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I tweeted
20,628 times
from 2009 to 2023.

  1. In June 2024, after about a year away from Twitter/X, I decided to archive my tweets on this site and started posting updates about my work here instead.

My Final Tweets:

  1. We are so happy you are here, Nana! @NanaOseiOpare/1675263197035606017
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  2. Happening tonight! @agordonreed at @RiceUniversity! On Zoom and in-person. @wcaleb/1668278958092173312
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  3. Join us at @RiceUniversity next Tuesday, June 20, 7 pm Central, for a lecture by @agordonreed about her book, "On Juneteenth," followed by a Q&A discussion with, er, me. You can attend in-person or online! Register here: events.rice.edu/event/348407-on-juneteenth-lecture
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  4. Excellent! Congratulations @RonAJohnson! @TheJERPano/1646477321627480065
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  5. Looking forward to reading this one---congratulations @DWaldstreicher! @nytimesarts/1631450590038355968
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  6. Just had an email from someone doing genealogical work on an enslaved ancestor. They found some clues on a random page in my research wiki. One of the reasons why I like Open Notebook History: wcaleb.org/blog/open-notebook-history
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  7. Ph.D in the last five years? @RiceUniversity's "Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is pleased to invite applications for its Emerging Leaders Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program"! emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/2184/?utm_medium=jobshare
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  8. Thank you for reading! @DamoSpin/1627670480449576964
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  9. With news that the Twitter API will no longer be free to use later this week, I'm divided about whether to continue the @Every3Minutes bot. After 8+ years and 1.3M tweets, each one representing the sale of a person in the US, it may be time to bring the project to a close.
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  10. Can't help but think about @historycorey's book on how third-party political abolitionists before the Civil War used House Speaker battles to wield influence beyond their numbers. I reviewed it for @CommonplaceJrnl the year after the post-Boehner battle. commonplace.online/article/feelthebirney/
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  11. Happening today! @wcaleb/1584933533642293248
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  12. In 1958, Hattie Mae White became the first African American elected to Houston's School Board, & only the second African American elected to an office in Texas since Reconstruction. After the vote, opponents raised unfounded questions about the voting machines.
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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  13. UPCOMING EVENT: "Houston, Rice and Race: A History in the Fourth Ward," November 15, 4 p.m. Central, in person and on Zoom. @RiceUniversity @RiceHumanities
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  14. Congratulations, Dr. Valentin! @evalentin25/1580994526482640896
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  15. Flashback to this day seven years ago, and my first time laying eyes on the case file for Henrietta Wood's lawsuit against Zebulon Ward at the @USNatArchives in Chicago.
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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Some Popular Tweets:

  1. I have a book coming out about a formerly enslaved woman who won a rare restitution suit in 1878. Her son, born enslaved, died in 1951. I met his great-granddaughter, who knew him as a child in Chicago, before she died last year. Slavery is not the distant past. @nhannahjones/1104078672716353537
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  2. As a historian I can confirm that no naked, winged men fought for the Confederacy. In case anyone worries about erasing history. @jdharden/897536586631479296
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  3. 1. Here's a short thought experiment that might help students or others understand why historians today reject "states' rights" as the cause of the Civil War. Imagine that 150 years from now, someone tells you that conservatives in 2020 were defenders of states' rights ...
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  4. Thank you, @PulitzerPrizes. The honor belongs to Henrietta Wood. I'm stunned but so grateful that more will hear of her story. @PulitzerPrizes/1257389231049191424
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