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)

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

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