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Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco
@Deglassco@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

Barbara Jordan—a Black woman from Houston’s Fifth Ward—crossed every line drawn to keep her out: the color line, the gender line, the sexuality line, the Mason-Dixon line. And when, 49 years ago this week, the nation asked who would speak for America in crisis, she answered. With conviction. With the Constitution. And with a voice they never forgot.
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Image: Barbara Jordan DNC keynote speech, NYC, July 12, 1976. AP.
The Conversation U.S.
@TheConversationUS@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

In 1965, John Lewis led marchers across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, and was brutally beaten by police. The footage aired during prime time and shocked the nation, helping pave the way for the Voting Rights Act.

He never stopped fighting for justice.
“Get in and stay in the streets … until true freedom comes.”

https://theconversation.com/how-the-images-of-john-lewis-being-beaten-during-bloody-sunday-went-viral-143080

#JohnLewisDay#GoodTrouble
@histodons#Histodons
James Baillie
@JubalBarca@scholar.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

At #IMC2025 last week I was once again the co-organiser for the Caucasus panel strand, so here's a short write-up of how that went (and some notes on the sorts of talks we get at big historical conference for those who'd like to know) -

https://medievalcaucasus.org/2025/07/the-medieval-caucasus-at-imc-2025/

#Medieval#Caucasus#History#Histodons
Heidi Li Feldman
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

J.D. Vance, the heir apparent to dictatorship Trump is creating, had some nauseating things to say about U.S. citizenship today. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-

"Identifying America just with agreeing with the principles, let's say, of the Declaration of Independence — that's a definition that is way over-inclusive and under-inclusive at the same time," Vance said. He explained that such a definition "would include hundreds of millions, maybe billions of foreign citizens who agree" with the principles of the Declaration of Independence, dubbing it "the logic of America as a purely Creole nation." By the opposite token, Vance said, conceiving of American citizenship "purely as an idea" would "reject a lot of people that the ADL would label as domestic extremists, even though those very Americans had their ancestors fight in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War," he said, referencing the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit that was founded to combat antisemitism and that, among other activities, tracks far-right groups. "I think the people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the people who say they don't belong," he concluded.
"Identifying America just with agreeing with the principles, let's say, of the Declaration of Independence — that's a definition that is way over-inclusive and under-inclusive at the same time," Vance said. He explained that such a definition "would include hundreds of millions, maybe billions of foreign citizens who agree" with the principles of the Declaration of Independence, dubbing it "the logic of America as a purely Creole nation." By the opposite token, Vance said, conceiving of American citizenship "purely as an idea" would "reject a lot of people that the ADL would label as domestic extremists, even though those very Americans had their ancestors fight in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War," he said, referencing the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit that was founded to combat antisemitism and that, among other activities, tracks far-right groups. "I think the people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the people who say they don't belong," he concluded.
"Identifying America just with agreeing with the principles, let's say, of the Declaration of Independence — that's a definition that is way over-inclusive and under-inclusive at the same time," Vance said. He explained that such a definition "would include hundreds of millions, maybe billions of foreign citizens who agree" with the principles of the Declaration of Independence, dubbing it "the logic of America as a purely Creole nation." By the opposite token, Vance said, conceiving of American citizenship "purely as an idea" would "reject a lot of people that the ADL would label as domestic extremists, even though those very Americans had their ancestors fight in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War," he said, referencing the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit that was founded to combat antisemitism and that, among other activities, tracks far-right groups. "I think the people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the people who say they don't belong," he concluded.
Preston MacDougall
@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science  ·  activity timestamp last week
@heidilifeldman How to make #JDVance stop talking about the #CivilWar. #Histodons
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Very early #OnThisDay, 7 Jul 1944 Krystyna Skarbek parachutes into France to work as a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent. The British SOE worked with resistance fighters across German-occupied Europe.

Skarbek had been the first woman to be an SOE agent when she'd previously been sent to Hungary and Poland in 1939-41.

#WomenInHistory#OTD #History#WomensHistory#EuropeanHistory #WorldWar2#Histodons

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Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco
@Deglassco@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The 1619 Project was not a legal claim. It did not declare that the nation was born in bondage. What it said—plainly—was that America’s founding ideals were inseparable from its founding crimes. Black Americans were not passengers. They were agents. Not beneficiaries—Builders.

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Image: The book by Nikole Hannah-Jones at a bookstore on November 17, 2021 in New York City (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images).