Joshua D. Rothman

@rothmanistan

Professor of History, scholar of slavery. Researching lives of slave traders, looking for humanity's virtues, learning from those who made a way out of no way.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: listopad 2014.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    24. pro 2019.

    A short thread of threads from the last few days, on the , the ongoing reaction, and how we think about American history. . .

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  2. Looking forward to seeing the map with the sharpie drawn to take in the Kansas side.

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  3. Dang, that ad was cynical.

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  5. 1. velj

    Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, in progress

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  6. 1. velj

    “We reissue Slate’s History of American Slavery podcast now as a way of adding our own voices to the commemorative chorus, and insisting that this anniversary shouldn’t pass unremarked.”

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  7. 1. velj

    “Robert Lumpkin was one of the South’s most prolific and brutal slave traders. Mary Lumpkin lived with him — and with the horror of who he was, bearing witness to the extreme punishments he meted out to enslaved people like her.”

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    Eager to share something I've been working on for a couple of years: . It pulls together several projects I'm leading, from + to . Our whole team humbly hopes it's a new way to understand America:

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  9. 30. sij

    TFW you don't actually know anything about the Lincoln-Douglas debates, which were not "town hall" style and in which both candidates hurled insults, dropped racial slurs, and provoked the crowd to interrupt.

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  10. 29. sij

    This is a preposterous argument, a dressed-up version of Nixon's "when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." It's a formula for authoritarianism.

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    1/Historians! We are preparing to launch a new series that brings cutting edge research and the best historical analysis in our profession to better understand the issues, stakes, and strategies at play in the 2020 election: The

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  12. 29. sij

    Got an article manuscript dealing with Immigration and Migration in the American South? Consider applying to workshop it with this June!

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  13. 29. sij

    Did a self-directed grad seminar, thinks he can solve the world's most intractable conflict.

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    29. sij

    1834, President Andrew Jackson used federal troops to suppress organizing (about dangerous working conditions and low pay) at the C&O Canal; setting a precedent for future labor-management relations. More⬇️including article by .

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  15. 29. sij

    “Preservation is political, and the kinds of places and structures that we protect are less an indication of what we valued in the past than a matter of what we venerate today.”

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    28. sij

    I’ll probably write this take soon-ish but the reason race science never goes away is the same reason “bootstraps” ideology never goes away, they exist to naturalize relations of production and obscure their contingent, constructed nature.

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  17. 28. sij

    Is Ray actually using Andrew Johnson as a defense here? Andrew “this is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government for white men” Johnson? That Andrew Johnson?

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  18. 27. sij

    "Lived through." Boy howdy, I remember that, alright. Whatever happened to the people involved with that?

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    26. sij

    1. THREAD on the Panic of 1819. I've written a review of Andrew Browning's book for the Economic Historian. The full review is here: This thread contains some of my thoughts + images.

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    26. sij

    The first in our series of mailbags tackling clichés about doing history.

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  21. 25. sij

    Spotted in cville this morning...

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