writing about the making of race in the 18th c Atlantic • Graduate student and worker• library hag• she/hers
Lenni Lenape Territories
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Excited to be presenting a dissertation chapter at the @AmPhilSociety Indigenous Studies Seminar 1/21/22!
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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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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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Please join us (virtually) for December's #ExpertNextDoor episode on #JaneMcCrea, ft @_Blake_writes @PrincetonHist
Register now: brooksidemuseum.networkforgo…
“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…
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.
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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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“My hot take on this 1778 satirical print is really gonna show them!” I mutter to myself, alone in my studio.
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.
Me and @ashleyrattner are putting together a panel about frontiers and you know you want in! (proposals due 2/10/19)
This is a great and important project by my old colleagues @brooklynhistory
For a community that’s always had others speak for them, this is historic. Right on @zaheerali
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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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ACTION UPDATE:
15+ departments
59 TAs/ instructors
*1725 final grades withheld*
#StrikeDownSam
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)!
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.
