Timothy Brown
@timothybrown.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at UConn. Studying antislavery in Connecticut. Public Historian. He/Him. 🏳️🌈
Congratulations to @uconnhistory.bsky.social’s own Micki McElya on the publication of the highly anticipated Liberation Summer! An examination of the protests around the September 1968 Miss American Pageant. You can buy a copy below or wherever you buy books! simonandschuster.com/books/Liberati…
This is the perfect time to read the entirety of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech, and not merely because of the date on the calendar. https://bit.ly/4p5zNQW
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass
This is the perfect time to read the entirety of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech, and not merely because of the date on the calendar.
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Name your top 15 shows ever, gut instincts only I Love Lucy 30 Rock The Golden Girls Murder, She Wrote CSI: Crime Scene Investigation John Adams Bates Motel Peaky Blinders Penny Dreadful The Office Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Monk The West Wing Parks & Recreation Schitt’s Creek
Joanne Freeman@jbf1755.bsky.social · 3mo agoName your top 15 shows ever, gut instincts only M*A*S*H Breaking Bad The Sopranos Deadwood The Pitt 30 Rock Ted Lasso The Mary Tyler Moore Show Bob Newhart Six Feet Under ER Severance Star Trek Seinfeld The Twilight Zone
A fantastic piece by @profmsinha.bsky.social that expertly links American Feminism with the Abolition Movement. msmagazine.com/2026/04/02/t...
The Abolitionist Origins of American Feminism
From Mary Wollstonecraft to Sojourner Truth, the fight for women’s rights emerged alongside—and was fundamentally shaped by—the struggle to abolish slavery and secure universal human rights. On the 2...
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Looking forward to attending this screening @amantiquarian.bsky.social featuring wonderful archival research by @uconnhistory.bsky.social Dr. Cornelia Dayton on Phillis Wheatley and John Peters and in conversation with @profmsinha.bsky.social. www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve...
In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters: A Short Historical Documentary | American Antiquarian Society
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Today's read: former UCHI fellow Fiona Vernal (@uconnhistory.bsky.social) gave the keynote address at West Hartford, Connecticut's 30th annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
'Be Audacious': West Hartford Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - We-Ha | West Hartford News
West Hartford held the 30th annual ceremony on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, with speakers reflecting on the life on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the awarding of the Earl Exum Servant Leader award. The…
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My Top 10 Books I read this year. These books stood out the most as not only beautifully written studies, but ones that challenged my understanding of the meaning of freedom. @kevinkenny.bsky.social @kcarterjackson.bsky.social @countesscanuck.bsky.social
Buffalo’s Michigan Street African-American Heritage Corridor: A Rising Cultural Destination for Travellers www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...
Buffalo’s Michigan Street African-American Heritage Corridor: A Rising Cultural Destination for Travellers - Travel And Tour World
Explore Buffalo's Michigan Street African-American Heritage Corridor – a vibrant cultural hub showcasing Black history and heritage in Buffalo, NY.
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I want to watch a six-part series on the Haitian Revolution 😕
Today's read: former UCHI fellow Fiona Vernal and UCHI graduate assistant Timothy Brown (@uconnhistory.bsky.social) premiered an exhibit titled: “Bloomfield Mosaic: Stories from our Jewish, African American, and West Indian Communities.” This exhibit features over 40 oral histories.
UConn Humanities Project Helps Bloomfield Preserve Its Cultural Mosaic - UConn Today
A new exhibition celebrates community history and highlights how UConn humanities research, led by professor Fiona Vernal, is helping Connecticut towns pres ...
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Huge shout out to our own Timothy Brown! Check it out:
Timothy Brown@timothybrown.bsky.social · 9mo agoI’m quoted in this wonderful piece in UConn Today about our recently premiered Bloomfield Mosaic exhibit. This oral history project set out to capture the stories of the Jewish, African American and West Indian population of the CT suburb. today.uconn.edu/2025/11/ucon...
I’m quoted in this wonderful piece in UConn Today about our recently premiered Bloomfield Mosaic exhibit. This oral history project set out to capture the stories of the Jewish, African American and West Indian population of the CT suburb. today.uconn.edu/2025/11/ucon...
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A fantastic interview with my dear friend and former UNLV cohort @loveshistory123.bsky.social about her research (and recent Journal of Arizona History article) into the incarceration of Japanese Americans on the Gila River Indian Community during World War II. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...
When U.S. put a Japanese internment camp on Gila River reservation, 2 groups found common ground
During World War II, when Japanese Americans were relocated to internment camps, some of them came to Arizona — to another place where the U.S. government had “relocated” a group of people: the Gila R...
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Super excited that my first book review has been published! The review is of John Reeves’ Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant. A big thank you to H-Net and my review editor at H-War for this opportunity. networks.h-net.org/group/review...
Brown on Reeves, 'Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant' | H-Net
Reeves, John. Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant. New York: Pegasus Books, 2023. 352 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781639365272. Reviewed by Timothy Brown (Univ...
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A poignant piece by @marthasjones.bsky.social. With an important reminder of the long historical battle for birthright citizenship in the aftermath of yesterday’s ruling from SCOTUS. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The fight for birthright citizenship started with these Black Americans
We have endured years, decades, even centuries of confusion about citizenship.
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Couldn’t have said it better myself. A truly wonderful piece, building on the great scholarship of @profmsinha.bsky.social.
Berny Belvedere@bernybelvedere.bsky.social · last yr.Fantastic reflection by @profmsinha.bsky.social on how Black abolitionists laid the groundwork for emancipation by helping Abraham Lincoln eventually arrive at the position that slavery must be fully eradicated.
My interview for a blog series to discuss my Graduate Assistantship with @uconnhumanities.bsky.social and share advice about applying skills to different positions. I also talked about my work with EPOCH (w/ @uconnhistory.bsky.social) and @shearites.bsky.social. career.uconn.edu/blog/2025/06...
Enhancing Career Readiness: Doctoral Students at Work Featuring Timothy Brown, Graduate Assistant at the Humanities Institute
How his Graduate Assistantship has contributed to PhD student, Timothy Brown’s, career readiness.
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On the 250th Anniversary of the “Shot Heard Round the World” I feel it is fitting to post this fascinating recent piece by @eranzelnik.bsky.social about the continuing myths and afterlives of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. www.hnn.us/article/the-...
The Dangerous Afterlives of Lexington and Concord
How a myth about farmers taking on the British has fueled more than two centuries of exclusionary nationalism.
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Very much looking forward to today’s Draper Workshop on American Empire featuring panelists Greg Grandin, Moon Ho-Jung, @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social, @laurenfturek.bsky.social and moderated by @profmsinha.bsky.social.
I had the distinct pleasure of hearing @eranzelnik.bsky.social talk about his fascinating new book during this week’s @uconnhistory.bsky.social Wednesday Workshop and receiving a signed copy (thx @profmsinha.bsky.social). Looking forward to reading it! And get yourself a copy too!
Trump Admin is targeting Patricia Navarro-Velez, a UNLV professor killed in a mass shooting n the UNLV campus in Las Vegas in 2023, for violating its racist and illegal DEI executive order. www.yahoo.com/news/unlv-pr...
UNLV professor killed in 2023 mass shooting is named as part of Trump’s DEI crackdown at colleges
Patricia Navarro-Velez, 39, one of three people gunned down in December 2023
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So sad to see this! The historic Nishikida Laundry in Gardnerville, NV faces impending demolition. While working for a preservation organization in the state I did background research into the building. This news hurts me knowing the rich history of it. thenevadaindependent.com/article/gard...
Gardnerville laundry building linked to Japanese American heritage to be demolished - The Nevada Independent
The old Nishikida laundry building in Gardnerville holds ties to the detainment of Japanese Americans during World War II and is one of the state’s rare properties associated with Nevada’s Japanese Am...
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A fantastic piece by @rkdcolby86.bsky.social reminding us that the slave trade was very much alive during the Civil War and showing the struggles of formerly enslaved mothers to reunite with their children and family after the downfall of slavery. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/afte...
After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the conflict ended, two women sought help from high places to track down their l...
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A fantastic piece by @hngreen.bsky.social about her own effort at collecting Black visual culture not in traditional archives and what these images can tell us about Black Civil War memory. The piece makes me even more excited to pick up her new book! www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/02/phot...
Photography, Visual Culture and Building a Black Civil War Memory Archive - The Journal of the Civil War Era
I am a collector of early African American photography and visual culture. I began my collection after attending a NEH Summer Institute focused on the visual culture of the American Civil War. I initi...
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#They can’t take away what they didn’t give. asalh.org/about-us/abo...
ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month | About Black History Month
Learn about Black history by exploring your local community, reading books by Black authors, and visiting Black or African-American history museums.Explore a
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This administration is trying to bar schools that receive federal funds from referring to any k-12 child as nonbinary or by their name or accurate pronoun (if the name or pronoun differs from that given at birth)
Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is as bad as one might expect. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Thank goodness: after an outpouring of public dissent, Lackland reversed its terrible decision and will thankfully be teaching recruits about the Tuskegee airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots again. A reminder that we must always push back: www.expressnews.com/news/article...
Air Force says new recruits will again learn about Tuskegee Airmen
The head of the service's San Antonio-based training command said a video about the pioneering Black aviators would remain in the basic training curriculum.
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