Dylan Penningroth, Joshua Strayhorn, Tera Hunter
Congrats to postdoc scholar Dr. Joshua Strayhorn on a great manuscript workshop on “Freedom’s Promise: Black Mobility, Migration, and Freedom Dreams in Eastern North Carolina, 1862-1898!” And many thanks to the invited scholars, Dr. Tera Hunter & Dr. Dylan Penningroth, for their valuable feedback.
18.12.2025 21:32 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The Richards Center is excited to welcome Halee Robinson and Joshua Strayhorn to the community as the 2025-2026 incoming postdoctoral scholars. Halee will receive her PhD later this month from Princeton University and Joshua received his PhD degree from Duke University. Welcome Halee and Joshua!! 🎉
12.05.2025 16:11 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Please use Dr. Strayhorn's story map to teach about freedom communities established during the #CivilWar, including James City--still going strong since 1863! @america250.bsky.social #sschat
24.04.2025 03:38 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Created Equal · JCHS America 250 NC
I had the pleasure of launching the digital exhibit for a project I have been working on for the past year with the James City Historical Society in Eastern North Carolina. I am happy to share the site with you all. Please check it out and engage in this important piece of NC and national history.
28.02.2025 22:33 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
How Gen Z Came to See Books as a Waste of Time
Young people might be responding to a cultural message: Reading just isn’t that important.
"The problem does not appear to be that “kids these days” are incurious or uninterested in reading. Instead, young people might be responding to a cultural message: Books just aren’t that important."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
30.11.2024 20:29 — 👍 26 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
Nov. 30, 1924: Shirley Chisholm Born
Born on this day, Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress
"The conservatives desire to pry the lid off the coffin & so our confrontation then must be against the grave robbers. Our coalition has got to keep the lid nailed down tight & the wheels of progress turning & rolling . . ." -- Shirley Chisholm, born #tdih 1924
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sh...
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Historian of 19th c. US women and politics.
2025-2027 Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Ph.D. in Early African American Women's History from Rutgers University.
We Are the Richards Civil War Era Center, a scholarly home dedicated to the idea that the Civil War was fundamentally a struggle over the intersections of race, slavery, and democracy.
Constitutional Scholar, Author of "The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide," with foreword by RBG. Harvard Law, first gen, Jeopardy champion. www.lindamonk.com
Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2026). Black. Still. Life. (2027) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
Exploring Black history in the US and across the globe. In collaboration with
@gettyimages.bsky.social & @originsosu.bsky.social
www.picturingblackhistory.org
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Historian of U.S. political, legal, & constitutional history. Director, Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. Forthcoming book: The Political Supreme Court: The Forgotten History of Justices, Parties, & the People’s Constitution. rachelshelden.com
experience-based teacher leadership, inquiry-based instruction, equitable narratives of place and people • Director Rural Initiatives, Smithsonian
📍Durham, NC
Woefully ungovernable and pathologically optimistic. Writer, Satirist & Sociologist. I used to be big on Twitter but I refuse to tango with the devil so here I am! Let’s dance 💃🏾
public historian | pun enthusiast | she/her
🏫 professor, writer, lover | ✨ all things black, queer, archival, artsy |📚 author of *Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans* http://a.co/d/4VuHlQZ
✨views are my own.
Open-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.
Bklyn Morehouse Duke (not bball, PhD) Hist Prof at Ohio St. Author Bloody Lowndes & Understanding Teaching Civil Rights Mvt. Podcast: Teaching Hard History. Author Audible Series: Great Figures Civil Rights Mvt. Also, we who believe in freedom cannot rest!
Historian of freedom movements. Let's get free. snccdigital.org/ and
sites.duke.edu/ncpostdobbs/
Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/
https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
The Emancipator is a digital magazine dedicated to examining and confronting racism and the inequities it creates. Visit our website: https://theemancipator.org
Professor; writer; black feminist; mother; cookie monster; WBB fan.
Educator * 2x NYT Bestselling Author * Founder of Red Clay Educators * Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy * she/her/hers * linktr.ee/sonjacherrypaul
Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
