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in baltimore's historic fells point, history & coffee combines a history focused bookstore, coffee shop, and interactive exhibit experience while building an online history community across the united states

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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

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.

☕️h&c book boost (5/14/24)🔄 📚in *By Hands Now Known* (2022) Margaret A. Burnham... 💡illuminates intersects of violence & law⚖️ 📍localized white supremacy via jim crow🛑 🕰️early/mid 20th c.⏳ 🚫slavery into➡️criminal justice system📃 🫂human centered legal histories🏛️ 🔗 www.historyandcoffee.com/books/by-han...

Margaret A. Burnham, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2022)www.historyandcoffee.com undefined

☕️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...

☕️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

☕️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...

☕️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

☕️h&c book boost (4/30/24)🔄 📚in *Migrant Citizenship* (2020), Verónica Martínez-Matsuda centers farmworkers in New Deal welfare state🫛 💥converted FSA camps into power➕citizenship🗳️ 💵demanded wages, medicine, education, housing🏡 💕made democracy more inclusive⚖️ ➡️ www.historyandcoffee.com/books/migran...

Verónica Matsuda-Martínez, Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020)www.historyandcoffee.com undefined

☕️h&c book boost (4/29/24)🔄 📚in *Race for Profit* (2019), Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor💡examines federal policy "predatory inclusion" of Black women in 1970s homeownership🧱 💸public-private partnerships drove housing access🏘️ 🚫segregation status quo➡️white profit💰 🔗 www.historyandcoffee.com/books/race-f...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2019)www.historyandcoffee.com undefined

☕️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💞

☕️h&c book boost (4/27/24)🔄 📚in *harambee city* (2017), nishani frazier animates core in 1960s cleveland through oral histories (🖇️ harambeecity.rrchnm.org) 🌱making the past grassroots➕collective💞 💡asking how do people adapt organizing structures for change❓ ➡️ www.historyandcoffee.com/books/haramb...

HARAMBEE CITY Digital Archive at MiamiOHharambeecity.rrchnm.org HARAMBEE CITY digital archives and website is a creation of Dr. Nishani Frazier, Associate Professor of History at Miami University.

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

It’s wonderful to see how Baltimore comes together around the inspirational work & lives of Elizabeth Talford Scott & Joyce J. Scott. Yesterday we visited the Peale & today the Lewis Museum (pictured) to experience their exhibitions for No Stone Left Unturned: The Elizabeth Talford Scott Initiative:

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

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Shout out to @historycoffee.bsky.social for advocating for history books and for this excellent synopsis of Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Suffrage Movement. Give them a follow for more history! #sschat 🗃️ 🗺️ 🍎 #WomensHistoryMonth www.historyandcoffee.com/books/public...

Rouse, Wendy L. Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. New York: NYU Press, 2022.www.historyandcoffee.com undefined

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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...

Happy Birthday to activist and minister Reverend Ralph Abernathy Sr. (born March 11, 1926, in Linden, AL), who mentored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and led the 1968 Poor People's Campaign. #OnThisDay Citations: www.jstor.org/stable/1512419; www.jstor.org/stable/23937...; archive.org/details/andw...

Happy Birthday to activist and medical professional Lillian Wald (born March 10, 1867, in Cincinnati, OH), a second-generation Jewish immigrant to the United States who actively brought people together across lines of gender, class, race, religion, and more. www.historyandcoffee.com/post/march-1...

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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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Exciting!!

It's all coming together! 🎉

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