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Miller Wright

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Asst Professor of History, UMBC: Native Slavery in Brazil and Carolina, Matrilineages, Atlantic. Itinerant.

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Miller Wright @millerswright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The SHA annual Classic Texts interview will be held October 8th at 2:30 ET featuring Gender and Jim Crow by @glendagilmore.bsky.social with comments by the author and Crystal Feimster and Elizabeth McRae. Pre-registration via zoom required. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
SHA Classic Texts Interview featuring Glenda Gilmore’s Gender and Jim Crow
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Miller Wright @millerswright.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Seeing the Danube for the first time reminded me of that joy of seeing a place I knew existed but had never actually experienced. The joy of learning. The joy of knowing very little about something and it sparking a childlike curiosity. May we all find more of that joy.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Roberts’ 2024 opinion without textual or historical legitimacy, granted Trump immunity for virtually all crimes ushered in reign of domestic terror, and now an unconstitutional and shameful war for oil. No one has done more to destroy the “rule of law” than Roberts. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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If We had a Functional Constitution, We Wouldn’t have an Illegal War
MAGA stooges destroyed the rule of law
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/07/2025
NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system. Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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RFK Jr. Wants to Revolutionize a Program That Supports Childhood Immunizations. The Results Could Be Catastrophic.
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccin...
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Miller Wright @millerswright.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
In intro courses we read our primary sources in class together and group discussion afterwards. Only way I can get some students to read a page or two.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Yeah this is the thing I'm told me and all my students need to uncritically embrace so they can get a job after college
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Miller Wright @millerswright.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Excited to share I will be joining the history department at UMBC in the Fall. Looking forward to meeting new students and colleagues and getting back in the classroom.
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Miller Wright @millerswright.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Excited to share I will be joining the history department at UMBC in the Fall. Looking forward to meeting new students and colleagues and getting back in the classroom.
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
the White House's erasure of slavery (except for as something the founders sought to curb, which is weird since it didn't otherwise exist and wasn't otherwise bad) from its 250 materials is pretty bleak, a rewrite more reactionary than the 1876, 1926, or 1976 centennials.
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Denise D. Meringolo @ddmeringolo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Historic Places are the cornerstone of the National Park Service mission, and they (almost) always have been.
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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Every time I have tried to have an open mind and use chatgpt for academic research (finding new articles, etc), it has been entirely useless. The vast majority of citations are fake. Literally every single quote is made up. It's just a lie machine! I can't fathom how people have come to rely on it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/06/2025
NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities. By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social
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Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate ...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/05/2025
Breaking News: The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program critical to the research.
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Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine
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NPR @npr.org · 21/05/2025
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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Miller Wright @millerswright.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I know that the NEH Summer Stipend is being canceled but did anyone receive one this year? And did anyone receive their submission evaluations?
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
It’s not medical advice to advocate for vaccines when you head the nation’s largest public health agency and it’s your charge. Arguably, however it is (very bad) medical advice when you promote useless interventions such as budesonide, vitamin A, clarithromycin as a false equivalent to vaccines
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Major airspace closures for civil aviation announced by both Pakistan (all airspace) and India (along the border with Pakistan) in the last few hours. We're possibly about to witness the start of the most intense and broad-spectrum direct conflict between two nuclear-armed states ever.
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Miller Wright @millerswright.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Got the notification that I did not win an NEH summer stipend, which I assumed with the gutting of the NEH. But did anyone? Understanding the human experience is paramount in times like these. Humanities funding opportunities were already comically low, but the work must go on. Keep writing!
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Framing the adoption of AI as an historical inevitability, rather than a way to do a thing you want or need done, gives the game away. Nobody selling it this hard cares whether it helps; they want it to be the thing you have to deal with, like it or not. Problems, solutions, what’s the difference?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/04/2025
NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social
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White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Anyone debating or analyzing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's life or record is doing a grave disservice. He could be El Chapo. He could be Charles Manson. He could be the Dalai Lama. It doesn't matter. What has happened to him and others is clearly a violation of America's core laws and principles.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/04/2025
Insurance companies aren’t just players in the fight with doctors over money; they’re also the referees. They produce their own guidelines on when to pay claims. If a doctor appeals a denial, insurers make all the initial decisions. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.
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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
SoEx Spotlight: Sam Bisno, a Mitchell Scholar and MA student at Queen's University Belfast, will be discussing his thesis at SoEx on April 9! His work lies at the intersection of labor, technology, slavery and emancipation, and capitalism.
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Miller Wright @millerswright.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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a close up of a man with a mustache looking at something
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker is 23 hours in and somehow seems to be gaining strength
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/04/2025
Attorney General Seeks Death Penalty For All UnitedHealthcare Customers
Attorney General Seeks Death Penalty For All UnitedHealthcare Customers
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The future history of now will include something along the lines of "social media put billions of people worldwide in the same room together for the first time in history and it drove them absolutely insane"
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Reuters @reuters.com · 01/04/2025
Reproductive health provider Planned Parenthood said the Trump administration would cut federal family planning funding as of Tuesday, affecting birth control, cancer screenings and other services for low-income people reut.rs/426wwWd
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Trump administration to freeze family-planning funds for Planned Parenthood
Reproductive health provider Planned Parenthood said on Monday the Trump administration would cut federal family planning funding as of Tuesday, affecting birth control, cancer screenings and other services for low-income people.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/03/2025
This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
My column from Monday. The best argument against abolishing the U.S. Department of Education? Alabama. Federal funding is one of the few things pushing against a state education system designed to deny Black children proper schooling, a system that creates large racial disparities in achievement.
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Don't cheer, Gov. Ivey: Killing the Department of Education will hurt Alabama students • Alabama Reflector
Gov. Kay Ivey is a sure-footed politician. She’s walked the narrow and dangerous path of Alabama politics all the way to summit. It requires focus, dedication and balancing performative apathy and win...
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Alex Horton @alexhorton.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The Pentagon purge of media it considers 'DEI' has expanded to stories about Navajo code talkers and Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who helped raise the US flag over Iwo Jima. w/ @jonswaine.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes web page on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
it is grimly hilarious that, given the immense, decades-long fetishization of "leadership" and "leadership skills" in business-oriented academia and politics, even unto the formation of leadership institutes, there should turn out to be no leaders in any positions of power
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump has a nerve to talk about cancer rates when he is gutting federal cancer research
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Greg Beaman isn't afraid of having fun @historicbeaman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I'm not watching this trash and you shouldn't either. What happens tonight has no bearing whatsoever on anything. It's theater. The only thing that will stop this Administration from dismantling the country is bodies on the line. Democrats have to get in the way, physically. Action is the only law.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.
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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Anti-DEI crowd going after State Archives in Alabama. www.al.com/politics/202...
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Democrats shut down Alabama Senate, accuse GOP of ‘wiping out’ state archives over DEI
Democrats said the Republican-backed bill was part of an effort to scrub state history on race.
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
There are so many things to be upset about, but this... this is just cruelty (and incredibly stupid). The repercussions for both patients and the healers involved will be profound.
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W. Caleb McDaniel @wcaleb.org · 16/02/2025
For Day 15 of Black History Month, I worked on the Wikipedia page for Kentucky lawmaker Mae Street Kidd, whom I wrote about in my post on delayed ratifications of the Reconstruction amendments. Kidd sponsored the resolution that led Kentucky to ratify the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments … in 1976.
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Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Alabama has the most spineless elected federal representatives. They are lapdogs. Trump will destroy the state, and these guys will be clapping. www.al.com/news/2025/02...
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Alabama not among 22 states suing Trump, NIH over cuts threatening UAB, UAH; judge blocks move
The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court in Massachusetts by Democratic attorneys general from 22 states.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is a genocidal war crime endorsed by the president of the United States
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W. Caleb McDaniel @wcaleb.org · 01/02/2025
I’m hoping to mark every day of Black History Month by making some improvement to a related entry on Wikipedia, something small but constructive. Today’s entry: Charles McDew, a co-founder and the second chairman of SNCC.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
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Murderers As Leaders @morbidhegel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Knowledge is paywalled and disinfo is free, and this is part of why we are where we are.
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