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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 22/09/2026

The moment I submitted this fan poll I remembered Silo oops

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 13/08/2026

New year new headshot! Soft smiles babey

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 13/08/2026

Starting off the new semester by being a hater, on brand

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 07/08/2026

I've seen his grandparents but never his dad

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 07/08/2026

Does Llama llama red pajama have a single mama?

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 02/07/2026

My friend is at Gettysburg right now. Way to ignore the U.S. Colored Troops...

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 02/07/2026

My friend is at Gettysburg right now. Way to ignore the U.S. Colored Troops...

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 18/06/2026

I'm on Saturday at 10:15, talking secession (shocker). Very fun to think about how I was citing Michael when I was back in grad school

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 18/06/2026

Caroline Wood Newhall is chairing a panel that's also at 10:15-11:15 on Friday!

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 18/06/2026

Shae Smith Cox's panel is Friday from 10:15-11:45!

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 12/06/2026

Which addictive drug did they liberally sprinkle on these

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 07/06/2026

Hey 🗃️ friends in Augusta/Aiken! It is almost time for the 150th anniversary of the Hamburg Massacre The 10 am program is free, with Representative Jim Clyburn in attendance, and then the 6 pm evening concert has these wonderful performers! Tickets for the concert here: donorbox.org/events/90689...

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 22/05/2026

Nothing makes me more grateful for birth control than my research

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 18/05/2026

Faculty: we're annoyed by the use of AI by students and scared at what the Canvas hack revealed My university: not only must all grades be on the LMS, you have to give them MORE grades because big exams are scary

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 06/05/2026

Is this also the most corporate-speak thing you've ever heard?

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 25/04/2026

Wore my lady earrings to give a talk on Gendering Secession at the South Carolina Historical Society! My first time on the third floor of the Robert Mills-designed fireproof building 😍😍

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 22/04/2026

The train trellis where McKie Meriwether was killed while shooting at the town's Black militia. He has a marker in his honor for defending "Anglo-Saxon" supremacy

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 22/04/2026

Hamburg, South Carolina in 1872 and Hamburg now from the far left bridge. This is the site of the "dead-ring" of executions during the Hamburg Massacre of 1876

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 21/04/2026

Georgia tried to pass a lot of anti-LGBTQIA bills this year and FAILED. One of them was HB 104, which tried to stop trans kids from playing sports. So here's my spite donation of $104 plus fees to Protect Trans Kids University Edsbscharitybowl.com @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 14/04/2026

Excuse my corniness, I'm excited

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 16/02/2026

For Presidents' Day, here's a clip of me on C-SPAN talking about how when it comes to his memory, "there's a Washington for everyone."

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 27/01/2026

It's my BIRTHDAY so I will shamelessly plug my book, Gendering Secession: White Women and Politics in South Carolina, 1859-1861. Bit.ly/genderingsecession Yes it's about women and politics and turning points but it's also about time, how we capture it, and how we regulate our inner selves. 😊😊

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 06/01/2026

I got scammed by a fake Cotopaxi site and felt like a total boomer until I realized that it's so common that the poor company has to post about it

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 03/01/2026

Happy 2026! Giving a talk at my local bookstore this month!

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 27/12/2025

I told my students that my bosses read the evals and apparently they took that to heart I love them sm 🥹

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 17/12/2025

Gonna show this to my students as proof that you can't do history through AI. The Senate investigation into Hamburg was THREE VOLUMES

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 16/12/2025

All men's rooms should have changing tables

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 12/12/2025

History found me on vacation: unionism in Blue Ridge, GA!

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 08/06/2025

My former student and Augusta Jewish Museum Manager Angela Russo at the Georgia Historical Marker Dedication for the Congregation Children of Israel Synagogue!

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 23/05/2025

Surely this can't be used to hurt faculty at all! /s

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 08/05/2025

Now getting ready for the South Caroliniana Society's annual meeting, "E is for Edgar" with Walter Edgar, SC ETV, and BBQ 😊

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 08/05/2025

My students, who wrote the state marker application for Reverend Doctor William Jefferson White

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 14/03/2025

PTKU is my favorite school, support them at preownedairboats.com ty @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 13/03/2025

Let's just say I worked on two big projects this past year 😊 Gendering Secession is OUT NOW! I can't believe! Bit.ly/genderingsecession

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 14/02/2025

This is so CUTE @joursouhist.bsky.social (I reviewed I Saw Death Coming and it was a very hard and very necessary read)

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 01/02/2025

Here's a clip of me saying that South Carolina and Virginia had "beef," now immortalized on CSPAN

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 10/01/2025

Ladies and Gentlemen, friends and enemies, Gendering Secession has a cover and wonderful blurbs

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 10/01/2025

Getting my family's Marietta/Atlanta updates when I live in Augusta

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 13/12/2024

What if instead of grading I laid on the floor and squished the waterbed toy

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 12/12/2024

No one leaves my US history class without learning about Harriet Tubman and the Combahee Ferry Raid (and usually the Drunk History video about it)

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 25/11/2024

This is so, so exciting! I admire the Civil Rights Center so much and it's amazing to see them expand to a postdoc! Please share widely!

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 17/11/2024

First paid keynote last night ☺️ I think it went well and, most importantly, my PowerPoint was gorgeous

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 17/09/2023

Truly can't tell if she's miserable or living her best pillow life post-op

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Melissa DeVelvis @melissadevelvis.org · 13/09/2023

Love to make students buy and discuss my favorite books

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