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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Look who I found also waiting to hear Kate McKinnon this morning at the Mississippi Book Festival! So glad you wore that shirt today, @mychal3ts.bsky.social. ♥️ #LibraryJoy

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

As I was looking something up and bypassed the AI overview to go to a reputable site for the info I needed, it occurs to me that a significant cultural problem is prioritizing “efficiency” over accuracy — something that tremendously benefits the people in power who care little for truth.

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Visiting #UVA for the first time for @elaboratories.bsky.social's "Revolutions and Reflections: A Conference for Editing and Recovery Practitioners." This afternoon is a pre-conference workshop on locating scattered manuscript collections. I'll be presenting on Sunday afternoon. 😁 #elabs #archives

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

In a few hours (11 Central), I'll be giving a lightning talk about how I use primary sources in my Mississippi Governor's School class for the TPS Fest virtual conference. Registration is free: tpscollective-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Info on this session: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: TPS Fest Session W1a - Lightning Sessions #1. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

DESCRIPTION: Lightning talks TBD

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Yesterday in my Governor's School class about Mississippi's Black legislators during Reconstruction, a student said, "I can't believe how much of Reconstruction is happening again now."

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Mississippi Governor's School 2026 kicking off! Classes start tomorrow. This will be the fifth year of "Radical Courage: Black Legislators in Mississippi's Reconstruction Government."

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.

nytimes.com

The Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Really excited to be part of the panel "Mississippi Learning: Commemorating Racial Violence In Public Spaces," which has just been accepted for the American Historical Association conference in New Orleans in January. Thanks to @sturockoff.bsky.social for organizing! 1/2

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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Raising the Flag Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social burns a confederate flag in the rotunda after the House passed 9-0 maps stripping Memphis of representation… #Memphis #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Thanks to those who boosted the signal for this, and huge thanks to @scatterall.bsky.social for sending me the articles!

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Is there a nice historian or librarian out there with access to the Christian Recorder archives who would be willing to send me two articles? I have the exact dates for them.

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Recording a Reconstruction episode for the Mississippi Humanities Council's "Reflecting Mississippi" podcast with Michael Morris, John Spann, and Jere Nash

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

"Covering Mississippi: Women Journalists in Conversation across Generations” panel with @donnerkay.bsky.social, Aundrea Self, and Shamira Muhammad. Thanks, MSU Gender Studies!

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Thanks to MFP for publishing this little memorial I wrote for Sharon Morgan.

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

@kristinerosland.bsky.social *sees Nag Hammadi to fanfiction, follows immediately*

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Part 1 of big project finished this morning: a spreadsheet of all 162 Black legislators in Mississippi during the 1800s, tracking every documentation I could find for them on the US census: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 1/3

spreadsheet of legislators on the census

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MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

This is a wild thread about the fabrication of academic citations completely made up by AI tools in Google scholar.

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Now that Mississippi users can access this site again, I need to get back in the routine of posting here regularly. I'm on sabbatical for the spring 2026 semester (yay!), and my current main focus is leading the "Making Their Mark" project. +++

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I'm on Bluesky, so I must be out of Mississippi again... 😆 *waves* from New Orleans, where I'm gathering with a bunch of cool people from Monument Lab to talk about exciting projects in the works!

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Presenting "Until It Is Faced: Using Primary Sources to Teach the History of Civil Rights in Mississippi" at @asalh-bhm.bsky.social with @jperksmith.bsky.social, Al Dorsey, and Beth Kruse #ASALH2025

Jessica Perkins Smith, DeeDee Baldwin, Al Dorsey, and Beth Kruse at ASALH 2025

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2025

this needs to be hammered into the skulls of every elite individual and institution on every measure - reputationally, financially, morally - you come out better if you fight the guy stand up! it’s the right thing to do and better for you in every way! how often does that happen?

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Yesterday's ASALH panel on @ccp-org.bsky.social was great! @profgabrielle.bsky.social and @jimccasey1.bsky.social, if y'all ever want another librarian, let me know! 😁

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Looking forward to my second day at @asalh-bhm.bsky.social! I'll be presenting "Until It Is Faced: Using Primary Sources to Teach the History of Civil Rights in Mississippi" with Al Dorsey and @jperksmith.bsky.social at 4:00. #ASALH2025 #TeachTheTruth

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

While I have Bluesky access, here are photos, info, and media links from our 150th anniversary commemoration of the Clinton Massacre on Sept 4-6: much-ado.net/legislators/... This season of organized white supremacist violence in 1875 brought about the end of Reconstruction in Mississippi.

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The Clinton Massacre 150th Anniversary Commemoration Events – Against All Odds

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I'm aliiiiive! I'm out of Mississippi and in Atlanta for @asalh-bhm.bsky.social, so I was able to get on Bluesky! Full day of panels today. My panel with Jessica Smith and Al Dorsey, "Until it is Faced: Using Primary Sources to Tell the Story of Civil Rights in Mississippi," is tomorrow at 4:00.

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

At least I can still access Bluesky on my phone. Hope that doesn't change. #Mississippi

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James @sirjamesa12.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

“See, Mississippi is not actually Mississippi’s problem. Mississippi is America’s problem because if America wanted to do something about it, what’s been going on in Mississippi, it could have been stopped by now.” —Fannie Lou Hamer

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

During the first week of September, we'll be commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Clinton Massacre with several events in and around Clinton, Mississippi. Details at much-ado.net/legislators/.... Please help spread the word!

“REMEMBER IT WHEN I AM GONE” The Clinton Massacre 150th Anniversary Commemoration Events.
On September 4, 1875, racist violence erupted at a community picnic (learn more), leading to the deaths of unknown numbers of African Americans in the months that followed. 150 years later, in 2025, we commit ourselves to learn from the past, to honor those who lost their lives, and to do better in the future.

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I wonder when all the national media is going to start breathlessly reporting every day on how all the rollbacks of equity programs, scholarships, and social justice centers on college campuses at behest of this admin makes black, brown, trans, and queer folks feel unsafe

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

In today's mail! I've been waiting for this to come out. 😁 @upmississippi.bsky.social

Jere Nash's new book, Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

"I am, at any given moment, Schrodinger's criminal. So are you. So are all of us."

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Honoring Emmett Till's birthday at the national monument in Sumner, MS

The infamous sign that's been put up at NPS sites

Tallahatchie County courtroom where the Emmett Till murder trial took place

Till national monument sign with Confederate statue in foreground

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

This is the small newspaper clipping that I show to my Governor's School students to show the callous establishment reaction to the murder.

Marsh Cook Killed. MERIDIAN, July 25. F. M. B. Cook, a prominent and offensive Republican politician of Jasper county, was found dead in the public road, near Mt. Zion church, Tuesday evening, with eighteen buck-shot in his body. The Clarion Ledger, July 25, 1890.

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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans. Here’s What They Flagged. Descriptions and displays at scores of parks and historic sites have been flagged for review in connection with an executive order from President Trump.

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Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans. Here’s What They Flagged.

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Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 21/07/2025

Federal judge temporarily blocks Mississippi’s new DEI ban U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate on Sunday approved the request for a temporary restraining order sought by a coalition of civil rights and legal organizations on behalf of students, parents and educators.

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Federal judge temporarily blocks Mississippi’s new DEI ban

U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate on Sunday approved the request for a temporary restraining order sought by a coalition of civil rights and legal organizations on behalf of students, parents and educators.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

"ICE isn’t helping anyone. They’re not making us safer or more prosperous. With every new headline, I find it harder to understand what role they’re playing that would allow us to even call them public servants." I published some thoughts today on ICE and the meaning of public service.

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This isn’t public service, and these are not public servants — The McPherson Square Group

Fred Rogers, who entertained and taught children for more than 50 years, once said, “when I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You w...

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 17/07/2025

OPINION: Amid federal budget cuts, "Mississippi has lost millions in science funding so far and is poised to lose tens of millions more for biomedical research from NIH alone," Logan Havard writes.

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Opinion | Why Scientists Need Your Tax Dollars

Logan G. Havard writes about how federal funding cuts affect scientific research that could otherwise benefit people at the local and national levels.

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 15/07/2025

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

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What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT

“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.

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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

We can circle the barn all day voicing opinions on using AI for writing but eventually you get to the heart of the matter, which is that you either enjoy thinking or you don’t.

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

My Mississippi State University Libraries colleague on how federal cuts are hurting universities' preservation of congressional papers

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

"If you want to dismantle democracy, take out the people who can prove why it needs to exist." @staceyabrams.com at @mmei63.bsky.social on why authoritarians are afraid of teaching about people like Medgar Evers

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DeeDee Baldwin @deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

And if you concede in advance, it gives them even more power over you.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

not a single person's job, not a single grant, will be saved by surrendering instead of fighting. ask columbia.

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