Eleanor "Humboldt is Coming" Harvey

Senior Curator at SAAM

[Eleanor "Humboldt is Coming" Harvey @EleanorHarvey]

Alexander von Humboldt and the United States | Princeton University Press https://t.co/wUFOKt8KMM

[Eleanor "Humboldt is Coming" Harvey @EleanorHarvey]

@periluneedits @lindsaylusby Fantastic news--congrats to the both of you!

[Eleanor "Humboldt is Coming" Harvey @EleanorHarvey]

these are gorgeous!

[The Meineke Lab @EmilyMeineke]

It's really happening! Our exhibit @HarvardMuseum highlighting Henry David Thoreau's plant specimens opens on May 14th, 2022. If you're in the Cambridge, MA area, please come see it! https://t.co/qqf8m1o55B

[Eleanor "Humboldt is Coming" Harvey @EleanorHarvey]

@jbf1755 Elizabeth Chew is a consummate professional. She and the rest of the staff should be reinstated. The Board should be dissolved, and reconstituted after some serious soul searching.

[Dr. Keep Fighting [email protected] @VirginiaScharff]

This is outrageous. I worked with @ElizabethChew when I had a fellowship at ICJS, and she is a model professional, a generous colleague and a brilliant scholar. @The_OAH @AHAhistorians time to raise a ruckus.

[Eleanor "Humboldt is Coming" Harvey @EleanorHarvey]

@KevinLevin YIKES.

[The One and Only Whit Pip @Whitney_Pippin]

“I do not regret taking this stand.” https://t.co/LWZyWt6ppH

[Saving Places @SavingPlaces]

Read our statement condemning the actions taken against staff at Montpelier Foundation.

https://t.co/NUJWck7E3N

[Eleanor "Humboldt is Coming" Harvey @EleanorHarvey]

Elizabeth Chew is a consummate professional. She and her colleagues deserve to be reinstated, and the Montpelier Board dismissed and reconstituted after some serious soul-searching.

[Eleanor "Humboldt is Coming" Harvey @EleanorHarvey]

@KevinLevin Elizabeth Chew exemplifies the professionalism of someone willing to stand on her principles. She and her colleagues deserve better. They should be reinstated and the Board dissolved and reconstituted after some serious soul-searching.

[Eleanor "Humboldt is Coming" Harvey @EleanorHarvey]

This is shockingly unprofessional. The Board of Montpelier is undoing years of important work to recognize the histories of the people enslaved at Montpelier--by firing the staff and dismissing the inclusion of descendants of the enslaved.

[JSAAHC @JSAAHC]

Montpelier is the process of firing the very staff that make them relevant.

[Timothy J Scarlett @TimothyScarlett]

Thanks to the National Trust for Historic Preservation @SavingPlaces for their clear and strong statement condemning the board actions at @JMMontpelier. @JMMdescendants and staff had pioneered parity and equity. They lit the light. https://t.co/XE5G0OqmEk

[Eleanor "Humboldt is Coming" Harvey @EleanorHarvey]

Let's swap slide decks! Let the fun begin....

[Eleanor Harvey (also found where the sky is blue) @Temporal_Fugue]

Oh I could get behind this....

[Eleanor "Humboldt is Coming" Harvey @EleanorHarvey]

Raise your voice and protest the unconscionable firing of Montpelier's professional staff, for standing up for the voices of descendants of the plantation's enslaved people. This is white patriarchy at its worst.

[DeNeen Brown @DeNeenLBrown]

Senior staff members at the historic Montpelier estate of James Madison were fired Monday, in what they called retaliation for speaking out on behalf of descendants of enslaved Black people fighting for parity on the foundation board.
https://t.co/X9yTns21zh

[Eleanor Harvey (also found where the sky is blue) @Temporal_Fugue]

The BEST of Washington DC. @chefjoseandres is a local, national, and international treasure.

[Eleanor "Humboldt is Coming" Harvey @EleanorHarvey]

Live your life so that your kids look at you this way.

[Eleanor Harvey (also found where the sky is blue) @Temporal_Fugue]

This is an incredibly wrong-headed effort by the Montpelier board to silence the descendants of enslaved people on the plantation. There is a https://t.co/AAKBEtavIk petition to reverse this decision. I urge you to read this, and make your voice heard.

[Eleanor Harvey (also found where the sky is blue) @Temporal_Fugue]

Here is the link to the petition objecting to the Montpelier board's decision to silence the descendants of enslaved people from having a meaningful say in the interpretation of the site.

[Eleanor "Humboldt is Coming" Harvey @EleanorHarvey]

Montpelier's board was on the verge of breaking new ground in acknowledging the enslaved people who labored there...and then lost their nerve. Shame.

[Eleanor "Humboldt is Coming" Harvey @EleanorHarvey]

@agordonreed Not to mention, Jada was sitting right there. Presumably quite capable of standing up for herself? Yet another example of toxic masculinity, masquerading as chivalry.

[Eleanor "Humboldt is Coming" Harvey @EleanorHarvey]

@FossilLocator Ugh.