☕️h&c book boost (5/19/24)🔄 📚in *Fear of a Black Republic* (2022) Leslie M. Alexander illuminates💡 🗣️african american haitian revolution responses🇭🇹 🔥forged black internationalist thought💭 🚨white fear➡️policy backlash💥 🌊haiti motivated seizing freedom in u.s.🔊 🔗 www.historyandcoffee.com/books/fear-o...

Yesterday was a wonderful first day of exhibiting for history & coffee at #AAM2024. We debuted our interactive exhibit developed together with our partners Quatrefoil Associates. It explores national stories through the lens of Baltimore histories, with a focus on amplifying underrepresented voices.

calling myself “the steve kornacki of public history” at #aam2024 for @historycoffee.bsky.social 📍baltimore convention center

☕️h&c book boost (5/9/24)🔄 📚in *City of Inmates* (2017), Kelly Lytle Hernández examines incarceration around what became Los Angeles⛓️ 💡to illuminate settler colonialism & power💥 🪢structuring u.s.➕cross-border imperialism🌎 🚧forced labor building social order🧱 ➡️ www.historyandcoffee.com/books/city-o...

☕️h&c book boost (5/8/24)🔄 📚in *I've Been Here All the While* (2021), Alaina E. Roberts (@alainaroberts.bsky.social) shares her family histories as a jumping off point to understand💡 🌄Native American & Black interrelationships🖇️ ✨of freedom, land, belonging💗 ➡️ www.historyandcoffee.com/books/been-h...

☕️h&c book boost (5/7/24)🔄 📚in *Cutting School* (2017), Noliwe Rooks foregrounds segregated education🏫 💡for understanding economic➕racial structuring🏗️ 💵unequal education🟰profitable📈 💰white philanthropy restricted Black opportunity🛑 ⚖️ongoing disputed access💥 ➡️ www.historyandcoffee.com/books/cuttin...

☕️h&c book boost (5/6/24)🔄 📚in *Resistance from the Right* (2023), Lauren Lassabe Shepherd (@llassabe.bsky.social)💡illuminates rw student backlash vs. the civil rights movement🪃 💰conservative money power💵 ⛓️inherently reactionary🧲 🎓embraced Republican Party🐘 ➡️ www.historyandcoffee.com/books/resist...

☕️h&c book boost (4/28/24)🔄 📚in Scattered & Fugitive Things (2024), Laura E. Helton (@lehelton.bsky.social)🖊️ 💡illuminates how Black people shaped histories🇺🇸 🧱building➕preserving archives🗃️ ⚒️in community libraries, HBCUs, homes🏡 💥taking risks & forging accessibility🏦 🪙valuing➕ordering Black memories💞

Hey #baltimore + #history sky, I'm working on an exhibit & want to ask if this image brings up narratives for anyone. I'm thinking Mfume & Schaefer standing beside each other (+ rivalry) is the main interpretive opportunity but wondering if you see other strands to expand for an interactive exhibit:

The other thing happening on the first Tuesday in November.

Reminder, we're looking for a summer intern to write and edit with us! This is a paid opportunity with mentorship, we'd love to have you!

Excited to share my 170th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below & enjoy, all! Skystorians americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

Messages like this inspire my public history work and keep the @historycoffee.bsky.social project going! Learn more on our site: www.historyandcoffee.com

Big day!

Some nice guiding questions, quotes, and synopsis of Live from the Underground from @historycoffee.bsky.social! www.historyandcoffee.com/books/live-f...

Exciting!!

General Manager Tiheera Blount & I are thrilled to share that it is digital launch day for our new alternative history space: @historycoffee.bsky.social. Opening July 2024 in #Baltimore, it combines a history bookstore, coffee shop & interactive exhibits w/ online community: www.historyandcoffee.com

To help March come in like a lion, here’s my 168th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share more below & enjoy, all! Skystorians americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

"Through weary, wasting years men have destroyed, dashed in pieces & overthrown, but today we stand on the threshold of woman’s era & woman’s work is grandly constructive." ―Frances E. W. Harper, 1894 Frances E. W. Harper, "Woman's Political Future," 1894, 433-434, hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x00....

This week for Baltimore Histories, the 3rd installment of my series “B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships.” It focuses on the harmful capitalist leadership of B&O president John W. Garrett & Mayor William D. Schaefer: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/b-o-to-...

Here it is, my 167th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. As always, please share more below, & enjoy, all! Skystorians americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

This week for Baltimore Histories, check out the 2nd installment of my series “B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships.” This piece focuses on leaders leveraging initial successes to support greater development & profit: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/b-o-to-...

Happy Birthday to W. E. B. Du Bois (b. Feb. 23, 1868), who wrote: “Birthday dinners which have been given me . . . have become I assure you, as embarrassing to me as to you.” What he really wanted was understanding of his centering of Black Americans in histories of democracy, capitalism & the U.S.

Saving for later (soon!) :)

This week for Baltimore Histories, check out the 1st installment of my multipart series “B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships.” It focuses on the public-private origins of the B&O & downtown Baltimore renewal projects: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/b-o-to-...

I made some Valentine’s Day cards featuring Baltimore Histories project themes and this one is my favorite:

No better way to prep for the Superb Owl than my 165th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, sports (& scholarship) fans! Skystorians americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

I love this so much. In a totally subversive way, enslaved people used elections to gain freedom. 🗃️

This week for Baltimore Histories, I wrote about how “On the day of the 1840 presidential election, an enslaved woman named Ann leveraged the public excitement and chaos surrounding the event to escape from slavery in Baltimore”: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/fleeing...

February’s finally here, & with it my 164th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below & enjoy, all! Skystorians americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

My latest for Baltimore Histories: "Baltimore’s Black Panther Party chapter demonstrated a strong commitment to building community self-determination & vitality through its free meal programs, despite harsh counter efforts by federal & local authorities": www.baltimorehistories.com/post/the-fre...

This week for Baltimore Histories, I explore how Samuel L. Burton moved to Baltimore, hired the city's leading Black lawyer, won a 1913 case against his Virginia hometown for trying to lynch him, then used the damages to open a successful clothing store: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/samuel-...

This week for Baltimore Histories, I wrote about how the Baltimore NAACP, Afro-American newspaper, and local Black churches organized the 1942 March on Annapolis to demand action against police brutality: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/the-mar...

January 18, 1777 (247 years ago today): While the Continental Congress sat in Baltimore, Baltimorean printer Mary K. Goddard printed the 2nd official version of the Declaration of Independence & 1st to include names of the signers. Learn more in my article: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/mary-k-...

This week for Baltimore Histories, I explore Joe Gans's rise from orphaned and oyster-shucking child laborer in Baltimore Harbor to becoming the first African American world boxing champion. I relate this story to race, gender, class, the press, and more: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/the-lif...

This week for Baltimore Histories, I investigate child labor prevention and reform efforts in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Baltimore: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/the-reg...

We're working on a dataset and map of runaway slave ads that are connected to the neighborhood of Georgetown. Here's what the students have produced so far. www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/e...

📚 Calling all contingent scholars + historians working beyond the traditional academy! Need library research access? @susih.bsky.social is here for you. Apply by 3/15 to our Community Scholars Program 🗃️

January 2, 1827 (OTD): Benjamin Lundy condemned Baltimore slave trader Austin Woolfolk as “that monster in human shape,” adding “let no man speak of the humanity of Woolfolk.” Woolfolk responded w/ a near-fatal physical assault. Learn more in my article 🗃️: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/baltimo...

We've done THIRTY of these "How I Do History" interviews since we began. They weren't designed to promote "career diversity" or anything like that. Just a way to dive deep into the fascinating jobs historians have, whether or not those are the jobs they thought they'd have when they started. 🗃️

This week for Baltimore Histories, I wrote about how the Baltimore anti-sweatshop crusade became a vessel for anti-Semitism, eugenics & moral panic as Marylanders attempted to understand turn of the 20th c. interrelationships of labor, gender & immigration: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/garment...

This week for Baltimore Histories, I wrote about Baltimorean Jacob I. Cohen Jr.’s fight for the right to hold public office for Jewish Marylanders: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/a-kind-...

December 19, 1910 (113 years ago today): The first housing segregation law in the history of the United States was signed into law by Baltimore Mayor J. Barry Mahool, inaugurating what legal scholar Garrett Power calls "apartheid, Baltimore style." Many other cities followed this Baltimore example.

This week for Baltimore Histories, I explore how a July 1877 Baltimore railroad strike developed into a mass uprising against state-backed capitalist worker exploitation, fueling the first national strike in the history of the United States: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/baltimo...

Publication of these ads together in an 1824 Baltimore newspaper exemplifies complexities of slavery, freedom & capitalism in the city between abolition of transatlantic slave trade (1808) & emancipation. End of transatlantic trade commemorated as trader Woolfolk seized domestic market this created:

I'm so happy that ESCAPE TO THE CITY has won the Willie Lee Rose Prize for the best book on southern history written by a woman! Immensely grateful to SAWH & the committee! @joursouhist.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @dgershenowitz.bsky.social shorturl.at/fqrFY

This week for Baltimore Histories, I take a microhistorical look at how “Black Baltimorean Sergeant Major Christian Abraham Fleetwood celebrated his twenty-fourth birthday on Thursday, July 21, 1864, while serving in the Union Army": www.baltimorehistories.com/post/how-ser...