Emmanuel Mehr

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☕️h&c book boost (5/19/24)🔄 📚in *Fear of a Black Republic* (2022) Leslie M. Alexander illuminates💡 🗣️african american haitian revolution responses🇭🇹 🔥forged black internationalist thought💭 🚨white fear➡️policy backlash💥 🌊haiti motivated seizing freedom in u.s.🔊 🔗 www.historyandcoffee.com/books/fear-o...

Leslie M. Alexander, Fear of A Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022)www.historyandcoffee.com undefined

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Yesterday was a wonderful first day of exhibiting for history & coffee at #AAM2024. We debuted our interactive exhibit developed together with our partners Quatrefoil Associates. It explores national stories through the lens of Baltimore histories, with a focus on amplifying underrepresented voices.

calling myself “the steve kornacki of public history” at #aam2024 for @historycoffee.bsky.social 📍baltimore convention center

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☕️h&c book boost (5/9/24)🔄 📚in *City of Inmates* (2017), Kelly Lytle Hernández examines incarceration around what became Los Angeles⛓️ 💡to illuminate settler colonialism & power💥 🪢structuring u.s.➕cross-border imperialism🌎 🚧forced labor building social order🧱 ➡️ www.historyandcoffee.com/books/city-o...

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☕️h&c book boost (5/8/24)🔄 📚in *I've Been Here All the While* (2021), Alaina E. Roberts (@alainaroberts.bsky.social) shares her family histories as a jumping off point to understand💡 🌄Native American & Black interrelationships🖇️ ✨of freedom, land, belonging💗 ➡️ www.historyandcoffee.com/books/been-h...

Alaina E. Roberts, I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)www.historyandcoffee.com undefined

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☕️h&c book boost (5/7/24)🔄 📚in *Cutting School* (2017), Noliwe Rooks foregrounds segregated education🏫 💡for understanding economic➕racial structuring🏗️ 💵unequal education🟰profitable📈 💰white philanthropy restricted Black opportunity🛑 ⚖️ongoing disputed access💥 ➡️ www.historyandcoffee.com/books/cuttin...

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☕️h&c book boost (5/6/24)🔄 📚in *Resistance from the Right* (2023), Lauren Lassabe Shepherd (@llassabe.bsky.social)💡illuminates rw student backlash vs. the civil rights movement🪃 💰conservative money power💵 ⛓️inherently reactionary🧲 🎓embraced Republican Party🐘 ➡️ www.historyandcoffee.com/books/resist...

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023)www.historyandcoffee.com undefined

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☕️h&c book boost (4/28/24)🔄 📚in Scattered & Fugitive Things (2024), Laura E. Helton (@lehelton.bsky.social)🖊️ 💡illuminates how Black people shaped histories🇺🇸 🧱building➕preserving archives🗃️ ⚒️in community libraries, HBCUs, homes🏡 💥taking risks & forging accessibility🏦 🪙valuing➕ordering Black memories💞

Hey #baltimore + #history sky, I'm working on an exhibit & want to ask if this image brings up narratives for anyone. I'm thinking Mfume & Schaefer standing beside each other (+ rivalry) is the main interpretive opportunity but wondering if you see other strands to expand for an interactive exhibit:

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The other thing happening on the first Tuesday in November.

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Reminder, we're looking for a summer intern to write and edit with us! This is a paid opportunity with mentorship, we'd love to have you!

Applications are open for our summer 2024 internship in partnership with the McNeil Center. More info here: www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/0um...

Call for Applications for the C. Dallett Hemphill Summer Insurrect! 2024 Internship — INSURRECT!www.insurrecthistory.com The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is co-sponsoring a summer internship with Insurrect! The stipend for the internship is $3,000. This internship is open ...

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Excited to share my 170th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below & enjoy, all! Skystorians americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

#ScholarSunday thread 170americanstudier.substack.com Published on March 24, 2024

Messages like this inspire my public history work and keep the @historycoffee.bsky.social project going! Learn more on our site: www.historyandcoffee.com

Big day!

Exciting news: we just got the keys to history & coffee's space in historic Fells Point! 📚☕

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Some nice guiding questions, quotes, and synopsis of Live from the Underground from @historycoffee.bsky.social! www.historyandcoffee.com/books/live-f...

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Exciting!!

General Manager Tiheera Blount & I are thrilled to share that it is digital launch day for our new alternative history space: @historycoffee.bsky.social. Opening July 2024 in #Baltimore, it combines a history bookstore, coffee shop & interactive exhibits w/ online community: www.historyandcoffee.com

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To help March come in like a lion, here’s my 168th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share more below & enjoy, all! Skystorians americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

#ScholarSunday thread 168americanstudier.substack.com Published on March 3, 2024

"Through weary, wasting years men have destroyed, dashed in pieces & overthrown, but today we stand on the threshold of woman’s era & woman’s work is grandly constructive." ―Frances E. W. Harper, 1894 Frances E. W. Harper, "Woman's Political Future," 1894, 433-434, hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x00....

This week for Baltimore Histories, the 3rd installment of my series “B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships.” It focuses on the harmful capitalist leadership of B&O president John W. Garrett & Mayor William D. Schaefer: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/b-o-to-...

B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships — Part Threewww.baltimorehistories.com BHW 57: March 2, 2024 The election of John W. Garrett to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad’s (B&O) board of directors in 1855 signaled a drastic shift in company leadership from public-private cooperation...

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Here it is, my 167th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. As always, please share more below, & enjoy, all! Skystorians americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

#ScholarSunday thread 167americanstudier.substack.com Shared on February 25, 2024

This week for Baltimore Histories, check out the 2nd installment of my series “B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships.” This piece focuses on leaders leveraging initial successes to support greater development & profit: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/b-o-to-...

B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships — Part Twowww.baltimorehistories.com BHW 56: February 24, 2024 From the incorporation of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) in early 1827 until its construction reached the Ohio River, public and private investors largely worked togethe...

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We need more grants that focus on sustaining digital projects. Look away from the new and shiny!

Digital archives have ongoing costs in perpetuity. You can't fund a "digital archive" with a one-time grant. YOU CAN'T FUND A DIGITAL ARCHIVE WITH A ONE-TIME GRANT

Happy Birthday to W. E. B. Du Bois (b. Feb. 23, 1868), who wrote: “Birthday dinners which have been given me . . . have become I assure you, as embarrassing to me as to you.” What he really wanted was understanding of his centering of Black Americans in histories of democracy, capitalism & the U.S.

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Saving for later (soon!) :)

This week for Baltimore Histories, check out the 1st installment of my multipart series “B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships.” It focuses on the public-private origins of the B&O & downtown Baltimore renewal projects: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/b-o-to-...

B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships — Part Onewww.baltimorehistories.com BHW 55: February 17, 2024 In February 1827 and January 1955, Baltimorean business leaders gathered to express grave concern about the city’s economic future. Both meetings resulted in immense public-p...

I made some Valentine’s Day cards featuring Baltimore Histories project themes and this one is my favorite:

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No better way to prep for the Superb Owl than my 165th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, sports (& scholarship) fans! Skystorians americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

#ScholarSunday thread 165americanstudier.substack.com Shared on February 11, 2024

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I love this so much. In a totally subversive way, enslaved people used elections to gain freedom. 🗃️

This week for Baltimore Histories, I wrote about how “On the day of the 1840 presidential election, an enslaved woman named Ann leveraged the public excitement and chaos surrounding the event to escape from slavery in Baltimore”: www.baltimorehistories.com/post/fleeing...

Fleeing Slavery on Presidential Election Day in Baltimore, 1840www.baltimorehistories.com BHW 54: February 10, 2024 On the day of the 1840 presidential election, an enslaved woman named Ann leveraged the public excitement and chaos surrounding the event to escape from slavery in Baltimore....