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historycoffee, 18 hours ago to random

Yesterday was a wonderful first day of exhibiting for history & coffee at the American Alliance of Museums 2024 conference. We debuted our interactive exhibit developed together with our partners Quatrefoil Associates. It explores national stories through the lens of Baltimore histories, with a focus on amplifying underrepresented voices. For anyone who is at #AAM2024, we would love if you decide to stop by our booth (no. 3815) and say hi! We will be there all day today (Saturday, May 18, 2024).

White man Emmanuel standing in front of an interactive exhibit display screen and gesturing as if speaking. The screen shows a photo of Billie Holiday with accompanying text on the left side, and on the right the headline "the time machine." To the right of the screen is a promotional banner for history & coffee, featuring a large QR code.

historycoffee, 4 days ago to random

☕️ h&c book boost (5/14/24) 🔄
📚 in By Hands Now Known (2022) Margaret A. Burnham...
💡 illuminates intersects of violence & the law ⚖️
📍 localized state white supremacy via jim crow 🛑
🕰️ in early to mid 20th c. ⏳
🚫 slavery transformed ➡️ criminal justice system 📃
🇺🇸 emphasizing federalism ➕ resistance 💥
🫂 human centered legal histories🏛️
🔗 https://www.historyandcoffee.com/books/by-hands-now-known

historycoffee, 9 days ago to random

☕️ h&c book boost (5/9/24) 🔄
📚 in City of Inmates (2017), Kelly Lytle Hernández examines incarceration around what became Los Angeles ⛓️
💡 to illuminate settler colonialism & power 💥
🪢 structuring u.s. ➕ cross-border imperialism 🌎
🚧 forced labor building social order 🧱
🚔 policing race, gender, class 💰
🖇️ in tandem w/ immigration control 🚫
💫 foregrounding resistance 📌
➡️ https://www.historyandcoffee.com/books/city-of-inmates

historycoffee, 10 days ago to random

☕️ h&c book boost (5/8/24) 🔄
📚 in I've Been Here All the While (2021), Alaina E. Roberts shares her family histories as a jumping off point to understand 💡
🌄 Native American & Black interrelationships 🖇️
✨ of freedom, land, belonging 💗
🛠️ in long Reconstruction era (1863-1907) 💫
📽️ showing people negotiated identities 🫂
💞 as native people, free people, settlers 🍃
🗳️ leveraging citizenship➕rights opportunities 🎉
🚫 dispossessing while building communities 🧱
➡️ https://www.historyandcoffee.com/books/been-here-all-the-while🔗

historycoffee, 11 days ago to random

☕️ h&c book boost (5/7/24) 🔄
📚 in Cutting School (2017), Noliwe Rooks foregrounds histories of segregated education 🏫
💡 for understanding economic & racial structuring 🏗️
💵 showing unequal education is profitable 📈
💰 white philanthropy restricted Black opportunity 🛑
🛠️ Black Americans worked to improve education 📝
📉 less funding for urban schools 💸
⚖️ ongoing disputed access 💥
➡️ https://www.historyandcoffee.com/books/cutting-school 🖇️

historycoffee, 12 days ago to random

☕️ h&c book boost (5/6/24) 🔄
📚 in Resistance from the Right (2023), Lauren Lassabe Shepherd💡 illuminates right-wing student backlash against the civil rights movement 🪃
💰 conservative big money power on campus 💵
⛓️ inherently reactionary 🧲
🎓 these students embraced Republican Party 🐘
🚨 post-1968 emphasized law and order 🚔
💥 became "New Right" in 1970s 📈
➡️ https://www.historyandcoffee.com/books/resistance-from-the-right

historycoffee, 18 days ago to random

☕️ h&c book boost (4/30/24) 🔄
📚 in Migrant Citizenship (2020), Verónica Martínez-Matsuda foregrounds farmworkers in the New Deal welfare state 🫛
💥 converted FSA camps into power ➕ citizenship 🗳️
💵 demanded wages, medicine, education, housing 🏡
✨ maintained identities & community ties 🫂
💕 made democracy more inclusive ⚖️
🔗 https://www.historyandcoffee.com/books/migrant-citizenship

historycoffee, 19 days ago to random

☕️ h&c book boost (4/29/24) 🔄
📚 in Race for Profit (2019), Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 💡examines "predatory inclusion" of Black women in 1970s urban homeownership 🧱
🖊️ federal policy restricted opportunities ❌
🔥 exacerbated inequalities 📉
💸 public-private partnerships drove housing access 🏘️
🚫 segregation status quo ➡️ white profit 💰
🏦 banks & real estate preyed on Black ambition 🌟
📤 exploitative lending ➕ contracts 📑
🗣️ blamed excluded groups 💔
🔗 https://www.historyandcoffee.com/books/race-for-profit

historycoffee, 20 days ago to random

☕️ h&c book boost (4/28/24) 🔄
📚 in Scattered and Fugitive Things (2024), Laura E. Helton 🖊️
💡 illuminates how Black people shaped historical understandings of/in 🇺🇸
🧱 by collectively building ➕ preserving archives 🗃️
⚒️ in community libraries, HBCUs, Black homes 🏡
💥 taking risks & forging accessibility 🏦
🪙 valuing ➕ ordering Black knowledge 🎓
❓ asking how people understood/shared memories 💞
➡️ https://www.historyandcoffee.com/books/scattered-and-fugitive-things 🖇️

historycoffee, 21 days ago to random

☕️ h&c book boost (4/27/24) 🔄
📚 in Harambee City (2017), Nishani Frazier animates CORE around 1960s cleveland through oral & digital histories 🖇️
(https://harambeecity.rrchnm.org)
🌱 making the past grassroots ➕ collective 💞
💡 asking how do people adapt organizing structures to forge change ❓
⚒️ harambee = pulling together & self-help 💗
🧱 w/ housing, education, labor, equality, power 🔥
➡️ https://www.historyandcoffee.com/books/harambee-city

historycoffee, 1 month ago to random

our vision in action this morning:

historycoffee, 2 months ago to random

Exciting news: we just got the keys to history & coffee's space in historic Fells Point! 📚☕

historycoffee, 2 months ago to random

Happy Birthday to activist and medical professional Lillian Wald (born March 10, 1867, in Cincinnati, Ohio), a second-generation Jewish immigrant to the United States who actively brought people together across lines of gender, class, race, religion, and more.
Learn more in our #WHM #OTD post: https://www.historyandcoffee.com/post/march-10-1867-happy-birthday-lillian-wald

historycoffee, 2 months ago to random

We are Tiheera Blount and @emmanuel and we are thrilled to share that today is digital launch day for our new alternative history space: history & coffee. That means our website and social media pages are now live! Opening this July in Baltimore's historic Fells Point, history & coffee combines a history focused bookstore, coffee shop, and interactive exhibit experience while building online history community across the United States: https://www.historyandcoffee.com/