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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 5m

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 16h

Heartbreaking: Neo-soul legends Angie Stone and D’Angelo both passed away in 2025, just 7 months apart. Stone died in March at 63. D’Angelo died today at 51. They shared a son together. An entire generation’s soundtrack, gone. Rest in power to both 🕊️💔

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 16h

😞

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 2d

Very excited to have this launched.

historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 2d

Jefferson on Race by @agordonreed.bsky.social | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Jefferson on Race

From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should read

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations!

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 3d

I feel the same way. I know death is everyone’s fate, but I so associate her with vibrancy and life that to think of her still is strange.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure why this one is such a shock to me. It’s unclear from the report whether she’d been ill. If she was I didn’t know it. For me, I think, it’s that Keaton was so alive, exuberant, so crackling with energy even fairly far into old age that it somehow doesn’t seem to fit. So many iconic roles.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 4d

Since my last trip to the UK, I see they have done away with the liquids ban. Many years ago my son and I were in the UK when it started. We flew in with no requirement and then when we left we had to throw away liquids over a certain amount. I came prepared today with my little plastic bags…

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 4d

See my forthcoming Jefferson A Reader on Race in March 2026. I have discussed this language many times.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 5d

Wow! That was some finish for the Dodgers. Happy, but I feel so bad for the pitcher.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 6d

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My Kind of Town by Frank Sinatra on Apple Music

Song · 2008 · Duration 3:11

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 6d

Wonderful meeting yesterday with board members of the Burns-Belfry museum in Oxford, Mississippi.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 8d

Lengthened Dickie Betts solo?

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 8d

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Blue Sky by The Allman Brothers Band on Apple Music

Song · 1972 · Duration 5:10

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 9d

The Hiphop Archive and Research Institute the house that the late Dr. Marcyliena Morgan built. I was honored to bring #LeftOfBlack to her house 12 years ago to discuss her vision for the study of HipHop Culture.

Left of Black with Marcyliena Morgan

YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks!

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you!

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 10d

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Jefferson on Race

From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should read

press.princeton.edu

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 10d

Music night.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 10d

The blessing of Daisy.

Picture of our Minister blessing Daisy, our Corgi.

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 10d

A discussion about my new book, The Second Emancipation, on the PBS program The White House Chronicle, with Adam Clayton Powell III and Llewellyn King: whchronicle.com

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 11d

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Refugee by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on Apple Music

Song · 1979 · Duration 3:20

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations! What a great group of books. Seeing them gives me hope.

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Yale Announces 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 12d

THE YANKEES WIN!!!!

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