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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 · 27d

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 · 2h

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...

Rhode Island History Day - Judges

Why Become a History Day Judge?

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 17h

1,182 words today, and I have a chapter draft again.

a blue cartoon character is laying on a bed

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 20h

eh back down to 474- need to rewrite a paragraph

a green water slide is going down a pool

ALT: a green water slide is going down a pool

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 20h

500 words later, I have a chapter draft. #team500

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 20h

306 words so far #amwriting

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 21h

142 words in and finished the box of mike & ikes #amwriting

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 21h

~500 words away from a draft of this chapter- should do a writing sprint momentarily

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 1d

up next in my freshman seminar!

SPIRIT OF 1976 book, Martha Washington whiskey bottle, bicentennial pin and coin on a table in front of a bookshelf

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Megan King @drmeganking.bsky.social · 2d

📢Call for papers!

Benjamin Franklin House is hosting a conference, “Remember the ladies”: Women and Revolution, in London in May 2026!

Details are available here: benjaminfranklinhouse.org/event/spring...

If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected].

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 2d

Here’s last night’s story about presidential libraries, how they help shape history, the troubling ways they can be used, and – of course – some tasteful conjecture about one president’s undercarriage. youtu.be/dB1-lg-xZWc