@adamxmcneil.bsky.social
2025-2027 Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Ph.D. in Early African American Women's History from Rutgers University.
One man's quest to prove historians wrong about Thomas Jefferson leads to a grave in TN
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One man's quest to prove historians wrong about Thomas Jefferson leads to a grave in TN
Thomas Jefferson's nephew is buried in Nashville, and his DNA may shed light on whether Jefferson had children with the enslaved Sally Hemings.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
One man's quest to prove historians wrong about Thomas Jefferson leads to a grave in TN
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Heading home for Thanksgiving to fight with your uncle about what the founders wanted?
Check out "The Founders Didn't Want A Gerontocracy," the latest episode of Revolutions in Retrospect featuring @lynnprobbins.bsky.social's chat with @brannon.bsky.social
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Check out "The Founders Didn't Want A Gerontocracy," the latest episode of Revolutions in Retrospect featuring @lynnprobbins.bsky.social's chat with @brannon.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uscw...
The Founders Didn’t Want A Gerontocracy with Rebecca Brannon I Revolutions in Retrospect
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November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Heading home for Thanksgiving to fight with your uncle about what the founders wanted?
Check out "The Founders Didn't Want A Gerontocracy," the latest episode of Revolutions in Retrospect featuring @lynnprobbins.bsky.social's chat with @brannon.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uscw...
Check out "The Founders Didn't Want A Gerontocracy," the latest episode of Revolutions in Retrospect featuring @lynnprobbins.bsky.social's chat with @brannon.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uscw...
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I remember asking @katecarp.bsky.social if @draftingthepast.bsky.social was a confessional space...I think it is, and I was giddy to get to talk with Kate about the joy of writing history -- and my tremendous good fortune to get to do it. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
Episode 76: Karin Wulf Keeps Her Brain Humming Along - Drafting the Past
In this episode, Kate is joined by Karin Wulf, the director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, to discuss her new book, Lineage, and her research and writing process.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I remember asking @katecarp.bsky.social if @draftingthepast.bsky.social was a confessional space...I think it is, and I was giddy to get to talk with Kate about the joy of writing history -- and my tremendous good fortune to get to do it. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
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NOW PLAYING: Episode 21 "The Vengeance"
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
NOW PLAYING: Episode 21 "The Vengeance"
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
Canales got too damn cute. You have one of the best RBs in the league on the season. Run the rock!
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Canales got too damn cute. You have one of the best RBs in the league on the season. Run the rock!
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That feeling when you’re watching the Ken Burns American Revolution documentary, and that eternal “but what about the Caribbean” question starts bubbling up in your head… and then BAM! Vincent Brown is on your screen, telling you about the Caribbean.
a man with long hair and a beard is holding a steering wheel in his hands .
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is holding a steering wheel in his hands .
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November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
That feeling when you’re watching the Ken Burns American Revolution documentary, and that eternal “but what about the Caribbean” question starts bubbling up in your head… and then BAM! Vincent Brown is on your screen, telling you about the Caribbean.
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"The real question for the Semiquincentennial isn’t whether we can celebrate the Revolution, but whether we can finally afford to understand it—not the comforting mythology Burns offers, but the history scholarship reveals: disturbing, illuminating, and indispensable."
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What Ken Burns Won’t Tell You About How 1776 Built a Democracy—and an Empire
Founding Myths vs Founding Realities
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November 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
"The real question for the Semiquincentennial isn’t whether we can celebrate the Revolution, but whether we can finally afford to understand it—not the comforting mythology Burns offers, but the history scholarship reveals: disturbing, illuminating, and indispensable."
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On Phillis Wheatley, check out our recent podcast interview with Wheatley biographer David Waldstreicher: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 127: Phillis Wheatley: A Black Evangelical Poet in Revolutionary America
Podcast Episode · The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life. · 11/04/2025 · 55m
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November 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
On Phillis Wheatley, check out our recent podcast interview with Wheatley biographer David Waldstreicher: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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“Most of our political evils may be traced to our commercial ones, as most of our moral may to our political.”
--James madison to thomas jefferson, 1786
--James madison to thomas jefferson, 1786
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“Most of our political evils may be traced to our commercial ones, as most of our moral may to our political.”
--James madison to thomas jefferson, 1786
--James madison to thomas jefferson, 1786
The Department of Black Studies and the Frederick Douglass Institute at the University of Rochester invite applications for an open rank position in Black Digital Studies. Salary Range or Pay Grade: $90,000-$390,000
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November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The Department of Black Studies and the Frederick Douglass Institute at the University of Rochester invite applications for an open rank position in Black Digital Studies. Salary Range or Pay Grade: $90,000-$390,000
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Please join @lynnprobbins.bsky.social @adamxmcneil.bsky.social & @jimambuske.bsky.social live on Dec 2 at 8pmEST as they answer your questions about Ken Burns' latest series. Sign up here for the link to join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/1975144490...
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Please join @lynnprobbins.bsky.social @adamxmcneil.bsky.social & @jimambuske.bsky.social live on Dec 2 at 8pmEST as they answer your questions about Ken Burns' latest series. Sign up here for the link to join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/1975144490...
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On December 2nd, join @lynnprobbins.bsky.social, @adamxmcneil.bsky.social, and me for a special LIVE episode of Revolutions in Retrospect.
We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
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We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
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November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
On December 2nd, join @lynnprobbins.bsky.social, @adamxmcneil.bsky.social, and me for a special LIVE episode of Revolutions in Retrospect.
We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-americ...
We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-americ...
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Charlottesville friends, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center @jsaahccville.bsky.social has released a great new app--History in the Palm of Your Hand. It explores the story of the school & our city through audio, photos, documents & maps. It's very cool. mailchi.mp/jeffschoolhr...
History in the Palm of Your Hand
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November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Charlottesville friends, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center @jsaahccville.bsky.social has released a great new app--History in the Palm of Your Hand. It explores the story of the school & our city through audio, photos, documents & maps. It's very cool. mailchi.mp/jeffschoolhr...
The Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University invite applications for a two-year appointment as Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate in Black Queer Studies.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University invite applications for a two-year appointment as Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate in Black Queer Studies.
apply.interfolio.com/177762
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Thanks to everyone who turned out last night to the Alexandria Historical Society's watch party for the final episode of The American Revolution. Great crowd and questions, moderated by Virginia Public Radio's Michael Pope. Great to have WETA there as well.
Support the humanities and public media!
Support the humanities and public media!
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Thanks to everyone who turned out last night to the Alexandria Historical Society's watch party for the final episode of The American Revolution. Great crowd and questions, moderated by Virginia Public Radio's Michael Pope. Great to have WETA there as well.
Support the humanities and public media!
Support the humanities and public media!
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
I'm excited for Cookout's Eggnog milkshake's return on December 1!
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I'm excited for Cookout's Eggnog milkshake's return on December 1!
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Stay tuned. Some friends and I will be hosting a live Q and A after Thanksgiving to answer your questions about what you learned or didn’t learn in the series. We will have details out soon. #HATM
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Stay tuned. Some friends and I will be hosting a live Q and A after Thanksgiving to answer your questions about what you learned or didn’t learn in the series. We will have details out soon. #HATM
Judith Jackson's story. So harrowing man.
Do not forget that her suspected enslaver, Jonathan Eilbeck, was the brother-in-law of a fellow Scottish-Virginian Loyalist, John McLean. They married into the prominent Talbot family of Norfolk. #HATM
Do not forget that her suspected enslaver, Jonathan Eilbeck, was the brother-in-law of a fellow Scottish-Virginian Loyalist, John McLean. They married into the prominent Talbot family of Norfolk. #HATM
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Judith Jackson's story. So harrowing man.
Do not forget that her suspected enslaver, Jonathan Eilbeck, was the brother-in-law of a fellow Scottish-Virginian Loyalist, John McLean. They married into the prominent Talbot family of Norfolk. #HATM
Do not forget that her suspected enslaver, Jonathan Eilbeck, was the brother-in-law of a fellow Scottish-Virginian Loyalist, John McLean. They married into the prominent Talbot family of Norfolk. #HATM
Timeout again, did we just extend the age of revolutions to the...checks notes...THE AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT?!?!?! AAAYYYOOOO KEEEENNN! #HATM
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Timeout again, did we just extend the age of revolutions to the...checks notes...THE AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT?!?!?! AAAYYYOOOO KEEEENNN! #HATM
Timeout, wasn't Laurens confined in the Tower of London for the majority of the treaty negotiations?!?
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Timeout, wasn't Laurens confined in the Tower of London for the majority of the treaty negotiations?!?
Black people's exodus out of New York receives the great majority of attention, but goodness, WAY more Black people left ports in the South. Main difference though, the overwhelming majority remained bound. #HATM
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Black people's exodus out of New York receives the great majority of attention, but goodness, WAY more Black people left ports in the South. Main difference though, the overwhelming majority remained bound. #HATM
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Africana Studies students know all the things. Why? We actually teach all the things — the good and the bad. The most rounded education you can have in the contemporary university. Just sayin’.
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Africana Studies students know all the things. Why? We actually teach all the things — the good and the bad. The most rounded education you can have in the contemporary university. Just sayin’.
Yorktown was a tremendously awful experience for the majority of the Blk people involved. What I find interesting, though, is how Blk people viewed each other. Think about it. The 1st Rhode Island, Blk soldiers in other units, James Lafayette, & others vs. thousands of Blk refugees. #HATM
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yorktown was a tremendously awful experience for the majority of the Blk people involved. What I find interesting, though, is how Blk people viewed each other. Think about it. The 1st Rhode Island, Blk soldiers in other units, James Lafayette, & others vs. thousands of Blk refugees. #HATM
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@adamxmcneil.bsky.social and @seangallagher.bsky.social are working on great books that will speak to the calculations Black Americans make in this era and their relationship to the British and American states #HATM
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
@adamxmcneil.bsky.social and @seangallagher.bsky.social are working on great books that will speak to the calculations Black Americans make in this era and their relationship to the British and American states #HATM