George Oberle
@goberle.bsky.social
Historian and Librarian. Director of the Center for Mason Legacies. Works at George Mason University.
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NOW PLAYING: Episode 19: The Gambit
With British authority collapsing in North America, Britons on both sides of the Atlantic including Benjamin Franklin, Caroline Howe, and Lord Dartmouth engage in desperate and secret negotiations to avoid all the horrors of civil war.
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With British authority collapsing in North America, Britons on both sides of the Atlantic including Benjamin Franklin, Caroline Howe, and Lord Dartmouth engage in desperate and secret negotiations to avoid all the horrors of civil war.
#podcast #history
September 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Why not check out Benedict Carton and George D. Oberle III's latest article for ANCH, exploring the relationship between slavery and US universities, via George Mason #blackhistory #AmericanHistory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From the Enslaved Children of George Mason to Black Lives Next Door: rediscovering the namesake of Virginia’s largest university in the “plantation” suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Established in 1972, George Mason University (GMU) lauds its eighteenth-century namesake whose Gunston Hall Plantation in Virginia is a national landmark. An author of the U.S. Bill of Rights, he i...
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April 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Why not check out Benedict Carton and George D. Oberle III's latest article for ANCH, exploring the relationship between slavery and US universities, via George Mason #blackhistory #AmericanHistory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Yesterday, the @rrchnm.bsky.social team was fortunate to tour Historic Blenheim in Fairfax, VA to see graffiti left by Union soldiers during the Civil War. RRCHNM is working with Blenheim & similar sites to digitize the graffiti & make it widely available for teaching & research.
February 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Yesterday, the @rrchnm.bsky.social team was fortunate to tour Historic Blenheim in Fairfax, VA to see graffiti left by Union soldiers during the Civil War. RRCHNM is working with Blenheim & similar sites to digitize the graffiti & make it widely available for teaching & research.
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Dr. Cynthia Kierner joins host Kathryn Gehred to discuss a 1778 letter from Richard Henry Lee to his sister Hannah Lee Corbin. In a lost letter, Hannah previously expressed her frustrations that widows are being taxed without representation.
Listen here: www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...
Listen here: www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...
Episode 57: Those Tumultuous Assemblies of Men
Dr. Cynthia Kierner joins host Kathryn Gehred to discuss a 1778 letter from Richard Henry Lee to his sister Hannah Lee Corbin. In a lost letter, Hannah previously e…
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February 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Dr. Cynthia Kierner joins host Kathryn Gehred to discuss a 1778 letter from Richard Henry Lee to his sister Hannah Lee Corbin. In a lost letter, Hannah previously expressed her frustrations that widows are being taxed without representation.
Listen here: www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...
Listen here: www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...
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One thing that really excites me about my forthcoming book is that it includes 27 images. I worked hard to obtain rights to all of these. A small sample.
November 24, 2024 at 1:24 PM
One thing that really excites me about my forthcoming book is that it includes 27 images. I worked hard to obtain rights to all of these. A small sample.
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Important to understand that (1) political appointees, not the university administration, are doing this; (2) they're not cancelling courses, but removing them from the list that satisfy breadth reqmts (i.e. death by strangling rather than a knife to the back).
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
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FSU board OKs removal of over 400 courses from general education offerings after review
“We’re living through an era of legislature-driven higher education reform,” FSU Provost Jim Clark said.
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November 23, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Important to understand that (1) political appointees, not the university administration, are doing this; (2) they're not cancelling courses, but removing them from the list that satisfy breadth reqmts (i.e. death by strangling rather than a knife to the back).
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
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RRCHNM's R2 Studios has received a grant from the Dr. Scholl Foundation which will support several elements of podcast production, including work on the fourth season of Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant and the upcoming series Finding Jane Austen. Learn more here: rrchnm.org/news/r2-stud...
R2 Studios Receives Dr. Scholl Foundation Grant – Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
RRCHNM's R2 Studios has received a grant from the Dr. Scholl Foundation which will support several elements of podcast production, including work on the fourth season of Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant and the upcoming series Finding Jane Austen. Learn more here: rrchnm.org/news/r2-stud...
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"Digitizing rare ‘hidden’ trans archives - University of Victoria" https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2024+hidden-trans-digital-archives+media-release 🗃️ #sexuality #TransArchives 🏳️⚧️
Digitizing rare ‘hidden’ trans archives - University of Victoria
Hundreds of at-risk, rarely seen, audio visual items that document the history of Trans+ activism will be made digitally accessible with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that preserves and improves research and learning.
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November 15, 2024 at 9:38 PM
"Digitizing rare ‘hidden’ trans archives - University of Victoria" https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2024+hidden-trans-digital-archives+media-release 🗃️ #sexuality #TransArchives 🏳️⚧️
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookChallenge
#BookChallenge
November 16, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookChallenge
#BookChallenge