Thrilled to be discussing my research on Hannah Nokes Dec 13 at Thomas Balch Library in Leesburg. "Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion" from @uvapress.bsky.social will be available for purchase. #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #TransHistory #Loudoun www.leesburgva.gov/Home/Compone...

Proposals for 2026 Virginia Forum history conference due tomorrow, Nov 2 virginia-forum.org/2026-confere...

I decided to see if ChatGPT could help with some transcribing, probably just getting a few words here and there to get me started and maybe save some time. Instead of it saying it couldn't read a PDF of faded handwriting, it completely made stuff up.

Many thanks to the Arlington Public Library for hosting our “Queer Virginia” author event for LGBTQ+ History Month! We definitely appreciated the insightful, engaged audience! #queerhistory @uvapress.bsky.social

Twenty years ago, I took a historical archaeology class in the Public History and Historic Preservation program at @novacommcollege.bsky.social that changed my life. My program classmates were brilliant and continue to do amazing research and I still work on the project I was assigned that semester.

On August 8, in remembrance of lynching victim Benjamin Thomas, the Alexandria Community Remembrance Project welcomes historian Steven Hahn who will present "Political Violence, Racial Terror, and the Perpetual Struggle of American Democracy"

So excited to receive Krystyn Moon’s “Proximity to Power: Rethinking Race and Place in Alexandria, Virginia” from @uncpress.bsky.social today!

Thrilled to receive “Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion” from @uvapress.bsky.social and to share the story of Hannah Nokes, a Black transgender woman who testified for the Commonwealth in Loudoun in a major case in civil rights history www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10093/ #transhistory

A dear friend of my parents is a retired CIA officer. He included Vaclav Havel’s words on hope in his holiday letter this winter.

"Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion" now available for pre-order. Use promo code 10VABOOKS for 30% discount upress.virginia.edu/title/10093/ #QueerHistory #TransHistory #LGBTQHistory

In 1984 Republicans in NJ led the effort to allow transgender people to obtain amended birth certificates and have the original record sealed.
#transhistory 🏳️‍⚧️

In an 1862 photo, a baby named Fannie sat in the lap of her mother Lucinda, surrounded by other family members, all of them enslaved. In the 1941 photo, Fannie held baby Marcus Scruggs, grandson of her first cousin Sarah. This week Marc, 84, joined the ancestors. May his memory be a blessing

Wishing Anita's New Mexico Style Mexican Food a happy 50th anniversary! Anita's opened in an old Donut Dinette in Vienna on December 23, 1974. Still a local favorite in Northern Virginia!