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Rebecca Brenner Graham

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Brown postdoc | author, Dear Miss Perkins | writing on female millennial popular culture and the American Revolution | rebeccabrennergraham.com

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · Sep 11

for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social I had the pleasure & privilege of interviewing Kate Haulman re: her new book THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA out from @oxfordunipress.bsky.social today! www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

The Reinvention of George Washington's Mother, From Paragon of Virtue to Greedy Shrew to Widow Striving for Independence

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely on her own after her husband’s death in 1743

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 6h

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 6h

510 words #team500

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 7h

331 words #amwriting

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 8h

finished enough research today to have reason to start the next draft chapter tonight, & I have a few hours- excited & scared #amwriting

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 19h

When people tell you that founders as enslavers was something we should see "in the context of their time." Great piece fr @katytelling.bsky.social abt a wealthy 18hc Virginian (and there were others) who thought Washington and co. risked their honor and more. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...

A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic

By Kathleen Telling In 1785, Robert Pleasants, a wealthy tobacco planter, abolitionist, and prominent member of Henrico County’s Quaker community, penned a letter to Virginia’s most famous son, Geo…

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 4d

listening to @kawulf.bsky.social interview former AOTUS Shogan 📍 @jcblibrary.bsky.social

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 5d

my therapist is taking my Felicity survey! if you'd also like to take my Felicity survey #amresearching docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Felicity Survey

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Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social · 4d

In 1776, a Scottish housepainter called James Aitken set out on a secret mission to destroy the British navy and win the War of Independence for the United States. His story is the core of my book, EMPIRE ABLAZE: The American Revolution and the Atlantic Working Class, out next summer with Verso!

The cover of "Empire Ablaze: The American Revolution and the Atlantic Working Class," which features an image of an eighteenth-century building on fire, with small sailing boats visible on a river in the foreground.

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 5d

“this is a whale that outlived the whole Soviet experiment completely” - @brdemuth.bsky.social #Brown2026Reads

Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 5d

packed house for a #Brown2026Reads talk by @brdemuth.bsky.social

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 5d

me: “there was never a chance I wasn’t going to spend the $500 on going to the award ceremony in dc”

therapist: “correct”

Grateful American Book Prize @gratefulbookprize.bsky.social · 6d

Rebellion 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson Wins 2025 Grateful American Book Prize

Honorable Mentions Go to Rebecca Brenner Graham and Debbie Levy

https://gratefulamericanbookprize.org/2025/10/08/rebellion-1776-by-laurie-halse-anderson-wins-2025-grateful-american-book-prize/

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Grateful American Book Prize @gratefulbookprize.bsky.social · 6d

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 5d

“you have to share your writing with other people, otherwise you’re just whistling into the wind” - @andrewhartman.bsky.social to @katecarp.bsky.social on @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Andrew Hartman Takes the Time to Get It Right

Podcast Episode · Drafting the Past · 10/07/2025 · 40m

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 5d

wow I’d be so grateful! 🙏🏼💕

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 5d

my therapist is taking my Felicity survey! if you'd also like to take my Felicity survey #amresearching docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Felicity Survey

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 6d

facilitated by RI Historical Society and hosted at Brown, History Day is an opportunity to encourage & provide feedback to local high school & middle school students interested in history. Rhode Islanders, save the date: March 28. register to judge here! #Brown2026 sites.google.com/rihs.org/rho...