigence of the Georgia Board of Regents on COVID precautions, University of Georgia history professor Scott Nelson looks back on the appointed body’s practices and policies.
12:35 PM ∙ Sep 10, 2021
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T.J. Stiles @TJStiles_Author
I admire the work of @jimdowns1 not just because it's innovative and rigorous scholarship, but he's willing to go to uncomfortable places where our neat little categories of "good" and "bad" painfully overlap. Honesty is good for intellectual understanding & even morality itself.
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Dr. Jim Downs @jimdowns1
My article on how our efforts to control #covid19 can surprisingly be traced to the transatlantic slave trade. #epitwitter #medtwitter #medhist https://t.co/mf6i0Fw9Bi
6:50 PM ∙ Sep 17, 2021
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Jessica Grose @JessGrose
My mom just told me that my Austrian grandmother used to always say, "ich bin gebrochen," which translates to, "I'm broken." That's basically German for dead inside and so I'm very impressed at how strong our genes are.
5:18 PM ∙ Sep 16, 2021
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mary dudziak @marydudziak
No, I cannot speak at your conference. WHAT CENTURY ARE WE IN??
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2:35 PM ∙ Sep 9, 2021
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Benjamin Park @BenjaminEPark
It's been an odd week, y'all. Thanks to everyone who has reached out--though I'm sorry to say that that means y'all are in the same heretical boat.
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Jana Riess @janariess
Last week, historian @BenjaminEPark was removed from the website of @BYUMaxwell, where he'd been a 2018 fellow. He doesn't know why, or whether someone at BYU made the decision or was acting on instructions from the @LDSchurch. https://t.co/0nNeWHHJL0 @RNS @TheGrandScoobah
9:16 PM ∙ Sep 10, 2021
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Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr. @WEMilteer
Look at what I received today! BEYOND SLAVERY'S SHADOW: FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THE SOUTH is now in print. Many thanks to all the people who made it possible. To get your copy, check out the @UNC_Press website at uncpress.org/.../97814696..…. Use the code 01DAH40 to receive 40% off.
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7:37 PM ∙ Sep 10, 2021
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Isabel Wilkerson @Isabelwilkerson
Oh my goodness, this means the world to me. Thank you so much, and my absolute best wishes to your father.
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deray @deray
the radicalization of my father over the past few years is one of the most magical things in my life. he has made me a believer in the power of political education -- the books, podcasts, etc all really matter. thank you @Isabelwilkerson, you've changed my dad's life.
8:20 PM ∙ Sep 15, 2021
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Dr. Jacqueline E. Whitt @notabattlechick
Calling women colleagues “belligerent” is a winning move for senior military historians, apparently.
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9:44 PM ∙ Sep 19, 2021
255Likes19Retweets
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed
@NicholasGuyatt Couldn’t Churchill be a racist AND play a “key role in defeating the Nazi regime”? Both propositions are true. I’m glad he opposed Hitler—an understatement. That doesn’t mean I ignore his racial attitudes.
1:05 PM ∙ Sep 10, 2021

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