Historian with a Thing for Things /Scholars & Society Fellow @ACLS1919 @MellonFdn /Author PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN IN SILK @yalepress /IG thing.for.things
Sep 13, 2022 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
It’s one of my favorite days in my undergrad #ColonialAmerican#history class: after reading short pieces by each, students have to choose whether they are Team (Karin) Wulf or Team (Gordon) Wood.
Stay tuned for continued coverage as the debate over #vastearlyamerica unfolds!
Here's what they read:
Wulf, "No Boundaries?: New Terrain in Colonial American History," OAH Magazine of History (2011)
and
Wood, "History in Context," Washington Examiner/Weekly Standard (2015)
Apr 18, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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
Feb 9, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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
