Greg Beaman isn't afraid of having fun
@historicbeaman.bsky.social
historian. currently drafting Slavery in the Suburbs, a book about New Orleans. adjuncting at Georgetown University. recently published report on slavery & emancipation on Alexandria, VA's Market Square
You can read Dr. Clay's award-winning article, "The Emotional Dimensions of Colonial Rule in the Sixteenth-Century Andes: José de Acosta, Jesuits, and Emotions during the Great Resettlement," in The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, Volume 56, Number 2 (Summer 2025).
Please join us in congratulating George Clay (American University in Bulgaria, @g-g-clay.bsky.social) on receiving the LACS-SHA 2026 Kimberly S. Hanger Article Prize!
Very happy, very grateful, and really looking forward to reading everyone else’s wonderful work!
LACS-SHA@lacs-sha.bsky.social · 2d agoPlease join us in congratulating George Clay (American University in Bulgaria, @g-g-clay.bsky.social) on receiving the LACS-SHA 2026 Kimberly S. Hanger Article Prize!
I'm such a nerd. 😁 I love checking the data and watching as more people find enslavedtexas.org The whole goal for this project has been for people to be able to find their ancestors and/or for others to use the site for research. Poco a poco!
Well, there is this 2015 film about Admiral de Ruyter, featuring Johan de Witt. www.imdb.com/title/tt2544...
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😳🤣 I won't lie, I'm not sure which I am more amazed at, a beef commercial for a senate seat in Mississippi or that Mississippi is perhaps somewhat in play a little!
Atop this thread of most likely very good books is the assuredly very good Slaves in Paris by Miranda Spieler. A very insightful and valuable addition to the history of Atlantic slavery.
Rebecca Spang@rlspang.bsky.social · 2d agoThe American Historical Association @historians.org has announced its book prize winners and I STRONGLY recommend the following to you: First Miranda Spieler's _Slaves in Paris_ has won TWO prizes from the AHA (as did her first book! that has to be a record) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
really cool
Old Paper Collector@oldpapercollector.bsky.social · 2d agoWatching a 16th-century woodcut age. Cut in 1573 by Antoni van Leest (after Pieter van der Borcht) for Plantin, impressions stay crisp for decades. By 1910, a split creeps across the grain, widening by 1960. The original fractured block still survives: tinyurl.com/4b4fze6y #bookhistory #MPM
Amidst this fraught, contested, deeply American holiday weekend, we need more than ever all the public scholarly goodness in my 297th #ScholarSunday thread. Add more writing & work, podcasts & conversations, new & forthcoming books below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
#ScholarSunday Thread 297 (10/11/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
Amidst this fraught, contested, deeply American holiday weekend, we need more than ever all the public scholarly goodness in my 297th #ScholarSunday thread. Add more writing & work, podcasts & convers...
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Greg Beaman isn't afraid of having fun@historicbeaman.bsky.social · 3mo agoLast year the City of Alexandria, Virginia hired me to research and write a scholarly report on the history of slavery, emancipation, and urban renewal centered on City Hall and Market Square. Today, the report becomes public! www.alexandriava.gov/historic-sit...
My mother was from Alexandria. I am anxious to read your report.
Today in irony: ICE is hiring historians to work its Human Rights Violators Law Division. The job "investigates and prosecutes human rights violators and war criminals." www.usajobs.gov/job/888266700 🗃️
Historian
View Common Definitions of terms found in this announcement. Organizational Location: These positions are located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Offi...
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This Day in Labor History: October 9, 1961. The Supreme Court refused to review a Tennessee state Supreme Court order revoking the charter of the Highlander Folk School. Let's talk about this legendary space of radical labor and civil rights organizing in the rural South!
I want to know more about Atlantic Ocean. No, not the body of water, the person. Wonder what happened to him when he left New Orleans after this incident in 1854? 🗃️
Is "wire it to AMEX" really a way to launder money without getting caught? Who knew?
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last wk.They’re all crooks. Some are just dumber than others.
I really enjoyed Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez’s great new book, “The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain’s Atlantic Empire.” You can read my review for H-Early America here:
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Phenomenal graphic. I watched several times through.
Aaron Becker@aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 2w agoEvery river in North America, every day for two years. The combined flow to the sea sinks as low as 53,000 m³/s in winter and swells past 290,000 by late June, more than quadrupling each spring. Data: GloFAS, @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #rivers #dataviz #hydrology
movie about a time traveler going back to 1999 to convince everybody working in y2k prevention to just let the computers die
Flag carried by the Corps d'Afrique at Port Hudson, 1863. At the National Museum of the US Army at Fort Belvoir.
Flag carried by the Corps d'Afrique at Port Hudson, 1863. At the National Museum of the US Army at Fort Belvoir.
Is this why so many people interrupt me when I'm in the middle of a sentence?
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2w agoi’ve noticed recently that when i’m having an in-person conversation, i feel this internal pressure to make my point faster/a perception that the other person is growing impatient. and i realized it’s because we’re so used to getting info in quick clips now that a longer explanation feels foreign.
On Sunday, October 4, LSU New Orleans (UNO) is hosting a free screening of "10,000 Black Men Named George," about the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, starring André Braugher and Mario van Peebles. Register here:
Union Movie Night: 10,000 Black Men Name George
Please click the link to complete this form.
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Let's trade? Maybe Minnesota (and Washington, Oregon, New York...) would prefer Canada at this point?
Orlagh O’Kelly@orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 2w ago“A Globe and Mail investigation has found that Republican political operatives were on the ground in Alberta this year to assist the separatist campaign in its bid to leave Canada…” Can we stop both siding this yet? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Dear AI guys, Metaphors aren't real. Yours sincerely, A Person
