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Chad Williams
@Dr_ChadWilliams
Prof. & Chair of @brandeisAAAS @BrandeisU; Historian of WWI; author of Torchbearers of Democracy; fmr @RadInstitute fellow; co-editor #CharlestonSyllabus
Apr 4, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
✨PUBLICATION DAY ✨for my new book
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War! Many thanks to everyone at @fsgbooks, @McKinnonLit & @CoriolisCo.

Let me tell you a little bit about the book and the story behind it.🧵 While conducting research at UMass for what would become my first book Torchbearers of Democracy, I came across a collection curiously titled “Du Bois World War I materials.” I had no idea what it was and honestly didn’t expect much.
Apr 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Honored and humbled to have these endorsements for my new book. Each of these brilliant historians and writers have shaped me and this work in profound ways. I truly can't thank them enough. "The Wounded World" drops tomorrow! 👇🏾
Jun 19, 2020 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Some thoughts on #Juneteenth. The actual order issued by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger on June 19, 1865 is a powerful teaching document. It captures the conflicting definitions of freedom between ex-slaves and white people and how this legacy is still with us. tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/ju… Let’s look at this quote first, that freedom involved “absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves.” All good in classic Lockean theory. But what does this mean for people only recently property themselves?
Nov 11, 2018 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
The history of the 92d Division in #WWI is worth delving into. It's story is a critical part of the black military experience in the war and why this legacy matters. 1/ The 92d division was one of two all-black combat divisions to fight in the war (the other the was the 93rd division, made up mostly of black national guardsmen). It's insignia was the buffalo in honor of the famed “buffalo soldiers” of the Regular Army.