writing about the making of race in the 18th c Atlantic • Graduate student and worker• library hag• she/hers
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17 Dec 2021
Excited to be presenting a dissertation chapter at the @AmPhilSociety Indigenous Studies Seminar 1/21/22!
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Blake Grindon retweeted
The History Center has launched a new blog! Our first entry is @_Blake_writes @PrincetonHist on the famous tale of #JaneMcrea
#AmericanRevolution #WomenAlsoKnowHistory #BrooksideMuseum #AmericanHistory
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1 Dec 2021
If you’d like a taste of my Jane McCrea musings in advance of my talk at @SaratogaCoHist on Dec 14, then wish granted! brooksidemuseum.org/grindon-…
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24 Nov 2021
Please join us (virtually) for December's #ExpertNextDoor episode on #JaneMcCrea, ft @_Blake_writes @PrincetonHist
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10 Nov 2021
“These records give people written proof that our ancestors were there, fighting for Britain.”
Archival news that speaks to the legacies of colonialism and war and the people who get written out of imperial histories. theguardian.com/world/2021/n…
9 Nov 2021
Writing these days about portraits as symbols of cross-cultural diplomacy and it’s good to be reminded of these, here in the city where I live.
9 Nov 2021
In 1735 Lenape leaders Tishcohan and Lapowinsa met with William Penn’s sons to resolve a land dispute. Their portraits were painted at the time by the Swedish-born artist Gustavus Hesselius. 1/4
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25 Nov 2020
That’s why @MCIFB1866Treaty @ChoctawFreedmen & Descendants of the Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes Association are calling on @Deb4CongressNM to make a public statement that she supports the treaty rights of Freedmen Descendants.
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28 Sep 2020
“My hot take on this 1778 satirical print is really gonna show them!” I mutter to myself, alone in my studio.
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17 Mar 2019
It's 2019 and I'm reading about the legacy of Puritans' "thriftiness" on American culture for my generals, and let me you, this is not what I signed up for.
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4 Jun 2018
Reading C.L.R James on Melville in 2018:
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28 Jan 2019
Me and @ashleyrattner are putting together a panel about frontiers and you know you want in! (proposals due 2/10/19)
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6 Dec 2018
This is a great and important project by my old colleagues @brooklynhistory
6 Dec 2018
For a community that’s always had others speak for them, this is historic. Right on @zaheerali
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5 Dec 2018
Solidarity with UNC grad workers who are leveraging their power as TA’s to combat the University’s plan to build a $5million dollar shrine to chattel slavery. And solidarity with everyone else protesting, in any way they deem necessary. #SilenceSam #ShutItDown
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Blake Grindon retweeted
6 Dec 2018
ACTION UPDATE:
15 departments
59 TAs/ instructors
*1725 final grades withheld*
#StrikeDownSam
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5 Dec 2018
Very excited to be presenting my paper on a French colonial novel about Jane McCrea at Princeton’s Colonial Americas Workshop next Tuesday (12/11)!
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28 Nov 2018
My carrel isn’t where I do work, my carrell is where I sit anxiously under glaring fluorescent lights and think about all the work I should be doing.
28 Nov 2018
I really love this paper and I just want to hide in the library and revise this it instead of going to class for the rest of the semester.
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28 Nov 2018
Shoutout to complaining about Canadians as a centuries-old pastime as shown by the above quote.