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This week in the twittersphere, Georgetown University announced its acquisition of a logbook for a slave ship called Mary, which sailed from Providence, Rhode Island to West Africa to Savannah, Georgia...
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This week, the twittersphere mourned the death of Toni Morrison, a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning writer, essayist, and professor. Commemorating Morrison’s contributions to various disciplines...
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This week in the twitterphere, The New York Times launched “The 1619 Project,” a collection of essays, criticism, and art regarding the legacies of the first slave ship to land in Virginia in 1619 and...
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This week in the twittersphere, the International Slavery Museum held its 20th annual Slavery Remembrance Day. Learn more about the event here. Similarly, the National Park Service marked the landing...
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This week in the twittersphere, Rebecca Onion interviewed Kevin Levin on his newest book, Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth, and discussed the role of the internet...
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This week in the twittersphere, the Dalhousie University offered an apology to Black Nova Scotians for its role in the Atlantic Slave trade and its historical ties to slavery. Learn more here. A...
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This week in the twittersphere, the Virginia Theological Seminary joined the growing list of universities and institutions seeking to recognize their ties to slavery. The school announced it will...
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This week in the twittersphere, a Philadelphia neighborhood group saved a building with ties to the Underground Railroad from dereliction. Published by BillyPenn, Michaela Winberg details the history...
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This week in the twittersphere, George Mason University announced it will erect a memorial honoring more than one hundred people enslaved by George Mason, the man the university was named for. Learn...
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This week in the twittersphere, Gillian Brockell’s article, “Before 1619, there was 1526: The Mystery of the First Enslaved Africans in What Became the United States,” made the rounds. In it, Brockell...
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This week in the twittersphere, a property in Alexandria, Virginia, with connections to the transatlantic slave trade was listed for sale. Learn more about the Freedom House here.Jay Reeves explores...
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This week in the twittersphere, some historical sites continue to struggle with how to educate tourists on the cruel realities of enslavement. Written by Max Cohen and published by USA Today, "Slavery...
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This week in the twittersphere, Susan Holloway Scott uses early American newspaper advertisements to explore one of the grim realities faced by enslaved children. Find her blogpost, “Giving Away...
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In the twittersphere these past two weeks, Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda demanded Harvard University pay reparations for benefitting from enslavement linked to Antigua. Learn more...
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These past two weeks in the twittersphere, Diana Ramey Berry reflects on the life of Isaac, an enslaved man who led a rebellion and died in a final act of defiance, on an episode of The Essay for BBC...
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This week in the twittersphere, Georgetown University released a new timeline graphic that follows the sale of enslaved people by the Maryland Jesuits', from the first discussions of a sale by clergy...
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This week in the twittersphere, on behalf of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, the Hall Family Foundation recently purchased the oldest known photograph of enslaved...
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During these past two weeks in the twitter sphere, Harvard University’s Faculty Executive Committee of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology announced it will work to develop initiatives to...
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This week in the twittersphere, scholars addressed the relationship between Christmas and the institution of slavery. Robert May examines the legacies of inaccurate stories about Christmas on...
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This week in the twittersphere, twitterstorians remarked on the two hundred and sixteenth anniversary of Haiti's independence. The first known government copy of Haiti's Declaration of Independence was...
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