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It's the anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride in 1775, on the eve of the Battles of Lexington & Concord. In 1798 #Revere recalled his ride, noting a few landmarks along his path. One was the spot at Charlestown Neck "where Mark was hung in chains."

Who is Mark, you ask? 1/6
Mark was an enslaved man who was found guilty, along with enslaved woman Phillis, in the poisoning of Massachusetts enslaver John Codman in the early 1750s.

Phillis was burned alive. 2/6
Mark was hanged. His body was hung in a gibbet (an iron device for displaying corpses). In 1758, a physician passing thru noted with clinical interest that his "skin was but very little broken altho' he had hung hanging there near three or four years" 3/6
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Happy #FourthofJuly! Here are our top 10 most viewed posts on the American Revolution (in no particular order)! #AmRev #AgeofRevs /1
"Transporting Convicts: The Impact of the American Revolution on the Pacific" by Scott Craig /2 ageofrevolutions.com/2016/02/18/tra…
"Crispus Attucks: American Revolutionary Hero?" by Mitch Katchun /3 ageofrevolutions.com/2018/03/05/cri…
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“‘Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause:’ Study results of a legislative and administrative history of battlefield preservation in the United States Federal Government” Dr Terence Christian, Temple University [Conf Paper] #PMAC20 (1/20)
The US Federal Government (USFG) generally, @Interior & @NatlParkService specifically, have been at the vanguard of battlefield preservation since the field’s earliest conception. This paper reports a new study project on battlefield preservation in the USFG. #PMAC20 (2/20)
The paper presents the earliest battlefield memorialization/preservation initiatives; 19th & 20th century theme studies; current @NatlParkService preservation programming; and remit, goals, & products of the ‘Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere...’ study. #PMAC20 (3/20)
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Online museum archives thread 🧵 for self isolation.

AMAZING MUSEUMS all around the world 🌍🌎🌏 have web resources you can access 24 hours for FREE: #archaeology, #history, & #museum Twitter, let's find and share as many as we can!

@MuseumofLondon

➡️ museumoflondon.org.uk/collections Image
Thanks to @northbird_ellen, we also know about the FREE, online website for all Norwegian university museums. It's UNBELIEVABLY GOOD. You'll need a wee bit of Norwegian, but Ellen has that covered! 🎩tip: @slewisimpson

SO. MUCH. AMBER.

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Amis, ♥️ we now take you virtually from 🇳🇴 to 🇫🇷 and the wonderful #Roman #archaeology from the Chiragan villa, brought to you by the superb @MSR_Tlse. In French, but most browsers will have a translation option:

➡️ villachiragan.saintraymond.toulouse.fr Image
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Day 8 of #BlackAtlanticWorld #MaterialCulture for #BlackHistoryMonth I am pulling into #NYC which makes it extra appropriate to remind us all that #Manhattan is a space deeply embedded with the history of slavery. A tangible reminder of that: the African Burial Ground
Marked here on a 1750s map of Lower Manhattan
Near the cemetary? A place where black people were executed
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