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Kendra A. Kennedy

@kendraakennedy.bsky.social
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Studies history of gender and slavery in British North America and early U.S.

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#Skystorians
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy #Pride, all! I've had the chance to share a number of Pride columns, & hope to do so again this month. But given our current moment's lethal combo of hate & historical erasure, I don't know if I'll write a more important one than last year's on LGBTQ+ Americans in our armed forces. 🗃️
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Considering History: Taking Pride in LGBTQ+ Americans in Our Armed Forces | The Saturday Evening Post
Countless LGBTQ+ Americans have served in the armed forces throughout our history, including during every one of our wars, despite facing discrimination.
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Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Did the promises of the Declaration of Independence find their way into the Constitution? Join @emilysneff.bsky.social, @sarageorgini.bsky.social, and Mary Sarah Bilder as they discuss how how America’s founding documents are related. Register here: www.masshist.org/events/draft...
"Drafting Independence: Declaration to Constitution. Join us to discover connections between America’s founding documents. June 1 | 6:00–7:00 PM ET. Join us in person at the MHS or online."
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Dr Rebecca Hall WakeProductions @wakerevolt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“As I travel into the past to recover the subjugated knowledge of women-led slave revolt, because we still live in the Wake of slavery, which is why we are soaking in a sea of WHITE SUPREMACY.”
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
“Historian here”! Masculinity is pretty much always in “crisis,” which suggests that American masculinity itself is the crisis. 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...
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Opinion | America Has a Masculinity Crisis
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Note, this does not just apply to STEM. It is all federal research, including whatever is left of humanities, arts, museum, and library research via NEH, NEA, and IMLS 🗃️

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Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance
An unpublished Proposed Rule by the Management and Budget Office, the Health and Human Services Department, the Agriculture Department, the State Department, the Agency for International Development, the Veterans Affairs Department, the Energy Department, the Treasury Department, the Defense Department, the Transportation Department, the Commerce Department, the Interior Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, the United States Agency for Global Media, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Social Security Administration, the Housing and Urban Development Department, the National Science Foundation, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Small Business Administration, the Justice Department, the Labor Department, the Homeland Security Department, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Education Department, the Office of Natonal Drug Control Policy, the Peace Corps, the Election Assistance Commission, the Gulf Coast Ecosystem O
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Courtney Tanner @courtneyltanner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This former Utah tribal chairman believes Native American burial sites are near the MIDA data center project www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05...
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mmr @mmr3cords.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#Berlin #Germany #Techno How German techno has changed in the 2020s, what has been lost, and what has been gained.... monumental-movement.jp/en/column-20...
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[Column] German techno and the pandemic in the 2020s: Cultural transformation brought about by lockdown and revitalization
Pandemic: A true history of everything from lockdown to reopening to redefining music
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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It’s always worth your time to leaf through Ben Railton’s Scholar Sunday, even on a Monday.
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery
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Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery
Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery.
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mmr @mmr3cords.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
In this episode you’ll learn • How NTM transformed French hip-hop culture • Why French rap developed differently from American rap • The role of immigration and banlieue culture • How trap and Afro influences reshaped modern French rap #frenchrap #ntm #frenchhiphop youtu.be/ar4Dt-LxbDE
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From NTM to Modern French Rap: A New Urban Sound
YouTube video by Monumental Movement
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The essential book for the last decade and the next decade. #BookSky
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Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
On the new episode of Historians & Their Histories, Marcus Nevius reflects on the evolving scholarly understanding of marronage and the challenges of recovering maroon voices from the archives. Listen here: www.masshist.org/podcast/hath...
Headshot of Marcus Nevius next to Historians & Their Histories podcast logo. Below, text reads: "Episode 33: Fear of a Maroon Republic with Maroon Nevius."
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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It’s May 19th, Malcolm X’s birthday. Let’s celebrate his life and impact on the movement
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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
New Episode of @bfworld.bsky.social! During the American Revolution, the British promised freedom to enslaved men & women who joined their lines. For David George, born into bondage in Virginia, it was an opening. But freedom across British lines was only 1 escape. 🎧 www.benfranklinsworld.com/441
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Kendra A. Kennedy @kendraakennedy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Holy shit. The tech oligarchs are coming for the children.
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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In 2025, HHS issued stop work order for federal research lab that studies Ebola virus and other deadly pathogens and fired its director. This lab was a world leader in accelerating development therapies and vaccines for Ebola and other viruses. 1/ www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s departm...
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Rev. Denise C @revdenise-s2hlight.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Ain't going to happen 🙏 - #ThereAreTooManySurvivors #METOO #JUSTICEMATTERS #EPSTEINFILES #GlobalSexTraffickingRing
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Kathryn Vomero Santos @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Some good news worth celebrating: my colleagues and I proposed a new major in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (in addition to the minor we've had for many years), and we just received word that it was officially approved at all levels. The work continues!
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: (1941 - 2007): Historian, feminist, academic. After earning her Ph.D. at Harvard, she taught history at Emory University. There, she founded the Institute for Women's Studies and led the first Women's Studies doctoral programme in the US. #CelebratingWomen
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kathleenpolarb.bsky.social @kathleenpolarb.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
@visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.
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Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights | Alabama Reflector
Speakers at the All Roads Lead to the South events urge people to mobilize to oppose redistricting efforts by Legislatures in the south.
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
While I am glad that more people are acknowledging the scope of Harvard officials' enslaving and profiting from slavery (this database is a small part of a much larger history), I also hope that people will engage with the ongoing violence of this sort of data:
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Open access violence: Legacies of white supremacist data making at the Penn Museum, from the Morton Cranial Collection to the MOVE remains | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge Core
Open access violence: Legacies of white supremacist data making at the Penn Museum, from the Morton Cranial Collection to the MOVE remains - Volume 30 Issue 2
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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Teaching the Fourteenth Amendment and Birthright Citizenship harkeraquila.com/97160/featur...
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Pulse of the People: Give me your poor, huddled masses - Harker Aquila
One hundred sixty years after the 14th Amendment established citizenship for people born in the United States, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether the Trump administration can limit that ...
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Courtney Tanner @courtneyltanner.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Had a lot of fun talking to the family for this story: This Utah Valley University student just graduated alongside her mom and grandma www.sltrib.com/news/educati...
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Pamela Toler (she/her) @pdtoler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Maggie Lena Walker helped found and lead a Black-owned bank that gave Black families access to home ownership, businesses, and financial stability when white-owned banks shut them out. Her story deserves to be much better known. 🗃️ Read more: www.historyinthemargins.com
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Happy publication day to H.W. Brands! He'll be on the pod Thursday but you can get his new book today. amzn.to/4tnZeNT
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American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington
Amazon.com: American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington: 9780385551557: Brands, H. W.: Books
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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 12/05/2026
In this @time.com op-ed, Earl Smith & Angela Hattery (@udelaware.bsky.social) explain that Black women bear a disproportionate share of domestic violence's lethal consequences, while Black communities receive a fraction of the prevention resources they need. 🔗 Read the piece:
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The Structure of America’s Domestic Violence Crisis
Gender-based violence researchers raise concerns about dangerous levels of domestic violence and offer solutions to address the systemic issue.
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Kendra A. Kennedy @kendraakennedy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We have Gov. Cox and a few higher political figures including Sen. Lee, to thank for fast tracking the project through a military loophole. These politicians hid the deal from the community, gave O’Leary an awesome tax break-0.5% when the standard is 6%. Bravo UTGOP!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/05/2026
The Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority didn't happen overnight. This is the inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that reshaped the American judiciary and legal system. (Published Oct. 2023)
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We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority
The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.
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Journal of Southern History @joursouhist.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
May 2026 issue out soon! thesha.org/contents
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Meet the New South, same as the Old South.
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Warren Milteer @wemilteer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Today, I spoke with Bernice Bennett about my new book on free people of color in Virginia. Check out our discussion on Ancestor's Footprints via the link below or your favorite podcast app. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
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Freedom in the Age of Slavery: A History of Free People of Color in Virginia with Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.
Podcast Episode · Ancestor's Footprints with Bernice Alexander Bennett · May 6 · 34m
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Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Sometimes you film these things and you have no idea what it’ll become. Well, this is what it became! www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
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Dr Tim Galsworthy 🗃️ @timgalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
You can order my book “The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP” with a 40% discount until the end of May. Well, what are you waiting for?! 📚🇺🇸🗃️ uscpress.com/The-Republic... @uscpress.bsky.social @unipresssalesbot.bsky.social
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The Republican House Divided
How the Republican Party transformed from the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Lee The Republican House Divided is the first comprehensive study of the relationships between the Republ…
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Once more before Sunday ends, here’s today’s thread. Please share widely to get all this great scholarship to all the folks, & thanks! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Dr. Jim Downs @jimdowns.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Today is Pub Day! US History at the 250th.This grew out of a conversation about the past a & what it means now @nhannahjones.bsky.social, @agordonreed.bsky.social @sienriquez.bsky.social, @redped.bsky.social Erika Lee Robert Parkinson Marc Stein @william-sturkey.bsky.social y, & Catherine Clinton
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This new Banksy statue is a reminder that nothing can be more powerful, more creative, more impactful than human-made art. He's managed to capture the dangers of the current political moment in a single piece of artwork. Absolutely brilliant.
A state of a man holding a flag. The flag is blinding him, wrapped around his head and eyes.
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Look what's here! Just in time to order for your fall classes! It's the affordable paperback version of *Plantation Goods* from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
A stack of 5 copies of the paperback version of Plantation Goods by Seth Rockman
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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is a thread for historians: Our most important use of our professional skills is informing the public of our shared past, especially at times like this. Human histories of the costs of Jim Crow, what this all means in accessible terms, it needs to get out. Resources and publication options:
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is a Justice Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor appreciation post. Thank you for your just and righteous voices and your fierce defense of our democracy. ❤️
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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“Students deserve to learn full and accurate histories of the United States and the world, and for university students at every level these histories necessarily include histories of gender and sexuality, and of LGBTQ+ people.” @historians.org 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍎 🗃️ 🗺️ www.historians.org/news/aha-opp...
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AHA Opposes Restrictions on Teaching and Learning at Texas Tech University - AHA
The AHA has released a statement strongly opposing the new Texas Tech University Course Content Guidelines. The guidelines impose a “strict prohibition” on content related to “Sexual Orientation and G...
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Kendra A. Kennedy @kendraakennedy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is great advice- It’s been rough at the U for the past three? years, especially for marginalized groups and people whose work involves topics not approved of by Project 2025.
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Daniel Lafleur Baron de Cadillac @lafleurmtl.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Killer line
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
#MedievalSky Would you like to provide some answers to this query from a colleague in Public Health & Sociology? Humanities work doesn't often cross the divide over to the sciences (on this ap or at many universities), so some real information sharing could do a world of good!
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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
David Waldstreicher does historiography better than anyone else I know 🗃️
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Courtney Tanner @courtneyltanner.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Sharon McMahon says Utah politicians led ‘coercive pressure campaign’ to upend her UVU speech www.sltrib.com/news/educati...
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