Actually did something and donated to the Haitian Community and Support Center emergency fund, consider doing the same if you can: ancljkuy.donorsupport.co/page/FUNDVDT...

Stand with Haitian Families in Crisis

Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing work authorization overnight. For Haitian parents and children ...

ancljkuy.donorsupport.co

Megan Wachspress@meganwachspress.bsky.social · last wk.

The Trump administration has done many terrible things but what they have done to the 350,000 Haitians living as our neighbors and colleagues and carers, even if not a single one is deported (and there will be many deported, to death) is I think among the worst.

I'm writing (or trying to write) a concluding paragraph right now, and really feeling this. Why, indeed, did I go into the cave in the first place?

R. O. Kwon 권오경@rokwon.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Why am I so isolate in this strange place? Why is my sweat being sold as an elixir?” cackled at this description of writing from Joy Williams’s exquisite “Uncanny the Singing That Comes from Certain Husks” digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/joy-willia...

What were the impacts of the Haitian Revolution on the American Republic? Frances Bell argues slavery was shaped by Haitian freedom-seekers in her Spring 2024 TAH piece, “A Tale of Two Revolutions: The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic,” now available on Process. https://tinyurl.com/2s47zvhm

England and France are only playing for third place, but the winner does get to reclaim the North American fur trade

The people of Clacton have the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW - Greens won’t stand in Clacton. So it is Nigel Farage versus Count Binface.

"still time" says the BBC commentator, delusionally. #USABEL

Seeing as how we're talking about the Reflecting Pool, it's worth bringing back this anecdote from Paula Austin's Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC (which I frantically highlighted and still think about all the time). For context, there was no swimming pool for these kids in their neighborhood.

an all-time banger: “…your petitioners…cannot but express their astonishment that It has never been considered that every principle from which America has acted in the course of their unhappy difficulties with Great Briton pleads stronger than a thousand arguments in favor of your petitioners”

No Scotland no party, indeed. #SCOMAR

For Truthout: Some of my reflections on current movements on Juneteenth. truthout.org/articles/des...

Despite the State’s Attempts to Stamp Out Opposition, Our Movements Persevere

Echoes of anti-slavery and civil rights struggles reverberate through the current uprising against ICE.

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This may be a long shot, but do I know anyone in Aix-en-Provence/ANOM right now? 🗃️

It's still nuts to me that Scotland and Haiti - the only countries I really have any feelings about - are playing each other tonight. It's not too much to ask for a draw and the start of an unlikely mutual friendship, right?

It appears my countrymen have arrived in the Americas and culturally appropriated a statue of George Washington.

The language here of "ended with thousands dead" is part of a longer history of distorted depictions of violence in the Haitian Revolution; read more from Marlene Daut in @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social from 2020, "All the Devils Are Here." www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/a...

All the Devils Are Here | Marlene L. Daut

How the visual history of the Haitian Revolution misrepresents Black suffering and death.

laphamsquarterly.org

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Oh no, continued

I just started driver's ed. Driver's ed is bad pedagogy.

Updated my bio. Exited to move to the mountains! 🎉🥳

Briefly returning from my social media hiatus to share that my article for the Journal of the Early Republic, on Philadelphian freedom-seeking in the Haitian Revolutionary diaspora, is now live (thank you to @chelseastieber.bsky.social for alerting me!). muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"

“The day the government announced it would end [TPS] for Haiti, Sophie barely slept. Her fear reemerged as she thought about her two children, ages eight and four, and her husband, who had finally found some peace in Flatbush, Brooklyn, among NYC’s largest concentration of Haitian immigrants.”

As the U.S. Moves to End Haiti’s TPS, Families Brace for the Unthinkable - Documented

The decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Haiti has left thousands of families facing the prospect of returning to a country engulfed by violence and political collapse.

documentedny.com

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 8mo ago

Longer statement from Brown University: "We are very sorry to share that we have confirmed reports of multiple shooting victims, but we are not able to share their condition. They have been transported to local hospitals."

Currently tuned in to the great @wwozneworleans.bsky.social, listening to a NOLA big band transition from the Star Spangled Banner to...the Flintstones theme song. Glorious.

🎶 "I am a lineman for the county, and I drive everywhere/searchin' in the sun for another climbing bear..." 🎶 www.tiktok.com/@accuweather...

An Arizona lineman successfully coaxed a bear off a utility pole after it climbed to the top and was in danger of being electrocuted. The bear eventually got down from the pole and ran away unharmed.

TikTok video by AccuWeather

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Fellow Frederick Douglass fans should join us on Dec. 10 for the "Frederick Douglass' Fell's Point" walking tour fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#f...

dr. e. katherine@actualkatherine.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Also. For fellow Frederick Douglass nerds/sickos (complimentary)/stans www.mdhistory.org/resources/ab...

And if you want to know more, Prof. Theoharis's chapter “A Life History of Being Rebellious: The Radicalism of Rosa Parks" went down a treat with my students last year! 🗃️

Jeanne Theoharis@jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

The scholars I follow here are brilliant, politically astute, funny, and quick. It's a pleasure to watch them bat around issues on Bluesky. It happens in a transdisciplinary way. Many are outside of institutions. Or have a Ph.D. not obviously applicable to their work. I learn so much from y'all. 🙏🏼

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.

Finally catching up on Ken Burns's The American Revolution: it's interesting to think about the types of histories he wants to tell based on the talking heads. Alan Taylor & Jane Kamensky as regular interlocutors; Gordon Wood appearing for the first time, briefly, halfway through ep. 2. 🗃️

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Erin Grievances@erinbartram.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...