Chris Graham, ugly bag of mostly water

@cagraham.bsky.social

Historian and author of Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church. A Clodhopper from North Carolina, forced to live on the mountain of conceit, Richmond, Va. Museums are not neutral.

This is across the street from my house. The brick storefront just to the right was Harrington’s Pharmacy which was more like a general store. I think Leonard Edloe might have gotten his start there (but might not be remembering that right). The lot on the left has a duplex now.

every lot rva@everylotrva.rvagc.social · 8h ago

2605 Q St, 23220 Total - $103,000.00 Dwelling - $38,000.00 Land - $65,000.00 Lot Sq Ft - 2000.7 Type - R Two Story Taxable - Yes Year Built - 1910 Map - https://www.google.com/maps/place/2605+Q+St+RICHMOND+VA+23220

Aug. 1, 1776: Francis Salvador, the first Jewish member of a legislative assembly in America as part of South Carolina’s Provincial Congress since 1774, is killed in combat in the Cherokee war that has erupted on the frontier. Tne English-born Salvador, 29, was a slave and plantation owner. 1/3

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Gosh, the news out of Indiana is horrible. ICYMI, the Indiana Historical Society fired its entire Education and Engagement Team and its Exhibits staff. Apparently, the emergency all-hands meeting lasted 3 minutes & then they were all escorted from the building, having to return later for their stuff

It is amazing that the 250th anniversary of America was pretty much just not a thing. You could tell all the companies thought it would be, they had 250th ketchup and ice cream and energy drinks but all we got was a shit ass fair that no one went to

Make congressional reporting great again! This 1902 report has it all * a silly factional name - "Crumpackerites" * purple prose - "wild with rage" * prosaic interest-group politics - "the beet-sugar men"

When the House met to-day the desperation of the leaders was apparent. In addition to their other troubles, the Crumpackerites were wild with rage over the disclosure of the secret attempts to sell out their dearest project. They gave the beet-sugar men their moral support,

July 19, 1776: Twenty-one days after the British defeat at Charleston, S.C., the troops led by Gen. Henry Clinton finally evacuate from Long Island in the harbor. They are convoyed by Commodore Peter Parker’s only frigate toward the new focus of Britain’s invasion, New York City.

The defense of Sullivan’s Battle in the battle of June 28

OMG this is almost word-for-word the justification of white Virginians in the 1880s for building the segregationist Jim Crow state. (Bishop Alfred Randolph, to be exact.)

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wurman: The English didn’t *demand* assimilation in 1215 but *needed* it for 800 years for liberalism to work. Then, responding to @jdmortenson.bsky.social, Ilan goes ethnonationalist, talking about “importing millions of people [babies]” who are unfit for liberal democracy. How’s that better?

July 13, 1776: “We have been encamped on this Island for this month past, and have lived upon nothing else but salt pork and pease,” complains British Pvt. William Falconer in a letter written at the camp on Long Island in Charleston Harbor. 1/2

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July 11, 1926: Ambrose Gonzales, the founder of the main newspaper of Columbia, S.C., the State, and an author of books in the Black dialect Gullah, dies at 69. His paper’s strong stance against lynching drew the ire of racist Sen. Benjamin Tillman, whose nephew shot to death Ambrose’s brother.

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