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This past week in the twittersphere, Robert Colby examines women's experiences during the American Civil War in his article published by Black Perspectives. Read more here. 

These past few weeks in the Twittersphere, Julia Gaffield explains how Haiti was the first nation to permanently ban slavery and why this matters today in her article published by The Washington Post. Read it here. 

Workshop am Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald am Donnerstag, 10.12.2020, 9.30–16.30 Uhr sowie 18–19 Uhr

This week in the twittersphere, scholars are working to piece together the story of the Underground Railroad to Mexico, a network that helped thousands of slaves escape to south of the border. Find out more here. 

This week in the twittersphere, Jesuits in St. Louis, Missouri, search for descendants of enslaved people forced to work at the St. Louis University, its church, and St. Stanislaus Seminary. Find out more here.

These past few weeks in the twittersphere, The University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Sciences announced that the Department of Women's Studies is changing its name to the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Additionally, scholarship on Tubman’s life and works will be incorporated into the curricula, programming, and service to impact the entire campus. Learn more here. 

These past few weeks in the twittersphere, O Say Can You See, a project that makes accessible the freedom suits brought by enslaved families in the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, Maryland state courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court online, will provide full case files for 151 freedom suits brought by the Butler family, some of the earliest freedom suits in American history. Learn more here.

These past two weeks in the twittersphere, the Selectboard of Windsor, Vermont, considered plans to rename a street to honor the life and story of Dinah Mason, an enslaved woman held in bondage by a former Vermont Supreme Court Justice. Learn more here. 

These past two weeks in the twittersphere, twitterstorians commemorated the Fourth of July with Frederick Douglass' speech, "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" Find it here.