Stan Maxson

PhD @UofMaryland / AfAm History / Digital Humanities / Museums / Thinks about Reconstruction, Race, and Family / actual stan account #DigHist

[Stan Maxson @StanD14]

@radio_RG listening in St. Louis, MO while building Lego with my son! Loved the coverage over the past two weeks!

[American Historical Association @AHAhistorians]

#EverythingHasAHistory, including the slave quarters at Ross House in Frederick, Maryland. Gabrielle McCoy shares the history of this structure in #AHAPerspectives. https://t.co/beammJgQIe

[Dr. Angela Sutton (She/Her)🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @DrAngelaSutton]

This dataset contains the thousands of formerly enslaved and free Black builders and defenders of @FortNegley and #Nashville. The article connects their paper trails to broader arguments across the Atlantic World about labor, citizenship, and claims-making after emancipation.

[EnslavedOrg @EnslavedOrg]

More data from the "Builders and Defenders" (https://t.co/dlbxCm9Rj0) project! @DrAngelaSutton and @_jsfletcher discuss claims for back-pay by women relatives of black Union laborers in Civil War-era Nashville in https://t.co/tA1y36hu8c

[Reconstruction Era National Historical Park @ReconstructNPS]

#OnThisDay in 1866 a mob of white men, led by local police, attacked the Black community surrounding Fort Pickering in Memphis, Tennessee. From May 1-3 an estimated 46 Black residents were murdered, while 4 churches, 12 schools, and 91 homes had been burned.

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[Stan Maxson @StanD14]

OTD, 1863, the US Army Engineers Dept forward $27000 to Nashville to compensate Black laborers, the majority formerly enslaved, who built Fort Negley.

Little of that $$ made it into the hands of Black laborers whose work was essential to holding the city for the Union

[Stan Maxson @StanD14]

@LaurenKMichalak 🥹🥹🥹 Huge congratulations, Lauren!!

[Stan Maxson @StanD14]

@jluwrites Looks like a Southern Magnolia!

[Andria Olson @olsdatter]

Hold my coffee

https://t.co/7ESINB40fY

[Sophie Day @philliesfemme]

I wrote about finding hope in the dark for @WordandWay’s Unsettling Advent series this year

[Stan Maxson @StanD14]

@stlCITYsc @Purina ... do these come in, um... Adult Medium?

[Sophie Day @philliesfemme]

A thoughtful piece about my client Amber, who is currently scheduled to be executed just 10 days after Christmas.

[Dr. Angela Sutton (She/Her)🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @DrAngelaSutton]

Join @AAHGSNashville at Saturday's meeting for my progress report on the database of enslaved & free Black builders and defenders of @FortNegley and the Battle of Nashville. Hear about how the number of laborers increased from ~2,900 to nearly 5,000.
https://t.co/pPj6km7bV3

[Stan Maxson @StanD14]

@LaurenKMichalak @LaurenKMichalak great thread! This would make a great storymap too! Are there plans for developing this walking tour further?

[Stan Maxson @StanD14]

Argentina away kits embodying all the hope & optimism of my 6th grade trapper keeper on the first day of school.
@MenInBlazers

[Ryan Thomas @ryanjthomas83]

@jeremyfuzy defended his brilliant PhD dissertation identifying the importance of cultural journalism to democracy. He identifies a “humanistic role” for journalism to stand alongside existing role typologies (monitorial, facilitative, etc.).

[Stan Maxson @StanD14]

This remains true in the following decade, as well. More African Americans in Nashville in 1890 (29,395) than the entire city population in 1870 (25,856).

The Black pop. nearly tripled in size during the same years, though it remained consistently 38-39% of the city total.

[Stan Maxson @StanD14]

Writing about the growth of Black communities in Nashville after the Civil War and their significant role in shaping the city.

By 1880, the Black population of Nashville was greater than the population of the ENTIRE city prior to 1860.