George Oberle

Stolen Relations: Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas YouTube video by Omohundro Institute

Check out this great talk by @linford.bsky.social on "Stolen Relations: Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas" at a recent @oieahc.bsky.social Digital Projects Coffeehouse.

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Announcement: The @shearites.bsky.social Robyn Lily Davis Dissertation Prize

Starting with the July 2026 award, the winner will receive $1,000!

For the 2026 competition, please submit a CV, the dissertation’s table of contents, the introduction, and a sample chapter by January 30, 2026.

Now available! "Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic" by George D. Oberle III.

Examining the early debates in the United States over how best to educate the constituents of the new nation

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10158/

#Booksky #skystorians

Read an interview with the author: www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...

Thank you, Jim! I hope you like it and I look forward to talking with you about it.

NOW PLAYING: Episode 19: The Gambit

With British authority collapsing in North America, Britons on both sides of the Atlantic including Benjamin Franklin, Caroline Howe, and Lord Dartmouth engage in desperate and secret negotiations to avoid all the horrors of civil war.

#podcast #history

From the Enslaved Children of George Mason to Black Lives Next Door: rediscovering the namesake of Virginia’s largest university in the “plantation” suburbs of Washington, D.C. Established in 1972, George Mason University (GMU) lauds its eighteenth-century namesake whose Gunston Hall Plantation in Virginia is a national landmark. An author of the U.S. Bill of Rights, he i...

Why not check out Benedict Carton and George D. Oberle III's latest article for ANCH, exploring the relationship between slavery and US universities, via George Mason #blackhistory #AmericanHistory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yesterday, the @rrchnm.bsky.social team was fortunate to tour Historic Blenheim in Fairfax, VA to see graffiti left by Union soldiers during the Civil War. RRCHNM is working with Blenheim & similar sites to digitize the graffiti & make it widely available for teaching & research.

Episode 57: Those Tumultuous Assemblies of Men Dr. Cynthia Kierner joins host Kathryn Gehred to discuss a 1778 letter from Richard Henry Lee to his sister Hannah Lee Corbin. In a lost letter, Hannah previously e…

Dr. Cynthia Kierner joins host Kathryn Gehred to discuss a 1778 letter from Richard Henry Lee to his sister Hannah Lee Corbin. In a lost letter, Hannah previously expressed her frustrations that widows are being taxed without representation.

Listen here: www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...

One thing that really excites me about my forthcoming book is that it includes 27 images. I worked hard to obtain rights to all of these. A small sample.

FSU board OKs removal of over 400 courses from general education offerings after review “We’re living through an era of legislature-driven higher education reform,” FSU Provost Jim Clark said.

Important to understand that (1) political appointees, not the university administration, are doing this; (2) they're not cancelling courses, but removing them from the list that satisfy breadth reqmts (i.e. death by strangling rather than a knife to the back).

www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Black Reason, White Feeling <b>The vital influence of Black American intellectuals on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson’s ideas</b><br/><br/> The lofty Enlightenment principles arti

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5897/

RRCHNM's R2 Studios has received a grant from the Dr. Scholl Foundation which will support several elements of podcast production, including work on the fourth season of Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant and the upcoming series Finding Jane Austen. Learn more here: rrchnm.org/news/r2-stud...

Digitizing rare ‘hidden’ trans archives - University of Victoria Hundreds of at-risk, rarely seen, audio visual items that document the history of Trans+ activism will be made digitally accessible with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that preserves and improves research and learning.

"Digitizing rare ‘hidden’ trans archives - University of Victoria" https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2024+hidden-trans-digital-archives+media-release 🗃️ #sexuality #TransArchives 🏳️‍⚧️

Book Cover of Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookChallenge