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This week on the #WeThePeoplePodcast, two of America’s leading legal scholars—Richard Epstein and Martha Jones—join to discuss #SCOTUS' decision in Trump v. Barbara on birthright citizenship. Listen now: https://ow.ly/6IRg50ZjK7m

Both Justice Roberts and Justice Jackson cited Professor Martha Jones’ fantastic book, Birthright Citizens. Re-upping our podcast with her from last year @publichealthpod.bsky.social podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/850-the-hist...

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The Supreme Court recently cited Johns Hopkins historian @marthasjones.bsky.social in its 6-3 ruling that upholds birthright citizenship. The justices pointed to her book "Birthright Citizens" and a legal brief she wrote with Kate Masur. hub.jhu.edu/2026/06/30/s...

The Enslaved Woman who Sued for Freedom and Emancipated Herself NYT Gift Article by Martha S. Jones Toward the end of the American Revolution, the new nation was already showing signs of the division that would eventually lead to civil war Read, ENJOY and ponder bit.ly/4vdTUO8

Visions of America with @marthasjones.bsky.social @agordonreed.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Martha S. Jones, 2013 ACLS Fellow, and Kate Masur, 2020 Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellow, were cited in yesterday's SCOTUS ruling affirming birthright citizenship. https://bit.ly/3QU8ufE

SCOTUS opinions can be baffling and inaccessible, but if there is something, anything people should read about birthright citizenship, it is the amicus brief of Martha S. Jones & Kate Masur. If it doesn't make you believe in the power of change & the good possible in the Constitution, nothing will.

Well done -- and well-deserved exposure for your stellar work.

Justice Jackson built off the essential work of @katemasur.bsky.social and @marthasjones.bsky.social, as reflected in their brief. And just as importantly -- she demonstrated how history can contribute to constitutional meaning-making in a non-originalist register.

@katemasur.bsky.social and @marthasjones.bsky.social 's brief is here. Even more enjoyable reading today. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Thank you @marthasjones.bsky.social 🙏🏽🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽✊🏽✊🏽

Martha Jones is great Her Amicus Brief was amazing.

I’ve been promoting the role of early Black Americans paving the the road to birthright citizenship for more than 20 years; today it mattered more than most. It’s been an honor to support the teams at the ACLU and the LDF Fund along with their clients in this work. hub.jhu.edu/2026/06/30/s...

I’ve been promoting the role of early Black Americans paving the the road to birthright citizenship for more than 20 years; today it mattered more than most. It’s been an honor to support the teams at the ACLU and the LDF Fund along with their clients in this work. hub.jhu.edu/2026/06/30/s...

All this matters. Here's our brief, with immense thanks to @marthasjones.bsky.social @brennancenter.org Kendall Brill & Kelly and many others.

Glad to see Martha Jones cited in the majority!

Anyone knows how to get the “Brief for Historians” edited by Professor @marthasjones.bsky.social ? Thanks… #BirthrightCitizenship

Listening to and re-reading @marthasjones.bsky.social today: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Kudos to Professor @marthasjones.bsky.social referenced today by the Chief Justice in his conclusion in Trump v. Barbara All is not (yet) lost

Good morning. Up early in anticipation of a 10 am eastern decision in Trump v. Barbara. A bit of food for thought as you're anticipating too! The SCOTUS brief I submitted with Kate Masur. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... And our NYTimes op-ed: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Good morning. Up early in anticipation of a 10 am eastern decision in Trump v. Barbara. A bit of food for thought as you're anticipating too! The SCOTUS brief I submitted with Kate Masur. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... And our NYTimes op-ed: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

The Enslaved Woman Who Sued for Freedom and Emancipated Herself: @marthasjones.bsky.social on Elizabeth Freeman www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America by @marthasjones.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Birthright-C...

The Enslaved Woman Who Sued for Freedom and Emancipated Herself www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This article features a Massachusetts lawyer named Theodore Sedgwick, who helped Elizabeth Freeman legally emancipate herself in 1781. I’m proud to say that Theodore Sedgwick is an ancestor of mine.

Elizabeth Freeman has a statue inside the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC. And a newer statue in Sheffield Massachusetts. (Free article - no subscription necessary) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In August 1781 an enslaved woman named Elizabeth Freeman head to a law office near her home in Sheffield, Massachusetts. She had an urgent question. #Freedom 🎁 Article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Thank you to everyone who is reading and sharing this today!

The Enslaved Woman Who Sued for Freedom and Emancipated Herself www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

That NYT Magazine piece with 7 Revolutionary War-era Americans was REALLY eye-opening Hats off to Elizabeth Freeman for having the courage to sue for her own freedom!

The Enslaved Woman Who Sued for Freedom and Emancipated Herself www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

the one and only @marthasjones.bsky.social on some American history 250 you actually want to celebrate www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Happy to share my contribution - an essay on Elizabeth Freeman - and the entire NYTimes Magazine Visions of America project, in print July 4. Freeman’s bequest to us was the struggle for liberty, and that started with family. Read and please comment. We’re reading! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Amen, good sister, amen.

Respect Martha S. Jones with this important free article and beautiful art (by Tim McDonagh).

Love these pieces by @kathleenduval.bsky.social on Mercy Otis Warren and @marthasjones.bsky.social on Elizabeth Freeman. 🎁https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/22/magazine/american-revolution-the-adulateur-mercy-otis-warren.html?unlocked_article_code=1.slA.W9TX.qWqimXlx3rxg&smid=url-share

@marthasjones.bsky.social does it again!

After reading essay by Martha S. Jones, do you wish you'd learned this history in school? Share this free HS lesson: "Beyond Loyalists & Patriots: Black and Native Americans Fight for Their Freedom in the U.S. War of Independence.” Includes Elizabeth Freeman. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/be...

it’s a strange resonance, but in my own research on one of TS’ granddaughters, I noted that the only moment she had full control over her own property (incl family heirlooms) was when she disposed of it in her will, so the ending here really hit for me—how much it mattered for EF to have that too.

Excellent. Thank you for sharing.