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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Congrats to postdoc scholar Dr. Joshua Strayhorn on a great manuscript workshop on “Freedom’s Promise: Black Mobility, Migration, and Freedom Dreams in Eastern North Carolina, 1862-1898!” And many thanks to the invited scholars, Dr. Tera Hunter & Dr. Dylan Penningroth, for their valuable feedback.

Dylan Penningroth, Joshua Strayhorn, Tera Hunter

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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The Richards Center is excited to welcome Halee Robinson and Joshua Strayhorn to the community as the 2025-2026 incoming postdoctoral scholars. Halee will receive her PhD later this month from Princeton University and Joshua received his PhD degree from Duke University. Welcome Halee and Joshua!! 🎉

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Linda Monk @lindarmonkjd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Please use Dr. Strayhorn's story map to teach about freedom communities established during the #CivilWar, including James City--still going strong since 1863! @america250.bsky.social #sschat

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Josh Strayhorn @jstrayhist.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I had the pleasure of launching the digital exhibit for a project I have been working on for the past year with the James City Historical Society in Eastern North Carolina. I am happy to share the site with you all. Please check it out and engage in this important piece of NC and national history.

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Created Equal · JCHS America 250 NC

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

"The problem does not appear to be that “kids these days” are incurious or uninterested in reading. Instead, young people might be responding to a cultural message: Books just aren’t that important." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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How Gen Z Came to See Books as a Waste of Time

Young people might be responding to a cultural message: Reading just isn’t that important.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

"The conservatives desire to pry the lid off the coffin & so our confrontation then must be against the grave robbers. Our coalition has got to keep the lid nailed down tight & the wheels of progress turning & rolling . . ." -- Shirley Chisholm, born #tdih 1924 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sh...

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Nov. 30, 1924: Shirley Chisholm Born

Born on this day, Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress

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